If you need inspiration for Halloween this weekend, take a page out of Japan and Taiwan’s book and embrace the mundane
This week we learnt that elephants are evolving into being born without tusks because they’ve been poached so much
ICYMI, A-League midfielder and young Socceroo Josh Cavallo has become the only known current male professional footballer in the world to come out. The international football community celebrated and supported Josh’s announcement, and if you need to know why this is so important, check out this brilliant piece on the power of representation by fellow footballer Andy Brennan
This vid series of a 23 year old turning the table on ATO scammers is WILD. Start here with part 1 – and here’s part 2, 3, 4 and 5
How TikTok is inspiring a new #sober generation
This website lets you watch bona fide 90s TV (the ads are amazing)
A contributing editor at Vanity Fair has made a podcast about Donna Tartt’s time in college and she’s now being sued by Tartt’s lawyers so you KNOW that podcast’s good
This made us cry
As platforms like OnlyFans allow people with big followings online to earn money, vanilla content creators are turning to sex as a side hustle. But where does that leave the sex workers who were there first?
The much anticipated Dune has been released to mixed reviews. It’s led to a tonne of five-star memes though: here, here, and here
This piece in the Guardian about unusual inner voices (and the lack of them) blew our minds (“The current understanding of inner speech is that we do the same as in overt speech – make predictions in our mind of what we will say – but we don’t actually send the motor commands to our speech muscles. This simulated auditory signal is the little voice we hear in our brain.”)
Bookmark this incredible online database with a smorgasbord of ideas for how to use up the leftover odds and ends in the fridge
The most iconic book covers in history and the stories behind them
Other stuff we enjoyed wasting time on this week… mums doing the babysitter lowdown, Irish and German people offering things, this sloth living its best life, people tagging themselves in the current episode of Succession, dreaming about this job, being repelled by/wanting to eat banana corn dogs, reading controversial opinions shared by men on Hinge, researching the indie sleaze resurgence, why Scott Morrison would be a terrible housemate, and no worries!!!!!!
