I get that not everyone can tolerate perfumes. But perfume free soaps exist as well as unscented anti-perspirants.

There's no reason to smell musty and dusty.

The essay also makes a binary distinction - you either smell like BO or you smell like perfume. There's no middle ground.

She also links natural smells to intimacy which can be true but I don't want to smell a stranger's intimacy on the subway.

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

if you look closely enough we're all *connected*

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Library director fired over LGBTQ+ books gets $700,000 from county

Every year at #NYCC there’s one cosplayer that takes the cake, the cookies AND the pie. It’s only Friday but I think I found the one.

Once again, if your library has Hoopla, check to see if their plan includes TV shows and movies. If so, you'll have access to Acorn TV, MHz Choice, AMC and BritBox shows and more.

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

it does feel bizarre to me. and like it doesn't need to be an either/or? like i can imagine a speech, ad, what-have-you like,

they're threatening your health and the health of our democracy. they could be taking care of sick kids but they wanna take away kids' parents. none of us can live like this

Man Who Made History in ‘Blinking Guy’ Meme Using His Fame to 'Pay it Forward' www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-who-made...

70,000 Discord Users May Have Had Their Government IDs Exposed | Lifehacker
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I’m the most organized person you’ll ever meet when it comes to electronic files, but if you give me a piece of paper I’ll lose it in 5 minutes or less

Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has voiced support for U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and other efforts to topple the government; she aims to privatize the country’s state oil industry and has praised right-wing Latin American leaders, such as Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele.

I went to Broadview ICE facility again today. They blocked off 25th, a lot of sheriffs police, local cops& Illinois state police. Around noon, riot police w/ weapons, helmets, zip ties came out. All in black & I cannot figure out what this patch says. The word on the bottom is police. Anybody know?

I'm being held hostage and forced to listen to this new Taylor Swift foolishness while waiting for my prescription to be ready. 😫

In my newsletter this week, I call bulls*** on Ubisoft’s decision to cancel a game because killing Klansmen is now frowned upon in this establishment.
Uhh, also the plot to bomb the Supreme Court and the vindictive stupidity of the James indictment.

But mainly freaking Ubisoft

I'll be a guest at the JCPL COMIC SURGE tomorrow from 10 am to 5 pm. If you're in the area, stop by, support the library, and get some great books.

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Peace.

Let’s just call it the Milkshake Duck Award and be done with it

FFS! 🤮

NOBEL PEACE PRICE COMMITTEE: WE GIVE THIS AWARD, FOR PEACE

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Day 2! Find the Simon & Schuster booth (#3409) at #NYCC and whisper today's secret word for a chance at one of two copies of YEAR OF THE MER being given out today.

I ordered a Reuben sandwich from our local bagel heroes. Checked my customizations: scooped out, extra Russian dressing, pastrami. And then added a hasbroen. Didn’t realize it meant they would put the hash brown IN the sandwich.

Three bites in before I realize it and you know what?

Yes.

Lower income New Yorkers are more likely to ride the bus s. Also the house he used to live in before he split with Sandra Lee is worth 1.8 million dollars (third link) and had five bedrooms and six bathrooms and at 5,000 sqft meets the historical definition of a mansion