#25. Tinder bans & bird funerals
A seagull you didn't give a chip to last year told me you watch BBC HardTALK.
Hi all,
Some things —
My Tinder app wouldn’t load. I was sitting in the back of my car in Karachi, the midafternoon sun high in the sky. We paused at a traffic light, and I switched my phone to airplane mode. I had been chatting with a guy who seemed promising, so I tried Tinder again. It didn’t work.
I mindlessly opened Instagram; the posts were crisp and clear. It wasn’t one of those 4G outage blips.
Some part of my brain was already aware of what had happened, but I tried again. Perhaps the signal is better now that we’ve moved? Still, Tinder wasn’t loading. Finally, I opened Twitter and went immediately to the search tab. Tinder Pakistan ban, I typed.
So begins a great read on Rest of World: More than just a dating app.
One pivotal moment of my online dating 2020 was when I swiped through all the women on Feeld aged 30-34 in a 200 mile radius twice in order to re-find someone I'd accidentally deleted. Twice, because the first time I did it I'd got so caught up with swiping left that when she came up I just blazed on through and had to go back and do it again. Who knows how many true loves I canned in that half an hour.
Did you know that if you put a particular kind of dead bird in your garden a bunch of the same kind of bird all come by and shout loudly for about half an hour? Scientists Aren't Sure What This Means, including and especially Teresa Iglesias who says "I think there's a huge possibility that there is much more to learn about the social and emotional lives of birds." Like, for example, do they just have a really keen sense of schadenfreude?
The youtube comments are pretty good on this one too. All some guy saying he once said ‘bullcrap’ within earshot of a scrub jay and next day he comes home and finds four crows in bed with his wife. Day after he goes into work and gets fired by an owl. They’re smart birds.
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Hope you have a nice week!
Kay