shik

[Ramy @RamyBabar]

@brndxix What the annual income at which it is OK to celebrate someone's death

[Angels @AnglsAI]

Renaissance

[eric @ercmallet]

hall of fame imo

[💎 @foreeeeeal]

"scientists don't want you know" is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know

[shiv @ripleyesque]

this is actually such a kind and positive way to react to someone with limited film knowledge… mr damon i shall try to learn from you

[Skyler Higley @skyler_higley]

sorry about the world you have been born into.

[˖᯽ ݁˖ pop backup ˖᯽ ݁˖ @popbackupp]

zendaya at the premiere of the odyssey

[antifa honeypot @mformorphine]

the lamestream media are doing their best to stop you from seeing this

[sera @seraphicxc]

Pond beach

[ᅠ @artindetails]

meet me here

[ً @girlpov]

#goodnight

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Write about your worst memory for 15 minutes a day, four days in a row. Six months later you'll go to the doctor half as often as people who didn't. James Pennebaker first ran that experiment at SMU in 1986. He's been trying to figure out why ever since.

Two years later he ran it again with two scientists who study the immune system. The writers' T-cells came back stronger. Way stronger than everyone else's. Those are the cells your body uses to fight off infections.

In 1999 the same idea got tested on people with asthma and arthritis. Twenty minutes a day, three days in a row. Four months later the asthma group was breathing better, and the arthritis group had fewer symptoms.

A 2004 study in New Zealand tried it on 37 people with HIV. The writers' CD4 counts went up. That's HIV's main target. The other group, who wrote about boring everyday stuff, didn't budge.

By 2006 someone had pulled 146 of these studies together. The same effect kept showing up across cancer patients, prisoners, college kids, and people with autoimmune diseases.

Researchers in the UK pushed it further in 2008. They split 36 people into two groups and gave each person a tiny circular cut on the inside of the arm, the kind you get from a skin biopsy. The first group had spent three days writing about something painful before the cut. The other wrote about their day. Two weeks later the writers' cuts had closed up faster on ultrasound.

Different angle, 2024. A team in Norway put EEG caps on people while they wrote. 256 sensors picked up brain activity. When you write by hand, wide stretches of your brain start talking to each other. The parts that handle movement and memory fire in patterns tied to learning. When you type, that doesn't happen.

Forty years in. The simplest version still works. Sit down for 15 minutes, write about what's bothering you. The "crazy gift" yimika is talking about shows up in blood draws, biopsy ultrasounds, and brain scans.

[Hrithik @Kautilya02]

Madhubani print sarees from Mithila, Bihar

[alexandra j. roberts @lexlanham]

guard at the national archive: don’t touch or lean
my 8 y/o: [leans]
me to my kid: don’t teach or lean
8 y/o: [leans]
me: hey! listen up, they said not to touch or lean!
8 y/o [near tears] I DON’T KNOW WHAT ORLEAN IS!!

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

an eldest daughter once said being the firstborn means you’re automatically irritated by incompetence. not because you’re harsh, but because you were never given the room to be incompetent yourself. the daughters who know… know.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Tweet: "fuck this brownie is so good rn"

Ten immediate replies: "Well said. Brownies combine eggs, granulated sugar, and cocoa powder in a way that quietly elevates the culture. They're not just a snack, they're a vibe."

[尊い動物 @7wVy1]

タオルで拭いてもらって嬉しそうな子アザラシがかわいい

[𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑎 @naturehealyou]

Life after changing the sheets, cleaning your room, showering and doing your skincare