I Should Rather Not

I have brilliant ideas in the shower that I promptly forget

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“Relax”

Clément Chabernaud by Jana Gerberding for GQ Style Germany No. 39, S/S 2021

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J.W. ANDERSON

Resort 2021 collection

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Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse : What are those dark streaks in this composite image of yesterday’s solar eclipse? They are reversed shadows of mountains at the edge of the Moon. The center image, captured from Xiamen, China, has the Moon’s center directly in front of the Sun’s center. The Moon, though, was too far from the Earth to completely block the entire Sun. Light that streamed around all of the edges of the Moon is called a ring of fire. Images at each end of the sequence show sunlight that streamed through lunar valleys. As the Moon moved further in front of the Sun, left to right, only the higher peaks on the Moon’s perimeter could block sunlight. Therefore, the dark streaks are projected, distorted, reversed, and magnified shadows of mountains at the Moon’s edge. Bright areas are called Bailey’s Beads. Only a narrow swath across Earth’s Eastern Hemisphere was able to see yesterday’s full annular solar eclipse. Next June, though, a narrow swath across Earth’s Northern Hemisphere will be able to see the next annular solar eclipse. A total solar eclipse will be visible at the bottom of the world near the end of this year. via NASA

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Soraya Chemaly: The power of women’s anger

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— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

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Central Centaurus A : A mere 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is the closest active galaxy to planet Earth. Also known as NGC 5128, the peculiar elliptical galaxy is over 60,000 light-years across. A region spanning about 8,500 light-years, including the galaxy’s center (upper left), is framed in this sharp Hubble Space telescope close-up. Centaurus A is apparently the result of a collision of two otherwise normal galaxies resulting in a violent jumble of star forming regions, massive star clusters, and imposing dark dust lanes. Near the galaxy’s center, left over cosmic debris is steadily being consumed by a central black hole with a billion times the mass of the Sun. As in other active galaxies, that process likely generates the radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray energy radiated by Centaurus A. via NASA

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I've never retweeted something quicker in my life

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Eartha Kitt and orchestra leader Frank Weir at Churchill’s Club in London, 1951.

Photos by Russell Westwood   

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All Black girls have good hair.

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Dolly Parton onstage, 1970

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ROBERT PATTINSON GQ / 2020 › ph. by himself in London

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Her: I bet he’s thinking about other women

Him: People always go on about finding Cleopatra’s grave but they are completely forgetting the circumstances of her death. She killed herself so that she could not be paraded through Egypt and Rome by the Romans, and its unlikely she would have wanted her body to suffer the same humiliation, so it’s reasonable to assume that her body would have been destroyed before the conquering forces got there. Moreover, even if that failed, the Romans would never give her a proper Egyptian burial and would have either destroyed her body or saw that it was disposed of without honours, ie in a pauper’s grave. It is therefore incredibly unlikely that we shall ever find the tomb of Cleopatra, and indeed, that it ever existed in the first place. History is written by the victors, afterall, as these ancient rulers were well aware.

Update: people have also pointed out to me the importance of cults, and the part that they may have played, and also the fact that her tomb would have likely been completed during her lifetime (where I said ‘tomb’, I actually meant ‘grave’)

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I barely read this, is that Patrick Stump

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Bold looks coming out of the country that banned Muslim women from wearing Burkas and Niqābs.  . 

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SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

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It's so fun and cool and sexy to think about how major corporations would completely dissolve like sugar cubes in hot water if we just didn't go to work

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Hoo boy was this a post or what