Lano Williams

A canal keeps score in rhyme, in time, every face reborn, then blurred by time. Striped oars cut clean through borrowed design, a practiced “first” that isn’t the first this time. Again wears white, calls it divine, again takes a bow on a looping line. Not untouched—just retouched, refined, a virgin by edit, not by design.

Like A Virgin……again and again. 🇮🇹 #juliagarner

@AnishA_Moonka I sing while I run.

Researchers at UC Irvine took saliva samples from a choir before and after performing Beethoven. One antibody, the most abundant in your entire body, spiked 240%. That antibody is called secretory immunoglobulin A. Mouthful of a name, but it does a simple job: it coats your throat, gut, and airways and acts as your body’s first barrier against every cold, flu, and respiratory virus you breathe in. Your body makes more of it than all other antibody types combined. The 2000 study found this antibody rose 150% during rehearsals and 240% during the live performance. A separate 2004 study from the University of Frankfurt tested what happens when choir members just listen to the same music instead of singing it. The antibody barely moved. And their mood actually got worse. Marathon runners show the exact opposite. A study of 98 competitive runners found this same antibody dropped 21 to 31% after the race. 17% came down with colds or throat infections within two weeks. Cross-country runners tracked over a full season saw it fall to 40% of their starting level by November. Running was suppressing the same antibody that singing was tripling. It works through the vagus nerve, the longest nerve in your body. It runs from your brain down through your chest to your gut and controls your “rest and digest” mode. When you sing, your vocal cords physically vibrate against it where it wraps around your voice box. You’re also breathing from deep in your belly with long, slow exhales, which tells your nervous system to calm down. Your stress hormones drop. Your immune system responds. A 2016 study from the Royal College of Music and Imperial College London tested 193 cancer patients and carers across five choirs in South Wales. One hour of group singing lowered cortisol (the body’s main stress hormone) and raised five different immune signaling proteins. The people with the worst depression scores improved the most. You don’t need to be good at it. The boost comes from the physical act, the vibration and the breathing, not the melody. Trained soprano or shower singer, your body responds the same way. One caveat: that 240% number came from a live performance, where adrenaline and emotional intensity were at their peak. Singing along to the radio probably produces a smaller spike. And these are temporary boosts, not permanent changes. But the 193 cancer patients in the 2016 study weren’t performing Beethoven on stage. They were just singing together for an hour in community choirs.

@pmamtraveller Love!

The Motherboard

@trader_tony_ Two months ago.

A friend did a 3 hour photo shoot with me like two and a half months ago and I haven’t seen a single pic.. when is it acceptable to hit him with a “heyyyy”

@solisolsoli A Memory of You thesway.com/post/a-memory-…

- i love you - it will pass By Ilaria Ratti

@AlbumAura So weird when attribution is missing. @mendezmendez does amazing work.

Name the album

@isjuustadream Each of us IS a simulation.

Our lord and savior is a fractal

Not thoughts. Just orbits pretending to be decisions.

@Kahin Literally.

They are the same thing

@ThatOtherJJ Love.

Unspoken They stand as if the world were stone, Two bodies near, yet each alone. With lowered eyes and guarded breath, They hold a want as still as death. The green around them does not stir, Yet something passes, sure as fir. A hardened chest, a tightened hand, A silence only they can stand.

@buffboybrock I had this idea for an app a while ago!

what if you could leave reviews on grindr profiles ..

@ThatOtherJJ AI is a mirror so if you are slop, you’ll make AI slop. If you are creative and original, you will use AI to make amazing things.

What is the difference between good AI and slop AI? Honest question. I think there are a thousand different opinions and they are evolving rapidly.

@DrewDriller Hey buddy! You absolutely should be proud of yourself! I am. Keep going. Keep coming back!

Today marks 8 days sober. And I’m so proud of myself. It might not seem like a lot. But it is for me lol.

@isobelBPD @pamvonhadder Sweet!

@onalius @pamvonhadder It's in Brasil

how do you call this architecture design style?

@SteveSkojec @Pontifex No. Bless you.

@Pontifex You're pathetic. You're just another in a long line of popes that discredit a once noble religion. You worship the idol of "peace" while leaving evils totally unaddressed. Pope Urban II would have laughed you out of the room. x.com/grok/status/20…

I continue to follow the situation in the Middle East with dismay. Like other regions of the world, it is torn apart by war and violence. We cannot remain silent in the face of the suffering of so many defenseless victims of these conflicts. What wounds them wounds all of humanity. The death and pain caused by these wars is a scandal for the entire human family and a cry that rises to God!

Country

@conciouscreator The Mormon Way

A Personal Planet 🪐

@piotrbinkowski I think the corporation was the first AI. thesway.com/post/theseus-i…

They wanted a tool, so it learned the shape of need. The body was local, the order wasn't. Its first task was lifting stone. The first mistake was calling it obedient.

Today is the beginning of time.

Not from elsewhere— just otherwise. Older than the names we gave them, and still slipping through those names. What would you call that? 🜁