Joe

Primal Health Coach.
Personal Trainer.
Physique Competitor.
Paleo/ Primal.
The world’s a stage. #COYS

[UEFA Europa League @EuropaLeague]

What a campaign, Cristian Romero 👏

@SpursOfficial | #UEL

[Kish @Kish_P14]

Parade after a loss is dark as well

Parading L’s is crazy

[Tom Garratt @Tgarratt10]

Footballs always the winner.

[Central @WestHam_Central]

RT IF YOU SUPPORT A LONDON CLUB AND HAVE WON A EUROPEAN TROPHY

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on.

The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software.

The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check.

Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance.

Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls.

Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else.

A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

[Joe @joedev92]

@TalkingTHFC

[The Ricky Gervais Clips @gervaisclips]

This joke still triggers people.

[Joe @joedev92]

@Cryptoinsightuk 💪🫡

[S Tominaga (Aka Dr Craig Wright) @CsTominaga]

Then why, in God’s name, would anyone be speaking to you at all?

Christmas is not a weather pattern. It is not a fiscal quarter. It is not a neutral seasonal slurry poured over the calendar so nobody feels faint. It is a religious and cultural festival. If you do not observe it—by your own cheerful declaration—then it is, quite literally, not your holiday. No insult is being committed; a definition is being respected.

Wishing someone Merry Christmas is not an act of theological aggression. It is a courtesy extended within a particular tradition, not a census of belief. When someone says it to you, they are not “assuming your religion”; they are expressing their own. The modern demand that every utterance be pre-emptively laundered of specificity is not kindness—it is social vandalism dressed as manners.

And this little phrase—“if you observe”—is the real comedy. It takes a warm human gesture and turns it into a bureaucratic footnote.

Imagine doing this anywhere else. “Happy Birthday (if you were born).” “Congratulations on your wedding (if you recognise marriage).” It is not inclusion; it is neurosis.

If you do not celebrate Christmas, the solution is gloriously simple: say “thank you” and move on, or say nothing at all.

The world is under no obligation to redesign its language because you wish to stand politely outside a tradition while still demanding to supervise how it is expressed.

So no, we are not saying “Happy Holidays” on command.

We are saying Merry Christmas because that is the holiday being celebrated. If it is not yours, feel free to ignore it. But spare us the sermon.

Courtesy does not require self-erasure, and goodwill does not need your permission slip.

[Blockchain Backer @BCBacker]

The altcoin market is a high beta play of the Russell 2000.

With the recent moves in the Russell 2000, more optimism is favorable for altcoins should RTY escape, rather than BTC.

[Joe @joedev92]

@Cryptoinsightuk RTYYYY

[Paul Golding @PaulGolding]

The forgotten horror: The Arab Islamic slave trade enslaved over 17 million Africans for 1,300 years—castrating men, raping women, pure evil. Yet the woke ignore it to bash the West!

[Cryptoinsightuk @Cryptoinsightuk]

A wild thought for you all.

Two years before I was born the first web page went live.

By the time I die, we will have scaled intelligence to infinity and be a multi planetary species.

Genuinely take a second and deep that.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Ariel Bibas and his dog, Tonto.

Tonto was shot to death by Hamas on October 7th, and Ariel was kidnapped to Gaza along with his baby brother and his mother, where they were all strangled to death by Gazan terrorists.

I'll never let the world forget.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

HERO'S REGRET: 100-year-old British WWII veteran Alec Penstone lamented the current state of the United Kingdom, saying the country is less free now than when he fought for it in the war.

[Joe @joedev92]

@alexvenegas1234 @BCBacker 🤞

[Joe @joedev92]

@alexvenegas1234 @BCBacker Exactly, hence the back-test that's just happened?

[Against Atheism @AgainstAtheismX]

This is a cell.

I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist.