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Live Edition 100% Satire · Wednesday, July 29, 2026 · 40 stories live

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Issue · Jul 29
Family / Filed under: Jul 17
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Her grandmother updated her will every year for forty-one years. She left her granddaughter the same specific item every time.

A woman in Nashville has spent nine months trying to understand why her grandmother, in forty-one annual will updates, left her the same specific unremarkable kitchen item every time. The item is a small wooden lemon…

Read the receipts → 21 min
Community / Filed under: Jul 16
02

Their small-town library has become the unofficial repository for objects nobody has claimed. Nobody working there decided this.

A small-town library in western Massachusetts has, over the past nine years, become the community's unofficial repository for objects nobody has claimed. The head librarian never decided to accept them. Neither did any of her staff.…

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Friendship / Filed under: Jul 15
03

They have been friends for eleven years. They have communicated entirely through crossword puzzles they mail to each other.

Two women in Vermont and Oregon have maintained their friendship for eleven years exclusively through hand-drawn crossword puzzles they mail to each other. No phone calls. No email. No texts. No visits. 143 puzzles exchanged and…

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A man expensed his therapy as "professional development." It worked.

Good morning. It's a Tuesday, which means somewhere out there, a person is right now justifying a purchase they cannot afford with a logic they cannot defend.

This morning's offender: a project manager in Austin who put twelve weeks of therapy on his corporate card under "leadership coaching." Finance approved it. His therapist had no idea.

Today's lesson in the great American workplace: the line between a perk and a heist is mostly just confidence...

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