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pokémon master, fighting game enthusiast, steely dan enjoyer, general poser

[cam @camofbeans]

God’s plan for me is to drink old fashioneds and play street fighter

[B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce]

Abbey Murphy has been selected 2nd overall by the Seattle Torrent in the 2026 PWHL Draft!

This season she had 40(!!!) goals and 66 points in 31 games at Minnesota and won Gold at the 2026 Olympics 🤯

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

With Wyatt Oleff, Maya Hawke, Sophia Lillis, and Hunter Schafer.

[Daniel Galleghost 🎃👻 @BeanWalrus]

"Niles, we're lost. That's the fourth time we've passed by the pile of frankly rather tasteless sheraton armchairs."

"Yes, the style clashes with the yellow wallpaper and endless billowing void. Then again, feng shui might fail to accommodate an open floor plan this... er, OPEN"

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

I’m really not sure that’s true

[Groby @groby5000000]

Ah yes. I believe it was Heffley who discussed this in "Rodrick Rules"

[K(sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyett]

One of the reasons that both Neoliberals and fascists hate people like Mamdani is because he proves they are all liars who have effectively sold out their constituents to billionaire interests.

All of the pain we have been told to endure has been a choice to sate the wealthy

[Gino Hard @GinoHard_]

Jesper Wallstedt drops to the ice in EXHAUSTION after shutting the door on a FLURRY of shots from the Avs in the final minute of play 😭😂

[Michael Russo @RussoHockey]

🌹🌸💐🌺🌷🌻

[Patrick Doran @lunch_enjoyer]

We can change the world with gambling 🎰

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The new logo for Infowars has been revealed.

The Onion has successfully landed a deal to take over Alex Jones' site after 17 months of legal issues.

Tim Heidecker will serve as the site's creative director.

[largest rodent @capybaroness]

Doctor Langdon Aura Moments

[cam @camofbeans]

@CONEY Skinner should really be foundational but good list

[largest rodent @capybaroness]

the pitt doctors when they get to intubate a patient

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it.

The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response.

That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down.

And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring.

Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain.

Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back.

London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out.

The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate.

If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.

[Pregnant Veteran @thedarkprowler]

Busting after I hit on 15 and then just holding my head underwater until I pass out and drown

[chatpile roan @chatpileroan]

king gizzard mosh pit

[George @WoodsyDem]

Kid in the pub has a live chameleon in his rucksack

[dei youngboy @AntifaScoundrel]

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth provides an update on the War in Iran