"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever."

- Carl Sagan, in Cosmos (1980)

Visualisation of our galactic cluster 💫😲💫✨💫🌌💫

NASA

Rebels stormed Iran's embassy in Damascus following their capture of the Syrian capital and the fall of Bashar al-Assad, state TV reported reut.rs/4f9s2CX

Can confirm.

The centuries-old Paris landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens on Saturday evening, five-and-a-half years after a devastating fire destroyed its spire and roof and brought the entire Gothic masterpiece within minutes of collapsing. Follow our live coverage: reut.rs/4gfsRuY

Wonderful day ahead for 🇫🇷. Notre Dame will reopen on time, 5 years after it was gutted by fire. I was lucky enough to have visited the inside this week. It is stunning, the blanched stonework of the vaults and pillars as they would have been in medieval times

www.economist.com/europe/2024/...

With every passing day I better understand the mothers in Victorian novels who stay in their bedrooms with the curtains closed and complain vaguely about their “nerves.”

this is literally what it feels like to have astigmatism

Me:
*Does nothing*
*Does nothing*
*Does nothing*
*Starts something*

Them:
"You busy?"

Me:

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.