NSFW (but by far the best thing that happened on the internet this week)
Love love love this Substack by zero-waste chef Anne Marie Bonneau that encourages 30 days of climate action, one day at a time. Start with this excellent issue on how to buy less stuff
This piece in the New Yorker about teen lives interrupted by Covid is equal parts mesmerising and heartbreaking (“I remember for a while thinking, If I talk to friends, it will be fine. But eventually I found myself not talking to anyone, just being in my room the whole day. For some reason, talking to people on FaceTime or Zoom, you’re even lonelier.”)
Long live the offline boyfriend
The power of a good cry
Wordle, but for geography nerds
Watching Inventing Anna on Netflix? ICYMI, here’s the original story published back in 2018 in New York Magazine that first exposed Anna’s double life, and here’s the journalist (Jessica Pressler, who broke the story) talking to The Cut about what’s real and not real about the Netflix series
A poem for the ages
British journalist Johann Hari explains how our focus has been stolen and how we can get it back
Why are we all still on Facebook?
Can MDMA save a marriage? (“During their first trip on MDMA, Ree said she and her husband tearfully discussed things they had trouble speaking about for the last decade… “My husband started sharing with me for the first time all these thoughts and emotions,” Ree said. “It was him without the walls,” she added… “For a person who has always had body image issues, to allow him to touch me — touch my stomach, the part of me I don’t love, was incredibly healing,” she said.)
Absolutely devoured this tell-all tale of what it’s like to go on the TV quiz show Mastermind
This is trippy and fascinating: calculate your colour IQ
Annddddd…. what some customers are doing with their Frank Green mystery boxes, crushing on this rental kitchen reno, 2000s fashion is back baby, this is a lot of pasta, photographs of celebrities sitting in front of portraits of themselves, why TikTok is so scared of turning 30, brb buying brown nail polish, the new core is Princesscore, how “lol” and “lmao” became punctuation marks, there’s an Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory making the rounds of TikTok, this week we learnt that ski ballet used to be a thing at the winter Olympic (you cannot unsee this), lollll, if you grew up in the nineties you’ll find this incredibly nostalgic (Vanessa: I wanted to be Lynda so bad), the most awkward moments of And Just Like That, we’re not crying you’re crying, and a very long, very excellent Twitter thread of mood boosters
