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@kingno_ Texas ❤️Tech🏀Taco tailgate - free for Students or 1dolla

@gdsmasljs Tell office beforehand so they can give appropriate meds and reassurance

you guys. tomorrow will be first dentist appointment in 15 years. 🫣 please don’t judge me. my anxiety around the dentist is unreal. but i am finally doing it.

@GigaBeers Concentrate on Taking care of yourself and your children these last few months

Pregnant Second Lady Usha Vance cradling her baby bump as she and Vice President JD Vance arrive in Budapest, Hungary today. Baby boy #4 is due in late July — and she’s still out there representing with grace and poise on the world stage. Beautiful moment. 🇺🇸 👶🏻

@bewarephog Houston

Does any college basketball player like their school and coach? Anyone? This is all so weird.

@MAGANEWS_X Yes dept of education is horrible. States need to control

Question for MAGA from a liberal woman. "Hi, I'm just wondering if you guys who voted for Trump — did you vote for the Department of Education to be dismantled? Because that's what he's doing right now. MAGA?

@jaylassoku Not as fun- I enjoyed getting to know the team &watching players develop

losing disloyal players to the portal to bring in more disloyal players from the portal seems like a cruel punishment for fans

@brittilina Some things never make sense- it hurts. I don’t have a good answer but being faithful to God for his providence is wise

So this is me admitting to envy publicly, but also just feeling sad for missing out on … something. Might delete. At our church, we have a policy of letting small groups handle ministries like baby showers and meal trains and such. The small group I attend didn’t forget me or anything. They gave me a small diaper shower at one of our meetings and set up a meal train for four meals after we got home from the hospital. But it does hurt to see other ladies who were pregnant at the same time as me getting full-on showers with registry gifts (we needed actual baby things again, and $$ is tighter than it was w our 3yo) where the whole church was invited. Just now, the sister of a new mama posted her meal train for the whole church to participate in and it had a solid fourteen meal slots. We went to church with our baby for the first time this week, and one of the leaders of the women’s ministry told me she didn’t even know I was pregnant. Just feels like you have to be popular to get more support, and if you don’t have an advocate or want to toot your own horn, you aren’t as valued as other women. So now I’m midnight-nursing-ugly-crying over here. Don’t mind me. Most ppl don’t. *end self-pity vent* P.S. I had this same feeling with my last baby - the shower situation was exactly the same (our gap then was 5 years, so we had even less baby stuff then). We had more financial wiggle room, but I struggled postpartum and really could have used a robust meal train.

@NFL_DovKleiman And……ok

Heartbreaking: The legendary Aaron Rodgers says he will completely disappear from the spotlight forever when he retires from the NFL. “You won’t see me” 😔💔 Rodgers plans to live a private life with his wife.

South Dakota voter has a message for @LeaderJohnThune: “I gave up a lot; I moved my family here from Pennsylvania about 4 years ago. I came to South Dakota b/c it was supposed to be the land of the free. You’re letting me down. Do the right thing. Pass the SAVE [America] Act.”

@Santiago_Xx1 Bravo!!!

Mi abuela me pidió que fuera su contacto de emergencia. Yo tengo 23 años. Nadie más quiso asumirlo. El cardiólogo explicó la cirugía. Riesgo alto. Beneficio incierto. La familia evitó decidir. —Lo que diga el médico —repetían. Mi abuela no quería la operación. Lo dijo frente a todos. —No quiero despertar conectada a máquinas. Firmé su voluntad anticipada con ella. Días después un tío intentó revertir el documento. —No estaba en sus cabales —argumentó. El hospital revisó todo. Mi abuela fue clara. Consciente. Libre. No hubo cirugía. Murió en casa, sin dolor, con música suave. Parte de la familia dejó de hablarme. Dicen que no luché lo suficiente. Yo sé que cumplí lo único que pidió. “Respetar también es una forma de amor.” —Anónimo

I saw a video of a woman cleaning her home that said something powerful: “I’m taking care of what God has already given me so He knows I’ll appreciate what’s coming next.” That really stuck with me. Sometimes the blessing isn’t about getting more… it’s about how well you take care of what you already have. Gratitude, stewardship, and appreciation open the door for even greater things. 💫

@emorylyda41 Amazing- I may have to watch nba

I don’t feel like people respected what Christian Anderson did this season enough. - played 92.7% of all Tech’s minutes despite missing a game. Almost all of his sub-outs were in garbage time. - 108 3s on 41.5% shooting with 57% being unassisted - broke Tech’s assist record.

@BartomeoMatthew @UziCryptoo Also true

@UziCryptoo Yes, but…. Nearly everyone who uses credit cards (me included) will spend more than if you used cash. You may still pay it off, but you could probably save more if you restricted your budget using cash.

CALLER: I put $3,000 worth of monthly expenses on my credit card and pay off in full. I get 2% cash back, so that's $60 back every month. DAVE RAMSEY: Get rid of the card. You're telling me that you spend $3,000 on a high interest credit card, just to get $60? That's not how you get rich! CALLER: I don't pay interest, I pay it off every month and get $60. DAVE RAMSEY: Get rid the card, use debit cards ONLY! CALLER: So give up the $60 I get back monthly? DAVE RAMSEY: That's not how you get rich! In reality, if you are resposible, USE credit cards. It's not just cash back. It's also liability protection. Every dollar matters.

@ronrule There are many blended programs with homeschool kids taking choir orchestra athletics which is a great combo I admire most of the homeschool parents

If you homeschool your kids, you should be exempt from the portion of your property taxes that goes to the local schools.

A middle-aged @usairforce colonel went through a shoot down and a parachute drop, was severely injured, treated his own wounds, ran five miles in enemy territory, climbed a 7,000-foot mountain, radioed the proclamation, "God is good," and then holed up in a crevice in near-freezing temperatures for two days while his brothers and sisters came to rescue him. That's America; that's the American military; that's the United States Air Force.

@TechTina02 Nimari Burnett played at Tech, Ala, and now Michigan

We’re gonna have a whole new basketball team next year

@rtpgfx @JazzHenderson3 😢Go be great!!

Texas Tech Guard Jazz Henderson has entered the transfer portal via @rtpgfx instagram post

@TortillaTosserU @WreckEmMatt @RaiderCats123 Amen to disconnected frontal lobes- throw in the entire cerebrum

@WreckEmMatt @RaiderCats123 Ditto except I can forgive. Most of the ones defaming him every game are clearly dudes under 25 with disconnected frontal lobes. I get it. I was there once and wouldn’t want anyone not forgiving me for being young, dumb, & naive.

It didn’t work out and that’s ok. Can’t hit on everyone. I’ll never forgive so many of you for making me defend him throughout the season. He wasn’t what we expected but I do appreciate the effort and never let the offensive struggles impact his defensive intensity

@TransferPortal @RyanHyattMedia @JoeTipton No one worked harder than Watts. Unsung hero in my book. Stay in college one more year and get the appreciation you deserve

NEW: Texas Tech forward LeJuan Watts plans to enter the NCAA transfer portal while going through the NBA draft process, @JoeTipton reports. on3.com/news/texas-tec…

Social media algorithms exploit dopamine via variable rewards—like unpredictable likes, notifications, and infinite scrolls—mimicking slot machines and fueling addiction-like loops (Stanford Medicine, 2021; Scientific American, 2026). This builds tolerance, as the brain adapts to constant hits. Withdrawal hits hard: anxiety, irritability, cravings, and FOMO emerge as dopamine pathways reset, often taking 1-4 weeks (Lembke's Dopamine Nation; PMC studies). To fight back and reclaim humanity: - Cap use at 15-30 min/day with built-in timers or blockers. - Curate feeds: follow real friends, mute/unfollow creators. - Detox 7-30 days; switch phone to grayscale, disable notifications. - Swap scrolling for in-person talks—real connections deliver sustainable dopamine without algorithms. Start small; consistency rewires your attention and bonds.

Mark Zuckerberg just described the death of human connection on the internet and no one flinched. One sentence. Fifteen years of erosion in twelve words. Mark Zuckerberg: “Social media started out as people primarily interacting with their friends. And now… at least half of the content is basically people interacting with creators.” You used to open your phone to see what your friends were doing. Now you open it to watch strangers. You did not choose this. The algorithm chose it for you. It tested your friends against optimized strangers. Your friends lost. Every time. A stranger with better lighting, better timing, and a better hook held your attention three seconds longer than someone who loves you. So the algorithm buried your best friend’s wedding photos under a cooking video from someone in Dubai you have never met. And you watched the cooking video. That was the first replacement. Friends for strangers. You barely noticed. The second one is already underway. If the algorithm already proved strangers outperform your real relationships, and AI can now build a stranger more engaging than any human alive, the math finishes itself. The AI does not have a bad week. It does not post something careless and lose the algorithm’s favor. It does not burn out. Every word calibrated. Every frame tuned. Every pause placed at the exact interval that keeps your thumb from moving. A human creator competing against that is carving stone tablets in a world that just built the printing press. The economics are not even close. A person needs rent, sleep, and motivation. The machine needs electricity. When the cost of generating perfect content hits zero, the feed fills with faces that do not exist. Voices that feel familiar. Opinions that mirror yours just enough to feel like trust. Personalities built from scratch to feel like someone you have known for years. You will not know when the switch happens. That is the point. The feed does not care whether the thing holding your attention has a pulse. It cares whether you stay. And a machine that knows your patterns better than you know yourself will always keep you longer than a person ever could. This is not a warning. Half of it already happened. You lost your friends to strangers and did not notice. You will lose the strangers to machines and call them friends. Somewhere in a different app, in a different tab, in a room you are sitting in right now, someone who actually knows you is living a moment you will never see. Not because they stopped sharing it. Because you stopped being where it was.