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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 2h

💯. Not limited to young women, but it's also not at all surprising that young women in the US might feel particularly powerless right now, when reproductive health, voting rights, higher education, and DEI are under attack....

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 3h

"'Archive' is suffering the same fate as the word curation. If it once added a glaze of authority to an item, it has now been overused to the point of obsolescence." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...

The Word Everyone in Fashion Can’t Stop Using

www.nytimes.com

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 3h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/m...

Diane Keaton’s Unmistakable Look Also Was Key to Her Art

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 10h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 12h

Yet Kid Rock is still triggered by it.

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 19h

Important 🧵!!!

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 23h

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 21h

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22h

Should have been Woody Allen.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Zuckerberg in a previous life, and with A+ codpiece: seated youth painted in 1544 by Georg Pencz, whose day is today.

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 1d

The entire history of fashion illustrates it. Dressing in an intimidating/expensive/sexually provocative way has always been a flex, for men and women alike.

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 1d

As a fashion historian, I will die on this hill: the point of having blue hair and nose rings (or spiky nails or stripper heels or tattoos or an all-black wardrobe) is not to look pretty or cool. It's to look (and feel) powerful--something many young American women crave right now. And it's working.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · Jun 21

Me living in a tropical country as a white guy

"Man, the sun is so hot. A wide-brimmed hat really helps out."

"Loose-fitting clothes are also a must. These light clothes and khakis really breathe."

"This beard is too much here. Better to go clean shaven."

"Oh fuck I've reinvented the outfit"

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 1d

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor

Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 3d

This guy butt-dialed a constitutional crisis. Amazing.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 3d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 3d

I'm old enough to remember when Trump promised to replace the ACA in his 1st term. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

3 years in, no sign of Trump's replacement for Obamacare

As a candidate for the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he would replace President Barack Obama's health care law with a plan of his own that would provide "insurance for everybody."...

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 3d

So many thoughts about hair, image, and identity, tied to my current WIP: pagesix.com/2025/10/08/s...

Timothée Chalamet shocks fans with fresh buzzcut: ‘Grieving his hair’

A fan wrote on X, “Timothée Chalamet is proof that buzz cuts are not for everybody.”

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 3d

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Condé Nast Vows to Not Feature New Animal Fur in Its Content or Advertising

The media company had come under fire by animal rights activists, including some, who protested outside of employees' homes.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 3d

We don't deserve librarians.

Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 3d

This is #BookyMcBookface sailing back from Rousay this afternoon. 💨🌊 #Orkney

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa"

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 4d

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

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