Who cares⁉️

An ironic newsy today from a company called 'Shit You Should CARE About.' But we love it that way 💘💘

Good morning my angels!! And another HUGE hello to all the wonderful new newsy readers we’ve got here today!! I’m Luce, I give you the news each weekday (unless I’m super hungover which happens sometimes), and I’m so happy you’re here to hang out. Make sure you reply to these cute emails with any thoughts/ feelings/ stories you want me to cover (I’m always here!)

Today’s edish is coming to you mostly from people who AREN’T me - like Bel and Squish - because I had an incredibly busy day yesterday and an episode of The Shit Show to record at 6am, so I GENUINELY HAVE NOT HAD THE TIME TO WRITE YOU A LOT OF NEWS!! Thank god for our other SYSCA universe besties.

Love you, and see you tomorrow for a normal edish AND my new Friday mega-link round up (which goes to all our paying supporters!!)

• Bel Chimes In: Do you care? Who cares?

• A Squish Edish: The Waiheke Island Sausager 

• Oscar Nominations are here!

• If you had to sacrifice cheese or chocolate (including dairy-free alts) what would you sacrifice?

Bel Chimes In: Who cares?

This section is written by my crush, the refreshing-as-a-house-chardonnay-on-a-steamy-day, Bel Hawkins. She also writes our Saturday newsletter ‘No News is Good News’ which all our paying supporters receive. Upgrade your plan to get her newsy here!

Mōrena besties! So much has happened since we last spoke — isn't life just wild like that sometimes?

I had a bit of a great and bleak fusion of a weekend which you can find out more about in this Saturday's No News Is Good News newsy as we unpack Fatal Flaws and some extremely hot recs I've curated for your life (lol — can you see what I'm doing here? Baiting you like you would by posting cute stories on the internet to get the attention of your ~ crush ~).  

Also, while we're on the subject of baiting — absolutely loved hearing about all the lines you've put out in the water, and already, how things are coming back. J'adore, j'adore — more please! I'm deeply invested.

WCMs (Who Cares Moments)

OK so this week’s topic seems a bit flippant, I know, but hear me out. As you can tell by now, I care A LOT about A LOT of things (this may well be the pleasure and the danger of being a Worn Out Woman) but this felt right to share with you.

It came from a lol conversation with my gorge friend Joh about those moments when you feel a bit overwhelmed/existential/afraid to make the wrong decision in case you ruin your life. It can feel a bit paralysing and serious, and I've seen it talked about as a result of the current 'permacrisis' (a long period of instability) that never seems to end.

So then we just asked each other: who cares? Who cares if… the day is bad or your hair needs washing or the weather’s not quite right. Who cares if they don’t text back, if the date’s weird, if your day’s nothing to talk about, if it’s not as good as you hoped. Who cares if you’re hungover because it was fun, if your room’s a mess because you’re busy, if you can’t write back to your messages for a while. We laughed, things felt easier, and we started talking about going into some situations with reckless abandon, about accepting imperfection and calling them WCMs (Who Cares Moments). Big Aquarius season energy, I must say.

I hope you get what I mean here, which is absolutely not to undermine how you’re feeling and when you need to take those feelings seriously, because please do! But also, maybe WCMs will give you the permission you need to pull the clutch out or feel free every once and a while.

Til next week, or if you're feeling cute and like becoming a paying subscriber — see you Saturday! Ily. xx

(PS lol reading back over this, I feel like it sounds like I’m an astrologer in a women’s magazine made exclusively for doctor’s waiting rooms and this week, I’m just gonna lean into it).

[Luce chiming in here because I want this whole paragraph etched into my fucking brain]:

 A Squish Edish: The Waiheke Island Sausager 

This section is written by Squish - my brother, co-host of The Shit Show (our weekly news podcast), admin of TheShitShow Instagram & general legend. He also loves wine and biking… a lot. 

Crime is ripping through the community on Waiheke Island (a small island in NZ), and it is tearing the residents apart. 

“You never know when the strike will happen but when it does, everyone gets struck,” Jacob Coetzee told Stuff. “It’s traumatic. Nobodies’ letterboxes are safe.” 

I’m not talking about Ram Raids, or even a crime more befitting of the affluent island of Waiheke, like tax evasion or corporate espionage - no - it’s more sinister than that. 

Waiheke Island is being subject to a serial sausager. Someone is sneaking around the island, delivering the unwanted ingredients of a sausage sizzle into letterboxes all over, complete with bread and sauce. 

[Luce note: a sausage sizzle is a sausage in white bread with tomato sauce.]

Jacob was the first person to find a snag (sausage) in his letterbox, back in the summer of 2022. He’s the first victim of the ‘serial sausager’ ravaging the luxurious island, but not the only one. 

“I sent a picture to my friend group and some of them had been sausaged as well. That’s when we realised we had a serial sausager on the island,” Coetzee said. 

“It’s ripping us apart; we can’t trust one another … I’ve been accused, my brother’s been accused. It’s a witch hunt.”

This isn't the only food-based letterbox shenanigan to plague our peaceful little country. In 2016 - in our very own home town in fact - Blenheim residents received what they thought were low-fat muesli bars in their letterboxes, only to find each wrapper contained just a roll of cardboard (which to be fair probably tastes just as good as a low-fat muesli bar.)

At the time of writing, the serial sausager is still at large, and I urge anyone with information to contact me so I can post on Instagram about it. I have also booked flights to Waiheke for next weekend so Luce and I can personally come and investigate.

Safer communities together.

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Oscar nominations are here!!

Back to me (Luce) now. For anyone who might’ve missed it, the Oscar nominations are out, and Everything Everywhere All At Once CLEANED UP with 11!! I’m gonna put the first three big categories in here for you to see, but if you want the full list go here!!

Best Picture

• “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Malte Grunert, Producer

• “Avatar: The Way of Water,” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers

• “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers

• “Elvis,” Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers

• “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers

• “The Fabelmans,” Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers

• “Tár,” Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, Producers

• “Top Gun: Maverick,” Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers

• “Triangle of Sadness,” Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers

• “Women Talking,” Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, Producers

Best Lead Actor

• Austin Butler (“Elvis”) 

• Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) 

• Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”) 

• Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”) 

• Bill Nighy (“Living”) 

Best Lead Actress

• Cate Blanchett (“Tár”) 

• Ana de Armas (“Blonde”) 

• Andrea Riseborough (“To Leslie”)

• Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”) 

• Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

For all the other noms head here!!

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Today’s mundane poll:

Lucy Dacus @lucydacus

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