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[shakyfoot]

You can do anything at all but you can’t do everything

[1five1two]

Speiredonia spectans, the granny's cloak moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae.

[grungeouttakesabstracts]

Morning sunlight in the living room

Madrid, Spain -- 4/6/12

[helledeh]

Overcrowded

Unipin fineliner on paper

god I LOVE ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SO MUCH RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[doppelnatur]

@ghostemoji

[thehmn]

In Copenhagen you can visit The Round Tower. It used to be an astronomical observatory until light pollution and the vibrations from increased traffic in the streets made it useless for its original purpose.

Today it’s mostly famous for what it looks like on the inside.

It has an equestrian staircase though it’s so smooth it’s really just a gentle slope more than a staircase. It was build like that so our lazy bum king could ride his horse all the way to the top (king not in photo)

And naturally people have also driven cars up the tower

And held a bike race

For a while it was just sort of abandoned by the authorities and became a spiraling marketplace

But today it has been restored and become a tourist spot as well as a popular destination for school trips. And yes, you can still watch the cosmos at the top.

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[favesblog]

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a photograph of Toni Morrison saying, "It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances."

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[the1920sinpictures]

1927 Kodak Petite Cameras. From Art Deco 1920, FB.

[hunny-and-haycorns]

Wow, apparently the bellows were also colored to match the housing, and they came with accessories like matching compacts.

[avatarofthewriting]

found what they look like with the bellows open!!

credit u/deepsky_wonders on reddit

[nobrashfestivity]

Loie Fuller, early 1900′s

[xanaxfarts]

Tile flooring at the Oceanário de Lisboa, an aquarium in Lisbon, Portugal

[nemfrog]

"Section of a dew-laden orb-web. (Magnified.)" The Popular science monthly. May 1890.

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[dk-thrive]

There are always plenty of rivals to our work. We are always falling in love or quarrelling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come.

— C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (The Macmillan Company, 1949)

[dorkvania]

Stairs up to the sidewalk and the sidewalk

[apokrify]

Massive fossilized Sea Lily and the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

[ralfmaximus]

For scale, check the lower right corner for the water bottle.

[street-tubes]

Somewhere in Iceland by Wolfgang Maurouard

[dk-thrive]

What is most beautiful is least acknowledged. What is worth dying for is barely noticed.

“It all matters. That someone turns out the lamp, picks up the windblown wrapper, says hello to the invalid, pays at the unattended lot, listens to the repeated tale, folds the abandoned laundry, plays the game fairly, tells the story honestly, acknowledges help, gives credit, says good night, resists temptation, wipes the counter, waits at the yellow, makes the bed, tips the maid, remembers the illness, congratulates the victor, accepts the consequences, takes a stand, steps up, offers a hand, goes first, goes last, chooses the small portion, teaches the child, tends to the dying, comforts the grieving, removes the splinter, wipes the tear, directs the lost, touches the lonely, is the whole thing. What is most beautiful is least acknowledged. What is worth dying for is barely noticed.”

— Laura McBride, We Are Called to Rise (Simon & Schuster, June 3, 2014)

[radicalgraff]

“America is a money printer that runs on blood”

Spotted in Boston, Massachusetts