here for a good time, not a long time. chicago, il 🍻

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Cake day: April 12th, 2024

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  • Again, Musk’s very first instinct wasn’t really to help, it was to exploit the disaster to beg for government subsidies that had been rejected for very good reasons. Then to leverage the disaster for political advantage to Trump, by publicly undermining FEMA rescue efforts. Then to take advantage of the disaster to make him seem like he was being more helpfully altruistic than he actually was.

    It’s like the YouTubers who film themselves nobly giving homeless people free tacos, but worse, not free, and at scale… during a major crisis. It’s all once again very demonstrative of who Musk truly is. Or, as the case may be, very clearly isn’t.

    Elon “the welfare queen” Musk strikes again



  • Started Kolchak: The Night Stalker this week! I’d never heard of this show so it’s been a treat to watch 👻

    Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. The series followed wire service reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) who investigates mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those involving the supernatural or science fiction, including fantastic creatures. The series was preceded by the two television movies, The Night Stalker (1972) and The Night Strangler (1973). Although the series lasted only a single season, it developed cult status in syndication.

    Chris Carter cited Kolchak as a “tremendous influence” in creating his franchise The X-Files.