America is Good and Fine!

Like Winnie the Pooh in black Forces. Public education. Leo as a mug. Honking the horn on they ass since 1989.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Literacy is becoming the new class divide. Not formal education, LITERACY. Many people can't grasp nuance, satire, or irony. Illiteracy limits how you read the world and the room. The gap between people who engage with complex ideas and those who consume clickbait is vast.

[Bill Ryan @faceuh8]

me to waiter: "this food got any feces in it or what?"

[Zach @jestermaxxing]

Imagine if instead of glory holes we had ‘story holes’. Holes you can put your ear to and hear a wonderful story.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

In capitalist America, Taco Bell is our CDC and Waffle House is our weather alert system.

[Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson]

Graham had held the seat since 2003. And Thurmond before him since 1956. The only two in 70 years.

[🟡 The tumboy 🟡 @TheTumboy]

people who say “reecies piecies” should not be allowed to vote

[America is Good and Fine! @lizardsthiccit]

@Aatif_Rashid Schools aren’t deciding that statewide standardized tests should consist exclusively of excerpts, states are. School divisions then essentially force teachers to teach to the test.

[karla♟️ @kxtuitta]

Copa do Mundo é 20% futebol e 80% rancor colonial.

[Daniel Foch @danielfoch]

The largest generation in history needs to sell the most expensive houses in history to the most indebted generation in history. What could go wrong.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

[alaska @145k4]

everyone wants to say "this poem sucks" that poem sucks"" etc but very few brave enough to say Helllo, here is a poem i LIKE!! This is my taste!

[Progress Bar 2026 @ProgressBar202_]

2026 is 50% complete.

[America is Good and Fine! @lizardsthiccit]

@rowanfornow We still have them.

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

Dudes will ask where the bitches at but never look within

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[Dear World @dearantlers_]

"You're allowed to think about the worst case scenario, but you gotta do something about it"

[sammm ☆ @onlysammms]

and for the lady, perhaps a handsome man with a healthy obsession for her, who takes initiative and is tall enough to reach the top shelf

[gianni @GianChiani06]

public libraries by Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000)

[David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS]

This the quintessential story of how sports reflects the state of the world. Thousands of fans have waited for Game 3 their whole lives and now they’re priced out of entering the game and can’t even celebrate outside because one billionaire gets to attend the game for free.

[tt✮⋆ @Bluebirdeyessss]

Fashion is supposed to be a reflection of who you are, not what everyone else is doing