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Curious how my old pinned tweet (check date/timestamp) from 5 years ago mysteriously disappeared. The original link is dead, but everything has a second life on the internet.

@Trish2289 @RetroCrone That’s a lot of isolation, with transient neighbors. Not good for seniors.

@RetroCrone Extended stay motel and get a storage unit for your belongings you can't part with

My resources are limited. I can’t afford to live in one of the fancy retirement places with all the activities. I need safe, clean, kind, responsible. I don’t think I am the only one.

@TheNextAlan @arenella1 1.62% margin of the popular vote is an odd definition of “landslide.” Cope.

@arenella1 Cope. Trump won a landslide. He's doing exactly what he said he would do. His voters are happy. Congress didn't dare to challenge him for doing it. Elections have consequences.

Last night, one of my friends who works for an intelligence service in France, called me to vent about Trump. To sum up his observations: 1] European leaders expected a shit show because of their insider knowledge about all of Trump's flaws. But, Trump's willingness to start a

@Mike_Reynolds34 @TheKairosPulse And the window shade pulled down.

@TheKairosPulse The a-hole in row 26b had his seat reclined during take-off.

Any guesses about what could’ve been wrong here? 📹: bristolcardifairport

@MySharonaBrown @bdquinn 🦎

@bk13k @bdquinn Evidently, he’s very social and when he can’t crawl on a visitor to their house to say hello he turns black in protest.

Look at this pretty fella. I think he wants pound cake.

@MySharonaBrown @bdquinn Not me.

@bk13k @bdquinn Did you bake him a cake?

@MySharonaBrown @HackingButLegal I’d like to know what it’s a photo of.

@HackingButLegal That's an irresponsible photo they've published.

Antifascism is not a "far left" ideology. It is the core of Americanism since World War II, when the fascist druggie tiny dick lunatic Hitler decided he wanted to take over the planet and had to be cornered to death in his bunker

@ihtesham2005 ADHD people know this from a different perspective.

A community college professor taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years, and the video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings on the internet. His name is Marty Lobdell. He spent his career as a psychology professor watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because nobody had ever taught them how their brain actually works under the pressure of learning something hard. The lecture is called "Study Less Study Smart." Over 10 million views. Passed around in Reddit threads, Discord servers, and university study groups for over a decade. And the core insight buried inside it has been sitting in cognitive psychology research for years, waiting for someone to explain it in plain language. Here is the framework that completely changed how I think about effort. Your brain does not sustain focus the way you think it does. Studies tracking real students found that the average learner hits a wall somewhere between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency doesn't just decline. It collapses. You're still sitting at your desk, still looking at the page, but almost nothing is going in. Lobdell illustrated this with a student he knew personally. She set a goal of studying 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week, to pull herself out of academic probation. Thirty hours of studying per week. She failed every single class that quarter. She wasn't failing because she lacked effort. She was failing because she had confused time spent near books with time spent actually learning. The 25-minute crash hit her at 6:30pm every night. She spent the next five and a half hours sitting in the wreckage of her own focus and calling it studying. The fix sounds almost too simple. The moment you feel the slide, stop. Take five minutes. Do something that actually gives you a small reward. Then go back. That five-minute reset returns you to near full efficiency. Across a six-hour window, the difference is not marginal. It is the difference between thirty minutes of real learning and five and a half hours of it. The second thing he taught destroyed something I had believed about how memory actually works. Highlighting feels productive. Going back over your notes and recognizing everything feels like knowing. But recognition and recollection are two completely different cognitive processes, and your brain is very good at making you confuse them. You can see something you've read before and feel completely certain you understand it, even when you couldn't reconstruct a single sentence from memory if the page were blank. He proved this live in the room. He read 13 random letters to his audience. Almost nobody could recall them. Then he rearranged the same 13 letters into two words: Happy Thursday. The whole room got all 13 without effort. Same letters. Same count. The only thing that changed was meaning. The brain stores meaning. Not repetition. The moment new information connects to something you already understand, the retention changes entirely. This is what the cognitive psychology literature calls elaborative encoding, and it is the mechanism underneath every effective study technique. The third principle was the one that hit me hardest, and the one almost nobody applies. Lobdell cited research showing that 80 percent of your study time should be spent in active recitation, not passive reading. Close the material. Say it back in your own words. Teach it to someone else, or to an empty chair if no one is around. The struggle of retrieval is where the actual learning happens. Reading your notes again is watching someone else do the work. His parting line has stayed with me longer than almost anything else I have read about learning. He told the room that if what he shared didn't change their behavior, they hadn't actually learned it. It would just live in their heads as something they had heard once and felt good about. He was right. And most people leave every lecture exactly like that. The students who remember everything aren't putting in more hours. They stopped confusing the feeling of studying with the fact of it.

@DC4Hope @MacFarlaneNews Incorrect. Harris lost but by a smaller margin than past elections. This is a red-red-red district. He wasn’t expected to flip it.

@MacFarlaneNews Harris did terribly in GA Yikes

Big night for Democrats in the swing-state of Wisconsin. Party official: "Twelve counties that went red in 2025’s election have swung blue" More insights in my "Day Ahead" daily editorial note: open.substack.com/pub/macfarlane…

@kimBOVILLE @visionergeo This was reported by most media days ago. Keep up.

@visionergeo So there is admission that a jet was downed by Iran???

‼️🇺🇲🇮🇷 BIG | According to Fox News, the safety of the American pilot who crashed in the mountains of Iran was protected by the US Air Force around the clock. Moreover, as part of the protective operation, the positions of the Iranians near the American pilot were struck with the full range of weapons, from tactical aviation to B-1 type strategic bombers. It is also revealed that an MQ-9 Reaper drone neutralized with a precise strike an Iranian soldier who approached the location of the American pilot within 3 km. See the latest updates with us: @visionergeo

@MySharonaBrown Some “truths” have been issued, but do not look like fearless leader’s writing style.

Anyone know if he has been truthing?

@Bacontrophy84 @luxemiaa Are you posting your comments from a 1950’s time warp? That’s what you sound like. Jeeze, what a throwback attitude!

Oh my ga… I would have never said that to ANYONE at that age, except to my best friend or when I needed to get out of something. The fact this young woman is telling people this is a huge problem. The other problem is he made a point to make sure she knew he knew. That’s an even bigger problem.

@MySharonaBrown @Lisa_Hall_NC @iluvwisdom And that pointy finger in hearings.

@Lisa_Hall_NC @iluvwisdom That voice 😵‍💫

What if the most memorable thing you did in your career was say the words "The Dow is over 50,000 right now."

@MacFarlaneNews Depose her anyway.

@MacFarlaneNews Take it as a given: He’s always planting seeds. He’s always meddling.

Is Trump planting seeds now for potential meddling after midterm elections? My conversation with Don Lemon

@MySharonaBrown My best friend died from AIDS, and I sat with him during his last grueling days. Hardest thing I have ever done.

When I was a teenager a neighbor died of AIDS. I couldn’t understand why Reagan wasn’t helping. The experience profoundly shaped my politics.

@ICannot_Enough Not a great example. Elevators operate within a rigidly defined location, the shaft. They go up, they go down. A car is more free ranging. More unknown variables to manage.

Nobody is skeptical of autonomous elevators because nobody alive today was even around to see a human elevator operator in real life before the last one got laid off. Automation is far safer.

@MySharonaBrown @jimstewartson @ThatCat_TC Doesn’t George Soros issue the checks?

@jimstewartson @ThatCat_TC Was I supposed to receive a communist marxist socialist paycheck for today?

Cope and seethe bitches

@Saucebossyy @maddenifico Wrong.

@maddenifico The irony.. handmaids was made about the Islamic regime .. the one we’re fighting to be free of. And these idiots are parading a long because they’re brainless

Oh, wow. This is No Kings in Nashville, Tennessee. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

@KimmyQ_OG @elliottengenMN It never happened to me, or anyone I know. I can’t figure out why so many of these replies are giving this guy a pass. He exhibited poor judgement on several counts. All together they are not a good sign.

To my family, colleagues and constituents. I am deeply sorry. I strive to be a man of good character, and my actions fell short last night. I will learn from this. I will do better. Elliott