Fantasma do Espelho

Blog para derramar tudo que gosto, acho bonito, ou me faz sentir qualquer coisa.

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Palacio de Cristal, Parque de El Retiro, Madrid, España

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Murray Smoker, “Nosferatu”

Crow quill pen & ink, 2021

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An experimental window turns from clear to opaque with the touch of a button. Within the next 10 years, window technologies like these will be commonplace.

The Not So Big House - A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, 1998

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To everyone who is feeling a little sad right now... close your eyes. Hold out your hands.

I am gently offering you Ring with Cat and Kittens, 1295–664 BCE.

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1915 c. Two girls kissing. From Emmy, Pinterest.

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by Thomas Marquize

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Witchy woods 🐞🍄

My photography, Spring 2026

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I always thought Reddit was a place where people could share things they created.A few days ago I posted one of my original paintings. People loved it. We had wonderful conversations about art, emotions, and how everyone saw something different in the same sunset.

About two hours later I was permanently banned from r/MadeMeSmile for “self-promotion.”

I accepted that different communities have different rules.But then something even stranger happened.Soon afterward, a moderator from r/pics started going through my account. Not just the new post—many of my older painting posts disappeared as well. One after another. Then I was permanently banned there too.

Maybe it was the same moderator. Maybe it wasn’t. I honestly don’t know.

What surprised me wasn’t even the ban itself. It was realizing how much power individual moderators have over what millions of people are allowed to see. One decision can erase years of posts from a community and instantly cut off your ability to participate, even if those posts had been happily sitting there for months or years.I’m not saying moderators shouldn’t have rules. Communities need moderation.But it does make you wonder where the line is between protecting a community and allowing a single interpretation of the rules to completely reshape what people can share.

The funny part?

I wasn’t advertising anything in those posts. I wasn’t posting prices or asking anyone to buy anything. I was simply sharing my original paintings because I enjoy discussing art with strangers from around the world.

Anyway…

Here’s the painting that apparently caused all the trouble. 🎨

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Designer’s Guide to Surfaces and Finishes, 1984

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The Rosetta Stone: The Discovery That Unlocked Ancient Egypt

On July 15, 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian Campaign, French soldiers made one of the most important archaeological discoveries in history. French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard discovered a large inscribed stone near the Egyptian town of Rosetta (modern Rashid) while work was being carried out on fortifications. The stone would later become known as the Rosetta Stone.

The mysterious artifact contained the same decree written in three scripts: Ancient Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Demotic Egyptian. Because scholars could read Greek, the text provided the crucial key needed to decipher hieroglyphs, a writing system that had been lost for centuries. Its discovery opened a new era in the study of ancient Egyptian history, culture, and civilization.

Although the Rosetta Stone was later taken by the British after the defeat of French forces in Egypt and placed in the British Museum, its importance remains worldwide. The work of scholars such as Jean-François Champollion transformed the stone into one of the most famous archaeological objects ever found.

The discovery of the Rosetta Stone remains one of the greatest achievements of the Napoleonic expedition, forever changing humanity’s understanding of one of the world’s oldest civilizations.

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Um bonito sobrado antigo na região de Vila Ipojuca, zona oeste da capital paulista.

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