adrienne

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25. TX. 🏳️‍🌈. BLM. $adriout

[adrienne @Adri_out]

Besties, who needs plan b for free? Hmu! I'll ship it to you no questions asked ☺️

[madi ☠︎ @ASTR0ZOMBIEZ]

😭

[is🔻🇵🇸 @witchrealms]

it’s crazy to take this whole thing as “this guy is being annoying” and not “wow this guy has to work a million times harder to get the same recognition as other directors trying way less to connect with their audiences”. and also then not make the connection as to why that is

[The Ginger Swindler @lilydsmith]

sure elmo

[🌍 @URlENS]

Ppl will misread your sentence because they can't read and then tell you to take accountability for how it made them feel because they can't read

[m @chmpgnsoshalist]

“humanity faces a new Tower of Babel” is such an unbelievably hard opening for a document about AI.

[K(sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyett]

One of the reasons that both Neoliberals and fascists hate people like Mamdani is because he proves they are all liars who have effectively sold out their constituents to billionaire interests.

All of the pain we have been told to endure has been a choice to sate the wealthy

[Joe @electionsjoe]

I love how the world is in chaos and NYC gets the sunshine and rainbows subplot.

[Miles @mtvsthewrld_]

The fact that he is so good at this really puts into perspective how cartoonishly evil the average politician is

[adrienne @Adri_out]

@nah_steck Summer movie draft 💁🏾‍♀️

[suri @suricidal]

i was born with a disease where if i don’t collect cute small things and display them in my room i die

[jbolina jolie @pastapilled]

Does Sisyphus forget of his boulder

[adrienne @Adri_out]

@fangsxbangs Hey uhh my therapist is out of dfw and she has billed me improperly a few times... does the practice have the initials AMBMC ??😬

[adrienne @Adri_out]

@nah_steck Oh my goodness YES!! I can't sing but I'll hold a sign

[god’s baby @sincere_worm]

hailey bieber is not a human woman, she is a cosmic lesson, sent here by the angels to deliver a divine message to humanity: sometimes the worst thing that can happen to you is getting exactly what you desire

[Snooby @DoBiddley1]

I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas

[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.

[adrienne @Adri_out]

I've been complemented on my weight enough times that I will now be posting regular body checks on insta 😌

[⋆KMꜝ❤︎ @misskerrington]

i may be #chronically online but i’m also #chronically outside and #chronically having fun

[christina 死神 @chhopsky]

some of you need to learn that this applies to video games too

[nineinchdale @sixasscat]

this is the funniest shit to ever happen but u really can’t talk about it unless u got the video on standby cuz everyone’s gonna think u went off the fuckin deep end