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‘This is a quantum universe,’ said Spike, ‘neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.’
‘What do you suggest I do ― to intervene?’
Spike leaned forward and kissed me. ‘Bend the light.’
― Jeanette Winterson
‘What do you suggest I do ― to intervene?’
Spike leaned forward and kissed me. ‘Bend the light.’
― Jeanette Winterson
#Photography Tony Ray-Jones (c. 1968), Weymouth, Dorset, England, UK.
November 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
#Photography Tony Ray-Jones (c. 1968), Weymouth, Dorset, England, UK.
#Photography Christer Strömholm, Paris.
November 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
#Photography Christer Strömholm, Paris.
A Visual Guide.
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Apollo's bold, unruly and controversial successor
A visual guide to the audacious moon-landing mission design that put SpaceX and NASA in the hot seat — and has experts worried the US could lose the new moon race.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A Visual Guide.
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www.cnn.com/interactive/...
"Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
"Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
"Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination. For our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Nobel speech 1982)
— Gabriel García Márquez (Nobel speech 1982)
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
"Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination. For our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Nobel speech 1982)
— Gabriel García Márquez (Nobel speech 1982)
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are going.
― Lao Tzu
― Lao Tzu
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are going.
― Lao Tzu
― Lao Tzu
Vincent Van Gogh realising his impact on Art and Culture.
#TV Doctor Who, Series 5 Episode 10, Vincent and the Doctor.
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#TV Doctor Who, Series 5 Episode 10, Vincent and the Doctor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTJ...
November 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Vincent Van Gogh realising his impact on Art and Culture.
#TV Doctor Who, Series 5 Episode 10, Vincent and the Doctor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTJ...
#TV Doctor Who, Series 5 Episode 10, Vincent and the Doctor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTJ...
The Book of Life.
#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Book of Life.
#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
“The whole world is now one vast uncontrolled experiment - the way it always was, Crake would have said - and the doctrine of unintended consequences is in full spate.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
#BookSky
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
#BookSky
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM
“The whole world is now one vast uncontrolled experiment - the way it always was, Crake would have said - and the doctrine of unintended consequences is in full spate.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
#BookSky
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
#BookSky
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#StreetPhotography Michael Wolf, from his series "Tokyo Compression" (candid photos in Tokyo’s underground system).
RIP Michael Wolf. May you rest in perfection.
RIP Michael Wolf. May you rest in perfection.
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
#StreetPhotography Michael Wolf, from his series "Tokyo Compression" (candid photos in Tokyo’s underground system).
RIP Michael Wolf. May you rest in perfection.
RIP Michael Wolf. May you rest in perfection.
"It is indeed impossible to imagine our own death; and whenever we attempt to do so we can perceive that we are in fact still present as spectators. Hence the psycho-analytic school could venture on the assertion that at bottom no one believes in his own death, or (1)
November 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
"It is indeed impossible to imagine our own death; and whenever we attempt to do so we can perceive that we are in fact still present as spectators. Hence the psycho-analytic school could venture on the assertion that at bottom no one believes in his own death, or (1)
"In my rather long psychological experience I have observed a great many people whose unconscious psychic activity I was able to follow into the immediate presence of death… On the whole, I was astonished to see how little ado the unconscious psyche makes of death. (1)
November 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"In my rather long psychological experience I have observed a great many people whose unconscious psychic activity I was able to follow into the immediate presence of death… On the whole, I was astonished to see how little ado the unconscious psyche makes of death. (1)
"Time remains destitute not only because God is dead, but because mortals are hardly aware and capable even of their own mortality."
— Martin Heidegger
#Philosophy
— Martin Heidegger
#Philosophy
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Time remains destitute not only because God is dead, but because mortals are hardly aware and capable even of their own mortality."
— Martin Heidegger
#Philosophy
— Martin Heidegger
#Philosophy
There's no use, or time, trying to make sense of this madness anymore. We're...
November 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
There's no use, or time, trying to make sense of this madness anymore. We're...
"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
November 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation