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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂

@violetvolume.bsky.social

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Pittsburgh. she/her. we gladly feast on those who would subdue us. it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · Apr 22

If you follow me and I go to your profile and the only thing you post about is politics I probably won't follow you back. No offense intended, I just can't stomach a constant firehose of that kind of content.

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ceej @ceej.online · Oct 10

my neighbor’s big halloween light show is so bright it’s exposing the silhouette of my penis and scrotum to my wife’s book club in the backyard

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · Feb 25

and verily all the women of the city beseeched them crying “be normal” but the men would not be normal and they brought sorrow upon the land

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 5h

it's a no-skipper

🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 7h

omg! yay!

🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 13h

now you listen here

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 13h

Ok I have to get this off my chest.

"every day" vs. "everyday"

everyday, as one word, is an adjective. something you do every day is an everyday thing. you wouldn't say "I do that everyday."

"I do that every day"

"That's an everyday thing."

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 22h

I watched a video captioned “You can Dougie to anything if you aren’t a coward” and then he proceeded to Dougie to Linger by The Cranberries

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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · Feb 5

it's a mood

bcvitalwrites 6h

I like punk because it says there's still something to fight
for. I like goth because it says even when things get
dark, beauty can exist within it. I like Appalachian
bluegrass because it says pick up your banjo and hit a
politician with it

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1d

I'm saying.

🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1d

I say "also" too much

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1d

Also, you don't have to do all this to describe how much you like a woman's natural smell. A LOT of people like that, to put it mildly. But the way it's put here makes it sound like you don't have to be hygienic.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1d

You can embrace your natural self without being a stinky stink.

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1d

Like, I'm not on board with the idea that you need to shower twice a day or even once a day. Maybe you do, maybe you don't. Everyone is different. But I feel like maintaining a level of personal hygiene is not actually that demanding?

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1d

Also... what? Girl? Take a shower you smelly weirdo? Practicing hygiene isn't anti-woman. Stop it.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1d

Lmfao right

🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1d

Oh girl I know exactly what you mean. The first time I did it I walked from mid-Beacon to the Squill GE and my friend Chad had to physically carry me back to his house 😭