Midechy

Stand for what you belive in, even if it means you're standing alone. pfp by @botjira in my 20’s

[Midechy @MidyCute]

In my 20’s but living like I’m 70+

[Midechy @MidyCute]

She is so beautiful, WTH?

[Midechy @MidyCute]

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[Midechy @MidyCute]

@botjira ADORABLE!!!!

[Midechy @MidyCute]

@botjira I will fight this person on sight for you!!

[Midechy @MidyCute]

@botjira Simply beautiful…

[Anung Un Drama @spaceghost]

Government services should never even be looking at profits.

[Midechy @MidyCute]

@botjira BEAUTIFUL

[vivi ⚢ @cxffinism]

just saying that if i were germany i would be treating my artists with a lot more respect

[Midechy @MidyCute]

Craigslist ass USA goalie

[Midechy @MidyCute]

The USA goalie sucks

[Mehdi Ouerthi مهدي @MOuerthi]

Blaming women for a choice MEN made is the epitome of misogyny, mind you some women players did ask for bo5 if it meant equal pay, it's not their fault MEN refused to even consider it. Yet again Blaming the choices of men on women who had nothingto do with it.

[ocean 🍉 CHECK PINNED @orcamando]

this is why zoos and aquariums are so important. shit like coral or amphibians or literally THOUSANDS of other species just flat out can’t survive in our current world. we need to artificially breed and protect them until we have better solutions if we want to keep them alive.

[Radical Hope @Khuze_Elikhulu]

Guys have yall this seen this AMAZING story of a sperm whale giving birth and TEN (10) other female whales were midwives who assisted her with the birth and helped lift the baby to the surface to take a first breath??? Coz I'm not seeing yall making the requisite noise

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it.

The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response.

That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down.

And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring.

Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain.

Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back.

London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out.

The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate.

If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.

[Stephanie Ⓥ @SVcrazycatlady]

You have to choose.

You can have ChatGPT, or you can have water.

You can have Claude, or you can have clean soil.

You can have Grok, or you can have a survivable future.

You cannot have both.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

The nazification of Israel is complete. They’re about to mass murder ~10,000 Palestinian hostages, many of them children. Greater Israel is the 4th Reich.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell. Pope Leo directly rebukes Pete Hegseth for trying to frame the Iran war as a Christian holy crusade. The Pope declares God will not listen to their prayers because their hands are full of blood. A devastating moral condemnation of the Pentagon.