Accept the Blessings

[thoughtkick]

“Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you are choosing someone out of love or loneliness.”

— Mandy Hale

[quotespile]

“I couldn’t calm down. Was it possible that Mario should leave me like this, without warning? It seemed to me incredible that all of a sudden he had become uninterested in my life, like a plant watered for years that is abruptly allowed to die of drought. I couldn’t conceive that he had unilaterally decided that he no longer owed me any attention.”

— Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

[shushmuckle]

Illustration from a 1941 advertisement

[foodat88]

[bob-belcher]

Mare of Easttown | 1x05 - "Illusions"

[dinosaurspen]

I'm charmed that BRLESC had a photograph of ENIAC (its predecessor at Aberdeen Proving Ground) hanging on the side of its console. (Also note the drapery beneath the photo, presumably blocking an entrance to the wiring-side of the panel.)

Speculating a bit here, but while I don't think the below image is the exact one in the photo (the perspective's not right, even from a three-quarter view), I think it might be from the same set. It's too low resolution to make out exactly, but there seems to be someone in an dark, ankle-length dress and a second person in the background.

Credit to 50 Years of Army Computing, From ENIAC to MSRC (PDF) for alerting me to this fun fact.

[blackjame]

FAVORITE TV SHOWS WITH BLACK ENSEMBLE CASTS: [2/?] → The Proud Family (2001–2005, crea. Bruce W. Smith and Doreen Spicer)

 "Trudy!“

[henk-heijmans]

Sisters, Armenia, 2019 - by Samuel Voskanyan, Armenian

[thetalesofbasingse]

[imelancholia]

what i think about when i think about running: Haruki Murakami

[foreveroldhollywood]

Marilyn Monroe hair tests for The Misfits (1960)

[oakendesk]

book cover - A Gun In His Hand - 1951

Barye Phillips

[nixscriptum]

[litsnaps]

[inthedarktrees]

Actress Natalie Wood has a pool party in Los Angeles, 1955 | Earl Leaf

[quotespile]

“When you opened the bright wrappings of some meager or poorly chosen gift, you simply let your mind tell you it was just what you wanted; that way you could always make the right response, and you could even believe it.”

— Richard Yates, Cold Spring Harbor

[junkfoodcinemas]

Headshot (2016) dir. Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel