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treat people with kindness 💛 she/her

[Michael @TheMG3D]

The future looks promising with these grads

[Jenni @hashjenni]

This is the kind of love you can’t buy by engraving your name on a building.

[selyoncé @selyoncerry]

carla’s song is insane i’m literally crying and levitating

[Ale𐙚🪩໑̣ ❀ @aleestyles91]

the exactly moment when he forgot that he was a human

[emilia 🍒🥇🏆 @lexiescarina]

imagine you get elected mayor and two of your sports teams immediately win championships

[Jack Cocchiarella 🌹 @JDCocchiarella]

We have to let Zohran run for president

[* @_lowkeyalfred]

Reading will forever be one of my favorite hobbies because it’s like bed rotting, but with moral superiority.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

This is why they want you to forget about the Epstein files. There are dozens of girls just like her who were taken and sold into human trafficking. They’re probably not even alive anymore. What happened to these girls is beyond comprehension, and the people responsible are getting away with it.

[Max Berlinger @Berlinger]

i used to fear mamdani was too young to oversee a city like new york and now i realize our politicians should ... have energy? and stamina?

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

In its most simplistic form, people just want community

[brynnie saw 134340 and mikrokosmos @sbryngday]

new york elected a woke mayor and nothing has gone wrong for them since

[amélie @ghcstlyscn]

less - la la land

[meg @meggaud]

I was in block 220 last night at harry styles and when leaving found this camera on the floor.

Was hoping to get it back to the owner!

Please share this post and if anyone recognises the people in the photo please tag them 🫶🏼 please repost! @HSHQ @wembleystadium

[Tom Morgan @tomowenmorgan]

Hear the exact moment Manhattan lost its mind

[Sar @s2wlost]

Wembley during Sign of The Times