Megathread: April Fools' Day 2026 on the internet
Over the next day or so, the internet will be filled with jokes, pranks, fake "announcements" from companies, fun interactive activities, games, and so on. A lot of these can be quite clever and interesting so I think posting about them in general is fine, but in the interest of preventing them from completely taking over Tildes, let's try to keep as many of them restricted to this thread as possible. Ideally, a separate top-level comment for each individual item would be good.
If something particularly discussion-worthy comes up (like an ARG or activity that a lot of people want to talk about), a separate thread is reasonable, but please make sure it has the "april fools day" tag. That way, if anyone wants to avoid seeing the April Fools' Day threads, they can use the topic tag filters and filter that tag out.
I'm going to use the "official" styling for this topic (that's usually only for ~tildes.official topics) to make it stand out more to try to encourage people to notice it. If you notice people making individual topics for April Fools' Day things that don't really warrant their own topic, please (nicely) encourage them to delete and post in here instead.
Luna- my space sim
Been looking forward to today :D I had the idea for some April's fools jokes already.
You have to select "fun" at the start, since I didn't want to change the experience for people that want to use the tool to learn something
that is so cool
Yeah that is hilarious, thanks for sharing!
Ngl I expected all other planets to be round
Shinkansen is coming to one little town in Czech Republic! Tha plan is to have first train arrive in 2080, it will be Japanese Shinkansen that will be put out of service in 2050. The train ride from major city will come down from 40 minutes to just 9 minutes and 3 seconds precisely, no delays (as we are used to with trains of today here). There was an AI montage with Shinkansen standing on the platform at said station.
Czech capital Prague proudly announced revolution in public transport - they will be using double-decker trams!
EDIT RegioJet just announced triple-decker buses!
EDIT2: Czech air force announced they will be getting C-390 Millenium equipped with the newest feature - chemtrails ability.
Local firefighters in small town had managed, due to high fuel prices, to make their tanker/cistern run on electricity. After 10 hours of charging, they can travel whole 20 kilometers (14 miles). They had to leave their fire station and live in a caravan parked next to electric charging station (and their tanker/cistern).
I love this 😁 It's like a joke, except it's a joke we should unironically be doing world-wide.
TechSpot just put out an article claiming AMD will buy Intel and it took me the whole article to realize what day it is today.
And then I got stickbugged by a friend.
I'll go make a fort of pillows and stay there until the day is over.
AMD buying Intel would be a quite poetic end to the tale of Intel. I like this.
Scryfall, a website to search Magic the Gathering cards, always does something. This year they made their website look like it's from the early internet days.
The Kagi search page has a fun retro look to it. My favorite is the viewer count at the bottom!
I want this to be my permanant Kagi style, if any Kagi staffers are watching.
When the web was weird and fun because the technology was new, marketting departments didn't muck in it much, and everybody was just in a better mood in the 90s because there wasn't any major bad guy looming over the culture with the threat of nuclear war.
Newt Gingrich really was the sneaky little weasel that gnawed away at the good times.
They've included a query parameter for those who would like to disable it, so maybe they'll leave that in for those who would like to keep it around after today... Maybe try kagi.com?fun=yes tomorrow!
I also loved that images load very slow, as they were accessed from a dial-up connection.
CERN now uses superconducting karts to travel around the accelerator tunnel!
I recommend zooming on the article picture ;)
Squaredle | April Fools Puzzle
I saw that Reddit is doing another /r/place style thing over on /r/tyles starting on April Fools. I'm interested to see how it will play out.
Amazon picked a woman to play James Bond. Happy April Fool's Day.
Got a link or is this a weird "see it's a joke because it's ridiculous for a woman" thing?
Ah this is a Euronews joke, because it's ridiculous for a woman