My petty gripe: yes, hands can make hearts. Now get off Instagram and do something useful

‘Everything was fine with hands until, what, 10 years ago, some wizard realised you could rest the top third of your opposing fingers together while pressing the pads of yours thumbs together below and make an approximation of the shape of a heart.’ Illustration: Victoria Hart/Guardian Design

For millennia human beings have had hands.

Oh, what things we have done with these hands! We have woven great tapestries. We have deftly saved the lives of our fellow beings. We have written works of such enduring power they have transcended the centuries. The Sistine Chapel? Hands. Open heart surgery? Also hands.