The Hello You Sunday Supplement, Issue 9

Your weekly signpost to the good stuff

Hello, you. How’re you doing? It’s a mild but grey Sunday morning, so put the kettle on because I’ve got a bunch of stuff for you to read and check out that’ll keep you entertained and occupied through until lunchtime.

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Welcome to the Hello You Sunday Supplement, Issue 9

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Starting off in the customary fashion, with …

Something to listen to while you read

Fabiano do Nascimento is a Brazilian jazz guitarist who incorporates samba, African and electronic influences into his music. In other words, the perfect listening for a Sunday. And get this: Chris Taylor’s local not-for-profit live-music organisation SY Gigs is bringing Fabiano to play in Shrewsbury later this month! Details and tickets here but first, check out Fabiano do Nascimento’s latest album The Room:

What went right this week

Wildlife charities kickstarted a huge ‘showcase for nature recovery’, fairytales were shown to inspire healthy eating, and treatment offered a lifeline to brain tumour patients, plus more good news from the good people at Positive News

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How the National Trust courageously and entertainingly fought back against the culture warriors. Sunday is a great day to visit a National Trust property. Hint

Five tips for calming the fuck down while the world falls apart

'If you want to know what Halloween has become, this is it: a ward against hopelessness; an uprising of the children; a festival of generosity and laughter in a long dark night'

Talking of witch (see what I did there?), would you rather spend Halloween in Burbank, California, or in this family’s house?

The great newspapers of the world just lost a couple of members (I can't promise I won't include something by Ray Snoddy every single week, such is the stinking, diseased state of the entire bloody media world at the moment)

Keep your chicken cheerful by helping them to learn stuff

Where would we be without our libraries?

Shrewsbury Men’s Shed nominated for Men’s Shed of the Year

Faxsake …

‘How it will end is how it will end,’ but The Cure isn’t over, yet (thank goodness; new album’s great, too)

'As journalists, our job isn’t to protect people from stressful news. But we should consider whether we’re adding to their anxiety'

Empty Airbnbs to be used to house domestic abuse survivors free of charge

Hello You 70: Hello You is One Year Old!

This week’s episode of my podcast Hello You celebrates its first anniversary! Plus, there’s a bench recording from outside Shrewsbury’s Shirehall

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OK, back to your weekly good-stuff round-up!

‘…  reaching audiences … supersedes concerns around funding platforms perceived as spreaders of misinformation’. So even though the audience wants them not to, companies will keep advertising alongside hate-powered bullshit. Well, that’s just bloody marvellous, isn’t it?

Ignore the debate over multiculturalism, the UK is already diverse, and we should celebrate that

‘Billionaires, pretty clearly, are not going to save us. Quite the opposite’

‘A self-care date night’: Gen Z and millennials embrace the pleasures of dining alone

Across the UK, a deadly new drug has been linked to 284 fatalities. In Birmingham alone, it killed 21 people last summer. Yet few outside the city noticed

A Christian TikToker takes a deep dive into Islam

I’m grouping the next few links together so if the subject is not your thing, you can scroll on past to more good stuff …

Americans vote for their next president on Tuesday. *sportscaster voice* If you don’t want to know the result, look away now …

• A person without empathy can never truly lead a democracy – because power without empathy is a recipe for dictatorship

• Harris vs. Trump: gender, power, and the future of America, in astonishing news photographs

• American conservative men are 'joking' about repealing women's right to vote

• Is this the most misogynistic ad in the history of politics? Probably

• No more euphemisms: media gets real on Trump’s MSG ‘hate rally’

• Really great piece from photojournalist Dina Litovsky: 'How I approached photographing a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden (and why I got heat for it)'

• Election officials are outmatched by Elon Musk’s misinformation machine

OK, that’s enuffa that

Comic Sans has turned 30, and it’s done being your punch line

The final flight of the airline magazine

LOOK AT THIS TEENY TINY TOAD!

If you read watch one thing this week, make it this

I love Shrewsbury Folk Festival. You will, too. Just watch this!

Final Thought, à la Jerry Springer

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