Brown Bastard

Citizen of the universe. Earthling. Him.

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

To all who celebrate

[greg @gandalf_thegreg]

toddlers to people with deformities in the grocery store

[Brown Bastard @MellBox]

@MoAbKraken @catwithaura

[King T’THOTla @GhettoBasquiat]

DMX when he told a joke and the bitches didn’t laugh

[Justin Wong @JWonggg]

This needs to be lost forever

[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%.

[Barry Wayne Jr. 🐻 @ThisAintBarry]

Lupe …. you licensed “Superstar” for this White House UFC card ???

[Your Old Droog @YourOldDroog]

How backpack rappers looked at you when you spit a gun bar in the cypher

[Brown Bastard @MellBox]

Pen & teller

[starr @starrchildx]

i love having funny + creative names to reference my weed pen.

[Pass(wurdz) @Pass510]

@TiaCorine I don’t think most people can identify a good bar or any measurable rap technique. The average person can barely describe WHY they like something musically

[BIG BAG JAZ 💰 @JazTheRapper]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 waking up drunk is so lit

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

I ain’t like the rest of yall I’ll NEVER turn my back on the people I came up with. I’ll still go to Cheesecake Factory and Applebee’s. RIP Bahama Breeze.

[Brown Bastard @MellBox]

@TheCinesthetic

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

Jeezy like to drink
Jeezy like to smoke

[AriaH @mariahcharri]

girls want 6+ inches just to suck the half

[SMILING SO MUCH, the debut EP by OG NICK MARSH #np @focusOGNICK]

one time i told my sister "check out this beat i made in garageband" and then i played her the NY State of Mind instrumental