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Convicted killer crab
Today at a glance: embrace the chaos.

– Steph Harmon and Alyx Gorman
We can't stop talking about...
And having enough
Bad times  
And having enough
Georgia Maq of Camp Cope didn't pull any punches during her keynote speech at music industry conference Bigsound. In fact she called out everyone there, and demanded change now.
Squirming man  
Also not having fun: the rich tech bros who got trapped in the quagmire of Burning Man. But it's OK to laugh, they deserved it.
Concerning man  
You know who didn't deserve it? The Goodwill worker who found a human skull in a box of donations.
Churning man  
But no one had a worse day than the passenger who left diarrhea 'all the way through' an Airbus A350, forcing the plane to turn back. The clean-up took five hours. :(
Cook this
Croquettes without their coats
Croquettes without their coats
Alice Zaslavsky’s recipe for silky, creamy colcannon is like all the good (middle) bits of a croquette, without the damn deep frying. It even has veggies in it.
Extremely online
Extremely online
This week you all read Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison and Andrea Long Chu on Zadie Smith. You also learned new terms, like “tabi swiper” and “ring camera”. But you may have missed Elif Batuman’s close reading of that chat Kevin Roose had with an AI; Hasib Hourani’s return to migrant diaspora fiction; and a mortifying reminder of the existence of Skinny Bitch.

The universe is having a time, what with the three-eyed dinosaur shrimp waking up in Nevada, aggressive pencils with teeth, the dug-up grave of a six-year-old "vampire”, the mysterious skin-like golden orb and the yoga class that brought a whole new meaning to corpse pose. Make like a convicted killer crab, and escape.
The funniest things on the internet
Xanthe Dobbie shows us their tabs
Xanthe Dobbie shows us their tabs
As co-creator of Queer PowerPoint, Xanthe makes "little gay collages" about the internet. So of course their list of links is absolutely perfect.
Read this
September edition
The best Australian books  
September edition
We've picked out the best titles coming to a bookshop near you – including a brilliant biography of Frank Moorhouse, a novel about a young woman working as a MoMA curator, and a genuinely helpful cookbook.
Top of the list
An album – mean and catchy  
Olivia Rodrigo's debut made her a pop superstar and gen Z icon. She's finally back with a new album, Guts, and it's tougher, sharper and punkier than its predecessor – but with just as many pop hooks and as relatable as ever.
Olivia Rodrigo's debut made her a pop superstar and gen Z icon. She's finally back with a new album, Guts, and it's tougher, sharper and punkier than its predecessor – but with just as many pop hooks and as relatable as ever.
A show – tart and funny  
Starstruck was set up as a Notting Hill-style story about a funny, cool New Zealander living in London, Jessie (Rose Matafeo), who meet-cutes movie star Tom Kapoor (Nikesh Patel). Luckily for everyone, season three begins with a break-up and morphs into an anti-romcom. He was pretty boring; Jessie and her friends are way more fun. On ABC iView.
Starstruck was set up as a Notting Hill-style story about a funny, cool New Zealander living in London, Jessie (Rose Matafeo), who meet-cutes movie star Tom Kapoor (Nikesh Patel). Luckily for everyone, season three begins with a break-up and morphs into an anti-romcom. He was pretty boring; Jessie and her friends are way more fun. On ABC iView.
An album - glum yet poppy  
The xx's music is still so ubiquitous you'd be forgiven for not realising they haven't had a release in five years. Now vocalist Romy has a solo album, putting her instantly recognisable, breathy vocals to pulsing, disco-inflected tunes that will hit with fans of Robyn or Dua Lipa. The music is joyful; the lyrics are morose. Out now.
The xx's music is still so ubiquitous you'd be forgiven for not realising they haven't had a release in five years. Now vocalist Romy has a solo album, putting her instantly recognisable, breathy vocals to pulsing, disco-inflected tunes that will hit with fans of Robyn or Dua Lipa. The music is joyful; the lyrics are morose. Out now.
A podcast – rich and stupid  
Did Burning Man whet your appetite for Silicon Valley schadenfreude? New BBC podcast The Immortals spotlights the “longevity superstars” trying to live forever by... spending money. Bryan Johnson, for instance, is paying hundreds of thousands to infuse one litre of his teenage son’s plasma into his body. Will it work? No! Will that stop him? Also no!
Did Burning Man whet your appetite for Silicon Valley schadenfreude? New BBC podcast The Immortals spotlights the “longevity superstars” trying to live forever by... spending money. Bryan Johnson, for instance, is paying hundreds of thousands to infuse one litre of his teenage son’s plasma into his body. Will it work? No! Will that stop him? Also no!
This week's weirdest story
when drinking 'Claws
Ain't no laws  
when drinking 'Claws
"I was not scared because we know the bear really well," Florida woman says of the animal's raid on her pool fridge.
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