Tom Alexander

Kate’s Dad 🐾 | Marjorie’s son ❤️

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your dog carries your stress in its body for months. A 2019 study in Scientific Reports measured cortisol in the hair of 58 dogs and their owners over a full year and found that the two rose and fell together. When you are stressed, your dog is stressed. When you calm down, so does it.

The synchrony was not driven by walks, weather, or the dog's own life events. It was driven by the owner. Dogs whose owners scored higher on personality measures of anxiety showed higher cortisol year-round. The dog's body was tracking the owner's emotional state over months, not moments.

The bond between a human and a dog is not a one-way relationship where the human provides and the dog receives. The dog is absorbing the household's emotional weather and carrying it in its endocrine system. Your bad month is its bad month.

This is what 15,000 years of co-evolution looks like. The dog did not just learn to read your face. It learned to sync its chemistry to yours, and the hair on its back is keeping a record of how you have been feeling since the last time it was groomed.

The next time someone says "it's just a dog," the cortisol data says otherwise. The dog is a mirror with a heartbeat, and the reflection goes deeper than behaviour. https://t.co/L5PUkx6Jg9

[❤️Sooner Jen❤️ @Sooner_Jen]

😂😂😂

[RetroNewsNow @RetroNewsNow]

Happy September from ‘Family Feud’ 😂

[MILEY @miley]

The feeling of losing my Aunt Dolly is beyond what feels right to share. Our most sacred moments were private and they’ll stay there behind the stage, beneath the glamour & between our hearts.

What I KNOW is Dolly would want me to feel it, write a song about it, and then continue on and be strong. I have an angel by my side. I always have. One of our last conversations was about music and metamorphosis. 🦋

I will always love her and want to make her proud. My heart breaks for the world, her family and friends who will miss her deeply. We’re in this loss together and we will see her in all of the most beautiful things. 💖 @dollyparton

[Zach Osterman @ZachOsterman]

Bob Seger wrote this song after he heard Robert Redford’s line in The Sting: “It’s 2 in the morning and I don’t know nobody.”

It is a pitch perfect song, and this is a pitch perfect performance.

[Tom Alexander @TomAlexanderDC]

Peace sweet Dolly 🦋

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

[Cookie Monster @MeCookieMonster]

Me think me know this song 💙

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.

[Lily @lily_choudhury_]

William Zinsser taught writing at Yale, then wrote the book that has fixed more bad writing than every English class combined.

Here are 10 cuts from "On Writing Well" that instantly make your writing twice as strong.

1) Delete every word doing no work

[BUILD MORE HOUSING! @Dartagan_Llore]

This scene hit hard and more polls show it's unfortunately accurate sadly.

"They let us all come out, so now we're standing in the open ready for them to shoot us down" - such a devastating line.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

“The best part of being alive is that sometimes there’s a dog”

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

A very special delivery for David Attenborough, beloved by people (and animals) everywhere 💚

To honour Sir David’s 100th birthday, His Majesty The King is supported by a cast of stars from British nature to relay his handwritten message in time for the celebration at the Royal Albert Hall.

Watch David Attenborough’s 100 Years on Planet Earth on @BBCiPlayer.

https://t.co/yZojhLlUXp

[Harrison Ford @HarrisonFordLA]

May the fourth be with you

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This exchange between @SenBlumenthal and Trump’s judicial nominees is utterly astounding.

If you can watch this and still think this country isn’t falling into authoritarianism and fascism under Donald Trump, then you are not being honest with yourself.

[Cookie Monster @MeCookieMonster]

Me saw a dog earlier. It going to be a good day.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

[Anna 🇺🇸 @realAnn_29]

Why does every kid stop crying when you mention Jessica… who is Jessica? 😭😅😅