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@jugoslavska
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embroidered map of Kashmir on a cashmere shawl, 1870s
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horses crossing a river in Iran, photographed by Eydi Heydari
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reading perfume reviews
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10 months
will you still love me when I’m no longer young and avant-garde?
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@jugoslavska
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2 years
men who are constantly deactivating their twitter accounts are honorary latinas
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@jugoslavska
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2 months
packing for my move has commenced
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@jugoslavska
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2 years
@ihcarama can’t believe celebrities also eat food…she’s just like me fr
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@jugoslavska
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3 months
@altmadaf this is the sort of thing the goth girl at my middle school who pretended to have schizophrenia for clout would do
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@jugoslavska
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@modrnluvr having a long alphabetical list of semi-obscure bands on your myspace was so important
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@jugoslavska
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2 years
sorry, I can’t hang out, I have to watch a 7 hour long Hungarian film
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@jugoslavska
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3 months
I am utterly fascinated by sibling pairs where one is a total normie who met their spouse during orientation week their first year of university and the other is a weirdo with a bunch of niche interests who struggles to find meaningful connection
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@jugoslavska
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woman selling carnations in Portugal, 1985
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@jugoslavska
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1 year
always feel a wave of calm wash over me whenever this appears on the tl…thank you, Paul Klee
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@jugoslavska
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1 year
19th century bridal dress from Bulgaria
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@jugoslavska
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2 months
I live here now, if you look out the windows you can see cherry blossoms beginning to bloom
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@jugoslavska
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1 year
some Egyptian hieroglyphs for you on this first day of May
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@jugoslavska
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11 months
this era of extremely loud music playing everywhere can only be followed by several decades of complete silence
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@jugoslavska
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6 months
starbucks defenders will never know the joy that a spiced chocolate doughnut and nutmeg espresso fizz from your favorite neighborhood coffee shop can bring
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@jugoslavska
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happened upon an alleyway full of very cramped, very charming used bookstores
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@jugoslavska
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only a fool would say that spring isn’t their favorite season
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@jugoslavska
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1 year
you used to be able to move to any major city and within a week have 10 friends who share your artistic or literary vision, but now cities are filled with normies whose engagement with the arts doesn’t extend beyond selfie museums and Van Gogh immersive exhibits
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@jugoslavska
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8th or 9th century depiction of Manichaean priests writing manuscripts in the now extinct Sogdian language, from present-day Xinjiang, China
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@jugoslavska
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me and my mutuals this fine Monday
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@jugoslavska
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this is what I think I look like today
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@jugoslavska
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1 year
Sontag Sunday, swan latte art Sunday
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1 year
Pound / Pennsylvania German fraktur
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@jugoslavska
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10 months
Kazakh felt wool
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@jugoslavska
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a curious choice to translate what literally means “my little dove” as simply “my dear” in the subtitles of this Russian film, personally I think English speakers could benefit from exposure to more interesting terms of endearment
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4 months
Dagestan, 1991 (photographed by Kamil Chutuev)
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@jugoslavska
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1 year
Morena is a Slavic goddess associated with winter and death — as winter turns into spring, people burn or drown her in effigy to guarantee a good harvest and welcome Vesna, the goddess of spring
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@jugoslavska
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7 months
I’m not autistic but I had an overbearing mother who discouraged most forms of normal teenage socializing and now I’m stuck with you freaks
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@jugoslavska
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Paris is actually underrated if you walk around it with an open mind and no set plan instead of being an npc who has to see the Eiffel Tower and expects every storefront to be a boulangerie
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@jugoslavska
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the fact that there’s only one photo of Rimbaud is part of his allure, but of course the AI dimwits could never understand this
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Arthur Rimbaud, shot by a street photographer named E. Balthazar in 1873
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@jugoslavska
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coffee shops should stay open until 10pm so I can have a quiet place to read without feeling like a recluse
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@jugoslavska
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2 years
Eastern Europeans were not built to work, we were built to waste away the day while smoking inside a cafe and arguing about events that happened 50 years ago at 120 decibels
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@jugoslavska
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interior of a darbazi, a type of underground dwelling with wooden roof found in the southern regions of Georgia 🇬🇪
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@jugoslavska
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jokingly posting “le wokisme really c’est une religion 😞” on instagram and getting blocked by everyone who only reads infographics and Rupi Kaur
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@jugoslavska
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tweeting now feels like shoving a message into a bottle and throwing it into the ocean after I’ve reached Ellis Island, naively hoping it will somehow reach the impoverished but strikingly handsome dockworker I briefly met while waiting to board my ship from Ireland
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@jugoslavska
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Sapovnela (1959, dir. Otar Iosseliani)
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@jugoslavska
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Rome is extremely entry-level as far as empire obsession goes, a truly interesting man thinks about the Golden Horde or Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a daily basis
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@jugoslavska
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9 months
Chilean used bookstores: philosophy, history, theology, literature, poetry American used bookstores: somebody’s dead grandmother’s James Patterson collection
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4 months
I do not have any “comfort movies” because it is not comfort that I crave
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you will never achieve beauty through consumerism
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1 year
did your mother teach you to tweet and delete?
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the latest addition to my souvenir postcard collection
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@jugoslavska
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figs stuffed with goat cheese and drizzled with honey 🍯
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we are so unbelievably back
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@jugoslavska
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3 months
the thing about Virginia Woolf is that she so perfectly encapsulates through her writing, the interior lives of women. it’s why we all can't stop reading. we’re all saying, "wait you felt that way? we were all feeling this way?" do men have someone like that?
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10 months
a single scoop of baklava ice cream, please
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9 months
two Kandinsky pieces for you
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would you all still like me if I became a horse girl?
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@jugoslavska
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6 months
it’s not easy being the only person at this coffee shop who isn’t afraid of whole milk, but somebody has to do it!
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getting really into German ‘80s electronic music cassette graphic design
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now reading…sorry, Pagliaheads!
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this is the only “theory” some of you should be reading
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1 year
consolation pistachio and raspberry cake from the Azerbaijani bakery
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1 year
this is how I see myself when I read in the evening
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rough draft that might actually end up being a final draft
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felt carpet from Ingushetia (photograph by Svetlana Bulatova) — the Ingush word for felt is “isting”, from “istiy” which means “women”
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1 year
I need a friend who lives overseas and only communicates with me via handwritten letters that take weeks to be delivered
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8 months
I was very pretentious in my youth and then became painfully self-aware and lonely to the point of embracing pop culture as a way to connect with people, but lately pop culture has debased itself so much that I have no choice but to go back to the old me
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a downcast day is a perfect opportunity to visit a picturesque cemetery
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“Attic” (Edward Weston, 1921)
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found on the ground
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men used to rob banks to pay for their lovers’ medical expenses
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@synanthropy it’s not Dubai but I’ve been seeing a ton of librarian job postings in Doha the past couple months and I’m tempted to join the librarian exodus to the Gulf states
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absolutely huge morning for me (finally tracked down the name of this cafe and antiquarian bookshop I stumbled upon in Paris that doesn’t show up on google maps)
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two Bedouin couples from the al-Naqab desert in southern Palestine, date unknown
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imagine what places like this would look like if the concept of “instagrammable” didn’t exist
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The coolest new bar is now open in Midtown. Hidden Gem by the owners of Golden Gems is a disco dive bar. Love everything about this spot. Excited to go dance and try the cocktails!
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last night was a Soviet silent film
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gm 5’ 7” Slavic brunette twitter
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greetings from the Armenian mystic art exhibit
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I’ve spent months looking for the perfect woodsy cherry perfume…could this be the one…?
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Eastern Europeans eat like this and live to 200 years old
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Eastern Europeans eat like this and live to 200 years old.
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gm Europeans, let’s get this bread
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8 months
I don’t understand when people on here are like “oh you’re in my city? and what do you expect me to do with that information?” because I will hang out with anyone anywhere, few people are as dedicated to hanging out as I am
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it’s cruel and mean-spirited to discourage a younger person from pursuing their dreams and desires simply because nothing you wanted at their age came to fruition
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certain people are like “I can’t post about the last safe zone in Gaza being bombed because I prefer to treat my social media as an art gallery that I curate” but the art gallery isn’t even any good!
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I have a feeling that s*bst*ck will be OUT for 2024 and blogspots run by anonymous writers will be back IN
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decorating my apartment in Washington, DC like the interior of a steppe nomad’s yurt
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I found out Kissinger died while Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO was playing in the background
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@jugoslavska
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too busy making candles to tweet (left is red plum baklava, almond, and honey; right is Moroccan cashmere and honeysuckle jasmine)
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you could also be smart and well-read if that was actually what you wanted!
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going to start vaguely referring to “my ex-husband” in conversation with new people to create a sense of intrigue and mystery, hinting at a wildly different life left behind
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@jugoslavska
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I will never understand or be understood by people who lack the drive to dig deeper into the goings on of the world
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8 months
at a wine bar/bookstore where all the furniture is for sale…
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a lot of you would be happier if you ate a couple slices of warmed up brioche slathered with butter and jam
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I am not “buying books faster than I read them”, I am crafting a substantive private library that I will immerse myself in upon retirement from the workforce
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many of you would enjoy the crêpe restaurant I went to in Bosnia last fall that also had a cigarette menu
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post-rain pine rose
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mentally I’m laying down on the couch that appears on every wikipedia page pertaining to psychoanalysis
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1950s tapestry with a map of Czechoslovakia
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azalea shrub in my neighborhood — receiving a bouquet of its toxic flowers in a black vase was once considered a death threat
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plum cake with streusel topping by me / poem by June Jordan
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some of you have never met an introspective introvert with a quiet but unquenchable zest for life
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1 year
the infiltration into academia of people who think they’re there to “love radically” and “tear down hierarchies” while refusing to critically engage with the texts that influenced these ideas — this is exactly why I no longer want to go through the process of getting a PhD
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what my father is currently reading, from 1942
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Midsummer Bonfires (Hugo Simberg, 1906)
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born to be a court jester, forced to be a “young professional”
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