FRIDAY FOURTEEN ISSUE 78

May 28, 2021
This week: a Modern Love essay that broke us into a tiny million pieces, how to take the perfect nap, signs that you may be a geriatric millennial, ideas for supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and businesses while on hols, Guardian readers share their thoughts on what the terms 'working class' and 'middle class' actually mean, and more.

It’s National Reconciliation Week, and one way to be an Indigenous ally is to show up and support Aboriginal people and their businesses, especially as you start to travel again throughout Australia

Eric Carle, the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, died this week aged 91, leaving us with not only one of the best books of all time but also gems like this

Facebook is not listening to your offline conversations with friends, but here's how it knows to show you ads about those convos

On the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, the then 17-year-old girl who recorded the footage that sent shockwaves across the world has released her first full public statement

Are you a geriatric millennial? (we feel seen)

After three years, Twitter is verifying people again. Are you eligible for a coveted blue checkmark?

Hugging after the vaccine

How to politely say ‘I’m not doing that for free’

This Modern Love essay broke us into a tiny million pieces (“I decided that I would be direct with Rob. It made me uncomfortable to meet without knowing if he knew about my prosthesis. So, at 8:32 p.m, in the middle of our texting, I wrote: “Just so there are no surprises, you know that I wear a prosthesis on one of my legs, right?” Twenty minutes later, there was still no response. My next move was to open up Bumble, and that’s when I saw that our chat history had been wiped clean, replaced with: “Rob ended the chat.”)

How to take the perfect nap

The Supa Hot Fire video turns ten this week, having garnered almost 65 million views on YouTube and becoming one of the most shared and well-known GIFs in internet history

We’re so used to putting our entire lives online, but what if we just… didn’t?

This is fascinating: Guardian readers share their thoughts on what the terms ‘working class’ and ‘middle class’ actually mean (“The best description I heard: the middle class shower before work, the working class shower after work.”)

I’m 35 and my boyfriend is 25. Surprisingly, it works.”

What we’re eating, listening to, reading and watching this week:

LIZZIE —>

Watching:
I’ve just discovered Blown Away on Netflix, a show about competitive glass blowing that I didn’t know I needed
Baking: These sexy black cocoa peanut sandwich cookies
Listening: You Am I are back at it. Tim Rogers in a purple glitter jacket on The Set is everything I need

VANESSA —>

Watching:Mare of Easttown starring the incomparable Kate Winslet. 1000000% worth getting a Binge subscription for
Eating: The anchovy donuts at new Adelaide wine bar Super Bueno. SA readers: go go go!
Shopping: The new Kip&Co x May Gibbs collab for every kid I know