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With Sotheby’s reporting that prices range from $15,000 to $35,000, Birkin bags are the must-have accessory for any serious luxury shopper. According to Sotheby’s, demand for the Hermès product has never been higher. Birkin sales were up by 70% in 2025, compared to 2024. Moreover, they’ve nearly doubled since 2023.
In a viral TikTok, user Talissa Benamou (@talissabenamou) shared her Birkin shopping experience with viewers. It’s safe to say that she was taken aback.
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booksandrewduckerAs far as I know Gideon has seen neither anything with Guardians of the Galaxy's Yondu or an Alabama Sheriff, but when we're heading into combat in Zelda he does an amazing impression while yelling his battle cry of "C'mere Boy!"
Edit: Aha! Turns out it's from a school friend!
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When it comes to TV history, trans representation has been historically lacking. While one of the first sympathetic portrayals of a trans character on TV appeared in a 1977 episode of The Jeffersons, the actor playing the character was cis, and this lack of real representation plagued trans roles for decades. In the years to come, trans characters rarely appeared on television, and their portrayal by a trans person was even rarer. Thankfully, things have changed in modern times, and TV and film have entered into a new era of trans visibility. While trans representation still has a long way to go, the trail was blazed by 10 groundbreaking roles — these are some of the most influential trans characters in TV history.
Created by the Wachowskis, Sense8 was a groundbreaking TV show that pushed the boundaries of sexuality and gender. Like the Wachowskis’ earlier film The Matrix, the series served as a parable for the trans experience, featuring one of the most nuanced trans protagonists in TV history. One of eight unrelated people who share a budding psychic connection, Nomi is a trans woman who is in full control of her fate. Unlike many trans characters in TV history, Nomi isn’t a side character or a suffering victim. She has a strong vocation, a healthy love life, and full agency over her own choices. She was one of the first major trans characters on a TV show who not only survives her challenging circumstances, but thrives in them.
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Everyone loves a good money-saving hack. Any dollar saved adds up in this economy. But when do lines the tricks become morally blurred? One woman shares ‘scammiest’ trick she used for three years at T.J. Maxx to score the items she wanted for a lower cost by using the return stystem to her benefit.
“The smartest and also scammiest thing I ever did at a T.J. Maxx was when I would bring things from other T.J. Maxxes in the state and consolidate them to my T.J. Maxx,” Massachusetts TikTok creator Jackie Reinhart (@jackrein316) tells over 95,000 viewers before clarifying.
conulyselkiI enjoyed this book over a decade ago and went to hear the author, Helen Simonson, talk about it back then at the Bethesda library. The part I remember most is she wanted to put an elephant in it (the big banquet scene) and her editor said no. Sometimes editors are right. Anyway, I have a hold on the audiobook but it's a 6-week wait. If I have to, I'll get the ebook from Libby, or the print book from the library, to refresh my memory. I may not come up with my own questions this time, since there are two reasonable discussion guides online (I don't agree with the assumptions in all of them, but they're reasonably phrased and can spur discussions either way).
the_shoshannasiriasheafrotherdon for betaing.oursinThings happen over a long term.
Things that look at the time like a failure or even a disaster may be sowing seeds or releasing spores and having an impact that will go on.
Or even have a counter-intuitive impact at the time: okay, The Well of Loneliness got convicted for obscenity in 1928 but 1000s of women realised they were not alone just from reading the reports in the newspapers, and 1000s of them wrote to Radclyffe Hall.
Just because something does not endure does not endure does not mean it had no influence.
Am currently reading book by a friend which makes quite a thing of long-term impact of small obscure organisations of early C20th I worked on.
Was a piece in Guardian Saturday today which doesn't appear to be yet online which was doing the ever-recurrent WO about 'I see no feminists' and I wonder what they expect them to look like and perhaps they are supposing something flashy and dramatic, which can be appropriate at times. But the work is not necessarily drawing attention to itself.
Further thought: I was a bit irked to see this: Lifeline is both a musical following Alexander Fleming’s discovery of the first antibiotic and a warning about the threat of superbugs in the present day, because the Fleming narrative erases the immense amount of work that Florey, Chain and Heatley had to put in to make pencillin actually viable.
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