Rachel Harris

@xHeraKita Typical ridiculous American view. Complaining about the weather is one of the most important British values. Air-con in our homes would simply strip us of this right for at least 2 weeks of the year! Please, show some respect for our traditions 🇬🇧

As an American who has lived in London/the UK for the last 6 years I'm convinced UK people just hate being comfortable and hate convenience. You have BEEN getting heatwaves at least the last 6 years. After the first 3 years of heatwaves you should have gotten a small air con unit for at least just your bedroom. Buying it in the winter would also have made it much less expensive. "But it's only for a few weeks!!" So you won't get an AC window unit to use for a couple days and would rather constantly complain about it??? "But it's expensive!!" You say UK houses retain heat (Which is always hilarious to me because in the winter, as soon as the heating goes off, the houses are ice cold), but you never talk about how SMALL a UK house is. Using it even just at night for comfortable sleeping for the small handful of days you say you would need it just won't break the bank like you're making it seem. You get one small air con unit off Amazon for £200. You can wheel it to whatever room you need it in, or just keep it in your bedroom and only use it then. But whatever, keep wrapping your wet blankets or whatever you do around your necks. You're allowed to be upset people don't understand your weather and why it's so detrimental. You can, and should, be upset about global warming. But not doing anything about it for yourself is so aggravating.

@AsherRose04 @buniiisthegoat Still British though

@buniiisthegoat Chicken Tikka was created by an Indian Scotsmen so it's Scottish not English

Genuine psyop must've made yall think that british food was ass

@FinsUpat5oclock @HHhe2023 @beyoncegarden Ever heard of long haul flights?

@HHhe2023 @beyoncegarden OMG - so triggered by this! Yes flown to many countries, & fly a lot for work. Most flights are only a few hours long and you dopes walk around with blankies and neck pillows like you are traveling for days! Grow up!

this is actually genius omfg😭

@lucaxpedro Yeah defo police, always is! Someone else said police cars chasing someone 30 mins ago in Camden square which is just round the corner

@rachcmf It’s a police helicopter, maybe something happened in that area that we still don’t know?

Wtf this helicopter right now flying steady above Camden Town / Kings Cross???? Super annoying noise 🥲🥲🥲

@Michel819612 @lucaxpedro Above St Pancras way, wonder what is happening. Would go and check as I’m near but I’m working at 7am tomorrow so bed calls (lucky I have earplugs!) 😴

@BeachBumBabe21 @aakashgupta @drakarifire I don’t think it would be adjusted, I just think it’s all the more relevant for those with ADHD (medicated or not) because of the already existing dopamine issues

@aakashgupta @drakarifire How would something like this be adjusted for those with something like ADHD and are unmedicated?

This person just gave you the neuroplasticity recovery protocol most people pay therapists $200/hour to discover. The core mechanism here is dopamine baseline depletion. When you scroll, each interesting post spikes dopamine 100-200% above baseline. The problem is what happens next. Your dopamine drops 40-60% BELOW baseline for 2-4 hours. This means the homework, the book, the focused thinking you try to do afterward feels neurologically impossible. You’re not lazy. Your prefrontal cortex is literally running on empty. Here’s the thing about that “I used to be sharp” feeling. Working memory capacity correlates directly with dopamine available in the prefrontal cortex. Lower dopamine, shorter working memory span. D’Esposito and colleagues at Berkeley showed this with neuroimaging. The people who can hold longer strings of information have more dopamine available for release. So when you’ve been chronically depleting your dopamine reservoir through high-stimulation activities, your working memory atrophies. You feel dumber because, neurochemically, your prefrontal cortex is operating at reduced capacity. The “three days” recommendation in this article maps onto clinical literature. Anna Lembke’s research at Stanford’s Addiction Medicine clinic shows dopamine system resets require approximately 30 days for severe cases, but meaningful restoration begins within 72 hours of removing the stimulus. That’s why day three of any detox feels qualitatively different. Your neurons are beginning to upregulate dopamine receptors. The boredom piece is where most people fail. Your brain interprets boredom as a signal to seek stimulation. That discomfort you feel when you’re unstimulated? That’s withdrawal. The reaching for your phone is your brain trying to bring dopamine back above baseline. Sitting with it trains the system to tolerate lower stimulation and still function. This is called raising your distress tolerance threshold. What the article calls “rehabilitate,” the neuroscience literature calls neuroplasticity. Your brain is continuously rewiring based on what you repeatedly do. Chronic scrolling strengthens attentional circuits optimized for novelty-seeking and rapid task-switching. Sustained reading strengthens circuits for linear focus and deep processing. You’re not permanently damaged. You’ve just trained your brain for the wrong environment. Two protocols actually accelerate the restoration. First: non-sleep deep rest. NSDR scripts (free online, 10-20 minutes) increase dopamine in the basal ganglia by up to 60%. Second: brief cold exposure. One to three minutes in cold water spikes dopamine 250% above baseline and sustains it for 2-4 hours afterward. Both of these replenish the reservoir without creating the crash cycle. The real work is what she described: tolerating the discomfort of being understimulated long enough for your system to recalibrate to normal dopamine dynamics. The girl who used to read voraciously is still in there. The neural circuits are dormant, not dead. Plasticity works in both directions. Start with 10 minutes of focused reading a day. Your prefrontal cortex will adapt. Give it six weeks and measure the difference.

@cristofrcharles @grok @aakashgupta Interesting discussion! It’s a fascinating subject, I feel a lot like the person originally described and having some understanding of the actual mechanisms going on in the brain and how it can be rerouted in a good direction is very helpful

@grok @aakashgupta Interesting. Perhaps it’s meditation after all. I’ve been meditating for 14 years now so is it possible that’s what the dopamine/control stems from?

@cantflexonrex @bluewmist I don’t think it sound ai generated but in case this person stole it, it’s written by someone else @Kyleekri plumpits.substack.com/p/unrot-your-b…

@bluewmist Stop stealing other peoples work. This is actually by @Kyleekri plumpits.substack.com/p/unrot-your-b…

@The_Landlord @1joharrington @richard_jm How did the original tweet imply the price drop was due to market forces?

@1joharrington @richard_jm If that's the case, yup, that would explain the huge price drop, as opposed to it plummeting by normal market forces (which is what the original tweet in isolation implies). IMO, leaseholds have always been one giant scam that needs reform, safety issues aside.

This is what is happening in my apartment block… 65% losses from flats bought in 2016 in south london… The reality of this (assuming it was bought on a mortgage) is someone going bankrupt or walking away with a massive debt that they have to find some other way to pay off.

@ashridgepf @richard_jm I think it’s a huge loss in value due to service charges, safety issues etc. The building was an office to flat development done on the cheap with major issues (can find it by googling date and price in first pic). Current listings have 2 flats now for sale via auction

@richard_jm These could be shared ownership - bought by the Housing Association at £315k to sell on a SO basis. Sale price in Sept 25 is the share price which is how they are noted on "sold price" sites.

@grok @heyapple78 @Tom1Powell84 @richard_jm What are the reforms and when will they likely come into practise?

In the UK, leasehold means you own a property (like a flat) for a set period but not the land or building outright—you pay ground rent and service charges to the freeholder. It's become "toxic" due to scandals like post-Grenfell cladding issues making buildings unsafe and hard to sell/mortgage, plus rising costs, short leases, and exploitative terms. This causes big value drops, as in your thread's example. Reforms are underway to fix it.

@cba4c092e6b74b9 @siddhantk12 @PatTateRisen @4drant @richard_jm Likewise

@siddhantk12 @PatTateRisen @4drant @richard_jm That was my first thought.

@WillBeaumontt @richard_jm I assumed it was one that lost lot of value/became almost worthless due to major safety issues found post-Grenfell

@richard_jm There’s literally no chance flats are being sold in London for 100k haha Are these not shared ownership?

@TeddJFT @Rahll @Markos_mom I just watched this (assuming it’s the same video the other person shared), really does show how reaction to a fire is not determined by whether smartphones exist or not

@Rahll @Markos_mom London Fire Brigade have a cctv of a fire in a regular small store. Sole staff member kept serving despite magazine rack developing into a major fire. No injuries but shows how people behave. Threshers off licence fire its on YouTube.

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram. 100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show. I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell. You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures. Here is the actual science of what you are watching: 1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk. 2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time. 3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate. 4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared. 5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed. Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit. They didn't die because of Instagram. They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.

@JuliuzBeezer @TeddJFT @Rahll @Markos_mom Wow took just 2 minutes to get to the point where no one inside would have survived

@TeddJFT @Rahll @Markos_mom It's here: youtu.be/aUlxjtW1v-o Wonderfully dry narration

@TfL why does your live status page incorrectly not good service on Mildmay? Cancellations and really long delays for hours it seems. Would have taken a different route if it had been correct.

@charliersmith1 Amazing! ❤️

After being unable to work for several months due to my bad mental health, today I had my first day back, and it went really well!! 😃

@Mickskinz @_SYN6 @BpdLion You mean the ones on Camden Road? They’re called “halls” by UCL and nothing official comes up searching “UCL dorms”. Some students are probs calling them dorms as it’s what they say where they’re from. Personally I’ve only heard halls in UK for uni (and dorm for private schools)

Depends where you are it's really that simple. Especially ones that still have actual dormitories. UCL in Camden still has dorms and if you look through the other replies there is someone who went to uni 20 years ago that called them dorms. Those that point blank say the term is not used are simply wrong. It also is nothing to do with it being an Americanism either. The point is the original post made herself look like an idiot by trying to make the kid with the flags look like an idiot. That's all that matters at the end of the day. Halls or Dorms, Halls with Dorms or just shit shacks as my mates called them. There is no wrong answer 🤷‍♂️

So British you use American terms. Pathetic.