Brid

Formerly a lighthouse, is now a bird.

[Brid @irrelevator]

@Feint_twiN @roywoodjr @AkilahObviously While I cannot in good conscience condone raiders fandom, I appreciate the sentiment

[Brid @irrelevator]

@KLobstar I can think of a few pop star fandoms that behave similarly, but I won't name them because I don't wanna deal with all that

[sai @icemjjfish]

the way it’s not even tiktok that caused this but this fuckass bird animation 😭

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[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.

[dan nolan @dannolan]

I’m not dying from some fucking hentai virus

[Brid @irrelevator]

@Artemishowl_ This is a correct take

[🌻 Elena 🌻 @elenamics]

I didn't always like cats (1/4)

[Brid @irrelevator]

@Dexerto @punishedmother

[Brid @irrelevator]

@Artemishowl_ What happened???

[ETHOS @DevEthos]

I'm sorry Bioshock Infinite. You were in fact, right on the money.

[Brid @irrelevator]

@poetickate "Jesus!" Is filmed before a live studio audience.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

RT if you believe @realDonaldTrump should order a FULL INVESTIGATION into Epstein’s illegal sexual trafficking from the last 30 years and get answers!

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Sean Connery & Charlotte Rampling in John Boorman’s sci-fi fantasy "Zardoz" in 1974....

In 1974, Sean Connery did something no one expected: he traded James Bond’s tuxedo for a red loincloth and bandolier in John Boorman’s surreal sci-fi epic Zardoz. Set in a distant future where immortal elites manipulate society from behind psychic barriers, the film follows Connery’s character, Zed, as he infiltrates their strange, decaying utopia.

Opposite him is Charlotte Rampling, cool and cerebral as Consuella, one of the “Eternals” who becomes both intrigued and unsettled by Zed’s raw humanity. Their on-screen dynamic drives the film’s clash between instinct and intellect, mortality and stagnation.

Zardoz baffled critics on release but has since become a cult classic, admired for its ambition and visual audacity.

The giant floating stone head that opens the film declaring “The gun is good!” was inspired by a mash-up of The Wizard of Oz and Nietzschean philosophy.

© History Pictures

#archaeohistories

[Brid @irrelevator]

@webegga Really ties the hallway together

[Peter Burns @PeterBurnsESPN]

To all the haters of the SEC that said the SEC couldn't do it this year.

You were right.

Honestly, great call by the haters.

[Circe @vocalcry]

I have so much to say on this topic

[Brid @irrelevator]

@webegga He LORJ

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

Young republicans yesterday: