MtnGoat1

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[Alamo Drafthouse @alamodrafthouse]

"Seize the time. Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again."
Patrick Stewart, 1940-2026

[MtnGoat1 @MtnGoat1]

@CeeEyes 😍😍😍

[Fathers Diary @Fathers_Diary]

Age slowly reveals certain truths

- Alcohol loses its appeal
- The gym becomes therapy
- Good sleep feels priceless
- Strong health brings freedom
- Quiet evenings feel better than loud nights
- Fewer friends feel more valuable
- Peace becomes a priority
- Simplicity feels like success

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Keep your personal burn rate low. Cheaper car. Smaller house than the bank says you can afford. No payment you'd panic about if work got weird. Low expenses aren't about being cheap. Low expenses give you options. And options = freedom.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

I can’t stop watching this

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

The older I get the more I realise, maturity is simply becoming more honest with yourself. If you want to rest, you rest. If you want to work, you work. You don’t say yes, when you want to say no. You don’t do things that drain you. You stop hanging out with people who you have to perform for. You fall in love with the simple, ordinary things that your heart actually craves for. Simplicity and peace become your highest priority. That’s all maturity is about.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hillary Clinton: “The Republican Party is no longer a political party, it is a cult devoted to Trump and Trump’s power. The Republican Party needs a total transformation. If we’re gonna have a healthy government that actually gets things done and delivers for people, the Republican Party has to purge itself of everybody that lost both their conscience and their backbone over the last ten years and that’s most of them”

[. @Omgemeraldddd]

The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read

[. @Omgemeraldddd]

I saw a post on Reddit that said, “When you walk through a museum, you’re not just looking at art. You’re moving through centuries of people trying to explain love, grief, power, beauty, and belonging.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a museum described so beautifully.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

For more than 20 years, Norwegian neuroscientist Audrey van der Meer has investigated how handwriting shapes the human brain.

In a landmark 2024 study published in Frontiers in Psychology, her team used high-density EEG caps to monitor brain activity in students while they either wrote by hand with a digital pen or typed on a keyboard.

The difference was dramatic. Handwriting produced a powerful, synchronized burst of neural activity across widespread regions of the brain, linking areas involved in memory formation, sensory processing, and deep learning. In contrast, typing the exact same content caused this rich cognitive network to largely shut down. Because typing uses repetitive, uniform keystrokes, it demands little spatial or cognitive effort, leaving key learning centers quiet and disengaged.

These neurological differences have a direct effect on how we process and remember information. Earlier research by Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer at Princeton University reached similar conclusions. Students who took notes by hand consistently outperformed those using laptops on conceptual understanding tests. Handwriting forces active listening, critical thinking, and real-time summarization, while typing often leads to verbatim transcription with minimal processing.

Our brains function as part of an embodied biological system. Replacing rich physical actions with effortless digital keystrokes may deliver short-term convenience, but it comes at the expense of deeper cognitive engagement.

The solution is simple and timeless: pick up a pen.

[Van der Meer, A. L. H., et al. (2024). Handwriting versus typing: A neurophysiological comparison of brain activity during learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1234567]

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

I’m hearing from friends in Alberta that today is actually hitting folks pretty hard. Not the vote to remain, which was a relief, but the other 9 questions.

It’s becoming clear that the feeling of unity suggested by the referendum result is undercut by majority support for questions which feature policies that scapegoat migrants.

But no amount of punching down by Danielle Smith will fix Alberta’s health care, public education or cost-of-living crises. These are the consequences of years of underfunding, not of newcomers trying to build a life in that beautiful province.

Albertans deserve real solutions to the crises they face, not scapegoating that divides us and fuels prejudice. Right now, all Canadians have an opportunity to reject this and say: we stand with migrants facing the brunt of this cynical, negative politics.

A united Canada must mean more than just rejecting separation. It must mean actually standing up for all of us — building a movement across our differences to make this a country where everyone can live a life of dignity, equality and belonging.

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

I'm done with traditional travel. I'm tired of dragging luggage through airports, rushing through cities, standing in queues, and travelling thousands of miles just to look at a monument someone built hundreds of years ago. I don't care about ticking off the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the pyramids. Fuck 'em. I want to find a quiet place in the mountains and stay there for 10 days. Wake up slowly. Drink coffee with a view. Listen to the birds. Go for walks. Read books. Think. Do absolutely nothing. That's it. Stillness and peace. That's all I want.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Can we PLEASE normalize just hanging out at each other’s houses again? Why does every friendship meetup need to be a whole production, a restaurant reservation, and a $150 bill? I just want to sit on your couch, drink something, and talk for hours.

[Growing Up Retro @GrowingUpRetro]

There was something special about being a kid when adults didn't feel the need to entertain you every minute of the day.

Your parents could take you somewhere incredibly boring, and you were just expected to deal with it.

The bank. The hardware store. Your mother's friend's house, where you sat on a couch covered in plastic and weren't allowed to touch anything.

Nobody handed you a screen. Nobody worried about whether you were having fun.

You studied the wallpaper. You read the same magazine three times. You stared at the clock and wondered if the second hand had stopped moving.

And if you made the mistake of asking, "Can we go now?" your mother gave you that look.

You know the look.

The one that could end your entire afternoon without a single word being spoken.

I swear, we developed half our imagination simply because our parents refused to entertain us.

Looking back, I think being bored was one of the best things that ever happened to us.

[MtnGoat1 @MtnGoat1]

@CeeEyes Goodnight Bobby and Debonair Tuxedo Cat

[Joshwelt @weltszznn]

I feel so sorry for Netflix era kids. They will never know the high stakes adrenaline of running to the bathroom/fridge/bedroom in a single ad break, with the beckoning call of a sibling screaming "It's ONNNNNN" to send you hurdling over furniture to get back in time.

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

When I'm in a performance review at work and they ask me where I see myself in ten years.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Inside a human brain when reading a book.

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

You can't control how people perceive you. Someone thinks you're cringe. Someone thinks you're genius. Someone will say you've changed. No matter what you do, someone will have an opinion. None of them are paying your bills. Only you know what's best for you. Just you. So stop performing for an audience that doesn't matter. Let them talk. Just do your thing.