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[yoo @jmingonyerr]

@kennybeats Bro is engagement maxing and he knows it hahaha

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

Israel will be prosecuting 2 members of the Gaza Flotilla has 'Hamas terrorists'.

This carries the death penalty.

Their crime? Bringing food to starving children.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

You know ppl are steaming because they can't blame this on anti semitism.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed every single person in this photo in Lebanon.

Every. Single. One.

All journalists.

Targeted and assassinated intentionally.

For reporting the truth from the frontlines.

[alfred @alfred_english]

Every time you bounce your MIDI to audio an angel loses its wings

[Muthanna @xRnn79]

@fatima__m7md @Louis_Allday https://t.co/LhQZ5mbs9S

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich

Well, today we're taxing the rich...

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The world at 2am looks more beautiful because, to your brain, it is. After midnight, the part of your brain that filters your emotions starts shutting down. The part that feels everything gets 60% louder.

UC Berkeley's sleep lab ran brain scans on people after a full night's rest, then again after keeping them up all night. The emotion center of the brain fired 60% harder when they were sleep-deprived. But the logical, filtering part, the region that normally keeps a leash on how much you feel, had gone quiet. The connection between the two had weakened. Your brain at 2am is processing the world with the emotional volume cranked and nobody at the controls.

A follow-up from the same lab found that pleasure and reward circuits fire harder under sleep loss too. Music lands differently, colors look sharper, and a random breeze at 3am can feel like something worth remembering. Every emotion gets louder at night. Sadness, yes, but also joy and nostalgia, the pull of an old song at low volume. Your emotional system is running wide open.

Late at night, your brain also changes how it connects ideas. During the day, it's constantly responding to input, texts, emails, conversations, an endless stream that never lets your mind wander. After midnight, that stream dries up, and a part of your brain that only turns on when you daydream comes online. It starts linking ideas your focused, daytime brain would never put together.

Researchers at two universities tested 428 students on creative problems at their best and worst times of day. Students were consistently better at the "aha" type problems, the ones needing a sudden flash to crack, during their off-peak hours. In one set of tests, success rates roughly doubled. Morning people scored higher at night, and night owls scored higher in the morning. The mental sharpness that helps you focus during the day is the same thing that blocks creative leaps when it fades.

A team in Paris pushed this further in 2021. They found that the first 15 seconds of drifting off, that twilight zone right between awake and asleep, tripled the odds of cracking a creative problem. 83% of people in that state figured it out, compared to just 30% of those who stayed fully awake. Edison knew this, which is why he used to nap in a chair holding steel balls. They'd clang on the floor and wake him right at that edge before he slipped into deeper sleep.

Cortisol, the stress hormone, drops to its lowest point between midnight and 4am. So stress is quiet, emotions are running hot, and your mind is wandering freely. That combination makes a Tuesday night at your window feel like a scene from a film. But doing this regularly shrinks the filtering part of your brain, chips away at memory, and kills the creativity that made those hours feel alive in the first place. You're borrowing from tomorrow to fund tonight. And your brain charges interest.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[an1k @10thavatar]

made these covers all on my phone, what do we think? #coverart #bollytekk

[yoo @jmingonyerr]

@TheGoldenDays @micro_chop Y'all are old as hell what is this cave painting I'm looking at rn

[Bueno @0xBueno_]

Fruityloops 1.0, 1998

[yoo @jmingonyerr]

@raveena_aurora 🗣️🗣️

[MEHMET VEFA DAG -Cape Town Mayor Candidate @AFRICANDEMOC]

WORTH EXPOSING:
Her name is Limor Son-Har Melech, the Israeli MP who drafted the death penalty law targeting Palestinians.

Let’s grant her, her wish and make her more “famous!” Darkness deserves light exposure!

According to the MP, Israeli Jews do not commit acts of terrorism.

Limor Son-Har Melec, who wrote the death penalty law exclusively for Palestinians, defended Israeli terrorist Amiram Ben-Uliel, calling him a "holy man," for burning alive a Palestinian baby and his parents while they slept in their home in the occupied West Bank, while his accomplices chanted "Ali is on the grill."

Europeans fail to realize the extent of the hatred and genocidal mania present in some sectors of Israeli society.

Under the new death penalty law, Palestinian leader Marwan Barghuthi could be hanged, but not settlers who kill a Palestinian girl.
By John Edward

[yoo @jmingonyerr]

@hungryafmofo @TheCartelDel Ok crazy pull

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in.

[yoo @jmingonyerr]

Rachmaninov would fucking love SoundCloud

[Saikat Chakrabarti for Congress @saikatc]

This is who we’re funding. They’re popping champagne because they’ve given themselves free rein to murder Palestinian detainees in a system with a 96% conviction rate.

We must end all funding to Israel and we must do everything we can to stop this genocide.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

After much reflection, and after it became clear to me that some UN seniors are serving a powerful lobby and not the UN, I have decided to suspend all my duties as PVA Main Representative at the UN and from all UN committees/groups of which I am a member.

I cannot in good conscience be part of or witness to what is happening at a time when the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use.

It has been an honor cooperating with the UN for nearly 12 years under different Secretaries-General and Human Rights Council Presidents, leading PVA delegation.

May God bless this world.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

👉NEW VIDEO: "The moment I realised Israeli society was fully fascist"

-- US journalist and film director @AbbyMartin .