Believe me, when I’m making diets, I get blood all over my arms.

"It's Bloodsicle Time", Maggie Kloza as told to Dan Kois for Slate

Submitted by Jason.

Even if you only own AirPods for a few years, the earth owns them forever.

"AirPods are a Tragedy", Caroline Haskins for Motherboard

This essay is from 2019 but I went to go re-read it after encountering essentially an academic journal retread of its entire premise (they did, at least, cite Haskins). This was almost certainly the reason I started following Haskins' reporting (she's now at Insider, mostly doing surveillance-related stuff that's much more Serious Investigative Impactful type reporting which is cool though I do kind of hope she gets to do weird shit like this again someday). I know when people pull up my old work I end up cringing a lot but I hope she's still proud of this.

A concept is a tool for hacking edges into the chaos.

"Tell Me Why It Hurts", Danielle Carr for NYMag

This essay seems to have been controversial or at least divisive to people in my timelines. Beyond being obviously mentally ill I have little skin in the game of psychology discourse, so I'm not sure I fully followed but I also did get the sense the piece was very constrained in the way magazine features written by academics kind of have to be. In any case, this sentence is transcendent.

Never forget that the economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature.

"Global Boiling", Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay for Phenomenal World

Submitted by Erin.