~gxrv17~

i have no clue what this account really is

[𝙇𝙞𝙖𝙢 @OfficialVizeh]

So what the fuck do we do after the World Cup ends?

[el Damo @FistOfRempe]

Can we all cast our minds back to when it rained for 4 months solid from January to April please

[𝑛. 𖤐🎀༘⋆ @luvblessingz]

when i remove my phone from DND and find out no one actually disturbed me

[John H O N E S T Y (this is my only account) @JohnHonesty__]

Jude Bellingham being simultaneously England's best midfielder, attacker, defender, passer, creator and presser is genuinely absurd

[. @OvOBreezy_]

Lorenzo and Julia are moving like Italian mob boss and Russian mafia 😭😭😭

#loveisland #loveislanduk

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

turns out, reading a lot, exercising, loving people without expecting anything back, protecting your alone time, focusing only on improving yourself, and sometimes staying out late with friends who make you laugh until it hurts is a pretty good way to live.

[~gxrv17~ @_gxos_]

@zenisball what interview is this?

[goma @soigomaa]

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through a fungal network. Where octopuses dream.
Where elephants return to the bones of the deceased and stand over them in silence. Where bees use dance to communicate where to fly and where the flower is.
Where crows remember the faces of people who were cruel to them and pass this memory to their children.
Where ants build cities. Where cats purr at a frequency that accelerates the healing of bones.
Where, after a forest fire, the first thing the earth does is grow flowers.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I am sick and tired of people mocking those who care about the planet. Clean air matters. Living forests matter. Healthy oceans matter. Animals matter. Biodiversity matters. Wanting a livable world for future generations should not be controversial.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 1986, a Texas psychologist told 46 students to write about the worst thing that ever happened to them, 15 minutes a day for 4 days straight. Over the next 6 months, those students went to the doctor half as often as the kids in the control group.

The psychologist was James Pennebaker. He repeated the experiment, and so did other labs. Same answer every time: writing about pain in a notebook was changing something inside the body. Follow-up studies found improved immune cell counts, faster wound healing after surgery, lower HIV virus levels in blood tests, and better lung function in people with asthma.

For years the mechanism was a puzzle. Pennebaker had stumbled onto a much bigger pattern than he realized. Making things of any kind does something to the body.

Take painting. A 2016 study at Drexel University handed 39 random adults some markers, clay, and collage paper and told them to make whatever they wanted for 45 minutes. No rules, no skill required. 75% of them walked out with lower cortisol (the main stress hormone) in their saliva. Beginners and experienced artists got the same drop.

Take dancing. Doctors at Einstein College of Medicine tracked 469 seniors over a 21-year period in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2003. People who danced a few times a week were 76% less likely to get dementia than people who rarely did. That was the largest protective effect of anything they tested. Crosswords came in at 47%, reading at 35%. Swimming and cycling did nothing for the brain at all.

Take singing. In 2004, researchers in Germany measured antibodies in a choir's saliva before and after rehearsal. The antibody count (the stuff that fights off colds and flu) rose significantly. A follow-up study on cancer patients and their caregivers found that one hour of group singing dropped cortisol and switched on their immune systems at a measurable, blood-test level.

And just going to see art helps. University College London tracked 6,710 British adults over age 50 for 14 years. People who went to the theatre, a museum, or a concert every few months were 31% less likely to die during that window. Even going once or twice a year dropped the risk by 14%. Wealth, education, and starting health were all accounted for.

The mechanism seems to live in a brain circuit called the default mode network, the part that wanders when you daydream. When you fall into the zone of making something, that network hooks up with the one that holds your attention, and the brain's stress system quiets down. Cortisol falls, dopamine climbs, and the slow-burn inflammation that eventually kills most of us calms down too. None of it depends on the quality of what you make.

The Spanish tweet sounded like hyperbole. 40 years of peer-reviewed data says it's roughly right.

[Miley Cyrus @MileyCyrus]

The secrets out! Can’t wait to celebrate the Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary special with all of you! March 24 on @DisneyPlus. 🤫

[jolt @meltborne]

TEYANA THIS BODY??? #GRAMMYS

[caro 📼 met louis @louisissunn]

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!

[modern clare devlin @peonysummers]

Derry Girls only has 19 episodes and every one is perfect.

[pop culture gal @allurequinn]

now this is how you dress a girl group

[Pricci @Pricci0]

Med student at 3am studying how lack of sleep leads to dementia and cognitive decline

[~gxrv17~ @_gxos_]

@Dhimahi11 @tweedie45 you don't need to sell, ask to melt it into the D pendant you want. no loss.

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

People who upload menu photos to the google maps listings of restaurants are the backbone of society.

[𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 🎀 @pinkglitterie]

The girls who actually raised me 🧚🏾‍♀️