Nicholas 🧙🏽‍♂️

I have a lot of feelings and I talk a lot. ♐️🦋🛸☄️🧘‍♂️📸🦕☯️ Lead with Love. 🏳️‍🌈(He/His)

[Nicholas 🧙🏽‍♂️ @NicholasPeters_]

Do yourself a favor today by looking in the mirror and telling yourself, “I love you.” Say it at least 3 times.

Often times in the practice of self love, it’s easy to overlook how we speak to ourselves. This is a reminder to treat yourself with the love you give others. 💞🦋✨

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I’ll never forget the time an interviewer asked Johnny Knoxville about the homoerotic subtext in Jackass and he got mad at them for calling it subtext.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Most modern billionaires are just so tacky. Go endow a library. Fund research and get your name on a cancer center. Sponsor an eccentric polymath who’s obsessed with marble. Build a museum. Fund public parks. Back climate research. Create something that outlives your ego.

[Laura Elliott @TinyWriterLaura]

i love things like this. people have always been people

[Anjali 👊🔥🇺🇸 @AnjaliVBhatt]

every single part of "my mayor muslim, my bagels jewish, my christian dior, knicks in four" is not applicable to me but that hasn't stopped me from saying it out loud fifteen times today

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

This is an incredible public space. I don't understand why cities across Texas and the country aren't doing this.

[Istrandar - Making Carnholt @istrandar]

"The woman is long gone, but the beast she became keeps her purpose. Endlessly etching the whispers of The great Ones"
Five years later, and this is still one of my favorite paintings. It was a big breakthrough for me at the time.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[laurinha 🦠 @ecto_fun]

stepstepstep step step all for no reason

[Mingu @lowgradef]

In fiction evil is often written to have depth and complexity while good is written to be simple and boring. But in real life evil is boring and predictable while good is complex and unique every single time.

[🦐 Shrimb @shrimplify]

I was actually taught several solutions to this by a behavioral therapist lmao

[homoyuri @crosshairlvr]

finding out the artemis ii astronauts talked with poets and studied poetry so they knew how to properly convey what they were seeing in words and saying that the arts played a huge role in their time in space. oh my god

[love drops @lovedropx]

Me and my friends getting left behind by AI

[f☻sa @e_fosa08]

It reflects the philosophy behind each bending style. The martial arts inspirations for the four elements are completely different, and their hand positions show that.

Fire bending uses strong, explosive, direct movements inspired by Northern Shaolin. Closed fists represent aggression, power, and force being projected outward. Firebenders attack head on and generate energy from within.

Earth bending is based on Hung Gar, which emphasizes rooted stances and solid impact. Earthbenders clench their fists because their style is about firmness, resistance, and overwhelming force. They meet attacks instead of avoiding them.

Water bending comes from Tai Chi, which focuses on flow, redirection, and fluidity. Open palms allow smooth circular motions to guide energy instead of stopping it. Waterbenders adapt rather than overpower.

Air bending is inspired by Ba Gua Zhang, a style built around evasion, spirals, and constant movement. Open hands symbolize freedom and non-aggression. Airbenders prefer deflecting and dodging over striking directly.

So visually:

Closed fists = force, control, confrontation.
Open hands = flow, redirection, freedom.

It’s also a subtle personality reflection of the nations themselves:

Fire and Earth are more rigid and assertive.
Water and Air are more adaptive and spiritual.

[Joe Bernstein @Bernstein]

Sometimes someone says something so intensely French that you need to smoke a cigarette

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A guy who'd been painting women lounging on pink cotton candy clouds for six years got an email in early 2010 from a "Katheryn Hudson" wanting to buy his work. He recognized the name. Hudson is Katy Perry's actual last name. So he wrote back: "If this is Katy Perry, would you like to pose for me?"

The painter is Will Cotton. The painting that became the Teenage Dream cover is called Cotton Candy Katy. It's an oil painting on canvas, 72 by 84 inches. That's about 6 by 7 feet, roughly the size of a small wall.

For the photo session, Cotton rented a cotton candy machine and kept it running all afternoon. A friend stood off-camera and threw the spun sugar around Perry as she posed. Cotton builds his subjects before painting them. His Manhattan studio is full of cake mountains, gingerbread castles, oceans of melted chocolate, cotton candy clouds. He makes or buys them first, then paints from them.

The painting wasn't even made for the album. Cotton picked Perry as a model because she fit the style he'd been working in since 2004. Perry only proposed making it the album cover after seeing the work in progress.

Cotton trained at the New York Academy of Art. The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery owns a different Cotton portrait of Perry called Cupcake Katy. His painting Taffy Forest sold at auction for $272,500 in 2012. His record auction sale is $572,500.

AI can generate a similar image in a few seconds. Cotton's painting is a 42-square-foot physical object that took weeks of work in front of a real cotton candy cloud. It sells at auction for six figures. That's what "AI could never" actually means.

[TheAllergyGirl 💜🏳️‍⚧️ @theallergygirl]

i had a friend in grad school who loved to eat berries—strawberries, raspberries, a pomegranate, etc—when she smoked, and that ended up being a whole paradigm shift for me

[☔ @Whotfismick]

Me sensing an opportunity to randomly sing a song mid conversation based off words you said

[Daniel McAdams @DanielLMcAdams]

This is what a holocaust looks like.