emma! ☮ 🍀

human bean. pattern finder. dot connector. healthy skeptic.

[emma! ☮ 🍀 @bymyelf]

I didn’t keep up my 2022 clover thread very well. Let’s see if I can do better in 2023.

First four leaf of the year. A little beat up but full of magic nonetheless. 🍀✨

Found in my yard in MI. Had a little help. 😉🦆

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

Japanese designer Yasuhiro Suziki creates giant zipper boat to make it look like he's opening the water

[emma! ☮ 🍀 @bymyelf]

I'm exercising my writing muscles. It would mean a lot if you read what I've shared.
https://t.co/rZOExADwVm

[emma! ☮ 🍀 @bymyelf]

Ready to write again.

https://t.co/rUROTlr1Nm

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Listen to Granny Bibbins, folks.

Once you give up privacy… you don’t get it back 👀

[Lenore Skenazy @FreeRangeKids]

Childhood Surveillance issue #283: CAMP PHOTOS.

Camp director discusses parents who call to say, "Max looked upset in yesterday's craft shack photo. MAKE HIM HAPPY."

What kids lose when parents are ALWAYS WATCHING:

https://t.co/fbT3Q41BbP

[emma! ☮ 🍀 @bymyelf]

I’ve had more than enough emergency room this week. 😳

[Ana_LaPatata @ymuchosmemes]

He descubierto que las vainas de semillas de loto tienen expresiones locas y es mi cosa favorita de hoy

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[Lenore Skenazy @FreeRangeKids]

The @FamStudies survey finding that the MAJORITY of kids AGE 14 are NOT ALLOWED OFF THEIR BLOCK hit me as hard as if it found the majority of parents believe in witches.
We're talking about a world view that is suspicious, scared, cruel AND completely "normal" to the believers.

[Christine Cotton OFFICIEL @StatChrisCotton]

Nous sommes le 02 juin 2026, quand vous lirez ces lignes j’aurais quitté ce monde.
Pour ceux qui ne me connaissent pas, je m’appelle Christine Cotton, je suis ce qu’on appelle une lanceuse d’alerte. j’ai travaillé 25 ans pour l’industrie pharmaceutique dans la gestion et l’analyse des données cliniques. En tant que biostatisticienne, Depuis décembre 2020, je me suis plongée dans les documents du vaccin covid du laboratoire pfizer. J’ai ecrit de nombreux documents et fait de nombreuses émissions pour partager les vrais résultats. Mes conclusions sont catastrophiques, en plus de la non validité des résultats due à des erreurs voire des fraudes manifestes. Le vaccin pfizer que la population a recu, que vous avez peut-être recu n’est pas celui de l’essai clinique au 95% d’efficacité annoncée par tous les politiques, journalistes et médecins de plateau. On vous a administré un produit pour lequel il n’y avait strictement aucun résultat , ni d’efficacité, ni de tolérance. Ce message n’a pas pour but de faire du sensationnalisme sur les reseaux mais pour vous informer de l’une des plus grosses manipulations que l’humanité aut connu. Toutes les preuves se trouvent dans la derriere version de mon travail que je vous invite a télécharger et a lire. Pour les plus feignants et les tres occupes, les quelques pages de la conclusion et les liens sur les docs sources vous éclaireront déjà beaucoup.
Je suis tombée malade au moment ou j’ai porté plainte contre les autorités de santé. Je souffre depuis plus d’un an de douleurs atroces partant des lombaires jusque dans les jambes, de brulures dans la peau ,essentiellement dans les jambes et le dos. J’ai consulté des médecins généraliste, neurologues, ostéopathe, virologue, dermatologue, rhumatologue, psychiatre , homéopathe… j’ai avalé des milliers de gélules de compléments alimentaires, des anxiolytiques, des neuroleptiques, des antidouleurs prescrits par le centre antidouleur. J’ai meme fait des seances de bioresonnance et vu des magnétiseurs et ce, sans aucun résultat.
Je suis a bout de ce que je peux supporter.

Je demande pardon a ceux qui m’aiment, vous qui me suivez sur les réseaux sociaux depuis 4 ans, mes amis, mes parents et surtout a dieu ou quel que soit sa nature ou son nom de mettre fin a ma vie, moi qui n’aie eu de cesse de la protéger depuis l’enfance , que ce soit la vie végétale, animale ou humain.
Je remercie du fond du coeur ceux qui m’ont soutenue , encouragée et tous ceux qui prient ou ont organisé des groupes de prière. Je vais vous demander de prier encore pour que mon ame soit au plus vite dans la lumière du créateur.

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

📱ID to access your phone…

UK iPhone users must now prove their age under a new update, or have their internet access restricted

Our message to Apple - #No2DigitalID

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Have more hobbies and fewer opinions. Learn an instrument. Plant a garden. Build something with your hands. Cook. Paint. Run. The happiest people I know spend less time debating life and more time actually living it.

[Truthstream Media @truthstreamnews]

So will used cars end up costing more than new cars because people will be trying to get the last vehicles that can’t be shut down remotely via software?

[emma! ☮ 🍀 @bymyelf]

Good morning. Making a little coffee in here to motivate me to go out and make breakfast in the rain.

[Laura Delano @LauraDelano]

People often say my story is a story of misdiagnosis.

It is not.

My story is a story of the American mental health system working exactly as intended.

What changed is that I stopped interpreting my thoughts, emotions, and struggles through a medicalized lens.

That shift transformed my life.

One of the most liberating realizations I had after leaving the medicalized psychiatric system is that the purpose of life is not constant happiness or the absence of pain, but connection, meaning, and purpose.

Life can be painful, and struggle is inevitable — but I no longer fear emotional pain or automatically translate it into pathology.

Thank you to @seckennedy for having this conversation with me on his podcast.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Cities once shaped by craftsmanship..

[Lenore Skenazy @FreeRangeKids]

Childhood mental health -- down.
Education scores -- down.
Free play -- down.
Unsupervised time -- down.
Ability to walk around the nabe -- down.

What could POSSIBLY be the connection?

Graph of how far kids are allowed to walk around unsupervised:

[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.

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🛒UK shops are blacklisting INNOCENT people using live facial recognition

This happened in a Sainsbury's shop in London...

We're fighting back to #StopFacialRecognition