Grace Tame told us all so. And here’s everyone else who told us so too
This is a hard but important read: Elaine Hsieh Chou on all the things white men say about Asian women (“When I graduated from college, I moved to Taipei to teach ESL. One afternoon on the train, I overheard two white men discussing Asian women with an unfiltered openness achieved only under the guise of total privacy. They’d assumed no one around them could understand English.”)
Four Ukrainian women share their stories of escape
Money does a lot of things but it can’t bring people back
Has anyone started using the app BeReal yet? Every day, you get a sent a single notification that gives you 2 minutes to take a photo from your front and back camera (no access to the camera roll allowed!), which gets posted to a chronological feed of your friends’ posts –- and you can’t see until you’ve posted a picture yourself. Could this be the beginning of the end of curated feeds?
Rose Matafeo has a big juicy profile in The New Yorker and it makes us want to go back and binge Starstruck from the very beginning
According to Gen Z, Instagram is deeply uncool now and here’s why
Download the ‘New Tab with MoMA’ Chrome extension, and every new browser tab you open will contain a new piece of art from the MoMA’s collection. A tonic for tired computer eyes
In tech news, Facebook’s pivot back to video shows how badly it needs young people, why Instagram’s new chronological feed is a major letdown, and FB and IG have announced an important crackdown on misleading ‘watchbait’ videos (looking at the new rules, overusing caps and emojis could be enough to have your video's reach limited)
In the latest instalment of My Sweet Dumb Brain, Katie Hawkins-Gaar asks: Is heaviness just part of being human, or can we work on feeling lighter?
How TV became the “good screen”
Why your looks matter if you’re a writer (but only if you’re a woman)
This piece in British Vogue by the writer Annie Lord is squirmishingly honest, incredibly relatable reading (“I used to think that all I needed to do to be loveable was to become better. Told myself once I sort my hair it will be different, once that article goes up on the internet, once I buy that corset. But I’ve done all of those things and people still look at me and walk away. It makes me feel like giving up because what’s the point in being better if no-one notices it?”)
And finally, the videos, memes and threads that made us stop scrolling this week: British alternatives to being happy, meetings about nothing, if Arrested Development was Succession, an honest review of a baby, stealing this idea for the future, 80s weddings are back, where people write, welcome to Instagram, Anna Delvey is now selling art, where people write, water pistols for gull control, the world’s best chip, hype talk before heading back into the office, mobility goals, trying to have a convo after a weekend on the vino, obsessed with these videos where a former Tasty editor reviews the weirdest recipes she cooked, every comedian for the rest of eternity, an extremely long list of films that people on Twitter deem to be “perfect”, an incredibly annoying but effective way to feign busyness, and our favourite sort of Twitter thread: simple facts that blow your mind
