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Oof, yes, this: "It’s concerning in terms of our critical thinking, our literacy, our political awareness. Beauty is being swept up into this larger political trend of wanting easy answers.”

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No war but the class war, Miss Jessica!

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reading this made me feel more exhausted than usual

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Long term Atmos reader. Delighted to see you come up in an article. Answers on point as always!

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welcome back to instagram its worse than ever

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Not Dream center they are a cult

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I'm curious about Jessica's thoughts on this thread that makes the case that sunlight is actually good for the skin: https://x.com/zaidkdahhaj/status/1878827568163688900

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The fake noses thing reminds me of this series of Tumblr posts I saw about how “We literally treat the natural female body like it’s obscene”— no hairy legs even in shaving ads, lipstick ads where the actress has lighter lipstick on underneath… and fake large noses because real ones are, like, too taboo to even depict?

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is it bad that I looked up the light therapy device (apparently there's a lot of benefits to red light therapy)

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