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@anishmoonka As a former bricklayer who now works in front of a computer screen, I can attest to this.

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.

@TheMaineWonk This "bit" got stale 10 seconds in. Good luck with it.

Tim Heidecker’s first Infowars Parody for The Onion is too good. 10/10

@3YearLetterman "Gerald Ford died in 2006." Yeah, so he invented the car in 1900 and then lived another 106 years. Idiots

“Ben Franklin was never president.” “Gerald Ford died in 2006.” “America isn’t close to being the oldest country on earth.” “Jesus was Middle Eastern.” “It’s HIPAA, not HIPPA.”

@w_s_bitcoin @k0ncept Some do, most do not.

@k0ncept Right, which is why nobody has ever put themself at risk to save a stranger who’s in danger.

question, the blue button people do they not understand human psychology and that humans will act in the best interest of themselves during a life or death decision?

Thank you very much @RepEliCrane , DM if you would like information on my situation

@DominoRxxx Any info in your book? My mom gets some pretty bad bouts.

@geraldkingston5 Sure, there’s lots you can do for that

This is pretty amazing! If you don’t know, Niemann-Pick Disease type C is a rare autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder that resembles juvenile dementia. It is caused by a mutation at the NPC1 gene.

@DominoRxxx Instead of a thumbtack can you play as a mini 32 oz. margarita glass?

I found the worst board game to ever exist

@Jim_Jordan I would say "you do something about it" but that's not what happens next.

SPLC = fraud ActBlue = fraud California Medicare = fraud Minnesota daycares = fraud FireAid = fraud What's next?

@DominoRxxx Is this related to Laura Loomer?

Are alien creatures using your body for sex while you sleep?

@hiattb @DaveFromLI @davidclowery We cover it with our little band. Always a crowd favorite.

@DaveFromLI @davidclowery D C E G, repeat

You know every time the indie rock music press has been confronted with digital shittiness they make excuses for the digital shittiness. It was understandable when it was Napster/Linewire/Grokster and no one realized these were just stalking horses for Silicon Valley VCs. But by the time Spotify came along and the streaming rates were public, they should have known better. This time it’s just sad. When the last music journalist job is replaced by AI I’m gonna have a hard time summoning any sympathy for these fucks.

@20th_Centurygal Might I humbly suggest Dean Ween?

Which rock guitarist has the most instantly recognizable tone? You hear one note and you know exactly who it is.

@ExxAlerts Shocking turn of events!

ALERT: Ring doorbell man is facing another charge of annoying or m-lesting a child in an incident that took place just two days before his viral crashout. A witness has now come forward against 30-year-old Jason Nichols. "On April 12, 2026, a witness contacted the Fairfield Police Department to provide information regarding an encounter involving 30-year-old Jason Nichols and the witness’s child on April 5, 2026,” local police said. "Based on the investigation, officers determined there was probable cause to arrest Nichols for additional crimes. While Nichols remained in custody for the previous incident, he was additionally booked for one count of 647.6 PC, annoying or m-lesting a child under 18.”

@Howlingmutant0 @thedispenser_ Punky Brewster'd herself

@thedispenser_ I know her boyfriends screaming inside

Her before and after transformation

@EliseStefanik We all knew this years ago, so like, what are the people we put in power going to do about it? Yey, we were right! Who cares? What do you do with your power, woman?

Some breaking news today 🚨🚨🚨🚨 Funny, I remember when I was smeared as a conspiracy theorist by the mainstream media when I said Schiff illegally coordinated with the whistleblower. Turns out, it was TRUE with evidence!

@Cernovich I think the only thing they hear is the chimping, honesty.

People should chimp out. The donors always do. It’s only when the base yells that the admin tells people to calm down or trust the plan. No one will ever say that Miriam Adelson should stop making demands of Trump. That’s only said of YOU, the base.

This one photo of Ron Paul will ratio you

@cosmopterix @htownrocket78 I don't think the American people are prepared for that.

@htownrocket78 Get the black light.

We’re gonna need a bigger can

@AlphaNews Yeah but can the people paying for all this fraud get rebates?

‘Tip of the iceberg’: Lawmaker says systematic failures fueled Minnesota fraud Rep. Kristin Robbins said the scale and scope of fraud in Minnesota stunned even lawmakers who pushed for years to investigate it. "Minnesotans thought we had responsible governance," she said. "It is absolutely clear they cannot do the most basic internal controls that everyday business owners do all the time."

@baltic_dan Once they latch on to your forearm it can get ugly.

How are grown men getting wasted by pit bulls?? I would just body slam that little homie