Marie

Surviving each day, mostly in pajamas 🔴 MS/Epilepsy/POTS/MCAS 🔴 Programmer/SQL/Healthcare IT 🔴 Independent Currently Identifying as Conservative

[LLONER 🦅🪐 @eyojoel77]

High intelligence often comes with heightened pattern recognition. You start noticing social masks, forced conversations, performative friendships, hidden motives, emotional immaturity, and energy that feels draining instead of nourishing. Many highly intelligent people also have more active nervous systems, deeper inner worlds, and lower tolerance for superficial stimulation, so solitude can feel safer than constantly shrinking themselves to fit environments that don't feel aligned.

[erika @yeeeerika]

the human spirit was not designed for this many passwords

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

Me: "I am so overwhelmed by my 10-item to-do list."
My ADHD: "What if we deep-cleaned the tracks of the sliding glass door with a toothbrush instead?" 😬

[Eva. @Bunny_ngl]

what the F*cK did Apple do to the iPhone keyboard cause I genuinely feel like I’m losing my mind typing these days

[✧ 𝓢𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 ✧ @lostshine7]

Does anyone else with ADHD
have nerves of steel in a real emergency
but need 47 minutes of mental preparation to send a two sentence email?

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

PFIZER’S OWN DATA IS SHOCKING...

Their internal numbers reveal catastrophic spikes in serious conditions:

• 487% spike in Breast Cancer
• 369% spike in Testicular Cancer
• 2181% spike in Hypertension
• 680% spike in Multiple Sclerosis
• 551% spike in Guillain-Barré Syndrome

And many more.

This is not speculation — it’s straight from their own reported data.

Independent studies have also raised serious concerns:

- Fatal Myocarditis: A 2024 systematic review of autopsies found a causal link between COVID-19 vaccines and fatal myocarditis in multiple cases (Hulscher et al., ESC Heart Failure).

- Cancer: A large 2025 South Korean population study (Kim et al.) found significantly increased 1-year risks of several cancers post-vaccination.

- Excess Deaths: A major Japanese analysis showed excess deaths occurred ONLY in the COVID-vaccinated group, with no excess deaths observed in the unvaccinated.

The buried TRUTH is coming out...

[matrixbot @thematrixb0t]

Bayer has just SUED Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson in federal court.

Because the mRNA stabilisation technology used in every single COVID vaccine injected into your kids, your parents, your pregnant friends, your grandmother in the care home was patented by Monsanto in the 1980s for CROPS.

And the company that owns the patent is now in court demanding royalties.

This is not a conspiracy theory. This is Bayer's own lawyers, in Bayer's own filings, on the public record. They are literally arguing in federal court that their agricultural genetic modification technology was copied and injected into human beings WITHOUT A LICENSE.

Meanwhile Moderna just paid Roivant $2.25 BILLION to settle a separate mRNA patent lawsuit. BioNTech is suing Moderna. GSK is suing Moderna. Everyone is suing everyone. The patent fights alone are going to cost these companies tens of billions of dollars.

If Bayer is right, then every single "safety study" that was rushed through in 2020 was looking at the wrong thing. They were testing a vaccine. They were not testing an agricultural genetic modification platform being used in humans for the first time.

The same institutions that LIED to you about Iraq having WMDs, about the 2008 bailouts being a "one time thing", about inflation being transitory, about Epstein killing himself, those are the SAME institutions that told you to take a shot based on two months of trial data.

If you still trust them after this one, I genuinely do not know what to tell you.

Wake up. Get healthy. Get off their food. Get off their media. Get off their system.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they get it?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."

Activist: "From... eating?"

Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."

Activist: "The soil?"

Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."

Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

ADHD is remembering a birthday a week in advance, forgetting on the actual day, feeling too much shame to text, buying a late gift, never mailing it, and letting the guilt haunt you for a decade

[𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖓𝖎𝖊✨ @Bennieeexyz]

I was eating alone at a mexican restaurant once and a group of college kids were chatting over tortilla chips. There was some jabber and then..

"..we had to climb over the bob wire!"

"Dude, did you just say 'bob wire'?"

"Yea man, that spiky shit!"

"You actually think it's called bob wire? Like fucking Robert wire? You think it's called Robert wire?"

"Well what the hell do you think it's called?"

"It's BARB wire you idiot! Like Barbara wire!"

*the third guy* "Oh my god. You guys. BARBED wire. Because the wire has barbs, it is BARBED."

"Oohhhhh!"

"Fucking Robert and Barbara wire. Fuck you guys."

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

Someone praying for you in another building can change your brain in real time. There is a study that proves it.

Researchers at North Hawaii Community Hospital placed 11 people inside fMRI scanners, fully isolated. In a separate building, spiritual leaders who knew them personally sent focused intentions toward them at random two-minute intervals. The receivers had no way to know when. Their brains lit up at the exact moments the senders focused on them. Specific regions associated with attention and awareness activated on cue. The odds of this happening by chance were less than one in seven thousand.

Most people have never heard of this. Here are three more.

Hand-holding and pain. Researchers placed 22 couples under EEG caps. When the woman was in pain and her partner held her hand, their brain waves synchronized. The more empathy he felt for her, the more their brains coupled. The more their brains coupled, the more her pain decreased. Touch combined with focused care produced a measurable analgesic effect. The lead researcher got the idea while holding his wife's hand during the birth of their daughter.

Two brains in shielded rooms. A Mexican neuroscientist named Jacobo Grinberg ran a series of experiments at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Two participants meditated together for 20 minutes. Then they were placed in separate electromagnetically shielded rooms more than 14 meters apart. One participant was shown 100 random flashes of light. The other, hooked to an EEG with no sensory contact of any kind, registered matching brain-wave responses one out of every four flashes. Pairs who had not bonded showed nothing.

Group prayer. Andrew Newberg at Thomas Jefferson University has spent more than two decades scanning the brains of praying nuns, meditating monks, and chanting Sikhs. His imaging work shows a consistent pattern. The frontal lobes activate. The parietal lobes quiet. The effect amplifies in groups. Brains in shared prayer entrain to one another the way two pendulums swinging in the same room eventually fall into the same rhythm.

These studies measure what physically happens to the human nervous system when people focus caring attention on each other, in the same room or at a distance. The findings are consistent across labs, methods, and decades.

The basic finding, that human brains synchronize during empathic connection, is now mainstream neuroscience. Newberg alone has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers.

People have been doing this for thousands of years and calling it prayer. Christians alone offer a window into the variety. Latter-day Saints kneel as families. Catholics pray the rosary. Protestants join hands in prayer circles.

What is actually happening when you pray? On the imaging, something measurable. On the EEG, something synchronized. On the pain scale, something diminished.

Prayer works.

[blue @bluewmist]

every school should have a "fix-it lab" where students learn to repair their clothes, bikes and electronics. we should grow up knowing that not everything is disposable, that care and repair are part of living well on this planet.

[vintagelover @queennaurelia]

I’ve never seen anything more accurate

[Dr. Jen Wolkin | ADHD + Trauma Therapist @drjenwolkin]

Where are all my girls over 40 in peri/meno finally being taken seriously or finally realizing they need to be taken seriously for the neurodivergence they masked for decades, and are hanging by a thin thread, and actually like and support other women and find comfort in community? HI AND WELCOME. I am SO glad you’re here. XO, Dr. Jen

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

People's IQs should be reported like the weather:

Actual IQ: 132

Feels like: 89

[Jordan Crowder @digijordan]

During WWI & WWII, the US government encouraged every American to grow their own food.

They called these Victory Gardens.

The goal was to reduce pressure on public food supplies, boost morale, and promote self-sufficiency.

It worked…with 20 million American households growing roughly eight million tons of food by 1944.

After the wars, boomers decided home gardens were trashy and made neighborhoods look poor.

Many HOAs have banned even backyard gardens and now fine you for growing food on your own property.

Governments and corporations support this crackdown because they want your money and dependency.

Now younger generations are bringing this ‘victory garden’ way of living back, again out of necessity…since many are struggling to afford groceries.

Let’s normalize growing your own food. It’s not a rich or poor thing. It’s just common sense.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Every hospital in Britain had a stockpot on the stove until approximately the 1960s. Every workhouse before that. Every military mess. Every school kitchen. Every farmhouse. Every household that could afford bones, which was every household, because bones were the cheapest thing the butcher sold.

The stockpot ran continuously. Beef bones, pork bones, chicken carcasses, lamb shanks. The bones went in with water and were simmered for 12, 18, 24 hours. The broth that came out was the foundation of every soup, every stew, every gravy, every sauce.

Bone broth contains collagen, which breaks down into gelatin during cooking. Gelatin provides glycine and proline, essential for joint health, gut lining integrity, and connective tissue repair. It contains calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium leached from the bones. It contains glucosamine and chondroitin, now sold as joint supplements at £15 per bottle. It contains bone marrow, rich in fat-soluble vitamins A, D, and K2.

Your grandmother did not know the names of these compounds. She knew the broth kept the family well. She knew a bowl of broth settled the stomach when someone was ill. She knew the broth made the gravy and the gravy made the dinner and the dinner kept the children growing.

The broth was replaced by the stock cube.

The stock cube contains salt, maltodextrin, palm oil, yeast extract, flavouring, sugar, and colouring. It does not contain collagen, glycine, glucosamine, or any of the compounds the 24-hour broth provided. The stock cube is flavoured salt water.

The generation that grew up on the broth has joints. The generation that grew up on the stock cube has a glucosamine subscription and an orthopaedic appointment.

The supplement industry now sells, individually and at substantial markup, every compound the bone broth contained for free. Collagen powder: £25. Glucosamine tablets: £15. Bone broth itself, repackaged as a wellness product: £8 per serving from a company in Shoreditch with a minimalist label.

They have not discovered anything new. They have rediscovered what their grandmothers threw away.

The stockpot is still available. The bones are still at the butcher's. Water. Bones. Heat. Time.

The broth has been the broth for approximately 10,000 years.

The stock cube has been the stock cube for approximately 70.

The broth's track record is better.