We Love the Internet 2022/08: The new wordle dropped edition
2 min readFeb 25, 2022
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Call of Duty will skip a release next year. The traditional console gaming market will never be the same.
- Twitter and Meta rush to protect user accounts in Ukraine
- “The Minions Do the Actual Writing”: The Ugly Truth of How Movie Scores Are Made
Reference points
- Journalists say Twitter blue tick verification process ‘irrational and opaque’
- Profanity in Oscar Winning Movies
Longer reads:
- When women make headlines
- What Was the TED Talk?
- 2022 Predictions #1 The King is back, Merge overheats and Hypercasuals falter
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
Things to look at/read:
- How Lily James Transformed Into Pamela Anderson for ‘Pam & Tommy’
- In a Batman series first, Gotham adopts a real sister city: A Japanese city named after a bat
Animal corner:
- Defying gravity
- I got it dad don’t stress!
- Otter tap compilation!
- Louie wasn’t a fan of his new boots
- When you bring your duck dog snow sledding
- Forgot hey had a tail
- Mmhmmm
- Quand t’es pas une loutre d’intérieur
Tweets of the week:
- The new Wordle dropped
- How is this supposed to discourage me from buying alcohol it makes me feel like a cowboy entering a saloon
- how did Babylonians know Babylon is a name that slap super hard. there were only like three cities before Babylon. 5000 years later, Babylon is still top 5 city name
- Nadine Coyle on a drive through the countryside
- French people at 22:22 on 22/2/22
- I’m crying im so happy for them
- This meal prepping shit is easy
- that’s enough internet for one day
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- A Tinder Revenge Story
- Super-prime mover: Britain’s most successful estate agent
- The rise and fall of palcohol: the boozy powder that terrified America
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