we just roll the dice
or shake the magic eight ball
praying for good luck

#MastoPrompt - roll
#dailyhaiku prompt - glade

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/black-magic-ball-2-sharon-cummings.html

I've heard of hanging a horsehoe on a barn for good luck. Even a wagon wheel.

But an old tractor clutch plate?

Hope you're as lucky this morning as I am to have someone wonderful to go on adventures with.

Im Kölner Quartier #LÜCK zeigt ein Vorzeigeprojekt, wie brennstofffreie #Wärmeversorgung gelingen kann.

Eine #Großwärmepumpe nutzt #Abwasserwärme und #Solarstrom für über 200 Wohnungen. Unterstützt von Power-to-Heat-Technik sorgt das System für effizientes und klimafreundliches #Heizen.

https://www.kabinett-online.de/koeln/ministerin-neubaur-besucht-brennstofffreies-quartier-lueck-abwasserwaerme-versorgt-koeln-ehrenfeld/

Rabbit rabbit rabbit!
#RabbitRabbit
#Luck

A quotation from Euripides

POLYMESTOR:                                        Shit.
   Nothing is credible, not a good reputation
   Nor that one who is lucky will not do badly in the end.
   The gods churn these waters up back and forth
   Mixing in confusion so that we worship them
   In our ignorance.
 
[ΠΟΛΥΜΉΣΤΩΡ:                                        φεῦ·
   οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν πιστόν, οὔτ᾿ εὐδοξία
   οὔτ᾿ αὖ καλῶς πράσσοντα μὴ πράξειν κακῶς.
   φύρουσι δ᾿ αὐτὰ θεοὶ πάλιν τε καὶ πρόσω
   ταραγμὸν ἐντιθέντες, ὡς ἀγνωσίᾳ
   σέβωμεν αὐτούς.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 956ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2020)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/76763/

#luck : an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual

- French: chance

- German: das Glück

- Italian: fortuna

- Portuguese: sorte

- Spanish: suerte

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A quotation from Euripides

HECUBA:   Then no man on earth is truly free,
   All are slaves of money or necessity.
   Public opinion or fear of prosecution
   forces each one, against his conscience,
   to conform.
 
ἙΚΆΒΗ:                                        [φεῦ.
   οὐκ ἔστι θνητῶν ὅστις ἔστ’ ἐλεύθερος·
   ἢ χρημάτων γὰρ δοῦλός ἐστιν ἢ τύχης
   ἢ πλῆθος αὐτὸν πόλεος ἢ νόμων γραφαὶ
   εἴργουσι χρῆσθαι μὴ κατὰ γνώμην τρόποις.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 864ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/6979/

Luck is not chance-- / It’s Toil-- / Fortune’s expensive smile / Is earned--
-- Emily Dickinson

#Wisdom #Quotes #EmilyDickinson #Chance #Effort #Luck

#Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

https://www.europesays.com/2056446/ Whangārei house badly damaged after speeding car flies over property, crashes #after #airborne #badly #before #being #CAR #crashes #crashing #damaged #flies #flying #from #house #hurt #luck #NewZealand #over #property #residents #roof #seriously #sheer #speeding #stopped #that #through #went #whangrei #when

I can finally make higher quality videos! Longer ones too as I have an SD card.

In typical poor person luck fashion I got it in a very strange way too.

I went to a garage sale, and they had a phone with a cracked screen they were gonna throw out, that they weren't even selling.

I asked if I could take it, and I popped open the SD slot and it had a 256 gig card that still worked!

I was working with 64 gigs of internal, which really was only 7 after apps/system stuff.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #153: 88888.
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#eight #numerology #china #culture #superstition #luck #goodluck #badluck #numbers #8 #88888 #offbeatnews #didyouknow #strangebuttrue #wtf #strange #bizarre #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

The 4 Types of Luck by Sahil Bloom [Shared]

The 4 Types of Luck
In 1978, a neurologist named Dr. James Austin published a book entitled Chase, Chance, & Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty.

In it, Dr. Austin proposed that there are four types of luck:

Blind Luck
Luck from Motion
Luck from Awareness
Luck from Uniqueness
Here's how to think about each type:

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/15/the-4-types-of-luck-by-sahil-bloom-shared/

"Our world should be at its most analyzable, explicable — but still it can feel like sorcery."

Eric Boodman for New York magazine: https://longreads.com/2025/04/08/does-luck-exist/

#Longreads #Luck #Chance #Probability #Philosophy#Superstition

Chess is a game of luck