this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
183 points (98.9% liked)

Not The Onion

18357 readers
1336 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/52738398

Black swan nicknamed ‘Mr Terminator’ evicted from town after trying to drown local birds

Archive/mirror: https://archive.ph/sghbn

top 12 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] markz@suppo.fi 31 points 1 day ago

He'll be back.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a very long nickname, but it also tells me everything I need to know. I assume his new town nicknamed him that.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it was an unterminated string issue.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Pretty sure it includes all of the comments.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why is there an apostrophe in the Title.

[–] Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was supposed to be 'Mr Terminator' as that's his given nickname

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I didn't know that was an option until seeing your comment and checking in the options, thanks. Assumed it was like reddit where the title gets locked

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Swans are Beauty and the Beast all in one.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

A cross between a ballerina and a bastard.

I read that as "a black man" and was confused

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 day ago

be the change you want to see in the world