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Kate Power/Midlife Skin
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Handcrafted luxury skincare designed for women who want to feel good in their skin without compromising their values📍PNW Shop now at midlifeskin.com
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It’s so stressful but I liked it!
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Food is a right, not a privilege.

We know many members of our reading community, including our bookselling partners, will be impacted ❤️ Here's how to help, and where to find help. ⁠
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Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?
Ah yes, violent behavior from men famously always peters out.
Hey fuck this
"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office
Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.
www.washingtonpost.com
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What sets us apart from Audible? Let us count the ways:

📚 Every purchase supports your indie bookshop
💗 Employee-owned, Certified B Corp, & Social Purpose Corporation
📖 DRM-free (you own your audiobooks)
🤖 Bookseller driven, not algo driven (& our customer support team = real people, not robots)
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Hoo boy, yep
Aging is so complicated. I grew up with a mom who was obsessed with her body. Always too fat too wrinkled too saggy too pale (and a total knockout, so yeah).

Trying to make peace with my face as it changes and embrace and love it while that voice still lingers, shaming me for showing time.
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Ooh, I’d love some pod recs! Are you familiar with You Must Remember This?
The placement of his hands is uh, very specific for two coworkers not romantically involved
I’m doing a rewatch with my teenager and man I did not appreciate Ackles enough the first time through.
Buy Me Japan isn’t shipping to the US which means I’m going to be forced to use US sunscreen. 😭
Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc.

www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...
‘It's Just a Mess:' 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby
"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."
www.404media.co
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If you want to get your sea legs on mutual aid, one thing you can do is throw a 24 pack of water and some individually packaged nonperishable snacks in your trunk and just keep your eyes open.

Pulling over and offering water to a person in distress can be a much bigger help than you realize.