We Love the Internet 2021/48: The Spotify Wrapped, unwrapped edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Spotify Wrapped, unwrapped
• Reality TV’s Absurd New Extreme
• The Skyrim and Sopranos Meme Universes Are Colliding
• Record labels really, really don’t like a new bill that could — eventually — change how artists get paid in the UK

Reference points:

• The worst gadgets we’ve ever touched
• Top gifs of 2021

Longer reads:

• Discord: Imagine a Place

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• A Bad Lip Reading of Dune
• Disney’s FastPass: A Complicated History
• 1 hour Wetherspoons ambience
• There’s more action and mystery in this one minute than the whole of Tenet.
• This remains one of my favourite ever videos on this app.
• Mission success

Things to look at/read:

• A French prankster (and definite misinformation agent) faked UFO sightings and landings

Animal corner:

• When I say everyone at the shelter adores Stephen, I mean it. The work Slack is full of pictures of him.
• Traindeer
• He’s so cute I can’t handle it
• Munchkin orders an ice water with strawberries
• The ending
• Happy thanksgiving!
• Kitty

Tweets of the week:

• My favorite of these so far
• No wonder we couldn’t score ffs
• These radiators look like a Manhattan skyline.
• What a cracking idea from my boy last night
• what?!
• accessible void
• you sure are bud
• Digne and Keane chasing Salah last night.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The high cost of living in a disabling world
• The company man

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