Sabrina

[Sabrina @GnrBllFm]

Unless you are a veteran. "In network" but a "specialty urgent care" requiring a previous authorization. NOT AN URGENT CARE! Happy memorial day I guess....
@PeteHegseth @POTUS @DeptVetAffairs

[Clinton @614clinton]

Last summer, my wife was getting her hair done at an upscale salon before our vacation to Las Vegas.

“Las Vegas?” her hairdresser scoffed. “It's overcrowded, dirty, and ridiculously expensive. Why would you go there?”

“We thought we'd have some fun. We're flying Southwest Airlines.”

“Southwest? Terrible airline! Cramped seats, delays, and awful service. Where are you staying?”

“Trump International Hotel.”

The hairdresser laughed. “Overpriced! You're paying a fortune just for the name.”

“We're also hoping to meet President Trump while we're there.”

The hairdresser burst out laughing. “You and a million other people! Good luck with that!”

A few weeks later, my wife returned to the salon for a trim.

“So, how was Las Vegas?” the hairdresser asked.

“It was wonderful! We got upgraded on our flight, and the hotel gave us a beautiful suite at no extra charge.”

The hairdresser rolled her eyes. “Well, at least tell me you didn't actually meet President Trump.”

“Actually, I did. I was sitting in the hotel lobby when a Secret Service agent approached me and asked if I'd like to meet him. A few minutes later, President Trump walked in, shook my hand, and spoke with me privately.”

The hairdresser stared at her in disbelief.

“Oh, really? And what did the president say to you?”

My wife smiled and replied, “He looked at me and said, ‘Who the hell did your hair? It looks like shit!’”

[𝓜 @Midewontmiss]

The autistic experience of constantly being told, “You’re such a sweet, lovely, polite girl!” while nobody actually wants to be your best friend.

Nobody jokes around with you. Nobody gets genuinely excited to invite you places. Nobody seems interested in getting to know the real you.

You’re included just enough to count as a friend, but never quite enough to feel truly loved.

You’re treated like a placeholder in people’s lives instead of someone they genuinely want around.

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

Last May, I waited two hours in line for a hamburger.

On a U.S. Air Force base. In Tokyo.

Once a year, Yokota Air Base opens its gates for a friendship festival. Over a hundred thousand Japanese people show up. The Americans who live there run the food booths.

The burger line was two hours long.

Nobody complained. Nobody cut. A man stood at the very end holding a sign that said "END OF LINE," like a human flag.

My American friend stared at it. "Two hours? For a burger?"

"In Japan," I said, "this is a pilgrimage."

The old man in front of me had a cane and came alone. He didn't say a word for ninety minutes.

Then he turned around and asked me, in Japanese, if I could translate one thing when we got to the front.

The guy at the grill was maybe 20. Texas accent. Sweating through his shirt.

The old man bowed. Deep. Then he spoke, and I translated:

"In 1946, I was eight years old. I was hungry. An American soldier gave me his chocolate and his lunch. I never learned his name.

So I come every year. I wait in line. I eat one hamburger.

That is how I say thank you."

The grill went quiet.

The kid took off his gloves, walked around the table, and shook the old man's hand with both of his.

"Sir. For whoever he was… you're welcome."

Then he made him a burger with three patties.

The old man tried to pay. The kid pushed the money back.
The old man tried again. The kid pushed it back again.
The old man tried a third time.

"Sir," the kid said, "in Texas, you don't win this argument."

The old man laughed for the first time all day.

He's 88 now. He says he'll be back next May. He's bringing his great-grandson.

Two hours. One hamburger. Eighty years of thank you.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

POWERFUL MOMENT: Vice President JD Vance just led an entire Nebraska crowd in the Lord’s Prayer after a medical emergency in the middle of his speech.

As medical personnel rushed to assist an attendee, Vance paused his remarks and invited the crowd to join him in prayer.

The Vice President turned to his faith, recalling how the Lord taught us to pray in moments like these.

Thousands gathered in prayer as they waited for news about the person receiving medical attention.

A powerful display of faith and compassion, @JDVance

[A 🌸 @AThinksAloud]

Learned more about the making of the Blair Witch Project and I am SO angry on behalf of Mike, Josh and Heather.

I am one of those people who saw it in the theater and was completely ignorant about how the film was actually made. All of the confusion and viral marketing around it led to so much misinformation and ambiguity, especially since their real names were used as the names of the characters they portrayed.

These three young people were improvisational actors. They were NOT deceived or misled in order to get them to “act better.” They never felt genuinely scared or went truly hungry. Yes, they really camped and no, they were not given scripts, but they knew the general plot line and were given prompts every day to help them improvise.

They had to be trained to use cameras. They filmed the entire movie, every scene, THEMSELVES with hand held cameras and without ANY director telling them what to do. It was all instinct and improvisation and acting their butts off.

And they made creative storyline decisions that were brilliant and inspired. Michael C. Williams decided to kick the map into the river and he didn’t tell anyone, and he instinctively chose the moment when they were all laughing to inform Heather and Josh of what he did. He came up with that and it was a HUGE moment in the film that changed the trajectory. And Heather responded to it brilliantly, as well.

Heather improvised her entire flashlight monologue and cried real tears, not because she was abused or genuinely frightened by the crew, but because she was a GOOD ACTOR.

And after this film became huge and broke records for being the most profitable movie ever made, the studio screwed these kids out of a reasonable paycheck that would have changed their lives and been a drop in the bucket for the studio given how huge the profits were.

The three young artists who made this movie everything it is did not have agents or representation, so they got nothing.

Additionally, because of the way in which the film was marketed and all of the confusion around it, everyone (including other studios and casting directors) thought these three were not really acting. They assumed they were having real moments of hunger and terror and stress, because the studio wanted everyone to believe that.

They FILMED and ACTED and WROTE and IMPROVISED a timeless classic, got no money and no credit for it. When the box office broke $100M, the studio sent them fruit baskets. 😭

Hollywood is truly malevolent. This has to be the biggest injustice in Hollywood history.

[Sabrina @GnrBllFm]

@Natism

[Sabrina @GnrBllFm]

@KoaWeb3 So many things. Poverty is the situation. Poor is the mindset. It depends on how you look at and see things. I grew up Poor. But I let the little things bring me joy. So it could have been much worse for me.

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

Major IQ DECLINE in the West.

This should worry EVERYONE.

This has serious long term consequences for all of Western society & civilisation.

In just 2 generations, the Western average IQ has dropped by 7 points.

Lead exposure dropped children's IQ by roughly 4 to 5 so whatever is happening is even worse.

Gen Z is the first generation in Western History to show a widespread raw IQ decline & the decline is dramatically increasing.

Gen X: IQ 97-99

Steady climb toward the historical baseline peak.

Millennials: IQ 100

Marked the absolute highest average baseline before the shift.

Gen Z: IQ 96-98

First modern generation to show a widespread raw decline.

Gen Alpha: IQ 93-95

Tracking toward the
lowest raw performance on all traditional tests.

THIS IS SERIOUS

A drop of 7 IQ points might sound small on an individual level, but in cognitive science, it represents a MASSIVE shift in real-world capability when applied to a population.

On a societal level, a 7-point drop down the IQ bell curve completely alters society; the workforce, economy, the education system...
EVERYTHING.

Individuals will now require more repetition, time & explicit instruction to master highly abstract concepts.

It reduces the ability to hold multiple pieces of complex information in the mind simultaneously, making multi-step problem-solving difficult.

High-complexity industries (like aerospace engineering, advanced medicine & deep-tech innovation) rely on the population sitting in the "highly gifted" range (IQ 130+).

Shifting the curve down by 7 points slashes the number of highly gifted individuals by roughly 50% to 60%.

A country simply has fewer minds capable of breakthrough scientific discoveries.

Conversely, the number of individuals falling into the borderline intellectual disability range (IQ below 70) nearly doubles.

This creates an immediate, heavy strain on school remedial programs, social services & workforce training.

Simple logistical errors, administrative mistakes & a general inability to troubleshoot minor system failures without manager intervention drag down overall economic efficiency.

This reduces critical thinking, lowers verbal reasoning & working memory which directly change how people interact with information & each other.

Long-form reading, dense literature, and nuanced political policy documents become too cognitively taxing for the average citizen. Media, entertainment & public communication adapt by becoming hyper-simplified, visual & sensationalised.

We are currently witnessing all of this play out NOW & no one is talking about it.

This didn’t just mysteriously happen. This was intentional.

They dumbed down the West.

Easier to control a lower IQ population than an intelligent one.

(Lozzy B)

[Sabrina @GnrBllFm]

@TruthFairy131 No wonder I can't participate in society without needing a week to recoup.

[Sabrina @GnrBllFm]

@lady_valor_07 Lasagna, add sausage to the beef for more flavor

[Sabrina @GnrBllFm]

@001Dude_ Painful

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

I asked 30 Japanese 12-year-olds one question.

"What do you think of when you hear 'America'?"

(My nephew's teacher let me visit his class. I was not prepared.)

"Hamburgers the size of my head."

"Everything is big. Even the milk."

"Cowboys." Then a boy asked me, "Do cowboys still exist?"
I said yes.
The whole class cheered.

"They went to the moon."
I told them only Americans have ever walked on it.
The room went completely silent. Respect.

"The best baseball in the world. Even Ohtani had to go there."

"Superheroes. They all live in New York."

Then a quiet girl in the back raised her hand.

"My grandma says when the tsunami came, American soldiers came to help her town. She still has a photo with them on her fridge."

Nobody said anything for a while.

Then the teacher asked, "Who wants to go to America someday?"

Every hand went up.

Including the teacher's.

[Sabrina @GnrBllFm]

@SubRosaMagick I am Sabrina, witch of the simulation

[Sassy Devil Dog 🔥 @VinoNStrosGal]

ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS ILLUSIONS IN MODERN SOCIETY IS THE BELIEF THAT GOOD HEALTH IS ENTIRELY WITHIN OUR CONTROL.

Anyone stumbling across my timeline this morning may notice that I’ve been amplifying some rather disturbing responses to the ongoing conversation surrounding Christina Applegate and her health.

Apparently, we’ve reached a point where strangers armed with an iPhone, an internet connection, and an inflated sense of medical expertise feel qualified to attribute another human being’s suffering to everything from veganism and breast implants to COVID-19 vaccinations.

The controversy surrounding Christina Applegate’s recently reported MS misdiagnosis has become the catalyst for a much larger conversation, one that I believe society desperately needs to have.

When did we become so comfortable treating another person’s illness as evidence of their poor judgment?

When did we decide that a person’s medical suffering was an invitation to scrutinize their lifestyle, dissect their decisions, and assign blame?

What troubles me most isn’t simply the speculation.

It’s the extraordinary arrogance underlying it.

There appears to be a surprisingly widespread belief that if you eat the right foods, exercise consistently, prioritize sleep, avoid certain substances, avoid breast implants and follow the appropriate wellness rituals, you can somehow negotiate immunity from serious illness.

YOU CANNOT.

You can reduce certain risks.

You can improve your odds.

You can make responsible decisions about your health.

But you cannot purchase biological certainty with good behavior.

Ask the marathon runner diagnosed with cancer.

Ask the lifelong athlete who develops an autoimmune disease.

Ask the person who ate impeccably, exercised religiously, and never smoked a cigarette, only to suffer a devastating medical event.

Ask the millions of people whose lives have been altered by Long COVID, many of whom were young, athletic, and exceptionally healthy before infection.

COVID-19 itself has killed millions worldwide and left countless others dealing with prolonged, sometimes disabling symptoms.

Yet somehow, we have people confidently attributing complex medical conditions to a stranger’s personal choices while overlooking the biological unpredictability of illness itself.

I sometimes wonder whether this attitude is rooted in something deeper than ignorance.

Perhaps it’s fear.

Perhaps blaming sick people provides healthy people with a comforting illusion:

If I can identify what they supposedly did wrong, I can convince myself the same thing will never happen to me.

It’s psychologically convenient, isn’t it?

Because acknowledging that illness can strike despite our best efforts means confronting an uncomfortable truth about our own vulnerability.

And that requires humility.

Health is not a certificate of moral superiority.

Illness is not proof of irresponsibility.

And suffering is not an invitation for strangers to conduct a public trial of someone’s life choices.

Christina Applegate doesn’t owe the internet a defense of her diet, her medical decisions, her body, or her past.

She deserves the same compassion and dignity that every seriously ill human being deserves.

Before you congratulate yourself for being healthier, wiser, or more disciplined than someone whose body is failing them, consider something.

You may be doing everything right.

You may also be extraordinarily fortunate.

And those are not necessarily the same thing.

The human body does not operate on a merit system.

Perhaps the next time you encounter someone living with a devastating illness, instead of asking what they did to deserve it, you might ask yourself why you feel so certain it could never happen to you.

Because sometimes the most important health lesson isn’t about nutrition, exercise, or supplements.

It’s about humility.

[kiesha @kiesha9i]

My cat has been waking me up at 5am daily and I can't figure out what she wants (not interested in food). This morning | decided to just walk around with her to see what's up and she led me to the office and stared at my office chair until I sat down.
She wants me to work

[Sabrina @GnrBllFm]

@SunshineTX50 Land before time

[Sabrina @GnrBllFm]

@The_Observer00X Homeboy that put the trash bag in recovery position shows this is not his first rodeo with his friend running his mouth.....

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

Modern Mainstream Propaganda Science:

Deep in the evolutionary tree, the broad group of primates known as anthropoids first emerged in Asia roughly 40 million years ago then all decided to pack up & move to Africa.

Then they went back to Asia & migrated to Africa again about 6 to 8 million years ago & magically became humans then they left Africa & transformed into different species & races of humans around the world 🪄

It gets better…

Fossil discoveries, such as Dryopithecus or Graecopithecus in Europe & Western Asia, suggest that certain ape-like ancestors spent time in Eurasia then they too decided to head back over to Africa 😂

Their theory is that every Ape migrated to Africa & none could have evolved out of Africa because apparently Africa must have had ‘magic soil or magic bananas?” that transforms Apes into humanoid species. 🍌 🙄

Africans have up to 20% Ghost DNA that non-Africans do NOT have.

Europeans & East Asians also have Neanderthal DNA not found in Africans.

When we look at the Civilised world & the 3rd world, we see the obvious differences between racial groups.

Whatever happened in the past, it is obvious that we are very different & are at very different points of evolution.

The West giving modern technology to primitive people was one of our biggest mistakes.

Now to throw a primitive race & advanced race together does not elevate & encourage the evolution of the more primitive group, it regresses the evolved, advanced group & only takes them backwards.

There have been multiple research studies on this & we are witnessing this right now.

Our younger generations are dropping in IQ levels for the first time in history in the West & many are adopting uncivilised low IQ behaviours.

A nation is a direct reflection of a people.

You can see this now in Western cities where White Europeans are now a minority, our cities are 3rd world war zones. They now reflect the ‘new’ population.

We need to discuss reality.

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

I keep a note on my phone called "Things Americans say in Japan."

It's getting long. Here are some of my favorites.

In a taxi, when the back door opened by itself:
"Honey. The car is haunted. Do we tip the ghost?"

At a conveyor belt sushi place:
"The food keeps driving past me. Am I supposed to chase it?"

Next to a vending machine in the middle of a rice field:
"There's no road. There's no town. Who refills this thing?"

At a 100-yen shop:
"Everything is a dollar, so I bought a tiny rake. I don't have a garden."

In a hotel bathroom:
"Someone folded the toilet paper into a little triangle. For me. I have never felt so respected."

At Shibuya Crossing:
"Thousands of people just walked through me. Nobody bumped me. Not once."

But the best moment this month never made it into the note.

Because he only said one word.

A small train station. No elevator. Steep stairs.

An old Japanese woman was pulling her suitcase up, one step at a time.

A huge American guy in a cowboy hat walked past her. Stopped. Came back.

He picked up the suitcase like it was a lunchbox, carried it to the top, set it down, and tipped his hat.

"Ma'am."

She didn't speak English. She just stood there with both hands over her heart.

Then she turned to her friend and whispered in Japanese:

"An American samurai."

I told him what she said.

He turned bright red.

Then he walked back down and started carrying everyone's bags.