Stoned Plato

JUST IN: Spain’s ruling Socialist party suffers its worst-ever loss in Andalusia, the country’s largest region.

@BarstoolBigCat This isn’t very tough on crime 🧐

Mintzy had a date at the office on a Thursday. Only in America

@NVIDIAGeForce #007FirstLightRTX cuz I'm a dad and dads deserve to game with nice framerates too

Recruits, your first prize is here... A custom GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition + PC copy of the game. Comment #007FirstLightRTX to win 👇

Thank God we got the steam room video

My only source of news 🙌

@VivaLaStool @mostlysports @GuyFieri @BarstoolBigCat You guys literally got Guy on for the stream?? That's radical 😎

This is Miyamoto. In just a moment, at 3pm PT, we will livestream Star Fox Direct 5.6.2026. The presentation runs for approximately 15 minutes, and I would be delighted if you could take a look. ninten.do/6014vM9ou #NintendoDirect #StarFox

@OhioTate Spitgate!

Come on guys, we gotta be better on the Neighborhood Watch. I love the hyper intense activity from the viewers of the show and them being a part of decisions makes it great….. But you’re reporting Meek for breaking a rule that’s not even a rule?

@stoolpresidente I'm sure it's fine @Jerrythekid21

When did I know it was over?

@BeckTomi @EricLDaugh Canadian says what?

@EricLDaugh Wow, MAGA is so clever! Perhaps the fucking moron can start by being opposed to war, opposed to tax cuts for the rich, opposed to massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. Let’s see what happens. 🙄

🚨 LMAO! President Trump just laid out his new strategy to pass anything he wants through Congress: "We found a new strategy. We're going to OPPOSE EVERY single thing that we want, and we'll get unanimous!" "I'm going to come up and oppose everything, from this point forward, and they'll vote for it." 😂 "As Democrats, they will vote against anything, no matter how good, if they had their favorite thing in the world, and we happen to want it."

First one in line for the free food (Hasn’t even been in the office long enough to take his backpack off)

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on. The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software. The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check. Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance. Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls. Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else. A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

@aakashgupta Well this is the best post I've read in a long time.

Fernando Mendoza really updated LinkedIn immediately after getting drafted by the Raiders 💀 (via fernando mendoza/linkedin)

I just found out Barstool Izzy left spring break. Devastated

@awfulannouncing the sax in the background music just hits different

Rich Eisen officially returns to Bristol to host SportsCenter on ESPN, complete with a throwback intro and studio. 📺🎙️

@BarstoolBigCat Which magician is coming tomorrow?

@CarmichaelDave The Saint is sooo underrated.

Real Genius

@MLS_Canada @BarstoolBigCat

@BarstoolBigCat Maybe crazy thought but it’s the rest of the world booing

#Classless move by Canada. We would never boo anyone. It’s called the Olympic spirit, maybe learn it

@wyermush At least two legendary memes from this - all timer tbh youtube.com/watch?v=crITXz…

Brandon approximately 30 seconds before this interview started