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Wanderer...

[Fun Viral Vids 😊 @Fun_Viral_Vids]

George Michael would have liked to see this 🥰👏

[piratesails @therenegadefrog]

@dieworkwear Quick question 🙋🏻‍♀️: in the first photo he’s got brown shoes with grey trousers, white shirt and black coat. I like the mix of colors and they work well, however would his choice of shoe color work better with a black shoe? 🤔 So, how is he “getting away with” these four colors ?

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This map shows Switzerland’s four national languages without the uninhabited high mountain areas. Suddenly the country’s linguistic geography makes more sense: German dominates the north and centre, French the west, Italian the south, and Romansh survives in pockets of the east. Source: https://t.co/Q2sC2yIBye

[piratesails @therenegadefrog]

@marvinblach It’s a lovely place 🤗. May I suggest that you visit the nearby towns of Bellinzona, Locarno and Ascona? Enjoy! It’s a very nice canton, Ticino. 🇨🇭

[piratesails @therenegadefrog]

@end3of6days9 Chipotle.
There was non chipotle in 1984

[piratesails @therenegadefrog]

@51kas81 Omg 😘😘😘

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This map does a good job in explaining the German longing for Italy (we even have a word for that longing: Italiensehnsucht)

[piratesails @therenegadefrog]

Can confirm the truth of this here.

[𝔐𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔄𝔩𝔠𝔬𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔟𝔞𝔰 𝔑𝔞𝔦𝔰𝔢𝔯 @MAalcofribas]

One huge gap I see between Euro and American tourists is that the Euro seems genuinely interested in seeing ordinary life in small town America whereas the American bürger really only ever stays within a capitol or around the main sites.

Not many Americans itching to pass through Besançon, Łódź, Kiel, or Ipswich, but Euros are completely gobsmacked by Fairhope, Chattanooga, Middlefield, Bowling Green, and Ocean City.

[arleon pr manager || 161 DAYS TILL XMAS 🎄 @arthursspoon]

some pictures from bradley's recent post 😭😭 they'll always be THE pendragons

[🦁 Luka (Voltron/ Ninjago TWT) 🥷🏻 @twithesquire]

In honour of Anthony Head here's my favourite pictures of him on set of BBC Merlin in full Uther attire, playing on a pink Nintendo DS

RIP Sir 🕊

[piratesails @therenegadefrog]

Nooo 😢

[Apple TV @AppleTV]

Here's to you, Anthony.

[piratesails @therenegadefrog]

When you realize that nothing even close to this will ever happen in your life is a tragedy beyond words. There is no handsome gentleman waiting for you anywhere and there never will be. Ever.

[🌸 Enjoy Music and Arts 🌸 @GNhminh54985]

"A love story for the ages! The wedding of our dreams since 1965. 🥹💍 "

#music #dance #classicmusic #violin #piano

[piratesails @therenegadefrog]

This is true. I wish i had people that could understand me that I could talk to about these things.

[Your Best Version @YourPrimePath]

Intelligent people struggle with addiction. Their minds need more. They have obsessions nobody around them shares. Philosophy. Astronomy. Dostoevsky. Jazz. Quantum physics. Things they know deeply. Things they've gone so deep into that anything else feel like small talk. And small talk feels like suffocation. So... they drink. Work until 2 am. Doomscroll until they're numb. Because there is a gap. A gap between who you are and the conversations available to you. And it's one of the loneliest places a person can live.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Keep telling the truth.
Thank you to Stephen Colbert and everyone at The Late Show.

[piratesails @therenegadefrog]

Heart breaking.

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

There is so much poetry in Stephen Colbert celebrating his finale on the exact stage where the Beatles changed culture in 1964. Singing "Hello Goodbye" surrounded by his family, band, and crew before Paul McCartney flipped the final power switch. The perfect full-circle goodbye!

[Brad Desmond @BradDesmond2]

Stephen Colbert goes out showing the best revenge is not success, but joy. Pure joy.

[piratesails @therenegadefrog]

“Loneliness isn't the absence of people - it's the absence of being understood.”

—Franz Kafka

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

The reason music gives you chills and what it means:

1. It has a name,Frisson. The chills you feel from music have a scientific name called Frisson. It is a French word meaning aesthetic chills. It causes goosebumps, shivers down your spine and a wave of emotion. All triggered by nothing but sound entering your ears.

2. Not everyone feels it. Only 55% of people on earth experience music chills. The other 45% never feel it at all in their entire life. If you feel it, your brain is literally wired differently from most people around you. It is not dramatic. It is biological.

3. Your brain releases dopamine. When frisson hits, your brain releases dopamine. The same chemical released when you eat your favorite food, when you fall in love with someone, when you win something you worked hard for. Music hijacks the exact same reward system in your brain.

4. It happens at very specific moments in a song. A sudden unexpected key change. When a powerful voice enters out of nowhere. When an instrument joins that you did not expect. When lyrics describe something you personally lived through. Your brain gets surprised and floods you with emotion as a reward for noticing.

5. It is connected to how your brain is built. Scientists at USC discovered that people who feel music chills have more nerve fibers connecting two specific parts of the brain. The auditory cortex which processes sound and the areas that process emotion. More connections between these two areas means deeper and stronger emotional response to music.

6. Sad songs trigger it more than happy songs. Minor chords, slow tempos and falling melodies cause frisson more often than upbeat music. Because your brain processes musical sadness very similarly to real sadness. But in music it feels safe. So your brain allows itself to go deeper into the emotion without fear.

7. Memory makes it stronger. A song you heard during an important moment in your life hits differently forever. Because your brain stores music alongside the emotions you felt when you first heard it. Years later the song plays and the emotion comes back instantly. The music is no longer just sound. It becomes a memory you can hear.

8. Anticipation is more powerful than the moment itself. The chills often begin just before the best part of the song arrives. Not during it. Before it. Your brain predicts the drop, the high note, the key change and rewards itself early just for knowing it is coming. This is called prediction and reward and music is one of the few things that triggers it this strongly.

9. It is directly linked to empathy. In multiple studies, people who experience frisson scored significantly higher in empathy than those who do not. You are not just hearing what the artist made. You are feeling what the artist felt while creating it. Your brain crosses the gap between their emotion and yours through sound alone.

10. It means you have an open personality. Psychologists found that people who feel music chills score extremely high in one specific personality trait called openness to experience. This means deep curiosity about the world, strong imagination, rich inner emotional life and the ability to feel things at a level most people simply cannot access.

11. Live music hits harder than recorded music. The energy of a crowd, the physical vibration of speakers, the presence of the artist. All of these combine to make frisson happen more easily and more intensely at live concerts. Your brain picks up on collective emotion around you and amplifies your own response.

[piratesails @therenegadefrog]

If you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman has a masculine soul.

— Carl Jung

[piratesails @therenegadefrog]

Il duomo di Siena

[Art Beyond Subjectivity @JScotteswood]

One of the most beautiful places I have ever seen.

Duccio, Pisano, Michelangelo, Donatello, Bernini.

— Few churches in Italy connect so many major artists across different centuries. 📸:Abs