sarah ッ

dc yale

[miss gurl @shes_rADIAnt]

It really is this serious LMAO y’all she taking it to the streets. Grassroots efforts 😭

[weed / shimi @yurimusings]

chud is one letter away from chad and the only thing that changes is u

[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.

[ياوي جداوي @oyasumiparanoid]

in a woke gap friendship

[sarah ッ @hereliessarah]

this is what they did in sparta (for this exact reason) (which is so cool)

[R4ZMO🐊 @tiefadatoi]

avec mon futur mari jvoudrai qu’on ai chacun son appart, et qu’on se comporte comme si on était ds une relation haram alrs qu’on est marié

[vibelyra 🦢 @Vibelyra]

food in Barbie movies

[David Hering @hering_david]

It’s not often that something leaves me literally speechless

[𝒵𝒾𝓀✯ @_Gottalovezik]

Many of you don't realize that your problems would go away if you slept from 10PM-7AM.

[ems 🫧 @atotalposer]

THE NEW YORK TIMES PAYWALLED THE MINI CROSSWORD

[sarah ッ @hereliessarah]

@whoremanii i dead fell off the face of the planet (mostly have been off social media for two years) and forgot how to do this

[sarah ッ @hereliessarah]

Chat gpt 5 release feels like iphone 6 release

[sarah ッ @hereliessarah]

Why is Home Depot worth 330 billion dollars (will delete when i find out)

[Sula 🧚🏾 @BelovedBaje]

Just go to Grad school honestly

[sarah ッ @hereliessarah]

Benjamin Franklin would have been such a good VC…

[nflstreet @nflstreet4]

The vibe shift back to woke is going to be so drastic that there’ll be tribunals for those with outside cats

[😈 @turtlekiosk]

the actual liberatory position is that humans werent meant or designed to be anything

[sarah ッ @hereliessarah]

release the name of the graphic design intern