Maria 🇨🇴🤘🏼

New Jersey

[༺♡︎༻ @DEC4DENCEE]

in colombia one of the arguments i heard on why they hate petro is because we have a higher minimum wage now and some bitch said ugh now i gotta pay my maid more and give her paid holidays

?????????????!!!?,!;

[Bekay @kinpatsukenshi]

Apparently there's a volcano erupting right now in the Philippines. I'm watching a livestream when suddenly there's this extremely bright green fireball coming from a completely unrelated trajectory. Is that a meteor?

[sammm ☆ @onlysammms]

no data center is worth destroying this

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I heard an interview today about AI in creative spaces and the man being interviewed said “AI is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I need to sit with that in the best possible way.

[Mamello🧚🏽‍♀️ @MelloFelicia1]

Tomatoes need olive oil to release their lycopene. Spinach needs lemon to release its iron. Turmeric needs black pepper to release its curcumin. Most nutrients need a partner to maximizetheir benefits. Cook with that in mind. 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

[goma @soigomaa]

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through a fungal network. Where octopuses dream.
Where elephants return to the bones of the deceased and stand over them in silence. Where bees use dance to communicate where to fly and where the flower is.
Where crows remember the faces of people who were cruel to them and pass this memory to their children.
Where ants build cities. Where cats purr at a frequency that accelerates the healing of bones.
Where, after a forest fire, the first thing the earth does is grow flowers.

[M.S @MalaakSafa]

There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

[Miles @mtvsthewrld_]

The fact that he is so good at this really puts into perspective how cartoonishly evil the average politician is

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: A super El Niño is forming in the Pacific - the biggest since the recorded history

Get ready for extreme winters since 1877!

[Siwoh D’or @JadoreSiwoh]

I love when couples really understand the concept of growing and building together. It’s beautiful

[a nasty african gyal @JennE_Penny]

Locked in together and the Mama graduated first! I know that’s right!!!

[Vaelor💥 @vaelor0]

If this became the norm it would be such an improvement from the modern education system

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

How is this dude still getting away with this shit? Nobody steps in, nobody says a word, and somehow he keeps playing with people’s lives like it’s entertainment to him??

[goma @soigomaa]

A man's desire to become a father is always paid for by a woman with her body, her health, her career, and her freedom.
But when a woman expects a comfortable life, she is somehow shamed for wanting too much

[Goodfire @GoodfireAI]

Neural networks might speak English, but they think in shapes.

Understanding their rich *neural geometry* is key to understanding how they work – and to debugging and controlling them with precision.

Starting today, we’re releasing a series of posts on this research agenda. 🧵

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Neuroscience considers metacognition the highest form of intelligence..... "the ability to think about your own thinking."

[georgina @somaobscura]

The joy of owning beautiful things, a good knife, a proper linen towel, a jar of excellent honey, one soul encapsulating perfume, over many mediocre things. Doing this slowly across every domain.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Indiana University researchers asked people in therapy for depression and anxiety to write a thank-you letter for 20 minutes a week, for three weeks. Three months later, their brain scans looked different from those who got therapy alone.

The change showed up in one specific spot in the front of your brain: the medial prefrontal cortex. This is the part that helps you regulate emotion. The study came out in the journal NeuroImage in 2016.

The same Indiana team ran a bigger version. They took 293 adults starting therapy and split them into three groups: therapy alone, therapy plus writing about stressful experiences, and therapy plus writing thank-you letters. Four weeks after the writing ended, the thank-you letter group reported significantly better mental health than the other two groups. Twelve weeks later, they were still doing better. The stress-writing group was no different from the therapy-only group.

Brain scientists call this neuroplasticity. Your brain physically reshapes itself based on what you spend most of your time doing. Worry a lot, and the worry circuits get faster. Look for things to appreciate, and the brain pathways that notice them get faster instead.

Human brains are also wired with what psychologists call negativity bias. Our ancestors who paid more attention to threats than to rewards survived; the ones who didn't got eaten. The same wiring runs in your head right now, which is why one rude email at work feels louder than four nice ones the same day. Gratitude practice fights that bias. It forces your brain to register the good stuff, and the more you do it, the easier it gets.

The cleanest behavioral study on this is still from 2003, by Robert Emmons at UC Davis and Michael McCullough at the University of Miami. They had college students do one of three weekly journals for ten weeks: things they were grateful for, things that annoyed them, or just regular events from their week. By the end, the gratitude group reported feeling more positive overall. They also exercised more hours per week and complained about fewer physical aches and pains.

So the claim that gratitude rewires your brain is broadly true. The dose was small. Three twenty-minute writing sessions, in adults already in therapy, produced brain changes still visible three months later. The therapy-only group didn't show this change. A week of casual journaling on its own probably won't replicate it.

[Ṣọlá @Incredible_Sola]

Yoruba ancestors knew of this concept centuries ago called "agedegbe meji aiye ati ọrun".

I'm asking again, how much of our ancestral knowledge was destroyed and bastardized by colonialism?

[✒️ @Literariium]

If you're dating someone you're dating the universe too. You're dating their parents that made them anxiously avoidantly attached. You're dating the movie that taught them how to love. You're dating their exes that shaped them. You're dating the cumulative sum of all choices made through history. Love cannot be compartmentalised.