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  • Study Hall has a depressing but prescient story about how journalists are burning out faster and faster: "An underprepared industry is losing a generation of journalists to despair, trauma and moral injury as they cover the story of a lifetime."
  • The Ringer has a must-read oral history about the classic The Sopranos episode "Pine Barrens."
  • Mortifying headline of the day: "Hello from the other side! NHS worker is mortified after neighbour who heard him crying in the bath while listening Adele sends him a note asking if he wants company."
  • Why do people grieve in public online? It's making people feel less alone at a time when everyone has been isolated: “It was therapeutic for me to not feel like I had to hide this and be silent about it.”
  • A lot of people got pets during the pandemic—and now a lot of people are trying to return them.
  • Donald Trump's adult children spent more than $140,000 of taxpayer's money on "travel and hotels for their Secret Service protection in the first month of Joe Biden’s presidency."
  • Here's a fun piece about Squid, Dry Cleaning, Black Country New Road and other new U.K. post-punk bands which NPR dubbed "Post-Brexit New Wave."
  • If you're thinking of participating in an attempted insurrection, maybe don't tell your grandmother about it.
  • Nature really is healing: a cat who saved an elderly man in Japan was appointed head of the department of traffic safety for a day and got an adorable ceremony.
  • Rolling Stone counts down the 20 worst SNL hosts of all time in anticipation of Elon Musk hosting this weekend.
  • And finally, everyone knows all the best treats are at the bottom of the water: