This week on FRIDAY FOURTEEN: What the internet looked like 10 years ago, an extremely creepy property listing, a candid chat between Roxane Gay and Monica Lewinsky about finding a way to write about hard things, hotel quarantine around the world, short stories about deadlines and dogs and cold-calling your friends, and more.

This week: A love letter to the semi colon, two short stories that will transport you to another world (one from Kiley Reid, the author of ‘Such a Fun Age'!), what we talk about with the people we live with when there’s not a whole lot to talk about anymore, cakes with threatening auras, a heart-wrenching tiny love story, and more.

This week: What it’s like to live in a world without pain, Phoebe Bridgers on SNL bringing a real 2021 mood, a podcast rec about Bon Appetit’s 2020 online reckoning, MySpace is back from the dead and it’s called Space Hey, a beautiful, sweet, sad, funny piece by the writer Roxane Gay about how nice it is to have someone else to care about, and more.

This week: An astonishingly beautiful short story from Ann Patchett, a video that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about fried eggs, a WILD story on The Cut about nightmare flatmates, 101 ways to live more sustainably, a new take on the viral TikTok pasta everyone’s talking about, and more.

This week: An easy explanation of the stock market chaos, animals interrupting wildlife photographers, notes on grief, Vanessa’s dream kitchen, if British sitcoms were set during the pandemic, the pitfalls of doing a job you love, a cheesy creamy risotto that you don’t even have to stir, and more.

This week: Six ways to stand in solidarity with First Nations peoples on January 26, an extremely watchable video of the Haim sisters sharing what they wear over the course of a week (with a special segment on Zoom dating!), a love letter to the 'errand friend', a website where you can put Bernie in places using Google maps street view (THE BEST!), and more.

This week: Every bad thing of 2020 ranked, how to change people’s minds, our newest Instagram obsession, an essay exploring the idea of ‘fun’ in a post pandemic world, do you dare to get your Spotify music taste judged by an AI robot?, and more.

This week: Margaret and David review 2020, a makeup tutorial straight from 1999 (beware, extreme nostalgia for lip smackers and butterfly clips incoming), a UK doco about finding twin strangers (and a website that lets you find your own doppelgänger), a time capsule of music that got us through 2020, heartfelt essays about unlived lives, genetic testing and motherhood, and more.

This week: A brilliant takedown of Linkedin, how dating during a pandemic is like being in a Jane Austen novel, merciless recaps of The Crown from the genius at Go Fug Yourself, fried tomato soup toast (trust us), honest dating advice, an excellent goal for 2021, and more.

This week: A moving tribute to Helen Reddy’s ‘I Am Woman’, a hot take on why we should ignore all those '“female” email rules (after all, it’s nice to be nice), an eerily accurate video from 1967 predicting the home office of the future, essays about culinary burnout, falling in love in your 30s, what it’s like to lose your smell from Covid, how the pandemic has changed the nature of friendship… and more.

This week: A jaw-dropping Modern Love essay about a man who got caught up in a global romance scam, excellent news from Australia Post, Lena Dunham’s fertility struggles, a turkey pot pie recipe for our US readers/anyone needing comfort food, an essay written by Ivanka Trump’s former BFF that contains some pure gold, a long list of the best shows of 2020, and more.

This week: What foreign media correspondents think of the US, a short film about how to be alone, a fascinating piece about the rise of platonic co-parenting, a week in the life of a Melbourne food delivery worker, carbs galore (a potato gem egg bake! semolina gnocchi w butter and sage!) and more.

This week: Helen Garner’s lockdown diaries, the colour palette of 2020, an evocative essay about rethinking the engagement ring goalpost, our new favourite Instagram accounts, an Aussie perspective of what it’s like to live in the US right now, 21 vegetarian recipe from some of Australia’s best restaurants, and more.

This week: A story about a woman who opened a restaurant for a chipmunk (trust us on this one), our favourite scathing reviews of Emily in Paris (“Emily is supposed to be a social media maven, but arrives in Paris with only 48 Instagram followers”), a juicy podcast that delves into the life of Princess Di, 17 wonderful things to do with canned tuna, newsletter recs (babies! celebrity gossip!), and more.

This week: The things we do when no one’s watching, a wonderful essay from the Cut’s Heather Havrilesky on ageing “correctly”, a careers quiz courtesy of the UK government that’s spitting out ludicrous results like ‘bingo picker', the joy of the house meal (aka 'the disgusting food we make for ourselves when we're alone'), and more.

This week: Life advice from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a touching essay in the New Yorker by the wonderful Ann Patchett about the three fathers who raised her, a highly addictive website that serves random videos of cities all over the world and asks you to guess the location, why Goodreads is bad for books, and more.

This week: The idiocy of Tony Abbott exposed by a teenage hacker, a fascinating deep dive into the rise of the ‘gentrification font’, why there most likely won’t be a clear end to the pandemic, lots of LOL videos, suggestions for supporting temporary visa holders in lockdown in Vic, and more.

This week: The most relaxing content on the internet (trust us!), Caitlin Moran on the heartbreak of living through an eating disorder, tiny punchy Instagram poems, an excellent profile on Miranda July, potatoes galore, and more.

This week: What happens when a war correspondent visited Disney World on the first day it reopened during the global pandemic, timely advice about how friendships can survive physical distance, many excellent playlists (including one to bathe to), one-pot coconut soba noodles, a series that showcases single women and their spaces, and more.

This week: Four women on what it’s like to live alone during stage 4 lockdown, Gwyneth Paltrow explains that whole conscious uncoupling thing, the brilliant Lisa Taddeo on what it means to be called a ‘bad mother’, a guy who makes cooking TikToks in the woods (trust us), a dreamy essay about Rome, and more.