Andreas

Technical writer, language nerd, game industry vet, foodie, karaoke diva, actor, connoisseur of fine puns, ADHDer.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Here is a timeline cleanse. It made me lol.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Sweden, there's a game where you wear a medieval knight armor, fight each other, and lose if you fall off the log.

It's Buhurt-style log fighting.

[📹 Poyan Sandnell]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1963, the U.S. introduced ZIP codes, with the Postal Service explaining what the numbers mean and how to use them.

[DⒶⓋe Wright the Thinker 🦔 @DaveWThinker]

GM,

(Maddy Kelly)

[Andreas @AndreasMStein]

One of my favorite movies as a kid; my brother and I just about wore out the VHS of the German dubbed version growing up

[Meso☄️ @M3S0soic]

Forgive the incoming info dump but it seems that this 1954 movie has more behind the scenes footage than most movies today. Part 1 of how they made the squid scene. First they filmed it in broad daylight and the squid was a catastrophe.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

White supremacists and MAGA bigots will never understand the beauty of the mixing of cultures. 🙌🙏🫶

[Modern History @modernhistory]

Legendary gymnast Katelyn Ohashi and her performance that turned the scoring system upside down:

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Someone edited THE THREE AMIGOS vs. TOMBSTONE and it fits so perfectly 😂🔥

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Purple is purely a mental construct of the human brain.

We invented the color because of a lack of a sensor signal.

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

This is some hilarious SNL 😂😂
If you’ve ever been to an auction,
you know what I’m talking about.

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

This is a great use of AI

Turning a series of texts into a song and it turns out good and funny!

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

OMG these guys are FUNNY!!!😂👏👏The slow motion part is the best part 🤣

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Is a chicken’s head more stable than a $5,000 camera gimbal?

[Megha @Megha_creates]

A casual way to teach students not to take selfies everywhere.

[Engineering Knowledge @DP0STS]

Wow, nice trick 🤯✨

[JAMES WEBB @jameswebb_nasa]

Por muito tempo acreditou-se que o coração era apenas um conjunto de câmaras musculares trabalhando em conjunto. Até que o cardiologista espanhol Francisco Torrent-Guasp (1931-2005), que dedicou toda uma vida ao estudo desse órgão, demonstrou que ele é na verdade uma única banda contínua de músculo dobrada em espiral. É por isso que o coração não apenas aperta o sangue: ele o torce e o puxa com uma eficiência impressionante, um verdadeiro origami biológico pulsando dentro do peito.

Via: @Saffron_Sniper1

[Andreas @AndreasMStein]

@TheCinesthetic My buddies and I saw this 5 times in theaters; it blew our goddamn young minds (even the 1 time we saw it sober)

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

The most quoted "there's no spoon" scene from Matrix is the most misunderstood scene.

The boy tells Neo the spoon doesn't exist.

Most people think this means "nothing is real, everything is simulation."

Wrong interpretation.
Completely backward.

The spoon exists. The child exists. The conversation exists.

What doesn't exist is the boundary between the spoon and Neo.

The separation is the illusion.

When you try to bend a spoon with your mind, you're operating from the assumption that "you" are separate from "spoon." Subject acts on object. Mind controls matter. That duality creates the impossibility.

The child figured out something neuroscientists are just confirming:

Your brain doesn't distinguish between self and environment the way you think it does. The neural networks that represent "your body" extend seamlessly into the networks that represent "the space around your body." The boundary exists in language, not in neural reality.

For example, a tennis racket becomes an extension of your arm, a race car becomes an extension of your body. The instrument stops being separate and starts being you.

The spoon bends because Neo stops treating it as external. The separation dissolves.

There's no spoon to manipulate because there's no separate self doing the manipulating.

This is grounded in science. Embodied cognition research shows your brain can map the tools and objects you focus on as real extensions of your body schema. Pianists’ brains often represent piano keys within their finger map. Surgeons’ brains can represent their instruments as extended limbs.

The Matrix scene was accidentally teaching applied neuroscience disguised as sci fi philosophy.

The real takeaway:
Stop trying to change things outside yourself. Recognize that the "outside" is a cognitive construction.

The spoon bends when you realize you are the spoon.

[Andreas @AndreasMStein]

When I worked at Blockbuster I used to tell people I worked in the movie industry (consumer-end).

Also, imagine you’re an executive at McDonald’s and you still have to put on your taxes that you work at McDonald’s.