JD Shadel
@jdshadel
💌 Join the only lifestyle newsletter on the internet ;-) www.esckey.co Chief Editorial Officer at new media outlet ESC KEY .CO — also the only employee Work in Condé Nast Traveler (ex-Future of Travel columnist), WaPo, Them, BBC, Vice, more They/etc
If you google "dog ate my homework," you'll get this "AI Overview" instructing you to first "check if any pieces are salvageable" and then "immediately email your teacher to explain what happened."
The only downside about second hand shopping is that you see the burger sandals, you want the burger sandals, but the burger sandals aren't in your size.
me scrolling ebay, over-intellectualizing "i waaaaaant": "wellllll, my writing would be inarguably better if i exited this so-called 'attention economy' and had a key lime ibook i only used for word processing"
Welcome to the rise of Ultra Mid Fashion, where fast fashion brands try really hard to convince you they're mid-market. 🙃 Prices are up. Zara has ... "archives"? But this pivot to mid draws on the same greenwashing playbook these brands employed a decade ago. 🔗 www.anxiety.eco/p/the-rise-o...
I often think back to this Anne Carson interview and her definition of poetry versus prose. It’s such a silly “journalist thing” to ask a poet to define poetry for us. And her answer is so … yes
Tomorrow on anxiety.eco, we're launching something I've always wanted to launch: AN ADVICE COLUMN CALLED *DRUM ROLL PLEASE* DEAR ANXIETY! Get on the list + get the first reader question we answer with a beautiful essay from my cofounder, Amy Miles In Dear Anxiety, we'll tackle our consumer culture
me: i really need to focus on edits also me: what if i launch a hot sauce brand called Neuro-spicy! with the tag line "Can you handle this?" "I don't think they can handle this!!"
i hate these lyrics because they’re too real … like i hate that i could write this about ex (tech) boyfriends
This is a serious question that could be on the Life in the UK test I need to take this year to become a permanent resident
there are so many ambidextrous dogeared pages in this book where I’ve tried to mark how extraordinary poems on both sides of the leaf are; dog ear one, turn the page and feel an urge to dog ear it the other way
I just got a press release for this furniture (don't ask me why, idk), and my first thought was, how would one even begin to write alt text for this stuff??? only bad answers tysm!!
yet again, r/digitalnomad proves one of the most depressing places on the internet
every year ends ... thus, end of year posts never end ... but what if we could disrupt the end of year post? what if we could move fast and GIF things?! what if our end of year post was really just a GIF post??? v big end of 2025 post dropping soon on ESC KEY .CO: SUBSCRIBE NOW: www.esckey.co
i also forgot but VeganFTA actually has a chatbot they promise has an answer for every tough ethical vegan question 😈
there are so many examples it's so cringe ... they often go something like this: "AI will help veganism more than hinder it" and include art like this lmfao veganfta.com/blog/2025/05...
not like we needed more evidence that Monocle is ... well, let this sentence speak for itself: "[X writer] knows where fascists hang out after work and it's not all bad"
Paris is insufferable; but you always come back because you, too, are insufferable, darling. (This was me yesterday before entering Palais de Tokyo’s bookish exhibition, Echo Delay Reverb)
idk about you but i'm honestly having a lot of fun making myself unhirable on LinkedIn dot com