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“Goodbye: Unwanted Carrot Tops, Beet Tops, Kale Stems, Old Soft Herbs Hello: Pesto!”

— Natalie Abber, How to Make the Most From Almost All of Your Food Scraps

“And I have no right to need you And I knew what my heart was gonna lose I have no right to love you But I do, I still do Yeah, I still do”

— Rhys Lewis, No Right To Love You

“Police dispersed protesters in Seattle's Capitol Hill Occupation Protest (CHOP) area and arrested at least 31 people on Wednesday after an emergency order by Mayor Jenny Durkan.”

— Eric Levenson , Hira Humayun, Seattle Police disperse protesters from occupied CHOP area after emergency order

“While Bass Pro Shops are known as a resource for catching and killing fish, the retail chain is also partially responsible for the birth of the most famous bass of all time.”

— Brian VanHooker, An Oral History of Big Mouth Billy Bass

“People rarely change in horror fiction – they follow instincts and enact rituals until they meet their doom. Ellie’s inability to divert from her quest for blood gradually reveals her, not as a victim, but as a vengeful demonic entity, as ceaseless and uncompromising as the ghostly onryō of Japanese…”

— Keith Stuart, The Last of Us Part 2 is a horror game and that's why it hurts

“It’s not a story about how we moved in together immediately after because we didn’t want to be apart when we got back, or how we got married last month over Zoom because of the pandemic.”

— Nadine Clay, I Went to Europe With a Guy I Met Online After Four Dates

“It’s hard to forgive myself for things I think are unforgivable. To be untouched is to be unwanted, and to be unwanted, it seems to me, is the worst kind of sin.”

— Kelsey Myers, Confessions Of A 29 Year Old Virgin

“He decided to give us a gift horse, a perfect, evergreen tweet; I should pull my head from its mouth and enjoy the ride.”

— Claire Lampen, I Think About This Billy Ray Cyrus Tweet a Lot

“If Lesbian TikTok were its own world, it could be broken down into many countries with their own national anthems — songs played over and over in users’ videos. There are the cottagecore girls (anthem: Mitski’s 'Strawberry Blonde' or anything by Hozier), the couples (anthem: Girl in Red’s 'We Fell i…”

— Lena Wilson, For Lesbians, TikTok Is ‘the Next Tinder’

“A new study shows players with darker skin are often reduced to physical attributes, while players with lighter skin are praised for mental qualities.”

— Terrence Doyle, Soccer Commentary Is Full Of Coded Racism

“JK Rowling has deleted a tweet expressing her love of fellow author Stephen King, after he confirmed that he supports trans women.”

— Ellie Harrison, JK Rowling deletes tweet praising Stephen King after he supports trans women

“Sometimes, bad things happen to people, and they never get better. People just do their best to deal with the pain.”

— Bernard Boo, Why The Last of Us Part 2 Is Actually a Story About Love Conquering Hate

“Some women hate it so much that I would hear them vomiting in the bathroom between scenes. I would find others outside, smoking endless chains of Marlboro Lights… But the multi-billion dollar porn industry wants you to believe the fantasy that we porn actresses love sex. They want you to buy into th…”

— Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn

“The only thing that was every wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me.”

— Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“This is my history; it doesn’t belong only to him just because we’re no longer an item.”

— Jessica A, Should We Delete Past Relationships on Social?

“When our relationships are conditional, we don’t really have relationships at all.”

— Mark Manson, Maybe You Don't Know What Love Is

“Bon Appétit has become a flashpoint for conversations about institutional racism following allegations of racism from former and current employees.”

— Rachel Premack, Condé Nast has suspended a Bon Appétit video editor amid an internal investigation

“The thing is, how a cop treats their partner is the very definition of police business. What goes on at home is intimately related to how an officer acts on the job, and the factors that lead to domestic abuse — coercion, intimidation, authoritarianism, a sense of entitlement to violence — are often…”

— Isabelle Kohn, The Secret Lives of Police Wives And the Abuse They Suffer in Silence

“There are no love stories, no romance novels, no television plot lines that show us how to desire someone with a sexually transmitted infection. The lone exception is the canon (positive and negative) of HIV stories, but HIV and HSV share little more than letters.”

— Ella Dawson, Should I Date Someone with Herpes?

“As queer people, we deserve to been seen in our totality.”

— Lauren Patten, If I'm Not Gay Enough, & I'm Not Straight Enough, Then What Am I?