Meet the Jean Paul Gaultier of the fish world.
Striving to be a good person all the time is overrated, tbh. Here's a chaotic-yet-organised selection of offbeat and eye-opening stories I've enjoyed this week.
We’re two months out from Halloween, which is why I’m giving you all treats and no tricks in this first edition of Quality Sheet. Welcome! Read on to feel better about your shameful desires, meet the retirees bookending their careers with another university stint, and find out what happens when haute couture meets Finding Nemo.
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Have YOU been victimised by blanket advice sloshing around your TikTok algorithm telling you how to be a good person? Stop following it :). Instead, read the case for giving into your desires—contradiction and dishonour be damned. It’s the best thing I’ve read all week.
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“It’s all about putting myself in situations in which I know nothing. I can fail big. Who gives a shit? I’m 64.” Here’s how post-career courses are helping high-powered professionals transition into retirement and deprogram from decades in corporate America.
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A new fish just dropped and it is, quite literally, fierce (read: aggressive) and fabulous. The Juan Deriba killifish was confirmed as a new species last year. Discovered by researcher Heinz Drawbert in Bolivia, it turns to “bone dry” land, not water, to escape predators. Nemo could never. Just look at its scales! It’s the Jean Paul Gaultier of fish. (I am a Pisces. I am allowed to be excited about this!!)
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Libraries don’t just house books—they shelter communities. But cuts to public spending under Britain’s Conservative government mean almost a fifth of the nation’s libraries have closed since 2010, the latest data (2019) show. Lola Olufemi explores how the loss of this vital resource endangers creativity.
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This is a Jenna Lyons stan newsletter. If you’re not watching the Real Housewives of New York reboot, well, even Louis Vuitton makes mistakes. Lyons, of J. Crew overhaul fame, has caught flak from her castmates who misunderstand her unique and highly influential personal style. Here’s some insight into how social media has skewed our perception of taste.
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After that ^, click here for a rundown of some classic (J. Crew) pieces to inspire your autumn lewks.
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Love to read but don’t really have time? Love sex but don’t really have time? Why not save time and combine your two favourite hobbies?
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Finally: You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a handbag. You wouldn’t ste— you know what? You would steal books and use them to train the system behind your AI chatbot. That’s the approach some tech giants are taking, by using content from pirated books online, for free, to develop their large language models. Check out how “the future promised by AI is written with stolen words.”
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Share to sweeten someone’s day—and enjoy the rest of your week,
Isabel x
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