Not super thought out & original but pretty solid

image id: screenshot of an ao3 summary reading “Oh yeah btw I’m writing this while thing on a fucking Nintendo Switch so please excuse some of the typos and let me know if there are any :3”

Haha you don’t know how happy this would make Louis(my friend featured in my videos) he loves lonely island 🥹

The power of the fandom. The power of the comment.

[ID: A short comic with three people. In the first panel a person with a red beard crouches by a cluster of baby plants and says, "I'm planting native saplings." Second, a person with an afro looks past their laptop and stack of books and says, "I'm learning about wildlife." Third, a blond person with a tiny desktop plant types at a keyboard cheerfully and says "I'm blasting people's efforts online." From these three panels, a large arrow directs you to see Some Years Later. The first two people have grey in their hair and are standing happily in a forest full of birds and frogs. The third person is still typing at their desk, balding and with a dead deskop plant, and saying, "Bah! Nothing ever changes." /End ID.]

these are the executive functions. impairment of these functions is executive dysfunction

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I am hopeful that those of you who know me will vouch for my credibility in the days to come. I stand this morning with a difficult message... ANDOR | 2.09

the fact that he felt comfortable enough to write this evil shit in his book.

In this episode we sit down with Dr. Jared Ball and Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs to break down the myth of the "Anti-Obama Race Traitor." They dig into how that label was often weaponized to silence policy-based critiques of Barack Obama, forcing people to choose between unquestioning support or being ostracized. The conversation centers on how Obama’s public identity was a carefully constructed media strategy. The guests talk about how he learned to code-switch and use symbolic language to appeal to both Black voters and white power structures, all while avoiding any real challenge to the status quo. They reflect on how even among Black activists and intellectuals, there was an intense pressure to fall in line, often at the expense of independent political analysis. They also get into how this era set a template for other Black political figures to follow, prioritizing access and symbolism over radical policy demands. It’s a pretty candid look back at a time when criticizing the first Black president could get you labeled a traitor, even when those criticisms were based on his actual record, his cabinet appointments, and his imperialist policies. Ultimately, they discuss how the Obama years are being rebranded today as a "golden era," which they argue obscures the reality of what actually went down and the long-term consequences for Black political thought.

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