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As I understand it living in LA is one of those cosmically perfect acts where the punishemnt for the crime is the act itself

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“In that predicament, if I’m lucky, I’ll remember the observation, usually attributed to Joan Baez, that “action is the antidote to despair.” People tend to quote this in the context of political or environmental activism, but it applies to everything else, too: an overfilled inbox, a cluttered garage, an intimidating creative project or overdue tax return. If you can get yourself over the gap between knowing what you need to do and taking an action, things can only get better from there. Which means that at least the nature of the immediate challenge is clear: not to “become more productive” or “get motivated” or “make a plan for the month” or something like that, but just to do one thing to address whatever situation you’re in. […] If you can approach your daily life in this way for a while – as a sequence of momentary, self-contained, eminently doable actions, rather than as an arduous matter of chipping away at enormous challenges – you might notice something profound, which is that, in fact, this is all you ever need to do. You can make your way through life exclusively in this manner. (As E. L. Doctorow said of writing, it’s “like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”) And not just that: actually, it’s all you ever could do. There is no achievement, in the history of human civilisation, that has ever been accomplished by any means other than as a sequence of doable actions. In the end, it isn’t really a question of “breaking big projects down into small chunks.” It’s more a matter of seeing that “big projects” are nothing but psychological constructs, quasi-illusory entities summoned into existence by taking a particular view of what our lives really consist of – which is moments, and the actions that unfold in them. After all, in any given moment, we’re never actually “working on a big project” or “addressing a major challenge” or anything similar. We’re always just taking an action. And then another. And another.”

— Oliver Burkeman, How to get out of a rut

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go on more walks. walk for no reason. walk to solve a problem. walk to blow off steam. walk to get outside. walk to listen, read, and learn. walk to escape distractions. walk to improve your health. walk to think. a simple walking habit can change absolutely everything.

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im watching traitors season 3 … is tom sandoval coked up?

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does anyone else think it’s weird

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"TOD UND LEBEN" ("DEATH AND LIFE") GUSTAV KLIMT // 1910 [oil on canvas | 71.06 x 78.93"]

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Hey so um do you want to have a really fucked up dynamic with me or not

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michele serchuk in secret magazine no. 15

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Robert Smith & Mary Poole by Jeff Harrow

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hi, how do you keep going despite everything? all the wars in the world? i'm asking this to everyone i can ask anything to because i'm struggling so much.

You keep going because society is made of individuals and zeroing in on and focusing on connecting to the individual will stabilize you. The people of Iran want to live, they want to keep going, so do the Palestinians, the Sudanese. You go on because every individual IS the world. Reach out to your Iranian friends, be there, be present. Do this for everyone. Have discussions and be tactful. My family is currently stuck in Iraq and they are being barred from going back to Vienna to their children and their jobs, so my role is to check in and comfort them. We send them money, we listen, we connect. We are no closer to the question of what is justice than we were one thousand years ago. Your day to day interactions, and especially what you let filter into your subconscious through the internet will be the only thing to keep you sane.

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Coiled Rattlesnake, c. 1200-1519

Central Mexico, Aztec, 13th-16th century

stone, Overall: 30.50 x 24.50 x 10.00 cm (12 x 9 5/8 x 3 7/8 inches). The Norweb Collection 1950.410

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brainfog today crazy im not sleeping well lately at all

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We are seeing the same playbook as Iraq and a lot of Iraqi diaspora also said the same things when it was ongoing. Regardless of how you feel about the Iranian government, do not fucking do CIA job

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