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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (January)

Pennsylvania flood museum temporarily closed due to flooding
--The Guardian, 28 Jan 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

Man Sinks in Quicksand and Emerges With a Girlfriend
A Michigan man who ended up waist-deep on an unstable beach was rescued, and found himself in a relationship.
--The New York Times, 18 Apr 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (July)

Chimps are sticking grass and sticks in their butts, seemingly as a fashion trend
--CBC, 11 Jul 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (February)

Thieves stole 100,000 organic eggs off a trailer in Pennsylvania. Police are scrambling
--CBC, 6 Feb 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (July)

Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved
--The Register, 31 Jul 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (June)

Salmon-hat wearing orcas also give each other massages with kelp, scientists discover
--LiveScience, 23 June 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (March)

'Pregnant' ancient Egyptian mummy with 'cancer' actually wasn't pregnant and didn't have cancer, new study finds
--LiveScience, 13 March 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)

Louvre Heist Fallout Reveals Museum’s Video Security Password Was ‘Louvre’
--Vice, 5 November 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (February)

Mark Zuckerberg Says ‘Everything I Say Leaks’ in Leaked Memo
--Vice, 4 Feb 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

Tortoise missing for months found a mile from home
--BBC, 28 April 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (June)

Poundland sold for £1
--The Telegraph, 12 Jun 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (December)

Raccoon goes on drunken rampage in Virginia liquor store and passes out on bathroom floor
--AP, 3 Dec 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)

Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
--CNN, 19 Nov 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (June)

6th grader's science experiment answers, 'Do cat buttholes touch every surface they sit on?'
--Upworthy, 28 Jun 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (August)

Portland council couldn’t finish meeting intended to fix drawn-out meetings
--OPB, 15 Aug 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

Stranded man airlifted from Mount Fuji — then rescued again days later after he returned to get his phone
--CBS, 28 April 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (August)

Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
--BBC, 29 Aug 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry penis tally after lengthy debate
--The Guardian, 25 Apr 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)

Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious
--PCGamer, 21 November 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

Hungover woman in hen costume finishes third at Brighton Marathon
“When I woke up the next morning for the marathon, I just thought, what on earth have I done?”
--Canadian Running, 9 April 2025

@paulisci I honestly feel like more incels should try this tactic—you never know 🤷🏼‍♀️

@paulisci
What?! Not even Louve123! Amateurs.

@Pinchy63
Obviously L0uvr3 would have been way safer.
@paulisci

@alterelefant @paulisci
That’s the sysadmin password.

@paulisci

These are hilarious!

@paulisci You've got some belters in there!

I think the resolved/unresolved one just made me laugh the most though.

@greem @paulisci

Totally!!!! 🤣

@paulisci like almost all of these, where to vote???

@MOULE @paulisci should've been included.

@paulisci
I am snort-laughing as I read through these. The biggest laugh was the person who *went back for their phone* and had to be rescued a second time!

@paulisci knowing turtoises, that one is way less funny than the others

mine ran away like 5 or 6 times and most often it remained pretty close by but near invisible, hidden under the roots of some bush or similar.

it wasn't uncommon to encounter it the next day somewhere near the house.

once it walked like 3-5km until someone found it, took it to the only local shop that dealt with such animals. They knew us, so it was returned.
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@paulisci “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
—Upton Sinclair

@paulisci ngl this is a question I ponder every time my cat sits on me or my pillow... so a special thanks to Kaeden Henry for his findings in this very important field of research! (the answer is yes: there are likely traces of domestic shorthair cat butthole contact on my pillow and bedding)

Votes in the seeding round coming in: Pretty Obvious, Resolved and Unresolved & Police Are Scrambling off to an early lead, with a tight battle for 16th.

Top 16 qualify! Voting counts likes & reposts (and comments on IG) across platforms. Round of 16 starts December 27.

#1 Pretty Obvious: 2491 pts 
#2 Resolved and Unresolved: 1947 
#3 Police Are Scrambling: 1863 
#4 Leaked Memo on Leaks: 1635 
#5 Flood Museum Flooded: 1616 
#6 Louvre Password: Louvre: 1526 
#7 Emerges With Girlfriend: 1401 
#8 Tortoise Mile/Month: 1270 
#9 Man Rescued Twice: 1204 
#10 Pregnant/Not pregnant: 1132 
#11 Cat Buttholes Touch All: 1129 
#12 Grass Butt Chimp Fashion: 1056 
#13 18000 waters: 928 
#14 Salmon-Hat Kelp Massage: 917 
#15 Long Meetings: 908 
#16 Drunk Raccoon Passes Out: 867 
#17 Bayeux Tapestry Penises: 843 
#18 Hungover Woman in 3rd: 836 
#19 AI Teddy Hawks Knives: 765 
#20 Poundland: 1 Pound: 757

@paulisci I'm a little sad about Poundland. Go Poundland Go. (Possibly a statement that has never been said before).

@paulisci how do you vote?

@nosrednayduj Boosts or faves.

@paulisci so we're not going to talk about

@paulisci Vaugely remember a quote that some people don't understand certain things because their salary depends on not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair 1878–1968: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it
@madengineering @paulisci