We Love the Internet 2024/45: The Stop drinking from the toilet edition
2 min readNov 8, 2024
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Stop drinking from the toilet
- Gen Z moves on from ‘Googling’ — TikTok emerges as the new search engine
- Iceland embraced a shorter work week. Here’s how it turned out
Reference points:
Longer reads:
- Why GB News is angrier than ever
- In a frank internal meeting, The New York Times wrestled with its political role
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
Things to look at/read:
Animal corner:
- One more try with the costume
- He said “this MY q-tip!”
- Voice of an angel
- I laughed way too hard at this
Tweets of the week:
- “And then Trump won for a second time, but all the while the UK had learned that Gary Barlow’s son was massive, which then became a national priority.”
- It’s wild that The Getaway is now an explorable 3D time capsule of the British high street at the turn of the millennium.
- Need this backstory so bad
- When I stop the microwave at 00:01
- Oh great. I’ve just checked the results page and a man who literally died for a bit still gets a better 5k time then I do.
- I’ve been on football twitter for so long that I read this like it was an insult
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?
- Steve Nicks: I believe in the church of Stevie
- Richard Gadd on life after Baby Reindeer
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