SnowiB🐦🇪🇭 🇺🇦 🌏🐘🇪🇺

NHS. European regardless. Nature. Lives matter. Reality is very different from our beliefs. Subatomic particles all of us. Nordic Noir.

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

"But maybe that’s the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart."

- Haruki Murakami, Samsa in Love

Art by Kevin Kia

[Pam Ayres MBE @PamAyres]

Look what’s been built in Cardiff for swifts. My niece sent me these photos and said the structure was alive with birds. Heartening to see. It’s shaped like a swift in flight I think. Other towns have created similar swift nest sites including Exeter. Thank you for caring.

[Nina S. Murphy 🌻 @ninaslostnfound]

"There is no force in the world but love, and when you carry it within you, when you simply have it, even if you remain baffled as to how to use it, it will work it's radiant effects and help you out of and beyond yourself: one must never lose this faith, one must simply -- (and if it were nothing else) endure in it!"

Rainer Maria Rilke | 🎨 Laivi Poder

[Nina S. Murphy 🌻 @ninaslostnfound]

Do not compare yourself to anyone else — your wings are uniquely made for your own sky.

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

Charlotte Brontë, J. Eyre

Alex R. Flint

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

Have you ever stopped to think about this?

A hundred years from now, in 2126, every one of us will be gone. We’ll rest beside our families, friends, and generations that came before us.

The homes we worked endlessly to build will belong to strangers. The things we treasured so deeply — our clothes, our cars, our possessions — will no longer carry our names or stories. Everything we fought to own will simply become someone else’s everyday life.

Most of our descendants may never truly know who we were. After all, how many of us can even name our great-grandfather’s father?

For a short while after we leave this world, people may remember us. Our photographs may sit quietly on a shelf, our names spoken from time to time. But as years pass, even those memories begin to fade. Eventually, our stories disappear into the silence of history.

When we truly reflect on this, we begin to realize how small and temporary so many of our worries really are. The endless chase for more — more money, more status, more possessions — suddenly feels far less important.

What truly matters are the moments we often neglect:
the walks we never took,
the hugs we never gave,
the laughter we postponed,
the time we failed to spend with the people we love.

In the end, those simple moments become the real wealth of life. They are the memories that bring warmth to the heart and meaning to our existence.

Yet day after day, many of us trade those precious moments for greed, stress, pride, and intolerance.

Perhaps life was never meant to be about having everything.
Perhaps it was always meant to be about loving deeply, living gently, and appreciating the fleeting beauty of being here at all.

✨🙌🏾💫

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Don’t force life, flow. Be slow when the world is addicted to fast. Don’t follow trends. Create your own rhythm. Go to bed early. Wake up before the noise. Eat simple foods. Go for long walks without your phone. Read thick books nobody has the attention span for anymore. Keep your circle small. Keep your life private. Avoid drama at all costs. The world will call it boring. But trust me, there is nothing boring about having a calm nervous system. A clear mind. A healthy body. A peaceful life that actually feels like yours. Most people are overstimulated, anxious, distracted, disconnected from themselves. You don’t need more of that. What you genuinely need is depth. Stillness. Meaning. And you can choose the life that makes you feel more like yourself. Depth over noise. Always...

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

@AndyBurnhamGM How do you feel about cats?

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Japan, children clean their own schools.

Every day. After lunch.
About twenty minutes.

Classrooms.
Hallways.
Toilets.

Not because the schools are too poor
to hire someone.

Because in 1947, this country decided
that cleaning your own space
is part of becoming a person.

The cleaning rag
is on the school supply list.
Right next to the pencils.

Egypt teaches it now.
So does Indonesia.
So does Mongolia.

Think about the last time
you watched a seven-year-old
mop a floor without complaining.

Japan does that
in every elementary school
in the country.

Not as punishment.

As education.

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Living a slow life has calmed my nervous system. I don’t panic over every little thing anymore. I don’t feel guilty for resting. I don’t treat every moment like it needs to be productive. Some mornings I just make coffee and sit in silence. Looking at the sky. The birds. Breathing in the morning calm. Some evenings I stare out the window and watch the sky turn orange. Sometimes I read 20 pages. Sometimes I read none. I don’t feel the need to optimize every second of my existence anymore. That constant pressure to “do more,” “be more,” has disappeared. And in its place came what I actually needed: calm. I’ve realized life becomes meaningful the moment you stop rushing through it. Meaning was never hidden. It's was always there in the little things that made you feel peaceful and fully alive.

[Nina S. Murphy 🌻 @ninaslostnfound]

I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful – as a child is – for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark.

Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

- Faith Baldwin | 🎨 Elena Wuest

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

There’s a growing tendency in politics to treat changing leaders as a substitute for strategy. The calls from parts of Labour for Keir Starmer to resign fall into that trap.

1. It’s perfectly legitimate to criticise Starmer’s decisions, political instincts or leadership style. But removing a prime minister after such a short time in government would not be interpreted by voters as strength. It would look like panic.

2. Britain has just lived through years of leadership churn under the Conservatives. The result was not renewal or dynamism, but instability, market anxiety and collapsing public trust.

3. Voters do not forget that quickly. One of Labour’s core electoral arguments was that it would restore seriousness and stability after the chaos of the post-Brexit Conservative era.

4. For Labour to now descend into internal warfare would destroy that contrast almost immediately. The party would stop looking like an alternative government and start looking like another unstable coalition unable to govern itself.

5. And politically, the main beneficiaries would be obvious: Nigel Farage and the Conservatives.

6. Reform thrives on institutional exhaustion. Its entire pitch is that the mainstream parties are broken, chaotic and self-serving. A Labour civil war would validate that argument perfectly.

7. The Conservatives, meanwhile, would be handed something they currently lack - political oxygen. Instead of scrutiny remaining on their record, politics would become dominated by Labour infighting and leadership speculation.

8. There is also a broader democratic problem . If prime ministers are treated as permanently disposable by the parties and the media, governments lose the ability to pursue long-term strategy. Politics becomes reactive, short-term and performative.

9. None of this means leaders should be immune from challenge. But there is a difference between accountability and self-destruction.

The question Labour MPs should ask themselves is simple. Does forcing out Starmer now make a Reform government more or less likely in the medium term?
The answer seems fairly obvious.

[SnowiB🐦🇪🇭 🇺🇦 🌏🐘🇪🇺 @SnowiBee]

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[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

There’s a growing tendency in politics to treat changing leaders as a substitute for strategy. The calls from parts of Labour for Keir Starmer to resign fall into that trap.

1. It’s perfectly legitimate to criticise Starmer’s decisions, political instincts or leadership style. But removing a prime minister after such a short time in government would not be interpreted by voters as strength. It would look like panic.

2. Britain has just lived through years of leadership churn under the Conservatives. The result was not renewal or dynamism, but instability, market anxiety and collapsing public trust.

3. Voters do not forget that quickly. One of Labour’s core electoral arguments was that it would restore seriousness and stability after the chaos of the post-Brexit Conservative era.

4. For Labour to now descend into internal warfare would destroy that contrast almost immediately. The party would stop looking like an alternative government and start looking like another unstable coalition unable to govern itself.

5. And politically, the main beneficiaries would be obvious: Nigel Farage and the Conservatives.

6. Reform thrives on institutional exhaustion. Its entire pitch is that the mainstream parties are broken, chaotic and self-serving. A Labour civil war would validate that argument perfectly.

7. The Conservatives, meanwhile, would be handed something they currently lack - political oxygen. Instead of scrutiny remaining on their record, politics would become dominated by Labour infighting and leadership speculation.

8. There is also a broader democratic problem . If prime ministers are treated as permanently disposable by the parties and the media, governments lose the ability to pursue long-term strategy. Politics becomes reactive, short-term and performative.

9. None of this means leaders should be immune from challenge. But there is a difference between accountability and self-destruction.

The question Labour MPs should ask themselves is simple. Does forcing out Starmer now make a Reform government more or less likely in the medium term?
The answer seems fairly obvious.

[Nina S. Murphy 🌻 @ninaslostnfound]

“She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people...”
- Nicholas Sparks

🎨: Jane Newland, 'Starry Night Stroll'

[G-MA & G-PA @GPAIndiana]

If you grew up using a phone booth, you're basically indestructible. We stood in a glass box that smelled like cigarettes, mystery cologne, and bad decisions.. holding a receiver that had been licked, sneezed on, and probably survived three decades of flu seasons. Honestly, if you made it through that era, your immune system has a black belt and a side hustle. 📞😂

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

“Be yourself” may sound cringe now. But honestly to me, it's still the most profound statement that will ever exist. Especially in the world we live in today. Look around. Everyone dresses the same. Talks the same. Uses the same slang. Follows the same advice.
Repeats the same routines that quietly destroy their mental health. Podcasts about authenticity. Books about finding yourself. Influencers performing their "fake self" for seven million followers. People are terrified of being different. So they copy each other until nobody even knows who they really are anymore. And the tragedy is the more you perform to fit in, the further you drift from yourself. Your real voice. Your real interests. Your real nature. Being yourself is not some cliché. It’s rebellion. In a world that's trying to turn everyone into the same person, being your authentic flawed self is one of the bravest things you can do.