Chinese Artist Shou Xin Creates The Most Wonderful Cats With Just A Few Pencil Lines

A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

I just read “each time you open a book and read, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death”and OH MY GOD

my friends r so talented. rb if ur friends are talented

self-improvement should be because you want to improve your quality of life, not because you feel or think you *need* to be better in order to be loved or allowed to live. there's no end goal with self-improvement, it's easy to dig yourself a grave when you don't realize that you're not on a ticking clock to be the 'best version of yourself'. all you need to strive to do is be the version of yourself you are the most happy with. find out what values you find important, what kind of friend do you want to be, how do you want to react to things. what are things that would improve the way you go about life? what would make life easier, better and more enjoyable for you?

Sometimes, reading stuff about particle physics and quarks feels like reading about a magic system or smth. Anti-strange kaons? Charm? Up quark? Antimatter neutrino? Syncrotron? The God particle?? Abracadabra to you, too. Damn.

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Sagmata Monastery - Thebes, Greece

pictures by julianmcrrow (IG: duke_valentino)

Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."

This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find

Some people get existential dread from this

Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating

i don’t like how endings in real life come on so suddenly without making sense, without much warning. one minute you’re in the middle of something and the next it’s all a very long time ago and you’re a different person and none of it is ever coming back