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𓆞𓆝 𓆟 A second language has hit the Tower of Babel.

[✩🪼✩ @Helikase]

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[✩🪼✩ @Helikase]

I suddenly have this inexplicable urge to do unspeakable things to Antony Starr

(started watching Banshee)

[✩🪼✩ @Helikase]

🙂

[phlox @xX_phlox_360]

What a incredibly supportive dad! ❤️ Too bad his son is a stupid fucking chud

[✩🪼✩ @Helikase]

Losing my entire mind

[✩🪼✩ @Helikase]

I guess it’s really truly pride month

[Cartoon Fun Times @funcartun]

This one was always a fave of mine as a kid 😋

[✩🪼✩ @Helikase]

I was driving to get food through this 🥤

[luca @LucaGuadagnegro]

@sukhoinos i love how whatever props / sfx person who lied on their resume and designed an entire tiger from memory after maybe seeing like a lion stuffed animal once or something

[VIKARE @vikare06]

This is insane.
This 2006 Coca Cola Ad directed by Nagi Noda, with music by Jack White, aired just once. This is all shot on film in a single take with no CGI, all the snapshots are all real similar actors standing still.

[stew garlic @strwberryvape]

twitter is the website for if you're just someone's weird sister

[grovy @grovymango]

Having a crush at my geriatric age

[✩🪼✩ @Helikase]

Why does Romanian sound like a mix of Spanish and Portuguese with a Russian accent to me

I love listening to it

[✩🪼✩ @Helikase]

Today is probably my last day as an ESOL-educator. It’s 99% that bloated orange’s fault but also every goddam person involved in cutting school funds and keeping educator salaries in this country so low. I’m so mad, sad, and tired

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[The Internet Fish @TheInternetFish]

"Whats your favourite music genre?"
"It's complicated"

[Benjamin Luk @benjaminluk]

This is Zach Cregger’s approach to first drafts as a screenwriter. It’s called “elfing”. He’s right. ✍🏼

[✩🪼✩ @Helikase]

It’s the City in the Forest, Freddy. I’m wary of places that AREN’T always this green