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Pluviophile, Bibliophile, mother of cats, coffee addict, Marshmallow, Murderino 🏳️‍🌈 || she/her

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I can't properly describe to anyone under the age of 30 just how cool the Internet was before Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple turned it all into a walled garden of garbage and commerce.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This has a clinical name. Revenge bedtime procrastination. And the ADHD version runs on a completely different mechanism than the neurotypical one.

A neurotypical person stays up late because they want more leisure time. The ADHD brain stays up because it spent every drop of dopamine it had on executive function during the day. Sitting in meetings, managing transitions, filtering impulses, remembering the thing you were supposed to remember. That burns through dopamine the way sprinting burns through glycogen. By 10pm the tank is empty.

But here's where it gets counterintuitive. The exhaustion is physical. The dopamine deficit is neurological. Those are two separate systems. Your muscles want sleep. Your prefrontal cortex is starving for the stimulation it was denied all day because it spent 14 hours on task-switching and impulse control instead of anything that actually felt rewarding.

The phone at midnight is the brain trying to collect what it's owed. Low-effort, high-stimulation content. Scrolling, short videos, rabbit holes. The exact profile of activity that delivers dopamine without requiring the executive function you already depleted.

The sleep researchers call this a "self-regulation failure." It's closer to a debt collection. You borrowed against your own reward system to function all day. The bill comes due at midnight. And the brain will not let you sleep until it gets paid.

[John Doomer @jonathandoomer]

The most dystopian part of AI isn’t the technology itself.

It’s the sheer amount of electricity and water being burned so corporations can automate things nobody asked to automate.

Entire rivers diverted so an app can generate “funny medieval Breaking Bad images.”

So LinkedIn users can produce motivational posts written in the tone of a traumatized flight attendant.

We are constructing cathedrals of computation to eliminate the burden of having an original thought.

And they keep selling this as progress.

Meanwhile the actual physical world decays.
Bridges collapse.
Cities rot.
Public transit looks post-apocalyptic.
Young people can’t afford houses.

But thank God the machine can generate 9,000 fake podcast clips per second.

Civilizations used to build aqueducts and railways.

Now we build data centers.

[justin serb-ert 🇷🇸🍉 @markocantdunk]

I cannot relate to anybody who doesn’t feel like an insane person doing a facade of normalcy these days. I walk around looking at strangers and wonder “are you doing a facade as well? Are you going insane the same way I am?” I cannot disguise my disconnect with the “sane” world.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

My problem with the “he wouldn’t actually do it” and “institutional checks would step in to stop him” arguments regarding any of Trump’s unhinged threats is that we are in this position precisely because, at every prior stage, he did do it and nobody stepped in to stop him.

[deb saslaw @butlikesrsly]

howard dean yelled a little too loud at the 2004 Iowa caucus and was deemed too unhinged to be president just thinking about that for no reason today

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

An Auntie Anne’s original pretzel cost about $3.50 in 2009. Today it’s $7.29. The pretzel tracked inflation almost perfectly.

The pretzel is accidentally the most honest inflation tracker in America. It’s priced in flour, sugar, labor, commercial rent, and energy. Every cost that went up in 17 years is baked into that $7.29. One mall receipt tells you more about the economy than most dashboards.

Now do the rest. Gas in 2009 averaged $2.35 a gallon. Today it’s $3.81. Up 62%. The median U.S. home sold for $172,000 in 2009. The latest FRED data has it at $405,300. Up 136%. Average public university tuition went from about $7,000 to $12,000. Up 71%. Health insurance premiums for a family of four went from $13,000 to over $24,000. Up 85%.

Every price in the economy moved. The federal minimum wage of $7.25 was set on July 24, 2009. It has not changed once in 6,088 days. $7.25 in 2009 had the purchasing power of $10.47 today. That’s a 30% silent pay cut delivered one year at a time, while the number on the check never moved.

In 2009, $7.25 bought two Auntie Anne’s pretzels. In 2026, it doesn’t buy one.

The dollar lost 30% of its value. The pretzel adjusted. The wage didn’t.

[Jimmy Traina @JimmyTraina]

I feel like everyone loves Conan O’Brien but we still don’t appreciate Conan O’Brien nearly as much as we should.

[Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss]

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

Honestly, the older I get, the more I realize that the left has always been right that we can have nice things, but liberals and conservatives keep throwing up roadblocks and making up lies to convince people that they should be living with struggle and discomfort so that politicians and business leaders can enrich themselves. We can have easy, universal healthcare. We can have easy, universal childcare. We can have reasonable grocery prices and better, shorter work weeks. We do not have these things only because the lack of them makes political donors rich.

[Sav Shawz @shawzsav]

Is there literally anyone who can do anything about all the fucked up shit this administration is doing or are we genuinely just so fucked

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

[Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS @DrPlantel]

Many women I’ve spoken with are living with chronic illness while working full time, raising children, and caring for aging parents, yet they’re told, “But you look fine.” Even by their own families. Looking “fine” is not the same as thriving. We’ve normalized invisible struggle, chronic exhaustion, and carrying unsustainable loads in silence. That invisibility has consequences. It quietly drives cardiometabolic disease in women in ways most people never see, through stress, sleep deprivation, missed care, and delayed treatment. This isn’t resilience. It’s a public health disaster hiding in plain sight.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Every other problem is downstream from this problem.

[small waist 🧚🏾‍♀️ @oddettem]

Dear ladies never forget that: The same world that shames me for being a single mother also shames you for not being a mother and shames another woman for having too many children..lt shames one woman for having a child at the age of 19 because she's too young but also shames another for having at 36 because she's too old..lt shames a woman who marries young as well as the one who marries old..It shames women who don't have beautiful bodies and shames those who go under the knife to get the bodies. This world shames all women, not a single one of us is spared, not a single one. So love and make yourselves happy.

[Joe @electionsjoe]

Headlines in 2014 vs. headlines in 2025...

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

People seem to be confused.

44% of workers are paid less than a living wage.

When workers are paid less than a living wage, they’re forced to rely on social safety nets to survive.

That’s not a taxpayer “handout” to workers.

That’s a taxpayer handout to corporations.

[🌘ʀᴇᴠᴇɴᴀɴᴛ⚡ @revenant_MMXX]

Boomers have a mental block where they think luxury items are some lavish expense because, when they were young, those things actually were expensive. In reality, "luxuries" have gotten incredibly cheap and now basic necessities are extremely expensive.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece and we are robbing people of their food assistance and of their healthcare to pay for it. How is this even on the floor? How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

A trillion dollars is so obscene our minds can’t even grasp it. Even if you spent $1 million/day, it would take you almost 3,000 years to burn through $1 trillion. No one “earns” that. No one “works” for that. And no one, and I mean no one, needs that.