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Pulling another all

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Anyways... Surprisingly this all nighter was pretty chill compared to the ones I panic through usually... And drawing sketches of the classrooms for my school redesign was kinda relaxing...

Another all nighter.... Guess that's what I get for going to Belgium for a week.

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I need this plastered on my wall so I read it every f*cking day!

girl, no one is special. its actually very simple to achieve your goals

not him, not any cool person you see online, they're not special. they were made just like everyone else. they've had their own past experiences, lessons, trauma, problems, blessings, and opportunities in their life that was meant for THEM.

but what makes you think that its special is the way they have chosen to respond to whats happened. the way they've chosen to rise and come back from it.

because honestly if you think about it, anyone can achieve anything.

you want abs? you don't even need to pay any money- there are literally people online on youtube who post FREE videos of exercised to get you to that dream body

good grades? you need discipline, a drive. you can also watch videos on youtube explaining a topic you don't understand.

you want to become rich? sure it takes time and effort, but with the right drive, discipline and a strong passion for anything, it is easier today than ever to make money online (AND YOU CAN START FROM SCRATCH WITH NO MONEY!) - create a business, make an online product and sell it, start making youtube videos (my yt channel!), start investing (the younger you start, the better)

it is easier than ever in this day and age to achieve anything you want with all the help we get online. imagine if you just dedicated 6 months or 1 year from your life or even just some time every day/ week to whatever goal you have, imagine how far you'd get.

and dont say that "oh i have it harder because i have this and that and blah blah blah". there are people in the world with *severe* disabilities who have accomplished great things.

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My Journey to Escape the War in Gaza

My name is Abdelmajed. I never imagined I’d be sharing my story like this, but life in Gaza has become unbearable. I am a survivor of the war here, and in the blink of an eye, everything I once knew—my home, my safety, my community—was ripped away from me.

The war has transformed Gaza into a graveyard of broken dreams. The buildings that once stood as symbols of life and resilience are now piles of rubble. Every corner is filled with the echoes of explosions. Every moment is shrouded in uncertainty. There is no security. There is no stability. There is no light at the end of the tunnel.

Basic needs have become luxuries. Food is scarce. Clean water is even scarcer. Hospitals are overwhelmed and under-resourced, and there is almost no medical care to be found. Every night, families go to bed hungry, praying they’ll wake up to see another day. The cost of basic necessities has skyrocketed, and it’s become a daily battle just to survive.

I’ve seen things I never thought possible—standing in long lines for a piece of bread, rationing every drop of water, and watching my people suffer in silence. I have lost everything—my home, my safety, my dignity.

Escape from Gaza is my only hope, but it’s almost impossible without financial help. The cost of evacuation is far beyond my means, and without support, I’m trapped in a warzone with no way out.

I’m reaching out to you now, in the hopes that someone, anyone, can help. I am not asking for luxury. I am asking for a chance—just a chance—to live. A chance to escape this never-ending cycle of fear, destruction, and loss. A chance to rebuild my life somewhere safe, where I can begin again, where I can find hope once more.

Any amount you can give will help me get closer to safety. Even the smallest donation will make a difference—it could be the lifeline I need to survive. If you are unable to donate, please share my story. The more people who hear it, the better the chance that I can find the support I desperately need.

Your kindness and support mean the world to me. You’re not just helping me escape a war; you’re giving me a chance to live, to rebuild, to breathe again.

Thank you for listening. Thank you for caring.

Vetted by @gazavetters

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Hello, May!

Please be full of beautiful things.

Please be full of trust and clarity.

Please be full of love and positivity.

Please be full of joy and happiness.

Please be full of good vibes and energy.

Please be full of blessings and miracles.

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Finally got some good feedback on a project!

Seriously! Like this semester has been very hard for me since I'm doing projects that are meant for 2-4 people all on my own and everything that I've been doing lately seems like it's sh*t. So getting some good feedback on my work was MUCH needed validation... Anyways back to pulling all nighters... Dammit.

Here's a closer look...

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Sketching for industrial design at 1AM

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my study/workspace essentials

gel pens in soft tones, herbal tea in a quote mug, mechanical pencils & technical rulers, neatly sharpened HB pencils, warm desk lamp glow, Hello Kitty pencil case, sketched diagrams with delicate lines, My Style Rocks playing in the background, dotted washi tape on the laptop, light notebook coffee stains that feel like stories, mini breaks with chocolate bars, soothing playlists or background commentary, gentle clutter that proves I'm working, laptop stickers that reflect my humor and heart, journal pages next to my blueprints, evening hustle with soft lighting, daily small wins in sketches & sips.

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Still working on the project on the school.....

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(Remade) P o s t e r

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“Teach the children…. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin flowers. And the frisky ones—inkberry, lamb’s-quarters, blueberries. And the aromatic ones—rosemary, oregano. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms. Attention is the beginning of devotion.”

- Upstream, Mary Oliver

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Making sketches for a classroom...

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15/03/25

Went to Onomatopoeia

THE DETAILS! BRO THE DETAILS OF THE MODELS!!!! HOW???

We also got some goodies, though some of these I'll never use...

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14/03/25

In the early morning I went to the gym but when I went up to the machines on the first floor... Something I don't usually do preferring to do cardio, but anyways...

So I see a seemingly empty machine without realising that someone was using it. He had put a black towel on the back of the machine and I didn't see it. So I sit and while doing my sets I notice a guy, an older man in the corner of my eye but ignore it because the gym I go to is full of them. But then I noticed that he talked to me (??) so I took off my headphones and he told me didn't you see my towel.

I WAS SO FUCKING EMBARRASSED!!! But of course the old man had to continue with, how many sets did you do and you should take breaks etc. and I know he probably meant no harm but I ended up crying in the gym bathroom for 15 minutes and continued crying even when I had gone to this small hill that's on my path to go home...

Thankfully sun + nature = CALM and I started calming down, enjoying nature and appreciating the sun. I even gathered flowers as a small personal celebration of Dita ë Verrës (meaning summer day).

After that I went home to shower, eat and do some uni work (TOO MANY PRESENTATIONS). I tended to the flowers a bit. Not only the ones I gathered but my mom's ones as well and after a very relaxing shower I made a presentation about the Gilardi House by Louis Barragan. And then I went for an exhausting lesson at uni where the professor revealed that other professors that can teach certain subjects are not allowed to... WTF Greece??? So yeah, the future's uncertain...

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Finally a more fun subject

Right now in furniture design we're doing the technical drawings for a lectern. And I'm transported back to when I was giving exams for technical drawings. Now it's more fun mainly because we're encouraged to do things by hand and that has it's own charms.

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The big question is: Why now? “The first thing that comes to mind is nostalgia,” Ford says. “Nostalgia for better times, or a time when the United States and the West seemed more confident.” Indeed, there does seem to be a wistful longing for a type of normalcy just beyond our grasp in these clothes, a foundation of tradition and classicism that cannot be found in today’s never-ending chaos. Avery Trufelman—host of the popular fashion podcast Articles of Interest, which spent an entire season digging deep into the long afterlife of prep—has a theory. “In some ways, I think it’s a backlash to trends,” she tells me. “It reminds me of how, in the 1960s, Ivy style should have died, but it was revived because there were so many trends going on then, and people thought, I’m just gonna go back to what I know, what’s classy and what’s safe. Which makes me think of the explosion of trends we saw after the pandemic.” Indeed, every time there’s another -core to jump on, isn’t it calming to just think of tossing on a navy blazer? Weiss thinks it's a post-pandemic reaction, too, but more connected to wanting to dress up again after wearing sweatpants and athleisure for years. “There was this post-COVID thing of dressing up by choice,” he says. “In a world where we used to be forced to dress up to go to work, now there’s this idea of getting dressed up of your own volition.” Personally, I find it fascinating that young people—in the midst of unprecedented wealth inequality, told that they’ll never own a home, that the American dream promised to them may well be dead—are dressing up as the people who, in essence, ruined it all for them. I, for one, have noticed my TikTok feed filled with old money aesthetic slideshows of roguish types in Rolls-Royces alternating with vehement harangues of late-stage-capitalism, a perplexing juxtaposition. “There is this phenomenon of ironic, slightly mocking uses of status symbols which does have a long history,” Ford says, mentioning the way Black and Latinx Americans once donned exaggerated Zoot suits as a retort to traditional men’s tailoring. “I would say the way people are adopting these things, it’s quasi-ironic [though] there’s certainly a lot of affection for the look.”

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