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send music 🌈🏔🎞✨

[mar @nomadmar]

gardens out of a fairytale 🌿⛲️🧚🏼

[Blue. @truebluestormy]

rosalía - magnolias (instrumental).

[Camus @newstart_2024]

New UK screen time rules just dropped — and they’re stricter than most parents expected.

From 27 March 2026, England says: zero solo screens for under-2s (except quick video calls with family), and max one hour a day for 2–5 year olds — no screens at meals or the hour before bed. Co-view everything, stick to slow-paced content, and ditch fast social-media clips and AI toys completely.

The science is sobering: toddlers’ brains process info up to 10 times slower than adults. Fast-paced screens push them into fight-or-flight mode — racing heart, surging energy — while they’re sitting still. Researchers at the University of East London say this mismatch can wire kids for more tantrums and emotional struggles later. Using screens to calm meltdowns? It often backfires long-term.

As a parent, it’s brutal — we all know that explosion the second you take the tablet away.

But this feels like evidence finally catching up with what our gut has been telling us.

How are you handling screens with little ones — strict limits, co-viewing, or mostly winging it?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The people in this photo aren't friendlier than you. Their apartments are just smaller. So small that Parisians basically gave up on living indoors and moved their living rooms onto the sidewalk. And that was the whole plan.

In the 1850s, a city planner named Baron Haussmann tore apart medieval Paris and rebuilt it. He widened streets into boulevards, capped every building at five stories, and added one rule that explains this entire photo: the ground floor of every building had to be a café, a bakery, or a shop. The apartments above were intentionally tiny. Some were single rooms carved out of old mansions. No garden. Barely any sunlight. A private balcony was something most Parisians would never have.

So the café became home. You ate breakfast there. Held meetings there. Received your mail there. By the late 1700s, Paris already had close to 2,000 of them. In 2002, there were still 1,907. Even now, after years of closures brought that number to about 1,410, the coverage is absurd: a 2020 city study found 94% of Parisians live within a five-minute walk of a bakery. When COVID shut indoor dining in 2020, Paris ripped out parking spaces, turned them into outdoor terraces, and let 9,800 cafés and restaurants keep them permanently.

An American sociologist named Ray Oldenburg wrote a book in 1989 called The Great Good Place. He had a name for spots like the Parisian café: "third places." Not your home, not your office, but the casual in-between spots where you actually get to know people. Cafés, pubs, barbershops, the corner store where the owner knows your name. His whole argument was that American suburbs were built with only two zones, your house and your job, connected by a car. No sidewalk café, no place to bump into a neighbor by accident.

The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a national health epidemic in 2023. Being alone all the time is as bad for your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Half of American adults say they feel lonely. Weekly socializing dropped from 5.5 hours in 2003 to just 4 hours in 2023, and it never bounced back after COVID. Americans between 15 and 29 now spend 45% more time alone than they did in 2010.

The scene in this tweet looks like a personality trait. It is a 170-year-old engineering project that works exactly as designed.

[shi @afterlauqhter]

i who have never known men is genuinely one of the best books i have ever read, will never stop singing its praises i urge everyone to get their hands on a copy like yesterday

[• @WordsCocoon]

march 13, friday...

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

[Zach De Bernardi @Zachdebo]

My wife and I started a seed oil free, clean label Asian food business called Ni-Howdy.

Think of us like the Asian version of Siete.

We’re a startup, now in seven stores with some big ones pending.

If you see this, please like and re-post. Your support means everything.

[Eri ♡ @musestoomuch]

it cannot be stressed enough how much choosing well shapes your life.

do not romanticize a wedding day. visualize the reality of a lifetime.

who is there at 2am with a feverish child
who holds you together in loss
who celebrates your wins without resentment
who builds you back up when you are at your lowest

marriage is not the moment or the titles. it is the lifetime that follows.

[Cleopatra 🪷 ✞ @amandaperera]

The feminine urge to

[Cleopatra 🪷 ✞ @amandaperera]

Girls love resting. It’s one of our favorite things to do. Reading, laying under the sun, painting our nails, writing, journaling, taking baths, drinking a cup of tea in silence, sleeping, doing nothing. And there’s nothing wrong with that, we need it for a reason, it’s medicine

[sean @DilettanteryPod]

I hate overhead lighting - trying to mimic the holy sun should be considered sinful. The lamp is much better, mimicking the hearths of our forebears.

[mar @nomadmar]

DV

[mamamoo @thelovelyMC]

healthy girl summer
healing girl summer
grateful girl summer
intuitive girl summer
authentic girl summer
nurturing girl summer
abundant girl summer

[kaz Y/DSA @lqvekanthony]

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