Lauren Chilly (she/her)

DFW ➡️ ROC ➡️ PHL. Garbage plates and cheesesteaks.

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@Melenricc @rachelhartter Wait what

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*nerd wheezing intensifies*

[A.R. Moxon 🦋 @JuliusGoat]

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread:

Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

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@Melenricc 😂

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@Gryfen_Z @Red_flag37 So sad I have been planning a Buffalo and burbs foodie weekend for like a YEAR. I don’t want to go to a subpar Teds location dammit

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@Gryfen_Z @Red_flag37 NO

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@Gryfen_Z I mean I think that’s got to be a shared requirement for sure! 😂

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@Melenricc I love to hear it

[emily freeman @editingemily]

It’s my birthday. I’m 37 and I have some things I’d like to share, in no particular order.

1. No one thinks about you more than you do. That thing from two years ago that keeps you up at night? No one else remembers. Honor the memory and let it go.

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@Melenricc Is this an experiment? THE POD how will we live without the pod?

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@Melenricc Wait WHAT

[Dont Show Your Cat @DontShowYourCat]

containment breach

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@AjMurray21 There was a good series called Fatal Frame for PS2 that had some good jump scares spooky shit too. Not sure if that series was on your radar!

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is a side by side of two women gracing the front covers of two well known magazines.

The one on the right we all know is Martha Stewart, age 81. The one on the left is Apo Whang-Od, age 106, a tribal tattooist in a remote province in the Philippines.

There seems to be an unwritten rule which equates beauty with youngness. In an interview, Martha Stewart told the reporter she credits her organic, home-grown, farm-to-table eating, yoga, and actively healthy lifestyle to her youthfulness. While that’s an admirable journey for her, let’s not forget the amount of privilege that kind of lifestyle requires.

On the left is Apo Whang-Od, who is a 106-year-old tribal tattooist in the Philippines. The wisdom she carries in every forehead wrinkle and frown line is stunning. Her eyes are glass, reflecting back all that she’s witnessed over a century of lived experiences. Her tattoos a reminder of the ancestors she seeks to honor.

Both women are beautiful in their own right. But I wish we as women didn’t play into this idea that we have to look younger—and thinner—in order to fit some unrealistic beauty standard which will grant us acceptance and relevance in the world around us.

I’m writing this for any woman who, like me, may have had a punched-gut reaction to seeing an octogenarian in a swimsuit on the cover of a magazine looking more like a woman in her forties or fifties: Anti-aging is not a beauty standard.

There IS beauty in wrinkles, and saggy skin, and drooping breasts. These are markers of a life hard fought for and well lived. It seems odd to try and erase these battle scars.

So while I applaud Martha for her fortunate body, carefully curated procedures, and pristinely styled makeup, I also applaud Whang-Od for what others may perceive as imperfections.

Anti-aging is not a beauty standard.
Authenticity is.

@ FeministNews

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I just. Need this.

Especially rn bc I can’t have carby foods (thanks gd)

@Melenricc bring me a bag when you visit the bebe in the fall pls? 🥹

[Regional American Food @RegionalUSFood]

Salt potatoes (Syracuse, NY)

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Woke my husband up SCREAMING in pain because of a calf cramp. He wasn’t even mad, just tried to get me to breathe and massaged it for what felt like a solid two minutes. A saint of a man.

Me? Still limping-waddling and whining aggressively this morning.

How’s your Friday? 🫠

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@_annalachimia On the bright side tho it might get better at 9 when a bunch of people drop to go watch Succession 🤷🏼‍♀️

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@_annalachimia Seriously I haven’t rage tweeted like this in a hot minute

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Sooo @netflix can I get account sharing back as pain & damages for wasting 40 mins waiting for #LOVEISBLINDreunion? I gotta get my sis @Melenricc access back

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Yeahhhh cannot believe @netflix did not plan for a spike in viewers for the #loveisblind reunion 🤦🏼‍♀️