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@MikeBales She was at least 10 yr older than Jim Backus, although she looks younger IMO

When I was little, I thought Lovey Howell was an old lady at 88. Now? “There was a damn good third choice on that island.” 😜

The infamous “Russian Sleep Experiment” image was never a real test subject. For years, the photo was shared with the story of a secret Soviet experiment where prisoners were kept awake for days until they went insane. The smiling, creepy face became the image everyone associated with the story. But it had nothing to do with Russia. Nothing to do with sleep deprivation. And nothing to do with a real experiment. The figure was actually a prop called “Spazm,” created in 2005. The Russian Sleep Experiment itself was a creepypasta. The nightmare face that made it feel real was just a Halloween decoration.

@creepydotorg Awesome. I was totally duped. I wouldn't mind owning one of these battery-powered props, but I understand they're collectible and pricey.

@DeanAbbott I was fifteen. I'm 71 years old now and have never really gotten over it.

Children of Divorce, What would you say was the biggest effect on you of your parents splitting? If it wasn't that bad, what kept it from being as bad as possible?

@LarsLarsonShow Keep the Interstate bridge. Augment it with submersible tunnel(s). This is well-established technology, faster, and much, MUCH cheaper.

the $7B they now offer is HALF OF THE BRIDGE that was designed. the full design is 15 to 18 billion. and they don't even have funding for the $7B

Best attitude ever ❤️

@TheMekon_Venus Especially if you're also prone to motion sickness

I guess the moral of this picture is.. If you’re claustrophobic… ..maybe space travel isn’t for you.

@TheCleanCarClub You must accede. Resistance is futile.

What does ACC mean

They don't want you to see this...

Waunakee High School senior Molly Schafer quietly painted individual portraits of her classmates before graduation

@HumanityChad Wow - amazing

@PDXFire Damned horses.

Portland Fire on scene of the former Centennial Mills building located near the NW 9th and Naito. This building is well known to have horseless population activity. Radio reports are holes cut in perimeter fencing. Smoke pushing through a window on the first floor.

A kid drew himself sleeping in bed between mom and dad and labeled it 'safe.' In Japan, this exact sleeping arrangement has a name. They call it 'the river.' Mother is one bank. Father is the other. The child between them is the water. Roughly 70% of Japanese mothers sleep this way with their kids, sometimes through the teenage years. The Western model of putting a kid alone in their own bedroom is barely 200 years old. For most of human history, in most cultures still alive today, kids slept beside their parents. James McKenna runs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at Notre Dame. He spent decades watching what happens when parents and kids share a bed. The bodies sync up. Heart rates align with the parent's, breathing falls into the same rhythm, and by morning even sleep stages have started matching. The parent's body, in McKenna's words, acts as a kind of biological jumper cable for the child's. In 2013, researchers in the Netherlands tracked 193 babies through the first year of life. They measured cortisol, the brain's main stress hormone. Babies who had spent more weeks co-sleeping in the first six months produced less cortisol under stress at 12 months. Sleeping near a parent had rewired the kid's stress system to be calmer under pressure. Inside the kid's brain at night, the amygdala, the fear alarm, gets more sensitive as the body gets tired. Darkness makes it worse. A 2021 paper in PLoS One from Australian researchers showed that light directly suppresses amygdala activity. Lights off, alarm louder. The whole brain is wired to read 'alone in a dark room' as a threat. Now add a parent's body to that bed. The kid's nervous system reads warm body, breathing nearby, familiar smell. The threat alarm dials down. Two parents on either side dial it down twice. The drawing is the kid's brain calculating maximum safety: I am surrounded by the people who keep me alive, and nothing can reach me without going through them first. The arrangement in this drawing is what most of human history called 'sleeping.' Sleeping the kid alone in another room is a 200-year-old Western invention that we forgot was an invention. Every kid who has ever padded into your room at 3am and crawled into the middle of the bed is just trying to redraw the picture.

Confessions of a Catholic Writer thecatholicthing.org/2026/05/06/con… via @CatholicThing

@MikeyDiMercurio The Rolex is a status time piece. I wear a watch.

"A cheap Timex keeps the same time as an expensive Rolex." Not true. My Rolex Submariner loses 1-3 minutes a day. Why? According to the jeweler, it gets dirty and must be cleaned. (How the FUCK does dirt get into the sealed compartment of the watch?) Not just anyone can clean it. It has to be cleaned by Rolex Switzerland. Which means it will be gone for 12 weeks. And the cleaning? It will cost $2000. So...bottom line...a Timex keeps MUCH better time than a fookin' Rolex.

@MZHemingway It needs an acronym: "Molly Hemingway, TTNYTBSA"

Insisting that my family members now refer to me as "three-time New York Times best-selling author." Too much?

@greg_price11 Activist judges likely will attempt to halt redistricting until after the midterms..

Jeffries: "We're now at a point where affirmative action is gone, diversity is gone, equity gone, inclusion gone..."

@JDunlap1974 Now let's discuss abortion.

Caroline Kennedy : “We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He enjoyed showing off by putting baby chickens & mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.” Thoughts?

@paul1964Jam He loves ya

Who remembers this legend?

A good man who will make a great Governor for Oregon