I like working outside. On Tuesday, June 6, while typing away in my modest backyard, the hazy air (which I had attributed to unpleasant New York summers) started to smell like a campfire. Shortly after, I learned the haze and accompanying smell hailed all the way from Canada, where wildfires are ravaging the forests. Though wildfires are an expected natural occurrence in both Canada and the United States, the intensity and number of fires are both unprecedented. Tuesday's smoky air went from “u…

Mother nature stay playing the Uno Reverse card on NYC...

How dare you!

Fast fashion has been a hot-button issue lately. Shein, the Chinese retail giant (which saw 16 billion dollars of revenue in 2021 alone) has been particularly controversial lately. Despite its popularity on social media, primarily TikTok, the fast fashion brand has been the subject of many reports of abusive working conditions at its partner factories. This is on top of the sobering reality of fast fashion's effect on the environment. According to Business Insider , fashion was responsible for…

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Yup, it's Patagucci

How long has it been over 100?

They seemed to buy it too…

Did you hear? A new United Nations PSA just dropped and it totally solved climate change. Yup, climate change is officially over thanks to this mind-blowing PSA. The video features a CGI raptor with the voice of Jack Black. He walks into the UN General Assembly and gives world leaders a piece of his mind on the subject of climate change. He knows a thing or two about extinction because he's a dinosaur, get it? I'm sure a lot of people appreciate the effort, but the video has a lot of flaws. For

Productivity and focus are overrated. They may be what allows us to get things done - or pay the bills - but they're also exceedingly boring. All that working and thinking makes us tired, cranky, and generally miserable. Fortunately we have the perfect antidote to this mental malady: memes. Humor will always be there to take the pressure off and the world wide web showers us daily with all the funny we could ever want. There's no shame in indulging in a meme scroll every now and again, especial…

This is fine.

Hurricane Elsa is putting NYC's infrastructure to the test

Happy Earth Day

Indirect laments about the failures of 2020