👻🌸 88 percent of all men receive flowers for the first time at their funeral.

⚘️ I am 38 years old and have only received flowers (made of plastic) once. I am very open about my preference for flowers.

🦋✨️ I really try hard to be seen, and yet I am mostly reduced to superficialities. If I even show myself vulnerable, I should almost be grateful not to be sanctioned.

🫡🤷‍♂️🖼 This is also evident in my posts. Compliments often concern the object depicted (beautiful flower, great sunset, nice body) but rarely the manner of depiction, let alone the meta-level of what is depicted.

🧠💯✌️ By the way, I received my acceptance yesterday after passing my entrance exam!

⚙️🔢🎨 That's another point: artistic talent and mathematical-technical understanding are often seen as irreconcilable opposites, even though there are sufficient examples of compatibility, both historically and in contemporary terms.

🌈👨‍🎨👨‍💻💭 As a media designer and computer scientist, I can do both, and over the next few years I will be deepening my mathematical understanding.

👨‍🏫👾👩‍🏫 Computer science and mathematics, by the way, are still male-dominated fields. Mainly because women are often not trusted or encouraged to do so. However, the first person to write a computer program was a woman. Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was a British mathematician and socialite. She was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron.

🎭🧩💬 By the way, 70 percent of my followers are women. I've posted quite a few things that women could have commented on, because they concern issues that are, or should be, important to women as well.

🌱 Just saying.

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Who needs speed when you have irresistible charm? 🦥🌿✨️

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Magnolias are among my favorite flowering plants. I suspect that's because as a child I was always so excited when I could admire the flowers from my dinosaur book in real life. Magnolias are sometimes called living fossils because they have been known since the Cretaceous period. I still remember the artist's impression from my book of the Triceratops surrounded by blooming magnolias.

A special feature of magnolias is that they specialize in pollination by beetles. Beetles are evolutionarily older than bees, and magnolias have retained very close to their primal characteristics.

I saw this star magnolia yesterday in Frankfurt. Not far away, a huge tulip magnolia was also in bloom. In Oberursel, the magnolias I saw are not yet in bloom, but are also about to open their blossoms.

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🌸 Hilpertstrasse in Darmstadt was named after my great-grandfather. It doesn't just share my name, it's directly connected to my heritage.

🏫 I walked down that street because I had an entrance exam there. I'll find out next week whether I was accepted. I didn't choose the location because the street bears my family name, and because it's such a strange coincidence, there's an indescribable energy that comes with it. A strange synchronicity in the womb of the universe.

🧭 That was a moment in which the world felt a bit surreal. As if I'd briefly stepped out of the normal flow of life and perceived something bigger. Perhaps also a connection to my own history, to the people who came before me.

🌌 I feel neither bigger nor smaller because of it, but more deeply connected.

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Yesterday, I had to run some errands for my entrance exam for my mathematics and technical education program. On the way home, an inner urge led me to the cemetery where some of my ancestors are buried. I cleared the grave of fallen branches and reflected on the passage of time. These Higan cherries were blooming beautifully in the cemetery. Higan, 彼岸, means "distant shore". I have my exam tomorrow. It will take place at an address on a street named after my great-grandfather, the Hilpertstrasse in Darmstadt. He was a politician who is buried in this cemetery.

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✨️🌾🌞 After shopping, I usually have a little time before my bus back home. I like to spend this time among the reeds (Phragmites australis), watching them sparkle in the sunlight.

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🌞 Many people wish they were younger. At the same time, many want to live as if it were their last day. I find these views strange. I don't want to be younger, and I want to live as if my last day were still a long way off. I want to live to a very old age and stay as healthy as possible. For me, life isn't a checklist, and every day with ordinary experiences is a great joy, because it could be completely different.

🌱 The idea of giving the days more life often implies trying to make each moment intense or extraordinary, but I think that true life is found in stability, well-being, and inner peace. When I focus on health and peace, I create a foundation where each day naturally holds meaning and joy, not because it’s rushed or full of spectacle, but because it’s lived with balance and calm.

🕊 I am happy to be able to live in peace.

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Hi, I'm Vincent van Sloth! 🌼 I'm the main employee here! You don't see me as much as my dad @megagroundsloth, but that's because I usually do all the work. It starts early in the morning when I watch him trying to wake up. Then I have to watch him eat breakfast, and I generally have to work really hard because everything has to be monitored.

In challenging moments, it's important that I'm ready to act immediately. I may not be fast, but I'm very handy. I would like to tell you more about what I do, but it's difficult with my small paws.🐾

Somehow the smartphone only responds if I dip my fluffy paws in jam before typing. Of course, no one thought of that! Being the clever guy I am, I found the solution myself!

Can you manage that much work and still look cute? Then apply to be a sloth assistant today! You get paid in extra naps and tasty treats, but in essence, it's all just for the love of the job.🩷

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Night Rider 🌌🌃🚴‍♂️✨️

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Sunbathing at 9° Celsius! 🌬🌡🌞

😜 According to the weather app, it felt like 6° Celsius. But for me, it felt like summer!

😅🔥 It wasn't until I returned to the apartment two hours later that I realized it must have been quite cold after all. I was hit by such a rush of warmth that it almost felt like a sauna. In fact, today was the coolest temperature I've ever dared to go outside shirtless for an extended period of time.

⚠️👵 My neighbor, a woman well into retirement, looked at me very critically (I could see it in the background of a selfie). I'm sure I'll soon be told how dangerous that is in this chilly wind. But I'm curious and hungry for the sun. I want to expose my body to different stimuli.

🏕🏖 This year, after 23 years, I'm going back to my favorite North Sea island, Baltrum, where the climate is fantastic. But this time I'm camping! I'm already looking forward to the pleasure of swimming in the cold seawater and drying off in the sun in the salty wind. Of course, it might just rain—but that's just how it is.

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