🌬 Joss

as above, so below. an amoeba inside a Tibetan bowl.

[Kyle Russell @kylebrussell]

I like how his face twitches as the bird spirits leave his body

[🌬 Joss @findingpneuma]

This is how synchronous life is supposed to be. Everything feels intentional in the most magical way but only if you zoom out and pay attention and have an inner purpose and drive

[Annalise Keating @Ariannnyy_]

You can’t convince me life is just a series of coincidences. What do you mean Lionel Messi was randomly paired with a five-month-old baby after the baby’s family won a UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot while Messi played for Barcelona… and that baby grew up to be Lamine Yamal?

Lamine would go on to become one of the brightest young stars in soccer, wear the same No. 19 Messi wore for the same team when that photo was taken, and now, nearly two decades later, could face Messi in a World Cup Final???????

[🌬 Joss @findingpneuma]

@Grimezsz You lowkey just called her a jester

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In the 1837 original, the mermaid gets her tongue cut out, feels knives under her feet with every step, watches the prince marry someone else, and dissolves into sea foam. Hans Christian Andersen wrote it right after the man he loved announced his engagement to a woman.

Edvard Collin was Andersen's closest friend. When the engagement news came, Andersen sent him a letter confessing that his feelings were "those of a woman," calling the whole thing a mystery that had to stay one. Collin admitted decades later, in his own memoir, that he could never return that love.

Then Andersen mailed him the finished manuscript of The Little Mermaid.

Read the story with that letter next to it. A creature from a world the prince can never enter. A love she physically cannot speak. A rival from his own kind who wins by simply existing. At the end her sisters hand her a knife: kill him and come home. She refuses, and the sun comes up.

Disney gave her the rewrite in 1989, and the trade finally paid off, fins for a wedding. Andersen never got his revision. He's buried in the Collin family plot, sharing the ground with Edvard and the woman Edvard married.

[priscilla (alt) @seashell_luvr]

I believe this because every woman chess player genuinely oozes coolness and swagger aka integrated animus

[Hazy @loveroftrvth]

I hate how existing in the age of the Internet means you can never really say goodbye. You're always a single search away from seeing how the person that broke your heart 10 years ago is doing in life, and so on.

[Quetzal Writes 🇺🇲| 🇬🇹 @QuetzalThoughts]

The older I get, the more sympathetic I am to one of my mother's maxims: Don't re-litigate established, foundational social norms. Life is too short to be continually entertaining bad ideas like polyamory and the like. They're bad ideas, don't waste your life trying to pursue it

[🌬 Joss @findingpneuma]

Everyone else’s problems are my problems and when I have a problem, it’s a problem for everyone else.

But nobody carries my problems with me, even when they’re a result of someone else’s problems which they ignored.

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

one common trait I find in high achieving individuals is urgency. it looks almost like impatience until you understand it is closer to reverence, a deep refusal to waste the one thing they can’t buy more of. the alarm goes and they rise. the message is answered while it is still warm. the small task is done before it can find a shelf to hide on. they commit and move in a single motion. an idea sparks and they chase it that day, before the world talks them out of it. they run at their own lives like something is at stake, because they have decided something is.

[posionedmoon @posionedmoon]

Let me tell u all one single truth about ur existence: there’s probably 3 people who will genuinely love u in ur fullness. everyone else either respects u, completely needs u, admires u or selectively tolerates u

[🌬 Joss @findingpneuma]

@LinkedInLunat1c That kind of dedication only makes sense if you have a personal stake in the company and overextending yourself would make a difference long term. Bullshit if you’re clocking in and out of work for a regular hourly rate with a w-2

[🌬 Joss @findingpneuma]

@BroCosmic12035 @BradenlG @jetpckcat @meoww739 Throughout time, people like you would make a comment like this in public and everyone would look at them weird and they would feel shame and be ostracized. Behind a screen there is none of that and you’re just sitting there laughing with yourself, unaware. :(

[🌬 Joss @findingpneuma]

Phonetically, sounds like the Hindu chant “Om Namo” meaning I bow in reverence too

Also sounds like Ameno by ERA and Adiemus by Karl Jenkins which are both choir chants sung in two different invented languages.

Sumthn to think about :)

[Madeon @madeon]

Why did every 2010s pop song sing “and i know and i know and i know” the exact same way ???

There's DOZENS of examples.

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

you must believe you are special and then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.

[flinta warrior @midsapologist]

grief illuminates the depth of love in such a beautiful way but the time it takes to heal feels like torture

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

For over a thousand years, historians thought the Viking "sunstone" was nothing more than a myth, until the ocean gave up its secret...

The Norse sagas repeatedly referenced a mysterious object called a "sólarsteinn" or sunstone, a navigational tool so powerful that Viking sailors could locate the exact position of the sun even on the most overcast and cloudy days. For centuries, scholars debated whether this was real technology or simply folklore embellished over generations of retelling. Most assumed it was legend. They were wrong.

In 2013, marine archaeologists excavating a British warship that sank near the Channel Islands in 1592 made a stunning discovery buried among the wreckage. Alongside navigational instruments including a pair of dividers and a slate, they found a rectangular chunk of translucent crystal. Testing confirmed it was Iceland spar, a remarkably pure form of calcite with extraordinary optical properties. The fact that it was found stored alongside other precision navigation tools was not a coincidence.

Iceland spar possesses a property called birefringence, meaning it splits a single beam of light entering the crystal into two separate beams. When you hold the crystal up toward the sky and slowly rotate it, the two beams will vary in brightness independently until, at one specific angle of rotation, they become perfectly equal in intensity. That precise angle points directly toward the sun, regardless of whether the sun is visible to the naked eye. Cloud cover, fog, and even twilight conditions cannot defeat it.

Researchers from the University of Rennes in France conducted extensive testing and published their findings in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A. Their experiments demonstrated that Iceland spar could locate the sun's position with an accuracy of within one degree, even under completely overcast skies. For Viking navigators crossing the North Atlantic toward Iceland, Greenland, and eventually North America, this accuracy would have meant the difference between a successful voyage and sailing hopelessly off course into open ocean.

The Viking Age spanned roughly 793 to 1066 AD, and during this period Norse sailors were completing oceanic crossings that would not be replicated by other European cultures for another 400 years. Historians had long puzzled over how they achieved such consistent navigational precision without magnetic compasses, which did not reach Europe until the 12th century. The sunstone appears to be a significant part of that answer.

What makes the Channel Islands find especially compelling is that the 1592 shipwreck is far outside the traditional Viking era, suggesting that knowledge of this navigational technique survived and was still being used by European sailors centuries after the Viking Age officially ended. The crystal was not a relic or a curiosity on that ship. It was working equipment.

The sagas specifically describe King Olaf consulting a sunstone on a cloudy day to verify the position of the sun, with a separate observation then confirming the stone's accuracy. For generations this was dismissed as poetic invention. Science has now confirmed that every element of that description is physically possible and practically achievable with a simple piece of Icelandic calcite.

The Vikings were not lucky explorers stumbling across new lands by accident. They were sophisticated navigators armed with technology so elegant and effective that it required no moving parts, no maintenance, and no power source beyond the sky itself.

📷 : the original calcite crystal alongside Elizabethan navigation dividers next to a cannon

Alderney Museum

#archaeohistories

[🌬 Joss @findingpneuma]

@DefundNintendo @fruitchaaat You’re supposed to learn about the caste system and hierarchies in World History I which you should’ve taken in 6th to 8th grade if you grew up in the United States. Maybe you didn’t pay attention

[rissa.mp4 𓂃 ོ☼𓂃 @rissaoffline]

i haven't stopped thinking about this reply for days. Healthy relationships are just a proxy for knowing what you want, knowing what's good for you, and being able to commit to it

[🌬 Joss @findingpneuma]

Wait and with a girlfriend of 4+ years ………,,,

[🌬 Joss @findingpneuma]

My 22 year old little sister owning her own car, house, college degree, and working as an international social media marketer while growing up in Jinotega …….
North America is a SCAM !