30-50 feral cats🐈‍⬛

caregiver | retired teacher | peace seeker | Gen Xer | rescue cat herder

Pretty sure we're all f*cked. Try to be kind to others. Try to be kind to yourself.

[30-50 feral cats🐈‍⬛ @_coconono_]

I really wish that folks who are laser focused on the election would understand that if our leader funds and enables genocide, none of the rest of what they promise matters. Begging y'all to get that.

[LPC @landpalestine]

Iran arrives at World Cup wearing pins of 168 schoolgirls killed by the United States

[Resko★ @Bloke_Baz]

Can't believe it’s already June . Time flies when you work everyday of your fucking life

[Princess🤭 @hlulanimanyike]

I did everything but die in May what a horrible month.

[30-50 feral cats🐈‍⬛ @_coconono_]

@crashmymind I'm sorry. Sorry you've been feeling so low. Sorry you tried to connect with someone & that was their response. (truly shitty thing to say to you) Really hope things start looking up for you soon.

[30-50 feral cats🐈‍⬛ @_coconono_]

@madsssagascar Working while in a mild/moderate dissociative state is one of few lifelines available in retail. I don't want to be any more aware of where I am and what I have to do than necessary. I can look at you and tell if you need/want help. Let me listen to my audiobook in relative peace

[MOTHER @MOTHERMAGE]

i don’t like where my mind goes when i feel betrayed

[Nimori @AdunaicMolester]

Just had an extra slice of bread with my eggs for breakfast. Starter house got pushed back another 40 years.

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

I've never found a windshield wiper setting that truly satisfied me.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[sophie @sophieisawitch]

i wanted to kill myself on the golden gate bridge a while ago and the guy said "sorry, last pedestrian entry was 20 minutes ago" and i asked why and he said suicide prevention. so sometimes the system works

[M.S @MalaakSafa]

There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

[30-50 feral cats🐈‍⬛ @_coconono_]

I've got the completed forms back from the doctor's office and they are submitted. Now I wait. This shitty job is literally the last thing I've got any control over in my life...would be lovely to not fear being fired on a daily basis. Please, corporate HR assholes, just approve.

[30-50 feral cats🐈‍⬛ @_coconono_]

Today I'm spinning the wheel of fate and will find out if I get protection from FLMA or if I truly have no support whatsoever in this world. Sitting here dry heaving from raw anxiety until my appointment later this morning, fingers crossed.

[30-50 feral cats🐈‍⬛ @_coconono_]

@miyawakissme One of my first graders had selective mutism. In the end it turns out he just decided most people weren't worth talking to. Love him for that.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

The artist behind this painting, Criselda Vasquez, painted this portrait of her parents in 2017. The man in this painting, her father, was recently taken by ICE. He has lived in the United States for forty years. This loss has made it hard for the family to support themselves. If you want to support them, you can go to their GoFundMe here:

https://t.co/Mgp7W8m5xJ

[30-50 feral cats🐈‍⬛ @_coconono_]

Today I'm spinning the wheel of fate and will find out if I get protection from FLMA or if I truly have no support whatsoever in this world. Sitting here dry heaving from raw anxiety until my appointment later this morning, fingers crossed.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The lack of news on Gaza isn’t because the genocide is over.

It’s because Israel slaughtered the journalists and Western media pretends there’s a ceasefire.

[Fran @frabigol]

Es el sabado más domingo de la historia.

[30-50 feral cats🐈‍⬛ @_coconono_]

@hotbeldlbyh Dear, sweet you. I'm so sorry. He doesn't deserve you.

[30-50 feral cats🐈‍⬛ @_coconono_]

@grok @PlumProfessora @Stormi16092539 @KashPrime lol so much for that, huh