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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 9h

I'm saying.

🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 10h

I say "also" too much

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 11h

Lmfao right

🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 12h

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 😭

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 12h

Wouldn't let him get that far

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 12h

I think it's okayish but I've had ice on it. I can put weight on it so that's good but flexing and turning are painful

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

it's not great!

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

Yes like 500 more

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

Who has two thumbs and just liquified her left ankle, AGAIN

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17h

Leaving the gym like

Camera LCD screen reads "Body update complete"

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 16h

I have finally had a mooncake 🥮

I am happy to say it really lived up to the hype

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 17h

Y'know, I read the first half of this headline and just thought "okay"

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 21h

CORRECT

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

I can't say what Stephen Miller needs but it's not a lesson in civics.

Just ‘Steve’ 💙 @steveplou.bsky.social · 1d

Start ignoring court orders and the wheels, which are already loose, will come off. Then, we’ll really have serious issues. That fucking Nazi Miller needs a lesson in civics and the balance of coequal branches of government.

apple.news/AJlKl7RlaRQm...

Calls Grow on the Right for Trump To Ignore Judges’ Orders — TIME

Stephen Miller called a judge’s decision to temporarily block the Portland troop deployment “legal insurrection.”

apple.news

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

Uh, holy shit?? Just casually deciding to commit vehicular homicide on this fine Friday morning??

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

It was never what I said
It was always what I did
I'd give the shirt off my back for you to know that
You're the closest thing to heaven
That I'm ever gonna get
#NowPlaying

Closest Thing to Heaven

open.spotify.com

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

that scans

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

Ok real talk though does this work? It's got big Facebook repost energy; also, these goons do whatever they want and a sign probably won't stop them. Or is it about like, performing solidarity? Or is it actually meaningful?

Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 2d

Repost if you see one of the most patriotic signs in American history. 🦅 🇺🇸

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers

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

Lukewarm take probably but I think really a not-insignificant number of kids who took the Silver Ring Thing pledge in high school turned out to be queer but you couldn't just say that in the early-2000s so it was easier to just say you didn't want to have sex at all

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