Goodbye from Salon
It has been an extraordinary privilege.
And from Seth Dillon at the Babylon Bee:
Salon wrote some of the best satire we've ever seen. If these brilliant humorists couldn't keep the lights on, what does that mean for the rest of us? https://t.co/KLTBAM9DTb
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) November 6, 2026
This continues a trend we have, sadly, been all too aware of.
The Bored Elon Musk Twitter account, though still public, can't keep up with Elon any longer and has had to pivot. Keeping up with reality can be so difficult, as I, the Babylon Bee, The Pan-Arabian Enquirer, Ambrose Bierce, Jonathon Swift and so many others over the years have found. Here's the Pan-Arabian Enquirer:
Editors at semi-popular Middle East satire news website The Pan-Arabia Enquirer yesterday revealed that they had “given up” in their long-running struggle to keep ahead of reality.The PAE attempted a comeback in 2018 but as the poet said "The dogs bark but the caravan moves on"
The announcement came following last week’s news that labourers working in Qatar had been coerced into taking part in a marathon, with many bussed in from their dormitories and forced to run in jeans and flip-flops as part of a failed bid to break the world record for number of participants.
“Honestly, simply cannot compete in these sorts of conditions,” said Enquirer acting editor Baltimore Stafford in a statement.
“Over the years, we’ve had to deal with a growing trend of real-life trying to outdo satire, especially in Saudi Arabia, but this is beyond our capabilities. To be honest, we could have probably worked around the whole ‘labourers forced to take part in marathon’ bit, but with the addition of flip-flops, jeans and the fact it was a shambolic attempt to break a record, we’ve had to concede defeat.”
