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[Fear The Hippo @FearTheHippo]

Yes, thank you.

[Kevin Tanaka @ItsKevinTanaka]

Comedian Pete Holmes shares the simplest mental health tool he's ever used: "Yes, thank you."

Pete was sent advance copies of his own book to send out to reviewers.

When he looked through it, he realised it was three versions old filled with notes to himself, a placeholder word ("flappy") scattered throughout, and entire chapters he'd cut.

"It was just my first book deeply disappointing."

"You feel this like black cloud. You're just sad. Then you're embarrassed. To me it's the feeling and then it's the embarrassment that you have the feeling. It's worse than the feeling."

But instead of spiralling, Pete applied the exact tool he'd written about in that very book.

He said: "Yes, thank you."

And it lifted.

Pete explains why this works and it's simpler than any therapy framework or spiritual practice:

"It just short-circuits your brain if you say yes, thank you to it. And I mean almost instantly in my experience."

Flight delayed? Yes, thank you.

Embarrassed about your own book? Yes, thank you.

He breaks down the psychology behind it:

"Everything [is] attraction and aversion. Aversion is just charging it with all of this push. Like a basketball underwater. So you're giving it all the energy."

When you resist a bad feeling, you compress it. You give it power. "Yes, thank you" does the opposite, it stops the fight.

And you don't need to make it profound:

"It can just be a clean breath and a recognition that you're alive. And maybe you see the sun coming through the window."

Most of our suffering is the layer of resistance we pile on top of it. The embarrassment about the embarrassment. The frustration about the frustration.

"Yes, thank you" collapses that second layer instantly by simply not fighting it.

"Really not debating with the bad feeling. Just saying yes, thank you to it. That's been one of the most powerful things in my life for sure."

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Can confirm.
Hubba Hubba.

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You can’t make this shii up naaa you can’t

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This kid wanted to participate in “College Colors Day” at his school but didn’t have shirt to wear.

He created his own shirt, got bullied, and then this happened…

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…a wonderful, wonderful toy.

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

I just watched a man manipulate the fabric of space and time using a slinky

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It’s funny because it’s not me…

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Donkey laughs at Dog getting shocked by electric fence 🤣

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A WHAT???
…so many reasons not to go in the ocean…

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A strange deep sea Siphonophore, videoed in 1991 and another in 2015

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Just found out my favorite color is not green.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Purple is purely a mental construct of the human brain.

We invented the color because of a lack of a sensor signal.

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Right in the feels…

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Wow I teared up at the ending

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…not sure if that means it’s too big, or too small…

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The fact that this image is 34 bytes is kind of nuts

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…and in the most perplexing move of the campaign season, @ChefReactions comes out as the Anti-Mac&Cheese candidate.

Can we really trust this alleged Chef to be the national Curator of Culinary Creations?

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First applicant for super hero sidekick… meet MelloMutt.

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The correct answer…

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Who winning

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…allegedly.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This will be the first spacewalk by a commercial company and the furthest from Earth anyone has traveled in over half a century!

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The correct answer is… The Hippo.
#FearTheHippo

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*sets Reminder: Buy a Trombone

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

this made my day

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A PC modder built a life-sized sniper rifle gaming PC

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The Terminators will be here any minute...

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

“I was so driven by justifying my existence in the world that I forgot to play.”

At 80 years old, the inspiring Gabor Maté reflects on how he’d live his life, if he could do it all over again.

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Silly hoomans…