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Sally Elshorafa
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Home and Garden Editor at BuzzFeed.

I can’t believe the library isn’t packed at all times. It’s quiet, you don’t have to pay if you want to sit there all day and work, and mine even sells cups of coffee for $1. Oh, and there’s a bazillion books you can just borrow for free. Come on, people. Support your local library.
January 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Someone needs to write something about how the masses process the grief of losing one-sided connections on social media platforms. It sounds silly and naive, but a lot of us spent hundreds of hours following along with creators on Vine, Twitter, and TikTok, only to have those platforms killed off.
January 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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It’s ok to not have a Valentine on Valentine’s Day. I didn’t have a groundhog on Groundhog’s Day
February 13, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Best book cover ever
October 29, 2023 at 4:56 AM
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The answer, according to Statista, is FOURTEEN. (I'd looked up "top ten" and kind of goggled at the answer.)

Meta has *4* platforms in the global top 10 and 3 in the top 5.
October 17, 2023 at 12:55 AM
Not enough people talk about how unhinged tiktok live is.
October 1, 2023 at 12:32 AM
JFC Costco it isn’t even Halloween yet!
September 21, 2023 at 7:42 PM
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College papers continue to raise the bar for reporting on important issues
August 30, 2023 at 4:53 AM
Thrivin’
August 27, 2023 at 2:25 AM
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bsky newskie speedrunning checklist
July 24, 2023 at 5:55 PM
✅ birth a healthy baby
🚫Hamilton to place p1
✅ Norris placed p2
All I want tomorrow is to birth a healthy baby and for Hamilton to place p1 and Norris p2.
July 23, 2023 at 7:58 PM
All I want tomorrow is to birth a healthy baby and for Hamilton to place p1 and Norris p2.
July 23, 2023 at 4:04 AM
STOP CALLING THEM WILDFIRES THERE’S NOTHING WILD ABOUT THEM. DOWNED POWER LINES IN A DROUGHT-RIDDEN AREAS CAUSE FIRES, THATS A MANMADE PROBLEM.
July 20, 2023 at 7:21 PM
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KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
July 17, 2023 at 3:57 AM
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I said this a year ago elsewhere, but I’ll say it again here: It's impossible to overstate how much the big tech CEOs & VCs are being radicalized within their bubble. The level of paranoia & contrived victimization is off the charts, and they increasingly only consume media that they have funded.
July 4, 2023 at 8:23 PM
Sutro Tower turns 47 today ❤️
July 4, 2023 at 9:07 PM
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Fireworks are meant to exist briefly and disappear. When you post a picture of a firework you are undermining the artist’s ephemeral vision (1/85)
July 4, 2023 at 4:47 AM
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What NEWS sources are we following here?
July 3, 2023 at 2:41 PM
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When the twitter mutual doesn't follow you back here
July 1, 2023 at 9:35 PM
Evergreen skeet
Social media, news websites, streaming services, they are all doing some really stupid shit right now.
It's going to be a wild few years of an absolutely unusable internet while the CEOs realize that trying to mug every user at every level while also having AI generate all their content isn't 100% feasible.
July 1, 2023 at 2:00 PM
Gonna make sure my kids (one kid so far, another due next month) grow up to be kind, empathetic, and compassionate human beings.
July 1, 2023 at 6:10 AM
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He's a huge cheater in no position to talk about "fairness," of course.

But also note he has no record of advocating for remedying Title IX violations or for alleviating pay disparities. His supposed concern for women's sports begins and ends with trans athletes.
When one of the biggest cheaters in the history of any sport is just concerned about “fairness”
June 25, 2023 at 1:20 PM
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Opossums always look like they just walked in on you at a really bad time.
June 24, 2023 at 12:05 AM