FuckTheGovernment

Plumber | Toronto | iG : chrisrooy

[Tyler Beauchesne @SensfleckTy]

The EQAO test

[FuckTheGovernment @3Piece_]

Boom

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

Florida homeowner lifts home 24 feet in the air to protect from hurricanes

[Co-op Tory 🍁 @CoopTory]

The Birds of Canada banknote series was so peak.

[Frxmzy🔪 @Frxmzy]

Bradley Martyn was SPEECHLESS after finding out Togi built an entire RESTAURANT and a massage parlor with HAPPY ENDINGS inside his gym “Zoo Culture”, he was so PISSED that he ended up giving everybody who breaks down the walls of the restaurant a free gym membership 😭💔

“Brad welcome to Togi’s Teriyaki”

“Where the f— are my employees?”

“We kicked them out this morning, we said they were fired and we don’t need them… This is the most crowded your gym has been in years” 🤣

[Asanwa.sol @Chizitere_xyz]

It is absolutely terrifying that a man can sacrifice his youth, work 60-hour weeks, and build an entire estate, only for a woman to decide she is "bored" after four years, file for a no-fault divorce, and legally walk away with half of everything he built. Marriage was supposed to be a partnership, not a risk-free lottery ticket where you get to cash out on a man's net worth simply because you fell out of love

[FuckTheGovernment @3Piece_]

Im so heartbroken my dad will never get to meet any babies i ever have 😞

[The Collectibles Guru @gurucollects]

His daughter traded a Sylveon ex (~$4) for a Mega Charizard X SIR (~$900) 😳

The other kid (and their parents) had no idea what the Charizard was worth. So the dad reached out and told them, and suggested they trade back.

This illuminates an interesting gray area in the hobby: Kids trading what they like vs. adults knowing the value.

Respect for doing the right thing. What would YOU have done here?

📸: u/KyloRem

[teo 💽 @TeoDomani]

I went to London, Ontario once and a seven-year-old smoking a cigarette told me to go fuck myself

[MAX CHADWICK @maxchadwick]

Pokemon has been hiding giant artworks across 9 different TCG cards released in different sets

they started this in 2023 with artist HYOGONOSUKE

in 2024, artist Teeziro drew the second set of 9

it's now an annual tradition

the cards below are from Surging Sparks, Twilight Masquerade, Paradox Rift, and Shrouded Fate sets

[Kia 🧸ྀི @xevekiah]

DNA is really so crazy. Have y’all heard that story about the woman who had a baby with her husband, but when he got a DNA test, it said he wasn’t the father? The mother insisted he was the dad, so they repeated the test multiple times, and it kept saying the same thing. It later came out that, based on the DNA results, he wasn’t the father… but the uncle of the child. Which made no sense because he was an only child. After more extensive testing, they discovered the husband was actually a chimera, meaning he had absorbed his twin in the womb and carried two sets of DNA. So basically… the baby was biologically his twin brother’s child, even though he was the one who fathered it.

[TeamPokeColors @TeamPokeColors]

Man is it just me or doors anyone else really miss the Pokemon cards’ set symbols in the bottom corner, instead of just a “POR”, “OBF”, string of text?

[Kari @yescerb]

Seeing this logo on a fitted hat with fur approaching you in 2006 meant you were about to be relieved of all your electronic devices

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A 21-year-old loading Coca-Cola trucks in Owatonna, Minnesota. Can't sleep after his night shifts. So he sits on the floor of his parents' basement at 2 AM with a MicroKorg synth on his lap.

He has zero audio engineering training. Pressing buttons and turning knobs without knowing what they do. He builds a little "ping" sound, routes it through some guitar pedals, hums melodies over it in gibberish for a few days, then fills in the words.

Three days. Done. Wasn't even his favorite song on the album.

"Fireflies" went #1 in 26 countries. 10 million copies sold. Diamond certified. Hit a billion Spotify streams last month.

Adam Young had no label, no producer, no co-writers, no strategy. He had insomnia and a $500 synthesizer in a basement in a town of 25,000 people.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it.

The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response.

That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down.

And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring.

Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain.

Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back.

London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out.

The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate.

If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.

[Dyylas @DylanDyylas]

take me back

[isaiah @tlop444]

the funniest thing about soulja boy doing everything first is that there’s somehow always proof too

[PuckEmpire @puckempire]

BREAKING: Doug Ford is banning the resale of tickets for more than face value in Ontario.

The government did not say exactly when the resale cap will come into effect, but that once it does, it will apply to all ticket resales going forward.

[FuckTheGovernment @3Piece_]

Fucking licensed plumber now 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡😎

[FuckTheGovernment @3Piece_]

Why did i start shining hunting 🙃