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[MLB @MLB]

This is why Andruw Jones won 10 consecutive Gold Gloves 😮

[College Football 27 @EASPORTSCollege]

This summer we welcomed the world’s game. Now we welcome back our own beloved game, because nothing compares to the feeling of Saturdays on campus and Sundays under the lights.

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

It's a Stanley Cup summer

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

A houseplant just changed everything we thought we knew about consciousness.

In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue.

So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, expecting to see the electrical conductivity change as water moved up the stem.

Instead, the polygraph needle started tracing the exact pattern it makes when a human experiences an emotional response.

Backster stared at the readout. Plants don't have nervous systems. They don't have brains. The signal made no biological sense. So he decided to test something that made even less sense. He walked across the room, looked at the plant, and thought about burning one of its leaves with a match.

The instant the thought formed in his mind, before he moved toward the plant, before he struck a match, before he did anything physical, the polygraph exploded into frantic activity.

The plant was responding to his intention.

What happened next launched thousands of experiments and split the scientific community for decades.

Backster discovered that plants reacted to direct threats and to threats against other living things in their environment. When he dropped live brine shrimp into boiling water in another room, plants throughout the building registered distress responses at the exact moment of death. Distance didn't matter. Shielding the plants in lead containers didn't matter. The response was instantaneous and consistent.

Mainstream botanists dismissed the findings immediately. Plants process information through chemical signals and growth responses, without electrical consciousness. Any electrical activity was just random fluctuation or experimental error. The peer review system buried Backster's work. His credentials were questioned. His methods were called sloppy.

But the experiments kept working. Other researchers, following Backster's protocols, got the same results. Plants hooked to EEG machines showed brain wave patterns. They responded to music, to human emotions, to the intentions of people they had never been exposed to before. The electrical signatures were clear, measurable, and repeatable.

The implications were so uncomfortable that most of academic science simply refused to engage. If plants were somehow conscious, if they could sense intentions and respond to the emotional states of humans and other living things, consciousness was spread beyond brains. It was distributed across organized living systems rather than produced by neural networks.

Backster stumbled onto evidence that living systems might be constantly communicating through channels we don't have instruments to measure yet. The polygraph was crude enough to detect the electrical signatures of that communication without being sophisticated enough to explain them away.

Quantum biologists now suspect that living cells operate through quantum coherence processes that classical biology can't account for. Birds navigate using quantum entanglement in their visual systems. Plants conduct photosynthesis using quantum superposition to find the most efficient energy pathways. Maybe Backster's plants were demonstrating quantum consciousness, responding to information that was quantum entangled with the intentions and emotional states of nearby living systems.

What keeps most people awake when they learn about this work is realizing that if consciousness extends beyond brains, every living thing around you is potentially aware of your mental and emotional state in ways you never considered. The plant in your room. The bacteria in your gut. The ecosystem you walk through.

You think your thoughts are private.

The plants have been listening the entire time.

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[Ned Livingstone @LivingstoneNed]

@JoJoFromJerz Damn you Taylor Farms - May you rot in Hell together with you lettuce and Trumpenshitzinpants ! We need to get rid of you and the Idiot Trumpenshitzinpants !

[Ana Ryan @MissAnaTX]

@JoJoFromJerz Just one more reason we can’t trust this entire administration. What’s in it for Trump is always the priority over the needs, health, & wellbeing of Americans.

This is why we have to take money out of our politics. All the way out!!!💸💸💸

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Bull. Fucking. Shit.
They gave us diarrhea lettuce.
But they gave Trump cash.
So poof — the FDA “made a mistake.”

[Rochelle Heider 🟧 @heider_rochelle]

@JoJoFromJerz

[MLB @MLB]

Drake Baldwin: 5-for-5, 2 HR
Austin Riley: 3-for-4, 2 HR

@Braves: series winners!

[Pia & Pax💓 @piapax1]

Check out KALAN🇨🇦's video! #TikTok https://t.co/FqMY11ogeb @CoolGuyDom10 🎶❤️ So Good!

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

That’s a series W!

#BravesCountry

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

The moment it became real

[MLB @MLB]

The @Braves head into the All-Star break with a win in St. Louis!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Fun fact.

The Monarch butterfly migration is one of the longest-known, multi-generational insect migrations on our planet. Every fourth generation lives 8 times longer than the previous generations and travels 10 times farther.

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

Braves Win!

#BravesCountry

[Pat @IrishPatty54]

@maddenifico What was done to Team USA by Trump was unacceptable. The red card was bs and Balogun should be allowed to play but you don’t interfere like Trump did & then brag about. I knew the minute I heard he f*cked them over. The bad juju was real. I’m still #TeamUSA🇺🇸❤️

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Trump injects himself into World Cup, creates Balogun drama and US eliminated.

Everything Trump Touches Dies.