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The Last Meeting
One always writesof one last meeting,of a farewellas painful as life’s very end. One writes of that farewell,epic, final, devastating,when you turn your head away,and pride refuses to let you look back. But the eyes of the heart remain behind your head,turned toward the face of the one who, far from you,had set out for…
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My AI thinks I’m great
“Absolutely! That’s a fantastic idea. I’d love to help you with it!” Spend enough time chatting with AI and you’ll notice something: it’s remarkably supportive. It celebrates your ideas, compliments your work and rarely tells you you’re completely wrong. That’s not because it secretly believes in you. In fact, it doesn’t believe anything at all.…
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A colorcoaster with a dominance of white and blue
136 km from Warsaw (the number according to Google Maps), down in eastern Poland, there is a city called Puławy. There is nothing particularly unusual about the city, it’s not very big, although located on the biggest Polish river, Vistula (Polish: Wisła). It’s pretty, neat, and very green, as are many such small cities in…
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Night in broad daylight
On August 12, 2026, a total solar eclipse will cross parts of Spain and Portugal, marking the return of a major total eclipse to Europe after the last one visible from the continent on August 11, 1999. In Spain, this will be the first total solar eclipse visible from the mainland in more than a…
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Why I won’t accept your beer
There is a certain violence in watching someone disappear while they are still breathing. I do not mean the dramatic collapse, the ambulance lights, the hospital sheets pulled up to a chin. I mean the slow erosion. The way a laugh softens into a slur. The way a brilliant mind begins to decay, that the…
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VOICES August 2026
This month of July wasn’t my first one in Skopje so I thought I would be able to handle the heat this time. I was right. Yet it was still hard to fall asleep. But heatwaves aren’t kind to everyone. Since the beginning of the month I saw plenty of animals in pain. How can…
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“I never got to see him enjoy life as is”
“I never got to see Italy in summertime, I never got to hike on that mountain, I never got to be him” the promises that you make to yourself that will be put into work when you have money or time to do all of them. There will be a time that you will have…
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DO NOT THINK
Did you know that Cwmbran has the most roundabouts per square kilometre? It even got recognised by the Guinness World Records. At least that is what Google’s A.I. tool is trying to make you believe and all of that is just based on one article written by Ben Black, as an April Fools’ joke, as…
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What do you say to your lover the eve of your execution?
I wanted to share with you a translation of the last letter from Missak Manouchian to his lover, both of them were Armenian resistants in France during WW2. The letter that he wrote to Mélinée, his beloved companion, on the eve of his execution, February 21, 1944, is both deeply moving and unshakably resolute. He…
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Aya Nakamura’s Road From Criticism to Triumph
Aya Nakamura will be remembered after filling the Stade de France three times, on May 29, 30 and 31, 2026. In front of thousands of spectators, the singer delivered an ambitious show combining music, dance and visual effects. With these concerts, she took an important step in her career and confirmed her rank among the…
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May Seem Strange
Perhaps it’s grief and sorrow wrapped around your frame,I do not know just how — yet feel it all the same.I wish that I were closer, so you’d let me see,And trust me with the burden that has captured thee. Such longing may seem strange, perhaps it truly may,Yet still it walks beside me every…
