Emu bird flu lies, vegan influencer beef & Disney prisoners 👀🍿🧃

Hi Wrecklings! This week finds me queuing up the second season of The Vow— the documentary about NXIVM, the “self-help group” turned cult.

• “Emmanuel The Emu Never Had Bird Flu”- I’m a fan of Emmanuel, but not his mom. It’s now also a good time to remind people that, “There Are Two Emu Ladies on TikTok, and You Need to Know the Difference”

Also, unrelated but these two threads made me laugh out loud:

Sydney Battle @SydneyBattle

the animal sanctuary account i follow just made a post about how one of their elephants had a “i didn’t know i was pregnant” type delivery that was so shocking that when the baby just dropped out onto the ground the other elephants ran away screaming

Jana G. Pruden @jana_pruden

Offering kids the choice of candy or a potato this year because I saw a meme about it. And honestly it’s super funny to see their reactions.

• Elon finally actually acquiring Twitter has caused a whole lot of drama— most of it being completely expected, all things considered.

  • “Elon Musk wastes no time changing Twitter”

  • “People are pretending to be laid-off Twitter employees carrying boxes outside of HQ”

  • “Paying $20 for Twitter verification is cringe—and an invitation for fake news and abuse”

  • “Elon Musk Spreads Baseless Conspiracy Theory About Pelosi Attack”

nate of the living dead @MNateShyamalan

elon musk has updated the twitter captchas

cait @punished_cait

this is literally pathetic lol

• “Dane Cook Is Not Embarrassed About His Very Young Fiancée and Actually He's Laughing”- He can’t “yes-and” his way out of at the end of the day, how creepy this remains.

• TikTok is rife with drama, as always (skip the last one if you’re easily grossed out):

  • “‘TikTok making it hard for Chipotle workers’: Customer shares ‘hack’ for getting even ingredients throughout Chipotle burrito, sparking debate”

  • “Rosie O’Donnell’s Adoption TikTok Is Foolish and Ignorant”

  • “Tik Tok influencer cliping interviewee's correct answer to a different question to make him look dumb”

  • “TikToker faces charges after filming herself playing golf in Grand Canyon (update on the dumb influencer)”

  • “TikTok’s Love for Crime Scene Cleanup Is Bloody Complicated”

• “Fans Are Calling Out Kylie Jenner After A New Episode Of “The Kardashians” Bolstered Speculation That She Completely Faked A Red Carpet Appearance”- My interest in the Kardashians isn’t strong enough (or even existent, really) to follow the thread of this, but this feels wild for those that do.

• “People Aren’t Sure What To Make Of The YouTuber Who Just Ended A Three-Month Hiatus After Canceling Herself”- A whole three months? Wow. The restraint. It’ll be interesting for her fans that stick around to see what she’s going to cover, if the entire premise of her original content was all made up.

• “Why Don’t You Ever Hear About New Ghosts?”- It’s cute to think about how even ghosts have learning curves.

• “Visitors Trapped in Disney Resort by Sudden COVID Lockdown But The Rides Are Still Running”- Omg, this feels like a scary movie waiting to happen.

• “‘Airbnbs have the audacity to charge the same as hotel prices’: Man shares why hotels are superior to Airbnb rentals in viral video”- I used to be a huge Airbnb supporter but I’m also tired of paying a cleaning fee when I’m also the one doing most of my own post-stay clean up.

• “‘Eye of the Pfizer’: Conspiracy theorists try to pin Katy Perry’s lazy eye on COVID vaccine”- I’m all about conspiracy theories but let’s leave the vaccine out of it.

• “Workplace Bullies May Help Produce Conspiracy Theorists: Study

  Halloween, Avril Lavigne, and the conspiracy theory that refuses to die”- This is admittedly one of my favorite conspiracy theories.

• “Was Jack Welch the Greatest C.E.O. of His Day—or the Worst?”- Regardless of which way you land, this dude has pure ice running through his veins.

• “Official Trailer for Netflix Doc 'Org@sm Inc: The Story of OneTaste'“- The sexiest pyramid scheme!

• Longer-form reads, if you’re feeling high-brow:

  • “Ex-OpenSea Employee’s NFT Handling Runs into DOJ’s ‘Stradivarius’”

  • “The Game Show Scandal That Rocked America”

• “Yoga Girl is No Longer Vegan (I Can't Pretend This Isn't Insane)”- So the TL;DR— the universe told a vegan to eat an egg which led to her quitting veganism which she announced on her podcast— then another vegan influencer made this snarky response. Phew!

• “Self-driving truck startup TuSimple fires its CEO over improper ties to a Chinese firm”- Autonomous shadiness.

• “This NFT phone sounds as ridiculous as its price tag”- The array of grifts knows no bounds.

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More Serious Stories

We realize some of these can be triggering for some readers, so feel free to skip!

• “Female Artists Fight for Equality. It’s Not a Pretty Picture.”

• “Blexit’s Finances Are Slumping—but Its Paycheck to Candace Owens Keeps Coming”

• “Keanu Reeves Isn’t the Only One Matthew Perry Offended Recently”

• “Kanye West Destroyed His Billion-Dollar Empire In Just Three Weeks. Here’s How He Did It.”

• “What the Hell Is Going on at Kanye West’s Mysterious New Private School”

• “Kyrie Irving Defends Post About Antisemitic Movie During Heated Postgame Presser”

• “Andrew Tate’s Hustlers University 2.0 Has Made At Least $11 Million In Just One Month”

• “Influencer Content Is Fun to Watch. Too Bad the Creators Are Miserable”

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