We Love the Internet 2024/45: The Stop drinking from the toilet edition

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:

• Full stack journalism tool
• Good dashboard, bad dashboard

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:

• The Time Travel Movie That Doesn’t Move
• Visualizing the Nucleus

Things to look at/read:

• If You Think You Can Hold a Grudge, Consider the Crow

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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