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people: minimalism is monochrome white everything with NO color or fun pieces.

me, an intellectual: minimalism in art is using the fewest items that have the largest emotional/aesthetic impact. minimalism in interior design should reflect that and not whatever soulless hospital chique every rich lady thinks minimalism is. Minimalism can be fun and colorful and use whimsical patterns its just about using less things to establish an aesthetic/vibe. Anyways look at these good examples of colorful minimalism.

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Australian Federal Election 2001: Pranksters follow around Prime Ministerial contender Kim Beazley in an attempt to sneak fake microphones into news footage

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genuine question- how do you feel about vaccination?

Very pro. I’ve gotten every vaccine I’ve ever been offered. I’m behind on my flu shot this year but that’s just because they keep doing the work clinics on days when I’m either not there or working through lunch. Our immune systems are ticking time bombs that are always looking for an excuse to kill us and so far all available evidence suggests that exposing them to things via vaccine reduces the rate of autoimmune issues due to that specific virus or bacteria later, in addition to decreasing frequency and severity of infection. The shingles vaccine may even decrease risk of dementia, which is HUGE.

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COD lobbies are toxic af, but lawd jaysus these are some good ones

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Are you on southern men swing dancing together tiktok?? Huh??? Because I AM

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the older I get, the more the technological changes I've lived through as a millennial feel bizarre to me. we had computers in my primary school classroom; I first learned to type on a typewriter. I had a cellphone as a teenager, but still needed a physical train timetable. my parents listened to LP records when I was growing up; meanwhile, my childhood cassette tape collection became a CD collection, until I started downloading mp3s on kazaa over our 56k modem internet connection to play in winamp on my desktop computer, and now my laptop doesn't even have a disc tray. I used to save my word documents on floppy discs. I grew up using the rotary phone at my grandparents' house and our wall-connected landline; my mother's first cellphone was so big, we called it The Brick. I once took my desktop computer - monitor, tower and all - on the train to attend a LAN party at a friend's house where we had to connect to the internet with physical cables to play together, and where one friend's massive CRT monitor wouldn't fit on any available table. as kids, we used to make concertina caterpillars in class with the punctured and perforated paper strips that were left over whenever anything was printed on the room's dot matrix printer, which was outdated by the time I was in high school. VHS tapes became DVDs, and you could still rent both at the local video store when I was first married, but those shops all died out within the next six years. my facebook account predates the iphone camera - I used to carry around a separate digital camera and manually upload photos to the computer in order to post them; there are rolls of undeveloped film from my childhood still in envelopes from the chemist's in my childhood photo albums. I have a photo album from my wedding, but no physical albums of my child; by then, we were all posting online, and now that's a decade's worth of pictures I'd have to sort through manually in order to create one. there are video games I tell my son about but can't ever show him because the consoles they used to run on are all obsolete and the games were never remastered for the new ones that don't have the requisite backwards compatibility. I used to have a walkman for car trips as a kid; then I had a discman and a plastic hardshell case of CDs to carry around as a teenager; later, a friend gave my husband and I engraved matching ipods as a wedding present, and we used them both until they stopped working; now they're obsolete. today I texted my mother, who was born in 1950, a tiktok upload of an instructional video for girls from 1956 on how to look after their hair and nails and fold their clothes. my father was born four years after the invention of colour televison; he worked in radio and print journalism, and in the years before his health declined, even though he logically understood that newspapers existed online, he would clip out articles from the physical paper, put them in an envelope and mail them to me overseas if he wanted me to read them. and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire. as a child, I wore a watch, but like most of my generation, I stopped when cellphones started telling us the time and they became redundant. now, my son wears a smartwatch so we can call him home from playing in the neighbourhood park, and there's a tanline on his wrist ike the one I haven't had since the age of fifteen. and I wonder: what will 2030 look like?

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“What will NY152 say today, I wonder. I turn on my computer. I wait impatiently as it connects. I go online — and my breath catches in my chest until I hear three little words: “You’ve got mail.” I hear nothing, not even a sound on the streets of New York. Just the beat of my own heart. I have mail. From you.”

YOU’VE GOT MAIL (1998) dir. Nora Ephron

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Today was a weird, emotional day. I don't feel happy like I think I'm supposed to, but I'm definitely happy that everyone else is so happy. All my love to everyone out there celebrating tonight. I'm cracking open a @sparkkechange Say I Do bubbles that I've been saving for exactly this occasion #yes #lovewins 🌈 ❤️💛💚💙💜💖

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Missing this gal always. What a babe 🙌🏻😍

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My art makes me very happy 😍 #notevenallofit #yesthecushionisarttoo

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lil cuties 💞

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Finally re-found my favourite jumper after it was lost all winter! #datsassfacetho #girlsontop

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These earrings and this dress 🙌🏻 #alwaysgorman

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This photo never fails to crack me up when I come across it #help

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New artwork from @caitlin_she 😍😍😍

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I left the house AND did a hair thing! #kickinggoals

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I left the house AND did a hair thing! #kickinggoals