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I do not think therefore i don’t am ❤️💚/ pfp by brothernier

[zyrograv @GravityZyro]

b o n k

[🐟💤 | 📌VGen @sleppuccino]

we have to keep living btw. hatsune miku is only as strong as the number of us living

[gomi @parveen__tyagi]

writing will genuinely change your life more than motivation ever will. not in some cringe “manifest your dream life” way. i mean in a very real, practical way. most people never actually stop long enough to understand what’s going on inside their own head. they just react to life all day. scroll when they feel uncomfortable. distract themselves when things get quiet. jump from one dopamine hit to the next. but writing forces you to slow down for a second and actually look at your thoughts instead of running from them. and the weird part is you usually don’t even realize what you truly think until you start writing it down.

writing doesn’t just record your thoughts it creates them. ideas start flowing that you didn’t even know were there. patterns start showing up. emotions start making sense. problems become easier to solve because they’re no longer this giant fog floating around in your head. writing organizes your mind. every high performer, every sharp thinker, every person who just gets it, they all write. It keeps showing up as the common thread. not the expensive stuff. not the complex stuff. Just pen and paper. they write because feelings are vague but words are precise. every time they sit down and search for the exact word to describe what’s inside them, they become a sharper, more powerful communicator.

“people follow the person who can say what they mean and mean what they say. writing every day is how you build that muscle until it becomes second nature.”

over time, all that accumulated writing becomes a resource you can draw from forever. the more you write, the more material you have to solve problems, connect dots and think bigger.

the better you get at putting thoughts into words, the better you get at communicating in general. and honestly, communication controls a huge part of your life. like relationships, opportunities, business, confidence, influence, all of it comes down to how clearly you can express yourself. and no, you don’t need to be some amazing writer either. your grammar doesn’t need to be perfect. nobody cares. half the benefit comes from simply getting thoughts out of your head and onto paper.

some of the best writing advice i’ve ever heard was:

“write badly. just write.”

because the moment you stop trying to sound smart or perfect, your real thoughts finally start coming out.

even 30 minutes a day changes something in you. you become calmer because your mind isn’t carrying around a thousand unprocessed thoughts anymore. you become more self aware because you start noticing your own habits and emotional patterns. you become more articulate because you’re practicing turning feelings into language every single day.

if you write every day, your future self gets to sit down and read exactly how far you’ve come. i think that’s more valuable than any photo album.

who knows maybe one day all that writing becomes a book, a course, something you give your children. at the very least, it becomes proof that you were here, that you grew, that you tried.

that’s one of the coolest parts about it. writing lets you watch yourself evolve with time.

seriously. start writing. doesn’t matter if it’s in a notebook, your notes app, twitter wherever. just sit, think about your thoughts and write.

just sit down for 30 minutes and let your mind speak for once. and watch yourself becoming unstoppable.

[S1apSh0es @S1apSh0es]

Speed went from annoying guy with zero thoughts that barks like a dog and shows meat on stream to cool dude who travels the world and engages respectfully with other cultures. He’s like if the Paul Bros actually learned their lessons and grew as people.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. Your kitchen sponge has the same density of bacteria as human stool. German scientists found 54 billion bacterial cells per cubic centimeter inside used sponges in 2017. Yours is sitting right next to your sink.

Sponges are the perfect home for bacteria. They are wet, warm, full of food bits, and never fully dry between washes. Across all 14 sponges, the team found 362 different types of bacteria. The most common species include strains that can make people sick.

In 2011, the public health group NSF International swabbed 30 things in 22 American homes. The dirtiest object in the entire house was the kitchen sponge. It was dirtier than the toilet seat. 75% of the sponges tested positive for the kind of bacteria that includes Salmonella and E. coli.

Microwaving does not clean the sponge. The 2017 study found microwaved sponges had higher amounts of the smelliest, most harmful bacteria. Heat kills the weak strains. The strong ones survive and refill the sponge with no competition for space.

A 2021 Norwegian study compared kitchen sponges to dish brushes. In brushes, Salmonella was wiped out within three days because the bristles dry out between uses. In sponges, bacteria climbed to about a billion cells per sponge. The lead researcher told CNN that one kitchen sponge can hold more bacteria than there are people on Earth.

Three things actually work. Switch to a dish brush, because brushes dry fully between uses while sponges stay wet for hours. Replace your sponge every one to two weeks. Never leave it sitting wet in the sink. Norway and Denmark already do this by default, but most other countries don't.

The detergent is fine. Your sponge is the problem.

[Rin Nova 💫 @Rinartts]

Black Miku by a Japanese artist? The world is healing.

[rivicent evil 🍓 hotd spoilers @ofriviq]

he was thinking abt how pads aren’t free and they snapped a picture

[ashley ray @theashleyray]

see, i was in the trenches

[Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer]

Oughhhh I need a cleric

[🧟 @irlmannequin]

i eat pussy like a starving great depression era child

[ひ @yungnstackin]

can't wait until my son enters those middle school science fairs, fuck y'all volcanoes nigga we cooking crack

[brrrr b @huskpupz]

how it feels to procrastinate on any kind of media you know you'll enjoy

[Ashr | ash:re 🗡️⏳ @AshrVT]

I have so many mixed feelings about this. As an animator who worked tirelessly on some productions that received an underwhelming official release, I can understand how frustrating it might be to see links and uploads of something you worked on circulating around like free candy. That said, the Avatar Movie will not be recieving a theatrical release. In fact, it's delayed until later this year to be released for only streaming. They have released no teaser or trailer for this film yet. Why? No idea. It's beyond disappointing how they insist on locking a film of this level of production quality behind a platform that very few people use to begin with. Between choosing to respect the creatives by waiting six months (a performative effort because the artists have already been paid) or refuse to support a streaming service owned by a billion dollar company that donates money to Trump and Israel, I don't blame people for choosing to watch the leaked movie. I wouldn't support Paramount either. I truly hope this doesn't negatively impact current or future Avatar Studios productions, but honestly the way they were disrespecting the franchise by delaying the promotion and release of this film showed how little they cared about it to begin with.

[Jojo ❤️ @josiah_awkward]

If I wanna show someone how good the Switch 2 games look, I’ll show this cutscene transition into gameplay

[あつあげ @amo91958757]

左さま

[Mr.0 @luffvmz]

Tears

[Vivian @suchnerve]

Autistic people love to fantasize about genie wishes worded precisely and literally enough to prevent unintended negative consequences

[Avanes_D @Cult_of_yuri]

...████-chan?

[mio @curemagik]

i masturbate after finishing my assignments as a reward but now i’ve pavloved myself into getting horny every time i do assignments