Ella Jefferies
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Ella Jefferies
vacuous/ˈvakjʊəs/ Learn to pronounce adjectiveadjective: vacuous1. having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless.
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forcing women into a state of perpetual self-scrutiny and control.
father_karine • The Anti-Cosmetic Surgery Essay Every Woman Should Read
The decline of deviance is mainly a good thing. Our lives have gotten longer, safer, healthier, and richer. But the rise of mass prosperity and disappearance of everyday dangers has also made trivial risks seem terrifying. So as we tame every frontier of human life, we have to find a way to keep the good kinds of weirdness alive. We need new... See more
Adam Mastroianni • The Decline of Deviance
Standardizing your writing also standardizes your thinking
Adam Mastroianni • The Decline of Deviance
broader topic to delve into - the standardisation, the best-practise method…what has it done, now everything is just the same
People usually assume that we don’t make interesting, ornate buildings anymore because it got too expensive to pay a bunch of artisans to carve designs into stone and wood.6 But the researcher Samuel Hughes argues that the supply-side story doesn’t hold up: many of the architectural flourishes that look like they have to be done by hand can, in... See more
Adam Mastroianni • The Decline of Deviance
“For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite.
Julian de Medeiros • You should go for a walk
In the words of Paulo Coelho, when each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to notice the good things that happen in their lives every day the sun rises.
the cost of the unlived life
When the words “purpose,” “progress,” and “success” begin to sound like broken echoes.
We scroll through our feeds, chase recognition, and build our fragile identities out of data, yet beneath it all hums a quiet dread:
We scroll through our feeds, chase recognition, and build our fragile identities out of data, yet beneath it all hums a quiet dread:
The Philosophy of Nothingness: Walking Through the Heart of Nihilism
this is interesting
Ideas
telling a story, writing a poem, or lyrics from the point of view of an existing character. The character could be a fictional, or real for example, a mythological tale, retelling the story from a new perspective, or with my own take.
A character in a painting or piece of art.