James Eldridge🌴🪼author of The Pacific Chronicles

@realgirl_fieri We bought our 3 year-old the legit Elsa costume but she insisted on wearing her Elsa nightgown instead. I don’t make the rules and I clearly don’t even enforce them

@MarioNawfal Hunter was pardoned over contents on a laptop that we were told never existed.

@RoBo4Him @kyronis_talks @realWandaJean I don’t actually know.

@vancomycin87 @kyronis_talks @realWandaJean How did you learn to learn?

A community college professor named Marty Lobdell taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years. The video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings online, with over 10 million views. He spent his career watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because no one had taught them how their brain actually works when learning something difficult. The lecture, “Study Less Study Smart,” contains a powerful framework. Your brain cannot sustain focus the way most people believe. Studies show the average learner hits a wall between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency collapses. You’re still sitting there, but almost nothing is being absorbed. Lobdell told the story of a student who planned to study 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week. Thirty hours total. She failed every class. She was not lacking effort. She was confusing time near books with actual learning. The fix is simple: when focus drops, stop, take a 5 minute rewarding break, then return. That reset makes a massive difference. He also destroyed the myth of highlighting and re reading. Recognition is not the same as recall. To prove it, he read 13 random letters. Almost no one remembered them. Then he turned them into “Happy Thursday.” The entire room recalled them instantly. The brain stores meaning, not repetition. This is why elaborative encoding works so well. Finally, he shared the most important principle: 80 percent of study time should be active recitation. Close the book and explain the material in your own words. Teach it to someone else or an empty chair. Retrieval is where real learning happens. His closing line stuck with me: If this information does not change your behaviour, you have not actually learned it. The best students do not study more hours. They stop confusing the feeling of studying with the reality of learning.

I told my 2 year-old. “It’s time to turn off the tv. Say goodnight.” He said “no dad, don’t turn it off.” I said “no, ask me for two more minutes please.” Without hesitation he said “two more minutes please my dad.” I said “sure.” (He got me right between the eyes with that possessive adjective) Then when two minutes went by, I turned it off. The next time he asked for two more minutes, I gave it to him then too. But the third time he asked, I said no. It’s time to turn the tv off. He said “no dad two more minutes please.” I said no, not tonight but he can ask me again tomorrow night. He stayed calm and said okay dad. And that’s how you speak to a two year-old. You treat them like an adult that is new at their job of being a human—in full sentences—and they skip past like three stages of development. One of the most common reasons young children don’t behave appropriately is they lack the language to communicate effectively and get frustrated. If you give them the language, and with it following quickly behind, the logic, most kids will skyrocket past their peers in both learning and behavior. Because now they can articulate what they’re learning, actually be included in surrounding conversations because they understand more, and can receive far more attention. It’s so hard to give attention to a kid that’s behaving poorly. When they ask questions or make comments it’s endlessly entertaining at between 2 and 4 years old. It just takes a lot of work. Fathers who stay involved with infants and toddlers are proven to substantially increase their cognitive abilities past what a mother can do on her own. So don’t let the mom handle this one, boys.

Oh my god I didn’t know Dan Soder did such a good Dave Chappelle. 🤯 (@ChrisVanVliet)

respect.

at this point i’m pretty sure the boomers are planning on taking everything with them when they die

@phantompain1984 @grok can you find me a full length version of this interview with no looping annoying background music

Tucker Carlson Just Gave a Masterclass in the Den of Zionist Hasbara The anchor used every Zionist talking point: antisemitism, “self-defense,” even Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Tucker calmly dismantled all of it. Here are the key moments: 0:00 Intro 2:22 Why Tucker Broke With Trump 4:28 Tucker Says His Views Match the Majority of Trump Voters 5:09 Channel 13 Asks if Israel Might Harm Him 6:03 The Assassination State Argument 7:32 Universal Principle: Killing Innocents Is Never Acceptable 9:20 Tucker Admits He Was Wrong on Iraq 10:41 “Israel Has Definitely Lost Its Morality” 11:22 “I’m Paying for It” 12:52 Netanyahu Dragged Trump Into War 17:21 Miriam Adelson as a Vector of Control 20:40 “You Should Pause Before Saying Terror Regime” 22:14 “Israel Is Not a Democracy in Any Sense” 24:33 Israel Commits Terrorism and Brags About It 28:19 “Israel Is Not the State of the Jews” 34:30 The “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” Accusation Trap 36:20 “Israel Does Not Represent All Jews” 36:46 “I’m Disgusted by the Way Israel Treats Arabs Like Animals” 43:45 Israel’s Propaganda Agents Conflate Criticism With Antisemitism 45:29 Israel Is a Corrupting Force in American Politics 48:47 Israeli Intelligence Gave False Information 49:16 Both Parties Do Not Serve America

@WhiteHouse Happy Bee day! Bee warned that the people who funded Epstein island weren’t prosecuted and have continued their crime spree of destruction unscathed 🐝

WORLD BEE DAY 🐝

@DrClownPhD I’m dead 💀

300, but instead of Gerard Butler, it’s Elliot Page.

@ComicDaveSmith @RepThomasMassie It’s probably not an OP. Israel just has to purchase one side of the odds market on this one and Kalshi is reporting on a clearly profitable event for them.

Fuck your bullshit Israel lobby op. This is still America and we love the America First @RepThomasMassie

an interesting largely binary decision i like to see conversations over are between parents who allow their toddlers to eat spicy food and those that don’t

fyi the reason a lot of little kids want bandaids is because the stickiness of the sticker helps distract from the pain so they can move on with life quickly teaching resilience to young kids is helping them accept that sometimes you don’t get what you want even when it’s available

@MassieforKY @magnolia3169 hello yes i would like to report four murders

The contrived and false deposition released just one week before my election was conducted by Carey who lost to me in 2012, in the law office of McMurtry who lost to me in 2020, and posted immediately by Deters who lost to me 2024.

@lamps_apple @BasedMikeLee @DNIGabbard solid take from apple lamps over here

CIA’s statute allows the CIA Director to perform intelligence-related duties “as the President or the Director of National Intelligence may direct.” So if the President lawfully ordered CIA to obtain, secure, review, or withhold something from the DNI, that could override DNI objection inside the executive branch👀

If CIA took anything from @DNIGabbard, that’s a problem because by law CIA reports to her: “The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency shall report to the Director of National Intelligence regarding the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency.” 50 U.S.C. § 403-4a(b).

@JesseBWatters Burn the entire CIA to the fucking ground.

@mandyarthur Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) got the glyphosate immunity provision stripped from the Farm Bill.

@RebeccFung Fewer films are being made.

People post lists of movies from a few decades ago and there look like there were many good ones in 1 year. I struggle to find more recent good movies. Are they not being made or are they less accessible, buried under crap or behind subscription platforms? Or is it my taste?

@FightWithMemes This is the highlight of my day.

Our battles will be LEGENDARY 😤