This is heart-wrenching reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol by the last two international journalists left, who are risking their lives to write. This is not easy to absorb, but if you can, read every word, and look at every picture, and think of the people of Ukraine
Go ahead and set yourself up for failure
Could you have had Covid and not realised it? (also, we were today years old when we learnt you can’t use a RAT within 30 minutes of eating or drinking. Surely not just us?)
What it means when someone comes out as non-binary
Meet the young people fighting climate doomism, the notion that it’s too late to turn things around 🙏
Yevgenia Belorusets is a Ukrainian writer-photographer who’s been documenting Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014. This week we subscribed to her Kyiv war journal, which is updated daily and does a devastatingly brilliant job at documenting Kyiv's displaced from a different vantage
A timely guide to accomodating your Muslim coworkers this Ramadan
Hannah Gadsby writes eloquently and honestly about her autism diagnosis in the Guardian (“When I finally did start telling the world of my diagnosis, the dismissals came thick and fast. I was told I was too fat to be autistic. I was told I was too social to be autistic. I was told I was too empathic to be autistic. I was told I was too female to be autistic. I was told I wasn’t autistic enough to be autistic.”)
As we reimagine everything about how we live and work, we have a unique opportunity to make sweeping changes on behalf of parents. Here’s why we should all fight for workplaces to support mothers, even if you don’t want to become a parent yourself
Sydneysiders are sharing how much rent they pay on Reddit and 😓😓
A typical day in 2040 (“I am lucky to be in the 1%. The 1% is what we call people who have jobs. As I walk toward my office, I wave to my two coworkers, Wendy, who writes ad copy, and my manager Paul, who is a robot. I sit down at my desk and begin brainstorming jingles but quickly get distracted. I queue up the only remaining source for news, Twitt-Tok, onto my mindscape, and scroll through the top news stories of the day.”)
How Ikea tricks you into buying more stuff
The mishmash of pattern and textures in this New York brownstone technically shouldn’t work but somehow it just… does. The tiles! That staircase! The dining nook 😍
Annnnnddddddd…. Instagram has launched two new ways to browse the feed (watch our explainer on this news here), the humble cauliflower took a beating on Twitter this week, two thirds of UK young people say they miss lockdown, Nora Ephron on what she wished she knew, this would be funny if it wasn’t so realistic, the case for giving a guy a flowers, treating stress with stress, this Fleabag scene lives rent free in our heads, tiny love stories, the latest nostalgia-fuelled collectible is the humble landline and no we’re not joking, annoying work things, every Kardashian episode ever, the optical illusion that took the internet by storm this week, and looks like we have a wheat supply and production crisis to look forward to 🙃
