Ashton Young

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

You are your own worst enemy. You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Since nothing seems urgent to you, you are only half involved in what you do. The only way to change is through action and outside pressure.

[Killa 🌺 @KillaKreww]

Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr. DESTROYS modern “influencers” and people saying they’re the future of stardom, calling out how society glorifies them 😳👀

“I hear people talk about stars of the future are going to be influencers… I don’t know what world you’re living in, but I think that’s absolute horsesh*t”

“Next thing you know it’s ‘Hey, if you like the way I’m playing this video game, do you want to send me a donation?’… it becomes like a religion. They’re almost the evangelical hucksters of the Information Age” 💀

[BONESAW 🕊️ @BonesawMD]

If you've suffered due to circumstances in your life or because of your vices, you've already paid the price to hold huge success.

Don't forget to cash your ticket in. It is a mistake to wallow in the miserable intersection, but most people do.

Rumplestiltskin technique can be adopted for life: learn how to spin it into gold; your only task is to figure out how to leverage your struggles into a unique advantage.

The secret is that you can rewrite the past to make everything worth it.

[Daily Celebs @CelebsDailyX]

Michelle Trachtenberg was perfect... gone too soon

[Ashton Young @ona_kill]

Wow

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Roald Dahl told kids that good thoughts shine out of your face like sunbeams. Forty-five years later, neuroscientists ran the experiments. He was basically right.

Charles Darwin had a version of this idea in 1872. He wrote a whole book about it called The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. He thought that showing a feeling makes you feel it more, and that the expressions you wear every day eventually settle into your face.

A 2011 study at USC and Duke tested the first part on real people. They compared patients who got Botox to patients who got a different filler that doesn't paralyze the muscles. Then they showed both groups photos of strangers and asked them to guess the emotion on each face. The Botox group did worse. Your face and your brain are wired in a loop. Freeze one side and the other goes quiet too.

There's a body version of the same effect. Years of stress flood the body with cortisol. Cortisol breaks down the collagen and elastin that hold your skin together. A 2024 paper in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology measured this on actual people. Subjects with sustained moderate stress had visibly more wrinkles, thinner skin, and slower healing than the mild-stress group.

Years of furrowed brows etch the lines in. Years of clenched jaws change the shape of your cheek.

There's also a longevity study from the University of Kentucky, published in 2001. Researchers scored 180 women's handwritten autobiographies that they wrote at age 22. Sixty years later, the ones with the most positive emotion in their writing were dying at less than half the rate of the ones with the least. By age 80, 60% of the unhappy group had died. Only 25% of the happy group had.

And total strangers actually pick up on it. People can judge personality traits from a neutral photo of someone they've never met, with accuracy better than random guessing. The judgments aren't always fair. The face you've practiced for years still broadcasts something to a stranger in under a second.

Dahl called it sunbeams. The technical version is uglier but it's the same idea. The expressions you wear most often reshape the muscles you use to make them. Cortisol from chronic stress breaks down the skin around those muscles. And you partly read other people's emotions by mirroring their expressions on your own face, so a face that can't move can't mirror well either. Your face is a thirty-year diary of what you've been thinking about.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This sentence by Dostoyevsky never fails to hit hard:

“You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

If you want a life that feels like yours, you have to get in touch with your inner madness. Become a rebel. Unapologetically you. Take the path nobody dares to walk. Read 700 page philosophy books. Work for a month straight. Build something from nothing. Then disappear for a week. Don't be rational. Don't be logical Don't be normal ever. Be rare. Be obsessive. Be exactly who you are. This one mindset shift can absolutely change everything.

[The Real World App @apprealworld]

💰 Andrew Tate on why most men stay stuck.

"I do not operate from a frame of regret. My frame is very simple - I did the best I could at the time. I made the decision I made at the time, believing it was the best decision."

"I am not going to apologize for trying my best with a different set of information."

You cannot build a new man while still apologizing for the old one.

Drop the regret.

Move.

[Digi (Delusional) @digiii]

listen to the psychopath instead. read it again

[Digi (Delusional) @digiii]

another gem found on substack

[effectfully @effectfully]

The greatest page of text in human history was written by a 22-year-old.

[Ashton Young @ona_kill]

@johnewing 18

[, @Zvbear]

I don’t care

Michael Jackson’s intro to Billie Jean at Motown had WAYYYYY more aura than the Moonwalk

[Sense Receptor @SenseReceptor]

🤯Former Pfizer VP Michael Yeadon speculates on how the cabal that runs the world has been "so unbelievably well coordinated" since 2020:

"They've been using either a good AI, which may have existed a long time before we learned anything about it, or something supernatural"

"[The cabal members] might look like normal humans. These people in charge... It's possible that they have horns, but I don't know"

"They could look like humans and not be humans. I don't know who they are"

"[But] what has happened, it seems to me, over the last few years, is so unbelievably well coordinated that it feels like they've been using either a good AI, which may have existed a long time before we learned anything about it, or something supernatural, because how the hell have they coordinated everything so well?"

"And as far as I can tell, [there have been] almost no faults. And I think sometimes where there has been a fault, it almost looks like they did that on purpose to see whether to then research how many people detected it.

This clip of Yeadon, a former Pfizer Vice President and expert in allergies and respiratory diseases, is taken from an interview with James Delingpole (@JMCDelingpole) posted to the Delingpod Rumble channel on April 27, 2026.

[Ashton Young @ona_kill]

@joshsreads You’re an idiot

[Ashton Young @ona_kill]

@getnickwright This has been the Orlando we’ve seen all yr. They finally showed up!