Sic (Sad) Mundus Creatus Est

I feel like it's a good time to tell @tedcruz to go fuck himself again

It followed me home 🦝🤣

@AdamParkhomenko we sure it's today's paper?

They made him hold today’s newspaper like a hostage

DeAndre Hopkins joins the TikTok, Netflix documentary trend with a reference to former Texans EVP Jack Easterby

Psychologists recreated the bare white room on the right, sat people down to work in it, and watched them lose to a decorated room on every score they measured. That was a 2010 University of Exeter experiment. People were split across different offices: a bare minimal one, one that someone else had filled with plants and pictures, or one they decorated themselves. The bare version came last on everything. People in the decorated one worked 17% harder. People who hung their own things worked 32% harder, and made no extra mistakes. There's a fair point sitting in the before photo, though. A 2010 UCLA study followed 30 couples and found that women who called their homes cluttered had higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol through the day, a pattern tied to worse health. Mess carries a cost, and the old basement had plenty of it. Clearing it out was worth doing. Look at what left with the clutter. The family portraits, the paintings someone chose, the objects that took decades to gather. A psychologist named Sam Gosling spent years proving that a room full of personal objects lets total strangers read your values and habits and mostly get it right. The things on your walls are a running record of who lives there. Wipe them, and the room goes quiet. Then there's the one artwork still hanging. Roger Ulrich gave 160 heart-surgery patients different images at the foot of the bed: a nature scene, an abstract print, or a blank panel. The nature-scene patients needed less pain medication and felt calmer. The ones facing a hard-edged abstract print recovered worse than patients given a blank wall. That single grey abstract on the white wall is close to the worst option the study tested. The before room was cluttered and overdue for a redo. Clearing it fixed that. But the same pass wiped out the identity, every photo and chosen object gone at once. Every experiment here points one way: the rooms that leave people calmer and sharper are the ones filled with the things the owner picked over the years.

Fox News keeps threatening voters with more rights, the horror.

Saying this as a Texan, they're our brothers and sisters

I have said this for 20 years

Haven’t seen her once on my timeline today, need to correct that

Not giving a fuck. I love dining alone with my Kindle as company.

Ann Blyth was THE brat rip queen

A new CEO of chevron has been selected

lmfao, there is no greater city than Houston, TX.

Hasn't he done this before? Bring back the Hurricane Ike dancing bear

Truth

I wake up every day reading the USA vs Europe World Cup culture banter dreading the moment some Benedict Arnold tells them about Texas A&M yell leaders

Houston’s most important innovation is highlighted here: Air conditioned stadiums.

How Freddy is going to look when he goes back home to Germany. 🤘🏽

instead of winter depression does anyone get summer depression and the heat drives you even more crazy

The socialists are celebrating the Knicks even though San Antonio is clearly a more working class city. In this essay I will…