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'The bravest thing she ever did was stay alive each day' ~ Atticus

[🦁👩🏼‍⚖️💃📚 @AvaGraceVIP]

Sometimes someone just captures the current social narrative in the most precise way. And when you see it laid out like that, no matter that we already KNOW that’s how it is, it seems to hurt all that much more deeply. It should NOT be like this. #BELIEVEWOMEN

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Bro just spawned in and dropped his tag line 😭

[The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer]

The 7-second cold wrist rinse was tested on 3,000 soldiers after combat simulations.

Cortisol dropped 52% within 90 seconds. Heart rate fell an average of 22 beats per minute. The Navy classified the protocol in 2009 and kept it secret until 2023.

The mechanism is radial artery cooling. Your inner wrists have the thinnest skin and the largest surface-to-volume ratio for blood vessels. 7 seconds of cold water cools the blood passing to your brain, which signals your hypothalamus to downregulate stress instantly

You've splashed cold water on your face. You've taken cold showers. Both work, but they're inconvenient.

The SEAL protocol takes 7 seconds, requires no undressing, and can be done at any sink. Soldiers used it before night missions to fall asleep fast.

The military classified this because a free 7-second stress fix would reduce demand for combat stress medication ($400M annually).

The 2023 declassification came after a FOIA lawsuit filed by a veteran.

The fix: run cold tap water over your inner wrists for 7 seconds. Both wrists. Do it when you feel a stress spike.

Within 90 seconds, your heart rate will drop. No shower, no ice.

Just 7 seconds.

[Ichigo Niggasake @SomaKazima2]

This DIVA

[HIGH STAR⭐ @ejigah599]

They PROVED the sharks wrong 😳

[🤣 @Japan_lol_w]

サウロンの鎧を組み立てている最中に心臓が止まりかけた男性、これは間違いなくビビるwwwwwww

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

If I had millions he would have millions

[NRM84 @Mappy6984]

Some crazy grip strength

[narita flowy @narflowy]

Pencil Pastry Box! ✏️ School is out! Now you can eat your pencils.

[comrade jake @ComradeJak3]

It's amazing that even 120 years ago people ascribed "I can has cheeseburger" dialect to cats

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Dr. Michael Levin, from Tufts University, explains how deer antlers have trophic memory.

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.

He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.

His name is Fabrice Bellard.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.

Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.

In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.

Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.

He was not done.

In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.

He kept going.

In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.

In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.

Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.

Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org

He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.

A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.

He is still shipping.

[Pratik Dünya @pratikdunya]

Mükemmel kalem ucu için geliştirilmiş hassas kalemtıraş.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This 1920s pen draws perfect dotted lines

[I_rooficial @I_roofc]

Quando você simplesmente já nasce com talento!
Projetado e costurado por Max Alexander, esse incrível menino

[🦁👩🏼‍⚖️💃📚 @AvaGraceVIP]

https://t.co/WzBehnFGqk

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

That hat flip was ice cold 🥶

[Epic Clip Vault @EpicClipVault]

Extras on The Walking Dead set.

[Mrs. Butters 🥧 @MrsButters]

Albania's citizens are pissed. Ivanka is laying into her colonizer role.

1. When a billionaire with ties to Mein Trumpf buys an island, it's usually nefarious.

2. Sazan Island is a protected animal sanctuary.

3. It was public land. How is it all of the sudden Ivanka's property?

[Gazetory @gazetory]

Justin Flom, karısına özel bir lentiküler lensle kapladığı duşakabini kullanarak eşini görünmez hale getirdi.