The biggest indicator of a recession is when skinny and business casual make a comeback
How to be demure and modest and respectful at the work place
The question of the week: Are you demure? Are you mindful? Are you a good trans ally????
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And there are so many good ways to be demure.
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Grok, Twitter’s AI chatbot for subscribers, had a new release this week that allowed users to create fairly realistic (if still identifiable as synthetic) images of anything. Truly and literally, anything.
We’re not the only ones who love Chappell Roan: a tweet format going around this week describes who else would have loved seeing a lesbian pop star.
The Bedstuy koi pond, a small puddle around a fire hydrant housing at least 2 dozen fish outside the bar that once was the setting to the worst date I’ve ever had, is going strong.
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Justin Baldoni this, Blake Lively that: this is MY “It Ends With Us” drama.
At dinner last night, a friend asked me what I thought about the popularity of drugs marketed for weight loss like Ozempic. There has been so much discourse on thinness as an increasingly impactful trend in the last few months — but my first thought was this tweet from 2023.
I texted my brother, who works at a big bank as the head of a team of financial advisors, to ask what he thought about thinness being a sign of a recession, or, a term he taught me, a “lagging indicator.” He agreed with the sentiment — the less money people have, the less they can afford to eat — but told me that we’re apparently NOT in a recession. Actually, he says, the US economy has grown a lot in the last year, that I’m just feeling it because our generation in particular is “fucked” financially. Not sure how that’s different, but whatever.
Still, though; maybe it’s not as official as the champagne index, which shows how champagne consumption can indicate a recession, but thinness as a marker of global economic if not societal changes is totally real. Not only are drugs like Ozempic making thin in, but grocery inflation in particular could be another reason this kind of bodily manipulation is trendy.
My final thought on this is that when I took AP Euro as a sixteen-year-old, we learned that fatness was once a sign of wealth in European countries led by monarchies. This, to me, proves my point.
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