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We can't stop talking about...
They're alright!
The kids  
They're alright!
At least when it comes to Taylor Swift. Meet the families who've bonded over the pop star’s music.
Baby scams  
Grifty parenting influencers come for the best of us, including extremely online investigations reporter Ariel Bogle.
Childhood jams  
Shrill and squeaky, recorders do not have a great reputation. So why are they still primary schools' go-to instruments?
Counting lambs  
Have gen Z discovered the secret of sleep? (10 hours a night). Exhausted gen Xer Tim Dowling tries it for a week.
Eat this
Cheat's welsh rarebit
Cheat's welsh rarebit
Easy cheesy. Baker Bleu's fancy bread recipes work as both lazy brunches and midnight snacks.
Extremely online
Extremely online
Goodbye to Vice and its empire of boys, cannibals, aspiring cannibals, and drunk balding loser homos (verbatim). Hello to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, who have landed in Sydney amidst asbestos mulch.

The Cut continues to control the internet with this sordid tale of a snooping author and her Goodreads saboteur – though Blogsnark has other thoughts. Also in mysteries: what is Jack Harlow’s dog called? How do actors cry? Why does Lady Gaga know what Fortnite is? 

Close reads: on The Zone of Interest; on Cronenberg. Good reads: on dollar-store glasses; on Mark Ruffalo. Good data: on phone time; the worst birthday and anarchists
The funniest things on the internet
Enoch Mailangi shows us their tabs
Enoch Mailangi shows us their tabs
Please enjoy this list where they refer to Saoirse Ronan as one of their top 100 Irish people.
Top of the list
A film – hands up! Freeze!  
Ethan Coen's lesbian road caper may be the 'goofiest, loosest entry' in either Coen brothers' career – and it starts Margaret Qualley and Australia's Geraldine Viswanathan as a pair of sweet, silly crims on the run. In cinemas.
Ethan Coen's lesbian road caper may be the 'goofiest, loosest entry' in either Coen brothers' career – and it starts Margaret Qualley and Australia's Geraldine Viswanathan as a pair of sweet, silly crims on the run. In cinemas.
Another film – laconic ease  
It's all deep sighs and loving stares in Fallen Leaves, a droll romance from Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki. A supermarket employee and a metalworker have a meet-cute at a karaoke bar; the rest is history. In cinemas.
It's all deep sighs and loving stares in Fallen Leaves, a droll romance from Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki. A supermarket employee and a metalworker have a meet-cute at a karaoke bar; the rest is history. In cinemas.
A quiz – Helen please  
You can't get upset about the Barbie snubs, Helen Mirren told an interviewer recently, because no-one remembers the best picture winners anyway. Do you?
You can't get upset about the Barbie snubs, Helen Mirren told an interviewer recently, because no-one remembers the best picture winners anyway. Do you?
An album – sonic trapeze  
It's been 16 years since Oracular Spectacular (and one since their new TikTok virality) but MGMT still seem 'deeply nonplussed by celebrity'. Their new album Loss of Life is acrobatic, including both a 13th-century Welsh poem and a Christine and the Queens collab – and it's delightful.
It's been 16 years since Oracular Spectacular (and one since their new TikTok virality) but MGMT still seem 'deeply nonplussed by celebrity'. Their new album Loss of Life is acrobatic, including both a 13th-century Welsh poem and a Christine and the Queens collab – and it's delightful.
This week's weirdest story
Swiftedellic comedowns
Swiftedellic comedowns
After a slog to get tickets and months of anticipation, Taylor Swift fans face a post-Eras crash. Or as one fan puts it: ‘I’m scared I’ll never feel the same happiness again.'
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