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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 1d

This is also my mom’s signature scent, or at least was while I was growing up, and it gives me warm fuzzies to smell it

Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for letting us into your thinking! Exciting about planning for a kiddo. Very expensive habit that one lol. And I need to try forbidden apple on skin. I have a sample but haven’t been in the right mood.

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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 2d

I’m going to have to try it

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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 2d

I love how Blanche Bete smells just not on me. And every iteration of it I’ve tried is just too much. Of the Kayalis I’ve tried I like yum bougie marshmallow the best but don’t know if it’s something I’d ever actually reach for.

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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 2d

I think she thinks this is more of a dark comedy

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 3d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes I’m jealous of people who have motion sickness because they have that as an excuse to tell their kids that they can’t turn around in the car to look at them. I’m just like, no.

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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 3d

That’s adorable

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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 3d

My 6yo is practicing writing sentences. I guess she’s on theme for the season

Child writing on note cards: the cat is dead, the dog is dead, the mom is dead, the dad is dead. All with gravestones

Kid writing and drawing of: the rat is dead

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 4d

This is functionally a robbery of New York City and New York State taxpayers, who contribute billions more to the federal government annually than we get back.

Stealing our money, blocking our bus lanes.

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.

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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 3d

Milky Oud by Kayali is a sister to Blanche Bete. Which is lovely for those who love Blanche Bete. It’s not as strong but I’m still considering a second shower.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a Frank Ocean Channel Orange kind of day and I will be testing samples. With intermittent packing and some work thrown into the mix. Why so much melancholy? I don’t know.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 5d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a pretty orange blossom scent, a note I’m new to

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Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 6d

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 5d

I caved to the adds on TT and got a roller ball of the Cyklar Sacred Santal perfume oil. It’s a pleasant musk with a bit of sandalwood. Not picky. Not too sweet. But also it doesn’t feel special. Maybe this is one where the more you wear it the more you enjoy but so far unimpressed.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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puppet parfum @puppetparfum.bsky.social · 6d

anyways, fuck AI and fuck billionaires and fuck capitalism and all the horror it creates ⭐️

movie night is going to be a blast hehe

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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 7d

Also why is scheduling a meeting so hard? I’m incapable of doing so without at least one fuck up. To be clear, this is not the kind of mistake that normally gives me anxiety.

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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 7d

Almost 40 seems like the right age to invest in a really nice silk scarf right?

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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks Runa. Anxiety brain is so rough

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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you friend

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Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 8d

My therapist would say those are too small and that I should say something like, I am smart and capable and handle mistakes with grace. I will smooth this over as if no mistake had ever occurred. And honestly, she’d be right. I wish I could go there first before the anxiety.

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