Liz Truss probably shouldn’t have told anyone about her favourite song
If you’re wondering why the internet went wild this week when Olivia Wilde posted an Instagram story of a salad dressing recipe (from Nora Ephron’s Heartburn, praise), it’s because in yet another development in the Don’t Worry Darling saga, the Daily Mail published a story bizarrely focused around a salad dressing reportedly so good that it broke up Wilde’s marriage, and now everyone’s wondering if the IG story (posted without comment) actually means more than just… salad
Know someone who’s dealing with pain and grief and generally shitty life stuff (maybe it’s you)? Here’s a long list of *actually* helpful things that you can do to help them/you take care of themselves
We may have just found our new religion
Hands up who’s not shocked that Bill Murray has turned out to be a creep?
What a pregnancy actually looks like at nine weeks (TW: abortion, miscarriage)
In this incredibly moving Vogue essay, Luckiest Girl Alive author Jessica Knoll shares how inventing her protagonist Ani FaNelli helped her resuscitate her voice (“I was a 28-year-old writer for Cosmopolitan, pitching raunchy cover lines by day and planning my perfect Pinterest-board wedding by night. I looked the farthest thing from someone who had suffered a humiliating trauma as a teenager, who had been ground down to nothing. My voice had expired inside of me, a carton of milk clotting in the back of the refrigerator.”)
What do your cookbooks say about you?Interiors we’ve bookmarked this week: The pink kitchen and the dining nook in this tiny mews house near the sea, the open plan kitchen (that walk-in pantry!) in this Victorian townhouse, the jewel tones in this Milan apartment, and Boy George’s gothic English mansion (which is everything we’d hoped it would be)
A case for befriending your ex’s new partner(“It’s so much easier – so much more chic – to be respectful.”)
A deeper look at our thirst for hot girl anxiety on Twitter
In tech news: Instagram is allegedly pulling a MySpace by adding a profile song feature, Jay-Z is investing in robot-powered pizza, in-app scheduling could be coming to Instagram soon, Simon Cowell is teaming up with TikTok, Facebook is letting users create more than one profile (a move that goes against their community guidelines), Meta is being forced to sell Giphy, and how is Bitmoji already 15-years-old?
Turns out it’s not just men who know nothing about the clitoris
Aaaaaaaand fun n silly things from around the web… BOM has had a busy week, did you have a hot chook mum, how Dua Lipa cooks chicken, can we be moots, has anyone checked on millennial journos lately, meet the person who writes those wild Selling Sunset songs, an extremely accurate depiction of bad dates, a black hole is releasing some strange burps and baffling scientists, Millie Ford has an excellent life hack, the real problem with House of The Dragon, happy 100th birthday to the BBC, and a 95p lettuce lasted longer than Liz Truss
