Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | July 23, 2023
Elon Musk is a moron. That has never been more evident than the past year when he torched his reputation by trapping himself into buying Twitter where he proceeded to prove that he has the business acumen of a bleached walrus on coke. Under Musk’s ownership, the social media site has become a dumpster fire that’s now worth barely a third of what Musk wildly overpaid for it, thanks to an advertiser exodus. Turns out, brands don’t want to be near hate speech that a platform’s CEO can’t boost fast enough. Who knew? Clearly not Elon Musk. Anyway, for his latest trick, he’s going to put a bullet in the last thing Twitter has going for it: Its name. According to Musk, the platform could rebrand as “X” as early as Monday. It’s a real “hold my beer” move after the whole HBO Max to Max debacle, so you really have to give Elon credit for somehow finding new and creative ways to be the biggest dumbass amongst a deep bench of corporate dumbasses. Way to stand out, buddy. (The Verge)
Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello’s split probably won’t get bitter. (Lainey Gossip)
Kevin Costner’s ex-wife is in Hawaii with one of his pals. Hmm… (Celebitchy)
Kayleigh appeared on CBC Radio to talk about Hot Ones, Chicken Shop Date, and the current state of the celebrity press tour. (CBC Listen)
The very true story of a QAnon guy who redpilled his “girlfriend” with Sound of Freedom. Everything here totally happened. (Wonkette)
In Indigenous futurisms, Native artists are leading the way. (The Mary Sue)
Mike Pence can’t stop defending Trump trying to kill him. (Rolling Stone)
Cillian Murphy and Christopher Nolan really hate wigs. (Vulture)
From Roxana: How TV writing became a dead-end job. (NYT)
The right-wing freakout over Barbie broke a Newsmax guest’s brain in real-time. (Uproxx)
Most Americans would like NASA to spend more time Armageddon-ing, and less time trying to go to the moon. (Gizmodo)
Scrubbing Danny Masterson from things is always good. (TVLine)
Sarah joined Cannonball Read to play in the Bingo Reading Challenge and to talk about T.J. Klune’s perfectly imperfect Wolfsong. “I have approximately two hundred and fifteen questions about how werewolf mate bonding works now, and NONE of them have satisfying answers.” What book do you love even though it makes no sense? (Cannonball Read 15)
They finally make a movie for people who are 12 inches tall with no genitals and those people don't even like it. https://t.co/4vtL6N7s4y
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) July 21, 2023
