Ghanian-Australian musician Genesis Owusu has won Triple j’s Australian Album of the Year with his genre-bending debut album. Hard to define but impossible to ignore
If you’ve been hearing a lot about Taylor Swift this week and wondering why she’s releasing new versions of previously recorded albums: read this (it’s kinda genius)
Everyone needs a best friend who can rationalise anything
Loved this piece in the Guardian by Zoe Williams about finally getting the house to yourself, and then being so paralysed with fear about how to make the most out of it that you basically ruin it 🙃
Tiny love stories is a real tear jerker this week
Things we’ve lost to the internet, including filing cabinets and bad photos
Nothing sums up how we feel about the last two years more than this
True love
Pandora Sykes writes about replacing doom scrolling with joy scrolling after a diagnosis of postnatal depression (“Desperate to find my way out of PND after the birth of my second child, I stopped reading the news, logged off social media and immersed myself in stories of optimism. Before this, I had never been one to put up my blinkers. I thought it dangerous and foolish to ignore bad news. Like many journalists, “keeping informed” verged on compulsion, born out of professional obligation and fear of ignominy.”)
Some wise words on ageing by The Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan that slowed us down and put things into perspective (the perspective we didn’t even notice we’d lost)
This Twitter thread making us want to turn allllll our notifications off
A few months ago, our favourite climate change newsletter Heated did some incredible reporting about the irony of the New York Times’ fossil fuel ads. Now Heated author Emily Atkin is back at it again, writing about how misleading Exxon Mobil ads found their way into people’s ears during an episode of NYT’s podcast The Daily during COP26
The only cue you need to wrap up a story
Now for a bunch of random stuff that’s too good not to share… this Duck gave the NYC Marathon a red hot quack, Britney is free, if Succession was real life, the perfect summary of what it means to be British, a bitchy guide to ditches, the curse of supermarket tortellini, the friend that wakes up first on holidays, dinner for one, white people in Australia, a small bite, millennials vs their boss, and same
