Morialta Muse

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[Morialta Muse @MorialtaMuse]

@angelapippos The irony of all the ON SA MPs voting against an abortion bill on the same day their leader said we’re spending too much on Childcare & she’ll cut funding if she gets in office

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Four strangers eating dinner on a sidewalk in Paris is a $3 billion urban planning decision from 1853.

This is Place Saint-Sulpice, 6th arrondissement. Those people having dinner on the sidewalk are sitting in infrastructure that took 17 years and the demolition of 20,000 buildings to create. Baron Haussmann redesigned Paris between 1853 and 1870, replacing five-meter medieval streets with 30-meter boulevards. The mandate was "aérer, unir, et embellir." Ventilate, unite, and beautify. He built 34,000 new buildings with strict rules: identical limestone facades, five stories max, uniform cornices, height proportional to street width.

The chairs all face the street. That's not random. Parisian terrasse culture treats the sidewalk as a theater where the city is the performance. You sit side by side with your companion, not across from each other. The table is yours for as long as you want it. No check dropped on your table 35 minutes in. No manager optimizing table turns per hour. The entire economic model of the French café rejects the premise that a seat is a unit of revenue to be maximized.

Paris has over 12,000 cafés. If you visited a different terrasse every single day, it would take you almost 30 years to see them all. The city applied for UNESCO heritage status for its café terrasses in 2018, arguing they're a form of intangible cultural infrastructure.

The reason most cities can't replicate this photo is the same reason most companies can't replicate a good culture. The inputs are boring. Wide sidewalks. Uniform building heights that create human-scale streetscapes. Zoning that puts residential above commercial. A cultural norm that leisure in public space is a right, not a purchase. Every American city chose parking lots and drive-throughs instead. The architecture made the behavior impossible before anyone even had the chance to choose it.

Nothing is stopping humanity from living like this. Except concrete, zoning laws, and a 70-year bet on the automobile that most cities are still too proud to reverse.

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Faces of the Ancient World: Masks Across 9,000 Years

[Sisters of Aquinas @ QAS Online Academy @sistersaquinas]

The beautiful chant of the Easter sequence, Victimae Paschali Laudes.
#easter #chant #sistersofaquinas

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

IVE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING SO AUSTRALIAN

[Maya Angelou @DrMayaAngelou]

Dr. Maya Angelou never had a daughter, though she often spoke of wanting one. In a 1973 interview, she shared what she would tell a young girl growing up — and her words still ring true today:

“You might encounter many defeats, but you must never be defeated… Laugh a lot. Love life.”

Her wisdom continues to guide generations. 💐 💖

#WomensHistoryMonth

[Catarina Senora Gatita @WyattCatarina]

I died so many times watching this video…I know how I would react, but what if it went up his shorts?! 😅😱
Poll below!🦎

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is what the internet was invented for

In 1996, a King Penguin named Lala became a local celebrity in Shibushi, Japan. After being rescued from a fishing net by the Nishimoto family, he refused to return to the wild.

He lived in an air-conditioned room in their home and was famous for walking alone to the fish market wearing a tiny backpack.

The fishmonger would feed him a fresh fish and place another in his bag for the trip home.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Today is Holy Monday - the day Jesus threw the merchants and money changers out of the temple. He was incensed at them for commercialising a house of prayer.
What would Jesus think of those on this site who see religion as a way to spread hatred and make money?

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"So this happened today at Barnes & Noble: I went to take the kids to meet the Paw Patrol characters and this nice man approached me, told me how beautiful the girls are, and conveyed a heartfelt apology for the general anti-Muslim sentiment in our society today. He had tears in his eyes and told me that it must be so hard to turn on the news, that he feels awful about the bigotry my kids might one day experience, and that as a Jewish man whose parents didn't speak any English growing up, he personally understands what it feels like to be rejected and discriminated against. I asked if I could give him a hug (he looked like he needed one more than me, but I guess I needed one too) and he wanted to reassure me that most Americans are decent people who don't hate people like me or believe what they hear on the news. He then told me he's turning 90 on Friday and insisted on buying each of the kids a present as a gift for himself and so they can have something to remember him by. I told him we should just take a picture instead so I can tell them the story one day (he accepted) but insisted on buying them gifts anyway afterwards. Oh, and happy birthday, Lenny! 🎈❤️ Leena"

Credit: Leena Al-Arian

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Conan O'Brien says he has "incredible empathy for people who have immigrated to another country" after traveling to Ireland and seeing his great-grandfather lived.

"I went back to Ireland and I [saw] a great genealogist who said, 'I found where your great-grandfather’s home was.' The home is gone, but he found the little spot where he lived, near the Galbally Mountains. He said, 'I’ll go there and show it to you,' and I said, 'We’ll do it on camera.'

"I was expecting to have these jokes loaded up; we had props and funny things we were going to do... But I got there, and I did not expect this because I'm not someone who wears my emotions on my sleeve, but I got emotional. It was very powerful.

"This was a very small plot of land. He was a tenant farmer, so it wasn't his. He didn't have money, and he needed to move on because it wasn't working; probably not enough to eat, couldn't sustain. So, he left and went to America, and here I am a couple of generations later.

"What's amazing to me is when you have that experience and you stand there, I have incredible empathy for people who have immigrated to another country. It takes an entire lifetime to go to a country where, often, people don't speak the language. They have to spend their entire lives just getting things started for the next generation; it's a whole lifetime that you're feeding into this process.

"I was just thinking about this guy, whom I'll never meet, who had to do that. I think I was overcome by the fact that there's a lot of sadness in that story, and in a lot of these stories. People leave not because they think, 'Hey, I just want to go have fun in America.' They leave because they have to."

(via Jimmy Kimmel Live)

[Morialta Muse @MorialtaMuse]

@dannolan What a time to be alive

[Oceaiii🐋🐬 @oceaiii]

This extraordinary illustration, titled Wild World, is a hand-drawn global map created by artist and cartographer Anton thomas. Instead of political borders and city names, the map highlights wildlife, placing animals in their native habitats across every continent and ocean.

Over the course of three years, Thomas meticulously illustrated 1, 642 species using coloured pencil and pen. Each animal is positioned according to its natural range, transforming the familiar shape of the world into a celebration of biodiversity.

By removing human boundaries and focusing on ecosystems, the map offers a powerful reminder that
the planet is shared space. It invites us to see geography not just as nations and borders, but as living habitats that connect species across land and sea.

[Morialta Muse @MorialtaMuse]

@Pivotonian1838 Cats are always in it for a scratch behind their ears. Then they get overwhelmed and can’t help attack