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@EmmaSpecter
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how do you text a new friend to hang out without sounding like a democrat asking for money
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timothee so deeply craves what gordo has
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if bed bath and beyond shuts down where are college freshmen supposed to get into the worst fight of their lives w their mom
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girls who studied abroad in london need your support right now ❤️
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thinking about when my most gossipy friend referred to herself as a "radical transparency activist".............queen
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free at-home tests to every household now, anything else is an abject failure of public policy
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meg stalter at the emmys is the most important thing i have ever seen
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re that nyt article: you should, in fact, lose friends for being a zionist. nobody is obligated to hang out with you ever, especially not after learning that you think the unimaginable horrors being perpetrated against palestinians are ok or in any way justified. cry about it!
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no adult christmas can ever match the feeling of being eleven, getting a stack of meg cabot novels, and spending all day lying on your stomach on a blow-up mattress, reading and quietly eating cheese sticks
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me personally on sundays i like to have something i call “fat guy dinner” which is where i sleep until early afternoon and then get enough Indian food for 2-3 people
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on sundays we plan out our week. journal. wash our sheets. declutter our space. buy fresh flowers. light candles. eat healthy. bring in good energy to yourself & your home. reset & recharge for a new week ahead
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brad pitt producing the me too movie is actually a very sophisticated joke about hollywood
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"but the police wouldn't lie" are you a baby. were you just born. should i order a crib
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i want to go on a shit date at a brooklyn bar and drink my wine too fast and suggest a second glass out of sheer discomfort and chug it and accidentally get drunk because i haven't had dinner and go in for a weird hug at the end and lurch off into the night........i want it ALL
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fetterman donning his special big boy suit for a war criminal.....................need menswear twitter to
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all the cool girls are leaving earth
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apparently when i was six and we lived in italy i told my mom that my favorite holiday was "sciopero" (teacher's strike), proving that i have always been a) a comrade and b) a lazy little bitch
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what a rotten festering thing to watch your tax dollars fund genocide and starvation and horrors quite literally beyond comprehension and then be told to “just vote blue” as if what’s happening on our dime in gaza shouldn’t guide our participation in the (broken) electoral system
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oh so the depressed boy horse can go off for 6 seasons but the deranged girl birds don’t even get 2, huh
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“do not let people know that your boyfriend has been actively manipulating you and trying to cut you off from the ppl and things you care about bc it offends this specific woman’s sensibilities” is a very cool message to send to young people in abusive relationships!
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It’s gross to post your ex’s private texts unless you have a really solid reason to do so—& this holds true even if your ex was a thin-skinned, manipulative weasel. That used to be a given, but it clearly isn’t anymore
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who profits when you hate yourself? is it you? your friends? your family? your community? or is it like...........weight watchers corporate and the nyt health desk? just something to think about :)
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afab this amab that………..why don’t you crack open a good book and get familiar w the trials of captain ahab
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hi binders! it's still 2004 in my home. my daughter was in an accident & suffered a brain injury so i created a whole world out of the last day she remembers, printing fake newspapers/getting our whole town to cooperate. now she's dating adam sandler. does anyone want this pitch
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"how did you get covid" from the viral pandemic bitch
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rip jo march you would have loved boygenius
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does anyone own these outrageously fun and Status Ugly camper sandals and if so can i get a comfort review before i buy them for a wedding
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i think it's good, personally, that basically every single elected official except for cori bush and rashida tlaib sounds like this rn
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if you are a student who has faced arrest or expulsion or any consequence for protesting & wants to go into journalism i will use every personal and nepo tool at my disposal to help you, dm me. you are doing the right thing and the industry doesn’t deserve you but it needs you!
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new girl was so bad at writing women and so, so good at writing dudes
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what began as a joke pitch in november is real in february, and i am...........you won't believe it............crying
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we're two days away from staged PR pics of kim k on the line in the skims garment factory
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im writing a book, its very important to me, and im going to do my best to make it good :)
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all i have to contribute to the sean mcelwee discourse is that i once met him at a professional happy hour and he asked for my twitter handle and proceeded to make me stand there as he spent several minutes vetting my twitter in front of me to see if i was worth a follow 🙃
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sorry but i do not dream of long sleeves and tasteful navy and knee-length, i dream of red lace and visible underwear and adriana la cerva hair!
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Y'ALL this feels absolutely surreal to share after so many months of typing into a google doc alone in my apartment w rhonj on but my book has a cover!!!!!!!!! and a pub date (march 19)!!!!!!!!! smash that preorder if u can/want to
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my book comes out today and my bf got me on the rick's sign!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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if you don't think young girls start getting sexualized at 11, 12 or 13 then you should know its probably more likely that no adult women trust you enough to confide in you about those experiences
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just put some olive oil & flaky sea salt on homemade bread
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harvey milk didn't fuck w dianne feinstein and i think we should all just remember that
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if ur so worried about us quiet quitting why don’t u loud pay us more
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never in your life underestimate the fashion girlies and gays
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Students at FIT have just taken over the museum building and set up a Gaza Solidarity Encampment 🇵🇸🫡
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being vaccinated does NOT mean it's ok to kiss me beneath the milky twilight. cdc recommends waiting at LEAST two weeks before leading me out on the moonlit floor
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you’re laughing. dogs are addicted to fetch and you’re laughing
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anne hathaway i was NOT familiar with your game!!!!!!!!!!!!!! then again i should have known..............one of the clips andie brings with her when she's interviewing at runway is about the janitors' union, after all 🙂
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@ryanchittum if you wait to organize until it's convenient for your bosses, it will never happen.
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it actually doesnt matter if they were convicted of a crime or not, interestingly
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80 percent of those who died of Covid-19 in Texas county jails were never convicted of a crime, a new report finds
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describe the plot of mamma mia in six words or less
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wrote about how extra-hard this time of isolation and stockpiling is when your relationship w food is disordered
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meet wesley "alex trebek" cleghorn, eight weeks old, the apple of his mother's (and her roommates') eye
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ugh yeah so disgusting. i would hate it if a bunch of hot women sent me pics of their armpit hair in deconstructed lingerie suits. that wouldn't be good at all
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i can gauge “how im doing” on any given day by what level of homicide this sign makes me want to commit
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for those confused: this is a joke tweet, i do not think the monarchy is good and immaterial of whether old liz was individually nice, she was and remains a figurehead for unspeakable colonial horror :)
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drunkenly and confidently ordered a grasshopper last night w no real idea of what was in it.........its cream. its just cream! i've been in digestive hell for 12 hours now, how tf was joan holloway downing these at a long lunch w roger sterling and then banging it out afterward
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idk bitch, can the federal government help protect against covid-19?
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the american workday, or as i like to call it, typing until pasta
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as a queer person who wants to parent someday, i’m continually crestfallen by how little representation or support lgbtq+ families get. i spent a month reporting this piece & am so grateful to the sources who shared their stories with me:
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i hate that the Girlboss Industrial Complex has made me feel like i can't say being fat sucks sometimes. it does! that's not an excuse for fatphobia, but i don't always want to climb a mountain in a fucking crop top to demonstrate my total peace w my corporeal form!
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i WANT to go to a BAR with my FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i just keep thinking about the students who went into insane amounts of debt to get into college. all so the universities that claim to foster a “life of the mind” can call the pigs to beat the shit out of them for protesting genocide. what the fuck is an education even for?
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beyond honored to profile emma corrin, vogue’s first openly nonbinary cover star! we hung out in the park and talked about fashion, books, queer dating, their plans for the future, our dream cars, and (obv) chrishell and g flip
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"but we can't afford it"
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if you’re out w me and you’re a straight girl please know i will aggressively befriend straight men and present them to you like a cat bringing its owner a dead mouse
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found my lewk for my best friend's wedding in july and it's a) hot, b) under $500 total, and c) guaranteed to thrill her while bumming out her mother, my mother, AND her mother-in-law. Ws only on the board!
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“spotlight” is truly the only movie that gets journalism right, not in terms of bravery/investigative spirit but in terms of everyone dressing like ass
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just curious if you're blocking your ears to avoid hearing the names of dead palestinian children spoken aloud while en route to The Big Democracy Pageant do you think you're on the right side of history
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DNC attendees cover their ears as the names of dead Palestinian children are read as they leave the convention
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prayers up for the social teams and the prod teams and all the (mostly female) media workers doing nonstop work without bylines rn!!!!!!!!! we love you ❤️
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gay carrie bradshaw: i couldn’t help but wonder, was the real “lesbian space crime”..........giving each other space?
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just wanna say that this WORKED, two kings from lex came over and killed my bug and gave me bug bombs and invited me to a shabbat dinner (!!!!!) i am fucking crying i love us so much
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my therapist: sorry, not to cut you off but what does "seo" stand for me: do you want to trade lives
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"we shouldn't have to wait 20 years for our pain to be taken seriously" - @HannahJacksuhn in her absolute banger of an essay about IUD insertion and all its attendant bullshit, which happens to be the first one i've edited for vogue!
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journalists talk a lot of shit about other professions but i don’t see pr girls on here posting about covid like it’s the seasons status homeware item :)
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being jewish is sooooooo trendy right now. martinis, fish, pickled vegetables, wearing all brown, sweating, yelling..............@ new york times where can i file my copy
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it slaps that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. it pounds that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. it owns that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts — 2k19 harry met sally
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i just want to sit at the bar and drink a margarita and read a book and eat whatever iteration of potato the menu is serving
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parasite stans shall henceforth be known as "bong joon hoes" thanks for reading
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thinking about all the freelance writers who've had to internalize that they are somehow "not good enough" for a staff job when actually the digital media industry is racist, classist and collapsing 🙃
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sry but if you're a working writer i think you have an obligation to model some hope for the ppl coming up below you! i know shit is dire but the amt of young writers ive talked to who have been told to pack it up before even starting by Senior Industry People makes me rly mad
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how i think i look in a suit vs how i actually look in a suit
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ok which one of you ate out angela merkel
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After "a life-changing experience," Germany's Merkel shifts her position on same-sex marriage
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letter of recommendation: aerie swimwear and also having mondo jugs
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hurt my own feelings here but this is simply an L we're all going to have to take as a community
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🚨 would biden canceling even a fraction of student-loan debt materially change your life, in ways large or small? if so, and if you wanna talk about it for a vogue dot com story, hit my DMs pls!!!!!!!!
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“men only abuse strong women and not submissive women” is……..i get the point but i think there is a long and painful history behind the notion that there is no kind of Woman You Can Be that will forever shield you from harm
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i am admittedly always pointing at my girlboss landlord and saying "let me live here for free!"
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The landlords are making memes y'all
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audio transcript caught me being extremely nice to the dogs before my call started
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its illegal to yell at me about this, or any of my many fine opinions
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i love having friends w the cozy interests of nice women and the vocabulary of dumb men bc i frequently get texts that are like "oh fuck yeah dude, that rhubarb crumble sounds so sick"
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me describing any spotify playlist i've made in the last 3 yrs
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sally draper would fit in so well on twitter dot com
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if you can’t afford to tip lavishly on holidays you can’t afford the meal, sorry! we have food at home, etc
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Karen K. Ho
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If you are ordering Chinese food or other kinds of takeout this week, please tip at least 30%. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, tip 50% or more. Yes, even for takeout. Tip generously for the time away from their families, for Omicron, for extra PPE, for all the crap of 2021.
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got mad about emily in paris—and, more broadly, who gets to be a "fish out of water"—so i wrote about it
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the best thing about being a woman? prerogative to have a little fun, hands down
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some emma news: aug 16 will be my last day at garage. in september, i’ll be starting as a culture writer at vogue dot com. i’m very scared and excited!
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