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honestly there’s a very specific breed of southwestern pastel aesthetic – succulents but not cacti, space but not astronomy, fitness brands but not fitness tips, retro restaurants but not food, always pictures, never text – that has been around on this website for so long and remained so unchanged that, by no virtue other than the passing of time and the changing of the world around it, it has begun to read “bot” or “narc” or “psyop.” something about me has changed in the last decade as a reader. my ability to trust people who only post striking but unrememberable images with six-figure notes and never reveal anything about themselves is gone, and my skepticism is all locked in my inability to tell whether a person is real or not