Neal R I G G E R S 🫶

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[The MJJ Archives @themjjarchives]

Rock with You (Wembley, 1988)

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Harvard scientists ran a simple test. They put adults under blue light for 6 hours one night, then under green light at the same brightness the next. Blue light pushed their bedtimes back by 3 hours. Green pushed them back by 1.5. And in kids, the same lights hit about twice as hard.

The reason comes down to a tiny patch of cells at the back of every human eye. These cells have one job. They tell your brain whether it is day or night. They wake up most when light hits a very specific shade of blue, the same shade phone screens and modern bulbs are loaded with. When those cells fire after dark, the brain stops making melatonin, the chemical that pulls you toward sleep.

Red light barely sets off those cells at all. A 2025 study from the University of Zaragoza put people under red lamps and blue lamps for three hours at night. Under blue, their melatonin stayed scraped to the floor. Under red, it climbed back up to more than three times higher. Same brightness. The color did all the work.

Children get this worse than adults. Two reasons. Their pupils are bigger, so more light gets in. And the lens inside a kid's eye is still glass-clear, where adult lenses slowly yellow with age and filter blue out naturally. A 10-year-old's body clock is roughly twice as sensitive to evening light as a 45-year-old's. A bedside lamp that feels harmless to a parent can be wrecking a kid's sleep clock at the same time.

Then there is the lag. Once the brain catches a dose of blue light, the wake-up signal it sends out keeps echoing for 3 to 4 hours after the lights go off. So a kid on an iPad at 9pm can still be wired at midnight even if you took the iPad away at 9:01.

Modern LED bulbs and screens are tuned to roughly 6500 Kelvin. That is sunlight at noon. Old incandescent bulbs sit around 2700, mostly red and yellow with almost nothing in the blue range. To a human eye, a red-lit room is just about as close to no light at all as you can get. The brain reads it as nighttime.

The fix is boring. Use warm bulbs at 2700 Kelvin or lower in any room a kid spends evenings in, switch off phones and tablets two hours before bed, and if a night light is needed for bathroom trips, make it red or amber. The science was pinned down to the exact color of light back in 2001.

[Neal R I G G E R S 🫶 @_allshades_]

@ThatsForAIITime Lady Gaga apparently owns hundreds of pieces that belonged to Michael included his jacket from “Thriller” and a jacket from the “Bad” world tour

[Toluwase @Toluwase_x]

Actual footage of the Michael Jackson Pepsi commercial accident + the finished commercial.

Sad fact: this day was the middle of Michael life. He was 25 years old (9,282 days), and 9,282 days later he passed at 50.

My question is, why did it take so long for people to notice? 😭

[Neal R I G G E R S 🫶 @_allshades_]

I’m finna be in part two of the Michael Jackson movie 🤣

[Neal R I G G E R S 🫶 @_allshades_]

🤣🤣

[MEAD The 4K💿 Master (Tom Connors) @ThomasConnorsJr]

THIS is why

[Michelle @MDDE777333]

Anyone with young children really needs to see this.

[Neal R I G G E R S 🫶 @_allshades_]

@Jayysein Preston Burke what are you doing here? 🤣

[໊ @oockreg]

My son just yelled from his bedroom “mom what time was I born??”

BOYYYY SHE A WITCH HANG UP THE PHONE NOW!!

[Neal R I G G E R S 🫶 @_allshades_]

Is Twitter finally less freaked out now? I’m back after like 4/5 years 🤣

[Neo Jane @Neo_Jane8]

When Bernie Mac was casted for the Ocean’s Eleven, Steve Harvey went to the director and producer to try & steal the role, even telling them he would take less money. They said no and told Bernie about him. That’s why Bernie never wanted to do another Kings of Comedy tour..

[💌 @glowyaquarius]

but also: if i were really having a mental health crisis and feeling suicidal in what world would three MEN with WEAPONS do anything but cause more distress. cops being in charge of wellness checks is a gross joke

[Neal R I G G E R S 🫶 @_allshades_]

these HS kids wearing crop tops, mini skirts, and nooo backpack in sight. whats going on!?? 😭 dress codes don’t exist anymore??

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

This generation doesn’t know how to build healthy relationships.. We end up saying stuff like “I don’t owe anyone anything.” You do owe people something. You owe those you offended an apology. You owe those who gave you support, gratitude (1/2)

[Adam @AdameMedia]

The best answer to “do you condemn Hamas” was given 13 years ago @piersmorgan

[Neal R I G G E R S 🫶 @_allshades_]

My spidey senses go into overdrive when I’m in the gym. I can FEEL when an old man is being creepy

[Abier @abierkhatib]

God, this is like a horror movie.

A former Israeli SNIPER …

[GG @_WhatsGoodG]

Pregnancy is way more permanent than marriage. Yall really be moving backwards af.