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[Rumi @Rumi_Quote]

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

[Agent 888 @Agent888488]

“The bells of the clock tower almost defined 13th c. urban existence. Time keeping passed into time serving and time accounting and time rationing. As this took place, Eternity gradually ceased to serve as the measure and focus of human actions.”

-Mumford

[jo @jo212]

every encounter with this quote asks for a new meeting with a Nishane bottle

[Rumi @Rumi_Quote]

"I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways."

[Agent 888 @Agent888488]

“Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.”

-Ficino, Commentary on Plato’s Symposium (“De Amore”)

[𝐬𝐨𝐯 ᯓ ✈︎ @sovietsoleri]

One of my favorite paintings by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, “The Walnut Tree in Benevento,” 1826.

[Agent 888 @Agent888488]

“If you really want to understand how the human species engages, constructs & changes the world, get serious about the study of religion. Science & technology cannot get you there. You have to get deep down into the operating systems of the species (which) are religious”

-Kripal

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Hubble captured the most detailed infrared image of the Horsehead Nebula in Orion, a towering cloud about 5 light-years tall, revealing hidden delicate gas folds beyond the dust.

[Emanuel Ciocu @ECiocu]

Bine spus

[☥ Mariah de Aurum ☉ @UraeusDeAurum]

Well yes! 🌊🌊🌊

[Gracey ✨ @northastrology]

“The unseen is always the parent of the seen”

Dr. William Tiller

[Gracey ✨ @northastrology]

“Whether we like it or not, one of our tasks on this earth is to work with the opposites through different levels of consciousness until body, soul and spirit resonate together.”

-Marion Woodman

[Catalin Tenita🇷🇴 @catalintenita]

Hidratarea este esențială vara. Mai ales în aceste zile de caniculă.

Avem aici harta cișmelelor publice din București, aproape 300.
https://t.co/f4mEIu0pY0

Dezhidratarea ucide. Pe loc, sau prin probleme renale majore, pe termen lung.

Please share.

[Xavi Bros @Xavi_Bros]

Nice video of #Jupiter's high #atmosphere seen by #Juno spacecraft last perijove 15 flyby this September.
Credit: NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS / SPICE / Gerald Eichstädt

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

My sleep scores during recent travel were in the 90s. Now back in SF I am consistently back down to 70s, 80s.

I am increasingly convinced that this is due to traffic noise from a nearby road/intersection where I live - every ~10min, a car, truck, bus, or motorcycle with a very loud engine passes by (some are 10X louder than others). In the later less deep stages of sleep, it is much easier to wake and then much harder to go back to sleep.

More generally I think noise pollution (esp early hours) come at a huge societal cost that is not correctly accounted for. E.g. I wouldn't be too surprised if a single motorcycle riding through a neighborhood at 6am creates millions of dollars in damages in the form of hundreds - thousands of people who are more groggy, more moody, less creative, less energetic for the whole day, and more sick in the long term (cardiovascular, metabolic, cognitive). And I think that many people, like me, might not be aware that this happening for a long time because 1) they don't measure their sleep carefully, and 2) your brain isn't fully conscious when waking and isn't able to make a lasting note / association in that state. I really wish future versions of Whoop (or Oura or etc.) would explicitly track and correlate noise to sleep, and raise this to the population.

It's not just traffic, e.g. in SF, as a I recently found out, it is ok by law to begin arbitrarily loud road work or construction starting 7am. Same for leaf blowers and a number of other ways of getting up to 100dB.

I ran a few Deep Research sessions and a number of studies that have tried to isolate noise and show depressing outcomes for cohorts of people who sleep in noisy environments, with increased risk across all of mental health (e.g. depression, bipolar disorders, Alzheimer's incidence) but also a lot more broadly, e.g. cardiovascular disease, diabetes.

Anyway, it took me a while to notice and after (unsuccessfully) trying a number of mitigations I am moving somewhere quiet. But from what I've seen this is a major public health issue with little awareness and with incorrect accounting by the government.

[jo @jo212]

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[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

"Psychologically you develop in a spiral, you always come over the same point where you have been before, but it is never exactly the same, it is either above or below." ~CG Jung, 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Linen jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was forced into an Austrian asylum during the late 1800′s and who embroidered her life story onto the jacket as an attempt to regain her identity #womensart

[Hozier @Hozier]

For those unfamiliar with it, @SoundsRight2024 is a project led by the Museum for the @UN, and allows for Nature itself to be credited on collaborative releases with artists and their work.

On Friday the 16th of May, a new version of Like Real People Do will be released alongside the anniversary vinyl pressing which features the bird song, cricket song, rain fall and thunder of my beloved home of Wicklow.

50% of the royalties from this version of the track will flow through to conservation efforts around the world. I hope you enjoy and explore their other good works. Thanks and much love.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

John Singer Sargent’s painting ‘Staircase in Capri’ (1878) is one of the most beautiful portrayals of light in art that I’ve ever seen