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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 18h

Me snack shopping:

Guy 1: Hello beautiful
Me: 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦

Guy 2: Wow, you’re beautiful
Me: 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘥

Guy 3: Good afternoon beautiful
Me: 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦
Guy 3: You could say hi
Me (𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥): I responded in my head
Guy 3: *speechless yet aroused*

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 1d

How I’m exercising my free will in California:

1. Finally visiting Erewhon to further my research on the best water brand.

2. Having every SF client explain the AI bubble to me in English, code, and emojis.

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 1d

As an equal opportunity hot dog enthusiast, whether you bring the bun, skip the bun, or opt for a lettuce wrap, it’s what’s inside the person AND the bun that counts ❤️

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 2d

Connections
Puzzle #851
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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 2d

without sacrificing my principles, & others have as well. Those who meet the conventional beauty standard don’t have to resort to uncouth & callous methods to maximize their profit. It’s a deliberate choice during a perilous time in American history, & when people show you who they are, believe them

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 2d

There is no plausible deniability for these choices. As a Black woman, my market is significantly smaller due to beauty standards that favor fair skin. I work ten times harder to differentiate myself and grow my clientele, navigating obstacles others don’t encounter. I’ve succeeded in doing this…

Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 3d

It’s amusing how the same people who once sought branding advice (for free, naturally) have now drunk the same KKKool-Aid and whistle pitch-perfectly to people who see me as genetically inferior. But sure, it’s just “marketing.” Anyway, how’s everyone’s day going?

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 2d

Unfortunately, I do love… ordering in. Feeding me is very nurturing, very sexy, 10/10

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 3d

It’s amusing how the same people who once sought branding advice (for free, naturally) have now drunk the same KKKool-Aid and whistle pitch-perfectly to people who see me as genetically inferior. But sure, it’s just “marketing.” Anyway, how’s everyone’s day going?

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 3d

Cosplaying the third wife

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 3d

I wonder how many existential crises I’ll trigger when I retire

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 4d

Revision: Her album does speak to the moment we’re living in, just not the right side. And no, I won’t elaborate.

Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 7d

Taylor Swift’s album isn’t landing because it doesn’t speak to the moment we’re living through or furnish the imagination with relief from it. It’s another demand we’re too exhausted to swallow and one that assumes our attention rather than earns it.

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 4d

- and laughing until we're crying

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 4d

Unfortunately I do love:

- ice cold water
- accents
- overnights with pillow talk & cuddles
- ordering in ( i can’t cook)
- a man talking me through it until I glitch
- sweet potato fries
- big booties and boobies
- expensive watches
- men obsessed with me
- being vocal during procreation practice

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 4d

Finding me intimidating is funny. Babe, I don’t even know what day of the week it is, and I forgot to wear panties.

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 5d

She lost them either way it seems

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 6d

Government shutdown, world chaos, and I’m still delivering A+ content. If there were a Twitter [redacted] of the Year award, I’d host AND win.

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 7d

I want a European FMTY in 2026: Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich, anywhere with cobblestones and accents that undo me.

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 7d

Hussein Chalayan, Coffee Table skirt, 2000.

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 7d

When he asks what I bring to the table

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 7d

Taylor Swift’s album isn’t landing because it doesn’t speak to the moment we’re living through or furnish the imagination with relief from it. It’s another demand we’re too exhausted to swallow and one that assumes our attention rather than earns it.

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 8d

This Loewe collection is fluid and fun. Fashion is too good right now

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 8d

When he's smart, open-minded, a problem solver, a eater, self-aware, has taste, a eater, ambitious, a eater, obsessed with me, a eater, and a eater.

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 8d

opener + screening info + deposit = 😍🥰😍

Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 8d

Introductions that grab my attention include the following words:

dinner
queen
treat

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Emma Graff • DC • NYC 🍉 @emmagraff.com · 9d

open.spotify.com/episode/3vz6...

Masculinity

open.spotify.com

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