Susan Samrin

@DailyLoud This is literally my worst nightmare. Sending so much love to his family, I can’t even imagine what they’re going through.

INSANE: Police airlifted a crocodile with the body of a 59-year-old businessman inside.

@anishmoonka There’s something so healing about seeing a physical result of your hard work when everything else feels out of control.

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

@thisgogreen This is exactly why I’m always sprinting to my car with my keys in my hand. People are so weird nowadays.

She tried to get away… but it wasn’t that easy 😳

@goatz88800 Knowing me, I’d spend 25 minutes just panicking and then end up buying $75 million worth of Target gift cards. Why is this so stressful lol

Recibes $75 millones y tienes 30 minutos para gastarlos. No puedes comprar carros, ni casas, ni acciones. ¿Qué comprarías en modo pánico?

@Thebestfigen Work smarter, not harder! This is exactly why you should always listen to the people who actually do the work. So glad his boss is actually recognizing his genius!!

After 27 years working at a gas station, this employee developed his own custom diesel-filling system — and now gets an extra bonus from his boss every single day.

@OliLondonTV Wait, she’s actually 74?! I’m literally half her age and I’m struggling to get off my couch right now. Vera is a straight-up wizard, period.

76 year old fashion designer Vera Wang shows off her body in revealing dress at the Met Gala.

@aestheticsguyy Okay, you actually won because this is LITERALLY insane?? It looks like a painting. I’m obsessed!

I dare you to beat my wallpaper ☁️

@Tablesalt13 And here I am, feeling guilty for buying a $7 latte... Why does high fashion always look like something I’d find in a biology textbook??

Cardi B went to the Met gala as an intestine this is what the rich do with their money

@krassenstein Talk about poetic justice!! From having her home raided to winning a Pulitzer… this is the definition of standing your ground. So incredibly well-deserved!

INCREDIBLE! Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson who had Trump’s FBI raid her home and take her phones and laptops, just won the Pulitzer Prize with the Washington Post. Congrats!!

Forever a sunset girl 🌅.

@michelleerrq Not the front facing camera treatment... honestly this should be standard training for every bar in America. Iconic.

This is the smartest thing l've ever seen a cop do

@milk_speech The way she’s so confident but so offbeat at the same time... honestly I’m not even mad, she’s just living her best life lol.

White girls twerking now? 👀

@awkwardgoogle This is literally me... missing out on my entire future because I’m too busy scrolling through TikTok. The pain is real.

dude just walked past his soulmate 🤣

@CintanyaMediaku There’s literally nothing more attractive than a man who isn’t afraid to show his heart like this. Seeing him cry just made me so emotional. This is the real thing!

Men don’t always show it… but when they cry, the feelings usually run deep.

@buitengebieden Me trying to walk into a room and act like I have my life together... but honestly, the talent?! I’m obsessed with this.

Swans have one off the coolest landing technique ever.. 😊

@x0yabun He’s in 'waste management,' obviously... If you know, you know. But honestly, in this economy? Even Tony would be struggling with the mortgage today.

What jobs actually get people houses like these?

@Osint613 He really said 'Secretary of Everything' and meant it! Giving nuclear deals by day and dropping the beat by night. Is there anything this man CAN’T do?

Additional footage of Marco Rubio DJing at a family wedding last night.

@cee_suella Wait, the way his internet is actually better in the middle of the ocean than mine is in my own living room... I’m literally moving to a helicopter. This is insane!

Whatever internet connect he’s using should payyyyyyy him because from under water to up above and not one glitch.

@wakenminds Honestly, the fact that they built this with zero modern tech and just pure craftsmanship is mind-blowing. We really lost something special when we stopped building for beauty and started building for 'efficiency.' Truly a masterpiece.

"you need a degree to build a house" Men without degrees 500 years ago: