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your opinion will never cut me a check

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

DO NOT TURN A BLIND EYE TO THIS. HOLY SHIT.

[Dose Of Tarot (Readings Available)❤️❤️ @DoseofTarot]

Put a ward on your name and watch how things unfold ✨

Repeat 3x daily

“Anytime my name is mentioned, whether it’s gossiping or just in general.. May it come back in the form of gifts or income”

[SELF ELEVATING MIND @selfelevating]

JAPANESE SCIENTISTS FOUND A DEATH POINT ON YOUR BODY.

Press it for 30 seconds to reset cortisol and slow cell aging.

They tested 500 volunteers.

Here Are The Results That Even Shocked Them🧵:

[KJ 𝕩 @YeaaKJ]

Y’all be so worried about an image, clean up your SPIRIT

[🧑‍🦰🔪 @fanofchucky]

I wish I could time travel to 1988 so I can see the audience's reaction to Chucky coming to life for the 1st time

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Pattern Recognition is also the form of intelligence that causes the most stress.
You will see things that others do not.

You'll feel crazy.

Things will be *so obvious* to you, and others will just deny it.

[NA-KEVINGATES @RevolutionNak]

This nigga may have won the deadbeat Olympics

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A mother octopus lays her eggs, then stops eating. She slowly starves to death while she guards them, and by the time they hatch, she's already gone. Her babies float off into the ocean and will never meet her.

An Oxford scientist named Tim Coulson thinks these animals could be the ones to take over after we're gone. He laid it out in a 2024 book, and the case holds up. An octopus has about 500 million brain cells, roughly the same as a dog. Two-thirds of them aren't even in its head. They're spread through the eight arms, so each arm can taste what it touches and move on its own. Octopuses open jars. They carry coconut shells across the seafloor to hide under later. They've squeezed out of sealed tanks in the dark and gotten away. No animal without a backbone comes close.

But being smart has never been enough to build a city. Everything humans built runs on one trick: each generation starts where the last one left off. A kid today learns in school what took people thousands of years to work out, and inherits all of it for free. An octopus inherits nothing. Its mother died before it hatched, so there's no one to copy and nothing left over from the octopus that came before.

So every octopus has to figure out the whole world by itself, starting from zero. And they're good at it, weirdly good. Then a year or two later they die and take everything they learned with them. Peter Godfrey-Smith, a philosopher who spent years diving with octopuses for his book Other Minds, points out that they pass almost nothing on to their young. The cleverest animal in the sea wipes its memory clean every generation and starts over.

Coulson said it could take hundreds of thousands of years, maybe millions, and he's right that the raw ability is already there. The brain is built, and the body can crack almost any puzzle you hand it. The only thing missing is a second generation that remembers the first.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This has a clinical name. Revenge bedtime procrastination. And the ADHD version runs on a completely different mechanism than the neurotypical one.

A neurotypical person stays up late because they want more leisure time. The ADHD brain stays up because it spent every drop of dopamine it had on executive function during the day. Sitting in meetings, managing transitions, filtering impulses, remembering the thing you were supposed to remember. That burns through dopamine the way sprinting burns through glycogen. By 10pm the tank is empty.

But here's where it gets counterintuitive. The exhaustion is physical. The dopamine deficit is neurological. Those are two separate systems. Your muscles want sleep. Your prefrontal cortex is starving for the stimulation it was denied all day because it spent 14 hours on task-switching and impulse control instead of anything that actually felt rewarding.

The phone at midnight is the brain trying to collect what it's owed. Low-effort, high-stimulation content. Scrolling, short videos, rabbit holes. The exact profile of activity that delivers dopamine without requiring the executive function you already depleted.

The sleep researchers call this a "self-regulation failure." It's closer to a debt collection. You borrowed against your own reward system to function all day. The bill comes due at midnight. And the brain will not let you sleep until it gets paid.

[𝓔𝓿𝓪𝓷 @Baltlol]

if I woke up to a pony playing a keyboard after surgery I would assume I passed away

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Pirates engraved their hometown on the inside of their gold earrings. If their body washed up on a strange beach, the gold paid for the coffin and the engraving told the finder where to ship the bones home. Freeman is doing the same thing. He is just the latest in a line that goes back much further than pirates.

In 1991, hikers in the Alps found a frozen man who had died 5,300 years ago. His ears were pierced. The holes had stretched to 11mm wide. We call him Ötzi. He is the oldest person known to have worn earrings, and he predates pirates by nearly five thousand years.

Ancient Sumerian queens were buried in gold hoops the size of doughnuts. Persian soldiers wore earrings into battle for luck. By 600 BC, Greeks were placing a small coin called an obol in the mouth of the dead. It paid Charon, the ferryman who rowed souls into the underworld. No coin meant your soul was stuck on the riverbank for a hundred years.

That coin is the ancestor of the sailor earring. By the medieval period, Scottish law reportedly required fishermen to wear a gold earring so that if they drowned and washed up somewhere strange, the finder had enough money to bury them properly. Pirates added the address-engraving trick a few hundred years later.

Then came Cape Horn. The Dutch found the passage in 1616, where the Pacific and Atlantic crash into each other. Rogue waves, icebergs, ships smashed against rocks. Sailors called it the graveyard. If you made it past the Horn alive, you earned a gold loop in the ear that faced it. Cape of Good Hope earned a ring in the right ear. Both capes plus a lap around the planet earned three rings.

Freeman has been sailing since 1967. He has covered close to 40,000 miles in open ocean, mostly on a Shannon 43 sailboat. His wife pierced his ears when he was around 35. He calls himself a blue-water man, sailor talk for someone who crosses oceans instead of hugging the coast.

His 2019 Facebook post explaining the earrings was four sentences. He said the gold is worth just enough to buy him a coffin if he dies in a strange place, that this is why sailors used to wear them, and that this is why he does. The hoops in his ears are doing a job people have been asking jewelry to do for over five thousand years.

[iAm-paquetta @guesswhoiiamm]

just wanna thank God in advance for everything coming my way

[dior ✞ @deeore5]

the older i get the heller the no

[FEAR GOD @FEARGODMINDSET]

“Nobody is coming to save you also implies that nobody is coming to stop you.”

[Lowkeyhurt @uhtriad]

Getting paid while there’s still money left from the last paycheck feels like unlocking a bonus level in adulthood.

[ً @prinkasusa]

you are not mad enough.
they ATE the babies.
they R*PED the toddlers.
they TR*FFICKED Pre-teens.
and THEY are the current world leaders.
wake up from your ignorance and care.

[☔ @Whotfismick]

Me sensing an opportunity to randomly sing a song mid conversation based off words you said

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Someone just opened a pop-up in NYC displaying all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files.

Walk in. Read. See for yourself.

[Andy Wang🕊 @andysvibe]

It’s the natural law of the universe for everything to work out when you relax about it

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

Doing this next to Priyanka Chopra an Indian nationalist that supports a government cracking down on Muslims and minorities, is poetic by Javier Bardem. A legend.