John Stribling V

Bring the beat back 🔄

[GoodAssSub @GoodAssSub]

Tony Hinchcliffe on Joe Rogan’s podcast praising Ye’s recent shows

“It’s the fucking greatest production I’ve ever seen of anything”

[John Stribling V @Primestrib]

@donn124 @SheilaC122 Exactly

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Look at this Norwegian church. It has been standing through Norwegian rain for over 840 years.

The trees were prepared for nearly two decades before anyone cut them down.

Workers walked into old-growth pine forests and stripped the chosen trees of their tops and their branches. The trunks stayed standing for fifteen to twenty years. The roots kept pulling resin upward. The pitch bled out of every old branch socket and saturated the heartwood from the inside.

By the time the trunks were felled in winter, the heartwood was no longer wood. It was malmfuru. Ore-pine. Functionally pressure-treated lumber, except the pressure was applied by the tree itself, for free, across two decades before construction started.

That is why iron was rejected. Iron rusts. Iron expands and contracts on a different cycle than the wood around it. After 100 winters iron splits the fiber and the joint dies. Wooden pegs swell with moisture in the same direction as the staves. The joints get tighter over time. Tongue-and-groove walls. Ground sills on a stone foundation. Four corner posts carrying load down through stone, never up through soil.

Then the tar. Pine roots and stumps stacked under clay, lit on fire, burned for two days under controlled airflow. The wood decomposes into pitch. The pitch gets reapplied to the church every 10 to 15 years. Including this decade.

Norway built around 2,000 stave churches between 1150 and 1350. 28 survive. Borgund is the best preserved because its corner staves rest on stone, not soil. The ground never won.

Modern lumber arrives at the construction site finished.

Borgund's builders made the lumber finish itself.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

At an aquarium in South Korea, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature:

“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.”

The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.

[Trevor Lawrence @trevorlawrence]

@swaggy_t1 gonna miss you bro 😭

As real as they come 🤝

[cha$e @jehovahsflyest]

i knew sumn was wrong wit me when i used to want swiper to rob dora

[Desiree @DesireeAmerica4]

This is actual brotherhood. NHL star Johnny Gaudreau was killed by a drunk driver before he could play for this Olympic team.

When Team USA won gold yesterday, they didn’t just hold his jersey. They pulled his two babies onto the ice and put them right in the center of the world's biggest stage. A completely heart-wrenching moment

[TC @tcgoldrush]

NFL PI explained. 😂

🚨Trigger warning for Saints fans! 🚨

[Jacksonville Jaguars @Jaguars]

Coach Coen got game! 😮‍💨

(via @PatMcAfeeShow)

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

This is sick

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨BREAKING: Verizon is experiencing a massive outage throughout over half of the United States which to appears an ‘internal network disruption’ despite customers being skeptical of this occurring during the time of Vice President JD Vance meeting with Denmark and Greenland officials.

[Judge Jagg @JudgeJagg]

@SleeperBills @grok

[Steve Nix @snix2104]

@SleeperBills @grok

[John Stribling V @Primestrib]

Twenty One Pilots

[Jimusic @JVMonte2]

What band or artist did you see at a tiny venue or a club before they became huge?