Feeling anxious, angry, unsettled or all of the above about this week’s IPCC report? ICYMI, or you’re lost on what to do next, here’s some much needed advice on how to fight climate change with optimism, and some ideas for what you can do right now (anything!!)
If you’re a millennial who was an obsessive blog reader and you’re still mourning the death of RSS feeds, you’ll feel all the feels reading this
Joy! A new essay by David Sedaris has landed in the New Yorker
Love this list of good advice for writers, which overlaps about 85% with “good advice for anyone”
Who’s the Harriet in your life?
Yes you do need to waste an hour playing the Cookie Monster version of Pac-Man this afternoon
An impressive, precise and compelling piece by Amanda Knox on the way culture and “journalism” insists on forever linking her with a crime she didn’t commit
The notoriously private Beyoncè has given a rare interview ahead of her 40th birthday for Harper’s Bazaar and an even rarer insight into her life. She discusses the choices she’s made around self-care, transitioning from focusing on building her legacy, to focusing on working on herself in the last decade
No, you don’t have to be “like a family” with your co-workers
This Twitter thread shows every celebrity that's appeared on Miami Vice and it's honestly mind blowing
The rumours are true, make space in the pantry; Drumstix In A Biskit are back baby
Is White Lotus the best satire of white privilege on TV rn?
The slippery slope of pregnancy forums
Everyone at Slice HQ is obsessed with this podcast from WIRED that discusses how memes have gone from harmless pictures of cats to images that can lead people down a rabbit hole of radicalization, misinformation, and extremism
What we’re eating, listening to, reading and watching this week:
LIZZIE —>
Watching (or not watching): I tried Paris Hilton’s cooking show on Netflix Cooking with Paris so you don’t have to. Go use that 25 minutes to do something real good
Wasting time: Watching yoga parody videos on TikTok. We’ve all had this teacher and been petrified of doing this in class
Listening: To this TikTok jam to get me pumped up to do most things this week
VANESSA —>
Watching: Shiva Baby at the cinema (a social satire set at a Jewish wake in New York City; seriously good!!) and Hacks on Stan (Jean Smart is a marvel).
Lusting over: These rose coloured walls, this sofa and wall art, absolutely everything in this converted church, this Japanese-inspired home in Hackney (that orange kitchen bench ), everything about this Brooklyn apartment, the light in this dreamy retreat
Cooking: Elizabeth Hewson’s garlic prawn burgers, immediately