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it is so funny to me how i started learning english on my own age 10 because the manga i was reading was turning so so so bad i went to fan content to cope with how shit it was. and 15 years later this pays off as my boss tells me i'm an essential asset in the team as the only fluent english-speaker.

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NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

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No tech CEO or NYT bestselling novelist will ever match the creativity of a humble French postman who decided on a whim to spend thirty-three years building a surreal, majestic palace with the bricks and mortar of his dreams.

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Storm (c.1896) by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer

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Sparkling Fascination.

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Intricate-throned undying Aphrodite, snare-weaving child of Zeus, I beg of you, do not break my heart with longing or sorrow, o queen, but come here, if ever before hearing my cries from afar you listened, and leaving your father’s house you came, yoking your chariot of gold; and beautiful they bore you, swift sparrows across dark earth, whirling quick-beating wings, from heaven through mid-sky; suddenly they arrived; and you, blessed one, a smile on your immortal face, asked what I had suffered this time, and why again I called you and what I wished most dearly to happen in my tormented heart; “Whom should I persuade, contriving that she respond to your love? Who, Sappho, wrongs you? For if she flees you, soon she will pursue, and if she rejects your gifts, yet she will give them, and if she does not love you, soon she will love you, even unwillingly.” Come to me again now, and free me from unbearable distress, and as much as my heart longs to accomplish, make it so, and you yourself battle at my side.

-Sappho (Lobel-Page 1)

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Italian Girl with Flowers (1886) by Joaquín Sorolla

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Water Lilies painted by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

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My favorite Soviet era joke: Three Russian men were sent by their company to attend a convention in Moscow. All 3 shared a hotel room. Two of them cracked open a bottle of vodka, but the third just wanted to sleep. The two drinkers got louder and louder as the bottle emptied, telling each other political jokes. The third was kept awake, and got angry.

He went outside for a smoke. On his way back to his room, he stopped at the desk and said 'Please send a pot of tea up to room 23.'

The two drunks were still being loud. The third man went in, looked at them, then leaned over to the light socket 'Comrade Major, please send some tea to my room.'

The other men thought this was hilarious...until there was a knock on the door, and a waiter with a pot of tea. They became completely silent, and the third man fell asleep.

When he woke up in the morning, he was alone. He went to the front desk, and asked where his roommates were.

'Well, the KGB came this morning and took them away.'

The man was horrified 'why did they spare me?!?'

"The comrade major thought the tea joke was very funny." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you like my posts, please consider buying me a Kofi or sharing my pinned post. Life is impossibly hard right now, and I need your help. https://ko-fi.com/idiomagic

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Eurasian red squirrel/ekorre. Värmland, Sweden (May 29, 2021).

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@bosscrow23

New study technique called "let's go steal a grade" in which I pretend to be a part of the Leverage crew and study for my exams as if I'm studying for the grift. I need enough knowledge that I can con the mark without getting called out.

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k but if u haven’t seen the guy ritchie sherlock films u don’t get it but they fully wrote holmes as in love w watson. like undeniably in love. In the first ten mins holmes refuses to take a Single case for three months bc watson won’t go with him. he locks himself in his room for two straight weeks, drugs the dog, and shoots the wall for attention bc watson is moving out. he says the world outside his room has nothing to offer until watson asks him to go to dinner & immediately agrees. he humiliates mary bc he’s jealous she can marry watson and he can’t. he goes to a fight club to Feel Something bc he knows john is slipping away from him. there’s never any “oh well just bros being bros” the whole tone towards it is just “ofc he’s in love w watson that’s one of his defining character traits”

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sometimes i truly forget that everyone sees characters straight as default bc i saw a comment like “next thing you know they’ll make luke skywalker gay” and im just…….. he…. he is ?

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Stories are powerful and meaningful only when woven together. My story is part of a tapestry of stories, it is not mine alone. If you pull it out of that tapestry it will unravel and will lose its meaning.

Samah Sabawi, Cactus Pear for My Beloved: A Family Story from Gaza

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Phil Davies

"The Egret was in shadow and the background was in full sun"