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[Liz @lzreads]

Stop using ChatGPT. Consult a local grandma…text your friend gc w/ a weird name…type ur problems into Reddit dot com…go to the library…pay a psychic…the ancient sources of wisdom…

[Wheeljack @SJWheeljack]

Shortly after the election I grieved for and later made peace with the extremely uncomfortable fact that most of us are going to die significantly earlier than we would like, and the cause may very well trace a direct line to the actions of this administration.

[someeshmo❤️‍🔥🕳️🛸❤️‍🔥 @ZombieDish]

fun fact: this still happens in georgia. i know this bc my husband and I (we are childless by choice btw) routinely donate to clear student lunch debts bc @BrianKempGA is a USELESS monster who can’t protect or take care of children.

1 in 20 georgia students are in lunch debt.

[KAYLA PARRILLA @kaylaparrilla]

What a privilege it is to afford a gym, buy healthy food, pay bills, have legs that walk, eyes that see, a brain that functions, work every day, and take our bodies to their full potential.

[MECCA @iH8Meccavellii]

I hate these pics but I do look at them whenever they cross my path bc I feel like the pain of those who came before us deserves to be acknowledged

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

exercise is a celebration of what you can do. not a punishment for what you ate.

[𝓐𝔂𝓸✯ @shefwayo]

when someone is laughing & socializing instead of taking their turn at the board game we're playing

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

I just want to point out....

The amount of money the United States has spent on war in the last 67 days, is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never can we afford it, it's what we choose to prioritize.

[Ian of the Sea @ianpauldukes]

You can't hoard $10 trillion for yourself without taking it away from everyone else. He's telling the world he plans to impoverish us all. Real supervillain shit.

[Richkhid @Richkhid132]

The way life continues after people die is one of the most humbling things ever.

[Sarah 📸 @swrightCO]

destroying ecosystems because you’re too lazy to make your own grocery list or can’t draw

[Martin Luther Vandross King Jr @WordsNRoses]

Idc how much money I make. Paying $350+ for a domestic round trip ticket isn’t affordable.

All airlines are exploiting our lack of diverse travel infrastructure.

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

pay solid attention;

an average millionaire is 40 not 23
an average billionaire is 55 not 35
the average age to buy a house is 35 not 25
most men hit their peak confidence at 32 not in their 20s
it takes the average person 66 days to build a habit not 7
the average ceo is 57 not 30
most people meet their life partner after 27 not 18
the average successful business takes 5-7 years not 6 months
most people don’t know what they want until they’re 30 not at graduation

stop letting social media brainwash you. you are not behind, you’re on your own track. live it ❤️

[BB @whatuplakerss]

It should not be over $500 round Trip to fly anywhere IN the United States thats the point !

[໊໊ @juniorkingpp]

the fact the US used the full force of the federal government to eliminate the Black Panthers while the KKK is still running around tells you a lot about this country

[𝗁𝗈𝗈𝖽 𝗅𝗈𝗋𝖽 𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗊𝗎𝖺𝖺𝖽💂🏾‍♂️ @hoodfarquaad]

the United States’ lack of transit is honestly a global embarrassment

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[goma @soigomaa]

My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away

[Ruben Hume @rubenhume]

Things like this are why AI won't replace designers.

Every letter in the new Amazonia logo is a real bend of the Amazon river, traced from satellite imagery across different Brazilian states. The river literally spelled its own name and someone was paying enough attention to notice.

Think about what had to happen for this to exist.

Somebody spent hours staring at satellite maps of the Amazon, not looking for a logo, just looking. And at some point a curve of water stopped being a curve of water and became a letter. Then another one. Then the whole alphabet was hiding in plain sight inside the geography of a country.

No brief leads there. No prompt leads there. "Logo for the Amazon rainforest" gets you a leaf, a toucan, maybe a stylized tree. It does not get you "the river spells its own name, go trace it."

That's the part no prompt gets you to. AI optimizes inside a solution space. Designers decide what the solution space is in the first place.