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[xanaxfarts]

‘All Shapes and Looks’ (2024) photos: Của Rọt Location: Hanoi, Vietnam

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Semi-separated nuclei of two cells form a heart-to-heart shape. The nuclei were labeled by lamin.

By Di Lu (China)

Olympus Image Of The Year Award

[drunkwhenimadethis]

When you care too much what someone thinks about you you stop being the good sort of curious…the tension of over caring contorts you into such a stiff shape. You don’t mentally stretch out or notice things or play as much…. Stuck in the bondage of personality that you think might earn their love. It’s impossible for them to see you, and you’re so into your role which for whom they are also a character. So you don’t see them either. Everybody loses!

[forgottenflickr]

2007

[mesogeios]

““In Somali when we see injustice we say ‘dhiiga kuma dhaqaqo?’ which translates into ‘does your blood not move?’””

— Warsan Shire

[apocryphics]

lydia davis

[snakesonacartesianplane]

In the same vein:

"The simultaneous borrowing of French and Latin words led to a highly distinctive feature of modern English vocabulary: sets of three items, all expressing the same fundamental notion but differing slightly in meaning or style, e.g., kingly, royal, regal; rise, mount, ascend; ask, question, interrogate; fast, firm, secure; holy, sacred, consecrated. The Old English word (the first in each triplet) is the most colloquial, the French (the second) is more literary, and the Latin word (the last) more learned." (Howard Jackson and Etienne Zé Amvela, "Words, Meaning and Vocabulary: An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology." Continuum, 2000)

via ThoughtCo

Though I like how John McWhorter phrases it better:

But language tends not to do what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.

from "English is not normal"

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[musiclover347]

[bruno-has-definitely-deactivate]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

chinese mantou (steamd bread or buns) be like

[bearhugs-2021]

Serge Wolf was ready with his camera when he spotted a northern harrier bird of prey getting up close and personal with a black bear sleeping on a hay bale in a field near Salmon Valley. 

[lamignonette]

[snototter]

A young American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) rides on the back of its mother in Brazos Bend State Park, Texas, USA

by Rick Dunlap

[zegalba]

The circular island that rotates in Argentina

[psikonauti]

Zhou Yansheng (Chinese,b.1942)

Wisteria and birds

ink and color on paper