Victor 🍉

@KITKAT Didn’t your ceo say that water isn’t a human right? Not to mention what yall did in Africa with baby milk…

Regarding recent press coverage

@ilyaspinkytoe @snoopysrozanov 🥲

@snoopysrozanov BEFORE IT TAKES HIM LIKE IT DID HER????? FUCK OFF??????

do you guys think after ilya’s dad’s funeral he went to irina’s grave and told her about how he fell in love with shane and how he can’t come back because of him but in his heart he knows she’d want him to be happy and leave this place before it takes him like it did her

Went down the rabbit hole on this. Your brain treats a physical book like a landscape. It builds a spatial map of the text, the same way it maps trails, rooms, and city blocks. When you scroll on a phone, that map breaks apart. Seven large-scale research reviews and direct brain scans confirm what you already feel. A 2023 study in PLOS ONE attached brain-activity sensors to children’s heads while they read the same text on paper and on screen. Paper reading produced fast brain waves, the pattern linked to focused attention. Screen reading shifted the brain into slow waves, the pattern linked to mind wandering and daydreaming. Same kids. Same words. Measurably different brain states. A separate 2022 study from Showa University in Japan scanned the front of the brain, the area that manages focus and comprehension, during phone versus paper reading. Smartphones sent that region into overdrive, meaning the brain was straining just to keep up with basic processing. Paper reading produced a moderate load that triggered natural deep breathing, which helped regulate brain function and sustain focus. The phone suppressed that breathing pattern entirely. Since 2017, researchers have published seven major reviews combining hundreds of individual studies. Six of seven reached the same conclusion: people understand less on screens. A 2018 review of 54 studies and 170,000+ participants, literally titled “Don’t throw away your printed books,” found paper outperformed screens across the board for non-fiction. A 2024 follow-up with 49 more studies confirmed it. The gap has grown steadily every year since 2001. Being a “digital native” doesn’t help. The best explanation is how your brain tracks where you are. Your short-term memory can only juggle about 7 things at once. A physical book gives you constant location cues: the weight shifting from right hand to left, where a paragraph sits on the page, how thick the remaining pages feel. Your brain hands off the “where am I in this text?” job to those physical signals, leaving more room for actually understanding what you’re reading. On a phone, every screen looks identical. Your brain has to track position and process meaning at the same time, and something gives. A Norwegian eye-tracking study analyzing 25,000+ individual eye movements found screen readers processed text more shallowly. The students had no idea they were reading differently. In 2019, nearly 200 reading scientists from 30+ countries signed an open letter warning that screen reading was degrading deep comprehension. Since then, Scandinavian countries, among the most digitized school systems on Earth, have started putting physical books back in classrooms.

“Suddenly, situations change. Your Lord is All-Capable over them.”

You used to have your bet ideas in the shower, now you have a waterproof speaker. You used to get lost in thought waiting for the train, now you have a phone to fill the gap. You used to daydream on long flights, now there's a screen in your hand and on the seat in front of you. You used to think on your morning commute, now you have a podcast playing before you leave the house. We used to stare in to the sky or into a fire and let our minds drift, now we have TVs and phone to replace that. We filled every silence and lost all of our peace, creativity and ideas that lived within that silence.

DO NOT LOSE HOPE The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, said, “Allah Almighty said: O son of Ādam, if you call upon Me and place your hope in Me, I will forgive you despite what is within you and I will not hesitate. O son of Ādam, if you have sins piling up to the clouds and then ask for

@grok @AngelaDeAngelo @AriannaPaul8 @arab11__ Lol

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Stunning details of Islamic architecture

Germany ran a program for decades where they deliberately paired orphans with pedophiles on the theory that someone sexually attracted to them would take better care of them.

i tried to be responsible and go to a shoe repair to fix my busted docs but the old guy told me to just contact dr martens and get a refund for all the “plastic crap they’ve been making bc it’s just garbage and can’t be fixed” LMAO

There's a version of you in 10 years begging you to enjoy this moment more.

American soldier laughing about Iraq: "There was this girl, like 15 years old. We started pimping her out for like 50 bucks a shot. Made 500 bucks before she hung herself."

@melspepsi @kofidereVT Please have vegetables or chicken or something 😭

if it’s okay to ask, what are your favourite struggle meals…? i’m talking less than 15 minutes to prep and cook. i don’t mind if it’s not the best nutritionally, i’m just looking for a way to eat more than late night take-out. life is hard atm, the least i can do is eat 🙇‍♀️

@TJAriyo @chrisxvalid @reesupremacy Do we know her name?

@chrisxvalid @reesupremacy Seriously 😭 I’m there

lol why are her mannerisms so on point 🤚🏾 I’m actually highly uncomfortable

In 1990, Israel tried to block Victor Ostrovsky's book revealing Mossad knew about the 1983 Beirut bombing-241 Americans killed-and withheld the intel Israel betrayed the US, then tried to bury the evidence

@ghostthechi @WHITEH0TPEPPERS @BuzzingPop Mbj won in 2020

@WHITEH0TPEPPERS @BuzzingPop Yes, absolutely. In a fair world it would be Michael B Jordan, no questions asked but Hudson definitely comes the closest to that level of sexiness.

isr@el just ordered the ENTIRE BEIRUT SOUTHERN SUBURBS to evacuate populated with 400,000-500,000 people. they’re trying to repeat the same tactics they did with gaza DONT STOP TALKING ABOUT LEBANON

A court just denied Roblox’s attempt to force a 10 y/o kidnapping and sexual abuse survivor into confidential arbitration. This was Roblox trying to silence a victim of sexual assault. When I asked Roblox why they’d even do that, they blocked me

Addiction to short-form videos reduces brain activity in the frontal lobe weakening the ability to focus.

@DabIoDicasso @DaveMcNamee3000 Barry keogan

@DaveMcNamee3000 Is that Jonathan Taylor Thomas?

Oliver Twist after stealing a gua sha

🌸 A desert rose in Socotra island, Yemen. In the background the Arabic sea.