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August 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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"To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart—that’s what life is all about..."

Dostoyevsky on the meaning of life just after his death sentence was repealed:
Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its ta…
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April 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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This is called ‘The Futures aren’t Bright, the Futures are Orange’.
April 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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1960 GDR tourism poster for Erfurt, designed by W. Parschau (1/3)
March 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Today is International Day of Happiness, but with everything that’s going on in the world it’s hard to be happy at times.
There will be better and brighter days, so let's do the best we can to get each other through these ones.

#InternationalDayOfHappiness #allontheboard
March 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Here's that cartoon about the giant utes you were asking about www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Giant ‘utes’ are ruining the landscape and rendering roads unpleasantly dangerous. They should be banned! | First Dog on the Moon
Get out of my way Jaxxon
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March 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Less than a year after his release from the concentration camps, Viktor Frankl delivered a set of staggering lectures about the meaning of life, which remained unknown to the English-speaking world for 70+ years
Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning
“Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is… on each person… creatively making the meaning of life a reality…
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March 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Dolly Parton as Children’s books.

A thread.

#WorldBookDay
March 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?"

It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine.

#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem
"Puppets on a Kremlin String?" - Marsh Family adaptation of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" on Trump/Vance
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The resistance hero Sophie Scholl was killed by the Nazis on this day in 1943. She was 21. Her immortal and deeply precocious wisdom on suffering, strength, and the deepest wellspring of courage:
Conscience in Revolt: Sophie Scholl on Suffering, Strength, and the Deepest Wellspring of Courage
“Sympathy is often difficult and soon becomes hollow if one feels no pain oneself.”
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February 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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On Nina Simone's birthday, "Nina Simone's Gum" – one of the strangest, sweetest things I've ever come upon, and one of the profoundest testaments to the power of art
Nina Simone’s Gum and the Shimmering Strangeness of How Art Casts Its Transcendent Spell on Us
The metaphysical made physical in a symphonic celebration of imagination, collaboration, and the human heart.
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February 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Morning light.
#Berlin #photography
February 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The pleasure of being left alone (you know it)
The Pleasure of Being Left Alone
“An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls… A peace for gods; a divine emptiness.”
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February 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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February 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Saw a video where a woman in her early 20s was talking about an item that was popular in the 90s and described it as “Something people wore in the last century.” Now, while technically I know she’s correct, I still feel the need to go and have a lie down in a dark, quiet room for a bit.
February 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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I don’t think I’ve ever loved my village more than I did yesterday. The hills sparkled with bright snow, the mists curled lazily below, and the church stood half-hidden in trees crafted from diamonds. I could have stayed all day in this spot, listening to the bell ringing out through the valley.
January 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Charles Dickens, born on this day in 1812, on grief and how to heal a mourning heart
Charles Dickens on Grief and How to Heal a Mourning Heart
“The disturbed mind and affections, like the tossed sea, seldom calm without an intervening time of confusion and trouble.”
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February 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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February 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Mavka Slavka 🧜‍♀️🌻

Your daily reminder that #RussiaInvadedUkraine & is illegally occupying Crimea, Donbas & other parts of Ukraine. Day 4006 of Putler's war in Ukraine. ruZZia always thought their "3 day special military operation" in Ukraine would be as easy as taking candy from a baby. No way!
February 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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6 February 1964: stamps issued in the GDR depicting Johann Gottfried Schadow's Quadriga on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
February 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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I'm opening my Etsy shop this evening for limited edition signed art prints of my photos and sets of my greetings cards including a new spring collection👇
I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research showing that simply looking at images of plant &nature improves mental health🌿🧠:
February 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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NEW: In response to orders by the Trump admin, the CDC has taken down the Household Pulse Survey, one of the biggest and most important sources of Long COVID data in the world.

The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.
February 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM