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Brooke Blurton brought it back
The H word / Brooke Blurton brought it back
The Bachelor franchise has languished in the beige tundra of heteronormative whiteness for years. But this year's (bi, Indigenous) Bachelorette may have just saved the show – and brought its fans back from the brink.
Gwyneth learns / Also on screens, Sex, Love and Goop is a surprisingly low-woo, high-anatomical-detail look at getting it on.
Brigid yearns / Out of lockdown, locking eyes with hot strangers is back on the agenda – and our beloved diarist couldn't be happier.
Women spurned / We typically associate "incel" culture with misogynistic men – yet many women live without intimacy too, and they have very different thoughts about it.
Extremely online
Extremely online
As Facebook changes its name and pivots to metaverse, Trump is pivoting to Twitter, unleashing a truly incredible pitch deck about his new venture Truth Social: in which a tweet is a Truth and speech is completely free* (*unless disparaging/capitalised). It’s...... not going well! Also not going well is Delphi, the morally dubious morality AI. But: she gets it.

Vintage mass hysteria is back, and it’s coming for teen girls and Halloween candy. It’s also coming for poor people in the form of a take so bad that all satirists were forced to make the same joke. Let's end with a round of F/M/K: the cat men, the batmen, or that man.
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Stanley Tucci’s timpano / Yes there are more pix
This giant pasta pie is a fairly elaborate undertaking, but also: Stanley Tucci!
Is Netflix the real Squid Game???
Protestation / Quite the week at Netflix HQ. Hundreds of employees walked out after the company defended Dave Chappelle's special, which contains jokes many believe are anti-trans and also is just bad. Netflix is the latest major tech company whose workers have had it – including content mods at Facebook, drivers at Uber, and staff at Amazon and Google.
Quite the week at Netflix HQ. Hundreds of employees walked out after the company defended Dave Chappelle's special, which contains jokes many believe are anti-trans and also is just bad. Netflix is the latest major tech company whose workers have had it – including content mods at Facebook, drivers at Uber, and staff at Amazon and Google.
Domination / But swings and roundabouts: Bloomberg reported that Squid Game boosted Netflix's market value by $19 bn, with the streaming service announcing 4.4 million new subscribers. "Squid Game may be a critique of capitalism," Arwa Mahdawi writes, "but its steady commodification is a depressing reminder that capitalism always wins."
But swings and roundabouts: Bloomberg reported that Squid Game boosted Netflix's market value by $19 bn, with the streaming service announcing 4.4 million new subscribers.
Lost translation / And here's the best thing you'll read about that show this week: an interview with the oddball cast who played the English-speaking VIPs in the series' most awkward scenes. “I’ve written more books about the Beatles than anyone on this planet!” one of them yells over Zoom, for some reason.
And here's the best thing you'll read about that show this week: an interview with the oddball cast who played the English-speaking VIPs in the series' most awkward scenes. “I’ve written more books about the Beatles than anyone on this planet!” one of them yells over Zoom, for some reason.
The funniest things on the internet
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Concetta Caristo's guided tour / of her tabs
Kyle is a POET. Meg Stalter is a GENIUS. Concetta has a BOYFRIEND. This is a truly A++ list.
Top of the list
A show – sleeper sensation / Word-of-mouth hit Maid is on track to beat The Queen's Gambit as the Controversial Streaming Platform's most-watched miniseries. Andie MacDowell's daughter Margaret Qualley is Alex, who escapes domestic abuse with her toddler, and lands in a nightmare of welfare bureaucracy. MacDowell player her mother – flaky and mentally unwell in "a show that asks what comes easily, and to who".
Word-of-mouth hit Maid is on track to beat The Queen's Gambit as the Controversial Streaming Platform's most-watched miniseries. Andie MacDowell's daughter Margaret Qualley is Alex, who escapes domestic abuse with her toddler, and lands in a nightmare of welfare bureaucracy. MacDowell player her mother – flaky and mentally unwell in
A book – campus caper / Set at a prestigious Sydney uni, Diana Reid's debut Love and Virtue is narrated by dry and witty undergrad Michaela – who makes a new friend. The gripping read touches on power, gender, sex and shame, and is "an excoriating indictment of rape culture" on Australian campuses.
Set at a prestigious Sydney uni, Diana Reid's debut Love and Virtue is narrated by dry and witty undergrad Michaela – who makes a new friend. The gripping read touches on power, gender, sex and shame, and is
An album – pandemic pop / Lana Del Rey has been prolific. In her second record this year, Blue Bannisters, the great documenter of Americana turns her attention to the banalities of the pandemic, making wry existential observations about Zoom calls, Target trips and face masks.
Lana Del Rey has been prolific. In her second record this year, Blue Bannisters, the great documenter of Americana turns her attention to the banalities of the pandemic, making wry existential observations about Zoom calls, Target trips and face masks.
A book – about albums / If you ever defined yourself by a music genre, Kelefa Sanneh's Major Labels is for you. Read this interview, then get the book.
If you ever defined yourself by a music genre, Kelefa Sanneh's Major Labels is for you. Read this interview, then get the book.
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is now a podcast?
Saved For Later / is now a podcast?
Like this newsletter, our new Wednesday podcast will be a collection of all our best saved tabs, but with more chat, smarter guests and occasional dumb games. In our first ever episode we brought in Flex Mami to explain #sponcon and influencing, gently hazed our newest Saved For Later-er Michael Sun, and subjected Alyx to her "literal nightmare" by way of Succession.
This week's weirdest story
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Cocaine hippos / get the snip
Pablo Escobar's former pets have been getting a bit too busy.
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