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Just a reminder that Mary Oliver’s own answer to her question, “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” was to stroll idly through the fields noticing things.
The question out of context could appear to be about achieving more — it’s not.
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"Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"
Still weeping for Mary Oliver. A lovely remembrance by @austinkleon. austinkleon.com/2019/01/17/y…
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Those Gillette ads are nice, but get this: The company's founder wanted to build a socialist utopian city of tessellating hexagons on Niagara Falls where money would "pass into the oblivion of an ignorant age." urbanplanning.library.cornel…
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by far the best subplot of the Trump administration is that we keep getting hints of extraterrestrial activity and everybody’s too busy to care haaretz.com/us-news/.premium…
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"In music, silence is more important than sound." - Miles Davis #quote
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A Blade Runner sequel where Deckard just walks around the city trying different ramen joints
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Ok, we found something amazing and we demand you to come on a journey with us:
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This is a thread about how institutional racism works.
In the 1950’s SUNY schools & community colleges offered FREE tuition to local students. My mother-in-law, who is white, took advantage of this program and received her degree from SUNY Buffalo in Speech Therapy.
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“IBM contributed to the holocaust” was a rather abstract bad thing for me until I read this thread & started to understand that it was deliberate and profitable and _crucial_ to the Nazi’s machinery of death.
More info: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deho…
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“The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.” - Werner Herzog, born on this day. – at Manhattan, NY
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Journalism secret: each half of a New York Times headline is written by two guys, but neither is allowed to see what the other one has written
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Grande classico della passeggiata al mare: lei vestita come per consegnare il premio della giuria di qualità di Castrocaro, lui vestito come per scendere il cane con la diarrea alle tre di notte
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Deeply reported, gripping and tragic story of a man's descent into far-right conspiracy-mongering, and how it led him to murder his father: buzzfeednews.com/article/jos… By @Bernstein at @BuzzFeedNews, which continues to do some of the best research around into online hate dynamics
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Comunque, la domanda “come è stata possibile la Shoà, la gente non sapeva?” ha trovato risposta. Lo sapeva e non gliene fregava niente. Come a noi frega niente delle decine di migliaia di persone che vediamo, letteralmente vediamo, annegare nei nostri mari.
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“you can think of life as an interruption of an eternity of personal nonexistence, and seize it as a brief opportunity to observe and interact with the living, ever-surprising world around us.”
—@B_Ehrenreich
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