Darlings, I’ve been neglectful because life got busy and in the year 2021, we all only have so much energy. I return to you penitent and awash with reading this bank holiday Monday. And it’s off back to the kitchen and batch cooking for me!
Really informative write up in the FT on British and EU immigration trends, and what this means for individual nations as well as the bloc.
On the one hand we’re thirsting over Vaccine Daddy now? On the other hand…I get it.
Yes, the beauty industry is a major factor in racism and we need to do so much more to recognize this. We have no problem blaming beauty standards for body dysmorphia of all stripes, we have to expand that notion dramatically.
Seriously, everything Anne Helen Petersen writes seems like vital reading. Her latest piece for Vox in her ongoing series on the increasing inaccessibility of middle class living is important, and she used her newsletter to explain the reporting process and additional context to what that reporting uncovered. Read both as companion pieces.
“[This bill] would also compel state employees to immediately notify parents in writing if their child displays “gender nonconformity.” Cool cool cool, so actual dystopian nightmares.
I wish I could send this piece to almost every working woman my age that I know.
This piece is fundamentally weird, but I couldn’t stop reading.
Ah, the Mommy Bloggers and the grim reality of never being able to measure up – now with bonus capitalism.
The hard hitting journalism I need right now!
For all my ranting last update about the generation wars, I truly do believe Gen Z might see the end of the current iteration of the bad faith culture struggles bullshit. Because the children are just So. Much. Better. at the internet than the elders and they are smarter than us too. The sooner the outrage machines guns are spike, the better we will all be.
First she came for the boobs, but Abby had our (baby got) backs:
Thank god, but if I don’t get my Eloise and Sir Phillip season, I will be VEXED.
POCKET EQUALITY:
While we’re in a YouTube spiral, let’s learn more about LGBTQ history and linguistics!
A Mormon news moment in three acts, with bonus reading material for the nerdy:
The kerfuffle
The aftermath
A really, really good RadioWest episode on the subject of mormonism’s relationship to mental health and sexuality
An interview with the therapist in question.
The scorn is deserved.
The Fermi Paradox continues to terrify me.
The ever-evolving culture of the QAnon crowd fascinates and frightens me because it hasn’t gone anywhere, in spite of their messianic figure losing his social media bullhorn. Some are going to white supremacy groups, others are doubling down on other conspiracy theories. But they aren’t going away because the media ecosystems that connected and nurtured them haven’t gone away.
Lots of us have left religion, and it’s not always the people you think who are doing it.
The sheer amount of “low skill” workers that have proven to be vital to the economy or actual frontline workers in the last year is not inconsequential. It’s beyond time to retire the term.
To understand the world you must understand the internet, part seventy million of an infinite series.
Small Dog Syndrome 
Hope you’re well. I’d noticed the absence of the weekly links round-up in my feed — glad to see it again. 🙂
That work piece is food for thought, indeed. I’m lucky to have a manager who promotes good work-life balance and is supportive of my other interests (doing postgrad research in my somewhat limited free time).
Glad it brings you joy!