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I love that special moment when you introduce a new book to the rest of their siblings 📖 #BookTwitter @JillMansell

"He didn't pick the strongest...he picked the one who needed him.".🤗

"Say some stupid shit again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say some stupid shit one more Goddamn time, you drunk ass, bitch!"

-William Shakespeare·

The most quoted "there's no spoon" scene from Matrix is the most misunderstood scene. The boy tells Neo the spoon doesn't exist. Most people think this means "nothing is real, everything is simulation." Wrong interpretation. Completely backward. The spoon exists. The child exists. The conversation exists. What doesn't exist is the boundary between the spoon and Neo. The separation is the illusion. When you try to bend a spoon with your mind, you're operating from the assumption that "you" are separate from "spoon." Subject acts on object. Mind controls matter. That duality creates the impossibility. The child figured out something neuroscientists are just confirming: Your brain doesn't distinguish between self and environment the way you think it does. The neural networks that represent "your body" extend seamlessly into the networks that represent "the space around your body." The boundary exists in language, not in neural reality. For example, a tennis racket becomes an extension of your arm, a race car becomes an extension of your body. The instrument stops being separate and starts being you. The spoon bends because Neo stops treating it as external. The separation dissolves. There's no spoon to manipulate because there's no separate self doing the manipulating. This is grounded in science. Embodied cognition research shows your brain can map the tools and objects you focus on as real extensions of your body schema. Pianists’ brains often represent piano keys within their finger map. Surgeons’ brains can represent their instruments as extended limbs. The Matrix scene was accidentally teaching applied neuroscience disguised as sci fi philosophy. The real takeaway: Stop trying to change things outside yourself. Recognize that the "outside" is a cognitive construction. The spoon bends when you realize you are the spoon.

The United Auto Workers union throws down the gauntlet to Donald Trump by challenging him to work a 12 hour shift after he disparagingly says a “child” could do their job. “I want to see you assemble parts ‘out of a box’ for 12 hours,” said union member Dawnya Ferdinansen in a newly released video. “Until you actually work a manual labor job, you keep the name of the UAW out of your mouth.” “Solidarity y’all!” she added. Trump made his offensive remarks during an interview at the Economic Club of Chicago— “They build everything in Germany, and then they assemble it here,” he said. “They take them out of a box and they assemble them. We could have our child do it.” Clearly, Trump is bitter against the UAW for endorsing Kamala Harris. “Donald Trump is a billionaire who’s never worked a real job in his life,” said UAW President Shawn Fain. “He doesn’t know the first thing about hard work, and he wouldn’t last a day in an auto plant,” he added. “He isn’t fit to be an autoworker, and he certainly isn’t fit to be the President.” Oompa-Loompa

Tiny Dracula statue in Hungary.

Love this. I don’t think I’d travel down them, I’d just stop on a step and read 👌🏻

Dr. Iran, If you want to solve your Donald Trump problem, just tell him that Barack Obama was a better president because he was able to hold his breath for 15 minutes. Yours in helpful foreign policy advice, CHT 🇨🇦

"Dear Iran: If you really want to make Trump mad, send a press release that says you will only negotiate with Obama."

Omg yes 🙌🏻

🚨 PAKISTAN DROPS A BOMB ON ISRAEL AT THE UN 🔥 Pakistan’s ambassador just destroyed Israel in front of the entire United Nations: “Israel is a rogue state, an occupier, and a state terrorist that violates UN resolutions, commits genocide in Gaza, and practices state terrorism even on Palestinian land.” He didn’t hold back. This speech is now going viral across the Middle East. The world is watching. Share before they try to hide it 👇

@LangmanVince Christ I’d wear that to the McDonald’s drive through if my body was the same

Why does Jennifer Lopez feel the need to dress half-naked on stage?

Los libros de historia pasaron por alto discretamente el hecho de que Barack Obama, durante las noches más saturadas de presión de su presidencia, se retiraba solo a la Sala de Tratados en el segundo piso de la residencia de la Casa Blanca —no para trazar estrategias, no para tomar llamadas, sino para escribir a mano cartas personales a diez ciudadanos estadounidenses comunes cada única noche, una práctica que mantuvo con una devoción casi monástica durante los ocho años completos, seleccionando él mismo las cartas de las 40.000 que llegaban diariamente a la Casa Blanca, y su directora de correspondencia de toda la vida, Fiona Reese, confirmó que Obama a menudo lloraba en privado mientras leía ciertas cartas, doblándolas con cuidado antes de escribir respuestas tan personalmente detalladas y emocionalmente presentes que los destinatarios describían frecuentemente la experiencia de recibirlas como el momento más significativo de sus vidas, con un obrero siderúrgico de Ohio escribiendo de vuelta para decir que la carta de Obama lo había detenido físicamente de tomar una decisión que habría alterado permanentemente el futuro de su familia. Lo que hace que esta práctica sea casi insoportablemente conmovedora es el detalle que surgió después —Obama nunca usó una computadora para estas cartas, siempre un bolígrafo de punta de fieltro negro, siempre papel legal amarillo primero como borrador, siempre reescrito a mano una segunda vez en el papel membretado de la Casa Blanca, porque él creía, como le dijo a la historiadora Doris Kearns Goodwin en una rara conversación privada después relatada en su obra de 2018, que el acto físico de presionar la pluma contra el papel obligaba a una calidad de atención que simplemente teclear no podía replicar, una filosofía arraigada en sus años como profesor de derecho constitucional en la Universidad de Chicago de 1992 a 2004, donde desarrolló la convicción de que la democracia solo funciona cuando sus líderes permanecen genuinamente, incómodamente cerca de la gravedad específica del sufrimiento humano individual en lugar de procesarlo desde la distancia aislante de las instituciones y las pantallas.

a tiny house where stories come to live and leave with someone new 🌸📖

@Amelia558rs People often forget the meaning of the wedding day and it’s your choice how you honour your love and express it in your dress. Personally I love the embroidery and can completely see why you’re smitten with it. You’ll remember this forever - don’t let anyone’s negativity spoil it

My maid of honor looked at this dress I'd spent eight months waiting for and said, "That's... not a wedding dress. It's a costume." The words hit like ice water. I'd fallen in love with the embroidery after seeing the seamstress's work on the Tedooo app - she specializes in traditional dresses, and I wanted something that honored my grandmother's heritage. Every flower was hand-stitched, every hummingbird placed with intention. It cost me three months of savings and countless late-night messages about thread colors and placement. Now I'm two months from the wedding, and my entire bridal party is "gently suggesting" I find something more "classic." My mother-in-law offered to buy me a "proper" dress from David's Bridal. But when I put this on, I see my grandmother's garden, her stories about village celebrations, the culture she left behind when she immigrated. Yes, it's not a traditional white gown. Yes, people might whisper. But isn't a wedding dress supposed to make you feel like the truest version of yourself? I'm torn between keeping peace and keeping this dress that makes my heart sing every time I look at those embroidered birds.

Kitting out my book room walls and couldn’t resist this on @Etsy - sums me up perfectly 👌🏻🦇 🖼️ 👇🏻

BREAKING: Italy SHOCKED world 🔥🔥 Schlein, the leader of the opposition DEFENDS Meloni against Trump’s attacks 🔥🔥 🇮🇹She said : “Listen Trump Even as political opponents, We Italians will not accept any attacks against our country especially from your bad mouth." What a lady, She is setting great example as a opponent. BIG SALUTE 🫡