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Happy 100th birthday Sir David Attenborough

Attenborough at One Hundred, Watching a Weedy Seadragon One hundred years, and still the world can make him grin sideways. The weedy seadragon arrives dressed as seaweed that escaped taxonomy, all ribbons and false fronds, baroque camouflage with improbable hydrodynamics. It does... read more

LeanJe - From an unexpected perspective (Translation below)

Verse 1: The Descent My airway has failed again, The air got stuck at one of the stops. Everyone I didn't have time to hug is here, asking me not to be afraid. And I walk through a labyrinth of a five-syllable mantra— In life, there is only one mystery. ​Chorus If dawn falls for a moment under... read more

Midnight Currents

The city flows like a river of light in the dark. Every passing moment drifts away before you can hold it.

Reaching the age where you simply don't care is the best

went through smth more or less like an infatuation wherein the other person turned out far less mature than she'd led on had made me realize just how blessed I am to have the clarity that I'm better off waiting and I'm good just where I am doing my own thing. your main goal in life should never be... read more

Nikola Tesla's xray-like invention

"In 1896, Nikola Tesla pointed one of his own inventions at his foot and captured what he called a “shadowgraph” — an early form of X-ray, made using a machine he built entirely himself. A year earlier, a fire had swept through his lab, destroying much of his pioneering work on high-frequency... read more

True love - poem

I’ve met the ones who love like flame, But never dare to speak your name. They hold the stars behind their eyes, But build their walls with quiet lies. They ache in silence, burn inside, Yet let their tender truth subside. You feel their pull, a distant shore— But never know if there is more. And... read more