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I saw the whistler Molly Lewis in Bushwick on a Tuesday night.

Shoutout to this kooky person on the subway with a gigantic house centipede tattoo. A+ nightmare fodder, great work.

Claude’s tomatoes.

Organic fuji apple from New Zealand. A sustainability paradox.

Candy-striped hybrid tea rose on 36th street.

For posterity.

Do something that scares you every day!! Even if it’s just your regular normal job and you’ve done it many times before and it wasn’t really a big deal.

Rosa chinensis, glowing even in the shade.

From the comments of this YouTube video.

As a tween, I intensely studied the Tragic Kingdom lyrics and album artwork for secret meanings and hidden codes. I remember writing a short story inspired by this album and adopting the symbol of the rotting orange, along with the colors orange and green, as a protective talisman… even painting my bedroom in those same colors…

I had a picture of Gwen Stefani in my middle-school locker. Some bully once tried to rip it off, and I slammed the door on his hand and wouldn’t let go until he dropped it.

I didn’t know about the “fruit fly scare” that the commenter above references. It’s actually a twisted and fascinating story unto itself. According to Wikipedia, a group in 1989 called The Breeders took responsibility for releasing medflies on California crops as retaliation for the use of airborne insecticides. The group sent letters to local government officials and the media — it’s still unclear whether this was all a hoax… this thread offers a bit more context.

“I have no ‘whole self’ to bring to work. A combination of education and psychoanalysis saw to that.”

—Ben Wurgaft

“You know, for me, I find the word cool difficult, because I’m often called cool, and it often feels like a way of framing me and limiting my thinking or my intentionality… It’s almost like a Black athlete having natural talent, if you know what I mean. And it’s something that he hasn’t had to work out, and hasn’t had to fail, and hasn’t had to make sacrifices for whatever it is…”

“The question is, if you took cool out of the picture, then what would you have left? And if you had if you took that out of the picture, then you’d have something like this self-control, this awareness, this determination to navigate your way around the world that you control, even though the rest of the world is out of control. And so to me, that’s why I have a difficulty with the idea of cool, because the way we kind of impose on people at the moment is like this innate thing. Coolness is not innate. It is made from a series of choices. And it is political.”

— Jason Jules on Articles of Interest

Protein chocolate mug cake

(Will insert a picture of this here at some point. This recipe is adapted from Casey Johnston.)

  • 1 scoop (31g) vanilla ice cream protein powder
  • 2 tsp flour
  • 1 tsp white sugar
  • A pinch of baking soda
  • A pinch of salt
  • 1.5 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp neutral oil (like EVOO or canola)
  • Just enough water to combine

In a large microwave-safe mug, mix the dry ingredients together first, then add wets. Add water just a tsp at a time until the mixture is smooth and runny like a thick batter, not a liquid consistency.

Microwave for 30-35 seconds. There may be some wet-looking spots, but if you leave the mug alone for 2 minutes as it cools, the wet spots will eventually dry up.

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