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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 6h

Gorgeous! Pinning it on Google Maps!

Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 14h

Oh that's spectacular. Look at that light, all clear and soft and warm. Where did you take these pics? I want to live inside them!

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 15h

Honestly, it really might be. And I've read Outliers.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 16h

It does not feel super-great, as a Maine lefty voter, to have to decide between the septuagenarian pensioner and the Blackwater mercenary guy. I really do not want any a dis.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 16h

Oh god, I remember being on the third bunk of the Xian-to-Urumqi train with only an epidemiological history of HIV to read. The endless rattling, the constant squawking loudspeakers, and the guy in the bunk under me farting lavishly for days.

I survived it. I passed the test. I fear nothing now.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 16h

The ironic thing is that this piece has gone wildly viral despite the fact that it is the purest nonsense. It's part of a rebranding campaign by Lay's. The survey they cite? It doesn't exist. It’s a PR sleight-of-hand to get free publicity.

We all think we can see through bullshit. We can't.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 17h

This is simply exquisite. A perfect example of the dynamic, refined down to its purest essence. It makes me want to do actual murder.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 1d

Inter-generational warfare is the enemy of progress! Cherishing your annoying Boomer AND obnoxious Zoomer comrades is an act of resistance!!

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 1d

To be British is to be embarrassed at all times, so honestly, you're in excellent company. No country on earth is more excruciatingly aware of the myriad flavours of queasy self-consciousness.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 1d

Incorrect, they are both perfect!!!

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 1d

"I spoke with your tailor." Absolute chills. Horror movie shit.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 2d

Like, I now have opinions about tweed. I've never in my life worn tweed, but by god, I read his 17-post thread about Harris tweed, and now I'd smear myself with blood and go full berzerker-mode to protect those weavers and their beautiful dumb sheep.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't been paying close attention lately, so I only had the fuzzy impression that Platner was saying things I like to hear. We're all so starved for politicians with a backbone that we're instantly imprinting on the first plausible body with a pulse, but this guy has Fetterman Trajectory vibes.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't know this about Platner, and let me tell you, it was a hugely dismaying google search. A real bad time.

I'm pretty pragmatic when it comes to candidates, but time spent as Blackwater merc is a no for me, dog. Excuse me, an Xe merc--sorry, Academi merc--whoops Constellis merc--ah shit wait,

Democrats In Array Thanks Joe Biden @demsinarray.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone who told you to support John Fetterman in that primary, is now telling you to support an ex-Blackwater mercenary with no voting record in the Maine primary.

When are you going to catch on?

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure how catastrophic amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere helps our cause, but ok.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 2d

Oh man, I loved this one. Others of my generation were radicalized by Newsies, but Lyddie was my gateway drug to workers' rights. I decided, age 9, to live a life of the grossest moral turpitude.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta hold the line against slop. We can't be vaporizing the planet with data centers just so a dinky app can regurgitate a frog.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 3d

When the world changes, as it eventually will, I can't wait to read the definitive book on what the fuck has been going on at the NYT in the last 10 years.

It’s always been imperfect but this craven capitulation has been genuinely astonishing and I WANT THAT DIRT. I want vengeful staffers to SPILL.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 3d

It's honestly a genius move by PepsiCo's marketing dept. They're launching a big new Lay's rebrand and want media coverage, so they include this nonsense survey and the media loves shitty clickbait.

And here I am, clicking on it because I love to feel smart and superior. We're fucking chumps.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody. Literally nobody! It's a PR fiction to make people write clickbait articles about Lay's new rebranding campaign. PepsiCo's entire marketing team deserve raises!

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 3d

There's just nothing to back this up beyond Lay's marketing machine. It's just thin, credulous PR regurgitation by Fortune and the WSJ. Go look for yourself, it's wild.

Feels like the real story here is the corporate PR capture of journalism. We all love feeling superior, so we lap this shit up.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 3d

It seems like a completely unsourced factoid, though? I can't find any info on who they surveyed, or any data at all that actually backs it up.

People are extremely, impressively dumb, so it might be true. But it could also just be made-up nonsense?

"A 2021 survey found that 42% of consumers didn’t know Lay’s were made out of the spuds."

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 4d

I don't understand why female singers today have to show so much skin. In my da-[GUNSHOTS]

Josephine Baker in a feathers and jewels and nothing else.

Poster for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe wearing sequined leotards, evening gloves, top hats and high heels.

Diana Ross in a shimmery magenta body suit, looking divine.

Cher in a strategically tattered satin and sequinned bodysuit. It is the most gloriously 1980s look you can possibly imagine.

Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 4d

Such a good suggestion. Bialys are a great way to secretly unlock the bagel source code without the terrible pressure that comes with attempting actual bagels.

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Adriana Hightower @adrianahightower.bsky.social · 4d

This is indisputably true. No matter how nimble and experienced your fingers, no matter how fine and flaky your pie crust or how delicate your layers of strudel, you will still only ever produce, at best, an indifferent croissant.

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