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Priya
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Art director, New Yorker, Hi-Chew aficionado, professional worrier. Go Bills.
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Disgusted Barbie or Shocked Barbie is a reaction image of a Mermaid Skipper Barbie doll with a shocked or disgusted look on her face, shot from an upward angle.
October 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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The definition of homeless is we have no home, no place to go. If "I think, therefore I am" is true, we are people who are. We are, and we stand on this ground. If you deny us ground, you are denying us our "I am." Isn't that negation of our existence? We are here and we are you and we are yours. Many of you could be where we are-on the street-but for some simple and not uncommon twist of fate. This is part of your rejection, this fear that it could be you. You deny that reality because it is too horrific to contemplate, therefore you must deny us. And the moneyed reject us because they know they create us, that we are a consequence of their impulse to accumulate more than they need, rooted in a fear of life and the death that comes with it. Nothing good comes of fear, only destruction, and America has become a society of fear, much of that fear cultivated to divide and control.
August 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The police are the ones who told me to go the Walmart parking lot. I park where they instructed. They know I'm here and see me in the same spot every day and night. Chief Gingerella knows who I am, that I have no criminal record, am a professional and productively engaged, am not a threat and keep to myself. When I'm asleep, I'm not visible, and my car is parked among other cars. They know which car is mine and come, and come, and come, systematically robbing me of peace and a sense of well-being.
August 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Live footage of me watching tsitp s3e7. I can’t believe we have to wait another week.
Pedro Pascal looking elated in the top frame. Pedro Pascal looking devastated in the bottom frame.
August 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Man, so much good music.
Album cover for Lauryn Hill’s album The Misedoof Lauryn Hill The album cover of Massive Attack’s Mezzanine Album cover of Tori Amos’ From the Choirgirl Hotel
July 23, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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You’re not off on food deserts. It’s the inspiration. www.bonappetit.com/story/zohran...
BA: One of your campaign platforms is affordable city-run grocery stores. How would that work? Zohran: The inspiration comes from the twin crises of affordability and food deserts. When you speak to New Yorkers—whether they’re making $40,000 or $200,000—you hear about sticker shock they feel when they go into a grocery store to buy the same item that they used to be able to easily afford a few years ago. I also represent Queensbridge Houses, the largest public housing development in all of North America. What I hear from so many of my constituents there is, “Why is it that there are five or six fast food restaurants in a five-block radius, but I can’t find anywhere where I can actually afford to buy groceries?” What this network of municipally owned grocery stores would provide is a guarantee of cheaper groceries and a recognition that food is a non-negotiable for New Yorkers.
June 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Fuckery is afoot, folks.
Screenshot of a text message with the following text: “Priya, public records show you voted in 2023 and 2024. Your neighbor Michael M voted earlier this week, and they voted in both of the past 2 elections. Tomorrow is Election Day - be sure to vote! Find your polling place: https://vote.nyc/page/find-your-poll-site -YourVote, Stop to End” (Election Day is today and not tomorrow.)
June 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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In Prabal Gurung! Perfect.
Diljit Dosanjh in a cream cape, turban and gold trimmed cream suit adorned with jewels by designer Prabal Gurung who is pictured next to him in a cream suit jacket embroidered with pink flowers and black slacks.
May 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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MVP !!!
2025 MVP Josh Allen
February 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Current mood
January 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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As ever, Tressie McMillan Cottom writes something that I really needed to read today. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
Screenshot of Tressie’s newsletter. Quoted: “Trump and other Republicans will likely remember King today the way we have come to expect disingenuous actors to do so: by focusing on “I Have a Dream” and ignoring his dream for fair housing, economic redistribution and anti-imperialism. In that, Trump’s party has something in common with a lot of Democrats who do the same. But that is not the King who can comfort those of us today who are living in the grief of social abandonment, with the anomie of shifting sands beneath our sense of selves. In every crisis there is a disaster, but there is also an opportunity. Maybe this year is a chance to find an opportunity to memorialize the real King, the one who wanted more for us than just self-care.”
January 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Are we on Guam time? Hilarious that this doesn’t mention that it was Trump who enacted the ban in the first place.
A popup window apologizing that TikTok is now down for US users. The text also says “We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok.”
January 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Here are some screenshots. All the flags in the tunnel were covered with plastic. Also wondered about this!
Beyoncé riding on a horse coming down the tunnel, riding past Cadillacs and American flags hung on the walls. All the flags are covered in clear plastic sheeting. Beyoncé riding on a horse coming down the tunnel, riding past Cadillacs and American flags hung on the walls. All the flags are covered in clear plastic sheeting. Beyoncé riding on a horse coming down the tunnel, riding past Cadillacs and American flags hung on the walls. All the flags are covered in clear plastic sheeting. Beyoncé riding on a horse coming down the tunnel, riding past Cadillacs and American flags hung on the walls. All the flags are covered in clear plastic sheeting.
December 27, 2024 at 3:02 AM
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Both the black working class and professional class understood the message. So did other POC in both classes. We can’t measure Latinos, Arabs and Asians as monoliths. Some Latinos and Arabs self ID as white. Until we segment them appropriately we will see where we fell short.
November 10, 2024 at 6:47 PM