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[stacy @StacyAlaine]

@bricherjames33 @CarsonTalkMoney ➡️Latest plans for 2026 Reply “2026” to WhatsApp: [phone]

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[Philosway @philosway]

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Trump says Democrats forgot to rig the election in 2016, successfully rigged it while *he* was president in 2020, then forgot how to rig it again in 2024. So the only election Democrats supposedly stole was the one he himself controlled.

You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bullshit.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"Simply do what your soul demands of you—attain humility, mercy, love—and you'll have no need of any heaven. Heaven will be in your soul."
~ Leo Tolstoy

Farmhouse in Provence (1888)
🎨 Vincent van Gogh

[Regina Rosenfeld @ReginaRosenfeld]

― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

[Music Jim 🎩🪄 @MusicJim2]

Dead Calm 🎩🪄Remembering the great Sam Neill.

That ending had me on the edge of my seat.

This was the first film where I discovered his incredible talent, and he never disappointed after that.

Rest in Peace, Sam Neill (1947–2026).

You'll never be forgotten.

#SamNeill

[laurinha 🦠 @ecto_fun]

god he was so wonderful

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

RIP Sam Neill (1947-2026)

Sam Neill on why "The Piano" (1993) is an important movie in Cinema history:

"I don’t think I can overestimate how important 'The Piano' (1993) is for me in hindsight. It sits on my funny old CV like a medal on my chest. It wasn’t my film. It was Jane Campion's. I wasn’t the star of the film. That was Holly Hunter. But there is honour to be found in the second fiddle. Or fourth. No one notices you much, you don’t get nominated for things. But you served. I was there in an important feminist film. I was there on the front line in an important New Zealand film. Neither of these labels does the film justice. It’s a work of art. And look, that tiny little figure in the fabric— see down there on the right—that’s me. It’s a film that will always have a place in cinema history. And I served in it."

("Did I Ever Tell You This: A Memoir", Sam Neill, 2023)

[Flea @flea333]

Did tiny desk with my dear friends, burnin and yearnin https://t.co/AnSB6eeT89

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Steve Martin’s dancing skills deserve way more appreciation.

[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

The entire Criterion Closet is now available as a website, where you can browse all 1,247 films by walking the shelves, thanks to redditor olievans.

https://t.co/O2b7MwzCZj

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[✒️ @Literariium]

— Haruki Murakami

[𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ @sonnysehra]

in 1973, a group of 16-year old hippie high school students in lagos, nigeria made a psychedelic afro-funk rock album. they combined western music (influenced by bands like the velvet underground, led zeppelin, etc.) with west african rhythms. it’s unknown outside of nigeria

[Steven Hyden @Steven_Hyden]

Started digging into this, just an absolute treasure trove.

[Dave Hill @davehill_56]

MANFRED MANN’S EARTHBAND - JOYBRINGER
#TheGoldenYears 1973
https://t.co/6uLBPuhnHM via @YouTube

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

An incredible, beautiful, joyful, filled-with-love explosion of sonic sunshine. It’s funky, it’s jazzy, it’s weird, it’s tender, it’s alive. Already a favorite.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Holy Week in Spain is absolutely unreal