We Love the Internet 2022/21: The Rise of the sadboi big man edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Warner Bros. Discovery
• The 19th-Century Hipster Who Pioneered Modern Sportswriting

Longer reads:

• How Squid Game Turned Rage and Desperation Into a Radical Hit

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• This is the greatest walk-up song in the history of baseball
• Magnetic Vibrations
• ZPM: The Kickstarter Failure That Revolutionised Espresso
• I Built the ENTIRE Universe in Hardcore Minecraft!

Things to look at/read:

• The rise of the sadboi big man
• Dwight Schrute was a warning
• A PGA Tour Spectator and His Beer Went Viral — Now He Has His Own Official Merch
• New York’s next great pizza feud is here.
• The surprising afterlife of used hotel soap

Animal corner:

• Kevin sure does love cupcakes
• learn how to relax
• who wants a sandwich?
• Disco divas coming @cha
• I’m no detective but…
• i am losing my mind over the kitty grabber

Tweets of the week:

• FPL budget allocation 22/23
• Academia summed up in one photo:
• “Do not use as a chopping board”?!?
• well if that’s what it takes, good for him
• All summer long
• I love my job
• standing by the fridge looking weird as fuck gotta be one of the funniest photo genres

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The last phone boxes: broken glass, cider cans and — amazingly — a dial tone
• Inside LA’s Homeless Industrial Complex
• The Magic of Alleyways

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