Hump Day Quickie: Inescapable Cringe
Plus: Blue Ivy, blue balls, a Selling Sunset HR review, educational memes, and Shiny Happy People 💀🪩🙄👗🎓⛪️
Welcome to your mid-week quickie! This is your bonus, even-less-strings-attached newsletter to get you through the week.
What’s making me gasp, gag, and giggle this week…
An HR professional’s take on the Selling Sunset outfits (or lack thereof) 👗
This exploration of CringeTok’s success. ”Much like death and taxes, cringe comes for everyone eventually” 💀
Despite internate hate, Blue Ivy is actually killing it onstage with Bey mom 🪩
The educational power of memes 🎓
Proof that it’s never too late to return a library book 📚
An extemely relatable piece from a fellow substack writer on ambition as an identity 👩💻
Obama’s number one piece of career advice 💼
This study showing that men and women experience “blue balls”, but only men use the sensation to coerce women into sex. Didn’t need science to figure that one out..🙄
A fun, personal account of what it’s like to have a sex coach 🍑💪
My new favourtie nostalgic show: Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide — the podcast 🎙
The Era’s Tour fit that survived a house fire 🚒
This profile on Ryan Gosling, his return to film, and his thoughts on playing Ken. “I did see him, like, face down in the mud outside one day, next to a squished lemon, and it was like, This guy’s story does need to be told” 🍋
Serotonin Boost!
Yoga for elephants 🐘🧘♀️
If you can only get to one…
First, watch Shiny Happy People on Prime. Then read this piece on how TLC is culpable ⛪️
TLC helped sanitize a truly frightening movement—and the network didn’t stop until it was literally forced to.
Gif of the Week
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