JLFEternal

Cats, dogs, rabbits, birds, music, food, Arsenal, Woman.

[JLFEternal @JLFEternal]

Bloody typical, I just found this 250 million year old pink Himalayan sea-salt at the back of the pantry and it expired in 2019!

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

This is what entitlement looks like! 🤬
There are nesting waterbirds on this pond on Hampstead Heath... there are also big 'No Swimming' signs, all being totally ignored! 🤬
Pure selfishness... 😒🤬🤬

(Shared from Instagr*m with permission from 'swansofhampsteadheath')

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇹🇷 A stray cat in Turkey shows up every morning to hug the man who fed her.

Not sometimes. Every single day.

His shop is now packed with people who come just to watch.

[JLFEternal @JLFEternal]

Interesting, worrying, unsurprising, sad, and fascinating all at the same time:

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Guz Khan 🥶 @GuzKhanOfficial]

You are the creepiest little wanker I’ve ever seen @TRobinsonNewEra 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

To anyone marching with this little loser tomorrow, good luck, he’s 45 and telling women on WhatsApp that he’s got a tripod. https://t.co/aEZtt1OZ76

[Nick Lowles @lowles_nick]

In charge of Tommy Robinson's security team is Andy Saxon (real name Andrew Currien). He was once imprisoned for 18 months after a 59-year-old man was subjected to racist abuse and crushed to death by a car in Wolverhampton.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

It's funny how the ISIS threat against Tommy Robinson seems to have disappeared overnight right after he raised money and went on holiday.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Petrifying displays of white supremacy.

Since when did the UK get infected with christo-fascism?

This isn’t the USA…

[QPRW10 @CW_W10]

Tomorrow there’s grown men going to a march in London to raise money for Tommy Robinsons rent money in Spain 😭😭😭😭

[Harper @harperwyntr]

If you’re going to the Tommy Robinson march today then you’re a cunt 😘

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

The crowd begins to gather for the Unite The Kingdom march.
#UniteTheKingdom #UTK

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Just because you join the Unite The Kingdom march, it doesn't mean you're far right. You could just be a cunt.
#UniteTheKingdom
#UTK

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Alexa - what does Hell look like?
#UniteTheKingdom #UTK

[JukeBox @JukeBoxNonStop]

No matter how many times I listen to this, I cannot get over how incredible this sounds live! #TalkTalk

[JLFEternal @JLFEternal]

@bluefox666 @JukeBoxNonStop I was at that concert and saw them, too. Became a lifelong fan at that moment,

[Hugh Harrop Wildlife @HughHarrop]

A stop-the-car moment to photograph this greeting to Nigel Farage on his rather unspectacular visit to Shetland today. Apologies to any frogs offended. 🐸 @ProtectTheWild_ @Shetnews @HuntSabs @HsaChair @scruffycop

[JLFEternal @JLFEternal]

@IamKaleid 🤣

[JLFEternal @JLFEternal]

@seeneybird Yep

[JLFEternal @JLFEternal]

@TNLUK Unable to buy my tickets online. Your new app is appalling. This keeps happening. Have taken a screenshot of the selected numbers. I trust you’ll honour it if my numbers come up? Yeah right. I’ve played since day one. Time to switch to a different lotto I think.

[JLFEternal @JLFEternal]

Let’s be honest no-one cares who wins as they are all sh*t and we won’t be staying at any of their places. The winner’s plaque will soon be a dusty memory in the care home of forgotten dreams. #fourinabed

[Lucy @TheLucyShow1]

This cracked me up!! 😹😹😹