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@alliharvard A story forever repeating

80's Vogue Italia

@Ellechemy The Power of Attraction. 💞

My first encounter w/a foot fetishist was amazing. I was at a shoe store & the owner asked if he could give Me the star treatment. I said yes(?) & he closed the shop! Then he proceeded to measure, trace & fit My feet for a pair of tall leather high heel boots & gave them to Me.

A young man once approached a wise monk and asked, “How do I stop overthinking?” The monk replied: “You overthink because your mind is trying to protect you… from a future that does not yet exist. Tell me—who has ever seen tomorrow? Whatever you fear about it is not reality, but imagination wearing the mask of truth. So the mind creates problems that aren’t real… and then exhausts itself trying to solve them. Like a cat spinning in circles, chasing its own tail. If you wish to be free, remember two things. First—your thoughts are not facts. Most of what you worry about will never happen. Second—life will unfold as it must. Release what you cannot control, and respond wisely to what actually comes. Do this, and your restless mind transforms… from a loop of fear into a steady river— flowing, adapting, and at peace with whatever lies ahead. Understand this clearly: the mind is often trying to solve problems it created itself. Trust life. Act where you can. Let go where you cannot. This is the way.” Moral: Overthinking is not wisdom—it is fear pretending to be preparation. Peace begins the moment you stop battling an imagined future… and start living in the present. ✨🙌🏾💫

@Ellechemy Poke-mon?

I did My wholesome act for the day. Now I definitely deserve some hole.

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@Ellechemy Can I drink it when You’re done with it, Goddess Ellechemy? 🥂

I'm drinking homemade pineapple juice 🍍🍍🍍

@zone_astronomy I sure hope this is real.

Captured over Fairbanks, Alaska, this is one of those rare moments where science and imagination collide. What looks like a glowing, winged figure in the sky is actually an intense auroral display - shaped entirely by the invisible forces of Earth's magnetic field. Auroras form when charged particles from the Sun collide with gases high above our planet. But the colors here tell a deeper story.

Biblically accurate chastity cage

@KyThePup Pretty brilliant April Fools Day joke. kink3d.com/blogs/updates/…

Mount Fuji, Japan.🌸🪻

A rare lenticular cloud creating a stunning sight over Japan

Paulette Jordan just won the Democratic primary for governor in Idaho. Meaning, she's now positioned to become the first female governor of Idaho--and the first Native American governor in the US.

The architectural structures built by the Persians are incredible. National art Museum. Tehran, İran 🇮🇷

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Zuckerberg's yacht once sailed 9,600 nautical miles, burned 676,800 liters of diesel, and waited two months in the South Pacific for him to show up. He never came. It turned around and went home. The vessel burns 1,165 gallons of diesel per hour at cruising speed. The carbon output of 630 cars running simultaneously. In nine months, it produced 5,300 tons of CO2, what 400 American households emit in an entire year. Meta's sustainability report pledges net zero across their value chain by 2030. Zuckerberg's personal fleet (there's a $30 million support vessel that follows the yacht everywhere carrying submarines, helicopters, and water toys) produced more emissions on that single empty round trip than most people will generate in a lifetime. The fuel tank holds 423,700 liters. A full fill costs about $230,000. Based on his 2024 wealth increase, Zuckerberg earns that in under 90 seconds. Net zero is a line item in someone else's budget. It always was.

Swans have one off the coolest landing technique ever.. 😊

The ceiling of Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, 1611.

@silverpebble @Ellechemy Beautifully done!

There’s neuroscientific evidence that looking at beautiful things, esp. plants & pausing to take in the details can alleviate stress & lift mood. Found these in the garden just now-they’re in a pale blue Victorian ink bottle. Pause to give your brain a small rest 🧠🌿

@Ellechemy ❤️👸🏻❤️‍🩹

Will be grieving My beautiful, brave, one-in-a-lifetime Mother until further notice. Thank you to those who have helped make this profound loss just a little easier. Take Care. +<3

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