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I’m about to take the nap of all naps b4 the club tonight

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I can't believe Uranus was discovered on march 13th 1781. can you believe Uranus was discovered on march 13th 1781???

[tsarina-anadyomene]

There's really this strong temptation that everyone has which basically says "to have interiority is to be like me; ordinary people are surface everywhere." And this manifests in different ways in different spaces, and becomes really pronounced when you cluster together with similar people. So tumblr users often act like straight people don't have any interiority because it helps you feel the deepening of social bonds with other gay people. This happens professionally too. I think it was Summer or Sharks who was saying that programming people think that intelligence is just being really good at writing code. Not surprising but very strange to me! I am (equally ridiculously) used to thinking that intelligence is being really good at philosophy, having command of a lot of sources that you can use creatively, etc. This reflects a kind of dynamic on tumblr and reddit. On reddit to have interiority is to be a science guy and on tumblr to have interiority is to be a humanities girl (and the dynamic is gendered in exactly this way). And I think there is something dangerous about habitually regarding other people as automatons. It's good to have people outside of your niche to remind you that other people from different walks of life are quite deep and complicated. They are full of love and fine grained attention to things you never thought to care about. And I think a lot of people go through life thinking of themselves as perpetually victimized by basically empty people rather than having genuine confrontations with full, genuine people who are committed to subtle, complex and real values, who have detailed and intricate histories, and who have a bond to you that you might never quite fully understand. But we rarely even try at understanding these things. We just decide that they're stupid and ridiculous and unreasonable.

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it's dangerous to believe that vulnerability is always a relationship between perceiver and perceived. it can distract you from confronting yourself in solitude. It can distract you from true honesty.

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My dad doesn’t want me to move again in December and he said “women in my country used to make art while staying in the same village their whole life, why can’t you?” Lol everyone say I love you Adira’s baba.

[ssegundosombra]

"Artists do however have a degree of freedom. A writer has little power, but he does have freedom... Think very carefully about this. Do you want to be merely the spokesman for accomplished power movers? The more power, the less freedom. A politician has almost no freedom at all. I am frequently asked, 'What would you do if you were President? What would you do if you were the dictator of America? What would you do if you had a billion dollars?” In the words of my friend Ahmed Jacoubi, 'This question is not personal opinion.' A prior question must be asked: 'How did you get to be the President, a dictator, a billionaire?' The answers to these questions will condition what you will do. For one is not magically teleported into these positions; one gets there by a series of discrete steps, each step hedged with conditions and prices.”

William S. Burroughs, The Adding Machine: Collected Essays

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Jam session with my friends tonight, I will be on piano ;)

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I think my core values have remained unchanged, but they sharpened, and due to the sharpening my way of expression only gets softer and softer as I age because I literally have nothing to prove to anyone. Most importantly I have nothing to prove to myself. And while certain core values remain unchanged, a lot of my opinions become more and more abstract that to discuss them requires a very intimate audience.

So a lot can get lost in translation on the internet. I never seem to care if someone takes my opinion out of context, because I also don’t care all that much about defending my opinions anymore. Everything is subject to change and I honor that, I am more than willing to change my mind, but it’s a personal journey. Changing the mind requires an interchangeable relationship between student and teacher.

Many people are not adept at switching between those roles and therefore their values and opinions feel aggressive and unearned. I care deeply about dialogue and tact in ways that you earn with experience and age.

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for 2026 and beyond:

Bigger things take bigger time

An expanded sense of our time scale (the long now) is correlated to an expanded sense of place

The most important things will take more than one lifetime to complete

We must always aim to be good ancestors

I am here for the infinite game of life

I trust the future

there are always new ways to cooperate, and it is time to expand your imagination

[squareallworthy]

Everyone will not just

If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just…” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now.

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my sister is a cap sun moon in aries and rising leo too :’)

Do you love her or is she your enemy

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my bad if you have said b4 but what’s ur zodiac sign big 3? (sun/moon/rising)

Cap sun aries moon leo rising scorpio venus aquarius mars blah blah blah

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https://www.instagram.com/adirahilwa?utm_source=qr

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My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol

- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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Im the birthday girl from a previous ask~ I booked myself my first sauna experience and a full hemp body massage ^.^ Last night I had a great date and the guy wants to take me out for my birthday but we will see! I feel lucky to have options on how to give myself pleasure for the first time in a long time and Im having so much fun!

loooovvveeee! thank you for updating me. he definitely should take you out for your birthday. The birthday girl gets what the birthday girl wants. you will love the sauna experience as well, and if he doesn't end up taking you out, get yourself take out delivered to your house after the sauna and hangout with your dog <3 kisses!!