Useless Eater

Elon Musk Fans Are Still Losing Ridiculous Amounts of Money to Crypto Scams

I FOIA'd the FTC for consumer complaints about crypto scammers who pretend to be Elon Musk.

People are cashing out their retirement accounts and losing ridiculous sums of money.

The greatest exchange in comics interview history still belongs to Jack Kirby

On March 27, 1981, 13 million Poles (effectively every adult worker in the country) failed to show up for work at 8 AM after union activists in Bydgoszcz were beaten. In the face of that kind of solidarity, the state could do little but sputter.

Anyway, thinking about Texas A&M.

Ozzy’s own gateau Sir, Further to your obituary of Ozzy Osbourne (Jul 23), in 1975 I was pregnant and working as a waitress in the late-night coffee shop at the Holiday Inn, Swiss Cottage. Near closing time a group of four massively drunk men arrived, in high spirits, accompanied by a collie dog. They ordered four hamburgers for themselves and a steak for the dog. I fetched their orders (putting the plate on the floor for the collie). For pudding they had that 1970s favourite, black forest gateau. When I gave it to them, in unison they lifted up their plates and squashed the cake into each other’s faces, covering each other in cream and chocolate. Quelling my nausea (I was pregnant after all), I asked why they did that. “Because we’ve always wanted to,” they replied amiably. Gazing at them, I said that they must be musicians. They agreed, and said they were a band called Black Sabbath and had just signed a recording contract, and had been celebrating downstairs in the bar. I’ve loved them ever since, especially as they left a £5 tip, which in those days was huge. Deborah Moggach London NW5

The loveliest memory of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath in today’s Times letters page from the author Deborah Moggach

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Sickos guy going yes

It’s your day today friend

My boy is taking the Knicks loss so hard that he’s taking it out on this dumbass professor

This is the funniest movie production fact I’ve ever read

If you would like to write a card or letter, or share a drawing with Marvel writer Bill Mantlo, his daughter Corinna says he loves to hear them read to him. The address:

Bill Mantlo
329 Beach 59st
Unit 920756
Arverne, NY 11692

dying in a time travel attempt to kill Hitler and the only change is Krist Novoselic playing basketball in Serbia instead of bass in Nirvana

Cheetahs don't roar, they meow and purr like house cats.

Credit: africansafarimovie/yt

Thanks for the info! Muscle memory at the movies during the previews was upset.

you owe us, God

F Is For Fake for real. The big man eating up scenery, talking trash, and enough quick cuts and edits to make your 2020s brain question if this really is from 1974.

Jon Stewart admits folks here were right & he wasn't: "I did not think he would get this authoritarian this fast. I really didn't. I'm sorry. Who could have known? Maybe if someone out there had yelled at me on Bluesky about this, I would have known. But no one did. Except every day. In all caps."

New rule: before you lecture me, you have to show me your efforts to convince evangelicals they need to listen to atheists and other faiths, or that CPAC needs progressive speaker slots, or that the Federalist Society should broaden their ideological criteria for judicial appointments, and so on.

kash patel looking dumbfounded at a hearing

The moment in the movie where Lindsay Lohan realizes she swapped bodies with the FBI director

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@marawilson.bsky.social)

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Three people in sky blue shirts and jeans climbing the steps of the US Capitol, including a young blonde girl wearing a red and white bandanna around her head and turning to look at the camera

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

bluesky and twitter both have annoying people but at least on bluesky the most annoying people can't pay $8/month to make me see their posts more

Anyone else feeling down, down today for some reason?

Killing Medicaid, killing vaccines, killing Social Security: It all has one purpose. The Nazis called people who required public assistance Lebensunwertes Leben: Lives unworthy of living. They had another term too, for people unable to work — Unnütze Esser: useless eaters. The elderly, the disabled.

thinking about when siskel and ebert were dicking off and riffing in-between takes and decided to roast the shit out of the protestants

i'm going to need democratic politicians and democrats in general to learn to do things that feel bad and rude and awkward. i'm sorry but you folks need to toughen up and tell your racist uncle to fuck off

lmao he’s literally going to fucking sign it

gonna be honest if ten years ago you'd have told me a fast food franchise was going to embrace open Nazi messaging i would have guessed "Steak 'n Shake"

< %85 Gulardian US news Trump delays tariffs on many products from Mexico and Canada US president paused tariffs on Mexican products covered by USMCA and later stayed tariffs on many Canadian imports

It doesn’t feel insane to think Trump’s tariff obsession is just a way to pump and dump the stock exchange for his buddies, right? Sell at current price, tank it with bad news, buy at the bottom, announce a resolution with whatever country, let it climb again, rinse and repeat?

The Great Michigan Pizza Funeral was the ceremonial disposal of 29,188 frozen cheese-and-mushroom pizzas in Ossineke, Michigan, on March 5, 1973.[1][2] The manufacturer, Ilario "Mario" Fabbrini,[3] had been ordered to recall the pizzas by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after initial tests suggested the presence of botulism-causing bacteria in a batch of canned mushrooms.

Ilario Fabbrini, owner of the frozen pizza manufacturer, watches the pizza burial.

52 years ago today