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Who else remembers when we had 24-hour Walmart, $1 double cheeseburgers, $20 full tanks of gas, and $5 footlongs? Man....we had it all.... What the hell happened?

On this day in 1985, Simple Minds hit #1 in the U.S. with “Don’t You (Forget About Me).” An anthem of teenage angst, immortalized by The Breakfast Club. A song, a moment, a memory we never forgot.

The ocean truly calms my soul.

While Karen Bass is worried about getting meth-heads new grills, the LAFD has 3 dozen LESS firefighters than we had when the Palisades Fire hit. Folks, you need to vote like your life depends on it, because it does.

@Toribabieegirl Great!!

The series "Off campus" A 10/10?? What do you think 🌚🙃?

Unbelievable basketball game. Brutal loss. As always… #ThunderUp

Never and I mean NEVER let anyone shame you for doing what’s best for you or your family! ✌🏼😎

@OUkristi Same. Gotta take my blood pressure meds like now!

Idk if my mental health can handle this series 😭

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

We've had a team in OKC for 18 years and a Thunder player has won MVP 4 times. I've said it before. I'll say it again. As a kid who grew up in an NBA-less Oklahoma City, this is all still relentlessly cool. I'll never get tired of it. #thunderUp for life. OKC forever.

I just had the craziest experience at the airport. We are about to board a flight to Atlanta when the pilot from the incoming plane walks out of the jetway. Guy is probably late 50s, salt and pepper hair, military look. The kind of pilot you instantly feel good about seeing on your flight. Pilot walks over to the counter, gets on the PA system, and starts addressing everyone. “Folks, I’ve been doing this a long time. Flying one of these jets is easy. The hard part is looking at 130 people and telling them their flight is going to be delayed.” Audible groans throughout the boarding gate. Most people here are flying to Atlanta as a layover before another flight. 130 people just had their day become a complete mess. The pilot goes on. “I get it, trust me. But here’s the deal: During our landing, we had a small mechanical issue. I’m not your pilot for the next leg, but I don’t feel confident the jet’s safe to fly until we have a mechanical team look it over, and I don’t feel comfortable asking the next pilots to fly you guys until we get confirmation.” He points at the agents next to him behind the counter: “Now, none of this is the agents’ fault. Please be kind to them. I’m the one who made this decision, not them, so any inconvenience you experience is my fault. Just please know that I don’t do this lightly, and I’m only doing it because I believe it’s in the best interests of everyone’s safety.” Now this is where the story gets crazy. The pilot puts the microphone down, grabs his suitcase, and all the people in the gate… Start clapping. I’m not joking, everyone starts clapping for the guy. 130 people who just had their travel plans ruined give an ovation to the guy who made the decision and delivered the message. All because he addressed them with decency and transparency, took ownership of the decision, made it clear that it was necessary, and explained why it was in everyone’s best interest. It’s honestly one of the best examples of strong communication—of strong leadership, for that matter—that I’ve seen in a long time. @Delta, whoever your Atlanta to Wichita pilot was this morning, he’s one of the good ones. Please tell him the delayed passengers of flight 1637 appreciate what he did.

@cactusncookies @VirgisViews What causes it? I’ve noticed mine closing up too. I could hardly swallow a piece of steak.

Sometimes I second guess some of the things I share but this is exactly why I do. I can learn so much from others! Can you dm me what sort of treatments are available. I’ve heard some people have to have theirs stretched out every year or two because it keeps constricting & I have a sibling that’s had to have it done multiple times. Idk if he has EoE or has been tested for it but all of this is new to me!

One of my procedures on Friday was an endoscopy. I’ve been unable to eat more than a couple bites at a time for a while now, but it’s gotten so severe the last year where I’d be so hungry but my food would get stuck and I’d have to stop. It was painful, sometimes it would come back up, and I had to cut out lots of different foods completely out because I knew they wouldn’t go down. Well, they stretched my esophagus (they needed the biggest balloon they had because it was so closed off) & I came home and ate pain-free for the 1st time in years. It’s a time for celebration! 🥳 🎉 …and a time for exercise because Imma prob gain some weight!

40 years ago today, Val Kilmer walked into his Top Gun audition wearing ugly green shorts. He didn't want the part. He thought the script was silly and tried to bomb the audition by reading his lines flat. They gave him the role anyway. On his own, he invented a whole backstory: Iceman grew up with a father who ignored him, which made him desperate to be perfect at everything. He kept the rivalry with Tom Cruise going off-camera too. The cast took sides. The movie became the biggest film of 1986, made $350 million, and every pilot at every airport for the rest of Kilmer's life would call him Iceman. Then in 2014, throat cancer. The surgery saved his life but took his speaking voice. By 2017 he could only get out a few broken words at a time. Years later, when they started making Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise told the producers "We have to have Val." So the writers gave Iceman the same illness. In the new movie, Iceman is an admiral who's also dying. Most of their big final scene together is just Maverick reading Iceman's words off a computer screen. But Iceman does speak one line out loud. "It's time to let go." That line was made by an AI. A small London company called Sonantic used audio from his old movies to build him a new voice. They had way less to work with than they normally need, so they made over 40 different versions and let Kilmer pick the one that sounded most like him. (Spotify bought Sonantic for around $95 million a few weeks after Maverick came out.) Both Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer had tears in their eyes while filming the scene. The director said it looked like two old friends saying goodbye. Maverick made $1.4 billion. Val Kilmer died of pneumonia on April 1, 2025. He was 65. That one AI-made line was the last thing he ever performed on screen. The actor who didn't want the part, telling Maverick it was okay to let go.

@Floridagirl0850 Carano

Who do you all got tonight, Carano or Rousey?

Jackson snoopy

Tomorrow we gather in DC to Rededicate the USA as “One Nation, Under God.” As the sun sets tonight, I pray that we will seek to honor and follow God’s Word as individuals and a country. Matthew 22:36-39: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” What verse are you praying for our country? 🙏🏼 @Freedom250

@RepJackKimble @joecct77 So out of touch with reality sir.

@joecct77 They should reach out. A lot of the gulf states are very happy to fund junkets

Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.

Eu nunca fui de expor nossas dores aqui.
Mas hoje eu preciso tentar. Meu filho convive com dermatite atópica crônica desde que nasceu. Não é “uma alergiazinha”. É dor, feridas, pele machucada, sangramento de tanto coçar, noites sem dormir e um sofrimento diário que acompanha ele há anos. Tem dias que ele chora de desespero por não conseguir parar de se coçar. Pra manter a pele minimamente controlada, usamos cerca de 2 potes de CeraVe 473ml POR SEMANA. E mesmo assim, em muitas crises, precisamos recorrer aos hidratantes calmantes e especiais, que custam ainda mais caro. Além disso, o uso excessivo de corticoides ao longo da vida trouxe consequências pesadas: meu filho desenvolveu catarata. Já passou por cirurgia em um olho e agora vai operar o outro. São remédios, colírios, consultas, tratamentos… e tudo vai acumulando. Eu não estou fazendo esse post pra pedir dinheiro.
De verdade. Só queria pedir que vocês me ajudassem marcando a @CeraVeBrasil e @cerave , compartilhando e comentando nesse post. Talvez, com alcance, eles enxerguem a história do meu filho e possam ajudar com os hidratantes que são essenciais pra qualidade de vida dele. Já tentamos contato antes, mas o processo era tão difícil que acabamos desistindo no meio do caminho. Então hoje estou apelando pra internet.
Pra empatia.
Pra humanidade. Porque às vezes o que parece “só um creme” pra algumas pessoas… é o que permite que meu filho consiga dormir sem dor. Se puder compartilhar, eu vou ser eternamente grata. 🤍