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The small corner of Instagram dedicated to temporary wallpaper is uncommonly magical

sudshr47 March 27, 2019

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This post is part of Hard Refresh, a soothing weekly column where we try to cleanse your brain of whatever terrible thing you just witnessed on Twitter.

When I was in middle school I begged my mom to let me redecorate my room. I wanted light blue walls, realistic-looking clouds painted on the ceiling, and adhesive glow-in-the-dark star decals scattered around so that when I went to sleep at night it would feel like I was looking up at the sky.

My design plans were admittedly a bit ambitious —  I only ended up with the blue walls. But I did have a formative conversation with my mom about wallpaper along the way. Read more…

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Culture Hard Refresh Music playlists Spotify

Extremely specific mood playlists will have you feeling emotions you didn’t know existed

sudshr47 March 20, 2019

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Let me tell you a story. Imagine, for a moment, you’re lying on mossy forest floors, slowly transforming into a nymph. Your fingers are turning into flower vines. Your limbs are bleeding honey and growing thick skins of sepia bark, wings sprout in between your shoulder blades. Your breath sounds like the wind. Fireflies litter the air above you.

But that’s not a story. It’s the full name of an extraordinarily specific Spotify playlist. And if you’re wondering what exactly becoming a nymph sounds like, according to the playlist, it’s a lot like the music of Hozier, Daughter, and Twenty One Pilots.  Read more…

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Some babies look elderly. Reddit has found a way to celebrate them.

sudshr47 November 21, 2018

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This post is part of Hard Refresh, a soothing weekly column where we try to cleanse your brain of whatever terrible thing you just witnessed on Twitter.

We’ve all come across babies who seem older than they really are — by about, um, 70 years.

Often, it’s temporary. I, for one, looked like my mother’s tax accountant until I was six-months-old. And I’ve come across more than one infant who looks like they’d rather play solitaire on the computer than make dumb faces at millennials.

The subreddit r/OldBabies has ’em all.

The community collects photos of babies who appear to be senior citizens in various states of aging. I can’t stop scrolling through, and frankly I have no intention of stopping. Read more…

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