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[Young Nation /•\ @Aaliyah_Fanatic]

the type of greed that is talked about in the bible.

[𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪 ˚.🎀༘⋆ @Laura_arma_ni]

Me waiting for my friend to finish talking with her random friend she met on the road so we can keep walking

[SMOOTH MELANIN @smoothmelanin]

Got a 100% in the hood

[Goddess🥀 @Swit_zee]

POV: it’s 2007 and you’re a kid again

[The Nostalgia Queen @Snow_Blacck]

Rappers used to be fine enough to hang posters of them on your wall.

Now they look like the monsters under the bed.

[storm⚓️🌪️vkr @thepeoplemouths]

Carl told Aniya he wanted to ask her a ?and she was very receptive 💯

Titi told Kc she wanted to ask him a ??and he rolled his eyes, she asked what …his reply👇
“Cos I know u on some bullshit”😒🫡

But somehow yall want me to believe Aniya made the wrong choice #loveislandUSA

[👑 J³ABz👑 @Jabz_CFC]

Everybody hates chris x Abbott Elementary.

[ToonHive @ToonHive]

Happy 74th birthday to the talented John Goodman.

[َ @doesyd]

this was the funniest day on twitter oh my god

[• @yducknow]

me, because i have the social battery of an iphone 4

[Shafeeq @Y2SHAF]

people don’t realise but it actually takes a lot of discipline to do this every night

[ɴ.♡ @luvblessingz]

Being forced to lock in when all I want to do is dilly dally

[ɴ.♡ @luvblessingz]

“I can’t wait to go home, I have so much to do.”

Me as soon as I get home:

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

10 years ago:

A McChicken was $1
A dozen eggs were $1.50
A Chipotle burrito was $6.50
Netflix was $9
A full tank of gas was $35
Rent was $1,400
A used Honda was $10,000

[ivy @ivyphobic]

they definitely got the same daddy 😂

[ɴ.♡ @luvblessingz]

Me: "i dont need to make a list i’ll remember"
Me at the store:

[sophia 𓆝 𓆟 @tellemthatits]

whyYY WHYyy tell em that it's human nature

[x @elroy__preston]

His television shows are basically Tyler Perry for street niggas

[Lyn🦋 @_ayandamay]

I overheard a girl saying yesterday ‘worrying is such a terrible use of your imagination’ … and I audibly gasped.

[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%.