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“I got a fan letter from a young lady. It was a suicide note.

So I called her, and I said, “Hey, this is Jimmy Doohan. Scotty, from Star Trek.” I said, “I’m doing a convention in Indianapolis. I wanna see you there.”

I saw her – boy, I’m telling you, I couldn’t believe what I saw. It was definitely suicide. Somebody had to help her, somehow. And obviously she wasn’t going to the right people.

I said to her, “I’m doing a convention two weeks from now in St. Louis.” And two weeks from then, in somewhere else, you know? She also came to New York - she was able to afford to got to these places. That went on for two or three years, maybe eighteen times. And all I did was talk positive things to her.

And then all of the sudden – nothing. I didn’t hear anything. I had no idea what had happened to her because I never really saved her address.

Eight years later, I get a letter saying, “I do want to thank you so much for what you did for me, because I just got my Master’s degree in electronic engineering.”

That’s…to me, the best thing I’ve ever done in my life.“

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PRETTY WOMAN (1990) dir. garry marshall

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I EXIST, I EXIST, I EXIST // ON HOPE AND LIFE

Euripides Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (tr. Anne Carson) // となりのトトロ My Neighbor Totoro (1988) dir. Hayao Miyazaki // Mary Oliver Invitation // Virgil The Aeneid // Ocean Vuong Night Sky with Exit Wounds // ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun Hubble Views an Active Star-Forming Galaxy // Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot // Leonard Cohen Anthem // K.C. Cramm tender is not a bad word // A Hidden Life (2019) dir. Terrence Malick // Richard Siken Scheherazade // Emily Dickinson // 光画日記 (via @uroko) // Sophokles Elektra (tr. Anne Carson)

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Anis Mojgani, from “Here I Am”, Songs from Under the River: A Collection of Poetry

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chicago pope tweets

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Aftersun (2022)

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i love the world so much. why do i often forget this

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it’s awesome how we have unlimited chances to become a better version of ourselves

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Natalie Díaz, from “From the Desire Field”, Postcolonial Love Poem

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Generative AI has destroyed academia.

In the next few decades we’re going to have thousands of people who don’t really know anything, and can’t do any critical thinking.

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📢📢📢

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i used to have no hope for the future but now i'm thinking. i want rich people food. i want rare sirloin steak. i've never had sirloin steak in my life. i think i want to try it before i die.

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— v, excerpts from a book i’ll never write #2 (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.

Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.

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"I don't wanna bother you"

Have you considered that this is how your presence feels?