With Silly Joke Day winding down, it is probably safe to do a blog post without people having to scour it for clues. Here is a pile of more or less truthful linkage.

Andrew Wheeler has a list of possibly SF-related April Fool jokes.

Here’s one he hasn’t yet listed from Nature.

Christian Sauve discovers that Florida is sublime.

Russian Fundies give up waiting for the end of the world.

And finally, for those of you who are distraught to discover that the VanderMeers’ SquidPunk anthology was just a joke, here are some punky octopuses indulging in tentacle porn.