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These yoga bubbles are a cool way to workout in a group while still having your own personal space
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Girl Scout cookie season is upon us. But
@girlscouts
, and the women who lead their troops during cookie season, say that the organization's tradition of face-to-face sales is increasingly accompanied by customer harassment. 👇
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When the Queen died at the age of 96, Mackechnie's photograph became her last official portrait.
He photographed the Queen on three separate occasions, which is how the opportunity came about.
Her Majesty The Queen, the first Monarch in British history to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee.
To mark the beginning of the
#PlatinumJubilee
Celebration Weekend, a new portrait of The Queen has been released.
📷 Ranald Mackechnie
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Fearless women in Afghanistan are taking real risks as Gen Z influencers on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
While their country is still at war, they've earned reputations as tastemakers who are sought out by business owners for their marketing power. 👇
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From 5-year-old Daisies to 16-year-old Senior Scouts, girls are often forced to bear angry tirades from adults who want to lecture them about healthy eating, moan about price hikes, or rant about the group's rumored (and false) link to Planned Parenthood.
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The weirdest book in the world — that no one can read — just turned 40.
Italian artist Luigi Serafini gives
@thisisinsider
a look inside the 40th anniversary edition of his beautifully bizarre Codex Seraphinianus. ⬇️
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In 2015, Mackechnie photographed the Queen with her next three heirs — Charles, Prince William, and Prince George.
He said he captured the family members for a set of stamps that were released for the Queen's 90th birthday.
.
@RoyalMail
celebrates
#Queenat90
with a specially commissioned Stamp Sheet of 4 generations of the Royal Family
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Meghan Markle is not only a duchess, but also a princess — and royal experts say that won't change thanks to Prince Harry
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Kara Rubinstein Deyerin grew up thinking she was biracial. When an at-home DNA test proved otherwise, she was shocked.
This was the case for her and several people who took these at-home DNA tests, discovering they'd been wrong about their race. 👇
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They dreamed of long careers at Disney World. Then the pandemic hit, and the theme park furloughed 43,000 employees.
One year later, these “cast members” are still mourning the careers they were building at “the most magical place on Earth.”
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Other parents say girls have been harassed for a different issue beyond their control: the use of palm oil. Widely used in commercial baked goods, the oil is controversial because its production can lead to deforestation and disrupt endangered species.
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A recent post about cookie-seller harassment in a popular Facebook parenting group netted more than 100 replies, with dozens of stories from troop leaders and other adult volunteers about what their Scouts endured.
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These collapsible furniture pieces are perfect for small spaces
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Taylor Swift’s latest album, “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” has finally been released.
We take a look at the backstory behind Swift’s decision to re-record her Grammy-winning 2008 album and what it means for her legacy.
[Thread] 👇
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A royal photographer who was close to Princess Diana told Insider that Prince William and Kate Middleton are the "best thing" to happen to the monarchy.
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Millennials are painted as young, frivolous 20-somethings who love selfies and spend too much money on avocado toast. 🥑
However, the oldest millennials enter middle age this year.
Here's what life looks like for the typical 40-year-old millennial. ⬇️
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Mackechnie's next portrait of the Queen, taken in 2019 and released in 2020, showed the monarch posing again with Charles, William, and George in Buckingham Palace to mark the start of a new decade.
📸 To mark the start of a new decade, a portrait has been released of Her Majesty The Queen and Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George.
The portrait was taken by Ranald Mackechnie in the Throne Room at Buckingham Palace.
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When Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Platinum Jubilee, she released a new portrait to mark the occasion.
It was taken by photographer Ranald Mackechnie to celebrate her 70-year reign. He told
@thisisinsider
how it came to be. 👇
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Then it was time for Harry and Markle's royal wedding in May 2018. William was his brother's best man.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's eldest son, Prince George, was a page boy, while their daughter, Princess Charlotte, was a flower girl.
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this DIY mini boat can be your next DIY built entirely at home
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On February 3,
@OonaHanson
, a scouting parent, tweeted a reminder to cookie shoppers not to make weight-related comments to Scouts. The tweet received hundreds of replies, many from adult women commenting on their similar experiences.
PSA for those buying Girl Scout cookies:
Please do not make comments about weight gain or joke that you can't have Thin Mints in the house or talk about your low-carb diet or yell at the girls for "poisoning" people.*
*actual things said to elementary school girls
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🥃 There's no doubt about it: 2021 was hard, and a lot of people coped with alcohol.
After lower participation in the "Dry January" movement last year, here's why millennials and Gen Z could bring it back for 2022. 👇
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2021 ended on a dark note, as the Omicron wave washed over the holiday season, but the start to 2022 is brighter: it's purple. 💜
Here's how the color could define a generation. 👇
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In the new
@Netflix
show "Sex, Love, and Goop," two women undergo sexological bodywork for different sex concerns.
When practiced ethically, other sex and relationship experts support the practice.
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This is how entire buildings are moved to new locations
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In interviews with Scouts, Scout leaders, and parents, no form of cookie-related harassment appears to be more pervasive than that related to the healthfulness — or lack thereof — of the product.
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Heavy rain flooded this Brazilian trail, creating a life-size aquarium 🐟
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28 of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's best couple looks
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Other celebrities weighed in on the feud, including Kelly Clarkson, who suggested Swift re-record her old music and distribute it with new art and an incentive for fans to purchase the new music.
@taylorswift13
just a thought, U should go in & re-record all the songs that U don’t own the masters on exactly how U did them but put brand new art & some kind of incentive so fans will no longer buy the old versions. I’d buy all of the new versions just to prove a point 💁🏼♀️
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A husky café in Thailand lets you enjoy cake and coffee with 23 pups
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Musk is said to live in the Casita, the company's $49,500 375-square-foot unit.
Think of it as an energy-efficient studio apartment in a box.
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Harassment of Girl Scouts is inextricable from the larger issue of sexism in American culture, parents and troop leaders say.
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Middleton and William were asked to pose in baby Archie's official christening photo in July 2019 — but it would be the last time the couples were photographed together for four months.
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American-born Julie Montagu who is known by the title Viscountess Hinchingbrooke, told Insider that her experience of aristocratic life is "radically" different to what is portrayed on popular TV shows such as "Bridgerton."👇
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A 16-year-old pilot is flying medical supplies out to rural hospitals in Virginia that desperately need them
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.
@thisisinsider
explores how the relationship between Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton, and Prince William has changed over time — and how it’s still evolving following the death of the Queen. 👇
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A cobbler demonstrates how to get the scuff off your Louboutins
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Holding national office in the United States comes with more than political power.
Here's a look at the perks and lavish pads of US presidents, plus what their personal lives looked like before and after. 👇
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Presidents earn a $400,000 salary while in office. They also get access to:
✈️ A personal plane
🍽 Food prepared by talented chefs
🏡 $100,000 for redecorating the White House
And more:
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Melissa Atkins Wardy said her daughter Amelia, then 7, was harassed while the pair sold cookies door-to-door in their former neighborhood in Wisconsin.
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Markle made her first public appearance with Harry, William, and Middleton on Christmas Day 2017.
The Queen broke protocol by allowing her to join the festivities in Sandringham before she was an official member of the royal family.
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🏡 The vice president gets to live in Number One Observatory Circle, a 9,150-square-foot Victorian mansion just a stone's throw away from the White House.
Look inside:
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Hathaway wasn't the only one to wear vibrant pink at the show — Ariana DeBose, Florence Pugh, and South Korean musician Hwasa all wore the Italian fashion house's signature fuchsia shade.
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The craftsmanship behind the creation of $3,000 custom cowboy boots
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Markle and William, who aren't often photographed together, shared this sweet moment before a Remembrance event in 2018.
And in 2019, Harry and Middleton appeared together for a rare joint engagement without their significant others.
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Some moms say parenting got much easier after their relationships ended due to stress from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here's why. 👇
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The Mail on Sunday publishes a court-ordered statement after Meghan Markle's copyright win
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The typical 40-year-old millennial was one of those hardest hit by the Great Recession.
From the very beginning of their careers, they entered a dismal labor market that set them up for a long recovery.
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Facebook posts that allege a link between GSUSA and Planned Parenthood get thousands of shares, with commenters promising they'll boycott the cookie drive. A federal 990 tax form shows that no funds went to Planned Parenthood.
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Wages haven't kept up with soaring living costs for everything from healthcare to housing, creating a financial imbalance that's been difficult for the 40-year-old millennial to rectify.
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In November, Boxabl said it installed a tiny home in Boca Chica for a "top secret customer."
A few months later, Elon Musk tweeted that he lived in a $50,000 tiny unit he rented from SpaceX in Boca Chica, Texas.
@MattWallace888
My primary home is literally a ~$50k house in Boca Chica / Starbase that I rent from SpaceX. It’s kinda awesome though.
Only house I own is the events house in the Bay Area. If I sold it, the house would see less use, unless bought by a big family, which might happen some day.
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The bedroom sits across from the kitchen, and the entry door acts as a separation of space.
The bedroom's media center can divide the bed from the living room, which has space for a couch and a coffee table, but these two "rooms" can be flipped.
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Jackie Kent always dreamed of breastfeeding her child.
Her uterus has a congenital defect, so her partner carried their baby and Kent resigned herself to the dream of breastfeeding being over.
Then they learned of a process called induced lactation.👇
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📱 Ayeda Shadab (
@Ayedatelier
) is one of Afghanistan's social media stars. She has over 230,000 followers on Instagram, more than the country's president, Ashraf Ghani.
She models the dresses for sale in her luxury Kabul boutique and shares selfies from her travels.
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Insider spoke to 13 Disney World employees who said the Florida park was more than a workplace or source of income.
It was the company they grew up with as kids, and it was where they planned to grow their careers.
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Deyerin told
@thisisinsider
that she'd always believed her father was African American.
But when she showed the DNA-test results to her mother, who's white, her mother said she was the outcome of a one-night stand with a white man.
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Instead of the classic "lumber, hammer, and nails" construction method, Casitas are built with steel, concrete, foam insulation, and laminated paneling, making them strong enough to withstand hurricane winds, mold-resistant, and flood and snow tolerant.
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This is how the dirtiest rugs get professionally cleaned
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That hasn't stopped anti-abortion advocates from harassing their daughters. In 2019,
@InduRajan4
was working at a cookie booth with her daughter. A woman approached to say she wouldn't support them until they dropped their support of Planned Parenthood.
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In Netflix's hit show "Sex Education," Otis, the son of a fictional sex therapist, gives out intimacy advice to his teenage classmates.
Here's what real therapists have to say about his advice. 👇
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The four looked chummier than ever at the royal family's Christmas Day celebrations in 2018 — marking the second year in a row that the couples spent the holiday together.
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Serafini, 72, began creating his Codex in the mid-1970s.
It’s like something you’d find on a shelf in Dr. Strange’s library — an arcane artifact that’s recognizably a book, just not one from our reality.
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💛 "Gen Z Yellow" popped onto the scene around 2017, reflecting the generation's desire for a new economy in a Trump era, and later, as they graduated into a pandemic recession.
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Looking to renovate your home? This liquid wallpaper comes in over 100 colors and is easily applied
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Demi Lovato's song '29' inspired women on TikTok to come forward about the 'predatory' relationships they were in as teens
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Watching these rugs get deep cleaned is incredibly satisfying
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@thisisinsider
Deyerin runs Right to Know, a nonprofit organization that helps people struggling to come to terms with their identity after finding out that one or both of their parents is not genetically related to them.
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YouTuber Trevi Moran comes out as a transgender woman: 'I've dealt with this feeling my entire life'
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Jodi Girard, 49, grew up thinking she was white but found out her biological father was Black.
“I did in the fall of 2018, and found out that the man who raised me wasn't my dad and that my biological father was African American.”
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@thisisinsider
Girard recounts how her mom said that her biological father had "taken advantage" of her when she was married and in college.
Many people questioned why she wanted to track him down, as he sounded "like a monster."
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In 2019, music industry heavy-weight Scooter Braun acquired ownership of Swift’s music catalogue. She described feeling "sad and grossed out" by this, calling Braun a “bully,” and pointing to targeted incidents with his clients Kanye West and Justin Bieber.
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Swift isn’t just reclaiming her records; she’s making a larger statement about artist empowerment. Rather than allowing others to profit off her talents, she maneuvered her way to the complete ownership of her work, and gone against some formidable obstacles to do so.
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You don’t need to be a Swiftie to notice the differences between the original tracks and their re-recorded counterparts, but the most notable may be the exceptional maturity and growth of Swift’s vocals in the latter version.
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