jack?

chaotic good 🌱

[jack? @yaquelean]

hello? is this thing on?

[Ömerr @sbzomer]

Karmaşık ailelerde yetişen kızların büyük umutları olmaz. onlar sadece bağımsız olmak ve kimsenin ellerinden alamayacağı huzurlu bir yuva ister.

[kat @yslnadi]

youngsters don't know this but twitter used to be bird themed. the bird icon. bird house for home. egg for new account. never forget what they took from us

[Oluwatimileyin✨🦋 @Timmysofine]

If we apologized to children more, we would have more adults that accept accountability for their actions.

[Anvi🍒 @anvixox]

when i was so busy at work and didn’t even get a chance to pretend i was working:

[Jack @JackInacker]

I'm tired of Congress being the wealthiest nursing home in the country.

[sabina @thespaceavenue]

eleven years ago btw

[isha @MibshaD]

It took 93 years to admit PCOS isn't just cysts, it’s a full metabolic failure.
We’ve been gaslit, handed birth control pills, and told to "just lose weight" while fighting chronic insulin resistance from the inside.
Women’s health is still treated as an afterthought. We deserve better.

[𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐢✰ @_timiszn]

we broke while making triple what our parents made.

[quote @itsmubashi]

mulan (1998) — mulan is told "a girl can bring her family great honor in one way... by striking a good match." both of mulan's victories over the huns involved lighting explosives

[Dee Holt 🍎🍟🍎❄️ ➏ @D_1andOnly_]

The amount of men calling him a simp for simply respecting and caring for his Wife health and body is sickening

[benevolent madeline @reglarwoman]

neighborhood child with a noble cause

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your brain is built to forget almost everything that happens to you. It makes one exception, and you're looking at it.

Carole Peterson at Memorial University has spent over 25 years studying our earliest memories. She found that the first one most adults can recall comes from age 2.5, not 3.5 as the old textbooks said. The early memories that survive share three things: a strong feeling, a new experience, and a physical sensation. A wave, a dad's grip, and the weird feeling of riding a board check every box.

The mechanism lives in the amygdala. It's the brain's emotion sensor, sitting right next to the hippocampus, the part that files memories. When something big happens, the amygdala triggers a flood of stress hormones like cortisol. That's the signal to the hippocampus to file this one extra deep. James McGaugh at UC Irvine spent his career showing this works for happy moments too. The amygdala fires for pleasure the same way it fires for fear. What matters is how loud the feeling is.

Dads play a particular role here. Daniel Paquette, a developmental psychologist in Montreal, has spent 20 years researching what he calls the "activation relationship." Moms tend to be the safe base kids come back to. Dads tend to be the door to the outside world. They push kids into new and slightly scary situations, and stand right there as the safety net. Kids who grow up with this kind of dad end up more confident, less anxious, and more comfortable around strangers.

A 2017 review pulled together 16 studies covering 1,521 father-child pairs. Quality rough-and-tumble play, which means the wrestling and tossing and chasing kind, was linked to lower aggression, better emotion regulation, and stronger self-control. In rats, baby animals that don't get to play-fight grow up with an under-developed prefrontal cortex, which handles planning and impulse control.

Christina Bethell's 2019 study in JAMA Pediatrics took the long view. Her team at Johns Hopkins surveyed 6,188 Wisconsin adults about their positive childhood experiences. Adults reporting six or seven of those had 72 percent lower odds of adult depression than those reporting zero to two. The effect held even for people with serious childhood trauma. Good moments keep paying out for decades.

The original tweet is right. The moments that burn in are the ones with big feelings, new physical sensations, and an adult who is the bridge between safe and scary. Twenty years from now, the grip is what he'll remember.

[Ron Iver @ronnui_]

Thank you I will adjust accordingly

[5hahem @shaTIRED]

Knowing that politicians have the power to do stuff like this but simply don’t…

[💗 @ma1ybe]

Child-free feminist women actually do for society what men pretend to do

[Triiad ୭୭ @triiadxx]

when you realize that the most many men do for one woman is the bare minimum your friend does on a random Tuesday at 3pm just because she loves you and wants to see you

[ً @wynrosei]

"What radicalized you?"
Watching my female relatives plan, cook, shop, decorate, clean, and organize for the holidays while the men just show up and watch TV the whole time.