Patty’s Guardian Angel

[Kyle Beckley @Kyle_Beckley]

Like the saying goes. Americans think 100 years is a long time. Brits think 100 dollars is generational wealth

[KC NoDak Brim 🇺🇸 @brim006]

First Canada was headlined for being proven to be ranked as 51st if it were a state…and now the UK is proven to rank as 51st as well. After looking a little further, it turns out this is not rare. In fact, every single other country in the entire world would rank behind all 50 states other than tiny Luxembourg which essentially isn’t even a real country.

The USA is easily and undoubtedly the greatest nation in the world and it isn’t even close. It’s a juggernaut that cannot be stopped other than within.

[DollarDog Nick @DollarDogNick]

One week until the NFL Draft!

[EuroMaximalist 🇪🇺 @euromaximal]

The European Union is the best thing to happen to Europe. It gave peace to a region that has only ever known war.

Is it perfect? Far from it. But the way forward isn’t to scrap it, but to reform it into what it’s meant to be.

A global superpower. The European civilisation.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Whenever the stock market reacts in a way that does not make sense, I come back and read this

[Mak @mak_aura]

nah this kinda hard. imagine being a hero and then they put you in the museum. not a statue not a figure nigga YOU

[Barry @BarryOnHere]

Building the perfect QB:

Peyton's IQ
Rodgers' arm talent
Marino's pocket presence
Lamar's scrambling
Mahomes' clutchness
Favre's durability
Brady's defenses
Brady's special teams
Brady's field position

[Eddie Resurreccion @EdmarResurrecc1]

The Bengals losing that game was poetic justice. All that talk about the Chiefs, Mahomes, & Arrowhead Stadium? Cincy got what they deserved.

Frank Clark unleashing all this after that game was perfection. 😤

Need this kind of energy back this season.

[Kip Conlon @kipconlon]

Sorry I’m late for the custody hearing, there were no clocks in the casino.

[Patty’s Guardian Angel @PattysGuardian]

@WestPineBills 7 and 3 in a weak Big East doesn’t scream obvious all conference in A-10. What am I missing?

[Ben @CriminalCosta]

Just bought a 3d printer off some twat called Bryson dechambeau

[Matt Verderame @MattVerderame]

This is the best throw of Mahomes’ career. It’s an impossible heave

[Jessy Han @hjessy_]

Wikipedia editors are now debating if Eric Adams should be described as Albanian-American

[jimmy toots @futtywap]

"You gotta be Albanian Eric Adams if you think I'm drinking tonight."

Me:

[Fiorentina Uno @FiorentinaUno]

Gesto di fair play da parte di un tifoso del Crystal Palace, che saluta i viola presenti augurando loro il meglio per il prosieguo della stagione.

#CrystalPalaceFiorentina #ConferenceLeague #UltrasItalia

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your kid's piano teacher was reshaping their brain. A Harvard-led team tracked children from age 6 to 9 and found that kids who practiced an instrument at least 2.5 hours a week grew the corpus callosum (the cable connecting the left and right halves of the brain) by about 25% in the region that handles movement planning. Kids who practiced less or quit showed zero growth there.

USC ran a separate study starting in 2012 that followed children from low-income LA neighborhoods. One group learned violin through the LA Philharmonic's youth orchestra program. A second did soccer. A third had no structured after-school program. Two years in, only the music group showed brain changes: stronger white-matter connectivity, faster maturation of auditory processing, and greater activation in networks involved in decision-making and impulse control. The soccer and no-program groups looked the same on brain scans.

A randomized trial at the University of Toronto tested 144 six-year-olds assigned to keyboard lessons, voice lessons, drama, or nothing for a full school year. The music kids gained about 7 IQ points on average. Drama and no-lessons kids gained 4-5. That roughly 3-point gap showed up across every subtest, including reading and math.

Now the language side. Bilingual kids outperform monolingual kids on task-switching tests (jumping between different sets of rules quickly), and it holds regardless of which second language they speak. Brain scans of nearly 1,300 children and young adults from a 2021 Georgetown and University of Reading study showed that bilinguals kept more grey matter (the layer where the brain's processing cells live) as they grew up than kids who spoke one language.

The long game is where this gets serious. A 2025 Monash University study of 10,893 Australians over 70 found that people who regularly played an instrument had 35% lower odds of developing dementia. Bilingualism shows an even sharper effect. Studies across India, Canada, and the US consistently find that bilingual adults develop dementia symptoms 4 to 5 years later than monolingual adults. A 2024 door-to-door survey of 1,234 people over 60 in Bengaluru, India, found dementia in 4.9% of monolinguals and just 0.4% of bilinguals.

Both piano and a second language work through a similar mechanism. They force the brain to manage competing systems at once, left hand versus right hand, one language versus another. That constant switching strengthens the frontal regions responsible for planning, focus, and filtering distractions, building what neurologists call cognitive reserve: a buffer that lets the brain keep working even as age-related damage accumulates.

Those parents running their kids between piano on Tuesdays and Mandarin on Thursdays were basically running a two-front neuroplasticity program without knowing it.

[Circles Off 🔨 @CirclesOffHQ]

We usually talk about what not to do in sports betting

Today, we’re flipping the script. @robpizzola walks through exactly how he built his first NHL betting model 🚨

The process, the thinking, the edge

Watch now & ask your questions 👇

[Buck @BuckOnTwidder]

there are guys on here who don’t know how to cook themselves eggs trying to trade oil against Citadel