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[Rsa57 @Rsa574]

@JamesRi34113613 @BriannaWu Brianna’s chosen pictures to post are heavily filtered.

[Rsa57 @Rsa574]

@SisterBeech @sappholives83 What she said is also *her personal experience*. She does not have sexual relationships with men. She is immersed in a world (through her work) with disgusting people, not the average man. I follow her and respect her, but this opinion of hers is off.

[Rsa57 @Rsa574]

@CavemanGamer @Garnet_2203 @Airbnb @AirbnbHelp I’ve had to do that in TWO separate AirBnB houses!!! And that’s not counting the time we showed up to one and the trash bin outside was overflowing with trash from the last tenants, and the suggestion from our host was to take our to the dump place.

[Rsa57 @Rsa574]

@ClemsonSafety You need to update people. There are thousands of people that want to know. Please post an update!

[Dante 🇺🇸 @DanteTheDon]

Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I’ve ever heard.

Six guitar strings. Six pillars of a life.

Faith. Family. Spouse. Ambition. Community. You.

Tune them when you’re whole, not just when you’re broken.

Watch the whole thing.

[Dean Turner @DeanTTraining]

You are just 1-2 bowls of this per day for the next 6-12 months away from your best body ever

Perhaps the craziest part:

You’ll actually THOROUGHLY ENJOY eating it….

[Rsa57 @Rsa574]

@themstrwatson @MattWalshBlog What if we just don’t want to support this? Or if we have strong feelings about how this movement is ruining people’s lives and we don’t like being reminded of it while trying to enjoy entertainment? That’s not stupid or pathetic. Movies aren’t cheap btw.

[Professor Peter Arenella @arenella1]

54% of Americans read below a 6th grade level. I have been beating this drum since my sabbatical teaching a public school class that only 12th grade students with High gpa could take 20 yrs ago. I was stunned to find that illiterate students in my class had such high grades. One

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Rsa57 @Rsa574]

@Myfriendsaraha @bethanyshondark Same!!!

[Rsa57 @Rsa574]

@TruthOrLeft @MrAndyNgo It was a lesbian couple. Not just one parent. That’s the “they”.

[SoL in the Wild @SoLInTheWild]

100% agree that this is terrible in all the ways listed. What matters most, though, is understanding why a teacher would feel compelled to do something like this. It’s systemic. This is the effect of the “make it fun and relevant” at all costs cause. I used to be this teacher.

Teachers in the U.S. are constantly bombarded with messages about making learning “student-centered”—that it must feel relevant to students’ lives, be fun, and revolve around engaging, activity-based experiences. These messages aren’t subtle; they’re pervasive. They show up in professional development, teacher education programs, staff meetings, and books, all circling the same questions: How do we make this fun? How do we hook students? How do we “gamify” this so some kind of magic spell is cast and students suddenly want to learn it?

The problem is that this thinking ignores reality. Students are not automatically more interested just because something is dressed up as a game or made to feel superficially engaging. In many cases, it does the opposite. It’s distracts from the content and decreases the likelihood that students actually learn the concept you’re trying to teach.

Students also recognize how forced and inauthentic these approaches can feel. They often come across as cringe, not compelling. Most students don’t need, or want, school to mimic their entertainment or digital lives. They want clarity. They want teachers to get to the point and help them understand something they didn’t know before. School can, and should, look different from how they spend their free time. Trying to replicate that world in the classroom is cliché and ultimately reflects a shallow understanding of how learning actually works.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Scientists put kids through 100 hours of reading, then scanned their brains. New wiring had physically grown inside the language regions. Communication between brain areas sped up by a factor of 10. Kids who didn't read showed zero change.

That was a 2009 Carnegie Mellon study. It gets wilder.

In 2013, Emory University scanned 19 students every morning for 19 straight days while they read one novel chapter each night. Mornings after reading, the brain areas responsible for understanding other people's emotions lit up with new connections. So did the region that processes physical sensation. Their brains were simulating what the characters felt, as if it were happening to them. Those changes stuck around for 5 days after they finished the book.

Now flip to scrolling. A massive review published in Psychological Bulletin last September pulled together 71 studies covering 98,299 people. Heavy short-form video use (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) showed a clear pattern: worse attention, weaker self-control, and more anxiety. Consistent across teenagers and adults, across every platform tested. Oxford didn't name "brain rot" its 2024 Word of the Year for nothing.

A 2024 brain wave study found that people hooked on short-form video had weaker activity in the front of the brain, the part that controls focus and impulse control. Separate brain scans showed the same thing: heavy scrollers had less activation in the exact regions that deep reading strengthens.

UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has been studying this for decades. Humans were never born to read. There's no gene for it. Reading is something we invented, and it hijacked neurons that were originally meant for recognizing faces. Over time, it built entirely new brain circuits connecting language, vision, and emotion. But those circuits only survive if you use them. Stop reading, and they fade. Wolf's conclusion is simple: screens built for speed produce a speed-wired brain. Books built for depth produce a depth-wired brain.

One honest caveat: most of these studies are snapshots, not long-term tracking. People who already struggle to focus might just prefer short videos. But the same pattern showing up across nearly 100,000 people is hard to shrug off.

The tweet repeats the line seven times. The research backs it up with brain scans, EEG data, and white-matter imaging across tens of thousands of people.

[SoL in the Wild @SoLInTheWild]

🧵Students don’t struggle with writing because they need to practice writing more essays.

Many struggle because they don’t yet know enough about the topic to write substantively about it and were never explicitly taught the sentence-level building blocks of strong writing.

1/4

[Brian Tolentino M.Ed @TolentinoTeach]

Thoughts?

[Rsa57 @Rsa574]

@MrDanielBuck She later admitted he did NOT mention his faith to the student, but many replies spoke to the evils of Christianity. Most replying said they have zero intention of complying with state law to report things like this parents. Very disheartening to read.

[Rsa57 @Rsa574]

@MrDanielBuck I read the replies. All of them (except one) said one or all of these things - that teacher is evil, malicious, will burn in hell. Advice was given on how to vandalize his car. She should have- slapped him, yelled at him, go after his job.

[Rsa57 @Rsa574]

@itgetsbretter @MattZeitlin I’m not a fan of Jamie Spears but he didn’t steal all her money or live a lavish lifestyle. She didn’t get put into the conservatorship in a vacuum. It’s a very sad situation but anyone who thinks she doesn’t have serious issues and needs help is delusional.

[Rsa57 @Rsa574]

@itgetsbretter @MattZeitlin Under the conservatorship, she was able to stay off drugs and on mental health meds. So yes, she was able to tour and presumably wanted to. I’m sure she has ADHD, energy enhancers are not a big deal. Her fortune increased dramatically under the conservatorship.