Essential prep to make it through the year’s second Mercury Retrograde unscathed
How to get that English Country House look (“For much as the look has been repackaged and downgraded over the years, it only feels genuine when it has been lived in and worn down, the thread-bare carpet revealing exactly where the master of the house sits to have his coffee every morning.”)
This deep dive in Esquire on how to become a food influencer is equal parts fascinating and depressing
If you’ve been watching celebrities do the “jiggle jiggle” on TikTok this week, here’s the unlikely place where the dance craze came from (and ICYMI here’s the OG video. It’s the dribble hand movement that does it for us 😭)
What $4 gets you for lunch in Hong Kong
In no particular order, here’s a list of things that the internet has deemed cool again this week: pouting, fishing, collecting rare books, clompy flatform sandals, and biker jackets, cropped cardigans, pointy toe boots and metallic purses
A thought-provoking piece on the desire vs duty of domesticity
It’s a big week for tech news: Tech companies including Meta and Uber have began cutting costs and laying off employees, Instagram has announced an NFT integration test, new social media app BeReal is set to close a new funding round that will quadruple its valuation to over $600m, Meta’s ‘Culture Codes’ suggest lo-fi content trumps polished ads when it comes to native social advertising, Facebook is removing some it its location tracking tools in yet another response to tightening data regulations, Twitter is the latest social media platform to succumb to a TikTok-esque feed (and the app has also (finally) announced that it’s rolling out a new policy to combat spam and duplicate content), Google, Microsoft, and Apple are working together to eliminate user-created passwords (swapping them out for sign-ins like face and fingerprint scans), Apple is discontinuing the iPod after 20 years, and Woolies’ new Scan&Go app is a game changer
Honest reviews of every book on the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022 longlist, and 16 novels that paint an accurate picture of abortion
May we suggest reading this wonderful interview with Florence Welch in British Vogue while listening to Florence and the Machine’s new album, Dance Fever, which drops today?
A 31-year old woman talks openly about the role medication plays in managing her mental health in a new Bustle series called ‘Me and My Meds’, which explores the way millennials relate to their mental health medications
… and a CEO shares how filter-free, tear streaked selfies on IG or ‘crying on main’ can build a community
What are your core childhood memories? An interesting read on how it’s life’s little joke that we don’t get to choose what sticks. You’ll definitely want to spend time in the comments here
103 pieces of unsolicited life advice (if this looks familiar, it’s because we shared 99 pieces of advice from the same author last year in Issue 76 – this is a birthday tradition 🎂). Our favourites this time around include: Don’t keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes; The biggest lie we tell ourselves is “I don't need to write this down because I will remember it”; and, take note if you find yourself wondering “Where is my good knife? or, where is my good pen?” That means you have bad ones. Get rid of those."
Anndddd TikToks n other stuff…. we bet your Mother’s Day celebrations weren’t as organised as this woman’s, we shouldn’t be surprised when a Kardashian doesn’t know how to cut a cucumber, here’s a video of Harry Styles holding a baby,this is what climate change looks like, yes there is a right way to stack a dishwasher, 10 practical tips that might help you slow down, if Disney fairytales were told on TikTok instead, we were today years old when we learnt what a landlord special is, forgot how good this theme song is, the ultimate Wordle mum, love this dinner party idea, a solid Ira Glass impression, tell us you’re single without telling us you’re single, the latest question dividing the internet, if cis men got abortions, when you’re a slow reader, and we’re obsessed with #GrossGirlTikTok
