FRIDAY FOURTEEN ISSUE 159

Okay so Rhianna is pregnant but did you see ASL interpreter Justina Miles’ electrifying performance?? Here’s everything you need to know about the first female deaf performer for the Super Bowl’s halftime show and where you can find her on TikTok

Forget #Normcore, #Dadcore and #Cottagecore – the next trending aesthetic is #Forestcore and it’s all about making your space feel as much like the uninhabited woodlands as possible

We’ve bookmarked this handy guide to Asian greens and reckon you may want to do the same

10 rules for communicating with Gen Z online (“do NOT ever send :) or 🙂”)

Katie Hawkins-Gaar’s newsletter My Sweet Dumb Brain is always an utter joy to read, but this week’s musings on the importance of finding more ways to practise self-love is some of the most beautiful (and wise) writing we’ve read in a long time (“On February 14, 2018, I did something I’d been afraid to do. I took myself out to lunch at a familiar restaurant, treating myself to one of my favourite meals—all alone. I sat at the bar, ordered a beer, read a book, and savoured every second. And I made a promise that I would start finding more ways to practise self-love. To be a better partner to myself. To make my life romantic, just for me.”)

Finally, scientists are close to explaining why some people who contract Covid get super sick while others show no symptoms at all

The New York Times have ranked the 25 best tweets of all time. Agree y/n?

Speaking of which, dozens of NY Times contributors are calling the paper out for their "editorial bias in the newspaper's reporting on transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people". You can read the powerful letter here

If they gave Oscars to books

How Architectural Digest became the new Vogue

TikTok influencers have started ‘de-influencing’ by telling their followers all the products that aren’t worth the hype. This is a trend we can really get behind

Singer Sam Smith went viral for the inflated black latex outfit they wore to the Brit Awards, which immediately had the internet comparing their look to a literal bin bag and burnt rotisserie chicken (but designer Hari Krishnan says the look had a deeper meaning)

This Uber feature shows your one star ratings, and people are fuming. At least scrolling though this feed makes us people pleasers feel less alone

And in other news: we’ve never identified more with a cheese, we can't get over this dog breaking the fourth wall, here's a goth nightclub (but not as you know it), men, what will you do when you’re 101, receptionists these days, chatGPT is brutal, this woman’s voice broke TikTok for a few days, be careful what you wish for, glad to know we’re not the only ones, time is an absolute scam, the 50th edition of Roe v bro, the baseball scene in Twilight, Taylor Lautner squared, an insanely photogenic dog, woah, Cate Blanchett demystifies Aussie slang, the downfall of David Jones, washing your hair be like, and we’re dying to know if Kim Kardashian has seen this new TikTok trend