misaaraii 🐉

kiss the earth that birthed you

[misaaraii 🐉 @misaaraii]

all energy is only borrowed and one day you have to give it back

[☿ @mercurialsarah]

stretching

[Teevirus Spinks 🏳️‍🌈🚌🔋🚴🏿‍♂️ @teevirus]

The best time to plant trees in anticipation of hotter summers was 20 years ago. The next best time is today.

[ron mexico @troop_hater]

hello I’m very interested in the deep fried apartment you have listed

[elyfae ୭ @ElyfaeFeelings_]

dark chocolate cherry cake 🍒

[Baddy of Lagos 👑 @_belikebaddy]

If the algorithm shows you this, you are due for a big win.

[misaaraii 🐉 @misaaraii]

@browndwarf6 🤣

[MadamAdam @browndwarf6]

why they use one shark as a headrest

[JT 𓅊 @JonathanTdotexe]

I wonder what they're cooking up to turn the ENGINEERS into activists..can't be good

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

This might be the craziest animal fact i’ve ever learned

[Jæŷ;) @j4jayjay_]

Me randomly just busting into tears because no one really knows what’s going on in my heart.

[erica 🦓 @bensonismyworld]

O CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

[garçon @boymolish]

This shot by Mitch Ritter😮‍💨

[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%.

[Path of Men @PathOfMen_]

There's so much power in believing things will work out, even when you don't know how or when.

[Cłoùd𖤐 @vapefuls]

me in a public place analyzing everyone's behaviour

[olivia benson daily @livbensondaily]

She's so happy 💐💕

[Viewside Björk 🎨 @OverdozeOnDEEZ]

He was Courtside when The Knicks only won 10 games, he’s one of the only Celebs who pays for their Knicks tickets because him & Dolan hate each other, he doesn’t even use The Celebrity entrance at MSG

Spike Lee’s love for The Knicks is the purest thing in this world, he deserves

[litquidity @litcapital]

Spotted outside of Morgan Stanley’s HQ in Times Square today 😭