Lauren Miller

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

A raccoon figured out that if he blocks the drive-thru, they’ll give him a donut to make him leave

[Lauren Miller @lt3k_]

@McDonalds I don’t care for GOB

[jbloverteam @jbloverteam]

people moved on, but i never mentally moved from this.

[Pete @mileysickening]

i'm not exaggerating when i say this is the best cover any artist has ever done. miley cyrus will forever be that bitch.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[I AM @prittinp1nk]

This is why gratitude is so important. Everything u once wanted, u now have. Be it ur phone or relationship. We tend to forget our power and obsess over our new desires when the proof is in our face. Like hey i once wanted this strongly and i have it, so this is simple to get too

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

The antidote for brain rot is going back to longer formats: reading books, essays.

Reading will help you rebuild your focus and attention span.

[Justin Bieber Tour News @JustinsTourNews]

Justin Bieber will be live streaming his Coachella set on his official @YouTube channel.

https://t.co/LU8f3zThO3

[Urbanponds101 @urbanponds101]

As way of a timeline cleanser

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Sometimes reading Steinbeck is like getting kicked in the chest

[Nicki Minaj @NICKIMINAJ]

Justiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Genuinely a better question than most people realize.

Apollo 11 left a 2-foot wide panel of mirrors on the lunar surface in 1969. No power source, no wiring, no maintenance. Scientists have been shooting lasers at it from New Mexico ever since. The beam travels 239,000 miles, bounces off the mirrors, and returns in 2.5 seconds. That round trip is how we know the moon is drifting away from Earth at 3.8 centimeters per year. So yes, in a literal sense, they were checking if it would still be there.

The seismometers are the part that gets wild. Apollo 12 deliberately crashed its lunar module into the surface at 6,048 km/h. Scientists expected a brief shudder. The moon vibrated for over 55 minutes. On Earth, seismic waves from an equivalent impact die in seconds. Nobody had predicted this. So NASA did it again. Apollo 13 dropped its S-IVB rocket stage from orbit. Hit with the force of 11.5 tons of TNT. The vibrations lasted nearly three and a half hours.

The reason is water, or the lack of it. Earth's interior is damp. Moisture in rock acts like a sponge, absorbing seismic energy. The moon is bone dry, cool, and rigid. Shockwaves have nothing to absorb them. They just bounce back and forth through solid stone until the rock itself stops vibrating. Scientists described it as the moon ringing like a bell.

The seismometers ran for almost 8 years and detected over 13,000 seismic events. Turns out the moon has four types of quakes: deep ones caused by Earth's gravitational pull, shallow ones from the crust shrinking as the interior cools, thermal ones when sunrise thaws the frozen surface, and impacts from meteorites. In 2023, Caltech reanalyzed old Apollo 17 data and found a fifth type: the lunar lander itself creaking and popping every morning as the sun heated it. Every five to six minutes, for five to seven hours straight.

They went up to prove the moon was once part of Earth, measure how fast it's leaving, and figure out what's happening inside a world with no atmosphere, no water, and no tectonic plates. "Checking if it was still there" is honestly closer to the truth than most people's actual answer.

[Nicole @fweakyflowers]

Imagine if Justin brings out Miley and they release this MASTERPIECE

[Miley Cyrus @MileyCyrus]

From me to younger you.

“Younger You (from The Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special)” out tonight.

[throwbacks @solelynostalgia]

hannah montana performing ‘this is the life’ 20 years later

[Eddie Graf @Eddie_1412]

Winter - Vivaldi
Ok, das ist verdammt cool.
Es ist eine großartige Idee, wie man Musik visualisiert.

[Real Salt Lake @realsaltlake]

Seattle’s annual L in SLC
That’s 15 straight seasons

#RSLvSEA | @SelectHealth

[Rebecca 📖 @Avonleebythesea]

This is perhaps the most perfect, introspective, descriptive passage in any novel ever written. I think I was in 9th grade when I first read it and I remember it felt as if I were actually Levin, really there in the field, pushing my body to such an extreme that the noise of the world faded, and years later when I did the Everest base trek with my dad and was climbing to over 21,000 ft and my body felt like it was literally dying, like it did not have enough oxygen to survive, this passage returned to me. I remembered how Levin thought he could not lift the scythe even one more time, but he did, and then he did again, and again and again. Nothing existed but him and the field and sky and sun. Time stopped, thought ceased. And somehow I channeled this. When I thought I could not take one more step, I did. I did not look at the peak we were headed to (my body was nearly doubled over anyway from fatigue), I did not consider how many steps I had left, I simply told myself to take one more, and then one more.

I believe that the inability to read and appreciate passages like this must have a great deal to do with attention, we are so used to short quick instant fulfillment. But it may also be because there is no baseline for comprehending it. If you have not spent long days outdoors as a child with nowhere particular to go, days where time does not exist, and nothing is important but the moment you are in, then Levin’s state of mind is incomprehensible.