Fishwick Papers: The "Beep Grand Cherokeeper" Edition

Good howdy!I'm in a jubilant mood as it is my Last Day of Work for the YEAR! Next week I'll be writing to you from the sunny(?) climes of New Zealand. I've been working on a lot of fun stuff this week, researching and contacting artists from the around the world, and dusting off my "je m'excuse d'avoir écrit en anglais". I'm also polishing off one of my favourite annual traditions - my holiday wordplay quiz, which I'll be sending you in next week's edition.Stay lovely,jim xoxo

Questioning the questions

• How we ask questions matters

• Your city has a gender and it's male

• Building Audiences for Indigenous Arts

Collections of things

• Dimensions.Guide compiles the sizes of most of your world

• Letters the world sent to Melbourne's 70,000 trees

• All the different types of Pokémon trainer

Creepy Data

• Digital ads are starting to feel like they're psychic

• Taylor Swift uses facial recognition on her audiences

• Your apps know where you are and they're not keeping it secret

Weird Thingz

• Irish woman splits up from her 300-year-old ghost pirate husband

• Eels are in Hawaiian Seals and no-one knows why

• "When You See Me" by Vanessa Reyes

R.I.P. Vine of the Week

• Here he comes