The pleasure of falling asleep with a book on your face
Handling the Prime Minister (super lols, but if only this didn’t feel so real)
A love letter to the chaos that comes from having a bazillion Chrome tabs open at once (“By the time I reach 97, my tabs are no longer a mere collection of articles I hope to read, they are also links to the Wikipedia pages of small French villages I want to visit, IMDB pages of actors who played bit roles in Billy Wilder movies, fuzzy JStor scans of essays from the ‘70s, gins that won’t be exported to the US for years still, twitter mega-threads about Grace Kelly, and countless pictures of birds.”)
Treat yo self with this excellent list of presents to give to yourself
Thoroughly obsessed with this literature map. Type in an author you love and it shows you other authors that you’ll like, based on what other people who also love that author read. Scarily accurate!
After being cloned by pretty much every single social platform, TikTok has announced they’re now cloning Snapchat’s story-style feature. Whether we need another place to post pictures of our dinner is yet to be determined
Taylor Swift posted a cryptic puzzle hinting at a new album drop today (!!) and her fans immediately went crazy trying to figure it out
Speed watching Netflix is apparently a thing people do??
When it comes to Delta, all eyes are on the UK
After weeks of dull Modern Love essays, this wonderful piece about saying good riddance to romantic illusion is a breath of fresh air (“I still occasionally fantasized about a man who would sip coffee with me and read novels in bed on our frequent trips to India. When I shared this with my therapist, she told me to 'have a funeral for the death of romantic illusion”.”)
Refinery 29 launched its Australian office last week and in true Aussie fashion they debuted with a deep dive into the full spectrum of mullets
Oh good, fake vaccine cards are a thing now 🥴
The ever observant Dolly Alderton on what it’s like to be single in a pandemic (“If you’re single in a pandemic, months of isolation will pass, and you will wonder: If I could hold anyone now, just for a minute, who would I choose? “I wish I could hold you as a baby,” you will text your best friend. “Are u OK?” she will immediately reply.”)
Regrets, according to your star sign
