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they should invent a brain that doesn’t tell you mean things at night time

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It's so weird when a celebrity you love dies. Auden wrote of Yeats' death, "A few thousand will think of this day / As one thinks of a day when one did something slightly unusual."

The first such day in my life: I'm 16. Nirvana's singer Kurt Cobain has died, and word is filtering in to my little school in Alabama. Kids are playing Nirvana on boomboxes, sitting in the grass on picnic blankets. This girl named Kate was crying.

I didn't feel like crying, but I still remember the day 30 years later.

The most recent: Today. A footballer I loved, Diogo Jota, died last night (alongside his brother). I found out in a text this morning from a friend who said, "I'm just devastated for his family." And I am. He'd been with his wife since they were teenagers. They had three little kids. Parents just lost two sons in the same moment.

But of course 155,000 people died today. Many of those people left behind kids; many were kids who left behind parents. And so my grief about Jota can't only be that; it must also be that I loved the way he opened up space without the ball, or the deft touch that led to a goal against Everton (his last, as it now happens). It must be that I loved his personality from whatever I gleaned of it in behind-the-scenes videos and so on.

I say, don't let anyone minimize your grief over these losses. You remember them thirty years later because they matter, because the people you lost mattered to you.

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just got a job as the hopeful young sailor whose mind breaks due to the utter vastness and grandeur of the ocean within only two weeks of the ship’s voyage across the great blue

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being so staunchly anti generative ai while everyone around you is "i used chatgpt" and "i asked grok" and google search is useless and every company is implementing ai and every single celeb is taking ai money and partnering with ai is like... it's so jarring. why can't you see the harm like i can? why are you so lazy? why are we making society this stupid? can we please stop? it's killing people does that not matter to you?

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Monet painting details.

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From German magazine Lustige Blätter, 1932.

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“Ocean Waves” ~ Stained Glass Art

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Starting a new sports team called the Tampa Bay Trespassers and they play any sport that they can break onto the field of

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National Tile Museum in Lisbon. Would recommend.

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THE THING THAT MADE ME WRITE SAD POETRY AND SCREAM INTO EMPTY PILLOWCASES THIS TIME LAST YEAR DOES NOT EFFECT ME ANYMORE, BTW. LIFE MOVES AND PUSHES AND PULLES. IT ROLLS UNDER OUR FEET LIKE AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE OF NATURE.

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[A white fortune cookie paper with black text reading: Your fondest dream will come true within this year.]

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“work wife” let’s take this to the next level. Work ex-wife. we had something once

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water moment

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from the archives of octavia butler

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Mahmoud Darwish - “Memory for Forgetfulness”