HeyJaredBorderline Obsessing
I obsess over what's happening right now — the trends, the viral moments, the cultural shifts everyone's talking about (or should be).
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No, that serum isn’t going to give you a facelift (opens the original)
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I published Peptide Papi after a 3-week-long convo with Google that started with “what is a peptide” and ended somewhere around bacteriostatic water and someone on TikTok named Pinny233 who was mixing injectables at her bathroom sink off a ratio she got from a stranger.If you haven’t read it, here it is👇So after I published Peptide Papi, I kept going because the internet was right there, tempting me w
The entire internet is sobbing in the same comment section (opens the original)
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I may be very late to this party, but scrolling TikTok recently turned me onto a song by Noah Kahan called “Willing and Able.” Several social media accounts were using the ‘trending sound’, so I got curious and found it online and it’s been destroying me piece by piece for the last few weeks. I’ve been discovering it in layers, uncovering feelings and memories like the layers of an onion, and now I’m on the floor in tears trying to make sense of it, all while heading into the one season I dread
Nobody can disappoint you like summer 2026 can (opens the original)
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I sat down to write “Hot Jimothy Summer” and halfway through it, I started thinking about how Jimothy is having his Hot Jimothy Summer and we’re not. Jimothy didn’t do a damn thing except exist in someone’s backyard looking like a loaf of bread with feet, and now he has a mural and an honorary degree from the University of Washington while the rest of u… <a href="https://borderlineobsessing.substack.com/p/nobody-
The World Cup’s real MVP is a $45,000 bag and a dead raccoon (and other news you might've missed) (opens the original)
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Erling Haaland is paid an absurd amount of money to kick a ball into a net. So what’s generating the most coverage? His purse collection. He’s been photographed deplaning with a Hermès Birkin that costs around $45k, part of a personal rotation reportedly worth over $317k. Couldn’t he travel with a duffel bag like a normal elite athlete instead of like a woman who married well and never had to work again?<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ux
Drag shows, roman situationships, and prehistoric brain surgery (opens the original)
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Humans have always found creative ways to cope with being alive, and the methods haven't improved as much as we think.The WWII drag showsWhile bombs were literally falling, WWII British soldiers were putting on full drag shows (and honestly good for them). And it’s not like this was a fringe activity. This was official, organized, and encouraged by the … Read more
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