Kermit the frog

Trrr Trrr..croaking in existential angst
often tweets random things
non-serious, soaked, amused
one happy hop at a time
very locked in

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

@FilmUpdates Convince me he is not Timothee Chalamet Lite

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.

[Auntie Yaga @getty_a96716]

The people howling about Helen of Troy do not actually care about classical literature. If they did, they’d be deeply disturbed by the number of schools closing classics departments.

[Mike Reiss @MikeReissWriter]

We're mad because the movie version of THE ODYSSEY which we haven't seen, doesn't match the vision of the book we never read.

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

@NglMaya a pirate

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

@ThePrintIndia @sushilmanav Only selected students of English stand to suffer. Moreover, for an overall fair and competent process that it was, it is disheartening to see people celebrate the #hpscquashed

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

@ProfSampatSingh It's a collective loss of all the students - be it selected or unselected

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

@TheCinesthetic Welcome

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

@agNavya movie forgetter

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

@JakeRammos I would put a ring on it

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

babe stop

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

I have tried expensive therapy. I have tried chat gpt. I recommend chat gpt.

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

Its milkinis this year and it tastes like kinder joy

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

Cadbury improves it game every 5 years and its the Cadbury ganache this time

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

indeed

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

yes lorde yes he indeed was the man of the year

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

that was prolly a coincidence

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

Big shoutout to @_PVRCinemas for shifting the timings of One Battle after Another to earlier upon request so that I could go watch it and be back home safely on time. Thank you so much!

[ozempikachu @krazyfrog]

raat ko 10:30 ka project hail mary show hai theater wale ne chabi di hai aur kaha bhai jaate waqt shutter band kar dena

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

babe are you okay you haven’t logged a film in three days

[Kermit the frog @bearsbeetsbat_]

@34rths you mean film club?

[Esluva 🎀 @Vesper_2005]

We should cancel April fools this year. There is no prank topping our reality.

[prth @paaarth319]

i found a new sitcom that's funny, warm and somehow exactly my kind of awkward and also shot like an absolute dream so we will be postponing kms till the season finale

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain at 2 AM writing a paper you started at 10 PM is operating in a neurochemical state that most productivity systems spend thousands of dollars trying to replicate.

Sleep deprivation suppresses your prefrontal cortex. That's the region responsible for self-criticism, second-guessing, and the voice that says "this paragraph isn't good enough." At 2 AM, that voice goes quiet. Not because you've achieved some zen state. Because the hardware running it is shutting down for the night and you won't let it.

Meanwhile the deadline is dumping norepinephrine and cortisol into your system, which narrows your attention to a single point. Your brain physically cannot multitask in that state. No checking your phone. No opening a new tab. The stress response has commandeered every available resource and pointed it at the Google Doc.

Lowered inhibition plus chemically forced single-task focus. That combination is almost identical to what Csikszentmihalyi documented across 30 years of flow state research. Clear goal, immediate feedback, challenge matched to skill. A 12-page paper due in 8 hours hits all three criteria by accident.

The lo-fi beats matter more than people think. Repetitive audio at 60-70 BPM synchronizes with resting heart rate and suppresses novelty-seeking circuits. You stop hearing it within minutes. It becomes an auditory wall that blocks interruption without costing you any cognitive load. It's the cheapest sensory deprivation chamber ever built.

And the black coffee at midnight is pharmacologically different from your morning cup. Your adenosine levels have been building all day, so the caffeine is fighting a much stronger sleep signal. The subjective experience of "wired but calm" at 1 AM is a different drug interaction than alert-at-9-AM. Same molecule, completely different neurochemical environment.

Every semester, twice a semester, four years straight. That's 40 sessions of accidental deep work before anyone had a name for it.

The grade was an A- because the conditions were perfect. Not despite the chaos. Because of it.