FRIDAY FOURTEEN ISSUE 163

If you click on one thing this week, make it these extraordinary photos from the International Space Station that will make you feel very small

If you’re a millennial and you’re edging towards 40s, you’ll nod all the way through this

We ate up Hayley Nahman’s incredibly nuanced commentary on the relationship between art and popular culture this week, in which she discussed through the lens of discourse around the success of Everything, Everywhere All at Once

We’re begging you to please wash your emotional support water bottle

The next time you find yourself complaining that you have no time to read books, read this

The TikTok ceiling trend is bringing us gems such as this video, this one and this one

If you and your parent have grown up in different cultures with different expectations, you’ll love reading this beautiful piece in the Guardian about cultural differences, changing understandings of gender, and generational distance

Ideas on care (“How are you today?” feels so much easier than “How are you?”)

In tech news: The retro camera app Hipstamatic has returned as an anti-Instagram social network, Tinder will now let daters add pronouns to their profile, the top breakout TikTok stars of each year since 2019 show how the app has evolved over time, and there’s controversy over at streaming platform Twitch as co-founder Emmett Shear has resigned as CEO

Hard agree with Melissa McCarthy’s travel pet peeves

Recipes we bookmarked this week: This outrageous claim that peas on toast are the next smashed avo (we’re kinda into it though), these crispy mushrooms with hummus that scream autumnal get together, cancelling all brussel sprouts that aren't miso braised, these flipped apple pies that look too easy to be true, an incredibly moreish looking caramelised onion pasta, 20 minute ginger glazed chicken that’s definitely going on the rotation, burnt leeks (🤤🤤🤤) and cannellini beans, and the cutest little nori wrapped tofu squares with a soy glaze which almost looks worth the effort

What’s your biographical dish?

Sofia Coppola’s daughter is the latest main character of TikTok and we’re 100% here for it

And in other news: a great Friday slump hack, if you know how vinyl records work you’re lying, not at the dinner table please, questions that’ll keep you up at night, a survival guide for when your friends start having children, fellow Glee survivors will understand, if you get it you get it, passenger princesses have rights, it’s showtime, this girl knows what she likes, Rihanna dupe, no Emma Chamberlain doesn't charge $10,000 for an Instagram message, we’re saving this hack for next St Patrick’s Day, the three songs guaranteed to play at weddings, the Hunger Games knew how to make a theme song, the unspoken scale for how intoxicated you’re allowed to be, the etymology of nicknames, thifting = modern day foraging, Pocket deserves her own Eras tour, and did someone say KFC?