The election can’t come soon enough
By far the best thing that happened on the internet this week was the Pay Gap Bot on Twitter, which automatically tweeted an organisation’s gender pay gap every time they tweeted about International Women’s Day. Honestly, we’ve never seen any single account wreak more havoc on branded social content than this bad-arse bot calling out empty corporate celebrations. Here’s an excellent profile on the two women — freelance copywriter and social media manager Francesca Lawson and software developer Ali Fensome — who built the bot in 2021 in the middle of the pandemic as a “lockdown project”. All hail 🙌🏼
Love is whatever slows us down in the crisis
A really great conversation about talking to kids (especially boys) about periods. The comments from readers are particularly good
The land of sunflowers 💛💙
This week, a group of Australian women — including Grace Tame, Brittany Higgings, former Liberal politician Julia Banks and former Australia Post boss Christine Holgate — launched the Safety Respect Equity campaign, calling for systemic reform to improve women's lives. The campaign video is chilling, rage-inducing and powerful in equal measures. Well worth a watch if you haven’t already
We hard agree with Haley Nahman’s drinks-truth parabola
This week’s Wordle not Wordle is Heardle, where you have five tries to guess the intro of a song (Vanessa’s husband would like this opportunity to brag that he guessed Outkast’s Ms Jackson in 1 second)
One of the most gripping Humans of New York stories in yonks (there’s 13 instalments, so keep reading!)
Unsurprisingly, being on America’s Next Top Model sounds awful
Everything can become nothing (tw: the Ukraine war)
Depressing pandemic maths that shows how Covid stole our time –– and how we can get it back (“The past couple of years has left us with a joy deficit. When we picture a post-Covid world, we imagine having our old lives back. But we can actually go a step further and make up for the missed experiences, flipping the deficit into a surplus. If Covid has given us anything, it’s a rare chance for a reset.”
Only Anne Helen Petersen could make a subject like the history of houseplants interesting
Annnnnddddddd…. almost pong, Drake’s reading list, matcha is out and martinis are in, Kim Kardashian dressed up like a traffic cone, the best hair tutorial on the internet, opera gloves are a thing now apparently, soy sauce brownies, 2022 in a nutshell, Miriam Margolyes gives the best advice, actual conversations had by a Desperate Housewives producer, we don’t understand what a hedge fund manager does either, splitting the mental load, and 19 extremely easy recipes for when you cbf
