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Janet's pasty carried harder than our dopamine receptors

By Janel Comeau (via @wttp3)•January 23, 2026

we simply were not meant to process this much news every day. In 2004 we saw Janet Jackson’s nipple pasty on live TV for like four seconds and it was headline news for months.