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Sit. Feast on your life.

A Forest by Gustav Klimt

A cat that simply gazes at butterflies without even chasing them

Orcas have brain structures you don't have. Neurobiologist Lori Marino's MRI work on killer whales identified a fourth cortical segment called the paralimbic lobe. It sits next to the limbic system and handles emotion and social awareness. It doesn't exist in humans or in any land mammal. In orcas, it's so elaborated it erupts into the cortex. Their cortical limbic lobe, the region handling self-awareness and social processing, is exceptionally developed. Their brain weighs roughly 12 pounds, four times the mass of yours. They have spindle cells, the same neurons that let humans reason about other minds. When an orca surfaces and locks eyes with you, it's running a social assessment with neural hardware specialized for exactly that. It knows you're a separate being. It knows you're watching it back. It's evaluating you. Here's what should recontextualize the clip. In all of recorded history, wild orcas have killed zero humans. Zero documented fatalities. One surfer was bitten off California in 1972, and the orca released him the moment it realized he wasn't a sea lion. A 12-year-old was bumped in Alaska in 2005. The orca approached, touched him, turned back. Orcas hunt great white sharks. They coordinate wave attacks that sweep seals off ice floes. They take down moose swimming between islands. They have every capability to kill you. They have never chosen to. Marino's explanation: the orca neocortex is developed enough to instantly distinguish a human from prey. Other researchers point to orca culture, the traditions passed through pods across generations, in which humans simply aren't food. That look is recognition and restraint. From a mind built for social cognition at a scale your brain can't reach.

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how it feels when the person you love loves you in the exact same way you wished to be loved:

Scooping up some fruit salad for myself but mostly stealing all the bits w green grapes

Found this somewhere.. thousands of thoughts in just one picture.

Happy situation monitoring day to all who enjoy monitoring the situation

There is something hopeful about watching a workspace with no screens

"After evening prayers in Ramadan, an imam in Istanbul turns the grounds of Amin Ali Pasha Mosque into a play space for children, saying he wants them to grow up feeling welcome in the mosque." ©thenewarab

One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)

When you’re reading Surah Al Baqarah and get to Ayatul Kursi

“If only I could wake up and move on, for every step I take away, I take two back toward you” - Ahmed Saad

“They say the hearts are connected I missed you, did you sense it?”

Doggo just wanted a chance to compete in the Winter Olympics.

No one diligently ignores you on all social apps like your own blood. @Zenbeee

not my monkeys and not my circus, but admittedly i am hopelessly enamored by the ringleader.

Ugh I was so thoroughly delighted by this. LIked it and had to SNATCH MY LIKE BACK when I read the comments. I'm sad now

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