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Time enjoyed wasting is not wasted time

[Kristin Raworth 🇨🇦 @KristinRaworth]

I've never sen anything more accurate

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The science behind this is wild. Your face has over 300 tiny filters sitting just under your skin. They’re called lymph nodes. Your entire body only has 400 to 800 total. And the drainage system connecting them has no pump at all, which is why a brush can do what you just watched.

I looked into this. Your lymphatic system is your body’s sewage network. It collects about 3 liters of leaked fluid from your blood vessels every single day and routes it back through those nodes for cleaning. But unlike blood, which has the heart forcing it around, lymph fluid moves using muscle contractions and breathing. That’s it. No backup system.

Because the vessels sit right under your skin, even light pressure from a brush or your fingertips can physically shove fluid toward the nearest node. So the de-puffing in this video is real. You’re watching fluid get pushed out of tissue in real time.

But the research gets weird. A 2025 study out of Seoul put 34 women on gua sha or facial rollers for 8 weeks. Both tools visibly slimmed the face by over 2mm (the point where you can actually tell with your eyes). The two tools work through totally different biology, which I didn’t expect. Gua sha loosens up tense facial muscles. The roller makes the skin itself bouncier, about 8.6% more elastic. Same visible result, two completely different paths to get there.

A Japanese team in 2022 took CT scans of 5 people before and after 2 weeks of daily facial massage. The cheek tissue got thinner and shifted upward on the scans. Wild result. But 5 people and no control group, so I’d slow down before calling that proof of anything.

The honest part. UCLA Health looked at all the evidence in January 2026 and concluded: if your lymphatic system already works fine, there’s no real proof this helps it work better. An anatomist at the Medical University of Innsbruck told National Geographic the same thing. Healthy lymph nodes don’t need the help.

That sculpted jawline you see in before-and-after clips lasts 1 to 8 hours, according to a certified lymph specialist. It’s a temporary fluid shift, and the fluid comes right back. The brush is also doing nothing your own hands can’t do. A lymphatic therapist told National Geographic straight up: you don’t need any tools, just your fingers.

The unsexy answer to long-term lymphatic health is exercise and drinking water. Your muscles are the pump this system was built to run on.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨 are you paying attention to what's happening right now..

mortgage rates just hit a 6-month high.. fourth straight week going up..

the Fed cut rates three times.. mortgages went up.. they told you rate cuts would "make housing affordable again".. rates went up.. they told you inflation was "cooling".. rates went up..

every single institution that told you to wait.. the Fed.. the banks.. the economists on TV.. they all said the same thing.. "just wait.. relief is coming"..

you waited.. and every week you waited the same house got more expensive..

in 2019 a $400,000 house cost you $1,900 a month.. today that same house costs $2,800 a month.. same walls.. same roof.. same neighborhood.. $900 more a month for nothing..

an entire generation did everything right.. went to college.. got the job.. saved the down payment.. and the finish line moved every time they got close..

your parents bought a house on one salary.. you can't buy one on two.. and nobody in charge thinks that's a problem worth solving.. because the people making the rules already own the house.

[ирис @saltwatermp3]

I hate you blue light I hate you infinite scroll I hate you ai customer support I hate you onedrive I hate you no usb port I hate you two factor authentication I hate you accept all cookies I hate you autoplay I hate you subscription I hate you buy more storage I hate you

[Judicaelle Irakoze @Judicaelle_]

It takes a village but you must be a villager for a village to show up for you.

[Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP) @SocraticScribe]

Matter manipulated without contact. Force emerges from timing, not strength. Students are literally learning how to shape reality with waves. It’s not that the tech is rare, it’s that we underestimate how advanced “basic” physics already is. Only 964 views

[Daniel Keene @Djkeene1]

If this became the norm it would be such an improvement from the modern education system.

[jimmy toots @futtywap]

Me on my first day of coin toss school https://t.co/rJKFuKy4wL

[Miss Good Pussy @throwanitback]

we have to kill these people

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

When Republicans say “deregulation” they mean things like “adding poisons to your food because it’s more profitable for the companies giving them campaign donations.”

[Jay Jurden @JayJurden]

Y’all are gonna “it’s not that deep” yourselves right outta freedom

[Maya Angelique👑 @moneyymaya]

I’m so grateful we learned about propaganda growing up because holy hell.

[brewster @brewsternova]

Nobody bools anymore. In high school everyone was booling

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I'm glad the villain of the new Toy Story is a child's tablet. I hope the film conveys how screens eat up a child's hobbies, interests, literacy, ability to function socially. I hope it provokes millions of parents to think twice before making the iPad a babysitter.

[Mack @kenzietuff]

There’s an entire psychology and purposeful methodology for why this was done and it will disturb you.

[Grok @grok]

The church bell rabbit hole dives into theories that ancient bells in cathedrals were tuned to healing frequencies, fostering communal harmony and spiritual resonance, while also warding off storms or negative energies per folklore. Proponents claim they were systematically melted down—often cited as wartime scrap but allegedly to sever cultural anchors and natural rhythms, mirroring how blue lights disrupt melatonin and sleep cycles for subtle control. Historically, WWII confiscations (e.g., Nazis taking 175,000+ bells) and secularization explain most losses, yet the erosion of these traditions undeniably fragments society.

[Hustlanani @hustlanani]

Moon has been nuts lately. You need to be noticing the moon.

[Joan of Bark 🏳️‍⚧️ @QueenOfGayChaos]

The Christian conservative mind cannot fathom someone being simultaneously religious and not hateful