CEO? More like C-E-GO! π
β Elon puts his CEO title in our hands, Argentina won the world cup, & Danny Ric still loves Harry Styles π
Hi angels!! Rushing out the door this morning because guess what?? I get to go home today!! Iβm still besties with all my hometown hunnies (and most of them live up here in TΔmaki Makaurau), so going home basically feels like weβre just relocating our bants down to Blenheim for a week, but weβre all SO excited to see our families, animals, out of town pals, and hopefully some sun!!! Talk to you from Blenheim!! xx
Elon says NO to link sharing on Twitter
CEO? More like C-E-GO!
Argentina won the world cup
πLondon Lauraπ: What 120 days without gas will teach you πΒ
Elon says NO to link sharing on Twitter
I am SO sorry for all of this Elon content towards the end of the year but it feels like heβs really just trying to make me work RIGHT UP until Christmas (and I will.) According to both the Twitter Support account, and The Verge, Twitter will no longer be allowing users to βpromote their presence on certain social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post.β
Twitter may also suspend accounts βused for the main purpose of promoting content on another social platform,β and will no longer allow users to link to third-party link aggregators, like Linktree or Lnk.bio.
There are some obvious exceptions to this list - like the monster that is TikTok - which is pretty interesting considering itβs such a huge competitor. Itβs also pretty shit for content creators who basically need to promote themselves and their other channels to diversify their audiences and make an income. Anyway, thatβs the latest!
Update! (Damn I really gotta stop even attempting to write these the night before)
Twitter Support has deleted those tweets about link sharing leading to suspension so⦠maybe not anymore?
CEO? More like C-E-GO!
After all of this, Elon decided to put his job in the hands of a (very not mundane) poll:
First of all, who the HELL are the 42% voting to keep him in there? And second of all - how quickly do we think heβs gonna act on this? ASAP please!
Argentina won the world cup
But Iβm not a football girlie so Iβm not gonna go much further into that. Apparently it was a good game tho!
πLondon Lauraπ: What 120 days without gas will teach you πΒ
Laura is our resident ray of sunshine. Sheβs a new London dweller, chief of romanticising literally everything, and will definitely ask you all what your love language is at some stage. We love her to death and canβt wait to have her therapeutic wisdom in here whenever we can!
Well, SYSCAhood the day is here!!!!! Itβs been six months since we left NZ, 120 days since we lost gas in London, and today we finally got reconnected ππ I said I wanted to find community here in London and I truly did - Reece the gasman is my new best friend (he even made a 9pm house call during his holiday to make sure he saw the project through to the end π₯Ί) brb while I take the worlds longest hot shower - but first - a wee excerpt from this journey because if there is one thing about me itβs that I will mine any experience for a metaphor / life lesson β¨
Itβs cliche as hell but nothing tests a relationship like casa amore moving country, and (particularly at the start) the whole β¨not being able to shower / heat the house / having to use a camping stove thing β¨ really shook up the dynamic with me and my partner! At first, him filling up the bucket so I could shower in the morning was cute, but by week 4 I remember texting Luce that I had reverted to the worst version of myself aka teenage Laura with severe martyr syndrome β¦ (an unhealthy enneagram 2 if we ever saw one!!). Itβs big oldest child/ type A energy but when something goes wrong, I have a huge βitβs up to meβ complex which saw me really obsess over the whole situation - achieving very little and tbh throwing a real dampener on our first few months here.
Itβs no secret that relationships can be like holding a mirror to yourself - they reflect your whole personhood back to you in all its glitz and grime and when in a healthy, safe relationship it offers an opportunity to look again at behaviours you may have learnt that really arenβt serving you (or the people around you!) I think this is true of all intimate relationships - flatmates or soul friends get the pleasure / pain of seeing you in a way those relationships you can βmanageβ (like 9-5 work colleagues) donβt - because you canβt leave them at the door! Thereβs no hiding what you are like when itβs -6 degrees outside and youβre severely overreacting about developing insane levels of dandruff from dry shampoo overuse because you canβt face *another * bucket shower π«
Anyway - all this to say the other night Ru turned to me and said βI really love our relationship right nowβ and honestly itβs so cheesy but he was right! We had been sooo comfortable in NZ, and while we have pulled the clutch RIGHT out (to quote Bel) re familiarity (new job / flat / country / friends is a lot in one go in hindsight ) and have had a bit of turbulence working it all out, we are experiencing new things every single day together and through that looking in the mirror & finding out new things about ourselves too. So hereβs to leaning on the people youβve allowed to see behind the curtain!! Which brings me to what will be a part 2 because Iβm SURE this will get cut off otherwise - but itβs time to talk attachment styles πππ do you know about them? Do you care?? Are you also an anxious attacher? πΉ let me know and we will talk soon!!! Xxxx
(Ps I simply LOVED seeing everyoneβs enneagram chat in the substack chat - wooow this community is the best π₯Ί)
And finally, a meeting of minds:
Science popped OFF this week! (The Shit Show Podcast)
The Biggest Pop Culture Moments of 2022 (Culture Vulture Podcast)
In the U.S., His Site Has Been Linked to Massacres. In Japan, Heβs a Star. (The New York Times)
THE MOST VIEWED TIKTOK VIDEOS OF 2022 (The Source)
Miley Cyrus teases new music for 2023: βNew Year, new Mileyβ (NME)
So glad London Laura has gas!!!!! Finally!
Was elons poll the replacement for the mundane poll today π