Ria Chopra 🐍
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creative overthinker • culture+ gen z+ internet🧚 @Google Youth Advisor 🧠 EIC, Stumble by Kommune 📰Words: The Hindu/Vogue/VICE/BuzzFeed/R29/Indian Exp/Insider+
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Last week, the BBC invited me for a solo segment on Narayana Murthy's "youngsters should work 70 hours for the good of their country" comments. Much of what I had to say has been said already, but there's one important point I wanted to highlight
How many hours is a fair working week?
Software billionaire NR Narayana Murthy says young Indians should be prepared to work 70 hours. Writer
@riachops
says he's "out of touch"
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when someone starts becoming overly active on social media I can tell that they're really going THROUGH it
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Born to chipi chipi chapa chapa, forced to “as I mentioned in my last email…”
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every time I take any flight my partner tracks it and sends me live updates about it even while I'm on airplane mode because I'M ACTUALLY ON THE FLIGHT
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In a hilariously cute accident, my partner & I made a plan to meet at a cafe today, and right before our decided time, both of us texted the other that we would be late.
And then we ran into each other at a florist nearby because we'd both stopped to buy flowers for the other 🥹
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I wanna be such an unapologetic hater but I’m sadly also self aware so when I catch myself hating I immediately go into an introspective spiral of ‘oh what does this say about me?’ and ‘what deep seated insecurity is this stemming from’ and then it’s just Not Fun
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today has been a horrible day of discovering how many people my own age who I thought rational are actually closeted hindutva extremists I've been scrolling through stories like "oh you too?" and now I'm just watching this on loop because I'm glad young people like this exist
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Missing someone is such an absolutely pathetic feeling like why am I daydreaming of you why am I rehearsing our next conversation why am I yearning and looking over the favourited selfies of us in my gallery
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exact second I realized this Rocky Rani song is NOT IT is this moment when Ranveer visibly cringes back to avoid Alia's hair from hitting his face... in a true filmi romance the hero would allow her hair to hit him.... maybe even throw in a deep sniff... this is not my Bollywood
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the last man to invent something great out of love was Josh Wardle inventing Wordle for his girlfriend
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watched Barbie at noon on a Friday in a packed theatre – ON A WORKING DAY!!! – filled with people in pink fits laughing and clapping and then watched Oppenheimer and recognized ten other people from my Barbie show who changed outfits from pink to black this is just incredible
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Happy Diwali to everyone but specially to my mother who let me make this at our front gate
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this white guy on r/india who heard Zara Zara Behekta Hai a decade ago and only phonetically remembers the first two lines and is trying to find what song it is has made my day
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just in case you're afraid of coming off as too deranged or enthu online, please remember that Duolingo got an increase of 20 MILLION daily active users from 2022 to 2023 – a 62% year-over-year increase – just by making their bird go publicly unhinged
Be unabashedly crazy.
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I kept wondering why this actress in Jawan looked so familiar to me and I just realized she's one of the lead vocalists in the legendary Berklee College of Music AR Rahman performances
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Kesariya simply confirms the worrying trend in music where producers put 90% of their effort into a ten second section of the song that's constructed specifically for reels and then do the bare minimum for the rest of the song
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In my school, our Friday uniform was a white skirt. And every Friday there would be girls in the washroom checking their skirts for period stains or trying to wash them off.
I mentioned this to a friend today, and he asked why schools have white skirts at all and... yeah, why?
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being 24 is crazy because ek friend job kar raha hai, ek shaadi kar raha hai, ek vipassana kar raha hai, ek casual relationships kar raha hai, ek masters kar raha hai, aur ek drugs kar raha hai
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Friends, it happened: the uncle who keeps telling my parents they shouldn't have 'allowed' me to study literature or pursue writing and I should've studied business like his son just asked me how much I earn.... And it's more than his son LMFAOO
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currently using the accounts of three different men for netflix, prime, and hotstar, and all I have to do in return is occasionally laugh react to their memes
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Javed Akhtar deserves the literature nobel for rhyming 'New York, LA, San Francisco' and 'Pichhle maheene ki chhabbis ko' to 'Dil mein mere hai dard-e-disco'
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I love how in every Dhoom movie the villain is like lemme take a break from crime and do this one lil banger of a dance performance
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constantly surprises me how way too many men are completely oblivious to the fact that "oh your hand is bigger than mine!!" is a flirtation move
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Karishma Mehta Humans of Bombay behen bhagwaan se toh darr
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Did Harbhajan Singh doing commentary just say that Anushka and Athiya probably don't know much about cricket? Vile
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What nobody tells you about job interviews is that being outgoing, a solid logical thinker, and a discernably good personality will help you land really good jobs much more than any specific knowledge, skill, or qualification
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The most pivotal moment in my quizzing journey was at a quiz in Modern School Barakhamba Road The quizmaster showed us a lady's photo, asking us to identify her. I was the only girl in a room of 500 boys & only I knew it was supermodel Ujjwala Raut. But I didn't answer. (1/10)
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THIS IS A SERIOUS QUESTION how does everyone at garba night know all the steps??! Is there a standard garba dance routine? Do gujjus have secret classes???
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we've let exploitative bosses get too comfortable with publicly admitting to their cruel expectations from employees
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Anyone else oscillate between overworking themselves and doing absolutely nothing at all? Balance is for losers
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one of my favourite details about this poster is how the typography of the title 'LAKSHYA' goes from blurry and weak to clear and bold to showcase Karan's own transformation from being lost and unclear to becoming focused and strong
"It took him 24 years & 18000 feet to find himself" - This was the tagline of the film "Lakshya" that released in 2004.
The film narrates the story of an aimless rich youngster who joins the Indian Army and discovers his true goal!
A thread 🧵
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I’m actually a big fan of pitch invaders because the point they’re making is that hundreds of thousands of people and crores of rupees of media coverage are turned to one sports game than genocide and they just shove that into viewers’ faces as the Palestine supporter did today
everyone is forgetting india was the first non arab country to recognise the state of Palestine this kid was 100% brave and following the country official stance
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hot girls have random unexplainable bruises on their legs
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Thinking of this moment in the latest ep of Koffee With Karan when you can see that Karan is happy for Deepika and Ranveer but is clearly envious of the love they share which is missing in his life. Culturally, we don't discuss envy very often and I found this really touching.
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MUN kids are probably already thinking of Suez Canal crisis committees
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You never really understand why people keep saying 'life goes on' until you're in the absolute worst of times and your shampoo runs out and you realize that the mundanities of life go on with no regard for you. Shampoo runs out, phone bills are due, plants need to be watered.
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Sometimes I'm just chilling and I suddenly remember that the guy who played DJ Frankie Ramdayal in Kal Ho Na Ho is now a swole celebrity fitness coach who goes by the name 'Shivoham'
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had a great time spotting all the art in Glass Onion, but my fav detail has to be Miles (Elon lite) hanging his Rothko upside down - indicating how stupid & clueless about art he is 🤷♀️
left: still from movie, right: the original Rothko No. 207 (Red over Dark Blue on Dark Gray)
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Anil Kapoor, despite his connections, built his whole career off being the relatable everyday Indian man. Meanwhile his kids are Harshvardhan 'pls stop wearing fake sneakers' Kapoor and Sonam 'you need to look like you’re from the pind to be called a good actor' Kapoor.
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Okay I know hating 9 to 5s is in fashion but it's incredible how FUN a regular corporate job can be when you draw your boundaries, have nice colleagues and bosses, and refuse to buy into hustle culture and instead move at your own pace.
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if India's name changes to Bharat then henceforth all IIM Bangalore alumni will be known as bimbos
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I can't believe that couple posted that fake meet-cute story at an Aerocity cafe to go viral here but then internet detectives found their old posts interacting with each other would've sat and plotted like let's script a fake tweet and reply to go viral lmfao it's so silly
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Note to self: anything worth doing is worth doing alone. There is no reason to postpone joy in the hope that we will find someone to share it with. Watch the movie. Go for dinner. Take the trip. Throw the party. Even if it's a party for one. You deserve it <3
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a friend from IIM Calcutta forwarded this to me... This is what the brightest minds in the elite institutions of our country are doing and you know what? I support it
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I'll spend my life chasing the feeling that Scholastic Book Fair days at school used to give me
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Kate Middleton will be reborn as Deepika and Ranveer's baby
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So adult life is basically just you updating your CV till you die?
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sometimes I'm randomly just chilling and I suddenly remember that Anurag Kashyap directed Return of Hanuman and it has songs by Adnan Sami and Daler Mehndi in it
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No nazar lol 🧿 but I was the biggest love-avoiding cynic a few years ago and the way I've grown is both very cringe and very wholesome to me and I wouldn't have it any other way
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Something lesser known about Shaheed Udham Singh, the Indian freedom fighter, is that when he was in London in the 1930s for the revolutionary cause, he took on small roles in two movies as a way to make some extra money – and he even has an actors’ IMDB page because of this!
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my urge to overexplain is crazy like you can call me and instead of saying "sorry im busy let's talk later" I'll be like "sorry I was in a park and a kid tried to do a wheelie on his cycle and fell so I took him home and now I'm having chai w his mom so can we speak in an hour?"
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Lots of discourse about Archies and its young actors, but what really caught my eye was the seriously amazing supporting cast of adults – most of them faces you recognise but don’t remember exactly where from.
Here’s a quick thread on them (with some VERY cool surprises 🤯):
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Current generation of Bollywood stars are so media trained that nobody has any personality left at all. The new kids are practically blank canvases that just... perform, in so far as you could replace one w another. It's safe & marketable, but SO boring for viewers & enthusiasts.
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The SC hearing on legalizing same sex marriage makes it so clear – marrying for love is unfathomable for a large chunk of the Indian conservative population. Marriage is a means to strengthen class and caste hierarchy the 'correct' way & to bear kids. They don't understand love.
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the most wonderful gift of the movement towards meme-ifying bollywood pop culture is the existence of memes like this
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one of my favourite things about Delhi is how you will find pockets of history just around the corner from office spaces, sometimes hidden away and sometimes in plain sight, offering a doorway into our past, taking up their rightful space in this city that has seen seven cities
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Streets are saying Jawan is one of Shah Rukh Khan's most political, powerful, and commercially appealing performances till date... and all the videos of people dancing and celebrating the release are so touching. What a superstar. I can't wait to watch!!!
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The "serving cunt" trend has its own context, but as a culture writer, what's interesting about it to me is that it's clearly part of the larger reclamation of offensive vocabulary into appreciativ and feminist contexts. "Bad bitch" and "slut era" are similar examples. I love it.
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@Bawla_Scientist
I only get them when I land! He tracks the flight and sends them while I'm mid air
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imagine getting hard-to-get reservations for an acclaimed and very very expensive michelin star restuarant and then you go and there's a MasterChef task going on and the blue team serves you undercooked food because two chefs on the team had a fight in the kitchen
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the difference between your early twenties and your mid twenties is that in your early twenties you think weekends are meant to go out and make plans and do stuff but in your mid twenties you realise that weekends are actually for napping all day
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The best part about Laapataa Ladies – other than the performances, music, feel-good factor – is that it is one of the rare social message movies that shows restraint, where characters' wins are still within the realism of their lives, and that makes it that much more impactful.
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I got this notif today and it is yet another piece of evidence for a pet theory of mine: that quiet, seemingly effortless popularity on the internet is the ultimate echelon of fame in a saturated world & will always be hierarchized over try-hard popularity.
Quick theory thread:
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just respond to every indian man shittily partaking in the body count discourse by calling them 'virgin' and when they jump to tell you that ohno they've had sex, ask them how dare they add to a girl's body count if they don't support it
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Love the bit in Deepika Padukone's
@TIME
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the problem is that people on Instagram and LinkedIn pretend to have their lives together while on Twitter we had a tacit understanding that we're all actually mad
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Something that makes me deeply uncomfortable whenever I watch a cricket match telecast is the very creepy and male gaze-y way the camera focuses on female fans. You KNOW what I'm talking about. The way they do it, with the slow-mo and the focus – it's really objectifying.
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take lessons from Delhi Metro Sonam Kapoor
How do you serve cunt in a way supports public transportation?
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a bit of Delhi folklore you didn’t know is that Catlee Momos is actually named after his cat
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every time I watch Dil Dhadakne Do, I am once again blown away by what an absolutely inspired choice it is to have Aamir Khan not just as the voice of the dog, but also the homodiegetic narrator of the whole film – it's so fresh and just elevates the film to a whole new level
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this dog walked up to my bf and rizzed him up and now they’re holding hands???
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bf ji and I went to the zoo and this man insists on calling the crocodile 'Lacoste' 😡😤😒🤨😑 and then he sang Tere Naam to the black bucks 🫢💀
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Orry put me in his story so here’s a thread of some of the references and details I noticed in his appearance on Koffee With Karan, including psychology, art history, and pop culture theories –
Orry is doing a bizzare elaborate piece of performance art it's honestly ridiculously intelligent and meta at so many levels so idk if he's grifting but he's grifting so cinematically that at this point it's art
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Unpopular opinion but I absolutely adore when I go to a restaurant and it's so crowded I can't get a table, or I go to a park and it's so full I don't get a peaceful picnic spot, or when my fav momo wale bhaiyya runs out of chicken momos right as it's my turn to be served...
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The fact that we never questioned the necessity of the white skirts speaks to how women are taught to just accept and deal with such inconveniences.
But really, if your school goes above primary level then you have students who menstruate and you need to take them into account.
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there is an IIT Delhi - IIM Ahmedabad graduate on Kaun Banega Crorepati rn who brought his girlfriend along to the show and they met on a dating app and now Amitabh Bachchan is asking him about it omg
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all my friends moved to different cities and now they have new friends in those cities but I stayed in the same city we grew up in so I didn't make any new friends and now I'm just here waiting for them to come back
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Bollywood videos I watch in full everytime they're on my feed:
1) Juhi Chawla singing Kal Ho Na Ho at Zee Cine Awards 2004
2) Rekha's confidently sassy appearance on Rendezvous with Simi Garewal
3) That compilation of SRK performing Chaiyya Chaiyya over the years
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polite respectful and absolute green flag behaviour from someone's bf in my DMs 🥹 girl u got a good one
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Economists & academics who don't see pop culture as a serious driving force are kidding themselves, btw. Pathaan has revived single screen halls across India. Snapchat stock value fell $1.3 BILLION when Kylie Jenner said she disliked it. ZNMD boosted Spain's tourism by 65%.
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a few years ago I was a love-avoiding cynic who thought romance and long term relationships and love were a bit cringe, and today I spent 3 hours making a 2-minute AP Dhillon-style With You music video lol honestly love is great and will unexpectedly find and utterly change you
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And instead we impose random other dress codes on them – hair length, nails, even bra policing – while not accomodating their most basic needs.
Even adults on their periods avoid wearing white skirts/pants, so why should minors have to do it?
Just keep black uniforms! EASY.
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Orry is doing a bizzare elaborate piece of performance art it's honestly ridiculously intelligent and meta at so many levels so idk if he's grifting but he's grifting so cinematically that at this point it's art
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sometimes all you have as proof of a day well-spent is no photos, <1 hour screen time, and a lightness in your heart
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hi I got laid off from Instagram this morning without any notice, I was the lead product designer responsible for moving buttons around every single week just to try and trick you into clicking on the things I want you to do vs the things you actually want to do
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whoever accidentally gave my number during Mamaearth login here's your OTP also please shop from more trustworthy brands
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I am once again requesting creators of films, shows, books, and other art, to PLEASE have main characters who wear spectacles. It's 2023, and close to half the world's population has glasses. We exist – and not as punchlines, the pre-makeover self, or geeky supporting characters.
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Does anybody else want to be a writer and also a teacher and also study geography and also open a coffee shop and also become a wedding dance choreographer and also do gardening and also design furniture and also become a forensic scientist and also
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My sister got married earlier this year & I wrote about how we tweaked the wedding ceremonies to let me do rituals traditionally (patriarchally) done by brothers. Today I got a DM from a friend who saw my story & got inspired to ask for the same at her own sister's wedding too 🥺
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Life update – Google flew me out to their San Francisco headquarters to participate in a leadership summit! Super duper excited to rep India here (I’m the only Indian chosen for this!!!), present the Indian young populace’s POV, and speak to some of the bigger names in tech 🥹❤️
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resigned from my management consulting job to take up a role I got thru Twitter, drop a W
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This is really the only valid concern we should have about uniforms – the comfort of the child. Imagine kids have to go to the washroom twice, thrice, more times in the day to check if they're staining.
Is this not interrupting their education?
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Not enough people know that the secret to being hot is deciding that you are. It's just that. LITERALLY.
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I JUST WORKED ON AN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM 🤯🥰
A few months ago, I got a call from a European number – it was a film production company, they said they'd 'come across my news journalism work and loved it' (omg???), and they wanted me to be part of…
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