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Hi. Since it's been a week since my last blog post, and I'm way behind on reading my feed, I'm just pinging the world to let all my followers know that I'm still here. I haven't abandoned Steemit or given

It's rough watching the crypto market tank...but a little levity helps, right? Plus, it's my first foray into making a video like this...good times. But not as good as if the &$%! market would go back

So I received my invitation to the Akasha beta a few days ago, and wandered over to peer under the hood. Well not really, because I'm not a programmer or even a blockchain expert. But I at least kicked

This is post 20 in @dragosroua's January 30 day writing challenge. The Library - For Writers and Readers. Welcome to my newest initiative - The Library. A brand new, writing focused curation post. Coming

Muxxybot's curation team scours Steemit looking for excellent minnow posts that they feel deserve more exposure and higher payouts. These are nominated by the team and voted on in our Discord channel.

*~*~*~* The Daily Whistle Stops is a curation post brought to you by @thesteemengine! This post features the best posts from our members selected by our master curator @enchantedspirit! All of these posts

*~*~*~* The Daily Whistle Stops is a curation post brought to you by @thesteemengine! This post features the best posts from our members selected by our master curator @enchantedspirit! All of these posts

Religion. Spirituality. Philosophy. Buddhism. Meditation retreats. World travel. Fortune-tellers. Career changes. Mid-life crises. Quarter-life crises. What do all of these things have in common? They

Mother & child have an intimate conversation. This is my entry for the black & white photo contest - animals theme. I took this at the zoo in Munich with a Fujifilm Finepix AX300 (cheapo digital

Lungs aflame, heart ramming like a jackhammer. She crashed through the underbrush, sweat slick against her neoprene suit. A shot pealed somewhere behind her, ripping through the still air of the morning.

So, you're new to Steemit and you're not happy because you haven't gotten your first $1000 payout yet? Well, that's okay, there's still time. With Steem still riding at all time high prices, (well, shortly

The Magnificent Seven is a post from the independent curation team @enchantedspirit and @catweasel. These are the best seven posts we found in our latest travels through the Steem-osphere. We invite you

I'm no expert with a camera, but I bought an old used DSLR a couple of years ago and I like to play around with it once in a while. I've written here and here about my two month internship in Terengganu,

Today, @futurethinker commented on my ability to produce content relatively quickly. Let me explain why it is possible to write so much and it isn't because it is easy or that I pay someone at Fiverr,

In North America and western Europe we are a bit snobbish about science. Everything has to be done with rigour and precision or it's not real science. We can afford to think that way because we have enough

I'm too tired to write something tonight, so I give you... brutal nature at it's most fascinating: a spider the size of my entire hand eats a live caterpillar while it thrashes around. I took this video

During my master studies I spent two months doing an internship at a university in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. The city of Kuala Terengganu is in the northeastearn part of the Malaysian mainland, the most

Last time we worked on understanding people you disagree with or dislike. Now it's time to start putting your empathy into action! PUTTING YOUR EMPATHY INTO ACTION If you are not yet confident about your

In the first part of this series, I talked about why the world needs more empathy. In the second part, I explained ways to increase or recharge your empathy. Now it's time to put your empathy into action.

As per the terms and conditions of utopian.io platform, no screenshot or account names will be given in this contribution below to avoid defamation and name-calling Preface Steem Blockchain is one of the