Erika • エリカ

Aspiring disease detective 💉

[Arkitekyuklid @arkitekyuklid]

#RP612fic Ang pag-aalsa.

[Ching @Chess_mosa]

Unseen footage of Padre Damaso sharing his disappointment after getting only the neck part of his beloved chicken tinola circa 1887
#rp612fic #rp612

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

We see the tower of Jesus Christ illuminated for the first time!
The light show, starting from the base up to the illumination of the cross, culminated with a composition of lights guided by drones that traced the figure of Gaudí and the phrase “first love, then technique”.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

The choir in the Sagrada Família is putting on the performance of a lifetime.

The vocals perfectly complement the stunning visuals of Gaudí’s cathedral!

[高市早苗 @takaichi_sanae]

本日発生したフィリピン南部・ミンダナオ沖で大きな地震によって、建物の倒壊を含め被害が出ているとの報に接し、大変心を痛めています。

犠牲になられた方々及びその御家族に対し、心から哀悼の意を表するとともに、被害を受けた方々にお見舞い申し上げます。

日本は、現地のニーズを踏まえて、フィリピンが必要とする可能な限りの支援を行う用意があります。

日本は常にフィリピンの皆様と共にあります。

I am deeply saddened by reports that the major earthquake that struck off Mindanao in the southern Philippines today has caused damage, including the collapse of buildings.

I extend my heartfelt condolences to all those who lost their lives and to their bereaved families, and my sincere sympathies to all those affected.

Japan stands ready to provide all possible assistance that the Philippines may need, based on local needs.

Japan always stands with the people of the Philippines.

[Erika • エリカ @arctophile]

@noah_mwamfupe Aba Ginoong Maria 🙏🏼

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

LEGO just dropped its largest set ever: La Sagrada Familia.

It has 12,060 pieces and costs $800. The set comes 100 years after Antoni Gaudi’s death (June 10, 1926).

The details are insane including spires, carvings and interior with light shining through stain-glass windows.

[isha @MibshaD]

Unpopular opinion. Blood type test should be done at birth and placed on the birth certificate.

[Sarcastic Risen @sarcastic_ph8]

Fonz as Pia Cayetano but he did way better than Sen. Pia sa actingan. HAHAHA

[Inquirer @inquirerdotnet]

‘WALA PO SA RULES NA ‘WAG KANG PUMASOK DAHIL GALIT KA’

Sen. Erwin Tulfo stated that the Senate majority bloc clearly boycotted Monday’s session in response to Sen. Jinggoy Estrada’s arrest in an interview with Arnold Clavio. He, however, emphasized that this should not excuse neglecting their duty to the public.

READ RELATED STORY: https://t.co/5PkaRGti0u

[Karen Davila @iamkarendavila]

Senators were seen crying yesterday as a colleague was being arrested for plunder.

This is in no way an indictment of the accused senator but I would like to remind our lawmakers…

Iyakan n’yo ang ninanakawang Pilipino.
Iyakan n’yo ang binabaha dahil sa nakawan sa flood control.
Iyakan n’yo ang gutom nating mga kababayan.

Get out of your bubble. Please.

[EWTN Vatican @EWTNVatican]

The Holy Spirit does not come empty-handed. He brings gifts that strengthen, enlighten and transform the Christian life. 🕊️

The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are not abstract ideas, but graces that help us become more docile to God’s will and more faithful witnesses of the Gospel.

The 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit:

1️⃣ Wisdom
Helps us see life through God’s eyes and value what leads us to Him.

2️⃣ Understanding
Helps us grasp the truths of the faith more deeply and allow God’s Word to enter our hearts.

3️⃣ Counsel
Guides us in our choices and helps us distinguish good from evil, especially in difficult moments.

4️⃣ Fortitude
Gives us courage, perseverance and strength to remain faithful in trials.

5️⃣ Knowledge
Helps us recognize God’s presence in creation, in our lives and in His plan for us.

6️⃣ Piety
Opens our hearts to love God as Father and to live with charity toward others.

7️⃣ Fear of the Lord
Is not terror, but reverence, trust and the desire not to turn away from God.

When we open our hearts to these gifts, the Holy Spirit renews us from within and helps us live as true disciples of Christ.

Come, Holy Spirit.
Fill our hearts and guide us on the path to Heaven. 🙏

[L'Écho Chrétien @lechochretien]

🕊️🎉 𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗛 — En ce week-end de Pentecôte, trois événements chrétiens vont se dérouler simultanément :

• Le 44ᵉ pèlerinage de Pentecôte de Notre-Dame de Chrétienté, avec 20 000 pèlerins qui marchent de Paris à Chartres.

• Le 66ᵉ pèlerinage militaire international de Lourdes, réunissant plus de 17 000 militaires du monde entier, dont 280 baptisés et 532 confirmés.

• Le FRAT 2026, plus grand rassemblement de jeunes chrétiens de France, qui réunit cette année 12 000 collégiens de 13 à 18 ans à Jambville.

Et pour la première fois, le FRAT de Jambville et le pèlerinage de Notre-Dame de Chrétienté vivront une veillée d’adoration devant le Saint-Sacrement en simultané, ce dimanche 24 mai au soir. (Aleteia)

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

Inilahad ni Senator Erwin Tulfo ang dapat aniya’y ibigay sa taumbayan sa gitna ng iba-ibang bersiyon ng pangyayari sa gulo sa Senado noong Mayo 13.

Basahin: https://t.co/XjvPEkyCfl

[니키 (가을 시대) @njytolentino]

Inside Ces Drilon's mind:

[Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall]

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, forcing them to decide what actually matters…

[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.

[marv @mvn_dn]

Bato escaped.
Zaldy is at large.
Martin is unscathed.
Sara will not be convicted.
Bongbong doesn’t have the courage.
Joel, Jinggoy and Chiz are all back in power.
Liza isn’t some sort of political mastermind.
No one is going to save us kundi tayo tayo lang din.

[Bree Solstad @BreeSolstad]

Hail Mary, full of grace.
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art’ thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God.
Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.