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shameless proshipper and smut enthusiast 🍓🍰 if you're here to harass, just go away. 30+

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

This is why people built guillotines.
GOP Rep. Troy Nehls, when asked about 60% of Americans struggling with affordability: "Affordability? What are you talking about?... I'm gonna get me a couple of big lobster tails. I'm gonna get me some nice rib eyes... Maybe the 60% of Americans don't work as hard as I do."

[BLM|RideDaArc🔞 @RaginMode]

OK people. Important to note the Kid Act pass the house with 117 no votes. Meaning a lot of people calling did work and it way to divisive of a bill still. Multiple ogs dislike it, be it for more senate or just dislike th4 bill entirely, along with the senate really hating it.

[I'MYOURHUCKLEBERRY @PLSgetserious]

Someone is leaking the SCOTUS decisions to the WH before they're released to the public.

There's a reason we have the Postmaster General suddenly talking about post marks and how mail might be delayed before it's post marked.

You mark my words. We are going to see mail held up and not post marked, until after the election in key races. They have already worked out how to cheat this decision.

Do not drop your vote in a pickup box. Take it into the post office wait in line and make them post mark it in front of you.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” are the first 10 words in the Bill of Rights.

Treaty of Tripoli (1797): The U.S. is “in no sense founded on the Christian religion.”

The Enlightenment & the Constitution are ABOUT separation of church & state.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America. 

He embodies the broken system we’re running against.

It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Clayton Tucker @ClaytonTuckerTX]

BREAKING: Hill County just proved Texans aren’t powerless.

When local people stood up, they hit pause on a 300-acre data center, joining Athens, Killeen, San Marcos, and Wichita Falls in pushing back.

If Hill County can fight back, the rest of Texas can too.

Sign our petition and stop AI Data Centers >>

https://t.co/A5XzTq37JP

#Texas #WaterCrisis #DataCenters #ProtectTexas

[Merissa Hansen @merissahansen17]

Hill County just became the FIRST county in Texas to pass a temporary moratorium on data centers.
After FOUR HOURS of public testimony, county commissioners voted to pause new data center development so the impacts on:
water
electricity
infrastructure
land
and local communities
can actually be studied before projects move forward.

Read that again.

A Texas county has taken a bold stand, asserting the need for answers before relinquishing control over its future. This pivotal moment arises amidst a concerning trend across Texas, where rural counties are inundated with proposals for hyperscale data centers. However, many local governments lack the authority to effectively regulate these developments.

Here’s a crucial aspect that demands attention: Hill County may now face pressure from the Texas Attorney General’s Office. This is because counties were never explicitly granted the power to halt these projects. Consider the implications: a county striving to safeguard its water, land, and residents could potentially find itself embroiled in a legal battle against the state itself.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Those magnificent structures on the top were all over America in the 90s thanks to volunteers.

Almost no one knows the name Bob Leathers but they should.

He grew up in Maine, studied architecture at Rhode Island School of Design, and landed in Ithaca raising kids. In 1970 his children's elementary school needed a playground. He organized the parents to build one. That weekend reorganized the rest of his life.

He founded Leathers and Associates a few years later. The product was a four-day community build. The town raised the money, the kids drew the design, and 500 to 2,000 volunteers showed up with hammers and built the entire castle.

Materials cost $10,000 to $60,000. Donated labor was worth multiples of that. The Washington Post called it a "burgeoning movement" in 1982. Mister Rogers filmed an episode at one of his builds in 1986. Sesame Street did the same. The Chicago Tribune called him "the guru of contemporary playground design" in 1989.

His firm coordinated more than 3,400 playgrounds across the United States, Israel, and Australia. An entire generation of American kids climbed turrets, crossed rope bridges, and disappeared into wooden tunnels designed by a guy in upstate New York who took his cues from their drawings.

He never franchised the model. He never sold the firm. His son Marc runs it today, still in Ithaca, still doing community builds.

The bottom picture is what the market built when nobody was there to organize the volunteers.

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

To be clear: This is a TX Republican running for attorney general who is telling you that, if elected, he will weaponize the power of the state against people whose beliefs arent aligned with Christian nationalism. Don't be numb to it. This is extremism, completely off the rails.

[Crystal Hope @CrystalHope1979]

In early 2021, Marisa posted what she thought was a crazy idea in a Memphis Buy Nothing Facebook group: Could she use neighbors’ backyards and empty lots to grow flowers in exchange for bouquets and pollinator gardens?

The response blew her away — over 40 people immediately said yes.
That one humble post sparked a five-year journey of regenerative micro-farms scattered across Midtown, community workshops, and neighborly magic.

Today, Midtown Bramble & Bloom is a thriving brick-and-mortar florist on Young Avenue, selling locally grown flowers while making Memphis more beautiful, one backyard at a time. 🍃🌸

[BasilianThought @BasilianThought]

UPDATE: The school board is trying to expel the kid who made this video for exposing that his classmates can't read.

You can't make this shit up

[🌸🍑SpunOfLight🍑🌸 @OfSpun]

@zoros_navigator Mememememe!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Orcas have brain structures you don't have.

Neurobiologist Lori Marino's MRI work on killer whales identified a fourth cortical segment called the paralimbic lobe. It sits next to the limbic system and handles emotion and social awareness. It doesn't exist in humans or in any land mammal. In orcas, it's so elaborated it erupts into the cortex.

Their cortical limbic lobe, the region handling self-awareness and social processing, is exceptionally developed. Their brain weighs roughly 12 pounds, four times the mass of yours. They have spindle cells, the same neurons that let humans reason about other minds.

When an orca surfaces and locks eyes with you, it's running a social assessment with neural hardware specialized for exactly that. It knows you're a separate being. It knows you're watching it back. It's evaluating you.

Here's what should recontextualize the clip. In all of recorded history, wild orcas have killed zero humans. Zero documented fatalities. One surfer was bitten off California in 1972, and the orca released him the moment it realized he wasn't a sea lion. A 12-year-old was bumped in Alaska in 2005. The orca approached, touched him, turned back.

Orcas hunt great white sharks. They coordinate wave attacks that sweep seals off ice floes. They take down moose swimming between islands. They have every capability to kill you. They have never chosen to.

Marino's explanation: the orca neocortex is developed enough to instantly distinguish a human from prey. Other researchers point to orca culture, the traditions passed through pods across generations, in which humans simply aren't food.

That look is recognition and restraint. From a mind built for social cognition at a scale your brain can't reach.

[Ghali ⵣ 𓂆🍉🗝️🇵🇸 @GhaliZayane]

The original names of the cities in Palestine before colonization
❀ #FreePalestine ❀
•❁🇵🇸🗝️🍉❁•

[💕 Brittany Belle 💕 @BrittanyinTexas]

A lot of folks forget… Texas hasn’t always been red. 🤠

When Democrat Ann Richards was governor, Texas ranked 7th in education.

After nearly 30 years of Republican control, Texas now ranks 40th overall in education & 47th in reading.

It’s past time for a change. 🌊

[AL X , the deboosted democrata @thecorpmex]

This is the stupidest, scariest and most preventable fiasco of the decades long reign of the corrupt Texas GOP……that the our media doesn’t excoriate Abbott and every state elected official over this dangerous situation is malpractice.

[𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒂 🥀 @starlightzarmar]

never fucking forgot that coachella invited saint levant - a palestinian man to perform in 2024 and then when he dedicated the entire set to palestine they did everything they could to completely wipe the performance off the internet.