Jdubhuddz

it’s just my interpretation… of the situation

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

Succession sucks like Primus sucks

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

@doink_dude I read it, enjoyed it. Took some getting used to for the format, but I think it’s pretty successful in explaining the human experience of having a mental game menu. Yes it’s a little procedural to read but I can’t imagine a different approach being better. Not for everyone

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

@micah_erfan “I don’t want people in New York City telling me how to live my small town life!!!” They literally don’t. States rights are still a fucking thing. Just because you live in bumfuck nowhere and have 2 neighbors in a 10mi radius doesn’t mean your vote should be worth 10x mine

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

@StevenWallaby All bangers, next

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

@ReneTheRight Nah you suck dude, normal people live and let live and don’t manufacture outrage about other people’s bodies. Get a life

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your brain recognizes the shape of a tree in 50 milliseconds, way before you're consciously aware of what you're seeing. And within seconds, your stress levels start to drop, not because of fresh air but because of the shape itself.

Trees are what mathematicians call a fractal. The trunk splits into branches, those split into smaller branches, those into twigs. Same pattern, every scale. You see this design in coastlines, rivers, clouds, even the blood vessels in your own lungs.

A physicist at the University of Oregon named Richard Taylor has been measuring this for years. He hooks people up to brain-wave monitors, shows them different images, and tracks what happens. Trees win. When people look at the kind of fractals you find in branches and bark, stress drops by up to 60%. A Swedish researcher named Caroline Hagerhall found the same thing: fractal images trigger alpha waves in your brain, the wave pattern your brain produces when you're calm but still awake.

The swaying matters because your brain runs two attention systems. One is involuntary, stuff grabbing your focus whether you want it to or not. The other is directed, the one you actively control when you concentrate or resist checking your phone. Directed attention is a limited resource. It drains. City life burns through it fast: every notification, every ad, every car you dodge crossing the street. Tree branches moving in wind hold your involuntary attention just enough to be interesting, kind of like watching a campfire, but not so much that your directed system has to engage. One system stays gently occupied while the other recharges. Psychologists call this "soft fascination."

People at the University of Michigan tested this in 2008. They had volunteers walk for about an hour through either a tree-filled park or through downtown streets, then retake memory and attention tests. The park walkers improved their scores by 20%. Downtown walkers showed zero improvement. Walking on a treadmill didn't help either, so the benefit came from the trees, not the exercise. In 2015, researchers at Stanford went further. They scanned people's brains before and after 90-minute walks. Nature walkers showed less activity in the brain region that controls rumination, when your mind gets stuck replaying the same negative thoughts in a loop. City walkers showed no change in that region at all.

The dose is small. A 2019 Michigan study measured cortisol (the hormone your body pumps out when you're stressed) from saliva samples. Just 20 to 30 minutes in any place that felt natural, a backyard, a park, anything with some green, dropped cortisol 21% per hour beyond its normal daily decline.

You don't even need to go outside. Roger Ulrich published a study in the journal Science back in 1984, tracking 46 surgery patients across nine years of hospital records. Patients whose bed had a window facing trees recovered almost a full day faster than patients facing a brick wall (7.96 days vs 8.70), needed less pain medication, and got 3.5 times fewer negative notes from nurses. Stress-related illness costs the US over $300 billion a year. A window with a tree outside it costs close to nothing.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

To everyone who voted for him:

Fuck you.
Fuck your selfishness.
Fuck your ignorance.
Fuck your cruelty.
Fuck your racism.
Fuck your blind obedience.
Fuck your cult.

Fuck. You.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

“He didn’t literally mean he would wipe out an entire civilization”

Then he shouldn’t have fucking said it.

He’s the President of the United States. He has sole launch authority over the world’s most sophisticated nuclear arsenal, and words mean things.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

I’d like to apologize to every MAGA supporter I ever mocked.

I should have been meaner to you and done it more often.

Because you deserve to be endlessly reminded of how fucking stupid you are.

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

Oh wait, I get it. Lemmy is the baby. Now the show makes sense.

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

15 mins into Scotty with the Baby and @lemuelplummer is already one of the most immature and obnoxious mfs on Zeus… hope this gets better

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

@pasta_bushido That’s like saying we’ve outgrown paintings where you can see the brushstrokes. You’re conflating the quality (characteristic) something has with the quality (excellence) of that art. Some film grain looks bad, especially in some digital remasters. Doesn’t mean it’s all bad

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

Absolutely brilliant

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

@GetWeirdTX Were you personally offended by Druski’s whiteface stunt? Why or why not?

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

@CoochieBeating Where’s the gofundme to pay for his court fees? I’d love to donate

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

@graveyardquy Equally possible that you’re just wrong. I even agree with your whole argument about AI, you just used a bad example and now you’re dying on the dumbest hill.

[Bored Anne Gets Paid @nefertiti_lax]

@ThisStupidTwink The Habitual Be! One of my fave little studies. Only the Black children understood it!

https://t.co/3xPktB9Y48

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

@Ayotomilow0 Hate to fall for your cliché-filled engagement farming comment but “Exposing” someone for one of the most immediately recognizable traits and the easiest info to find out about? And is she just so authentic for burning a Quran? Go ahead and expand on that ayotomilow0

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

As accurate a description of Donald Trump as you will ever see

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

@RobVolatile Yet you view their whole essence as something lesser than. You’re not the big strong hero you think you are bud.

[Jdubhuddz @zestybundoo]

@RobVolatile Having an AI generated profile pic: feminine
Emojis in your display name: feminine
Asking grok about famous people visiting your profile: feminine
Being obsessed with gendering every little thing: extremely feminine

It’s easy to apply a label to something, and you hate women