Cleo

I AM GRATEFUL. I AM surrounded by LOVE. I AM bringing VALUE to the WORLD. I AM financially INDEPENDENT. I AM, that I AM.

[Cleo @bruddarobles]

Ya se nos fue mi papa. 🙏🏽

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

WOW.

AlJazeera just dropped a ONE HOUR documentary about ISRAEL’s CRIMES against the PALESTINIANS.

This is very HARD TO WATCH.

[Cleo @bruddarobles]

Yes coach

[Cleo @bruddarobles]

Beautiful

[Cleo @bruddarobles]

Valid

[Cleo @bruddarobles]

Nasty

[Jen @SweetTexanRose]

I can’t stop laughing! 😂 This guy goes into fast food joints and yells their company slogans after buying their food. 😂 The reactions he gets are hilarious! 🤣

[Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐 🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 @TheCriticalDri1]

This fake bully protection movie trailer with John Cena, Alan Ritchson, and not Channing Tatum is the best fucking movie trailer I’ve seen in at least two years!

Holy shit 😂🤣😅😂🤣😅

[Be Believing @Be_Believing]

Dad plays GoldenEye after a very long time.. then watch his reaction!

[Zach’Dib @zmullis]

This video makes me so happy, look at bro’s face when he puts the tortillas down on the grill

[Cleo @bruddarobles]

I really hope nothing happens to Theo 😭

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You’re looking at a real dish. Thomas Keller, chef at one of the few restaurants on earth with 3 Michelin stars, made it after Pixar asked him one question: what would you cook if the world’s most famous food critic walked into your kitchen?

His answer is called confit byaldi. It’s a fancier, layered version of the peasant stew ratatouille, and the Pixar team actually learned to cook it. The film’s producer interned at Keller’s restaurant, The French Laundry in Napa Valley, during production. They kept live rats in a hallway at Pixar for over a year so animators could study how their fur and tails moved.

This movie almost never got made. Jan Pinkava, the original director, worked on it for 6 years before Pixar’s leadership lost faith in the story. With about 18 months to go before the premiere, Steve Jobs personally called Brad Bird (the guy who directed The Incredibles) while Bird was on vacation. They asked him to take over. Bird rewrote the script from scratch and redesigned the rats to walk on four legs instead of two, so they’d look like actual rats. The $150M film grossed $624M and won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, with 5 total nominations that broke the record for an animated film at the time.

Peter O’Toole voiced Anton Ego. Lawrence of Arabia himself. O’Toole had been nominated for an Oscar 8 times across 45 years and never won. Pixar gave the role of a man who judges others for a living to an actor the Academy had been judging for almost half a century. And the character was drawn to look like a vulture.

The flashback is weirdly accurate, scientifically. Smell is the only sense that skips the brain’s normal processing line and goes straight to the parts that handle emotion and memory. Every other sense (sight, hearing, touch) has to make a stop first. That’s why a single bite of food can slam you back to your childhood kitchen faster than any photograph ever could. Scientists have a name for it: the Proust Effect, after a French novelist who described this exact experience in 1913. Smell-triggered memories go further back in time and hit harder emotionally than anything your eyes or ears can pull up.

In 2016, the BBC asked hundreds of international critics to vote on the greatest films of the 21st century. A cartoon about a rat cooking dinner made the top 100. This scene is a big part of why.

[𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙮⚡ @WtffSparky]

🚨 N3ON hits play on an Indian banger mid-stream, turns to Arman and goes “shake my hand bro”…

Arman doesn’t just shake it… he hits the FULL Indian head wobble like a pro 😂😭

Nina is in the back LOSING it😭😭

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

The Real Story Behind April Fool’s Day

Back in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar, shifting the start of the new year from April 1st to January 1st.

This change was announced far and wide, but not everyone got the message or accepted it right away. Some people continued celebrating the new year on April 1st, following the old tradition.

These people were mocked for being out of sync with the times. They were called “April fools” and became the target of jokes and pranks.

Over time, this teasing evolved into the lighthearted day of mischief we now call April Fool’s Day.

✨🙌🏾💫

[katexbt.hl @katexbt]

if you are going to Japan any time soon this is the best souvenir you can ever get somebody

bookmark this so you don't forget

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

This is an absolute BANGER LOL

The random "thirty five" in there 😭😭

[Infinite Story Canvas @ainfinitestory]

think this might be the hardest infinite zoom I’ve made yet... don't blink

[Ariel Helwani @arielhelwani]

“If you go in my house, there are no UFC titles. There are no UFC pictures of me. You can walk in my house, and you will not see one lick of mixed martial arts— not one picture of me fighting—nada, nothing.

So my daughter doesn’t know why I’m popular. She goes, ‘Daddy, why are you so popular?’

When we went there, I pointed to the video while holding her. She goes, ‘Oh, that’s why you’re popular.’”

Demetrious Johnson on having his daughter in attendance with him at UFC Seattle.

[Fanatics Collect @Collect]

A Stanford study found that people who played Pokémon heavily as kids developed a small region of the brain that responds specifically to Pokémon characters.

Researchers scanned adults who grew up playing on Game Boy and showed them images of Pokémon like Pikachu and Bulbasaur.

Their brains lit up in the same exact spot, a consistent area in the visual cortex tied to recognizing specific categories of objects.

The reason comes down to childhood. When you’re young, your brain is more flexible, and spending hours memorizing hundreds of similar-looking Pokémon essentially trained it to carve out space just for them.

(via @Stanford)

[é @tynovaine]

boing boing 🫣😂