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[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read.

[blue @bluewmist]

i'm in love with this quote:

"if you're persistent, you'll get it. if you're consistent, you'll keep it. and if you're grateful, you'll attract more of it."

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I assure my closeness to the people of the Philippines, struck a few days ago by a powerful earthquake. I pray for the deceased and their families, for the wounded, and for all those suffering because of this disaster.

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 @ThePreserverofU]

THIS WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE ONE DAY:

1) Sudden panic attack → Touch something cold (water, phone, metal). Your brain switches from fear to safety mode.

2) Heart beating too fast → Cough 2–3 times forcefully. It resets your heart rhythm.

3) Can’t breathe properly → Put your hands on top of your head. Your lungs open up instantly.

4) Feeling dizzy → Focus on one spot and tense your legs. Blood rushes back to your brain.

5) Stuffy nose → Hold your breath and nod your head up & down slowly. Open blocked airways.

6) Sudden anxiety → Splash water on your face – it activates the calm reflex.

7) Can’t sleep → Exhale longer than you inhale (4–7 breathing). Your brain goes into sleep mode.

[Karen Davila @iamkarendavila]

Senators were seen crying yesterday as a colleague was being arrested for plunder.

This is in no way an indictment of the accused senator but I would like to remind our lawmakers…

Iyakan n’yo ang ninanakawang Pilipino.
Iyakan n’yo ang binabaha dahil sa nakawan sa flood control.
Iyakan n’yo ang gutom nating mga kababayan.

Get out of your bubble. Please.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING :

The UN accuses Israel of committing EXTERMINATION in Gaza.

EXTERMINATION.

Repeat it. Spread it. Let the world know.

“Israel is responsible for extermination, murder, using starvation as a method of war..”

—The UN Human Rights Council

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[allie .ᐟ @coupcheolito]

swerte ni bato, no? kung normal na pilipino yan, kanina pa siguro nabaril kasi nag ‘resist sa arrest’. buti ka pa magkakaroon ng due process, di kagaya ng mga pinatay nyo nung war on drugs

[Howard Tuanqui #Tumindig @HowardTuanqui]

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly why political dynasties should not be allowed, especially in a chamber of only 24 members, and numbers game ang labanan.

[𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐁𝐈𝐍𝐈_𝐋𝐄𝐈 ❀౨ৎ @starryleii]

may all of you rot in hell. all of this drama just to protect sara? putangina niyong lahat ng tuta ng mga duterte.

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

Wishing a Happy Birthday to Sir David Attenborough. Thank you for the knowledge, passion, and hope you’ve passed on to all of us.

Celebrate 100 years of Sir David Attenborough with Ocean with David Attenborough on @DisneyPlus and @hulu

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Israel is now killing so many people in Lebanon so regularly that the media has lost interest. Much like it did in Gaza.

[кєνín @notcee_fan]

Twitter brand is so strong it was renamed and it’s still Twitter.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump’s son-in-law has received billions of dollars from the foreign governments that he’s negotiating with on behalf of the U.S. and Donald Trump.

To be clear: These are bribes.

This isn’t a “conflict of interest” — it’s unprecedented corruption.
https://t.co/0W6RflpIwU

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

The White House is completely silent as BBC confirms a consistent pattern of massive financial spikes occurring just minutes before Donald Trump makes market moving announcements. The administration is facing severe allegations of illegally profiteering off inside knowledge.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

#Peace is not something we must invent: it is something we must embrace by accepting our neighbor as a brother or sister. We do not choose our brothers and sisters: we must simply accept one another! We are one family, inhabiting the same home: this wonderful planet that ancient cultures have cared for over millennia. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

[🌊Miss 💙Melody 💙 USNavy Retired @_MissMelody]

Trump says his life was better before he became president.
Dude, everyone's lives were better before you became president!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The future belongs to men and women of peace. Justice will always triumph over injustice in the end, just as violence will never have the last word, despite all appearances. #ApostolicJourney #Algeria https://t.co/Jp7UTUWUzj

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

BREAKING:
Speaking to reporters aboard the papal plane to Algeria on Monday, Pope Leo XIV said:
“I think that the people who read will be able to draw their own conclusions: I am not a politician, I have no intention of entering into a debate with him. Rather, let us always seek peace and put an end to wars. I am not afraid of the Trump administration. I speak about the Gospel, I am not a politician. I do not think the message of the Gospel should be abused in the way some people are doing. I will continue to speak out loudly against war, to try to promote peace, multilateral dialogue between states in order to seek the right solution to problems. The message of the Church is the message of the Gospel, blessed are the peacemakers; I do not see my role as that of a politician, I do not want to enter into a debate with him. Too many people are suffering in the world.”

[angel @raimcandies]

please please please never stop talking about lebanon, this is genuinely horrific. bombing civilians was already bad enough but using extremely toxic chemicals with long lasting damage is an EXTREME low. wake up you people.. in no world should this ever be acceptable