letting go and exploring

Joined June 2020
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We all have an internal story about who we are and what we're meant to become. These stories are conditioned by our past and unfortunately often rooted in our regrets, the paths not taken, and the idealized versions of ourselves we wish we'd be/been. 1/
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Both the thoughts and the story are illusions of the egoic mind. Experiencing the fullness of life and reducing suffering comes from accepting this moment fully, in all it's good, bad, and ugly, exactly how it is. 5/
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Life will never go exactly how you think it should. The internal story is just one path that you're life could have taken. Let it go. Keep dreaming but don't let your desired future stop you from enjoying the only thing that really exists, which is the present moment.
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Apparently Peter Jackson is directing a Silmarillion remake. I really need this to be the aesthetic.
Pastel Hues of Yosemite
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The eye of a female Humpback Whale
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Please wishlist my new game KingMakers on Steam. We've been working really hard on this for 5 years, and can finally unveil it to the public today. Hope you guys like it 🤞
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3 Feb 2024
Rally drivers are beyond crazy. But being a fan, requires enough craziness too. This video also shows how risky these competitions are for the very same audience who's filming. x.com/i/status/1753426617484…

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This is one of my favorite dad videos It shows the impact simple things can have in our kids lives Watch to the end, look how happy the kid is The dad didn't have to take him to disney world to get this reaction. He didn't have to plan an elaborate birthday party. He didn't have to spend a dime. He just had to spend a few minutes with his kid, doing something they're both interested in, and boom just like that he made a memory his kid will never forget
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Why does The Lord of the Rings trilogy still look so good? Many reasons, but here's one: Minas Tirith wasn't CGI. They built a miniature version of the whole city and filmed that. It looks realistic... because it was real. And this wasn't even the biggest model they made...
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K2, Bottleneck traverse. This section of the climb is INSANE. You spend several hours underneath a giant ice cliff in an exposed position at 8200m , 1/3 normal oxygen levels & knowledge that many people slipped and fallen off from here. (1/2)

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The fossil skulls of Pleistocene dwarf elephants scattered throughout the coastal caves in Italy and the Greek islands most likely inspired the one-eyed Cyclopes in ancient Greek mythology. During the Pleistocene ice age (2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago), land bridges emerged, allowing ancient elephants to move to emerging islands to escape predators and/or find new food sources. As sea levels rose around the Mediterranean, these ancient elephants became trapped and had to compete for limited food, leading to the island rule, where mammals tend to shrink or grow depending on resource availability in their environment. The isolated ancient elephants evolved into different species depending on the island they found themselves on. Those on Cyprus were approximately 6 feet tall, nearly double the size of the ones found on Sicily and Malta. Humans arrived on the islands around 11,000 years ago, leading to the over-hunting and extinction of the ancient elephants within a century. By the time the Romans and Greeks came to occupy the Mediterranean islands, all that remained were skulls twice the size of those belonging to humans, and these massive skulls had a single hole in the center, which the Greeks and Romans mistakenly believed was an eye socket. In fact, it was a socket connected to the trunk of an ancient elephant.
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6 May 2023
#OTD 2008 - Rick Ankiel throws out two Colorado Rockies players at third base in one of the most incredible displays ever seen! #STLCards
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A brief thread of breathtaking castles: Castel del Monte, Apulia, Italy (13th century)
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The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs 1. Brage oil field, located in the North Sea 120 km northwest of the city of Bergen
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Last-ever programming book just released by Oreilly reddit.com/r/programmerhumor…
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16 Feb 2023
NYT is transitioning from wokism to statism. Because the US establishment doesn’t want domestic chaos anymore. They’re in control. So you’ll see less riots calling for abolishing police, more funding for riot police. Less on toxic masculinity, more on troops for foreign wars.
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