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What on earth is this ghastly nonsense in aid of?

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And this?

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There’s enough junk on SE Biology without the management contributing too.

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  • $\begingroup$ Probably something more for the main meta. You can turn it off with the "time travel" link in the upper right that you highlighted in your first image. Seems to be SE's April Fools. I agree with you in that it's a particularly annoying and not at all entertaining instantiation of such a joke. $\endgroup$
    – Bryan Krause Mod
    Apr 1, 2019 at 15:41
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    $\begingroup$ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/326036/… $\endgroup$
    – Bryan Krause Mod
    Apr 1, 2019 at 15:46
  • $\begingroup$ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/326022/… $\endgroup$
    – Bryan Krause Mod
    Apr 1, 2019 at 15:47
  • $\begingroup$ OK. I got it myself. Long past noon here though. $\endgroup$
    – David
    Apr 1, 2019 at 15:56
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    $\begingroup$ I thought the actual redesign that recently occurred was enough of a joke. $\endgroup$
    – canadianer
    Apr 1, 2019 at 21:23
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    $\begingroup$ @David I think it began for people everywhere when it was 2019-Apr-01 00:00:00 in the earliest possible timezone anywhere on Earth, to maximize our "shared experience" and so it probably ended somewhere around 2019-Apr-02 00:00:00 at the last possible time zone on Earth. At least they didn't bring the dastardly Windows paperclip back again. I found that one particularly traumatizing. $\endgroup$
    – uhoh
    Apr 2, 2019 at 23:31

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Personally I like it, but the lack of <blink> tags is disturbing

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  • $\begingroup$ They wouldn’t render on modern browsers. The magic dust is their 21st century replacement. $\endgroup$
    – David
    Apr 1, 2019 at 21:25

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