Lydia Nielson

If thou gaze into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into thee. Nietzsche

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

Have fun with your kids this summer!

[𝔸𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕒 @MissMandy126]

This is so cute!

[Bree A Dail @breeadail]

HEY GEN X...

Remember doing this stuff when we were kids?

[Lydia Nielson @edjookator]

@DLKL2121 @farman4x 5 to the zero power equals 1

[Lydia Nielson @edjookator]

@TheMathFlow Thread?

[MathGeekDaily @MathGeekDaily]

Unit Circle Simplified

[MathsWith Sam @Sam_Axiom]

Prime Number

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Nobody asked them to do it. Nobody trained them for it. They were just two teenage boys — the kind you pass on the sidewalk and barely notice — leaning on their bikes in the summer heat when they saw something no child should ever have to experience.

A man walked away with 5-year-old Jocelyn Rojas. She was supposed to be playing outside. She was supposed to be safe.

And in that single, awful second — while most of us would have been paralyzed, reaching for a phone, waiting for someone with a uniform and a badge to show up — these two boys made a choice.

They got on their bikes and they went after him.

No hesitation. No waiting for permission. No "someone else will handle it." Just two pairs of legs pumping hard through the streets of Lancaster, eyes locked on a stranger who had a little girl that wasn't his.

They tracked him. They stayed close. They didn't let him disappear into the afternoon like something that was never going to be found.

And then they confronted him.

Two teenagers. On bikes. Against a grown man who had already done the unthinkable. They forced him to stop.

He let Jocelyn go.

"The entire thing lasted only minutes." — Lancaster Police
Minutes. Because two boys closed the distance fast enough to interrupt it. Because they were raised — by someone, somehow — to believe that other people's emergencies are your business too.

When reporters asked one of them afterward why they did it, he gave the most deflating, most beautiful, most teenage answer imaginable.

He shrugged.

"I just felt like it was the right thing to do."
No speech. No GoFundMe. No press conference. Just a kid who saw a little girl in danger and couldn't make himself look away.

Jocelyn went home. She was reunited with her family. She got to grow up.

Because of two boys on bikes who hadn't been asked, hadn't been trained, hadn't been paid — and did it anyway.

[Lydia Nielson @edjookator]

@AI_EmeraldApple Mormonism exists outside of Utah and the culture varies greatly depending on the state and the country in which it exists.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Well said

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

It’s been a very tough week and am exhausted but had been sent this picture 3 days ago.

I couldn’t finish without going to find the dogs… (1/5) 🧵

[Infinite Logiz @Infinite_Logiz]

All Formula of Square

[Jack @FFS_WhatNow]

This man is an angel on earth ❤️

[MathGeekDaily @MathGeekDaily]

Common Algebra Mistakes

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide.

Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go.

She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall.

The one everyone could see.

The one that said: nobody wants her.

For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone.

The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong.

The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety.

Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like.

But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today.

She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us."

So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that.

She called it Sit With Us.

The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome.

No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat.

Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads.

Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong.

Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries.

"Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building."

She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions.

That's not just survival. That's transformation.

[validate @validclipx]

Asmongold says it’s RIDICULOUS that the CEO of Bricks & Minifigs gets to Throw those two guys under the bus & act like everything’s fine, even though he knew exactly what was happening & did Nothing

“The CEO is on the phone with the police, the CEO refused to look at the contract. The CEO knew about it because he talked to Ben directly. The CEO knew about all of this & he let it happen

I think it’s just ridiculous he can just simply throw these two guys away & preserve his entire company. He was trying to ruin Ben’s life & get Ben put in jail for years

It’s not enough to be even. Being even is already over. Now it’s punitive. Nobody should say ‘oh no it’s ok’. They need to make sure these people never forget about this

You were trying to ab*se the legal system, you ab*sed the law enforcement system, & now you are trying to lie to the public & try to save face. Absolutely F**KING NOT”

[Lydia Nielson @edjookator]

@EdwardJDavey You are wrong

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[Marcus Pittman @ImKingGinger]

Woah Buddy! Insane LEGO Corruption!

The American Fork Police Department just "accidentally" released 50gb of unredacted Body Cam footage reguarding Reckless Ben and Bricks and Minifigs, but deleted it to late before the internet grabbed them.

In the media dump the Joshua Johnson asks to see the legal court papers but the officer refuses to show it to him because it would count as a legal service and says it would "place him in a bind"

This police department, Joshua Johnson and Ammon McNeff are all toast. I've never seen the internet unanimously come together in unison on anything like this in my life.