Thursday September 16: Daily Links

THURSDAY 9.16


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SpaceX Launches Civilians for a 3 Day Tour

Last night Space X launched its all tourist Inspiration4, the first-ever flight populated entirely by amateurs. that will enter orbit. The group will return to earth on Saturday.

Welcome to the era of the space monorail.

Even the S S Minnow has a skipper.

Read more at CNN.


America’s Oldest Living Veteran Turns 112th

Lawrence Brooks celebrated birthday number 112, making him the oldest living WWII Vet, He says the key to living a long life is being nice to people.

Geeze, guess my grandmother was a bitch.

Read more at BET.


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After only pulling in 1 percent of the vote in the recall election, Caitlyn Jenner told Caifornia’s citizens who voted for Newsom they’ll get the government they deserve.

California replied, “Thanks! You are literally correct.”

Read more at the Week.


Gen Z is All About the Psychedelics

Use of psychedelics are one the rise among Generation Z. The young folks are seeking to enhance connectedness in a time of division.

Wasn’t the internet supposed to connect your entire generation?

Read more at Vice.


Alex Murdaugh Expected To Turn Himself In Today To Authorities

Alex Murdaugh is expected to turn himself in to authorities today after a warrant was issued for his arrest on charges of conspiracy to commit insurance fraud. What about the pile of dead bodies that surround him at this point too? Any word on that?

Read more at CNN.


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SPORTS



Alabama Player Shocks Reporters With His Favorite NIck Saban Saying

Jordan Battle was expected to share some inspirational quote when reporters asked him his favorite NIck Saban saying but he replied that he couldn’t think of one off the top of his head because he has so many. He then added, “But there are a few I like. He always talking about ‘touch deez’ or you know ‘suck on deez’ and all that.”

That’s not Nick Saban’s quote. If he came up with that, he’d be a genius.

Read more at mediaite.


Jake Fraley Faceplant

After taking an odd route to the make the catch, Fraley ate it in this clip that has gone viral.

According to Nick Saban he tripped over deez.


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CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Wendy Williams Show Start Postponed After She Was Rushed to Hospital

According to The Sun, NYPD was called to Wendy’s high-rise apartment building in New York City on Tuesday to assist a 57-year-old female who needed “psychiatric services” and matched her description.

Luckily this will not change her performance on the show even slightly.

Read more at radar online.


Reba McEntire Rescued After Stairs Collapse

Reba was rescued by firemen and brought out of the building by a ladder after an incident in an Oklahoma building. “While my team and I were in Atoka, OK yesterday checking out an old historical building, a staircase collapsed. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured. We were safely evacuated from the building thanks to the quick response from the Atoka fire and police departments.”

Jesus how much do you weigh Reba?

Read more at TMZ


Nicki Minaj Banned From Twitter, Contradicted by Trinidad & Tobago, and Gets an Invite to The White House

Yesterday was a busy day for Nicki Minaj and her bib balls story. She spent much of the evening battling back angry twitter followers after she posted a Tucker Carlson clip of the controversial host taking her sie in the battle of the balls. Then she got suspended from Twitter, but before she was put in time out, she told followers that she’ll be going to the White House dressed all in pink.

OH and The Trinidad & Tobago Health Minister said there is no such reported case in Trinidad & Tobago of sexual dysfunction caused by the vax.

What are we worried about? Nicki Minhaj doesn’t influence anyone.

Read more at mediaite.


You Win, Internet. The Activist Is No Longer a Game Show

The planned game show hosted by Usher, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Julianne Hough pitting activists against each other to win money for their causes will now be a documentary special. The idea of having to compete to raise awareness rubbed people the wrong way. Only 3 of the 6 competitors would be selected to attend the G20 summit to advance their causes. Some of the criticism centered on having celebrity hosts judge the comparative worth of important issues, others focused on black mirror/hunger games comparisons.

“We got it wrong” said the company at the helm of the show. They will scrap all the previously filmed footage and start over.

The show will be replaced by orphans fighting for dinner.

Read more at Deadline.


Tom Hanks To Star In Sad Dog Porn Movie

Tom Hanks is going to star in a sci-fi film called Finch that centers around him trying to figure out how his dog is going to survive after he dies. It could also be called Pander To Americans The Movie.

See the poster on Twitter.


Dune Director Takes Shots At The MCU

In a recent interview with El Mundo, Dune director Denis Villenue said “There are too many Marvel movies that are nothing more than a cut and paste of others”. Thank God someone finally said it. Now he’ll never get to direct the next reboot of the Spiderman series.

Read his quote on Twitter since the original article is in Spanish. Unless of course you can read Spanish then check out El Mundo.



TRENDING




Did Obama Kill Rock and Roll?

The host of The Daily Wire’s “Backstage” show has gone viral for his theory that Barack Obama is the reason rock and roll is dead. During a discussion about Covid, Jeremy Boreing said he said the death of rock and roll is also a crisis and explained his theory.

“There was rock ‘n roll, then there was Barack Obama, now there’s no rock ‘n roll.” he said. “Rock and roll was about white male teenage angst and then Barack Obama said young white men are not allowed to have angst.” Boreing believes Obama stopped white male from expressing dissatisfaction because they’re so toxic, so rock just stopped.

Okay, B. Name one great rock song during the Bush years.

Via digg.



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STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



Rolling Stone Magazine Re-Writes It's Top 500 Songs List

It’s been 17 years since Rolling Stone released a top 500 song list, and it seems the magazine feels so much great music has been released in that period that they felt compelled to rewrite their list.

The top 10 includes some songs from the original list and a few additions with songs from Outkast, Fleetwood Mac, Missy Elliott, The Beatles, Marvin Gaye, Nirvana, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, Public Enemy, and Aretha Franklin.

Dreams? Is this the 500 best Tik Tok songs?

Read more at Rolling Stone.



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