Carlo L. Peña

[Carlo L. Peña @CarloLPena]

@flornkm And for us ADHD survivors have it give us options to skip the delayed start.

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

I had no idea how many cameras were in my neighborhood... this is shocking.
https://t.co/gnmbREQ7dk

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

“No one gives a shit” is so powerful when you internalize it.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

There’s an old Chinese proverb that I love:

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.”

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Texas they told me to stop at Buc-ee's for gas.

I have been to shrines. I have stood in temples that took two hundred years to build.

I was not prepared for the gas station.

There were one hundred and twenty fuel pumps.

I counted them because I did not believe them.

A man beside me was filling a truck the size of my first apartment, and he was not filling it because it was empty.

He was filling it because he was here, and here is where a man fills things.

Inside was a hall so vast I lost the horizon.

A wall of jerky. A wall of fudge I did not know the country produced.

A brisket sandwich handed to me by a man in a beaver costume.

And I want to be clear, the beaver is not a mascot.

The beaver is a saint.

The people speak of him the way my grandmother spoke of the mountain behind her house.

And the bathrooms.

I had been warned about the bathrooms and I had dismissed the warning as the pride of a loud people.

I was wrong to dismiss it.

The bathrooms are famous across the whole state and they have earned it.

I have slept in worse hotels. I nearly bowed upon entering.

A janitor was polishing the floor with the devotion of a man tending a garden he loved, and when I thanked him he said "welcome in," which I have since learned is what Texas says instead of hello, and also instead of I am glad you exist.

I went in for gas. I was inside for ninety minutes.

I came out with fudge, a shirt printed with a joke I do not fully understand, forty dollars of jerky, and a feeling I can only describe as having been to church.

I did not need any of it.

I needed all of it.

I have walked through the great cathedrals of the old world. I lit no candle there.

I lit no candle at Buc-ee's either.

But I did fill the truck.

And I understand now that in Texas, this is the same thing.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life hack: realizing you can just decide, “nope, my past doesn’t get a vote in my future anymore.”

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

The most socially acceptable way to destroy your life:

Overthink everything.
Act on nothing.

Your mind calls it “figuring things out.”

Here are Eckhart Tolle’s 7 steps to break the loop: 👇

1. Recognize that there’s a voice in your head that never shuts up.

[Carlo L. Peña @CarloLPena]

@ATLAreaWx @TMLibertarian

[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

The brain does not hate hard work. It hates unclear effort. If it cannot see where the work is going, how long it will last, or why it matters, it starts treating the task like failure instead of a challenge.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you’re not careful it’s too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.”

— Norm Macdonald

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Tim Dillon had a brutally funny take on Gen Z’s approach to work.

He says a lot of them have figured out the whole system feels like a scam, so they’re treating it like one. Fake mental health days, quiet quitting, weaponizing HR language, doing the bare minimum while demanding maximum accommodation.

And Tim’s reaction? “I’m for it.” They’re just using the playbook society handed them.

This is what happens when trust in institutions and old-school work ethic collapses. People stop playing the game seriously and start playing the system instead.

Do you think Gen Z is smart for gaming a broken system, or is this approach ultimately making things worse?

[Snubie @SnubieDotCom]

Ettan Snus literally existed in America, brought here by Swedish immigrants, before the FDA was even founded. But the FDA wants to ban Ettan and Grov next. Sure, makes sense

[Carlo L. Peña @CarloLPena]

@bcbuckeye @KFCBarstool @X Surely you mean 𝕏?

[Ken Kirtland IV @KenKirtland17]

It’s impossible to build anything in America but 3 Flock cameras on every intersection across the nation deployed in ~1 month

[Max Lugavere @maxlugavere]

Just telling people they slept poorly led to impaired cognitive function. Telling them they slept fine preserved it.

[Bryce Hanna @photobiogenesis]

My wife is constantly psyopping herself that she slept well, she gets mad if I complain about lack of sleep

It's actually insane how effective this is

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Actor Sam Neill was asked what was the greatest lesson he learned from his parents.

He recalled his mother’s simple but profound advice:

“Sometimes you just have to pull yourself together. It’s a tough lesson, but it’s a good one.”

Wise words from a man who lived his life with grace and dignity.

Rest in peace, Sam Neill.

[Carlo L. Peña @CarloLPena]

@RetroCoast Abroad 💯