Mohit Singh

I identify as a schrodingers cat. Don't talk to me or I can't identify myself.

[Mohit Singh @mohits096]

Those 300 points from Gen Z really changed things #Eurovision2023 #ESC2023 #EUROVISION
Cha cha cha

[Ally Tamara 👻 @AllyCatastrophe]

LOOK, ITS GLINDAAAA #pokopia

[Ray ✨🍉 @PacificOfRay]

Not in times of Genocide. This year we’re boycotting baby.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it.

The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response.

That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down.

And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring.

Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain.

Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back.

London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out.

The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate.

If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.

[Zenn, Izzet Guildmage @Zennistrad]

If only there were some reason why blood-sucking monsters were typically depicted as aristocrats.

[hayden ¨̮ @hydn_ngn]

Girl you must be a leppa berry the way you make my pp go up

[Handsome Shrek @1thicstrawberry]

Getting work emails during my Pokopia shift

[Trevor Lee @TrevorLeePro]

Coordinating with a friend what Pokémon we want to trade at 32 years old just feels right.

[Dhakshzn! @dhakshzn]

Kids who grew up "academically gifted" are now socially anxious adults who have thousands of abandoned hobbies, struggling to make minor decisions on their own and develop a highly unfunny trait or they are doctors

[Colyn @colynelliott]

My favorite thing has been people live tweeting about FireRed/LeafGreen like it’s 2004 again lol

[Marinaur @smintcondition]

thats 4 gens in a row that the water starter is a homo

[patv. @patvtweets]

cat_amongst_pigeons.mp4 #TheTraitors

[alondra 🍓 @constarlations]

“Thank god I’m not a Disney adult” I say with my Jirachi pjs sipping tea from a Piplup mug and wearing Pokemon socks looking at my Pokemon plush collection of Popplio

[laur sees blue🥀🌊 @default_grey]

Never saying I’ve had a bad day again because I know this guy had it worse #thetraitors

[Joezempic 💉 @JoeWritesThings]

Don't have to tell me twice bab 💋 #TheTraitors

[Bon 🧚‍♀️ @BurningSunBon]

His entire life just flashed before his eyes fr 😂 get us to the turret #TheTraitors

[ceolawyer @ceolawyer]

2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.

2001: Israel creates false flag attack on U.S. soil, Netanyahu comes to Congress and convinces U.S. to attack 7 middle eastern countries

2003: Iraq is invaded and oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam is lynched.

2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.

2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.

2018: Maduro starts selling oil in yuan, euros, and other currencies (not USD) - Venezuela has 5x more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined

2026: Maduro and his wife are kidnapped and taken hostage - Venezuelan opposition leader announces immediate ties with Israel

[𝜜ηη 🌸 @Cheese_Tattie]

Everyone who started a spreadsheet to find the secret traitor #TheTraitors

[Araali 🦉 @joelanthony23]

Ah 2025... Truly a horrid year to have pattern recognition, empathy or critical thinking skills.