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Never Burn These Items in a Fireplace
It’s fireplace season in many areas right now, which (hopefully) means cosy evenings spent curled up in front of its warm glow. Or, maybe you were cleaning and came across a bunch of letters and gifts from an ex, and felt that warm glow beckoning to you for other, less cosy reasons.
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Are You Embarrassed to Be Heterosexual? Say Hello to ‘Heteropessimism’
A friend introduces their partner as “my current husband”. Another jokes about marriage as a life sentence. Everyone laughs, no one is surprised. The sentiments at the heart of these asides are pervasive and familiar to many people in (or who have had) heterosexual relationships. There is now a term for this negativity: “heteropessimism”. Heteropessimism…
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The Best Sites and Apps to Track Your Books, Movies, Music, and Video Games
This week in the Guardian, writer Rachel Sigee pondered the question of why so many of us frequent sites like Goodreads and Letterboxd to log our media consumption, and came up with an answer that seems obvious in retrospect: It’s dopamine.