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Senate twink
We are putting on a game show at Sydney Writers' Festival!!!! Please brave the apocalypse to see it.
 
 Alyx Gorman and Michael Sun
We can't stop talking about...
The Brits are off to the crossbow shop
Prepping  
The Brits are off to the crossbow shop
Once, getting ready for the apocalypse was for the paranoid. Now, in the face of cyber-attacks, climate breakdown and nuclear threats, apocalypse prepping has gone mainstream in the UK.
Hypernormalisation  
Meanwhile in America, people are turning to a Soviet Russian concept to make sense of their lives.
Heart-slowing sensation  
Beta blockers are increasingly prescribed as a treatment for anxiety. Is that a problem, and also, do they work?
Is it Rogue Nation?  
With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Guardian writers debate the best Mission: Impossible film. One loose unit even picked MI2.
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Eat this
The best supermarket cucumber pickle
The best supermarket cucumber pickle
A dozen tasters crunched through 21 gherkins, cornichons and more in Nick Jordan's pickle of a taste test. One had notes of vinegary chorizo, another nuclear garlic. A third made a tester write: 'Am I in love?'
Extremely online
Extremely online
As we suffered in Sydney – the city currently home to both Tyra Banks and Senate Twink – everyone else went to Cannes, which finishes today after two weeks of canned dresses, cancelled actors, and standing ovations of disputable length. There was gay Paul Mescal and freaky Alexander Skarsgård. In other words: what’s new

Good reads: on breathing, on Britney, on big beautiful bill. This father was a Nazi hunter and this father was extremely horny. We should all be close reading, checking our gut health, and smoking on screen; N+1 probably shouldn’t be doing ayahuasca

Good profiles: of Sofia Coppola, Jon Hamm, Zohran, and a breakout from Overcompensating

Bad news: the Chicago Sun-Times published AI, which is now taking over both Instagram reels and the desert.
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An interview – sudden rise  
After breaking out out in Birdeater, Adelaide actor Shabana Azeez is now a fan favourite on HBO's The Pitt. She took us inside her meteoric ascent.
After breaking out out in Birdeater, Adelaide actor Shabana Azeez is now a fan favourite on HBO's The Pitt. She took us inside her meteoric ascent.
An album – sweet surprise  
No-one was banking on a Stereolab reunion – but here they are, back with their first album in 15 years: Instant Holograms on Metal Film. It's radiant!
No-one was banking on a Stereolab reunion – but here they are, back with their first album in 15 years: Instant Holograms on Metal Film. It's radiant!
A song – Rock revise  
For their new era, Wolf Alice signed to a major label, ditched the shoegaze, and leant harder than ever into a yowling hair rock – heavy on the leather. Their single Bloom Baby Bloom is out now.
For their new era, Wolf Alice signed to a major label, ditched the shoegaze, and leant harder than ever into a yowling hair rock – heavy on the leather. Their single Bloom Baby Bloom is out now.
A show – shady guise  
Five stars for Julianne Moore as a cult leader! All is right in the world. Sirens is on Netflix now.
Five stars for Julianne Moore as a cult leader! All is right in the world. Sirens is on Netflix now.
The funniest things on the internet
Peter Josip's tour of his tabs
Peter Josip's tour of his tabs
If doomscrolling was an Olympic sport he'd win gold.
This week's weirdest story
Seeing infrared
Seeing infrared
Scientists create contact lenses that grant ‘super-vision’.
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