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doings @ourcrcl

[Killa 🌺 @KillaKreww]

Deon Cole was crying TEARS laughing after Bill Burr spent a straight 5 minutes ROASTING him for asking him, “Is your mama fine?” 🤣🤣💀

[‘sy @salbxt]

😂

[David🐦‍🔥|| No one's Son @MosesDavid101]

The Budget for Tornado by Ayra Starr is high ASF

[David🐦‍🔥|| No one's Son @MosesDavid101]

She is promoting the hell outta this song

[‘sy @salbxt]

@je_mc2 not necessarily. still cheaper shipping+clearing directly from china on your own.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

@PetinaVox With the money we don’t steal.

[Vikram Pai @vikpai]

Running a business is just realizing how dumb you were 6 months ago every 6 months

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc driving the Ferrari Luce should have been the entirety of the launch campaign. Am totally convinced now. This $640k EV is gonna sell like hot cakes.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Ed Sheeran announces that he has left Warner Music after 15 years together:

“My life is hugely different now to what it was when I was a teenager, and I’ve been feeling in my gut for a long time that a lot of things in my professional life need to change. I am, underneath it all, a singer-songwriter who plays pub gigs. And I’ve sorta morphed into this pop star who plays stadiums over 15 years; it’s a super amazing thing to have happened but also a lot to get your head around […] I leave the company with SO much love and gratitude for everything we have achieved together. This isn’t a ‘disgruntled artist leaves record label’ type situation. This is a boy who started as a teenager on the company with different priorities, to the father-of-two man who exists now, who feels like he needs a shift and change in the way he does things professionally.”

[Kurrco @Kurrco]

Spotify is introducing “Reserved,” a new Premium feature that holds concert tickets for users based on their listening habits 🎫

Coming soon to eligible U.S. Premium users.

[LIZZO @lizzo]

Fun Fact: I started my ig as a food blog when I was broke so I could eat for free but then my music blew up 🤪

[‘sy @salbxt]

why do i have to wait for a manager to finish their meeting to get a cafe’s wifi password? smh

[‘sy @salbxt]

*literal

[‘sy @salbxt]

language isn't just for talking; for oral cultures like ours, it’s the archive. names like "ojuelegba" or "ibadan" hold the exact history of how those spaces were founded. because our ancestors codified history in words rather than books, losing a language means erasing their legacy.

look at river niger. losing its original name allowed mungo park to claim he "discovered" it. look at our ancient immunization practices; all wiped out & western-labeled because we lost the vocabulary. minimal languages mean maximum erasure.

fyi:

ojú-Ìbọ ẹlẹ́gba, meaning "the spot of the worship for ẹlẹ́gba. the area was a sacred grove dedicated to the deity of fate/the crossroads.

ìbàdàn is from ẹ̀bá ọ̀dàn, meaning "the junction of the savanna & the forest." the name is a literally geographic map explaining the exact ecological zone where the empire was founded.

for every language we lose, we lose the story/legacy of everything that once existed or emanated from there.

[‘sy @salbxt]

@elnathan_john i think he hinted at it when he said “i get a lot of printed emails. they’ll say you got to take a look at this”

[‘sy @salbxt]

“anything wey una wan do o”

[711 @hranikasz]

@AaronBastani Born to close Hormuz, forced to park the bus.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Celestial being @ayrastarr]

Starrgirl. Aug 14th

https://t.co/mZi1b2VkLw

[Approved for Streaming @yungbuttpiss]

@haphazardlyyyyy I reached out to someone who gave one of my movies a poor review, not because they gave a poor review but because they called me white.