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never ending thread of songs that make me happy

why’s this making me cry 🥹

@olaspaceee gorgeousss😭😭

80% legs

my sister said my ass looks like 2 moons and that’s the best compliment i’ve ever gotten in my life 😭

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BolaPSD and Pith got the hardest websites in the Nigerian clothing brand space.

I.M. Pei, the architect who designed the Louvre's glass pyramid, used to put it this way. In Western buildings, a window is a hole that lets in light and air. In Chinese buildings, a window is a picture frame. And the garden is always painted on the other side. These are called 漏窗 (lou chuang), or "leaky windows." Wind. Moonlight. Glimpses of the garden, framed by every cutout in the wall. It all leaks through. A garden designer named Ji Cheng published a whole manual on this in 1635. The Craft of Gardens. The final chapter is titled "Borrowed Scenery." Ji called it the most important part of designing a garden. He named four kinds of borrowing. Distant: mountains, rivers, far horizons. Adjacent: the neighbor's roof, a wall, a tree next door. Upward: clouds, branches against the sky, even the stars at night. Downward: a pond, the rocks below. Every shape and height in these images is doing one of those four jobs. In Suzhou, a canal city near Shanghai, the oldest surviving garden was built in the 1040s. It has 108 of these windows along a single corridor. No two are the same. Each frames a different slice of the same pond and the same hills. By the early 1900s, Suzhou had more than 170 private gardens. Nine of them are now UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Researchers in 2021 photographed almost 3,000 windows across 15 of these gardens, just to train an AI that could tell the patterns apart. The shapes meant something too. Pine for long life. Plum blossoms for purity. A bat anywhere in the pattern brought good luck to the household. Phoenix for wealth. There's a pattern called "ice crack." Lines splinter across the wall like cracks on a frozen pond. Scholars adopted it as their own signature. For them, it stood for the moment ice breaks and spring begins, when life starts moving again. The point of the design was simple. You should never see the whole garden at once. You walk a path, a wall blocks the view, then a window opens it again, framed differently each time. The Chinese proverb for it: "by detours, access to secrets." A 2024 paper from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University showed the ice-crack pattern is actually stronger than a regular grid when the weight on top is uneven. Four hundred years later, the math still works.

@pikeisme gap year ?

I’m going to get money for a gap year Trying to upskill but so many things keep distracting me omg😭

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Glad this is being discussed. We have lost so much

When I started teaching myself how to do my makeup vs what my makeup looks like now. April 2025 & April 2026

Earlier today at the [newly renovated] National Theatre. Incredible architecture that holds an even more impressive collection of Nigerian art. (More photos below.)

A collection of Moroccan doors

WISE UP!!

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The rave scene can 100% handle more experimental sounds, and we saw that at side quests. Then there’s abiodun that’s always playing something you’ve never before heard in your life. That’s the chief experimenter. Nothing really concern am with mainstream 😭😭😭😭

loudest and most agonized me and who of my life

lagos mann, you go dey beg person make e pay you for work wey you do

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