Night club snakes, boat-topia concerns & bread lamp rat snacks 👀🍿🧃

Hi Wrecklings!

I’ve been watching the new documentary Queenmaker on Hulu, which is definitely worth a watch if you were ever a Gawker, PerezHilton, or pop culture kid in the early 2000s. There’s also a wild twist I didn’t see coming.

• “‘Pay Your Writers:’ Students Heckle Warner Bros. CEO During Commencement Speech”- Oh yes, this went really well for him.

• ''Influencers Pose With Snakes And Baby Crocodiles At Australian Night Club, Spark Outrage''- There was some foreshadowing with the club name here, apparently.

• ''Netflix users slam streamer for password-sharing ban: 'I've literally never cancelled a membership so fast'''- RIP to my “Parasite” account on my brother’s Netflix.

• ''A Japanese artist turns unsold croissants into $88 lamps to shed light on food wastage, but the fine print warns that 'rat damage may also occur’''- Rats aside, this would just have me craving bread all the time.

• ''YouTuber Alyx Weiss Went Dark for Months. Now She’d Like to Address Her Fans''- Well… this is weird.

• ''A TikTok dispute over a customer paying $2,600 for a rough tattoo sketch and no actual tattoo has spiraled out of control''- Sounds like this tattoo artist gave zero…fox.

• ''A hungry black bear ate 60 cupcakes out of a bakery's garage before employees scared it away''- Not terribly scandalous, but being that this is my hometown, I had to include it.

• A whole array of travel dramatics:

  • ''A woman sold her apartment and furniture to join a much-hyped 3-year cruise. Now, she and others have demanded refunds with the ship's future in flux.''

  • ''Influencer couple's airplane etiquette about overhead baggage leaves fellow fliers divided''

  • ''Parents Upgrade Themselves for a 13-Hour Flight but Leave Son in Coach''

  • ''Family stands to lose nearly $6,000 in airfare and hotel costs after they were bumped from an overbooked cruise ship''

  • “Delta Air Lines Sued Over Carbon Neutrality Claims”

• ''A man went viral after asking for advice on covering his 'shrimps is bugs' tattoo, with many begging him to keep the bad design''- Incredible.

• “Elizabeth Holmes reports to prison”- Dang, it’s actually happening.

• 🔏''Caroline Ellison: Friends reveal how the ‘reserved’ young math lover lost her way in Sam Bankman-Fried’s corrupt crypto empire''- This is an excellent profile, besides the strangely abrupt ending.

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More Serious Stories

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• “A Woman Sued Equinox For Firing Her Because She Was Black—And She Won”

• ''Influencer dies after live-streaming himself drinking bottles of Chinese spirit Baijiu''

• ''The Smiley Face Killers Conspiracy Theory Died Down. Then Came TikTok''

• ''Brands Embracing Pride Month Confront a Volatile Political Climate''

• ''TikTok influencer hospitalised for traumatic brain injury after horse falls on her at Arizona ranch''

• ''Legit app in Google Play turns malicious and sends mic recordings every 15 minutes''

• ''The FDA Would Like People to Please Stop Drinking Poppers Instead of Energy Shots''

• ''A travel vlogger documented the shocking aftermath of her $50 lip blushing procedure in Colombia, which she said was 'not worth it' even after the swelling subsided''

• ''The Cat Who Could Kill Horses''

• 🔏“Newsroom insiders are bracing for changes at The Wall Street Journal under its new top editor, including layoffs that could hit as early as next week”

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