Pablo

born to live free of microplastics but here we are. aspiring hermit

[🦐 Shrimb @shrimplify]

I was actually taught several solutions to this by a behavioral therapist lmao

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

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[jourdain searles @judysquirrels]

every capitalist is like “any change in the system could possibly lead me to make less money. this is the most important thing in the world. more important than the environment or children or the elderly or the homeless. it’s all about me. this is a very normal outlook to have!”

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your brain recognizes the shape of a tree in 50 milliseconds, way before you're consciously aware of what you're seeing. And within seconds, your stress levels start to drop, not because of fresh air but because of the shape itself.

Trees are what mathematicians call a fractal. The trunk splits into branches, those split into smaller branches, those into twigs. Same pattern, every scale. You see this design in coastlines, rivers, clouds, even the blood vessels in your own lungs.

A physicist at the University of Oregon named Richard Taylor has been measuring this for years. He hooks people up to brain-wave monitors, shows them different images, and tracks what happens. Trees win. When people look at the kind of fractals you find in branches and bark, stress drops by up to 60%. A Swedish researcher named Caroline Hagerhall found the same thing: fractal images trigger alpha waves in your brain, the wave pattern your brain produces when you're calm but still awake.

The swaying matters because your brain runs two attention systems. One is involuntary, stuff grabbing your focus whether you want it to or not. The other is directed, the one you actively control when you concentrate or resist checking your phone. Directed attention is a limited resource. It drains. City life burns through it fast: every notification, every ad, every car you dodge crossing the street. Tree branches moving in wind hold your involuntary attention just enough to be interesting, kind of like watching a campfire, but not so much that your directed system has to engage. One system stays gently occupied while the other recharges. Psychologists call this "soft fascination."

People at the University of Michigan tested this in 2008. They had volunteers walk for about an hour through either a tree-filled park or through downtown streets, then retake memory and attention tests. The park walkers improved their scores by 20%. Downtown walkers showed zero improvement. Walking on a treadmill didn't help either, so the benefit came from the trees, not the exercise. In 2015, researchers at Stanford went further. They scanned people's brains before and after 90-minute walks. Nature walkers showed less activity in the brain region that controls rumination, when your mind gets stuck replaying the same negative thoughts in a loop. City walkers showed no change in that region at all.

The dose is small. A 2019 Michigan study measured cortisol (the hormone your body pumps out when you're stressed) from saliva samples. Just 20 to 30 minutes in any place that felt natural, a backyard, a park, anything with some green, dropped cortisol 21% per hour beyond its normal daily decline.

You don't even need to go outside. Roger Ulrich published a study in the journal Science back in 1984, tracking 46 surgery patients across nine years of hospital records. Patients whose bed had a window facing trees recovered almost a full day faster than patients facing a brick wall (7.96 days vs 8.70), needed less pain medication, and got 3.5 times fewer negative notes from nurses. Stress-related illness costs the US over $300 billion a year. A window with a tree outside it costs close to nothing.

[Pablo @psylyntp]

feeling like there's simultaneously nothing but also way too much to do in time

[borkedsys @borkedsys]

People say capitalism is ‘natural.’ If that were true, biology would’ve failed on day one. Cells don’t hoard, organs don’t compete, ecosystems don’t extract until collapse. Life exists because nature rejects capitalist logic. What you’re defending isn’t natural, it’s pathological

[Pablo @psylyntp]

@sylviewatikum @GeneralMCNews engagement bait basically but ultimately a strategy by the ruling elite to make us either hateful and suspicious or totally apathetic. thankfully people that live irl, engaged with their communities, tend not to fall for this kind of thing(they see what's real, what matters)

[Pablo @psylyntp]

@ma1ybe yeah naw when it's someone you love... freaking everything, really. every breath, every movement, every gesture, every sound. and then it's all you can do to keep them well(yeah she's in my life but not available that way but she's in my life so I continue on like nothing)

[Pablo @psylyntp]

@pixelprayer blue pop 😏

[Pablo @psylyntp]

@Barbtomko1 @TimHannan @Eyeamfierce the depth of understanding it takes is lost on all those that do not truly walk the path

[Pablo @psylyntp]

@em53550 @nicksortor they prob want less money to the parks overall so they can later-on justify shutting them down and selling off whatever resource rights. my "wild" guess

[Pablo @psylyntp]

@cessonmute I'm sorry but...

[Pablo @psylyntp]

@TheMrsJLowe @GeneralMCNews ye can't help but notice regardless the politics all these actions inevitably lead to death and destruction of the environment. my conspiracy mind alights, wonders maybe the ultimate end game is a desolate earth where only the wealthy and their preferred pets survive in biodomes

[Pablo @psylyntp]

@FalcMillenium @BraddrofliT emotional response

[Pablo @psylyntp]

@legendof12thman @HockeyMomTired @SarahIronside6 there is but it is considered evil and theft of private property

[Pablo @psylyntp]

@OlGreyman63 @DrYelOra @ABC that will naturally improve if working conditions do too, don't you think?

[Pablo @psylyntp]

@shannie_emm according to them yeah. that's how narcissists tend to be, ignoring what they can't feel is bad in favor of whatever gets them the advantage

[Pablo @psylyntp]

@bbushee68 @Quote31490249 @ABC @DCfanforever101 true, the problem is those desperate to live on the backs of others. ones with fear in their hearts. probably from a certain sense of responsibility for the past. it's true we don't forget, just remember in different ways. way to tell is by love.

[Pablo @psylyntp]

@Quote31490249 @ABC @DCfanforever101 "man god" with their best interests in mind. it is the pattern of imperialism, of an old head looking to live forever by constantly taking on new bodies, but always with the same lack of soul... GOD IS LOVE. LOVE IS ONE. ONE IS ALL.

[Pablo @psylyntp]

@Quote31490249 @ABC @DCfanforever101 because they carry the shame of this land's history. they fear revenge, fail to understand all they are taught to hate is simply life seeking to survive. so they paint the less fortunate as devils, the ones who speak wisdom as charlatans, and the ones who promise power as some...