Merula Esther

Painter 👩🏻‍🎨

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

Why is it that actual human jobs like baker, florist, teacher, and childcare worker barely pay a livable wage, while fake jobs like Al specialist bootlicker, marketing campaign parasite, and synergy consultant are pulling six figures?

[𝓐⭑ @ayogiovanna]

Oxford neuroscience proves neurodivergent brains cannot filter ambient workplace chatter, forcing the prefrontal cortex to exhaustively process every single background noise.

[Megha @megha_lilly]

If you’re not getting called judgemental for your values today it means you have no standards or no courage or both.

[🌸💕 @BasedMistress_]

I remember a time when men hated women who openly wanted marriage and children. They were too much pressure and wanted too much. Men clamored around the “cool easygoing” women who weren’t obsessed with babies and trapping men into marriage, but somewhere something shifted

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

With regard to "Judeo Christian":

The 10 Commandments are Jewish.

The great stories of the Old Testament are Jewish.

The Jews developed the idea of subsidiarity as the alternative to tyranny and slavery.

The Jews established the cultural preconditions for the rise of universal literacy.

The fate of Israel at the hands of the Islamists is the fate of the West.

This rising tide of anti-semitism sickens me. Those of you engaging in it for your oh-so-moral reasons—you're despicable.

And remember, you proud "Christians" objecting in all your purity to the term:

Christ Himself was a Jew.

[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

The brain does not hate hard work. It hates unclear effort. If it cannot see where the work is going, how long it will last, or why it matters, it starts treating the task like failure instead of a challenge.

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

Being neurodivergent is noticing patterns early, warning people, being ignored, then watching exactly what you predicted happen months later. By then, everyone acts like it was obvious all along, and nobody remembers you called it first. It’s a uniquely frustrating experience.

[꧁༒☬ 𝔾𝕒𝕓𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕝 ☬༒꧂ @Gabbrielxzn]

A surprising number of neurodivergent adults have lived in a near-constant state of low-grade existential overwhelm since childhood without ever realising that other people do not experience life this way.

[Jasper van Dijk @jasvandijk]

Qua erfbelasting denk ik dat je veel meer binnen hengelt als overheid als je *de eerste* 100K volledig (dus 100%) belast. Dat is eerlijk, want dat raakt iedereen en is solidair. Je hebt immers niets gedaan voor dat geld.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Something I told 14 yo: People are going to stop reading books. I wish this wasn't so, but I fear it is. The silver lining in this cloud is that if you're one of the few people who still read, you'll have a huge advantage over everyone else.

[✒️ @Literariium]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID

[Moon @moondailys]

Behind the Crescent Moon: Mercury, Venus & Jupiter

[Rocketshipalx @rocketshipalx]

My thoughts after 3 months in the US/Texas🇺🇸:

- Americans are way more extroverted than Europeans
- Talking to strangers is normal here
- My first H-E-B trip felt like Boris Yeltsin seeing an American grocery store
- Some food is more artificial, but the amount of choices is insane
- You can still eat healthy. You just have to choose it
- High risk, high reward is real
- Way more people are entrepreneurial
- People dream bigger than in Europe, and they actually execute
- Obv not everyone is smarter, but the smart people are world-class
- Successful people here are way more down-to-earth. In Europe, successful people care about status and can be arrogant
- Cars. Enough said
- Americans have perfected artificial sweets
- There’s still more freedom here than in Europe
- One thing I didn’t expect: some Americans talk down on America
- As an outsider, that’s weird, because imo it’s still the greatest country on Earth🇺🇸🇺🇸

[𝓲𝓬𝓮 @be_like_ice]

The autistic urge to compensate for your lack of social skills by getting into sociology, art, anthropology and psychology and getting so curiositymaxxed about the world around you that you start to view every social interaction as an opportunity to learn about other people and get creatively inspired to the point that that even the clumsiest interactions feel meaningful and enriching

[. @Fimiye]

ignoring the social hierarchy and treating everyone equally will make people hate your guts

[Zack Voell @zackvoell]

Nobody wants to admit that the bottom 1% of society is INFINITELY worse for the world than the top 1%

[blue @bluewmist]

You need to be attention-span-maxing.

Watch 3 hour talks. Read books for hours at a time. Watch the entire movie, without taking a break. Stare into space losing yourself in thought and imagination. Do not check your phone. The opposite of brain-rot is the will to focus in a culture which wants to pull you every other way.

[Blake Allen @Blake_Allen13]

All of these “Europeans experiencing America for the first time” stories have a common theme: Every single one of them is a European experiencing for the first time how absurdly wealthy the United States is compared to really anywhere else in the world. It underpins them all

[Rajjath @Rajjath24]

turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.