🌸 C Melsh

Swammer. UMN ‘22

[Vince Mpls @vincempls]

The epicenter of this Midwestern cultural phenomenon is Minnesota, where the "long goodbye" can take days. The definitive guide by Howard Mohr aired on @tpt in 1992. No one before or since has ever explained it better than this:

[onion person @CantEverDie]

the tech world has genuinely not grappled with how many people
despise them and what they make

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

4/30.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The scariest finding in this paper: the subjects couldn't tell it was happening.

UPenn ran this study on 48 healthy adults. One group slept 8 hours. Another slept 6. Another slept 4. For 14 straight days. They tested cognitive performance every 2 hours from 7:30am to 11:30pm.

The 6-hour group's reaction times, working memory, and sustained attention deteriorated on a near-linear curve. By day 14 they were performing at the same level as someone who hadn't slept at all in 48 hours. The 4-hour group hit that threshold by day 6.

Here's the part that should unsettle everyone who thinks they "do fine" on 6 hours: the subjects' self-reported sleepiness flatlined after the first few days. Their brains kept getting worse. Their perception of how impaired they were stopped updating. The cognitive decline was invisible to the person experiencing it.

The researchers found a hard threshold. Any wakefulness beyond 15.84 hours in a day produces cumulative neurobiological cost. That cost compounds every single day you exceed it and does not reset with a weekend of sleeping in.

About 35% of American adults sleep less than 7 hours a night. 40% of those get 6 hours or less. In 1942 that number was 11%. We built an entire professional culture around a sleep schedule that this paper says is functionally equivalent to pulling consecutive all-nighters.

"I'm fine on 6 hours" is the most common response to sleep research. The first thing chronic sleep debt destroys is your ability to notice chronic sleep debt.

[daviss 📸 @daviss]

Hennepin Avenue in Uptown Minneapolis, 2010

[Metal Gear Network - MGN @MGSMGN]

Peace Walker

[Team USA @TeamUSA]

Fifty states. One podium. 🇺🇸

Team USA’s medal haul spans the map.

#WinterOlympics

[Jazz Frankenstein @luxepunk]

@girldrawsghosts my dream MGS movie involves sequences of like 15+ minutes in pure silence as Snake crawls agonizingly slowly through catwalks and corridors, then when he gets to Psycho Mantis the audience has to get up and walk to another theater in the building to resume the movie

[The Real Asakura | @CEO🔜 @OneTrueKura]

This is kinda like Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games but for stealth action niggas

[🏳️‍⚧️Hazel-Bee Writes a Manifesto @MukkyWaffle]

on Plundr, the pirate dating app, accidentally swiped starboard on a siren :/

[Zach @floyding]

extremely funny to do this with a 14 seat restaurant that’s been open for 75 years

[GopherHole.com @GopherHole]

Pom power. Cheer grit. Goldy magic. ✨

The Gophers Spirit Squad put together a statement on Day 2 at UCA/UDA Nationals in Orlando. Finals await.

Our Story:
🔗 : https://t.co/kCh31kaEaB

[Wojtek Kopczuk 🇵🇱🇺🇦 and 🇺🇲 @wwwojtekk]

This, on Italian cuisine, is great and applies to many other things: it was created by abundance and change, and - as great as it is - it's not something to be frozen and protected

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Friday

[england money elena @mentalt_sjuk]

drip so strange it’s causing confusian

[🌸 C Melsh @ceejayem3]

@GuthrieTheater …letters of the alphabet (1 -> A, 6 -> F, 12 -> L). Those in order spell out “FaLa (lalala lala la laaa).

Not sure if that was intended or not, or the ginger cocktail I had was extra spiked, but I appreciated it 😤👏🏼

[🌸 C Melsh @ceejayem3]

@GuthrieTheater Just saw it - and saw this hidden detail I appreciated:

The math equations on the boarding school have variable letters “S N O W”. What’s MORE is solving for these variables reveals S = 6, N = 1, O = 12, W = 1. If the numbers can be translated to their equivalent…

[Goldy the Gopher (official) @GoldytheGopher]

@UWBuckyBadger @UWBuckyBadger has no axe.

[Goldy the Gopher (official) @GoldytheGopher]

@UWBuckyBadger @UWBuckyBadger eats the silica pearls from beef jerky packets
#donteatthat #ewgross

[Goldy the Gopher (official) @GoldytheGopher]

@UWBuckyBadger @UWBuckyBadger exclusively uses unforgivable curses. #expelliarmusRISEUP