What are the major world news that you got from weird sources (and maybe wish you had heard first from legit news sources)? (lemmy.world)

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My random tales:

One night, playing bunch of Halo, I got an Xbox 360 voice message. "Message to all recent players. Fukushima nuclear power plant just exploded. You should stock up on iodine tablets." (I almost sent back a message saying "thanks for your concern, but I'm in the Chernobyl fallout zone and I turned out just fine thank you")

Pluto photographs from New Horizons? Frigging NASA retweet. (Edit: Actually I think it was a retweet of someone making a Disney meme about Pluto the Dog)

Most recently, I got a random Discord message from a British YouTuber I follow saying "the Queen just died, please be respectful and stuff".

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[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S 28 points 1 month ago

I live in an area that got "smoked" during the Canadian wildfires last July. I found out by reading about it on Lemmy. Only then did I look out the window and realize that it wasn't sunset. I'm such a shut-in that I found out about the event I was in the middle of by reading about it on the internet.

[-] stelelor@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Not just on the internet, on Lemmy of all places!

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