If you read one thing this week, make it this piece in the New York Times by law professor Michele Goodwin, who writes courageously about being raped by her father at age 10, and puts the reality of what abortion bans mean for women and girls into devastating focus ("It was the early morning of my 10th birthday the first time that I was raped by my father. It would not be the last. The shock was so severe that I temporarily went blind before I began the fifth grade a few weeks later.")
The danger of not falling in love
Our fave weekend quiz The Saturday Quiz is helping us get through the festive break with the Twelve Saturdays of Quizmas. One dollar a day, one quiz via SMS every day from 25th December to 5th January. So much knowledge 🤓
An article that actually makes having kids sound like… fun?
ICYMI, a group of Indigenous community leaders from far-western NSW have launched a national political party called the Indigenous-Aboriginal Party of Australia with an eye on next year’s federal election. The party hopes to tackle systemic issues such as Indigenous housing, water management, fracking and education
The loneliness of being the only single friend in your friendship group
Take a moment to enjoy The Everywhereist’s review of The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever, which includes gems like “We sat through a few more courses including a marshmallow flavoured like cuttlefish, and a dish called “frozen air” which literally melted before you could eat it, which felt like a goddamn metaphor for the night”.
A few months on from Squid Game, could the South Korean series be the start of a huge change in what we watch in 2022 and beyond?
Forget Spotify Unwrapped. This AI bot will tell how bad your music taste *really* is
In Instagram news, chronological feeds are coming back and according to the kids, the finsta is dead
Pinterest has predicted the trends of 2022. Get ready to spend next year lusting over curved sofas, building an emotional escape room, swapping booze for afternoon tea and dressing for the dopamine hit
They made an ad in Norway where Santa is gay and we’re not crying you’re crying 😭
Succession fans: The Jeremy Strong profile in the New Yorker is every bit as good as you’ve heard. Do yourself a favour and read it asap with a glass of something strong
Elsewhere on the internet…. a woman has recreated the audition scene from Save The Last Dance and it’s so bad it’s good, meanwhile in 2022, this TikTok is making us want to dig out our copy of Goldeneye 007 on n64, a plea to bring back chaotic Christmas trees, watch this next time you’re having a bad day, when you’re vibing with your manager and then they start managing, extremely accurate Triple J announcer impressions part 1 and part 2, festive photoshopping, turns out Grill’d throws crap (and racist) Christmas parties, and we could listen to this New Zealand voice all day
