Erin Maiden

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall

[Erin Maiden @KMaiders]

Tony 😭

[goma @soigomaa]

Maturing is realizing they never burned witches. They burned midwives, healers, herbalists, and knowledgeable women.
Women who understood medicine, nature, and their own autonomy. Women whose knowledge threatened patriarchal control. The "witch hunts" were never about magic, they were about silencing women who couldn't be controlled.

[sam @samanthaswft]

for those who doesn’t know, this is like Jesus inviting Judas to his resurrection party

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

"Dog" ("Perro"), by artist Diego De La Rosa.

[🦢 @its_meeruy4]

The older I get, the more I realize "strong woman" is often just code for

"woman nobody helped."

[soli @solisolsoli]

The Making of the Perfect Martini by Guy Buffet

[blanc @dqveed]

Wym “allegedly”, his drunk ass right there on camera 😭

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

tony soprano summer (panic attacks, grilling sausages, making no progress in therapy, pool nap, repeating the same mistakes, ice cream sundae dinner)

[Rob @_ROB_29]

Every year, this duck shows up at the courtyard of this school and lays her eggs. When they are ready, the school releases them into the great outdoors.

She returns every year because they make her feel safe.

[Kit | SAW HAPPY HOURS @KittKattEra]

WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO ABOUT THIS?!?!??????

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The "invisible guest theory" is a 25-year-old psychology experiment with a TikTok rebrand, and the actual mechanism is more useful than the viral version.

Cornell ran this in 2000. Made students wear a Barry Manilow t-shirt into a room full of strangers. Students predicted 50% of the room noticed the shirt. Actual number: 23%. Less than half what they expected. The researchers called it the spotlight effect.

The mechanism is anchoring. Your brain starts with your own experience of the moment, which is extremely vivid and detailed because you're living it, and then tries to adjust for how much less other people are paying attention. The adjustment is always too small. You feel 100% of your own embarrassment and assume everyone else feels at least 60% of it. They feel about 15%.

But here's what the viral version leaves out. Gilovich ran a follow-up and found the effect works in BOTH directions. People also overestimate how much others notice their positive contributions. You think your clever joke landed with the whole room. It didn't. You think everyone saw you handle that tense moment well. They didn't. The spotlight shines equally on your wins and your failures, which means both are mostly invisible.

The real freedom isn't "nobody's judging you." The real freedom is that nobody's paying nearly as much attention as you think, to anything you do, good or bad. Once you internalize that, you stop performing entirely.

[gal౨ৎ @prtygal777]

weeping willows might just be the most beautiful trees in existence

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Carlton overreacting by running through every set from 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" is one of television's best moments; actor Alfonso Ribeiro said he kept it a surprise to the cast and crew, telling only the director to have the cameras ready to follow him wherever he went.

[sloan @Sloanstweets]

This bird hung out with me while I smoked a cigarette and immediately left when I was done.

I've named it Johnny Sack

[Dilo con perritos @DiloConPerritos]

Gracias Google Maps por cuidar la privacidad de mi perro

[allison harvard burke @alliharvard]

i find it so endearing that people were taking sweet photos of their pets over 150 years ago.

[retrocvnt @retrocvnty]

This video captures the 2000s so perfectly and it’s so sad that Brittany Murphy and Blockbuster are both gone now

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

"Her Rhiannon in those days was like an exorcism."

Stevie Nicks singing Rhiannon like her life dependent on it.