Someone please mash up Narcissus and the Portrait of Dorian Gray into the tale a demented man who thought to see his own magnificence reflected in, well, a Reflecting Pool and instead saw failure and algae and decay.
Summer evening
ngl death goes hard
TFW you rediscover the motherlode of Assyrian artifacts and put them on a flotilla of barges and they all sink and are never seen again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qurnah_...
The weekend set them back a huge amount, both $$ and time. Her daughter needs $511 to cover the surgery, etc.
Perfecta is just trying to cover the CO2 detectors and keep the phones on. The detectors are ~$75 total. The phones [hers, daughter's, school-age grandson's], ~$140.
Figure $275 total.
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This review got me
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It also should be noted that all of those things are still available. Stop using genAI & search on your own. The reality is that living under capitalism means they will monetize anything they can get their hands on & convince you that you need to buy it from them. You don't.
It's Monday, Latin dies Lunae - day of Luna, goddess of the #Moon. Therefore, for #MosaicMonday a detail of a mosaic from the #Roman villa at Orbe-Boscéaz, Yverdon-les-Bains region, Switzerland, depicting Luna in a two-horse chariot.
Happy Monday to all of you!