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swan collection curated by @foundandchosen

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statement rings by VERAMEAT​

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Not everything that makes you uncomfortable is actually causing you harm

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some recent moments :-)

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William Morris, from a poem titled "September," featured in Poems by the Way, originally published in 1891

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You know the old proverb. If you have a shirt thats good. Wear it everyday till you die

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1800s linen fencing jacket via twofold vintage

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in american culture it's actually disrespectful to take time off of your job because it's seen as an insult to the economy

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juliana nalú by elle johnson

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A pleasure to have in the labyrinth

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David Lynch on the set of The Straight Story (1999)

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I think teens need to be able to go to trusted adults and say “I saw something in a porn video that freaked me out and now I’m worried I’ll have to do it too” and then the adult can say “it’s ok to be nervous about sex, but remember that you don’t have to do ANYTHING you don’t want to do, ever, no exceptions” and this should be an ongoing conversation to remind young people that sexual desire isn’t monolithic and they are not uniquely weird, cowardly, or undesirable for expressing their feelings, and they deserve sexual partners who prioritize consent & autonomy always

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I actually believe the statistics offered by the White House + the Metro Police Department suggesting that crime rates are down in DC since the start of the federal occupation (on top of the massive declines in crime which had already occurred last year for reversion-to-the-mean reasons). I am currently sitting in one of the busiest nightlife intersections in DC: 14th + U St NW. This is the exact spot where a key battle took place— I am sitting across the street from where a Subway sandwich was thrown at an FBI officer (pic related).

It is now past 9:45 pm. Gradually, over the next 75 minutes, this is an intersection that would usually be flooded by people from every corner of this nation’s demographic map. This is a place where Vietnam veterans get drunk in the same bars as leather gays, where juniors from Howard University smoke weed next to their professors. I would estimate that, between the hours of 10:00 pm and 4:00 am, tens of thousands of people visit the bars and clubs within 0.5 miles of this intersection, every weekend night.

Tonight, it is at maybe 40% of the capacity that it would normally be around this time. Nobody is here. I have primetime tickets to one of the busiest nightlife intersections in North America, and it is nearly empty.

I believe that crime has sharply declined in DC in the short-term, because no one is going outside. In-person restaurant reservations have collapsed into free fall. People are terrified of the fact that federal agents are randomly kidnapping people off of the street, setting up papers-please checkpoints, doing whatever they want with impunity. So they are just staying out of the District. Most people who live here are spending more time inside, and people in Maryland and Virginia are staying out entirely. I imagine that there will be another wave of physical retail closures similar to the one during the initial COVID commercial real estate shock.

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