My random tales:
One night, playing bunch of Halo, I got an Xbox 360 voice message. “Message to all recent players. Fukushima nuclear power plant just exploded. You should stock up on iodine tablets.” (I almost sent back a message saying “thanks for your concern, but I’m in the Chernobyl fallout zone and I turned out just fine thank you”)
Pluto photographs from New Horizons? Frigging NASA retweet. (Edit: Actually I think it was a retweet of someone making a Disney meme about Pluto the Dog)
Most recently, I got a random Discord message from a British YouTuber I follow saying “the Queen just died, please be respectful and stuff”.
I worked at Equifax during the big breach. (I did not know about it beforehand.) One morning I was chatting with coworkers about stuff and they were talking about a crazy massive breach and how stuff would need to change. At some point I said something like “who got hit?” I hadn’t checked my email (or the news) yet.
But, to be honest, I think hearing it like that may have actually been best. Hearing in on the train on the way to work would’ve been scary.