10 years of Tinder
The Bennets' house from the 1995 Pride and Prejudice film is for sale, and with an asking price of £6m we reckon someone in possession of good fortune might just snap this one up
In tech news: Instagram has set its sights on BeReal, it looks like the ‘Tinderverse’ won’t go ahead, Polywork is the latest social media app to take on LinkedIn, WhatsApp will soon let you slip out of group chats undetected, a cool tool recruiters are using to reduce discrimination in the hiring process, no idea how we missed the relaunch of Limewire (???) in July, and investors think the value of a BeReal user is worth double that of Snap
How the pandemic changed friendships forever, told from the perspective of a vulnerable person living in a world that’s failed them
This beautiful tribute to the perfect album got us thinking – what album or song sits in your life as ‘perfect’? [“A perfect album completes a single uninterrupted gesture from its first track to its last track. It cuts one straight line through the forest. It’s a cold shower on a hot day, an open window in a stuffy room, a cup of coffee after the first good night’s sleep in weeks.”]
Everyone on Twitter this week was talking about the latest ep of the podcast Maintenance Phase dedicated to the French Women Don’t Get Fat phenomenon of the noughties, and we’ll just leave it at two words: leek water
A very normal, very delightful house tour
A necessary reminder that BeReal is not “the new Instagram” [“To reduce BeReal’s popularity to an Instagram replacement is to miss the whole point of why it’s growing so quickly. It’s not the act of sharing a photo that’s important; it’s the synchronicity and the fact it’s largely private. A better comparison would be Wordle, the mega viral word game that you can only play once a day.”]
This guy breaks down every sample in Hold Up by Beyoncé; parts one, two and three
How trauma can interrupt our relationships with our bodies
Serena Williams has written in Vogue about her reluctance and resolve to stop playing tennis and we’re in awe of how beautiful her writing is [“Believe me, I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family. I don’t think it’s fair. If I were a guy, I wouldn’t be writing this because I’d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labour of expanding our family.”]
A cutting piece in the Atlantic (and an accompanying TikTok) about how millennials are getting old and everyone on the internet can tell 😭
Some lovely things for your home (but it's the two-dimensional vases for us 🤯)
And in other news…. how to make a bad day better, even Facebook’s own chatbot hates it, Zara auditioning models for their website, stop listening to your brain, a plee for Slack to stop making us sound passive aggressive, how to make pesto like an Italian grandmother, honestly same, a new way to train cats, can’t stop won’t stop watching TucciTok, a genius way to use up leftover pasta, we’re stealing this dating app opening line, if celebrities were therapists part 2, beautiful tablescapes, Penguin Random House is trying to buy Simon & Schuster (Simon Penguin Random?), Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood Impact List is a great who’s who of next-gen stars, we should all check on our friends more, and the best of the ‘by age 30’ tweets that emerged after a #FinanceGuru unironically tweeted this
