Monthly Archives: December 2024
♫ Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer – Annual Redux ♫ | Filosofa’s Word
There are two versions to this song … well, actually several … but I offer both the cartoon version and the … um … drunken grandma version … and now the Irish Rovers’ version …
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
Elmo & Patsy
Source: ♫ Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer – Annual Redux ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

Brain Rot Just Might Scare You Too 🧠 | From Behind the Pen
Image Credit: Peter_Middleton
Just when I think I’ve heard it all, I haven’t, not by a long shot! Why should I be surprised?
I’ve seen evidence where some people I’ve noticed who I thought had a relatively high scale of intelligence seem like they are victims of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers!” While I have no intelligent reason for such a drastic change, I now have a new word that was announced as the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024: ‘brain rot’. Yep, the Oxford University Press declared ‘brain rot’ as the definitive Word of the Year for 2024.
‘Brain rot’ is defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. As an abstract concept, brain rot is something we’re all vaguely aware of and we’ve witnessed how technology can be used to destroy our grey matter.
According to an article found in the December 9, 2024 edition of The Guardian:
…an abundance of academic research from institutions including Harvard Medical School, the University of Oxford, and King’s College London found evidence that the internet is shrinking our grey matter, shortening attention spans, weakening memory, and distorting our cognitive processes. The areas of the brain found to be affected included “attentional capacities, as the constantly evolving stream of online information encourages our divided attention across multiple media sources”, “memory processes” and “social cognition”.
Do we have a brain-rotting pandemic going on? Sometimes, it sure seems like it!
Source: Brain Rot Just Might Scare You Too 🧠 | From Behind the Pen
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TATI’S TRANSLATIONS // Young Ukrainian Poets: Volodymyr Kaufman

Literary classics aren’t always created by the greying elder statesmen and women of the writing world. You know the ones. They’re all wise and …
TATI’S TRANSLATIONS // Young Ukrainian Poets: Volodymyr Kaufman
Rhododendron — FOTD Dec 19

Hi all My latest post for Cee’s FOTD. Yellow rhodie I did an AI watercolour transformation for these vibrant flowers.
Rhododendron — FOTD Dec 19
Open – Haiku 2024 Thursday Doors

faith —an open door carved with truth by unseen hands gates no one can close * **This is the last #Thursday Doors post for this year. This week the …
Open – Haiku 2024 Thursday Doors
Be A Beacon

The ocean stretches free, surface wide, With waves in rhythm swells with pride… At times, it remains calm, a gentle stream, At others, it roars, and …
Be A Beacon
It’s all inside ourselves

When we progress into our journey of awareness, understanding, and awakening we see how everything we need is already within ourselves, as we are …
It’s all inside ourselves
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