I spent the first half of April 1 trying to figure out why I had a Discord notification in one of the servers I was in

the owner edited the icon to have the 1 notification in the icon itself

The john williams/shatner one. People were biting keyboards

Honestly I'm just disappointed we didn't get a Homestar Runner cartoon.

My coworker (A) had a stroke a few months ago. She is still recovering, but is back at work and doing well. Another coworker (B) casually complimented her cardigan, and then said “hey I think it’s inside-out though?” Coworker A started to take the cardigan off, before coworker B said “April fools” and grinned, expecting a laugh.

Now here’s where the real funny part happened: Coworker A played dumb. She was like “wait what is that? April fools? What does that mean? I don’t know, did I forget it because of the stroke? Is my cardigan actually inside out? Rehab said I was good to dress myself again, but maybe not.” It went on like that while coworker B was desperately backpedaling, trying to both apologize and explain the concept of April fools. She 100% believed that coworker A had forgotten what April fools was because of the stroke.

Then coworker A got a shiteating grin, and went “April fools. I know what it is, I just wanted to play the uno reverse.” Coworker B was absolutely stunned, because she had been in full blown “oh god I just played a prank on a stroke survivor and now I’m the bad guy” spiraling.

Didn't really see any this year.

But when I was 15 my mom woke me up on April fools bright and early. Said there are important looking men in suits at the front door asking for you. Something about what you have been downloading

I've never been so scared in my entire fucking life. Glorious prank

The article I saw on Med Page stating that Noah Wylie had been accepted to med school. Plausible enough for a double take.

I did not see a single April fools joke this year

The game Palia gave our characters giant bobble heads. It was pretty hilarious!

None.

Because I'm a old, grumpy, humorless arse.

Chess.com introducing chess boxing. And being able to punch your opponents through the screen.

Someone announced that there was an error with the bar exam, and February testers would have to re-take. I'm not even there yet but the horror I felt.

For me it was the announcement in the Blender's official Discord server about its acquisition by Affinity, renaming it to Affinity 3D.

(Edited to include the announcement text)

Canva Announces Acquisition of Blender to Launch ‘Affinity 3D’

@everyone Canva announced the acquisition of the Blender Foundation’s development assets and core engineering team. This landmark move expands the "Affinity" creative ecosystem following Canva's purchase of Serif last year. Rebranded as "Affinity 3D," the software will serve as the foundational 3D powerhouse within Canva’s subscription model. CEO Melanie Perkins stated the move is designed to bridge the gap between professional 3D rendering and the intuitive, drag-and-drop accessibility that defines the Canva brand.

The integration into the Affinity ecosystem promises a seamless, unified workflow. Users will gain non-destructive, real-time links between Affinity Photo, Designer, and their 3D projects. The engineering team plans to overhaul the interface to mirror the streamlined Affinity aesthetic while retaining the high-performance cycles and geometry nodes power-users rely on. Canva has emphasized that the open-source spirit of Blender will be preserved through an "Affinity Community Edition," keeping the core architecture free for students and individual creators.

The acquisition acts as a catalyst for the "Canva Magic 3D" generative suite. By training AI models on Affinity 3D data, Canva will introduce text-to-3D generation directly into its browser-based editor. Users can generate custom models, textures, and lighting via prompts, which can then be imported into Affinity 3D for refined manual sculpting. Analysts believe this positions Canva as a direct competitor to Adobe’s Substance suite, creating an end-to-end powerhouse that simplifies 3D for everyone from social media marketers to professional VFX artists.

Read the article here!

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/04/01/so-long-daniel-craig-the-identity-of-the-new-james-bond-has-been-revealed

This one. Saw it on the MSN front page site and the comments from middle aged white men foaming at the mouth who hadn't read the entire story was hilarious

Paulaner's "Maß" just got even bigger and is available to go

Satisfactory devs released a "male model" for 1600 microsoft points. It's actually a low poly render of Jason, one of the main devs lol.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=RdPJB6bg1mA

watch?v=RdPJB6bg1mA

There's always a bunch of losers complaining how the Pioneer is female in Satisfactory.

*nerdvpn now only allows one video every six hours and offers a "premium subscription" for more access. HA

https://physicsworld.com/a/shock-as-cern-antiproton-lorry-vanishes-in-staff-car-park/

Wel planned, press releases last week about transporting antimatter.

I had to update my Elgato Stream Deck software and it pointed to their new product - the Stream Deck + Lever.

Admittedly I did do a WTF at first but then remembered what day it was. I didn't check more, but I have to assume! There's no way it could be real.

Oh, that and today was the first I heard about the scope of the Artemis II mission, but it turned out that actually was real even though it seemed like an elaborate joke. Cue the conspiracy theories

Today's Fascinating Horror "case" was pretty funny.

And the police in Bayern said they would be giving people money for driving less than 30 kph.

The one about the button which ended when I woke up in Europe (https://piefed.social/c/announcements/p/1938077/the-button), haha. It hurts me to say that reddit jokes lasted longer.