Mr G’s Co-Op

33. Been by myself since the white tees. Been by myself since Dem Franchize Boyz. LLR.

[Mr G’s Co-Op @SoulsofMisfits]

I prefer hairy chocha to bald. 1970s porno me pls

[Old Media @oldmedia]

Action League Now (1995-2002)

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

According to our Constitution, we should have overthrown our government by now.

[Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr]

All these “Giannis leaving Thansis behind” jokes remind me of that of classic HotDamnIRock joint

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

A Black man created ranch dressing — and most people never knew.

Kenneth “Steve” Henson, born in Nebraska in 1918, was a plumber who cooked for his crew in Alaska. One day he mixed buttermilk, mayo, herbs, and spices… and ranch was born.

In 1954, he and his wife bought land near Santa Barbara and named it Hidden Valley Ranch. Guests loved the dressing so much they begged to take jars home. By 1957, stores were selling his dry mix. Orders exploded. Factories followed.

In 1972, Clorox bought the recipe and the name for eight million dollars. Ranch went nationwide. By 1992, it was America’s #1 dressing.

But the man behind it? Nearly erased.

Every salad, every wing, every fry dipped in ranch — that’s his legacy. He mattered. He was the blueprint.
. ❤️💛💚🖤

[Dear Self. @Dearme2_]

Neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

[Jermz @incomplete1511]

$20

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

According to psychology some people will never reach out and speak to you again because they don't have the maturity to cope with the fact that they did you wrong and you didn't deserve it. Since they lack accountability, they will create a made-up narrative about you so they don't feel bad about themselves

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

The idea of having to “earn a living” implies that, by default, you don't actually deserve to be ałive.

[BIG HYCE @thehyce]

do not go broke trying to play husband at a young age.

[🐝 @beha_hun]

Who would’ve thought that forcing ads every 15 minutes would make young people look for ad-free alternatives?

[𓆩♡𓆪 GODS FAVORITE 𓆩♡𓆪 @soulaaangel]

my granny was the candy lady ❤️

[Jah 🇺🇸🇬🇭🇨🇼 @KyleMcCordMuse]

I was told that this was a made up holiday that didnt exist until 2021

[COOLEE BRAVO @ItalianFiesta]

I ain’t never had smoked pussy before. I gotta try dat

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Part 3. Angela Santomero walked into the Nickelodeon research room in 1994 and noticed something strange: the children were talking back to the TV. Not all the time. Only when there was a pause. She stayed and watched it happen, on loop, for the rest of the session.

By then, most children's television had abandoned pauses entirely. Characters spoke quickly, asked nothing, and moved on before anyone could answer. Santomero, who had been studying child development research at Nickelodeon, thought that was a fundamental mistake. The data kept pointing to something the show's format ignored: preschoolers want to participate. Give them a beat of silence, and they fill it.

So she built silence into every question in Blue's Clues, the show she co-created with Todd Kessler and Traci Paige Johnson. A deliberate five-second pause after every prompt. Long enough for the child at home to think, then answer out loud. Uncomfortable for adults. For a 4-year-old, it felt like being spoken to directly.

The second decision was stranger still: air the same episode every day for five consecutive days, then start a new one the following week. Conventional wisdom said this would kill ratings. Researcher Daniel R. Anderson at the University of Massachusetts tested what actually happened. First-time viewers averaged 3.1 correct responses when tested on the content. By the fifth viewing, that had risen to 5.2. By day 5, children were shouting the answer before the host even asked the question. They had become measurably better at solving problems that had never appeared in the episode at all. Malcolm Gladwell, who attended a Blue's Clues research session while writing The Tipping Point, called it "maybe one of the stickiest television shows ever made."

Fred Rogers Productions later asked UCLA's Center for Scholars and Storytellers to survey 150 teenagers who had watched Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, the animated successor to Rogers' show, as young children. Nearly three quarters still clearly remembered specific emotional regulation strategies the show had taught them. One in five said they still use the calming techniques well into their teenage years.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Part 2. Your child's brain cannot calm itself down. Not at 2, not even at 4. Until around age 6, the part of the brain that regulates emotion is too undeveloped to manage it alone. Children need to borrow a calm nervous system from the nearest adult.

There's a name for this: co-regulation. When a caregiver speaks steadily, moves slowly, or simply stays calm nearby, the child's nervous system starts to synchronize with theirs. Both heart rate and stress hormones adjust. The calm transfers through the body.

A slow, predictable screen can do something similar. When the pacing is unhurried and nothing unexpected happens, the child's parasympathetic nervous system, the branch responsible for slowing heart rate and promoting recovery, stays active. Rogers understood this long before most people designing for children began thinking about it. His quiet voice, his predictable routine, his transitions so slow they'd bore most adults: all of it was calibrating a child's nervous system at the same time it entertained them.

Fast content activates the opposite branch. Rapid cuts, sudden sounds, and unpredictable movement trigger the sympathetic nervous system, the body's stress and threat response system. The child's body prepares to react. The trouble is, that reaction doesn't stop when the screen does. The nervous system stays activated after the show ends, which is why children so often melt down right after watching high-stimulation content: the alarm turned on, and nothing turned it off.

A study from Texas Tech University, published in the Journal of Children and Media, found that preschoolers who watched Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood scored measurably higher on empathy and emotion recognition, but only in households where parents watched alongside them and talked through what was happening on screen. Left to watch alone, the children's scores didn't move.

[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%.

[Lyn🦋 @_ayandamay]

I want a refund on every minute I spent in 8th grade learning that monopolies are illegal and that our government would protect us from greedy men....

[Softboy @softboywin]

What does the bacon industry have against resealable packaging?