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[Javier Aznar @guardian_el_]

Conozco a Florentino mejor de lo que me conozco a mí mismo. Pero olvidadme. No me apellido Romano ni Ornstein

[Pau 🌞🏺 @chepauet]

Casi se me olvida que todo esto va de divertirse

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. When they stop, something dangerous is nearby. When they continue, the coast is clear. This wiring predates primates. These kids are being sedated by the oldest safety signal in the mammalian nervous system.

The Max Planck Institute tested this in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong reduced anxiety and paranoia with medium effect sizes. Six minutes of traffic noise increased depression by the same margin. The effect worked on people who had never left dense urban environments. Their bodies responded to a signal their conscious minds had never learned.

King's College London ran a larger study. 1,292 participants, real-time mood tracking through a phone app, 26,856 assessments over three years. Hearing or seeing birds improved mental wellbeing for up to eight hours afterward. The effect held for people diagnosed with depression. Trees, plants, and waterways didn't explain it. The birds themselves were the variable.

Now here's where Italy connects to Finland. 95% of parents in the Finnish city of Oulu let their babies nap outside starting at two weeks old. A 2008 study confirmed the children took longer, deeper naps outdoors. Parents reported letting them sleep in temperatures as low as -15°C. 66% said their babies were more active afterward compared to indoor naps. The practice started as a public health initiative from Nordic maternity clinics in the early 1900s and became cultural infrastructure.

The Italian kindergarten in this video is running the same program the Nordic countries have been running for a century. Outdoor naps, natural soundscapes, no white noise machines, no blackout curtains. Meanwhile, American kindergartens have been eliminating nap time entirely to squeeze in more instruction. A UMass study showed that children who skipped naps forgot 12% of what they learned that morning. The nap itself was the learning.

The irony is that the countries spending the least on sleep technology for children are producing the best sleep outcomes. No sound machines. No apps. Just birds.

[BROONO ㊆ @BROONOart]

I like goin to the gym at 3pm bc it’s just all the people with mysterious income sources

[JJ Velaz @jjvelazs]

Te conviertes en lo que piensas. Si le das basura a tu mente te vas a sentir como basura.

Las emociones no son problemas, son señales. El miedo te dice tus límites. El enfado te dice que límites se cruzaron, algo en lo que trabajar.

La ansiedad dice que estás atrapado en el futuro. Depresión que estás atrapado en el pasado. Señales para volver al presente.

La motivación no arreglará tu vida, los hábitos lo harán. Cuando cambias tus hábitos todo cambia.

Cuando alguien/algo te molesta, para un momento. Es un espejo mostrándote lo que no está curado dentro de ti.

[Carlos Alcaraz @carlosalcaraz]

Job completed! 🫡

[Pau 🌞🏺 @chepauet]

25 recordatorios para 2026

Todo saldrá bien!!! 🌞🫂

[Coconut Tree Faller Outer Ofer @Cam_Oflage]

don't really follow Stranger Things but i like that one of the white teenagers looks like a burnt-out middle-aged Japanese detective for some reason

[GBR @GayBearRes]

Airbnb has one incredible use case: you want to travel with a large group and don’t want to pay for 3+ hotel rooms.

Outside of that, people realized they were better off just getting a hotel room.

[astro @anonynaut]

I can see why the Italians saw this and invented unemployment

[JC @jc_herranz]

entrenando duro para que si alguna vez me viera envuelto en el asesinato simbolico del ceo de una gran multinacional del sector sanitario el foco de atencion estuviera en mis deltoides redondeados y no en la evaluación etica de mi protesta

[Kike @kikemarchan]

Qué gran concepto el de la "adaptación hedónica".

No importa el nuevo placer al que nos expongamos, como un gran viaje o gastarnos la pasta en un capricho, porque el ser humano tiene la increíble capacidad de acostumbrarse y volver a su nivel de felicidad inicial.

[Max @minordissent]

One of the most valuable mental heuristics i’ve adopted for my life is:

“what you have is what you deserve”

This doesn’t mean you don’t have the potential to become the type of person who “deserves better”. You do. Probably 10X or even 100x so.

But you, as you currently exist, are getting exactly what current you deserve.

If you have a problem with that (you should), you will need to do the hard work of taking risk or improving yourself to get somewhere else.

[Diego Arroyo @DiegoARRG]

una de las mayores verdades de la televisión y de la vida en The Office:

“I wish there was some way to know you’re on the good old days before you actually left them.

A poignant reminder you’re always in them. This is it, it doesn’t get better than this. More gratitude”

[José Morgado @josemorgado]

There is nothing like this entry in professional sports.