𝕁𝕒𝕤𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕖

Writer, reader, Christian, nerd, Frodo Baggins apologist. Co-host of @writewrongspod

[𝕁𝕒𝕤𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕖 @jasmineiwm]

@historyinmemes Like yes, I know Kermit isn't actually alive. But at the same time, Kermit is very much alive.

[𝕁𝕒𝕤𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕖 @jasmineiwm]

@mattybtweets69 Jane Prentiss

[matt @mattybtweets69]

You have such a way with worms

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Favorite student feedback I’ve received -“I learned more in your class than I wanted to”

[🇹🇷 @wtfisdavidswago]

*listens to my own playlist*
me: fucking masterpiece.

[𝕁𝕒𝕤𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕖 @jasmineiwm]

@byMorganWright This reminds me of being 15 and reading a self-published superhero book. I liked it so much I looked up the author's Facebook and messaged him to tell him how big a fan I was. I didn't get a response 😅
The embarrassment still haunts me. To be clear, he was right not to reply.

[PUNS @ThePunnyWorld]

Interviewer: Can you perform under pressure?

Me: I can do the Bowie part, but I don't have the upper range to sing the Freddie part.

[Wodehouse Tweets @inimitablepgw]

I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

[Horse Nomad (Chicago-style) ⚔️ @Nomads4Pritzker]

Director: “well, I’d say that the final cut!”

Disney Exec: “not so fast- first we have to run it by Pazuzu, the Demon that Eats Colors”

Pazuzu, the Demon that Eats Colors: “Delicious reds and greens! A feast for Pazuzu!”

[𝕁𝕒𝕤𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕖 @jasmineiwm]

@ElementasSeries A non-comprehensive list of books that are not worth this person's time, apparently:
-The Great Gatsby
-Jekyll and Hyde
-Of Mice and Men
-Frankenstein
-Any Sherlock Holmes book
-Animal Farm
-Any HG Wells novel I can think of
-Fahrenheit 451
-Any of Shakespeare's plays

[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

hey um. why hasn't The Muppet Show been greenlit yet. what's going on. why are we playing this silly game

[𝕁𝕒𝕤𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕖 @jasmineiwm]

@Chesschick01 Quality over quantity. The quality of the female characters in LOTR was excellent, and shows the respect Tolkien had for women as capable people with agency.

[𝕁𝕒𝕤𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕖 @jasmineiwm]

@uskglasses "You don't have to know about things, you just have to be able to imagine them really well." I think she's right. If writers were limited to their own personal experiences, lots of books would be a lot more boring.

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

Nobody wants to read AI-generated posts.

Nobody wants to read AI-generated emails.

Nobody wants to read AI-generated newsletters.

Nobody wants to read AI-generated reports.

Nobody wants to read AI-generated articles.

Nobody wants to read AI-generated anything.

[angie @hotsoggi]

why is wearing a hat as someone who doesn't usually wear hats so difficult and humiliating. it feels like everyone can tell i don't know what i'm doing

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Went down the rabbit hole on this. Your brain treats a physical book like a landscape. It builds a spatial map of the text, the same way it maps trails, rooms, and city blocks. When you scroll on a phone, that map breaks apart.

Seven large-scale research reviews and direct brain scans confirm what you already feel.

A 2023 study in PLOS ONE attached brain-activity sensors to children’s heads while they read the same text on paper and on screen. Paper reading produced fast brain waves, the pattern linked to focused attention. Screen reading shifted the brain into slow waves, the pattern linked to mind wandering and daydreaming. Same kids. Same words. Measurably different brain states.

A separate 2022 study from Showa University in Japan scanned the front of the brain, the area that manages focus and comprehension, during phone versus paper reading. Smartphones sent that region into overdrive, meaning the brain was straining just to keep up with basic processing. Paper reading produced a moderate load that triggered natural deep breathing, which helped regulate brain function and sustain focus. The phone suppressed that breathing pattern entirely.

Since 2017, researchers have published seven major reviews combining hundreds of individual studies. Six of seven reached the same conclusion: people understand less on screens. A 2018 review of 54 studies and 170,000+ participants, literally titled “Don’t throw away your printed books,” found paper outperformed screens across the board for non-fiction. A 2024 follow-up with 49 more studies confirmed it. The gap has grown steadily every year since 2001. Being a “digital native” doesn’t help.

The best explanation is how your brain tracks where you are. Your short-term memory can only juggle about 7 things at once. A physical book gives you constant location cues: the weight shifting from right hand to left, where a paragraph sits on the page, how thick the remaining pages feel. Your brain hands off the “where am I in this text?” job to those physical signals, leaving more room for actually understanding what you’re reading. On a phone, every screen looks identical. Your brain has to track position and process meaning at the same time, and something gives.

A Norwegian eye-tracking study analyzing 25,000+ individual eye movements found screen readers processed text more shallowly. The students had no idea they were reading differently.

In 2019, nearly 200 reading scientists from 30+ countries signed an open letter warning that screen reading was degrading deep comprehension. Since then, Scandinavian countries, among the most digitized school systems on Earth, have started putting physical books back in classrooms.

[no context old films @oldfilmsquotes]

Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952)

[𝕁𝕒𝕤𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕖 @jasmineiwm]

@wholelif3 Cucumbers

[melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa]

"you will be left behind if you dont start using AI in your writing" where are you all going ... i don't want to join you i don't want to be there.

[𝕁𝕒𝕤𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕖 @jasmineiwm]

@hiyukiswife And the other side of the coin: "I know this is badly written but I enjoy it anyway"