some tips for working out your brain
hydrate it by drinking lots of water/water based liquids. if you are someone who cant stand drinking still/unflavored water, thats fine! dont believe the lie that "drinking juice/soda/other non water drink is worse than not drinking anything", the only drink that will actively dehydrate you is alcohol. its better to drink water, but drink what you can drink, your body will get the liquid from it either way
eat foods high in antioxidants; dark chocolate and blueberries and walnuts and salmon are common ones but there are many many others
play little brain games on your phone; wordconnect, water sort puzzle, i love hue, etc. anything that makes you think!
read books. It鈥檚 simple but necessary. join a book club (in person or online), read with a friend, post about the book in its fandom tags etc, so you can have discussions about it after. reading fanfic counts too! if you have trouble reading, try finding audiobooks online or finding a text to speech program that will read the books to you. this will improve your reading and media comprehension.
do puzzles - it doesnt have to be sudoku; you can play rhythm games like project sekai or piano tiles on mobile and OSU! or geometry dash on the computer, you can play tetris or pac man, you can do an actual physical puzzle on your coffee table, etc. anything that makes you think and use strategy is a puzzle, and theres a puzzle out there for everyone!
learn a new dance - even a tiktok trend dance. learning new dance moves are proven to strengthen synapses
go bird watching, foraging, hiking, anything outdoors that requires you to explore pattern recognition and visual searching. even if you're just identifying bugs and flowers in your back yard!
watch a movie with the intent of analysis. this is best done with a cinephile friend. talk about tropes and symbolism and character growth
cross stitch, knit, sew, or do anything that gets your hands moving and your brain thinking. if you don't have the dexterity for sewing you can also draw or paint, do coloring or color-by-number pages, connect-the-dots, gem painting, etc.
play or learn an instrument! if you don't have access to a physical instrument, try recreating songs you like (or make your own songs!) in a digital music program, like beepbox
develop a consistent sleep schedule, or as close to consistent as you can get
when eating, try to identify the ingredients and individual flavors you鈥檙e perceiving. pretend you're a wine sommelier, or that ice cream taster guy
i hope this helps you take care of your brain 馃挅
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twitter
ok so the bird is still taking a massive ass shit
I can actually see other people鈥檚 tweets but on the website version I am unable to like/bookmark a tweet, and while I can like tweets on the app (bookmarks don鈥檛 work) I can鈥檛 send a tweet on either version, and that includes replies
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Twitter makes 89% of its revenue off advertising.
Want to hurt them? but still use twitter.
Block every advertisement that shows up on your Twitter feed.
I haven't seen an ad in a year or so.
Also use Firefox to keep your data from being tracked and sold.
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I know theres the whole thing about twitter imploding but I have an account there, and it keeps ocurring to me that when I was really active on twitter, I never did anything other than post. I barely if ever scrolled. And the thing is that I will literally go in for SECONDS and instantly Im hit with the worst fucking vibes imaginable from SOMBODY. Like it dosent matter how much effort you put into only following nice fun accounts, the algorithm plants shit in your timeline, and all these accounts that are fine follow and like posts from accounts you dont like and you are forced to sit through all of them. That and even in the best of posts people are hardwired to comment the worst, most annoying, ill intending, incorrect shit every single time.
Like I follow Xiaohei content and pictures of nice houses, why the fuck do I need to see a billion straight guys bitch about the Bowser x Luigi ship like it matters. Or people insisting that any wolf that isnt the stereotypical image of a greywolf is a Coyote. Or like, claiming that having crushes is sexual herrasment.
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