Alex Dye

part hippie/part nerd,
into animals, music, comedy, hoops, and more

he/him

[Alex Dye @zadye23]

😎 https://t.co/A4qVcg0WOO #NBA #82and0

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@carpeangela Sweet Joooo ahhh hi bud

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@mmmelanierose

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oof

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This has a clinical name. Revenge bedtime procrastination. And the ADHD version runs on a completely different mechanism than the neurotypical one.

A neurotypical person stays up late because they want more leisure time. The ADHD brain stays up because it spent every drop of dopamine it had on executive function during the day. Sitting in meetings, managing transitions, filtering impulses, remembering the thing you were supposed to remember. That burns through dopamine the way sprinting burns through glycogen. By 10pm the tank is empty.

But here's where it gets counterintuitive. The exhaustion is physical. The dopamine deficit is neurological. Those are two separate systems. Your muscles want sleep. Your prefrontal cortex is starving for the stimulation it was denied all day because it spent 14 hours on task-switching and impulse control instead of anything that actually felt rewarding.

The phone at midnight is the brain trying to collect what it's owed. Low-effort, high-stimulation content. Scrolling, short videos, rabbit holes. The exact profile of activity that delivers dopamine without requiring the executive function you already depleted.

The sleep researchers call this a "self-regulation failure." It's closer to a debt collection. You borrowed against your own reward system to function all day. The bill comes due at midnight. And the brain will not let you sleep until it gets paid.

[Alex Dye @zadye23]

Are we too tired as a society to give a shit about this or

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨do you understand what just happened..

Trump sued his own IRS for $10 billion over leaked tax returns.. then settled with his own DOJ.. and the settlement created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded fund to compensate his political allies

the president filed the lawsuit.. the president's DOJ settled it.. the president's allies collect the money.. and you're paying for it

the fund covers Jan 6th defendants.. Mar-a-Lago raid claims.. the Russia investigation.. anyone who says they were a victim of "lawfare" can file a claim and get a check

they named it the "Anti-Weaponization Fund".. and made the number $1.776 billion.. they even made the corruption patriotic

in 1974 Nixon resigned for using government agencies against political enemies.. in 2026 the government is cutting checks to political allies and calling it justice

[Alex Dye @zadye23]

@CeraGibson That's goddamn right 🥂

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@TimGarrisonMN Isaiah Collier is a star in the making, one of the league's best kept secrets. If they don't get Dybantsa I think they take Wilson or Boozer

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@adukeMN Cheryl is simply the best 🙌

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@carpeangela

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@TheSteinLine Folks should get used to Ant's teams being contenders, it's gonna be the case for a lot of years

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@PDWolves

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@JonKrawczynski They understand that a Rudy 3 going in would be worth much more than 3 points, the whole place would go nuts

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@PDWolves Please, we've punked them at every turn and Ant hasn't even been a big part of it, they'll win another game.

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@VicLombardi @AltitudeTV You're being a little bitch Vic, just so you know

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@JonKrawczynski Isn't it funny how "breaking an unwritten rule" by not actually breaking any rules is "classless", but freaking out over something meaningless and trying to start a fight over it isn't

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@sinwithquin I know how you feel :( This has everything to do with them though, you don't deserve to be treated like that

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@SportDunceDiary @Perrywinkle1267 Your marginally better regular season just.. doesn't mean anything 🤷 That's why they're gonna go ahead and have a playoff series to decide who's really better

[Alex Dye @zadye23]

@SportDunceDiary @Perrywinkle1267 How bout em, lol, I feel great about their rotation. You'll see today 👍 Y'all are at least as cocky and overconfident now as you were when the Wolves sent you home crying, don't know why you learned nothing from that experience

[Alex Dye @zadye23]

@SportDunceDiary @Perrywinkle1267 Lol what you should know is Ant busted your team's ass when he was 22 and he's a hell of a lot better at 24

[Alex Dye @zadye23]

@Perrywinkle1267 It's like the famous old saying "they don't play the games for a reason"