Verbal

Adding voice to the voices

[Inside Reality Football @RealityLfc]

🚨Jurgen Klopp on Lionel Messi in tears after the final whistle of the game against Egypt.

🗣️“He’s looking at the magical thing he has done again for the Argentine national team, he didn’t just cry because they won the game but because he created a historic comeback for his nation at the World Cup.”

“Seeing Messi share tears at the end of the game is emotional and heartbreaking at this point, you don’t see anyone doing it in world football right now at his age.”

“You just have to admit the fact that he’s the greatest footballer in the world before and now in the history of sport.”

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

The era of the cynical "deconstruct the hero" story is dying.

It's tired, worn out, and—worst of all— poison to the soul.

Anyone in Hollywood looking for what will move the needle in culture over the next 10 years, here's your template:

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

These Grooming Gang investigations must be everything the original ‘investigations’ weren’t - forensic, wide-ranging, and utterly uncompromising about where the facts lead.
This scandal has shamed Britain and the disgraceful cover-up betrayed many 1000s of young victims.

[Verbal @Verbal10]

@cryptobeast England 2 Ghana 0

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@The_Kit_Parade Hi. How to reach you? @The_Kit_Parade

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@SJosephBurns HR

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@80s_channel Bowie

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Henry Nowak: How "Anti-Racism" Gave You Racism.

https://t.co/wIwgqrwkQk

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@DyerbolicalDB

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@DavidJHarrisJr Lolz

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@RealEmirHan Shape of Water

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@DiaperDiplomacy This is gold

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@TalkTV @JuliaHB1 @adamboultonTABB Brilliant

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your body replaces 98% of its atoms every year. Within five years, every single one is swapped out. The you from 2021 is physically gone. Not "mostly gone." Gone. The atoms that used to be your face are now part of the air, the ocean, somebody else's lunch.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory proved this in 1953. Your skin right now is about a month old. Your liver, six weeks. Your stomach lining regrows every five days. Your skeleton is completely different from ten years ago. A few atoms do stick around for life, buried in some brain cells, in parts of your heart, and in your tooth enamel. Scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden tracked them using leftover radiation from 1950s nuclear bomb tests. The oldest surviving piece of "you" lives in your brain, your heart, and your teeth.

Your brain is also erasing you. On purpose. A neuroscientist named Ron Davis at Scripps Research found that the brain has cells that release dopamine, the same chemical you feel after a good meal or a win, and use it to dissolve memories. When his team shut these cells off in test animals, they remembered twice as much. The chemical behind your best feelings is the same one shredding your past, and it never stops running.

Ebbinghaus proved this back in 1885. You lose about half of everything you learn within one hour. A 2020 study from Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute had people live through a real experience and then checked how much they kept. At best, about a quarter. 75% of the details of your own life are being actively wiped by the organ that is supposed to be keeping track of it all.

The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Squeeze all of it into one calendar year, with the Big Bang on January 1st, and humans show up at 11:52 PM on New Year's Eve. Your whole life, every birthday and breakup and boring Tuesday, lasts 0.17 seconds on that calendar. Not even long enough to blink.

Stars will keep burning for about a hundred trillion more years, then the fuel runs out and the lights go off everywhere. The last things left will be black holes, places where gravity is so strong not even light can escape. Even those slowly leak away over a number of years so large you would need a hundred zeros to write it. After the last one is gone, nothing is left. No light, no warmth, nothing bumping into anything else, ever again. The universe reaches total stillness and stays there. Forever.

Brian Cox once described the window where life can even exist as one-thousandth of a billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth of a percent of the universe's total run time. You are in that window right now. Built from borrowed atoms, running on a brain shredding its own records, here for a fifth of a second on a cosmic calendar that ends in permanent silence. Anyway, hope your Tuesday is going alright.

[Verbal @Verbal10]

@AutismCapital

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

There are no words.

[Viv 🪩 @battleangelviv]

That's home. That's us.

On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

The aggregate of our joy and suffering,
thousands of confident religions,
ideologies and economic doctrines,
every hunter and forager,
every hero and coward,
every creator and destroyer of civilization,
every king and peasant,
every young couple in love,
every mother and father,
hopeful child,
inventor and explorer,
every teacher of morals,
every corrupt politician,
every "superstar," every "supreme leader,"
every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there –

on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

[Verbal @Verbal10]

@DaddyDWALLY @ATRightMovies Massively underrated