pavlov’s dawg 🇵🇸

This is embarrassing. Imagine finally making it back to playoffs and you copy the entire post game vibe the Thunder has had for years lol talk about “cringe” look in the mirror

8 year old child asking “if you’re 32 why aren’t you a mom?” absolutely slaps on this post-breakup friday

drunk at the club talking about how i blindly support labrinth and love the new james blake album

thinking about the time i was sleeping w a guy and he looked thru my phone including my notes app and found all of my insanely depressing/masochistically submissive song lyrics in one place

bernie sanders apparating whenever a corporation frustrates its customers

Earlier today, US-Israeli aircraft carried out an airstrike on “Cafe Downtism,” a special café providing employment for workers with autism and Down syndrome, in Tehran, Iran.

Can you imagine? No worries if not

Half the people on this app melted down when they found out someone can buy a cookie with food stamps

The actual research is wild. Every time you push down a feeling, your brain has to choose between suppressing that emotion and recording what’s happening around you. It picks the suppression. The memory doesn’t get saved. A 2000 Stanford study confirmed this: people told to hide their emotions while watching a film remembered far fewer details than people who just reacted naturally. Suppressing emotions uses up mental energy, and that leaves less brain power for saving new memories. Brain scans show why. A 2012 study found that suppression quiets the hippocampus (your brain’s memory-recording center) right when it should be saving information. The two brain regions that normally team up to lock in memories stop talking to each other. Over time it gets worse. Suppression keeps cortisol (the stress hormone) elevated, and cortisol shrinks the hippocampus. Chronically stressed people can lose 10 to 15% of its volume. Just three weeks of high cortisol can shrink the tiny connection points between brain cells by about 20%. The good news: studies show this shrinkage can partially reverse once stress levels drop. Not necessarily permanent. A Finnish study of 1,137 older adults tracked over roughly a decade found that habitual emotion suppressors had nearly 5x the risk of developing dementia, even after controlling for genetics, smoking, obesity, and education. There’s a better way to handle emotions that doesn’t cost you your memory. It’s called cognitive reappraisal: instead of bottling the feeling, you reframe what’s causing it. (“This meeting isn’t a threat, it’s practice.”) A 2003 Stanford/UC Berkeley study found reappraisers had more positive emotion, better relationships, and higher wellbeing. Suppressors got the opposite on every measure. And reappraisal carries zero memory cost. The difference comes down to timing. Suppression kicks in after the emotion has already fired, so your brain is fighting its own response while simultaneously trying to record the moment. Reappraisal changes how you interpret the situation before the emotion fully activates. Same event, same person, but your hippocampus stays free to do its actual job: recording your life.

forgot to mention i been doin all this

Me: i love you Porn director: CUT what the fuck

Never forget how Israel murdered Palestinian First Responders on a literal live stream. Repost this. Please I beg you.

and for the lady perhaps a klonopin

Me: Wow! I’m so excited to see the eclipse tonight. The sky:

Me: *drinking from a soggy straw to save the planet* World leaders:

Jared McCain made a TikTok with iHart and Jay Will 😭😭😭

I have that on quick dial

omg we're finally getting wiggles for ex boyfriends