Chlorpyrifos

fluent in your shibboleths

RTs & comments = yes I do wholeheartedly endorse and agree with every single thing that person has ever said, done and even thought

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

@TELUSsupport you could pick up the phone.
that's how you lost our 3 cell phones too - we tried calling, but we weren't important enough for you to have a human there to answer the phone; just a robot that sends you in frustrating loops

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

yesterday I saw the #VernonBC @BCRCMP working very hard on important cases like this; with 5+ units devoted to an SLR camera hidden in a bush pointed at the road (presumably looking for missing women, not just for people holding cell phones)

[Yukon Strong 🫎 @YukonStrong]

BC I know you have plenty of missing women down there, but one of ours was murdered too

If anyone sees this and knows something

Vernon ain’t that big

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

without exaggeration, hanging has changed my life.

I cannot think of anything with such a low financial or time cost that has had such a positive impact on me

[Metabolic Uncle @MetabolicUncle]

DEAD HANGING IS ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE AND THE MOST POTENT PHYSIOLOGICAL STIMULUS

We discussed recently the strong hormonal effects that dead or active hanging has on the body. But it has beyond that a plethora of positive effects.

For most of human history, overhead reaching and hanging were daily requirements, not optional mobility drills. Modern life eliminated that movement pattern entirely. You sit in chairs. You hunch over screens. Your arms stay at your sides or in front of your body. Your shoulders never reach full extension. Your spine stays compressed.

Dead hanging for one minute daily reverses years of that damage. Not through some complicated mechanism. Through simple mechanical traction and positional exposure.

Start with shoulder mechanics. When you hang with arms fully extended overhead, you create a joint position that modern life never demands. The shoulder capsule opens. The pectoral muscles stretch. The upper back activates to stabilize the scapula. This isn't stretching in the traditional sense. It's positional decompression.

Gravity pulls the humerus away from the socket. This creates space inside the joint. Compression decreases. Synovial fluid redistributes. The joint resets to neutral. People report shoulder pain disappearing within weeks because the daily decompression prevents the chronic inflammation that comes from constant compression.

Most shoulder problems stem from poor positioning, not injury. Forward head posture pulls the shoulders into internal rotation. Chest tightness reinforces that position. The upper back weakens. The rotator cuff muscles work overtime trying to stabilize an unstable joint. Hanging reverses all of that through passive mechanical loading.

Spinal decompression happens simultaneously. Every vertebra separates slightly under gravitational pull. The intervertebral discs expand. Fluid moves back into the disc space. This rehydration effect matters because disc compression from sitting and standing squeezes fluid out over time. The discs flatten. The spine loses its natural curves. Back pain develops.

Hanging creates the opposite mechanical environment. Your spine elongates. The natural curves restore. The discs rehydrate. This happens passively. You're not doing anything except holding the bar. Gravity handles the traction.

Studies on spinal decompression show that even brief periods of axial unloading produce measurable increases in disc height. The effect compounds with daily exposure. One minute seems trivial, but that daily stimulus prevents the chronic compression that causes most back problems.

Grip strength improves rapidly. Your hands, forearms, and finger flexors have to support your entire bodyweight. This creates significant demand on the grip musculature. Most people can't hang for 30 seconds initially because their grip is that weak.

Grip strength correlates with overall health outcomes. Research shows stronger grip predicts lower mortality risk, better cardiovascular health, and maintained function with aging. The mechanism isn't fully clear, but grip strength seems to serve as a proxy for overall neuromuscular integrity.

Daily hanging builds grip strength without dedicated grip training. The adaptation happens fast. Within two weeks, hanging time doubles or triples. This carries over to every lifting movement. Your grip stops being the limiting factor in deadlifts, rows, and carries.

The lat and upper back activation during hanging isn't passive. Your latissimus dorsi, rhomboids, lower trapezius, and serratus anterior all fire to prevent your shoulders from shrugging into your ears. This constant low-level activation teaches proper scapular positioning.

Most people have no idea how to engage their lats correctly. They pull with their arms instead of their back. Hanging forces correct muscle recruitment patterns because gravity creates the perfect loading vector. Your lats have to work to maintain shoulder depression. Your scapular stabilizers have to keep the shoulder blade positioned correctly on the ribcage.

This motor learning transfers to pulling movements. People who hang daily often see their pull-up numbers improve without training pull-ups specifically. The daily hanging is teaching the correct movement pattern and building the stability needed for more complex pulling exercises.

Full body flexibility improves beyond just the shoulders and spine. Hanging stretches the lats, the core musculature, and even the hip flexors if you let your lower body relax completely. This full-body lengthening position is something most people never experience.

Your body adapts to the positions you inhabit most frequently. Constant sitting creates chronic flexion. Your hip flexors shorten. Your hamstrings tighten. Your thoracic spine rounds. Hanging creates the opposite pattern. Full extension. Complete lengthening. Your body starts remembering what proper alignment feels like.

Over time, overhead range of motion improves. Reaching up becomes easier. Movements that felt restricted become smooth. This happens because you're exposing your tissues to a lengthened position daily. The nervous system adapts. The muscles adapt. The connective tissue remodels.

Breathing capacity increases when your ribcage opens. Compressed posture pulls your ribs down and restricts lung expansion. Your diaphragm can't descend fully. Your intercostal muscles can't lift the ribs properly. Breathing becomes shallow.

Hanging lifts the ribcage and creates space for full lung expansion. Your chest opens. Your ribs separate. Your diaphragm can move through its full range. People notice they can breathe more deeply after starting daily hanging. More oxygen reaches the muscles and brain. Performance improves across everything you do.

Mental resilience builds when you push through the discomfort. Hanging for a full minute burns. Your grip fatigues. Your shoulders ache. Your mind tells you to let go. Completing the full minute anyway trains your nervous system to stay calm under physical stress.

This isn't dramatic. It's basic stress inoculation. You're teaching your body that discomfort isn't danger. You're building tolerance for sustained effort. This transfers to training, to stressful situations, to any challenge requiring you to push through difficulty.

Implementation is straightforward. Find a pull-up bar (rings are vene better). Grab it with both hands slightly wider than shoulder width. Let your body hang with arms fully extended. Don't pull up. Just hang.

If you can't hold for a full minute initially, accumulate time in shorter intervals. Hang for 15 seconds. Rest. Hang again. Repeat until you've completed one minute total. As your grip strengthens, you'll hold longer uninterrupted periods.

Consistency matters more than duration. One minute daily beats five minutes weekly. Your body adapts to frequent exposure. The daily stimulus creates lasting changes in mobility, strength, and posture.

Technical points for effective hanging. Keep your shoulders pulled down away from your ears. This engages your lats properly and prevents shoulder shrugging. Breathe normally throughout. Don't hold your breath. Let your lower body relax completely so your entire spine decompresses, not just your upper back.

Add variations as you adapt. Wider grip emphasizes lat stretch. Narrower grip focuses on shoulder mobility. Active hangs where you pull your shoulder blades down and together, then relax and repeat, add strength training to the mobility work.

The mechanism is simple. Gravitational traction. Positional exposure. Daily stimulus. Your body responds predictably when you give it the right inputs. Hanging provides inputs that modern life eliminated. Your shoulders decompress. Your spine lengthens. Your grip strengthens. Your posture improves.

One minute daily. That's the entire protocol. No equipment beyond a bar. No complicated programming. Just consistent exposure to a movement pattern your body was used to perform but modern life removed.

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

sometimes it takes us years to realize that a person who breaks the law isn't necessarily a criminal

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

On this day in 1946, Viola Desmond's car broke down in New Glasgow, NS. She went to a movie and sat in a Whites-Only area. Her refusal to move helped spark the modern Canadian civil rights movement.

Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
https://t.co/GywidnpGoW

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

@DavidKrayden without weighing in on whether it was right or wrong; from the photos and videos being posted, and having months to prepare, it's a bit weird they didn't at least performatively try to follow CFIA's own publicly-posted procedures a bit better

https://t.co/ZVlXsV3eLj

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

using scissors and not flush cutters to snip the tail of a zip tie ought to be a jailable offence

[Grace Gym🏋️‍♀️ @GraceGym_]

These DIY tricks are pure madness - in a good way😁👍

[Jason Holman @Jaserpantz]

@FoodProfessor Probably cause lack of competition makes us lazy and moribund.

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

@PodcastAddict @cbcpodcasts It's been sad to see @cbcpodcasts slide so much - used to be scrappy, energetic people who loved the medium, and now so bloatedb run legacy media-style by people who don't seem like they even listen to podcasts

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

there's something quite peaceful about a home depot; wide aisles, somewhat dimmer lighting, you don't need a key for the bathroom, staff aren't aggressive and all the shoppers are there for a purpose other than killing time

[domTV @domTelevision]

@rats7 i love those stores, i go to home depot almost everyday

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

@RobertMSterling in my vehicle, the easiest way to avoid it without getting into OBD-II is to move the engine hood switch; the auto-off is disabled when it thinks the hood is open to allow mechanics to diagnose without engine turning off all the time

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

while the @Rolgear_Inc ratcheting mechanism is quite nice, I never particularly liked the handle, so I 3d printed the best of both worlds

[AK @rtmrtm6353]

@PicturesFoIder performance of
Cold play international level 😂🤣

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

neighbours were organizing a contractor to clean a bunch of dryer vents as group to get a lower rate and since some of them had never been done it might be becoming a fire hazard

I was shocked that this wasn't already part of everyone's yearly home maintenance schedule

[Andrew Wittstadt @AndrewWittstadt]

I think many of you underestimate how many people (from boomers to gen z) just don't do basic chores in their homes.

no, they don't have cleaning services or anything like that--they just simply don't do everyday household chores and maintenance.

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

(of course also compare with https://t.co/zHmvWbrgln or similar for best results)

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

here we are facing 80%+ cloud cover tonight so not sure we'll even take the telescopes out for the planetary parade; but if it's clear where you are, I suggest https://t.co/sBSKtSOna4 as a tool to scout potential viewing locations.

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

we live in a hilly and treed area, so setting the time to just before sunset on shademap can give a good prediction of where to find a clear view of the western horizon

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

if this is true then why aren't we doing something about the menace of the headlights these days?

and why isn't using the abbreviation "MA" in a best-before date illegal - simply using "MY" or "MR" takes no additional space and solves this confusion instantly

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Canadians can be — and will be — masters of our own destiny.

[Chlorpyrifos @lxbatty]

people are realizing just now that they show different maps to different people based on ip address

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Everything this woman said. Shame on Google and shame on Apple for appeasing the authoritarian dipshit. 🎯🎯🎯👇