CBArche - Author

Inspiring young imaginations to explore, dream & achieve through clever, creative characters in fascinating fantasy novels…

[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

UPDATE: Christmas surprise gift mission accomplished!
🎄🎁

Not only did my YA Fantasy book get my dad featured in a museum, but now we’re gifting him a ship cabin remodeled and dedicated to him!

He teared up when he learned we were including his recently best friend too! 🥹

Bonus photo of my dad still fitting into his chef uniform he wore during his stint in the galley! 😁

#FamilyChristmas #ChristmasGift #GodIsGood

[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

Have you had an experience that provided tangible proof of God working wonders in your life?

I had one this summer that turned into a moving 90th birthday gift for my dad.

And now it’s developed into a Christmas gift for Dad, too!

A birthday/Christmas surprise thread: 🧵 1/9

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

SCOTUS just nuked the Democrats’ favorite election rigging scheme from orbit and the leftist panic is pure comedy gold.

The Supreme Court just torched Louisiana’s disgusting racial “snake” map ... that gerrymandered intestine-looking abomination Democrats used to steal seats in the South. Decades of VRA lawfare, racially rigged districts, and “minority group rights” bullshit? DEAD.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act never required this unconstitutional race-based map drawing, but activist courts turned it into a Democrat superpower. Yesterday that superpower got castrated.

Louisiana’s already suspending primaries. Florida just fast-tracked a +4 GOP map that’s now bulletproof. Alabama is redrawing ASAP. More states are about to pile on.

This one ruling could vaporize up to 40 Democrat House seats. Forty. The same clowns who’ve been protected by racial gerrymandering for years ... like Bennie Thompson ... are about to get redrawn into political oblivion.

Obama’s already out here crying about “democracy” and “minority group rights” like the Constitution gives racial blocs special privileges. Newsflash, Barry: Groups don’t have rights. Individuals do. Your neo-communist identity politics just got slapped into next week.

The Democrats’ Southern firewall is collapsing. Their House math is imploding. And the salt flowing from the left is absolutely delicious.

This is what winning looks like. Midterms just got a massive red wave injection.

The panic is glorious.
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[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

Too be fair, Martin Luther found a way to defy the rot in the Catholic church.

Perhaps it’s time for a modern day 95 Theses…

FYI: That’s why I’m a proud Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) Lutheran — one of the few modern Lutheran synods that still adheres to the Bible and Martin Luther’s teachings on it..

[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

@CynicalPublius

[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

@sow413 @MarioNawfal Yay! That’s wonderful to hear! I don’t know any Americans who hold animosity towards Japan. My sister lived there for a year in the 1980s to teach, so I’ve always appreciated Japanese culture. And I know so many young Americans who feel the same. My nephew wants to move there!

[Hannah Ward 👩🏻‍🏫 Mom (x3) | Learning Designer @HannahWardEdu]

This is what our first graders used to read in our one-room schoolhouses (the dominant form of education) 100 years ago. We accomplished a 94% literacy rate with this method.
Now with huge fancy schools, million dollar literacy ed-tech, tons of funding? 28% of adults have low functional literacy - meaning they can't read well enough to complete even the most basic daily tasks.
Why did we have to reinvent the wheel when what we had was working so well?

[✒️ @Literariium]

The antidote for brain rot is books.
The antidote for brain rot is books.
The antidote for brain rot is books.
The antidote for brain rot is books.
The antidote for brain rot is books.
The antidote for brain rot is books.
The antidote for brain rot is books.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Scientists put kids through 100 hours of reading, then scanned their brains. New wiring had physically grown inside the language regions. Communication between brain areas sped up by a factor of 10. Kids who didn't read showed zero change.

That was a 2009 Carnegie Mellon study. It gets wilder.

In 2013, Emory University scanned 19 students every morning for 19 straight days while they read one novel chapter each night. Mornings after reading, the brain areas responsible for understanding other people's emotions lit up with new connections. So did the region that processes physical sensation. Their brains were simulating what the characters felt, as if it were happening to them. Those changes stuck around for 5 days after they finished the book.

Now flip to scrolling. A massive review published in Psychological Bulletin last September pulled together 71 studies covering 98,299 people. Heavy short-form video use (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) showed a clear pattern: worse attention, weaker self-control, and more anxiety. Consistent across teenagers and adults, across every platform tested. Oxford didn't name "brain rot" its 2024 Word of the Year for nothing.

A 2024 brain wave study found that people hooked on short-form video had weaker activity in the front of the brain, the part that controls focus and impulse control. Separate brain scans showed the same thing: heavy scrollers had less activation in the exact regions that deep reading strengthens.

UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has been studying this for decades. Humans were never born to read. There's no gene for it. Reading is something we invented, and it hijacked neurons that were originally meant for recognizing faces. Over time, it built entirely new brain circuits connecting language, vision, and emotion. But those circuits only survive if you use them. Stop reading, and they fade. Wolf's conclusion is simple: screens built for speed produce a speed-wired brain. Books built for depth produce a depth-wired brain.

One honest caveat: most of these studies are snapshots, not long-term tracking. People who already struggle to focus might just prefer short videos. But the same pattern showing up across nearly 100,000 people is hard to shrug off.

The tweet repeats the line seven times. The research backs it up with brain scans, EEG data, and white-matter imaging across tens of thousands of people.

[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

@CynicalPublius My condolences…

[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

When my dad was my teacher/principal in grade school, in an 8-grades two room school (1-4 in one room, 5-8 in the other). We had two 25-minute recesses each day and an hour for lunch. The classrooms had a table up front for lessons, plus reading 3 nooks and several learning stations, including computers way back in the 1980s. He’d teach each grade a 10-minute lesson, then send us to do our work at our desks. We could get up quietly to help each other as needed, turn in our work right away, then we were free to read or play computer—15 minutes a piece a day, although we could share time with a friend so get 30 minutes total together. He didn’t have to police that, we policed each other. And the best part is that we NEVER had homework. My dad didn’t believe in it. His motto: “Don’t let homework get in the way of your education.”

[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

And then schools send kids home with homework giving them even LESS time to play!

I do disagree with separating them, because I think all benefit from learning together, BUT I agree that schools have catered to girls’ learning styles.

My teacher/principal dad had it right in his two room 8 grades school — two 25 minute recesses a day, an hour for lunch, 10-minute lessons per grade per subject, plenty of time to do class work in school, learning stations to occupy free time, and NO HOMEWORK!

[Megha @megha_lilly]

A homeschooling mom shared a nature textbook from 1920 and compared it to a modern one. The difference explains why modern students are so dumb compared to our ancestors, growing up into emotionally volatile, easily propagandized adults who are incapable of independent thought. The 1920s textbook provides information about our world through a story, and unfolds the information as a naturalist would find it, describing the methods of observation, and inviting the child into the exploration. Whereas the modern textbook provides a list of facts with no context in a dry heartless way and with ugly, garish, overstimulating visuals, attempting to overcompensate for the bad writing.

[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

THIS!

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

We are losing the concept of developing as a person. If you depend on algorithms and AI for everything, you will be forever stunted. You’ll never grow as an artist, a writer, a thinker without effort and friction. You will be a half-formed thing.

[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

@stephenRB4 My sister and I once played pool with Ben Affleck. He still owes my sister $2. 😎

[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

@nyxgeek 1,000% agreed. That’s why I’m transitioning to Linux. What’s your thought on that open source option?

[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

@SketchesbyBoze And THIS is why I’m actively seeking to form a handwritten letter club. Like a book club but we write each other on fun stationary. No typed text at all — not even on the envelope… I’m thinking of calling it the Stationary Club. 😁

[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

@PixelCabGames @MuseumCommodore Those mine won’t sweep themselves!

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@MuseumCommodore Deadline. 😎

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@SketchesbyBoze Agreed… That’s why I incorporated a plethora of retro elements into my YA fantasy novel — both obvious and hidden. 😎

https://t.co/8f12J7HGXq

[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

Okay @grok can you find the retro Easter Egg on this page from my book? I have hints to help if needed… But let’s try a no-help guess first. Are you up to the task?

[CBArche - Author @CBArcheAuthor]

@gamer_lafan It’s awesome. Have you played it? If not, I believe it’s possible to still play it online somewhere… Although I haven’t checked in a while. If you can find it, let me know what you think of it!