Fifirou 🏹♥️⚔️

'Beware of false knowledge. It is more dangerous than ignorance' #rejoiner #IstandwithJKRowling
Nerd. Vegan. #BloodDrive forever🎩🎩🎩

[Fifirou 🏹♥️⚔️ @simplesof]

Morning @twitter thanks for reminding me to retweet this great message by removing my like again. @jk_rowling s message is so important -great to know you care. but you should stop censoring tweets, yr coming across as misogynistic by only doing it to women #IStandWithJKRowling

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

[Fifirou 🏹♥️⚔️ @simplesof]

Reposting with a heavy heart

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Heartbreaking. I watched it once. Then I watched it again. And each time, my body hurt and my heart broke.

Four young women in Kabul were run over by Taliban forces after attending an educational seminar.
Nobody knows whether they are alive or not. Just think about that.
These women were were not doing anything wrong. They were learning.

Simple act of seeking education can become a life-threatening risk.

I received this video from a woman of Afghanistan with a simply message: “please use your platform and tell the world that they are killing us here, we are tired of Taliban. please don’t let the world forget Afghan women. we are fed up with Taliban. Enough is enough”.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Heartbreaking. I watched it once. Then I watched it again. And each time, my body hurt and my heart broke.

Four young women in Kabul were run over by Taliban forces after attending an educational seminar.
Nobody knows whether they are alive or not. Just think about that.
These women were were not doing anything wrong. They were learning.

Simple act of seeking education can become a life-threatening risk.

I received this video from a woman of Afghanistan with a simply message: “please use your platform and tell the world that they are killing us here, we are tired of Taliban. please don’t let the world forget Afghan women. we are fed up with Taliban. Enough is enough”.

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

Iranian hairstylist Ami Moghadam received death threats for posting videos of women receiving haircuts on Instagram.

So she decided to troll the Islamic Regime and their oppressive mandatory hijab laws in the most epic, hilarious way possible. 😂

[Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak]

'The words hit like a rock in the face'
Our exclusive interview with a teenage rape victim and her family, whose attackers were spared jail this week

[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.

[Norman Brennan @NormanBrennan]

BREAKIBG NEWS; @Keir_Starmer has tonight called his entire Cabinet & MP’s to 10 Downing St to gauge & ask for their support to remain as PM & it’s not going quite as well as he had hoped; here is a recording & video of that meeting👇🤷‍♂️

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

What we’re seeing on X these past few days is insane.

> They’re trying like maniacs to convince you that Achilles is not a hero or a role model, even though he was the greatest role model in the West for 3,000 years.

> They’re trying to convince you that he had a sexual relationship with his dear brotherly friend Patroclus, even though Homer says nothing of the sort. On the contrary, Homer mentions his relationships with women, states that Achilles has a son, Neoptolemus, and that at Patroclus’ funeral, Achilles and Briseis weep because he didn’t manage to marry them. That’s what Homer writes.

> They’re trying to convince you that he shouldn’t be a role model for men because he was weak and a “cry baby”.

This is being said by uneducated barbarians whose sources are the movie and secondary interpretations.

They want you weak and disillusioned with classical studies.

All these pseudo intellectuals have invaded the academic community of classical studies and archaeology and are trying to completely rewrite the facts in order to repel you.

They want to fully control classical studies the same way they control art.

Because if they control the Classics they will control the civilizational narrative.

Don’t fall victim to their Marxist anti-Greek and anti-Western propaganda.

Achilles was, is, and will always be the role model of a healthy man.

Never forget that Alexander the Great slept with a copy of the Iliad (from Aristotle) under his pillow, along with his dagger. His role model was Achilles, who was also his ancestor on his mother’s side.

Never forget that.

[Fifirou 🏹♥️⚔️ @simplesof]

@LeftwaffenWatch Ohhhhh....the tilting, the tilting...

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Iceland, in 2010, proposed the idea of electrical columns in the form of walking iron giants.

[6ɪx✦ @ok6ixx]

Found this bookstore in Sapporo where the owner will read to you. Out loud. For free. Any book you want, as long as you want.
Seemed random until I learned why he does it.
His wife had dementia. Last 4 years of her life, she didn't recognize him, didn't remember their 50 years together, nothing. But when he read to her, she'd calm down. Focus. Sometimes smile.
He read to her every single day until she passed.
After she died, he didn't know what to do with himself. Then one day a young woman was crying in the bookstore. He asked if he could read to her. She looked at him like he was insane but said okay.
He read to her for 90 minutes. When he finished, she said it was the first time in weeks she'd felt peaceful.
Now he does it regularly. Businessmen on lunch breaks, stressed students, elderly people who live alone, tourists who don't even speak Japanese. He reads to all of them.
Sometimes people fall asleep. He just covers them with a blanket and keeps reading.
He said "my wife can't hear me anymore, but all these people can. So I'll keep reading."

[Ethel Braithwaite @Ethelbrait1941]

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

[Fifirou 🏹♥️⚔️ @simplesof]

@imjmcinnis @SketchesbyBoze Isn't ' effulgent ' a key word in the poetry of William the bloody?

[Anna Stokke @rastokke]

New EEF study finds lower-attaining students are NOT harmed by ability grouping, but higher-attaining students are held back in mixed classes.
Advanced students don't get enough attention in my view. What is the goal of public education? Getting all students to a minimum competency level has to be one goal. But is there not an obligation to provide an environment for students who have surpassed minimum competency to keep moving ahead?
https://t.co/oXrfPcRBkH

[Sophie Corcoran @sophielouisecc]

one quarter of the UK workforce have post-tax earnings lower than many benefit claimants

There is no defending this.
It is utterly utterly unfair

[Fifirou 🏹♥️⚔️ @simplesof]

@rebeccajkey @MrMetacognition Absolutely my experience. Almost immediate class disruption due to students writing messages to friends to flash up, or rude images. One size, as always, does not fit all.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

At an aquarium in South Korea, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Parking lots over a certain size have three to five years to cover at least half their surface area with solar canopies or face fines.

The projected output: up to 11 gigawatts of capacity, the equivalent of 10 nuclear reactors.

The panels shade the cars. They can charge EVs directly underneath them. They generate electricity for the grid. The parking lot goes from dead infrastructure to power plant without using a single additional acre of land.

France plans to increase solar tenfold and double wind capacity by 2033.

The US has approximately 800 million parking spaces. Eight hundred million. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Tom Gauld
It isn't hoarding if all the books are on the shelves

[Maude Frome @frome_maude]

The Greek gods created the poppy so its juice would help Demeter, the great goddess of agriculture, sleep & dream to heal in her grief over the loss of her daughter Persephone. When Demeter awoke poppies sprang from her footsteps & became her sacred flowers. #MythologyMonday

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Buckingham Palace has reportedly confirmed that the king will not be issuing an Easter message this year.

Apparently, it isn't traditional for the monarch to issue a special message at Easter.

Well, fine. But the king did issue a special message for Ramadan in February. So many Christians will understandably feel slighted.

And many others will see it as yet another example of asymmetric multiculturalism.