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"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness." — Kurt Vonnegut

Did you know that the turn of the summer season brings a surge of waste? As people head back-to-school and reorganize for the busy fall season, more plastic pollution and waste enters the trash bin. 🗑️ Follow the ‘Zero Waste Rehoming’ steps to reduce your clutter with intentional

広い宇宙の数ある一つ。

baby formula sinking to the bottom of the ocean in international waters 60 nautical miles from the site of mass starvation. this shames the world

This strange square 👇 is undoubtedly the most extraordinary work of literature in human history. Yet, unfortunately, barely anyone in the West has ever heard of it. There was this woman poet in 4th century China called Su Hui (蘇蕙), a child genius who had reportedly mastered

Cette carte d’Alma et Alfred Hitchcock souhaitant à François Truffaut un très heureux « no L »

J’comprendrai jamais pourquoi c’est vous qui avez des cadeaux le jour de la naissance de mon fils

I love having a bookstore so much. I love talking to people about books, recommending books, repeat customers who already feel like friends, kids who come in to play chess or talk to the baby, quiet old men who are collecting every book by a single author. I love all of it.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

雪国の無人駅が美しかったのです。

I don’t know if anyone still cares, but today alone 28 people were killed, among them my friend and his family, without any guilt. This is no longer breaking news, but a scene that repeats itself every day. They talk about a ceasefire, yet what we live through is continuous

This is crazy scifi level discovery! “Objects as big as a protein can be in two places at once, experimental ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ suggests. Quantum superposition is 10 times more massive than any observed before.”

Teacher is being dumb

L'ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE D'AUTREFOIS ✍️🇫🇷 Voici le cahier, daté du 1er décembre 1941, d'un élève d'école communale. L'écriture et l'orthographe étaient parfaites (10/10).🤩 Qu'est devenue cette recherche de la perfection en 2026 ?

Over the past year, many people I talk to have expressed worry about two topics: * Various aspects of the way the world is going: government control and surveillance, wars, corporate power and surveillance, tech enshittification / corposlop, social media becoming a memetic

phys.org/news/2026-02-y… Stuff, including writing it seems, just keeps on getting older... Quotes from linked article: Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at

A supermarket in Thailand replaced plastic packaging with banana leaves. A simple idea that makes a big difference.🌿

🚨MASSIVE development involving further Excavation of the Great Pyramid of Giza: Independent Researchers, Engineers and Financiers have been FINALLY granted permission to explore the mysterious HIDDEN-CHAMBERS inside the Pyramid! It only took Egypt 10 years after the discovery

In order to be born, you needed: 2 parents 4 grandparents 8 great-grandparents 16 second great-grandparents 32 third great-grandparents 64 fourth great-grandparents 128 fifth great-grandparents 256 sixth great-grandparents 512 seventh great-grandparents 1,024