lastyearsgirl

[lastyearsgirl]

You recognize taste when you step into someone’s world and it feels like you’ve been transported ... The effort the person has made to surround themselves with things that they love, they really love, and find beautiful is so clear.

Having Taste - From the Desk of Marlowe Granados

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To put it bluntly, is the best accommodation for you setting limits about how much time you’re willing to spend around people who make you feel like shit?

#1441: “I want to travel with my friends but I’m afraid my brain will ruin my friendships.” – CaptainAwkward.com

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["Young Hearts Spark Fire"] sounded like hearing “Alex Chilton” for the first time and realizing that the Replacements could’ve been an arena-rock act if they truly wanted. Or the time I spun a promo CD of Bleed American in my car and got a speeding ticket by the time “Your House” came on. Or the first time my parents went away for the weekend after I bought a 50-watt amp and I could crank the volume knob past 2. Or just any night in high school where I somehow had access to more than two beers and thought, “It doesn’t get any better than this.”

The Boys Are Leaving Town: The Final Days Of Japandroids

[lastyearsgirl]

Care like aunts who are impelled into altruistic relationships with those with whom we form communities (whether we like it or not), those both near and far, whose discomforts may or may not be ours, including those who don’t agree with us, while we attempt to navigate this human and more-than-human world of porous and penetrated borders.

Tackling The Climate Crisis Like Aunts Rather Than Parents

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You are someone who needs dreams more than you need nice things.

'Why Did No One Tell Me That Life Is So Limited?'

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In the digital age, we often neglect our bodies entirely, and use them merely as a way to transport our heads to meetings.

Your phone is why you don't feel sexy

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AI, no matter how well trained, no matter how much it can simulate the tone of a newspaper, and no matter how many editors you have look over what it spits out, lacks one vital thing that must be present in any ethical journalism: Accountability. It cannot tell you how it made the decisions to write what it wrote, and the editor checking its work can’t tell you either. Therefore AI must be limited to being a tool for journalists to use, rather than a technology that replaces journalists.

Selling Your House For Firewood - by Hamilton Nolan

[lastyearsgirl]

Forget about the horror of being alone and middle-aged — there is nothing more terrifying to a patriarchal society than a woman who is free. That she might be having a better time without permission or supervision is downright insufferable.

Opinion | Men Fear Me, Society Shames Me, and I Love My Life - The New York Times

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I am a 40-year-old woman in America. It’s hard to have fun in life, much less in a movie. Every woman my age I know is exhausted from managing children, unequal partnerships, aging parents, the erosion of our rights, careers where pay gaps still exist, and there is no girlbossing our way out of them. Over the past decade, we voted. Pantsuitted. Pussy hatted. #MeToo-ed. Shouted our abortions. All to end up here, in 2024, in this Temu-brand 2016 redux. It’s enough to make any woman commit an (alleged) murder or walk into the sea. Or hey, why not both? It’s 2024, women can have it all. But only when it comes to tragic endings.

Why Grown-Ass Women Love the Idea of 'The Idea of You'

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The reason I love 1D isn’t because they are so good; it’s because they are so good for me. They are a code sequenced specifically for my DNA, made to produce emotions I really want to feel, thoughts I really want to think. The boys and their fans are a reminder that the intellect does not alone belong to suffering and seriousness but populates girly things just as fully. One Direction reminds me that love, joy, giddiness, even hysteria are crucibles of intelligence.

There Is Only One Direction

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“I think my life gets weirder and less relatable the older that I get,” she says. “So I try to write in a way that’s relatable to anyone with any problem. There’s some universal emotional truth that people can get to the bottom of, even if they don’t understand everything I’m talking about.”

How Waxahatchee Made the Album of Her (Second) Life | Pitchfork

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I got into the band with my whole face, with my whole bad leaking heart, the kind every one of their songs chronicled; a bad leaking heart that was majestic and untrustworthy and slightly off-key, dragging itself desultory and bloated down the sidewalk to another party to drink at the open bar with everybody else’s bad hearts.

Everything Is Embarrassing: On Loving The National

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How many moments would I want back? How many would I do better just by being more awake to them?

Have You Ever: Mammogram Edition - The Offing

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Remember that parchment and her quill pen; her songs are her new testaments. It's a power play, but for many fans, especially women, this ambition to be definitive feels like a necessary corrective to the misrepresentations or silence they face from ill-intentioned or cluelessly entitled men.

Album Review: Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' is written in blood : NPR

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Like a lot of people in their mid-30s, Taylor’s tortured poets feel lost in a future they don’t recognize, instead of the future they spent their 20s training for. In the 2020s, that’s not exactly one pop star’s problem.

Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology' Review

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(via (3) Cassandra Jenkins - Only One (Official Video) - YouTube)

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