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Kayla's avatar

A free newsletter from Ochuko?! Name a better way to start the week.

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

I try my best 😉

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Kylie's avatar

someone plz help my tired millennial ass remember the difference between alix earle & alex cooper bc I honestly can never get it straight 😅

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emma's avatar

Cooper = call her daddy / unwell / is married to Matt Kaplin

Earle = does tiktok / is associated with the unwell company

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

Thank you for your service

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emma's avatar

I gotchu <3

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

And Alix Earle has a podcast produced by Alex coopera company unwell

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

Haha girl for a while I didn’t know the difference either

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Emi Ruff's avatar

Re: fur, I feel like being made of dead animals explains the appeal. If the contemporary economy is forcing us all to basically operate like hunter-gatherers, scrounging up whatever resources we can out of its hellscape, then why not play along with it? While the actual practice of wearing farmed mink is anti-Paleolithic, the image of wearing pelts definitely is.

Also thanks for surfacing Kyla Scanlon's article! Adding that to my essay TBR and bumping it to the top!

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

Gosh I love when my readers think of things I never could!

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Emi Ruff's avatar

Well it helps to read a newsletter full of interesting ideas about the world, and yours is truly one of the best!

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Ruth Cooper-Dickson's avatar

British tabloids 🤦‍♀️ honestly they could have run a million different stories.

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

They always chose violence 😂

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kiran raphael's avatar

🔥🔥🔥 as always. I feel like Idris as James Bond needs to happen…

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

Gosh it’ll never happen now

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michal's avatar

amazing round up - and couldn’t agree more with ASAP and Tate McCrae sections lmao

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

Glad you agree. There’s a way to spon con and there’s a way not to got it

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Natalie McGlocklin's avatar

i chuckled because my husband drinks Celsius and I drink Alani and never the two shall meet

also i hope none of that funding goes towards Flowers publishing another book 👀I said what I said

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

Wait I’ll admit I’m kind of obsessed with that show. My bf hates it he thinks I’m crazy. What’s your beer with her ?

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Natalie McGlocklin's avatar

Never listened to the podcast(or maybe like one episode I can’t really remember)! Her novel was poorly written and shoved full of tropes

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Jenovia 🕸️'s avatar

Every time I see Crime Junkies anything, I hear Ashley saying “full body chills”. I listened to Crime Junkies a lot in 2019/2020 (pandemic days) but stopped shortly after. The growth is WILD! Had no idea she wrote a book…

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

The growth is wild. And I can hear it in her voice too 😂

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Natalie McGlocklin's avatar

It is… not good 😵‍💫😬

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Pandora Sykes's avatar

Honestly, it’s only going to get more with the spread of Ozempic. I do think the skinny coverage is as rife in the States tho as it in the UK—potentially more so, the National Enquirer, People, US Weekly, all love to talk about weight

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

I agree. I think no one does it like Daily Mail though. It’s wild. But low key they are saying what everyone is thinking 👀

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Emma Gannon's avatar

Wondering what As Seen On peeps make of this news: https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/media/edward-enninful-launches-media-and-entertainment-company/ I'm so intrigued to see what he'll do next!

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

Wrote about this last week! I have no idea. But he’s such a creative genius I think it’ll be great

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Emma Gannon's avatar

you're so ahead of the game! yes snap, super intrigued

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Emmanuella Chisom James's avatar

Free newsletter?😭 oh so Christmas came early. I spent yesterday just going through your old posts that are still free cuz I missed it. I’m happy that you’re getting paid for your writing because you’ve more than earned it but this is a gift to me 😭🙏

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

Send me a message and I’ll comp you! Thanks for your support so glad you enjoy them :)

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Emmanuella Chisom James's avatar

Omg 🥹🥹🥹🥹

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Isabella C's avatar

Am I the only one who thinks wearing vintage fur is far preferable to faux fur (i.e., plastic)? Even when I was a vegetarian I would wear my mom’s vintage furs 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

Agree. Also I’m not sure there’s a way for fake fur to look good 🥹

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Pandora Sykes's avatar

No I’ve heard quite a few people say this! Particularly those who work in fashion

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Larissa's avatar

yes, I understand that this is the appeal/reason for the resurgence of vintage fur.

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Detours with Valentina's avatar

Why are court room looks always the chicest… and ASAP has convinced me to invest in raybans again

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

He’s already earning his keep 😎

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alison's avatar

quick math on the return to office raise shows you basically are breaking even (assuming you drive to the office)

$36/day for parking * 4 days/week * 42 weeks (assuming generous PTO, sick leave, and holidays) =$6,048 which is probably about what you net after taxes. math may be a little difference if you are somewhere with good public transit, or if you like to buy your lunch at the office. but interesting to consider that this is more just the cost of RTO rather than a true raise.

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

Love your thinking. Love your math even more. I’m sure those offices were crunching some numbers too. Better than companies that offer nothing though

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alison's avatar

def! breaking even is better incentive than being in the red!

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Kate Whalen's avatar

The way I almost spit out my tea when I read your Facebook thoughts lol

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

But am I wrong? 😂

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Kate Whalen's avatar

Not at all

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Katie Stone's avatar

noooooo not noosphere

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Ochuko Akpovbovbo's avatar

Dead on arrival

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Ivy's avatar

I think the fur pendulum is swinging back because there's been enough environmental pushback on vegan leather (plastic) and it's starting to extend to faux fur (small plastic tubes that shed). I think it's also tied into the Old Money and Quiet Luxury aesthetics and Slow Fashion movement and people are starting to want The Real Thing when they can get it because it is a status symbol (I'm wearing real fur AND I'm saving the environment by not shopping plastic fast fashion). There's a weight and shine and movement to fur that plastic can't replicate. Plus it holds up better over time and feels luxurious.

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