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Vipassana
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Something that brought me joy today
Blue sky with white clouds in the background and lavender Japanese with hysteria hanging with green leaves surround
May 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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16/ Found this postcard I got at a workshop led by @prisonculture.bsky.social and brightened my month and gave me some strength
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. Louise Erdrich
April 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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15/ today I was on a call with a bunch of people committed to our collective liberation. Truly life affirming. No pics so flowers I saw at BBG instead
Like nyc summer sunset colored tulip. Pink, gold Pink crabapple flowers Orange tulips
April 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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14/ on Friday I watched Flow with my cat. Strongly recommend watching flow with your cats.
April 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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13/ This week has been so tough and I’m making peace with how it’s turned out. I went to the local florist to buy a few flowers and just as I was leaving, he called me back and handed a few extra flowers for free. 🥹
A brown hand holding three peach, pinkish white, and soft orange carnations. In the background is the grey sidewalk.
April 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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#TeslaTakedown
Graph showing TESLA stock down to $244.96: a 27.24 point drop from the previous closing of 272.2
April 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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And my cat between a gift of flowers and a jade plant imagining that she is in the jungle
Bouquet of various pink and purple flowers on a brown table. To the right of the flowers is a jade plant a small brown and white tabby cat is crouching next to the flowers
April 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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White Cherry Blossom!
April 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Daffodils!
April 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Some kind of winter hazel
April 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Some flowers from the Brooklyn botanic garden!
Japanese quince
April 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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11/ went birding yday morning and day my first pine warbler of the season!!! #100DaysOfBeauty
April 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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9/ tough day yesterday. Got some #caturday love from Ida.
Brown tabby cat with a white neck, nose and belly cuddled in a brown woman’s arm in a green sweater. They are on dark blue sheets
April 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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8/ Came across this joyful brass band and I loved seeing this one femme among the sea of boys in the drums #100DaysofBeauty
April 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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7/ Was walking down the street and saw this person whose headphones, clothes, scrunchie and socks matched, and then the shoes and the bag matched and I just felt such delight that they decided to grace the world with their style
April 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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5/ was walking around in park slope feeling gratitude for all the people who have flowering plants outside their homes
Small pink flowering tree in front of a brownstone
April 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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4/ Got this lovely flowering plant, the same as one I saw in a shop earlier in this thread as gift from my love for our anniversary. We got married in PP a few years ago and took pics in front of BPL as well cause #libraries! #100DaysOfBeauty
Cyclamen plant with red leaves in a pot covered by red and white checked paper. A south Asian woman in a red Mysore silk sari with gold borders leaning against a taller white person in black coat and navy and green kilt with long white socks. They are standing on a brick ground in front of a pond. The south Asian woman in a red and gold sorry facing a white person in a black coat and a kilt. They are holding hands. They are standing in front of the Brooklyn Public library Central branch with light brown stone and two tall pillars flanking black metal entrance. The pillars and entrance are covered with gold figures..
April 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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3/ yesterday in the subway car with the jolliest conductor giving us information about each stop. He says: This is Eastern Parkway, home of the Brooklyn museum. Get your culture on! The subway car erupts into joyous laughter. #100daysofbeauty
April 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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2/ Today’s this beautiful kid’s poster warmed my heart #TeslaTakedown
A kid with a tie-dye green and blue shirt and black pants, holding up a green sign with the words: billionaires need to learn how to share
March 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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1/ Yesterday, I read this beautiful poem by danez smith on the subway. Later I went up to my roof and felt such love for the Sky and this city I call home. #100DaysofBeauty
Picture with a lavender grey sky, a brown mountain, poppies, and other flowers in the background with a poem. little prayer by Danez Smith let ruin end here let him find honey where there was once a slaughter let him enter the lion's cage & find a field of lilacs let this be the healing & if not let it be Cloudy blue skies with the Manhattan, Central and North Brooklyn skyline.
March 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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It’s probably the lunar eclipse or something, but I got this notification and saw this tiny little message at the bottom and was in tears 🥹 This book was impossible to get anywhere except Amazon when I tried to buy it in early February and I refuse to buy books on Amazon.

#ProtectPublicLibraries
A screenshot of Libby indicating that a pinkish red book is ready to be borrowed. The book is Cyberlibertarianism: the right wing politics of digital technology by David Golumbia. There is a note on the bottom that reads: Your hold is ready after five weeks, because the library acquired another copy.✨
March 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Some screenshots if you’re feeling apprehensive about clicking.
March 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I think this is the first time I've enjoyed stock watching so much. It's dropped a whole percentage point since I took this screen shot.
Graph of TESLA stock price over the last month in red against a black background. Text shows current price at $265.52 with a 19.12 point drop today or a 6.72% drop. The drop over the past month is 32.42 %
March 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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“See you in Court!”

This is what leadership and resistance during a coup should look like!!
A sideways picture of Governor Janet Mills of Maine, a smiling white woman with a long bob of honey blond hair in a white coat with a blue and green scarf around her neck.
February 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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17/ Ida found a new hiding spot among our linens and was just being an all round cutie.
February 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM