nik

Purple

[nik @runwthscissors1]

@shairnn 18 (5*5+25, 3*3+9)

[nik @runwthscissors1]

@huzakyn @CocoaFox023 This is either bait, or you have to be one of the most pathetic people I've ever observed. Get help, dude. Nintendo doesn't love you back.

[thelotachi 🔲⛓️ @0xlota]

Ethan Hawke tells Sydney Sweeney his unique method for memorizing massive amounts of dialogue by treating it like a personal journal.

​"What I do, and I started doing this a really long time ago, I handwrite everything like it's my journal. When I'm memorizing, I'm not memorizing from a typewritten final draft page. I don't want to have that in my brain, and I don't want irrelevant stage directions to be part of it."

​"And then I do it again to see what I remember and what I don't remember. I try to write it from memory. And then I look, and I see what I got wrong. That process really helps me."

​"Then I try to record it with no acting. I listen, when I if I think I have it, I take three pages or something and you try to learn that. And then I look at the script and see what I got wrong."

​"Jon Voight taught me this when I was like 19, which is you unlace your shoe, and you have to do the speech lacing your shoe. If I'm trying to remember, then it's difficult to do. Until you can do that, until you can do other things, you don't really know it."

[Life Pill 💊 @life__pill]

LIFE HACKS NOBODY TAUGHT YOU BUT SHOULD HAVE:

1. Cold water stops bleeding faster than warm.
2. Yawning cools your brain — it’s not boredom, it’s survival.
3. Humming reduces anxiety faster than deep breathing.
4. Your tongue pressed to the roof of your mouth stops a sneeze.
5. Sleeping on your left side protects your heart and aids digestion.
6. Drinking water before meals reduces overeating by 30%.
7. Walking backwards improves memory and focus — science confirmed.
8. Honey never expires — it was found edible in Egyptian tombs.
9. Chewing gum while cutting onions stops the tears.
10. A dead phone can still call 911 — no service needed.
11. Sitting up straight instantly boosts your confidence level.
12. The “20-20-20 rule” saves your eyesight — look 20 feet away every 20 mins for 20 seconds.
13. Napping 10–20 mins recharges better than an hour-long sleep.
14. Cold showers after a workout cut soreness by half.
15. Writing your worries down shrinks them — proven by research.
16. Your body heals faster when you believe it will — that’s not hope, that’s neuroscience.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.”

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

You’ve barely touched your steak sandwich https://t.co/NQJ8H3V0qd

[nik @runwthscissors1]

Yes. Absolutely

[𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐚 @phavlovah]

de verdad los hombres piensan que esto es suficiente para vivir bien ???

[Words & Wisdom @WordsnWisdom26]

“Good men must know violence, so evil men do not become fluent in it”.

— Miyamoto Misashi

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Microsoft has confirmed a Windows 11 bug that can make a single file grow to 500GB or more, consuming a huge amount of storage.

The file is called CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal. It’s normally only a few MB, but due to the bug it can grow to hundreds of GB on some PCs.

If your storage suddenly looks much lower than expected, search for CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal in File Explorer to see if you’re affected.

Microsoft says the issue has been fixed in the optional KB5095093 update, and the fix will also be rolled out to everyone in the next Windows 11 Patch Tuesday update.
https://t.co/37LEKdvajc

[marqix ☆ @fwmarqix]

My son in-law asked me to teach him how to grill and I might have ruined him.

My daughter got married three years ago. Her husband, Kyle, is a good guy, works in IT, polite, laughs at my jokes even when they're not funny.

But the man cannot grill.

Last summer they hosted a Fourth of July BBQ. Kyle was in charge of the burgers, i watched him flip them eleven times in six minutes. They came out gray, dry, tragic.

I didn't say anything, my wife kicked me under the table twice as a reminder.

Two weeks ago Kyle calls me.

Kyle: Hey, Can I ask you something?

Me: Sure.

Kyle: Would you teach me how to grill? Like, actually grill?

I was honored, genuinely.

Me: Absolutely, come over Saturday.

He showed up at noon with a notebook, A notebook.

Me: You're not taking notes.

Kyle: I want to remember.

Me: It's grilling, not calculus.

I started with the basics, Charcoal vs gas, heat zones, when to flip, the importance of letting meat rest.

He's writing everything down.

Then I got to seasoning.

Me: Most people overthink it, salt, pepper, garlic powder. That's it. You don't need seventeen spices.

Kyle: What about marinades?

Me: Waste of time unless you're doing chicken.

Kyle: Really?

Me: You're adding moisture to something you're about to dry out with fire. Doesn't make sense.

He wrote that down.

Then I said, "And if anyone ever tells you to flip a steak more than once, you walk away from that person."

Kyle: Why?

Me: Because they don't respect the steak.

He stared at me.

Kyle: Are you serious?

Me: Completely.

I could see his brain trying to figure out if I was messing with him. I wasn't.

We grilled for three hours, burgers, steaks, brats. He did great, listened, didn't rush, the kid has potential.

At the end I sent him home with leftovers and a meat thermometer.

Me: Use this, don't guess.

Last weekend my daughter calls.

My daugther: What did you do to Kyle?

Me: What do you mean?

Her: He's obsessed, he bought a new grill, he's watching YouTube videos, he tried to explain 'heat zones' to his mom, she had no idea what he was talking about."

Me: That's good.

Her: He grilled chicken at 9pm last night because he wanted to 'practice his sear.'

Me: Sounds like he's taking it seriously.

Her: Dad, He told my coworker her husband was 'disrespecting the steak.'

I started laughing.

Her: That's not funny, she thought he was crazy.

Me: He's not wrong.

Her: You created a monster.

Me: I created a man who knows how to grill.

She hung up on me.

Yesterday Kyle sent me a picture of a ribeye with perfect grill marks.

The text said: "Flipped once."

I've never been prouder.

[Nostalgia . . . @Nostalgia150360]

On the United States' 250th birthday 🎂

Tangent as I'm not a huge SNL fan . . . but I enjoyed their patriotic sketches featuring Nate Bargatze as George Washington and this one with Walton Goggins on the Second Amendment or simply "Guns”.

[nik @runwthscissors1]

Don't know when, but I will have one

[Jaeger @JaegerZ999]

Cowboy VSS, the 300BLK integrally suppressed lever action by Wren Metal Works.

[Royally Sage @sage1411]

My brother posts this every year in the family chat on the 4th. Still hilarious.

[Michelle Labs @MolecularLab_]

I grew up watching my dad eat this for breakfast every single morning.

[nik @runwthscissors1]

NGL, i laughed at this

[nik @runwthscissors1]

"Useful" should be a qualifier

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Robert Greene was right when he said:

“Eventually, the time that was not spent on learning skills will catch up with you, and the fall will be painful.”

[Daily Frieren @FRIERENanime_]

the current Big 3 of Fantasy anime