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[Soleil @soleiljolina]

I don’t care how bad life gets I’m not watching lοve iѕland

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Flight attendants sued over toxic uniforms and won.

Hannah Dunning explained on Alex Clark’s podcast how American Airlines and United Airlines flight attendants got seriously ill after being issued new uniforms loaded with chemicals (including formaldehyde).

Nothing else in their lives had changed, yet they developed headaches, rashes, breathing problems, and more. They sued the uniform manufacturer and won because they proved the chemicals were making them sick.

It’s a rare case where workers actually held a big company accountable for hidden toxins in everyday items.

These lawsuits show how chemicals in clothing can quietly harm us — and they could set a precedent for other exposure cases (like the chemical clusters in places such as Dalton, Georgia).

Have you started paying more attention to what’s in your clothes after hearing stories like this?

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

YouTubers be like “wake up at 4am and run, that’s alpha!” No, it’s not. Look at apex predators; they’re all lazy. Bears hibernate, lions sleep all day. You know who wakes up at 4am and runs? Squirrels.

[Sarah Salviander @sarahsalviander]

There's a reason physicists have always ended up talking about God, whether they believe he exists or not. Physics brushes right up against metaphysics – the discussion is inevitable.

Planck also said, "There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other." I've found the same. Physics led me to belief, and they are now mutually reinforcing.

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

oppressive to serve a husband who would die for you
but empowering to serve a CEO who'd replace you in 30 minutes if you died

upside down world

[Sarah Salviander @sarahsalviander]

As an astrophysicist, I was convinced of a Creator by the ingenuity of the observable universe; but I have to admit that biology is even more convincing. The incredible machinery of a living cell is far more complex than the structure of an entire galaxy of stars.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

This is a baby 8 weeks from fertilization, 10 weeks LMP.

This is the baby the abortion industry claims is a "clump of cells."

This is the baby targeted by the abortion pill.

Every child deserves a chance at life.
Every child deserves to be protected.

Ban abortion NOW.

[Path of Men @PathOfMen_]

You are depressed because your ancestors fought and danced and ate meals together and you eat alone in the dark while staring at a glowing rectangle

[Starlight 💫 (twitch.tv/x0starlight) @x0Starlight]

ryan gosling is who ryan reynolds thinks he is. i will not elaborate

[g @34rths]

I wish strangers lingered after the movie ends in the theatre and debrief the movie together

[Arkansas Men’s Basketball 🐗 @RazorbackMBB]

Due to NCAA policies, we’re limited in what we can post from tournament games… so here’s 9 minutes of TB dunking this season 🔥

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

"Why is there so much sugar in everything?"

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. Your brain can’t flip from full alert to sleep like a light switch. It needs a runway. And reading builds it faster than almost anything else.

A University of Sussex study found that just 6 minutes of reading cut stress by 68%, more than music (61%), tea (54%), walking (42%), or video games (21%).

The effect is surprisingly physical. When you read, your nervous system shifts from fight-or-flight into rest-and-digest mode. Heart rate slows, breathing deepens, muscles release tension. The neuropsychologist who ran the study, Dr. David Lewis, described it as entering “an altered state of consciousness,” where focused imagination activates the part of your brain that tells your stress response to stand down.

A 2021 randomized trial tested this directly. Researchers split nearly 1,000 people into two groups: read a book in bed for seven nights, or don’t. After one week, 42% of readers reported better sleep versus 28% of non-readers. Nothing else changed.

Now compare that with what 86% of Americans actually do before bed: scroll their phones for an average of 38 minutes a night. A 2025 Norwegian study of 45,000 university students found that every additional hour of screen time in bed raised insomnia risk by 59% and cut sleep by 24 minutes. A separate American Cancer Society study of 122,000 adults found daily screen use before bed was tied to 50 fewer minutes of sleep per week.

Screens hit you with two sleep-blockers at once. Blue light suppresses melatonin, the hormone that tells your body it’s time to sleep, by about 50% according to a Harvard study. But the bigger problem is the content itself. News, social media, work emails, all of it fires up your brain’s threat-detection mode and spikes your stress hormones right when they’re supposed to be at their lowest point of the day. A physical book sidesteps both problems entirely.

The long game matters too. A Yale study tracked 3,635 adults over 12 years and found that people who read 3.5+ hours per week were 23% less likely to die during the study. That worked out to living roughly 2 years longer, regardless of gender, wealth, or education. Books beat newspapers and magazines. The researchers pointed to deep, sustained reading creating a kind of workout for the brain that protects it as it ages.

So the 5-10 minutes he’s describing? The science says 6 minutes is the threshold where your body starts winding down. His brain is switching off its stress response and easing into a state where sleep becomes almost automatic.

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

My NCAA tournament bracket I submitted via mail-in ballot is still 100% perfect.

[Value @valueandtime]

They used to delete your accounts for saying this

[Cole Adams @coleadamss]

Baseball is meant to be watched in person

Football is meant to be watched on your couch

College Basketball is meant to be watched during the day at your cubicle

[j @meadandjuniper]

It’s weird there aren’t more savory drinks. Take broth for instance. There are so many broths I would absolutely drink straight out of a mug. So how come there’s no Starbucks for broths? Am I just weird?

[Arkansas Men’s Basketball 🐗 @RazorbackMBB]

CALL THE HOGS 🙌🐗🏆

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

pride & prejudice (2005) soundtrack is criminally under-appreciated