This week’s just trust us is this utterly fascinating deep dive into how debutante balls solved the “daughter problem” in the 18th century (“Because marriage was the only remaining respectable path for women, a daughter’s failure to marry could embarrass her family and keeping her at home was more expensive than the convent. So, by the time Mr. Bennet throws up his hands in exhaustion about “what’s to be done with all these girls?” in the early pages of Pride and Prejudice, the daughter problem had already been brewing for several hundred years.”)
OnlyFans has gone from banning ‘sexually explicit content’ to reversing that ban only days later. In between this time, Twitter won the internet here, here, here, here aaaaand here
The future of wine may not be grapes
This week we’ve been listening to Aussie Paralympic legend Kurt Fearnley and co-host Georgie Tunny cover all things Paralympics on the new ABC Podcast You Little Ripper. From talking to past champions to providing a rundown of daily news from the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, this is a fascinating listen that celebrates the Paralympic movement
Speaking of the Paralympics, new worldwide campaign WeThe15 aims to change attitudes and perceptions around disability
Waiting impatiently for Succession season 3? This juicy profile of creator Jesse Armstrong in the New Yorker will absolutely satiate your cravings
Tiny love stories
An interesting look at the culture of keeping “receipts”
brb, crying over the new Qantas ad
The environmental impact of houseplants (we know, we’re sorry)
A US lawsuit between Epic Games (makers of Fortnite) and Apple has given us a never-seen-before look behind the curtain at Apple’s inner workings. Turns out they’re often in cahoots with streaming services to avoid App Store fees, Steve Jobs did consider making an ‘iPhone nano’, they once considered bringing iMessage to Android but ultimately decided against it, and the list goes onnnnnn
How Amazon killed the name Alexa
Ostro author Julia Busuttil Nishimura has launched a new YouTube channel and is uploading a new (free!) recipe every week
The antidote to depressing news cycles is this video of Vin Diesel dancing to Drunk in Love. THIS is why the internet exists
