You're gonna ✨CRINGE✨
Mōrena lil shits!!
I’m back!!! I feel very relaxed after a weekend at the beach with my pals where we literally did nothing but swim (only got caught in one rip!) and read (I’m slowly making my way through ‘To Paradise'), and bask in the shame of our youth by recalling every embarrassing moment we could think of (just #sleepover things.)
I also told my mates a story that I thought I was going to take to my grave, and since I’ve told them, I feel like I need to tell you, even though we are all gonna cringe. Ok, here goes:
AHH
When I was younger I used to record myself singing along with my guitar or piano, and show it to my brothers saying:
“hey, this is my friend Rebecca singing, what do you think???”
EVEN THOUGH THEY KNEW WHAT I SOUNDED LIKE (they’ve heard me sing for our entire lives)
AND THEY KNEW I DIDN’T HAVE A FRIEND CALLED REBECCA
BUT I WOULD KEEP MAKING THEM LISTEN
I'm literally cringing so hard telling you this
Actually nah, I never did that, it was my friend Rebecca
ok let's do some news.........
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A bunch of different Wordles
Another fun game for you
Peng Shuai speaks out, kinda
Some Ukraine/Russia Updates
An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf. It now has a years-long waitlist
Do you shower in the morning or at night?
Do you say neck-lace or neck-liss
A bunch of different Wordles
A bunch of different Wordles
Thank you to everyone who has linked me to other variations of Wordle!!! I've played none of them!! But since so many of took the time to send me them, let me put them here:
There’s A Taylor Swift version: Taylordle
A NSFW version: Lewdle
A Prime Number version: Primel
A double version: Dordle
An absurd version: Absurdle
A swearing one: Sweardle
I’m gonna be honest, I haven’t yet played any of them, because I’m REALLY TRYING NOT TO GET ADDICTED. And I just like the original. But go for your lives! Also, how good is your Wordle starter????
Another fun game for you
Last night my flatmate Hayden and I sat down and played this game that he found on TikTok where you guess the price of either super mundane or super out the gate things and it’s actually SO FUN. Not to spoil it but you should take it with a grain of salt because it said that AIR FORCE ONE (the plane, not the shoes) is worth $600 million (which I thought was INSANE so I didn’t believe it) but then when I googled it I read that the NEW AIR FORCE ONE IS GONNA ACTUALLY BE WORTH $3.9 - $5.3 billion???
Peng Shuai speaks out, kinda
Content warning: Sexual Assault
If you’re new to this story, catch up here!
In a new interview in France's L'Equipe newspaper (conducted in ‘highly controlled’ circumstances), Peng Shuai has said that there has been a "huge misunderstanding" over a post in which she claimed she was forced into having sexual relations with a former Chinese party leader.
"I would like to know: why such concern?... I never said anyone sexually assaulted me," she told L'Equipe.
Just a refresher: the original post on Weibo (which she wrote and claims she deleted herself) included this line "带我去你家,逼我和你发生关系?” which could be translated as: "You took me to your house and raped me" or "You took me to your house and forced me to have sex with you" or "You took me to your house and pressured me into having sexual relations with you".
She also told the outlet that she was “living a normal life” (which is a line that Chinese state officials have been using), and that she is thinking about retiring from professional tennis. I don’t know about you all but this doesn’t make me feel any better about the situation…
Some Ukraine/Russia updates:
This is extremely topline, but I just wanted to drop this in here for anyone who’s wondering wtf is happening between Russia/Ukraine (coz it’s everywhere.)
Western powers reckon Russia is planning an invasion of Ukraine (something Russia has repeatedly denied)
Nevertheless, Russia currently has more than 100,000 troops massed on Ukraine's borders
Also, US officials said on Sunday that Russia has assembled 70% of military forces needed for a full-scale invasion
And in recent weeks, Moscow has demanded that NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) ban Ukraine from ever becoming a member, and that the group cuts its troop numbers in eastern Europe
Nato has rejected both demands. It has instead suggested talks on other areas, such as limiting nuclear weapons
Oh yeah, and Moscow accuses the Ukrainian government of failing to implement the Minsk agreement
And because this shit is not my forte, let me point you to much more info on Russia here, here and here.
The Shit Show!
Wordle, Wild Pigs, & WTF is happening with the stock market? - The Shit Show — open.spotify.com
Nick and I are on ONE this week. From an explanation on how the stock market works, to pigs running wild in the U.S, to MORE BORIS JOHNSON PARTIES and Wordle being bought by the NYT - it's just... a lot.
Culture Vulture!
Sydney Sweeney, Jay-Z, & Spotify's Podcast Politics — open.spotify.com
Listen to this episode from Culture Vulture on Spotify. This week before we even get into the episode Liv spills a HUGE secret (one you won't want to miss.) Then we talk about Sydney Sweeney, a potential Fyre Festival 2.0, someone crashing into Taylor Swift's house and why rap lyrics shouldn't be used as evidence in court. AND THEN THE MAIN EVENT - JOE ROGAN VS SPOTIFY and the idea that when you pay someone to be on your platform you have more of a responsibility to keep other people safe than if they were just uploading podcasts themselves.
An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf & what followed was extremely wholesome
In extremely wholesome news (oxymoron), an 8-year-old has taken it upon himself to write what I’m sure is gonna become a NYT bestseller. Dillon Helbig wrote (and illustrated) an 81-page book called “The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Crismis,” (the superior way of spelling Christmas) which he hid in is his local library when he visited with his Grandma.
Speaking to the Washington Post, he said:
“It was naughty-ish,” but the result, he added, is “pretty cool.”
About two days later, after Dillon had confessed to his mother what he’d done, they went back to the library to retrieve the book - but it wasn’t there. The branch manager and a few co-workers had discovered and read Dillon’s book and found it super entertaining, so the staff librarians agreed that as informal and unconventional as it was, the book met the selection criteria for the library’s collection.
They asked Helbig for permission to stick a bar code onto the book and start lending it out, and at the moment there’s a waiting list of 55 people (who can each hold onto it for a month!!)
Dillon, who is now no stranger to the grind, is working on a sequel AND another book, he’s been approached by a local writer to lead a writing workshop, and look, it probably won’t be long until he mints the original copy of “The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Crismis” as an NFT. Hope not, but get your bag boy!
Do you shower in the morning or afternoon?
When will you all learn that I can only put 2 OPTIONS ON A POLL AND “BOTH” WITH NEVER BE ONE OF THEM??????
40% of you shower in the morning (same)
60% at night (woah!)
Do you say neck-lace or neck-liss
I get a little shiver down my spine every time I hear an Aussie say “neckLACE” so I was pleased with these results:
25% of you say neckLACE
75% say neckLISS/LESS
THE STOCK MARKET, EXPLAINED (The Shit Show)
Kylie Jenner Soft-Launches Second Child With Travis Scott (Vulture)
North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet (WIRED)
Women Notices Sinking Boat During Zoom Call, Saves Crew (Futurist)
Trial Starts for 3 Officers in George Floyd’s Death (The New York Times)
Awkwafina (Sort of) Acknowledges AAVE Criticisms, Quits Twitter (Vulture)
Sydney Sweeney, Jay-Z, & Spotify's Podcast Politics (Culture Vulture)
GET A 14 DAY FREE TRIAL TO WATCH EUPHORIA OR YELLOWJACKETS! (Neon)
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