Pia Long

a poster image with brand logos on a pale grey background advertising The Pop-Up Perfumery first edition, November 13-16, 69 York St London W1H 1QD

A few of us indie perfume brands and Sainte Cellier, an independent retailer of multiple hard to find perfumes have organised a pop-up shop in London this November. Do visit! Meet the founders, try the perfumes.

Thank you!

A big haphazard stack of yellow and pink-coloured small hardback books on a marble table with thank you slips, tote bags and flat boxes to one side.

Packing the first round of book orders today and it’s quite emotional.
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Title text “WHO BANS FRAGRANCE INGREDIENTS?” over an image of sliced lemons resting on a grey stone slab.

10 years ago I started investigating and writing about fragrance regulations because they seemed so inconsistent. They still seem that way to me today but I have learned some stuff along the way. Read my free blog here: substack.com/@pialong/

Populism has a very clear definition in political science and it is used by both left & right. Just because it is used by fascists doesn’t make it inherently fascist. I am not suggesting populism is a great idea but it’s ignorant to paint it as an only far right technique.

Oh dear.

What are you bringing to this discussion except an attempt at negging and your unsupported personal opinions?

www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...

Understanding right and left populisms Neoliberal globalization has increased both economic insecurity and cultural anxiety. Have theories of populism taken adequate account of such insecurity – key to understanding the difference between ...

www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europ...

Explainer: Populism - Left and Right, Progressive and Regressive For many observers of politics in Europe and the Americas in 2022, the combination of words that forms “right-wing populist” trips easily off the tongue. Right-wing populist politicians, such as Jair ...

You can search for stuff yourself, you know “Populists can be from the right or left of the political divide; left-wing populists (also known as social populists) combine left-wing politics with populist themes and rhetoric”

www.idea.int/blog/explain...

European Populism, From Left to Right Analysis by Marc Lazar, Contributor on French and European political and institutional issues, for Institut Montaigne.

You’re factually wrong. “A wide variety of populisms exist, on the Right and Left ends of the political spectrum, yet far-Right ones are much more pervasive.” www.institutmontaigne.org/en/expressio...

I was referring to the question posted alongside the dictionary screenshot.

For me: yes and no because the main art form in my life is perfumery and that exists in a realm of consumer safety, fire safety, environmental safety, laws pertaining to the activities of sourcing, storing and disposing of materials… so in this case yes, but you also need some basic competence.

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None of this shit is inevitable. Fuck the slimy tech bros.

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If the cost to us all wouldn’t be too high, sometimes I wonder what calling Reform’s bluff would look like. Who would they have left to blame if they were in charge and managed to chuck most of us foreigners out? It would just leave their unmasked racism towards locals, and that can’t be allowed.

Over here, the word “change” is now nothing but a dog whistle.

Always!

A derpy brown tri Finnish Lapphund in orange autumn leaves.

Hello

Holy echolalia, this should win some kind of medal

Actual lol

If you are sure that you want a biological child, and do not yet have one, do not wait.

Is the model at this point trying to ensure “AI” is so baked into every aspect of life that it’ll be artificially propped up by bailouts and tax money when it fails to sustain its (totally unsustainable) growth plans?

Nigel Farage doesn’t have to become PM; his policies have been adopted by successive governments and now by Labour, too. 10 years until Indefinite Leave to Remain and “not a penny in benefits” is pure xenophobia, classism, racism and stupidity. Citizenship costs £2k and may not be an option for all.

From abroad, looking in, it has seemed like Trump’s regime has been trying to start a civil war. It seems simultaneously absurd and possible.

History shows that when democracies face crises, strengthening and reinvigorating democratic participation is essential to prevent democratic backsliding and the rise of authoritarianism. This is not that.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

Not to be all FBPE-pilled, but at least with the EU ID cards (and Irish passport card) you can travel with them around the continent fine. What will the BritCard have? An ugly flag, and it will give all our information to some dodgy faceless company. It’s giving gauche, it’s giving midlife crisis.