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[︎ ︎venom @venom1s]

She saw her mother cooking twice and called it slavery.

But,

She didn't see her father

- Coming from small towns and villages to the city
- Working hard to buy land, build a house
- Provide a good education and life for his kids
- Never taking a day off
- Sacrificing all his dreams and his entire life for their well-being.

But no man will call it slavery or oppression.

We see it as our duty. All fathers deserve respect.

[Base model guy @thirdafrican]

Most of the post-independent African revolutionaries who died during the struggle and are seen as heroes, would still have been as bad as the leaders we have today if they survived.

[Cary Kelly @CaryKelly11]

People once lived above their cows because they understood something modern people forgot:

heat rises.

A barn full of living animals could help keep a family from freezing through winter.

Today we call cows a climate problem.

Back then, they were central heating, food security, fertilizer and survival.

[PoloMan @polo_man404]

Texas pastor and apostle, Regina Willingham is speaking out after allegedly losing her legal battle connected to Hulu’s Freaknik documentary, claiming she never gave permission for her image to be used and that the fallout destroyed major parts of her life. In a lengthy Facebook post, Willingham said appearing in the 2024 documentary allegedly cost her leadership positions connected to two churches and severely damaged her campaign for city council district representative. She also claimed the situation devastated her children and grandchildren, who were allegedly blindsided after seeing the footage and online backlash tied to the documentary.

Willingham wrote that she believes the judicial system “violated these women” by allowing decades-old footage to be publicly used without consent, adding that “God is not pleased” with how the women involved were treated. The situation became part of the larger controversy surrounding Hulu’s “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told,” where multiple women reportedly explored legal action over fears archived footage from the 1990s Atlanta festival would be used without their approval.

Attorney Adriane Love became one of the most visible legal voices connected to the backlash, publicly representing Willingham and additional women who argued they were unfairly exposed and humiliated decades later through old footage from the legendary street festival. Although the documentary ultimately premiered, the controversy sparked nationwide debates about privacy, consent, public footage, and the long-term consequences of viral media exposure decades after events took place.

[Wanjiru wa Maina @Wanjiru_Mainaa]

@wmnjoya I recently starting reading through the annual colony reports from 1902 onwards (UON archives) coupled with Charles Elliot’s book (The East Africa Protectorate) and I now understand why taking a mere apology from colonizers without reparations is not restorative justice.

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

A girl in Vietnam entered a clothing store but kept missing the saleswoman because they moved at the exact same moments.After about a minute, they finally bumped into each other in a funny “glitch” moment 😂

[LightSwitch @Lightswitch254]

Women carried out 1,126,000 clinician-provided abortions in the United States in 2025. Those were not human beings

[GFY TV @Viralvid_89]

27-year-old Donald from Georgia didn’t want his girlfriend to keep their baby. According to investigators, the two argued after she decided to go through with the pregnancy anyway.

Police say Donald later took her out on what seemed like a normal date to the movies before suggesting they take a walk through a nearby park. That’s when prosecutors say he shot her in the back of the head and left her there to die.

Officers responded after a 911 caller reported an unresponsive woman near a walking trail. When EMTs arrived, they found the pregnant victim lying in a fetal position. She was awake but unable to speak, suffering from a gunshot wound to the back of her head.

Doctors rushed her into emergency surgery and performed a C-section to save the baby.

She spent two months in the hospital recovering before she was finally able to speak with investigators about what happened.

Donald was later arrested and charged with attempted murder of both the mother and her unborn child. He has now been sentenced to 60 years in prison.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

This woman recorded over 300,000 hours of TV over 35 years because she was scared people would try to rewrite history

[SHAV★ @shavnyuy]

Iran is under some of the heaviest economic sanctions in the world. This is what their architects are building anyway.

Most of Iran is covered by earth, sand and rock, so brick is not a stylistic choice, it is what the ground offers. Iranian architects took that constraint and turned it into a discipline. Curved façades. Perforated screens. Brickwork laid to recall water moving through sand. A material that every culture has access to, treated here with a precision that most abandon for glass and steel.

Sanctions closed the import routes. The architecture got sharper.

Kaveh House Renovation + Park Residential Building, Tehran, Iran 🇮🇷 | Pargar Architecture and Design Studio | Behzad Heidari & Shirin Samadian | 📷 Mehrdad Emrani, Hossein Farahani

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Vigia Ciudadano @VigiaCiudadano7]

NO DURÓ NI 5 SEGUNDOS

Una joven de Veracruz aceptó participar en un concurso de cachetadas contra un hombre. El resultado fue demoledor.

El duelo consistía en ver quién de los dos aguantaba una bofetada a cambio de una botella de licor.

Cuando tocó su turno, al hombre no le importó que fuera mujer y abofeteó a la muchachita con tanta fuerza que la joven salió volando y quedó inconsciente en el suelo, horrorizando al público.

El suceso horrorizó a muchos, pues consideran que un hombre nunca debió aceptar participar en un concurso donde tenía que golpear a una mujer. Otros, por su parte, lo aplaudieron como parte de la igualdad de género.

Para más igualdad, sigan mi página.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

The brutal truth is that our entire system relies on abortion

You can’t keep women in the work force without abortion

You can’t maintain the casual sex culture and disrupt family formation without abortion

Women with children find themselves dependent on men, single women find themselves dependent on the state

Women are more likely to take abuse from employers, less likely to demand raises, less likely to oppose their replacement

People have been conditioned to believe they couldn’t function in society without abortion, and at some level we’ve ensured that’s correct

We’re far from the first civilization to base itself on child sacrifice but don’t lie to yourself, that’s exactly what we’ve done

You can look back on the Mayans in horror because they did their sacrifices on an altar but they could never hope to match our level of slaughter

Until the paradigm shifts there will be no popular support for it’s restriction

[Heart @heart_]

fun fact nobody born past 1995 can read this
it’s basically cryptography to them

[Joshua Lisec, The Ghostwriter @JoshuaLisec]

There is so much to unpack from this one sentence in this Wall Street Journal piece decrying women’s lifestyle change after marriage.

[LightSwitch @Lightswitch254]

US people cannot live with the consequences of their own laws.

If a wo,man decides to get rid of her un,born baby for her own selfish good it is not a crime.

If a man decides to get rid of his un,born baby for his own selfish good it is a crime.

Laws & life are not separate.

[Creepy.org @creepydotorg]

In 1999, NFL player Rae Carruth hired a hitman to kill his eight-month-pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams.

She had refused to have an abortion, and Carruth did not want to pay child support.

Cherica was shot while driving in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before she died, she managed to call 911 and tell police what happened.

Her baby survived after an emergency C-section. He was born with cerebral palsy and permanent disabilities caused by the lack of oxygen during the attack.

Carruth fled after the shooting but was later found hiding in the trunk of a car. He was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to prison.

[STUNNER @Cr7Godbrand]

Fighting for ‘the right’ to ‘do everything a man does’ and then spending the next 4

decades crying that you have to do everything a man does sounds exactly like something women would do.

[LightSwitch @Lightswitch254]

Imagine the gamble. The odds of moving from 12 eggs per year to 4 eggs per year.

For women struggling to conceive, the odds will be stacked against them.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Chinese biologist Hongmei Wang seeks to extend women's fertile life by making menstruation occur every 3 months.

Which would theoretically preserve more eggs and extend the fertile period.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Chinese biologist Hongmei Wang seeks to extend women's fertile life by making menstruation occur every 3 months.

Which would theoretically preserve more eggs and extend the fertile period.

[Aeneas @SonOfAnchis3s]

Male and female intrasexual competition is a result of the differing gendered manners of existing in the world.

The male is born worthless, always becoming. The male intrasexual dynamic reflects this: men compete by trying to be better than their competition.

The female is born with intrinsic value, as the bearer of life, simply being, rather than becoming. The female intrasexual dynamic reflects this: women compete by trying to knock their competition down a few pegs.

The man, in search of his value, seeks to ascend the hierarchy. He is wired from birth to reach. The woman, assured of her value, seeks to displace and disqualify any who may compete with her. She is wired from birth to protect her value, rather than create it.

[Philippe T @brain_stimulus]

😱❗ IMAGINEZ : UNE SEULE INJECTION… ET VOS DENTS REPOUSSENT TOUTES SEULES !

💥 ADIEU IMPLANTS, DENTIERS ET BRIDGES À VIE.

😲⚡Le Japon est en train de tester un médicament qui réveille vos « bourgeons dentaires dormants » (oui, vous en avez un troisième jeu caché dans la mâchoire depuis la naissance).

Le truc de dingue ?

Il bloque simplement une protéine appelée USAG-1 qui les empêchait de pousser.

Résultat : de vraies dents avec racines, émail et tout le reste.

Chez les souris et les furets, ça a marché à la perfection.

Aujourd’hui, 30 hommes japonais de 30 à 64 ans (chacun avec au moins une dent manquante) reçoivent le traitement en intraveineuse dans les essais de Phase 1 à l’hôpital universitaire de Kyoto.

Le but du Pr Katsu Takahashi et de sa start-up Toregem BioPharma ?
Rendre ça disponible pour tout le monde d’ici 2030.

C’est pas de la SF.

C’est déjà en train de se passer.

Préparez-vous à ne plus jamais voir le dentiste de la même façon.

😱 (Partagez si vous flippez autant que moi)

#DentitionDuFutur #ScienceQuiDéchire #Japon2026