the thoughtful bro @RealMarkCecil

Head of Strat, @amightyblaze. Host of THE THOUGHTFUL BRO show. Debut novel BUNYAN & HENRY available now from @pantheonbooks. Generally getting after it. markcecilauthor.com Boston, MA Joined April 2009

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Joe Schad @schadjoe

2 weeks ago

This is incredible video Scotland fans at Fenway

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Writer's Bone 🎙 @WritersBone

3 weeks ago

New episode! Author @CarolineKepnes returns to the show and chats with @danielfford about You First, the latest installment in the Joe Goldberg series. Listen: writersbone.com/podcastsarchiv…

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Writer's Bone 🎙 @WritersBone

4 weeks ago

The perfect, effervescent conversation to listen to on a Friday afternoon. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi… @RealMarkCecil

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Writer's Bone 🎙 @WritersBone

a month ago

This conversation between @RealMarkCecil and @jordanconn is perfectly thoughtful and bro-ish. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

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the thoughtful bro @RealMarkCecil

a month ago

@GeoffDuncanGA @matthewguma @realDonaldTrump Amen brother

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Science girl @sciencegirl

2 months ago

These were all released within 57 days of each other in 1991

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Ellen Comisar 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 @elesscom

2 months ago

“American Rambler” by @IsaacFitzgerald is “grand entertainment for travelers real and armchair,” says @KirkusReviews. As Isaac pursues the route of Johnny Appleseed, a childhood fascination, he reconnects with himself in ways we should all aspire to. youtube.com/live/b0MNrhVVr…

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Anish Moonka @anishmoonka

2 months ago

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

George Mack @george__mack

2 months ago

Winston Churchill used to lay 200 bricks per day to keep his mind busy when feeling down. Depression hates a moving target.

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Ellen Comisar 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 @elesscom

2 months ago

Our Thoughtful Bro @RealMarkCecil welcomes @IsaacFitzgerald to discuss “American Rambler.” This book is “a stirring, singular entry in the American road trip genre,” says @PublishersWkly, & a deep exploration of the ideas & myths that shape the American identity. 2 PM ET TUESDAY

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Anna Lulis @annamlulis

2 months ago

A Christian, husband, and father of 3 The Kentucky Derby winner Jose Ortiz

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2 months ago

A man blinded by a flag about to step off into emptiness might be Banksy's best work ever.

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Writer's Bone 🎙 @WritersBone

2 months ago

Let @RealMarkCecil and @BrennanSpiegel wrinkle your brain. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

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Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner

2 months ago

Nick Saban's 5 Enemies of Greatness. Tack them on a wall.

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Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex

2 months ago

Without a change of direction in the assumption of political responsibility, and without respect for institutions and international agreements, humanity's destiny risks being tragically compromised. God does not want this. His holy Name must not be profaned by the desire for domination, arrogance, or discrimination. Above all, it must never be invoked to justify death-dealing choices and actions.

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Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson

2 months ago

That's a deep cut.

Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza

2 months ago

During talks between U.S. and Iranian delegations in Pakistan, the topic of Ukraine unexpectedly came up. While discussing U.S. guarantees in the event that Iran halts uranium enrichment and abandons the development of nuclear weapons, the Iranian side asked how the United States

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Ellen Comisar 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 @elesscom

2 months ago

It's PUB DAY for Blazer @Joseph Moldover & we're far from alone in praising his adult debut: "TO THE END OF RECKONING blew me away,” raves @WmKentKrueger. “Once I picked up the piece, it was impossible to put down." Buy it here: bookshop.org/p/books/to-the…

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Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex

2 months ago

In a world wounded by arrogance, people hunger and thirst for justice. We must encourage those who believe in peace and dare to engage in “countercurrent” politics, which focus on the common good. What is urgently needed is the courage of new visions and an educational pact that gives young people space and trust. #ApostolicJourney #EquatorialGuinea vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

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Jeremy @ManaByte

2 months ago

Possibly the most amazing video I've ever seen.

Reid Wiseman @astro_reid

2 months ago

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those

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Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex

2 months ago

When we seem to be sinking, overcome by adverse forces, when everything appears bleak and we feel alone and weak, Jesus is always with us, stronger than any power of evil. In every storm, He comes to us and repeats: “I am here with you: do not be afraid.” With Him, we can get up after every fall and not allow ourselves to be stopped by any tempest. We therefore advance with courage and trust. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

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Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_

3 months ago

I do *not* want an AI "summary" of an email, or a book, or a life. I do not want an AI summary of a winter sky, or my father's hands, or the hope in my child's eyes. I do not want an AI summary of the human heart, or the first little shiver of lust, or the long good work of love.