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« While some people disagree with me, I firmly believe that regret is one of our most powerful emotional reminders that reflection, change, and growth are necessary. In our research, regret emerged as a function of empathy. And, when used constructively, it’s a call to courage and a path toward wisdom.

. . . “No regrets” has become synonymous with daring and adventure, but I disagree. The idea of “no regrets” doesn’t mean living with courage, it means living without reflection. To live without regret is to believe we have nothing to learn. . . Maybe we don’t like the accountability that often comes with regret.

In our work, we find that what we regret most are our failures of courage. . . Regrets about not taking chances have made me braver. »

— Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart

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i met one of my aunt's archaeologist friends/colleagues earlier today & he was telling me about legends that not too far from here there's the ghosts of a roman legion that people see walking up the cliff towards the edge of the sea and then off the edge of the cliff and onwards, because the coastline has receded so much since roman times that the 'land' they're used to walking on goes on far past the point it falls into the sea today. and like. OUGH. I don't even strictly believe in that type of ghost but I'm Obsessed with this image of them still interacting with landscape that has crumbled into the sea & completely disappeared over the thousands of years since they were alive. ghost landscapes Real

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From all of us on the Destiny 2 team, we wish Guardians around the solar system a very happy holidays.

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This website is a fucking parody of itself

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“RENT is a Christmas movie,” I say into the microphone.

the crowd boos. i begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.

“she’s right.” I look around for the owner of the voice. there, in the 2nd row, stands Anthony Rapp himself, in a scarf and filming. it is December 24, 9pm Eastern Standard Time.

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Cookies represent the body of Santa while the milk represents the blood of Santa

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objection!

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Another ocean painting! This one is acrylic on a 16″x20″ canvas.

I’m including a couple of in-progress shots as well.

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SPICE WORLD (1997)

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to all the internet friends I used to be connected with in the past, I hope you're doing well wherever you are and whatever you're doing. I miss you and I love you.

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Is it just me or has a lot of fandom forgotten what "AU" means? It's short for Alternate Universe. I keep seeing people talking about, like, "fake dating AU" or "only one bed AU." Unless your characters exist in a world where a) beds don't exist or b) beds exist in such abundance there could not POSSIBLY be only one of them, that's not an AU. It's just a regular degular story.

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Today's rather disturbing yet nonetheless fascinating and thought-provoking read

If you're going to engage with this material—and it is an examination of, literally, brutal and explicitly violent events—don't do so as fragmentary, incomplete shocker/clickbait headlines or quotes in some tabloid. Read the whole paper.

"The authors examine the physical remains and debate the societal tensions that could motivate a level and scale of violence that is unprecedented in British prehistory."

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play with me in tiger and bunny world NOW

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If you had an identical twin that you get along with, you could probably have a lot of fun by getting to know other sets of identical twins and then pulling pranks with them.

Like seeing two people who look exactly the same close proximity to each other? Yeah that's totally twins. But imagine being in an art gallery where there's a group of five people on the 1st floor, and you go up the stairs and ???? the exact same group of five people is also there?? And you didn't see them pass you at the stairs?

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I think a lot of what pro-AI people are really wanting is stuff that already exists but they don't know it's out there like

can't format a work email? templates

don't know how to write a resume? templates

writing a thank you card or a condolences card or a wedding invitation? templates templates templates

not sure how to format your citations in MLA or whatever format? citationmachine.net

summary of something you're reading for school/work? cliffnotes.com

recipe based on ingredients in your fridge? whatsintherefrigerator.com

there's a million more like, guys, we don't need AI, we never needed generative AI

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OK I'll bite. What's dragon age