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[M★ @urvirgobf]

Ugh, happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈🫰🏽🏳️‍⚧️

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Cynthia Erivo talks to Variety about people joking about her being Ariana Grande’s “bodyguard” after she defended her from a red carpet intruder:

“I think that we haven’t really come to terms with the insidious nature of how we view Black women. And I’m sure people will read this and think, ‘Oh, for goodness’ sake, it’s not about that.’ But it is. Because that’s what was being made fun of. It was my physique; it was my shape; it was the fact that I was bald; it was about what I looked like. And because of that, there was this assumption that I was bigger than my co-star and so I had to be controlling or protecting, and that was my role. I would hazard a guess that it would not have been the same had it been the other way around.”

[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.

[Caroline @carolinekwan]

first woman of color nominated for cinematography

FIRST WOMAN TO EVER WIN AN OSCAR FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY

AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPOW

[𖤐 @gottaluvkelvyn]

Religion got y’all forgiving rapist and pedophile pastors but disowning your gay children.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

The UN for the first time in history just officially named a sitting U.S. president Donald Trump as a racist whose hate speech has caused grave human rights violations.

Congratulations America.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

NGL I JUST HEARD SOMEONE SAY, “MAYBE YOU DON’T NEED MORE TIME TO HEAL, MAYBE YOU NEED MORE EXPERIENCES THAT SHOW YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM A DIFFERENT REALITY,” AND YEAH… IT ECHOED IN ME

[✒️ @Literariium]

“If you feel pain, you are alive.

If you feel other people's pain, you are a human being.”

— Leo Tolstoy

[𓆩♡𓆪 GODS FAVORITE 𓆩♡𓆪 @soulaaangel]

LIFETIME BABY ❤️🔱🖤🇺🇸

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

“They got money for wars but can’t feed the poor”

— Tupac Shakur

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

Holy shit. This is how it’s done…

“I am wondering if you’re all p*dophiles…because you don’t seem to care that children are being se*ually abused…so the only thing that I can ascertain is that you guys probably enjoy child p*rn…”

[tootsie scooter @suzietoot]

is this ??? the cuntiest thing thats ever been done by anyone ever ??

[Emily Nyman @EmSheDoesIt]

that hair flip is going to live on forever. Instant icon

[★ gecqua fans nyc @sarpongz]

will never get over how lara and megan produced the most katseye-esque song together for shits and giggles

[Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @RepJasmine]

This week, House Republicans passed their SAVE America Act. Let me be clear: this bill is nothing more than voter suppression wrapped up in a lie they’re calling “election security.”

Non-citizens already can’t vote. That is already illegal.

So yes — they are literally attempting to disenfranchise millions of eligible voters, especially women.

Let’s not overlook the timing, and the fact that they pushed this bill through just months before the midterm elections. That is not a coincidence.

[MISSESHABABY. @baddieeey]

Why is the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Twitter arguing with Cardi B? Y’all are a federal agency. Your job is national security, not clapping back at celebrities because they criticized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This is so dangerously weird.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Everything could have been different

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

I get it, we don’t make pennies anymore. Totally fine. But if you owe me $0.02 and you don’t have pennies… that feels like a you problem, not a me problem.
My change at Walmart was supposed to be $1.57. Instead, I got $1.55. Will two cents ruin my day? No. Will I survive? Yes. But let me teach yall some math… If 50 people get shorted $0.02, that’s a whole $1.00. If it’s $0.04? Walmart makes $2.00. Now imagine how many times that happened today across the world.
I’m not usually a complainer on social media, but this rubbed me the wrong way. My money is MY money. I don’t care if it’s only two cents… it’s my two cents, and I’d like it back.