Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends

Is 2020 over yet?

In today's edition: Blackout Tuesday, fortune-telling apps, deranged influencers and offline languages

Jun 05, 2020
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A partial accounting of people & brands posting black squares in my Instagram feed:

  • An ice cream shop

  • A yoga studio

  • A beagle we dog-sat in D.C.

  • My second-cousin’s first wife

  • My brother’s ex-girlfriend

  • Some girls from high school, randomly

  • A hotel brand I once followed to enter a contest

  • A Japanese Instagram model

  • A craft brewery

  • A local “supper club”

  • … you get …

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