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Image description: a romantic scene of Broad Street, Oxford at dusk The Rad Cam – a Virgo or Taurus rising? An important topic of debate, not (yet) in the Oxford Union, but rather as a form of procrastination from my imminently due essay, sparked by a post on a friend’s Instagram. Leo sun and Aquarius […]
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Image description: the Oxford Fashion Society committee standing on a set of steps I like to attend our Oxford Fashion Society committee meetings in an outfit that I feel represents me well, and today is no exception. I’m sitting here waiting to interview everyone in my favourite Selkie jumper, a cream knit skirt, and knit […]
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Image description: the Oxford Blockchain Society, the Oxford Univeristy shield, and Doge on a black background The world of cryptocurrency is undeniably polarising – obsessed over by its devoted enthusiasts while the uninitiated regard it with a mixture of suspicion and derision. This was never more obvious to me than when I began to look […]
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Image Description: the words “Application extended!. Join our senior editorial team. Applications open until 11:59PM on Wednesday, 8 December.” against an image of the Bridge of Sighs. Applications to join the Senior Editorial team and Creative team of the Oxford Student have been extended until midnight on Wednesday, the 8th of December! If you would […]
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Image Description: the words “Apply now to join our Senior Editorial and Creative Team! Apply through the online form. Open until 5th December at 11:59 pm” against a background image of the Radcliffe Camera. Applications to join the Senior Editorial team and Creative team of the Oxford Student are now open! If you would like […]
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Image Credit: Jake Gyllenhaal, looking sullen, stands behind the bars of a cartoon jail cell. A sign says “Bad Boyfriend Jail”. Editor’s Note: This is perhaps one of the most dangerous articles I’ve written to date. I would like to preface this by saying that I am a huge fan of Taylor Swift–please read the […]
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Image Description: a rather unfair side-by-side comparison of Pete Davidson and Ryan Reynolds’ faces. Many straight men I know have been fuming recently. Rumours have been swirling that Pete Davidson is involved with Kim Kardashian, as the two have been spotted together on various nights out, even allegedly holding hands at an amusement park. Sources […]
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Image Description: grainy footage of an unidentified aerial phenomenon. November 14, 2004 was no ordinary day for Commander David Fravor. During a routine training mission off the coast of California, he was sent to investigate the most unusual of radar contacts. For two weeks, the US Navy cruiser USS Princeton had been detecting unknown aircraft […]
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Image description: an opulent dining setting with stereotypically old-money furnishings Artist, model, and oil heiress Ivy Getty made headlines last week for an extravagant and beautiful wedding ceremony, as media outlets from Vogue to CNN raved over her dress made out of broken mirrors. Critics, however, have pointed out that the media outlets glossed over […]
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Image description: Elon Musk smiling Elon Musk is perhaps the only billionaire with an actual fanbase–his Twitter features high engagement from fans of Musk’s supposed scientific and technological contributions as well his business prowess. This fanbase was as active as ever when Elon Musk made headlines again this Halloween for dangling the prospect of donating […]
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Image Description: a duck standing on a rock in front of a body of water. Some of us at the Oxford Student have long suspected the presence of a mysterious force pulling strings and watching our every move from the shadows. While it has been commonly suspected that birds are government agents, investigations have tended […]
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Image description: Phone with the TikTok logo Addison Rae was invited to the Met Gala, and people were outraged. Since becoming interested in the event I can’t remember a time when one guest caused quite so much initial backlash. But why? Well, apart from the fact that she turned up in a fairly bog standard […]
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Image Description: a snail on a green background “You and a super intelligent snail both get 1 million dollars, and you both become immortal, however you die if the snail touches you. It always knows where you are and slowly crawls toward you. What’s your plan?” These words, originally from a post on r/AskReddit, form […]
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It’s the midst of autumn, and as the leaves drop off their branches, so too are relationship statuses being dropped from bios and couple photos being dropped from profiles. In their place, my feed has been flooded with ambiguously sad captions. Around this time of year, freshers who entered university committed to a relationship almost […]
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The addictive formula of short videos and easy scrolling makes TikTok one of the most influential social media platforms at the moment – TIkTok uniquely enables and incentivizes users to watch an enormous quantity and diversity of different videos. This in turn creates an ecosystem where extremely niche creators and content can develop large audiences […]
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After a 5-year hiatus from music and, largely, from the public eye, Adele has finally returned with new music. She released a new single, Easy on Me, and announced a new album, titled 30 in the Adele tradition, to be released on 19 November. While Adele has undergone substantial change in the past 5 years, […]
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Image Description: a glass of champagne. Left-wing political commentator and popular twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who goes by the name HasanAbi on twitch, faced heavy backlash after a data leak revealed the incomes of the platform’s top creators. Thousands of twitter users and numerous popular conservative commentators rushed to express their outrage at the nearly […]
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Image Description: a picture of Taylor Swift, forming a heart around her eye with her hands. It’s fall again, and besides the release of Red (Taylor’s Version), we can also look forward to the formation of Oxford’s inaugural Taylor Swift Society, known colloquially to the masses as SwiftSoc. Floating around Oxfess and Oxlove for […]
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Image Description: a side-by-side of Molly-Mae before and after Love Island. For those familiar with Love Island, Molly Mae Hague is one of their biggest success stories. Coming second with her boyfriend Tommy Fury in 2019 she has far surpassed previous contestant’s post-villa stella trajectory. Amassing over 6 million Instagram followers and lending her name […]
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