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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has been in the news again after the spectacular explosion of one of his rockets on the Cape Canaveral launchpad. Never mind. We’re sure he can just buy himself a new one. Luckily, his October 2021 Blue Origin rocket launch was more successful. On board was none other than the Star […] The post This awkward 2021 clip of Jeff Bezos welcoming an emotional William Shatner back to Earth is going viral again appeared first on The Poke.

It’s safe to say that most of us spend too much time on our phones. You might even be reading this article from the glowing slab of delights we all keep in our pockets. Endless scrolling is still a relatively new innovation though, prompting Careless_Squirrel728 to wonder what people did in their free time before […] The post ‘What did we do before we could just scroll on our phones?’ – 17 downtime habits from the pre-brain-rot era appeared first on The Poke.

Do you remember the early days of the internet, when we used it to look things up and learn information, rather than to constantly marinate our minds in anger and misery? Good times, right? Well, the AskUK subreddit made a brief return to this after user 87catmama posted this: Can you hit me up with […] The post Somebody asked for ‘random fun facts’ – 22 fascinating nuggets of information to refresh your doom-scrolling brain appeared first on The Poke.

Everyone knows Stephen Miller will do anything to please his dear leader. That being said, even for him, this latest data point he just cooked up is a tough one to believe. Miller was speaking in regards to how Democrats have behaved since Donald Trump slithered back into the White House. He claims that the […] The post Stephen Miller claimed Democrats were funnelling ‘trillions of dollars’ to migrants already in the US and got fact-checked ’til he farted appeared first on The Poke.

Ask the average person what they think of MrBeast and they are likely to say, “He sucks and has the most punchable face on the planet.” And yet he also has so many followers on YouTube that they need to invent new numbers to count them. So it’s hard to take the internet supercelebrity at […] The post MrBeast claimed his viewers have more money than he does and it’s a humblebrag that might get him in trouble with the IRS appeared first on The Poke.

According to her Twitter bio, you should know Riley Gaines as the host of the Riley Gaines Show on @foxnews, as a “Best-selling Author,” and even as a “TPUSA contributor.” But chances are if you remember her at all you will remember her as the swimmer, who achieved a notoriety of sorts for tying a […] The post Maga TV host Riley Gaines posted an anti-Pride Month message and got gloriously owned into next year appeared first on The Poke.

The meme-afication of politics is a sad symbol of the decline of discourse in America. That being said, when Maga steps in it like this, it’s almost worth it. The San Antonio Spurs are playing the New York Knicks in the NBA Finals, starting this week. Texas Governor Greg Abbott took the opportunity to post […] The post Maga tried to dunk on New York’s governor with a meme but her one-line response stuffed them at the rim appeared first on The Poke.

To the world of the humble bumper sticker now – no, we don’t see as many of them these days as we used to either – so what better excuse than to round up 27 all time greats. You can find a whole lot more over in the corner of Reddit called – guess what? […] The post Simply 23 all-time great bumper stickers which are very funny, totally on-point – or both appeared first on The Poke.

In the age of alternative facts, it’s becoming harder and harder to tell what’s a hoax and what’s real. It doesn’t help that when mistruths are proven to be wrong, people choose to believe them anyway. MrLithician was curious to learn more about these persistent falsehoods, so they headed over to the online bastion of […] The post What hoaxes do people believe no matter how often they’re debunked? – 17 mistruths that somehow stubbornly persist appeared first on The Poke.

With AI data centres springing up all over, with their insatiable appetite for clean water, their contribution to climate change, and their part in job losses across many sectors, AI is not exactly everyone’s favourite thing. On Monday, Anthropic announced its intention to make shares in the company available to the public. Anthropic has confidentially […] The post Anthropic’s AI chatbot, Claude, crashed the day after they filed to float on the Stock Exchange – 22 hilariously unsympathetic reactions appeared first on The Poke.