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Scaredy Kat

@KittyMC7

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Sumali Ekim 2013
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Scaredy Kat@KittyMC7·
'Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.'-- Jonathan Swift
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Scaredy Kat@KittyMC7·
Rod Serling bust at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Orlando
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sera
sera@seraphicxc·
Imagine spending your mornings walking here 🌿
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The Figen
The Figen@TheFigen_·
Very cool art in art! The geniuses who think sticking a banana to the wall is ‘art’ need to see this.
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𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒
𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒@purelivn·
i love rain
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
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.
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𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚆𝙷𝙸𝚃𝙴 𝚁𝙰𝙱𝙱𝙸𝚃
┆ ┆ ┆ ┆ ┆ ┆ ┆ ࣪ ˖☆ ࣪⭑┆ ݁˖ .☆ . ݁ ˖ ☆⊹ ࣪ ┆ ˖ ࣪ ⊹ ࣪ ★ ⋆.˚ ⊹ ࣪ ࣪ ˖⋆˚★ ₊ ⊹  ࣪˖ ࣪ ₊ ࣪ ˖  . ݁ ⊹ ࣪ ˖    ࣪ ˖   . ݁    ݁   .
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Sesame Street
Sesame Street@sesamestreet·
We're here for you, rain or shine! 💛💚
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Ma'at
Ma'at@Maat_777777·
If the algorithm showed you this message, just know you are very lovable and the Universe adores you. That's it. That's the message. Now you can keep scrolling. 🌟
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Daily Nostalgia Games
Daily Nostalgia Games@nostalgames69·
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997, PlayStation)
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Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshi@ralphbakshi·
Happy 420
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Carnival of Horror
Carnival of Horror@HorrorCarnival·
In THE GATE (1987), every effect you see is practical. The transformation of the corpse into swarming miniature creatures was brought to life through a mix of forced perspective, stop-motion animation, performers in creature suits, and expertly crafted editing.
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Gitana
Gitana@Gitana1369877·
• "I am still a child, and I will be a child forever." — Marina Tsvetaeva
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