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Sep 2023
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Also... PR girls, the Idaho cottagecore fantasy, Victorian book censorship, and fake alien abductions.

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Mina's list:
What Amanda Seyfried Can't Live Without
The Dostoevsky Dash: The Reasons for Dashed Out Information in Literature
Kurtis Conner: Stop Filming Strangers
Abby Cox: We Need to Talk about TikTok's Obsession with Face Reading and its Dark History 
Nose form was shaped by climate
Orange Ya Glad You Didn't Buy That Vitamin C Mask? 
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