Cosmetiqua
@cosmetiqua.bsky.social
Yana. Professional perfume lover/critic. Also love my dog, my husband, and sci-fi.
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In the age of AI, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein gets the monster right:
-Preening college dropout founder desperate to troll and provoke
-Secures financing from war profiteer
-Unethically harvests key materials for startup from people living and dead without consent
-Takes 0 responsibility
-Preening college dropout founder desperate to troll and provoke
-Secures financing from war profiteer
-Unethically harvests key materials for startup from people living and dead without consent
-Takes 0 responsibility
Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' gets the monster right for the age of AI
Too bad he lets the founders off easy.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In the age of AI, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein gets the monster right:
-Preening college dropout founder desperate to troll and provoke
-Secures financing from war profiteer
-Unethically harvests key materials for startup from people living and dead without consent
-Takes 0 responsibility
-Preening college dropout founder desperate to troll and provoke
-Secures financing from war profiteer
-Unethically harvests key materials for startup from people living and dead without consent
-Takes 0 responsibility
I wonder why not go for $1000 though www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cbsn...
Cafe in Dubai offers the world's most expensive coffee at $980 a cup: "It's like honey"
The new record staggered some people, though residents also said it was par for the course for the desert city with a luxury lifestyle.
www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org
November 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I wonder why not go for $1000 though www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cbsn...
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“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”
archive.ph/2TI8J
archive.ph/2TI8J
October 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”
archive.ph/2TI8J
archive.ph/2TI8J
Didn’t know there was a market for stolen… Lego heads? Wow
I know everyone’s following the Louvre heist but I would like to point your attention to the California LEGO LOOTER
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
October 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Didn’t know there was a market for stolen… Lego heads? Wow
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🚨 1/6 of all UK commercial fish stocks are in an overfished state and STILL being overexploited ❌🐟
How can anyone justify overfishing these struggling stocks? It can only lead to empty seas, devoid of life 📉
Join us in calling on PM Keir Starmer to end overfishing: https://bit.ly/3Wxi2MI
How can anyone justify overfishing these struggling stocks? It can only lead to empty seas, devoid of life 📉
Join us in calling on PM Keir Starmer to end overfishing: https://bit.ly/3Wxi2MI
October 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🚨 1/6 of all UK commercial fish stocks are in an overfished state and STILL being overexploited ❌🐟
How can anyone justify overfishing these struggling stocks? It can only lead to empty seas, devoid of life 📉
Join us in calling on PM Keir Starmer to end overfishing: https://bit.ly/3Wxi2MI
How can anyone justify overfishing these struggling stocks? It can only lead to empty seas, devoid of life 📉
Join us in calling on PM Keir Starmer to end overfishing: https://bit.ly/3Wxi2MI
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Of these four pairs of shoes, which two pairs do you think are the lowest in quality?
Make a choice before opening this thread. Then I'll tell you something about shoe quality. 🧵
Make a choice before opening this thread. Then I'll tell you something about shoe quality. 🧵
October 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Of these four pairs of shoes, which two pairs do you think are the lowest in quality?
Make a choice before opening this thread. Then I'll tell you something about shoe quality. 🧵
Make a choice before opening this thread. Then I'll tell you something about shoe quality. 🧵
Creed is changing hands again. The new owner - L’Oréal. Because nothing says “exclusive niche” like the world’s biggest mass market beauty conglomerate. A win for L’Oréal perfume division though.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Gucci owner Kering to sell beauty division to L’Oréal for €4bn
New chief executive Luca de Meo aims to bring down debt burden and refocus on core fashion business
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Creed is changing hands again. The new owner - L’Oréal. Because nothing says “exclusive niche” like the world’s biggest mass market beauty conglomerate. A win for L’Oréal perfume division though.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
It seems designers had a much sharper sense of humour back in the 1950. What a bottle for a perfume named “Sport”! (Also, this is possible an official collaboration between Schiaparelli and the champagne maker Mumm?) #fragrance
October 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It seems designers had a much sharper sense of humour back in the 1950. What a bottle for a perfume named “Sport”! (Also, this is possible an official collaboration between Schiaparelli and the champagne maker Mumm?) #fragrance
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Come for the incredible reporting, stay for the “I think I felt like shitting my pants or something”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...
This Secret Tech Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You
YouTube video by Mother Jones
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Come for the incredible reporting, stay for the “I think I felt like shitting my pants or something”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...
Niche perfume is big business. Memo has been a fragrance juggernaut for a while. So I guess replacing the founder with former L’Oréal executive as CEO is only logical. I wonder what happens with the Molloys (the founders). Will they still be involved?
www.premiumbeautynews.com/en/marc-andr...
www.premiumbeautynews.com/en/marc-andr...
Marc-André Heller to succeed co-founder as Memo Paris CEO
Marc-André Heller, a former L'Oréal Group executive, will assume the role of CEO at Memo Paris, effective on January 1, 2026, the brand announced. He will succeed John Molloy, co-founder and current C...
www.premiumbeautynews.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Niche perfume is big business. Memo has been a fragrance juggernaut for a while. So I guess replacing the founder with former L’Oréal executive as CEO is only logical. I wonder what happens with the Molloys (the founders). Will they still be involved?
www.premiumbeautynews.com/en/marc-andr...
www.premiumbeautynews.com/en/marc-andr...
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LAVIGI Perfumes startet internationale Kickstarter-Kampagne "Fragrance as Art" #Mode #Trends #Lifestyle
LAVIGI Perfumes startet internationale Kickstarter-Kampagne "Fragrance as Art"
Luxus trifft Leidenschaft: Das Schweizer Parfumhaus präsentiert handgefertigte Düfte aus Grasse in limitierter Auflage - ein Kunstprojekt zwischen Paris und Luzern.
dlvr.it
October 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
LAVIGI Perfumes startet internationale Kickstarter-Kampagne "Fragrance as Art" #Mode #Trends #Lifestyle
Wrapped up the TFWA week in Cannes. For the uninitiated- it’s the most important niche perfume event of the year. 5 days when everybody who has anything to say in the scent world descends on the Croisette boulevard to shape the next year in fragrance.
October 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Wrapped up the TFWA week in Cannes. For the uninitiated- it’s the most important niche perfume event of the year. 5 days when everybody who has anything to say in the scent world descends on the Croisette boulevard to shape the next year in fragrance.
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"Can a Family Resurrect the American Chestnut Tree in Appalachia?"
My story for @barnraiser.bsky.social about one family carrying the torch.
This is a story against the grain. A story of hope in a dark time. A story of long time horizons. 1/n
barnraisingmedia.com/can-a-family...
My story for @barnraiser.bsky.social about one family carrying the torch.
This is a story against the grain. A story of hope in a dark time. A story of long time horizons. 1/n
barnraisingmedia.com/can-a-family...
Can a Family Resurrect the American Chestnut Tree in Appalachia?
Virginia family farmers have planted American chestnut seedlings that come from an old grove that survived the 20th century blight. Will the trees survive?
barnraisingmedia.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Can a Family Resurrect the American Chestnut Tree in Appalachia?"
My story for @barnraiser.bsky.social about one family carrying the torch.
This is a story against the grain. A story of hope in a dark time. A story of long time horizons. 1/n
barnraisingmedia.com/can-a-family...
My story for @barnraiser.bsky.social about one family carrying the torch.
This is a story against the grain. A story of hope in a dark time. A story of long time horizons. 1/n
barnraisingmedia.com/can-a-family...
This sounds like something from a sci-fi movie. A pretty cool creatire! www.livescience.com/animals/para...
Paralvinella hessleri: The yellow worm that lives in acid and fights poison with poison
These deep-sea worms, which are 1% arsenic, are only found at the hottest hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific.
www.livescience.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This sounds like something from a sci-fi movie. A pretty cool creatire! www.livescience.com/animals/para...
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My colleague @jedwrdmoreno.bsky.social is covering the hell out of the whole GLP-1 (Ozempic, etc) industry. He built this super interesting tracker to keep up with all the different drugs, their regulatory status and the results from their trials.
sherwood.news/business/who...
sherwood.news/business/who...
Who is winning the GLP-1 race?
It’s hard to keep track of all the next-gen GLP-1s in the pipeline, but we tried our best....
sherwood.news
September 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My colleague @jedwrdmoreno.bsky.social is covering the hell out of the whole GLP-1 (Ozempic, etc) industry. He built this super interesting tracker to keep up with all the different drugs, their regulatory status and the results from their trials.
sherwood.news/business/who...
sherwood.news/business/who...
With all the wonderful discoveries we could be happily living in a Star Trek-like future by now. Instead, many are about to die from Middle Ages diseases as they elect leaders who reverse scientific advances.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Harnessing the superpowers of the most resilient life form on Earth
Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts think they might even survive right up until the Sun dies.
www.bbc.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
With all the wonderful discoveries we could be happily living in a Star Trek-like future by now. Instead, many are about to die from Middle Ages diseases as they elect leaders who reverse scientific advances.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Corpse plants put vast amounts of energy into the show, producing large flowers that can weigh more than 100 pounds. The plants heat themselves up using a biochemical process known as thermogenesis to enhance emissions of organic compounds that attract insects.
theconversation.com/how-a-corpse...
theconversation.com/how-a-corpse...
How a corpse plant makes its terrible smell − it has a strategy, and its female flowers do most of the work
When a corpse flower bloomed on campus, atmospheric scientists got to work. What they discovered provides new evidence about the unique pollination strategies of a very unusual flower.
theconversation.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Corpse plants put vast amounts of energy into the show, producing large flowers that can weigh more than 100 pounds. The plants heat themselves up using a biochemical process known as thermogenesis to enhance emissions of organic compounds that attract insects.
theconversation.com/how-a-corpse...
theconversation.com/how-a-corpse...
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We can now consider this speech Emmy-winning.
And the message about the loss of an objective reality hits even harder in the current moment.
And the message about the loss of an objective reality hits even harder in the current moment.
Andor Season 2 | Mon Mothma’s Senate Speech | Now Streaming on Disney+
YouTube video by Star Wars
youtu.be
September 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
We can now consider this speech Emmy-winning.
And the message about the loss of an objective reality hits even harder in the current moment.
And the message about the loss of an objective reality hits even harder in the current moment.
If you follow the perfume world - Creed is kinda a big deal, and they have a new fragrance. It’s made for the Bro demographic and thus ticks all the right boxes, yet it’s been outdated the moment it was released, because its target audience is already moving on
youtube.com/shorts/H8WaN...
youtube.com/shorts/H8WaN...
Complete Creed Oud Zarian in Under 180 sec Review
YouTube video by Cosmetiqua
youtube.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
If you follow the perfume world - Creed is kinda a big deal, and they have a new fragrance. It’s made for the Bro demographic and thus ticks all the right boxes, yet it’s been outdated the moment it was released, because its target audience is already moving on
youtube.com/shorts/H8WaN...
youtube.com/shorts/H8WaN...
The aroma of the freshly picked plums is incredible - fruity, tart, acidic, leathery, bright and mouthwatering. Pure fall bliss.
September 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The aroma of the freshly picked plums is incredible - fruity, tart, acidic, leathery, bright and mouthwatering. Pure fall bliss.
Sounds almost too good to be true. How will it be enforced? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.
“Really Simple Licensing” makes it easier for creators to get paid for AI scraping.
arstechnica.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Sounds almost too good to be true. How will it be enforced? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...