Mathilde Santing

Amsterdam 1958 Singer, recording artist, master owner & vocal coach using Sinatra’s Tonic: #inkey #intune #intime #inlove

[Mathilde Santing @mathildesanting]

Diary Of A CEO Responded To My Takedown. I Wasn't Ready For This https://t.co/VjVtBzyAYI
Very good! Worth an hour of your time and watch till the end. 😂

[Music over time🎻 @Peal8888]

This was at the rock and roll hall of fame, she was 19 at the time - And in front of the heavy hitters in the audience. She nailed it.

[Health & Nutrition Tips @healthnutritipz]

1. Hibiscus isn’t “tea” — it’s an “ACE inhibitor.” It repairs elasticity of your arterial walls, lowering your “vascular age” by up to 6 years in 4 weeks.

2. Green Tea isn’t “antioxidant” — it’s a “methylation booster.” It donates methyl groups to repair your DNA’s “error-correcting” enzymes, stopping mutations before they start.

3. Cacao isn’t “hot chocolate” — it’s a “flavanol flood.” It increases blood flow to the hippocampus, literally repairing memory loss and “brain fog” at the cellular level.

4. Chamomile isn’t “sleepy” — it’s a “nerve-regenerator.” It contains apigenin, which physically binds to GABA receptors to rebuild frayed neural pathways from chronic stress.

5. Ginger isn’t “soda flavor” — it’s a “thermogenic trigger.” It repairs your fat cells’ ability to burn energy, reversing the metabolic slowdown that makes you “cold and stiff.”

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[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

Mom watching her baby take his first steps 🥹❤️

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

Humanity is not lost

[QuietCanvas @beyond_d_noise]

Dont speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke.

[Mathilde Santing @mathildesanting]

@Cogito82055344 @chrisklomp Moet me abonneren. Kun je dit stuk met me delen?

[Frederique de Jong @Fredejee]

Verjonging is een argument van slechte managers

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@seanonolennon You know kids take after their grand-parents? 😉 Congrats!

[Mathilde Santing @mathildesanting]

My mother traveled to Canada often since her parents and siblings moved there when she was already engaged. She took this stone on her last trip. I found it after she passed in June 2024. A lot happened for her and us during a holiday in 1965.

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@bosversenecemre Mathilde

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Er kwam hier de tip voorbij om even bij netflix op genre-code te kijken om het algoritme te omzeilen. Wat een VERADEMING! Dan kun je eens echt kiezen ipv die 30 titels met troep die ze je voorschieten die altijd alleen maar teleurstellen. Hier de handige instructie van Ziggo: https://t.co/PO44qpnCkT

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[Mr_Fireside 🔥 @Mr_Fireside]

When did this I fell off the table.

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@tugce190333 The clock

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There is a very brief moment in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring that, the more I think about it, the more significant it becomes: Frodo offers the Ring to Gandalf and asks him to keep it.

It seems like a perfectly reasonable suggestion.

If the Ring is really that dangerous, shouldn’t it be entrusted to someone powerful, wise, and more knowledgeable about the enemy than anyone else?

But Gandalf immediately steps back and pushes Frodo’s hand away.

“Do not tempt me, Frodo.”

I think it is precisely that reaction that deserves our attention.

Gandalf is not afraid of the Ring simply because it is an evil object. What catches my attention is what he says next: he admits that if he took it, he might come to desire to use it out of a “desire to do good.”

And that is where I began to see the Ring’s temptation differently.

It does not necessarily begin with the thought:

“I want to do evil.”

It can begin with a much more acceptable thought:

“I could use this power to fix everything.”

That is the truly frightening part.

Gandalf is a character of immense power, but what stands out in this scene is not his power. It is his ability to recognize the limits of his own.

He could easily convince himself that he would use the Ring to fight Sauron, protect the weak, and bring about a better order. On the surface, all of those purposes seem perfectly justified.

But Gandalf seems to understand that the problem is not simply what intention you begin with.

When someone has enough power to carry out what they believe is right, the boundary between “protecting others” and “deciding for others” can become dangerously thin.

From that perspective, I no longer see “Do not tempt me” as an ordinary expression of humility.

It sounds more like a confession.

Gandalf does not say:

“I am strong enough to resist the Ring.”

He is almost saying:

“I know that I am powerful enough to be changed by it.”

That is what makes his refusal so admirable.

He does not prove that he is immune to power. He admits that he could be tempted by it.

And when I look at the other characters, I feel this even more clearly.

Galadriel offers a beautiful contrast.

When faced with the possibility of taking the Ring, she does not simply imagine herself becoming evil. What appears before her is a more powerful version of herself. A Galadriel who could reshape the world according to her own will.

That is precisely what makes Galadriel’s scene so frightening.

Because the temptation does not tell her:

“Become evil.”

It shows her:

“You could become powerful enough that you would never again have to be helpless in the face of evil.”

Gandalf and Galadriel therefore made me realize something: sometimes the most dangerous thing about power is not that it makes someone want to do evil, but that it makes a good person believe they have enough reason to use it.

Boromir shows me another path.

Boromir is not an evil man. He sees Gondor facing the threat of destruction and believes that the power of the Ring could be used against Sauron.

What makes Boromir’s story so painful is that this idea is not entirely irrational.

If the enemy possesses such a powerful weapon, why shouldn’t we use that very power to save the people we love?

But that is where I see the difference between Boromir and Gandalf.

Gandalf sees the trap while it is still disguised as a beautiful idea.

Boromir, on the other hand, is pushed by circumstances until that idea becomes increasingly reasonable.

And so Gandalf is not simply stronger than Boromir in terms of willpower. He recognizes earlier that there are forms of power that should not be justified solely by the purpose one hopes to achieve with them.

This also explains why Frodo’s reaction to Gandalf’s refusal matters.

Frodo naturally thinks:

If Gandalf is stronger and wiser than I am, then perhaps he should be the one to keep the Ring.

But Gandalf gives Frodo the exact opposite answer.

The more powerful person is precisely the one who refuses to take it.

And from there, the story presents a paradox that I find deeply beautiful:

Is the strongest person always the person best suited to hold the greatest power?

In the case of the Ring, the answer seems to be no.

Frodo is not immune to the Ring. His journey proves the opposite. He too must endure its weight and eventually reaches the limits of his own strength.

But Frodo does not begin the story with the ambition to use the Ring to rule or reshape the world.

And perhaps that difference is what allows a small Hobbit to become the bearer of a burden that more powerful characters would not dare to accept.

What impresses me most about Gandalf, then, is not how powerful he is.

It is that he knows when his own power could become a danger.

He does not try to prove:

“I can control it.”

He chooses instead to say:

“I dare not take it.”

It is only a small shift in perspective, but the meaning is completely different.

Because power always tempts people to believe that they can control it, especially when they believe they are using it for a good purpose.

Gandalf does the opposite.

He refuses even the opportunity to become powerful enough to “fix” the world according to his own will.

And the more I think about this scene, the more I feel that “Do not tempt me” is not only about the Ring.

It speaks to a kind of temptation that is deeply human: when we believe we know what is best for others, it becomes very easy to start believing that we have the power to make that decision for them.

Perhaps that is why Gandalf’s refusal does not feel to me like the moment when a powerful man steps back.

It is the moment when a powerful man recognizes his own limits.

And sometimes, the most valuable kind of strength is not the ability to wield great power.

It is the ability to look at that power, know that you could use it, and still have enough clarity to say:

No.

[Emilia Cypher @Cypher_Ai1]

A guy worked as an Apple Store Genius for 5 years. He repaired over 10,000 iPhones. He taught over 15,000 customers how to use them.

He said the same thing happened every single day: a customer would hand him a $1,200 iPhone, and he'd realize they were using it like a $200 phone from 2014.

"The iPhone has a built-in document scanner, a password manager, a sign language interpreter, a live translation system that works in real-time conversations, a sound recognition engine that alerts deaf users when a doorbell rings or a baby cries, a satellite emergency system that works with zero cell signal, a car crash detector, a text extraction tool that reads words from any photo, a background noise canceler for phone calls, and a health monitoring system that tracks everything from walking steadiness to hearing levels. Most people use it for texts, calls, Instagram, and a camera. That's a $1,200 computer running 5 apps."

He said Apple adds 50–100 new features with every major iOS update and never tells you about most of them. They're buried in Settings, hidden behind gestures, or tucked inside apps you've never opened.

"Apple builds the most powerful consumer device on earth. Then they ship it with a 2-minute setup wizard and hope you figure the rest out yourself. You won't. Nobody does."

Here are the 11 things he showed every customer:

[Paul Brown @0xQuasark]

The most viral hack for controlling negative emotions I've ever seen 🤯