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Mummies on gummies
The best person won the Miles Franklin!!!!
 
– Alyx Gorman and Michael Sun
We can't stop talking about...
Brooklyn Beckham cooks pasta with seawater
Why are you doing this?  
Brooklyn Beckham cooks pasta with seawater
The would-be chef is working on a yacht, using water from the ocean to make spaghetti. Is this a good idea?
Boyfriends tracked  
‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating,’ one man explains on the rise of couples using location sharing.
Ashes packed  
More and more people are opting out of traditional funerals, switching to 'burn and return' direct cremation instead.
Spotify sacked  
Frankie Adkins had a very good reason to quit music streaming for a month. But did her intervention work?
Eat this
Supermarket olives
Supermarket olives
The best of the 22 olives Nicholas Jordan and friends tried was 'like rolling down the gentle slope of a flower meadow'. The worst could have been 'a non-olive entity'.
Extremely online
Extremely online
Good reads: mummies on gummies; boys and their toys; dating is grating; Vulture on stan culture; this mag on a quick shag.

Goodbye to: arts critics, Hulk Hogan and E! News. We hardly knew ye. 

Good ideas: doing your admin.

Bad taste: airport caviar.
Top of the list
An album – up to chance  
Released in a surprise drop two days after announce, Tyler, the Creator's Don't Tap the Glass is random, feral and enviably hooky – just like everything else he's made.
Released in a surprise drop two days after announce, Tyler, the Creator's Don't Tap the Glass is random, feral and enviably hooky – just like everything else he's made.
Another album – dance dance  
When Madonna teased Veronica Electronica – a full-length Ray of Light remix album – the response was hysteria. It's patchy, but still a surprising peek behind the curtain.
When Madonna teased Veronica Electronica – a full-length Ray of Light remix album – the response was hysteria. It's patchy, but still a surprising peek behind the curtain.
A film – worth a glance  
Does Marvel finally have its mojo back? The Fantastic Four: First Steps feels like it's going in the right direction. In cinemas.
Does Marvel finally have its mojo back? The Fantastic Four: First Steps feels like it's going in the right direction. In cinemas.
A show – staunch stance  
Sold! is Mark Humphries' one-hour special on the housing crisis. “If a D-grade celebrity like me can’t afford a home," he says, "who can?” On Binge.
Sold! is Mark Humphries' one-hour special on the housing crisis. “If a D-grade celebrity like me can’t afford a home,
The funniest things on the internet
Charlotte Otton's tour of her tabs
Charlotte Otton's tour of her tabs
She wrote a show called I Watched Someone Die on TikTok, which means her algorithm is deeply broken.
This week's weirdest story
Burned to the ground
Burned to the ground
Despite its popularity with billionaire tech bros, Burning Man is running out of money. Can the organisers keep it going?
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