Following controversy and a hiatus, Reply All has resumed its series on the Bon Appetit test kitchen, now with an episode covering what the series did wrong (very meta)
Our new favourite way to decline invitations
We swore black and blue we’d never give the Kardashians airspace but this truly excellent long read on the end of Kimye is worth breaking the rules for
Stop spending time on things you hate
Loved reading other people’s ideas for living live fully (like eating cheese in the bath)
The incredible Arundhati Roy on India's Covid crisis as a crime against humanity
Being single in a world that favours coupledom (“To give you an idea, I now pay $105 more in rent a week as a single. Last week I tracked my food expenses and the figure I ended up with gave me a small heart palpitation. Granted, I also get free rein of my bed (a luxury that almost makes the extra expense worth it), but on the 17th of every month I quietly curse the social and economic conditions that are hostile to singles.”)
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Relieved to see that Waiting Mode is a real thing and it isn’t just us
This week Rolling Stone released a list of the best 100 sitcoms of all time and whether or not you agree (WE DO NOT, Broad City was gipped), it’s an excellent list to bookmark and revisit when you feel like you’ve streamed literally every show on the planet
Mesmerised by this live map of blinking lighthouses all over the world (who knew Norway had so many lighthouses?)
Women who said no to motherhood
… and a parenthood clarity therapist (apparently that’s a thing) explains how she helps people decide if they want to have kids
Serial killers and their star signs (ahem, Geminis and Virgos)
The Melbourne writer Anna Spargo Ryan (a truly excellent person to follow on Twitter) has written an evocative piece for Meanjin about being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult (“Like many people with ADHD, I wasn’t diagnosed until I was a grown adult. There I was, out in the world: setting several dozen alarms in my phone to remind me to clean; leaving the supermarket without the one thing I went there for; replying to emails in the first 30 seconds or never.”)
