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Oh, That’s Who Brie Larson Is Playing in Fast X
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Two of the things that have fans most excited for the return of Fast and Furious are the additions of Jason Momoa and Brie Larson. Aquaman and Captain Marvel add some major star power (and, in Larson’s case, Oscar-caliber acting) to a franchise that’s already jam-packed with talent. However, since both actors are…
I’m plus size and have a bra hack that’s going to change your life – you will finally be able to wear tie tops
A PLUS SIZE model has revealed a bra hack that’s going to change your life forever.
Content creator Naomi Native has amassed an impressive 83,000 TikTok followers with her viral fashion hauls and styling advice.
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In a recent video, she showed her fans a great trick for people with bigger busts who want to wear seemingly impossible tie-tops.
The plus-sized influencer is all about embracing different body shapes and sizes.
“These tie-tops that you thought you couldn’t wear,” she said in the video. “I have a bra-hack that is going to change your life.”
The glowing influencer was rocking a pair of light-wash jeans and a tie-top cardigan from the popular clothing brand, ASOS.
According to Native, the way to achieve a clean, effortless tie-top look for ladies with larger breasts is actually quite simple.
“Grab yourself a simple, non-wired stretchy sports bra and put on that top you thought you could never wear,” she instructed.
The influencer then showed how she runs the strings through the bra.
“Take the strings, and you want to put one through your bra going down and one through your bra going up,” she explained.
Native appeared excited as she held up her arms and showed her viewers the final product.
“All that’s left is to make a fancy bow,” she added with a smile.
Her fans were incredibly grateful for the fashion hack, pouring out their compliments in the comments section.
“Almost donated my tie-tops,” one person admitted. “You’ve changed my life.”
Even people who didn’t “need” the styling advice were blown away by the fashion hack.
“Watching this with my A cups like ‘Wow this is life changing,’” another person quipped.
Some people were eager for Native to share more of her fashion secrets on her social media page.
“Now show me a corset top please,” they requested.
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The TikToker suggested grabbing simple, non-wired stretchy sports bra to use to hold the top’s straps in place[/caption]
Mega City Is The Best Thing That’s Ever Been on a Fortnite Map
A couple weeks before Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 2 launched, the rumors began circulating about a “Neo Tokyo” kind of futuristic city location being added with the new season. And I thought: “Cool, they’re bringing back Neo Tilted Towers.” But I was wrong. Mega City is far beyond anything else we’ve ever seen in Fortnite–there are no good past comparisons for this place, either in terms of size or quality.
What makes it so great? Well, it’s the first place that Epic has built on the Fortnite island that feels like Zero Build was considered when they conceived it. Mega City has a bunch of skyscrapers, but the bulk of the interiors are inaccessible–making the number of places you might get shot from significantly more manageable. Likewise, this place has serious infrastructure in the form of grind rails and three or four different vertical ziplines on each building, and a car or motorcycle on every corner.
And if you’ve got a Kinetic Blade, too? And the Aerialist augment? Mega City is your playground.
How to choose a meditation app that’s right for you
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March Mindfulness is an annual Mashable series that explores the intersection of meditation practice and technology. This article is the first in a two-part series that looks at choosing an app based on your personality.
So you’ve decided to download a meditation app. Maybe you’re happy to trust a friend’s recommendation or go with an employer discount. But otherwise — well, I’ve been exploring and testing meditation apps since 2017, and I can tell you it’s surprisingly difficult to make that choice.
That’s because meditation apps frequently position themselves as lifestyle and wellness products. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Bundling sleep, exercise, yoga, and meditation content into a single app with a friendly design can be a great convenience for users: one-stop shopping for wellness needs.
But all that bundling can make it challenging to navigate the crowded meditation app market. Apps can be maddeningly vague about their features, leaving you little option but to sign up for a free trial that’ll end before you know it. It helps to know what you want before you’re in that position, and that’s what this series addresses.
In the next part of the series, we’ll share our specific guide to meditation apps based on responses from seven of the market leaders, including Headspace, Calm and Simple Habit.
But ultimately, your choice may depend less on the specifics of each app, and more on finding the best match for your personality and style.
Consider the following three steps:
1. Know what you want from a meditation app.
If it feels like some of the apps are competing fiercely with each other to land the biggest celebrities, that’s because they are. Headspace hired John Legend as chief music officer. On Calm, Matthew McConaughey narrates a sleep story. Russell Brand shares his own guided meditations on Insight Timer. These kinds of cultural references might be exactly what you need to open your meditation app day after day.
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Yet it’s also important to make that choice consciously. Otherwise, without clarity about your needs, it’s easy to become distracted by high-profile names, flashy features, and digital bells and whistles.
If you want your app to multitask, for example, your best choice might be products that offer various forms of movement like stretching, yoga, and “mindful” workouts. Such content is available on apps like Calm, Headspace, and Simple Habit. And while Apple Fitness isn’t a meditation app, it does include guided meditations in its content library, too.
But if your goal is to learn basic meditation techniques or deepen your practice, and you don’t need other types of functionality, apps like Ten Percent Happier, Balance, and Healthy Minds Program are likely a better fit.
Beginner meditators often go to Insight Timer, which has what it promotes as the as the largest meditation app library in the world, with over 160,000 guided meditation and music tracks in 44 languages, many of them for free. It also hosts yoga, breathwork lessons, live events, and journaling.
When making a decision about an app, the answers to questions like these matter, too:
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Do you want an app with meditation resources for kids?
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Are you looking for content to help you sleep?
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Do you have a disability and need an app with accessibility features like closed captions?
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Would you like access to live group meditations or individual coaching?
No single meditation app will meet all of your needs, but some will be better suited to you than others. Simple Habit, for example, has guided meditations for kids and lots of sleep content, but no accessibility features. Ten Percent Happier includes captions for most of its meditations and offers group meditation practice as well as individual coaching, but few in-app resources for kids.
Lastly, if you’re seeking a certain style of meditation, know that the apps typically don’t advertise which types of practices are included in guided tracks. That’s partly because meditation is a large category that describes practices for “the basic skill of cultivating inward investigation,” says Diana Winston, a meditation teacher and author of Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness.
In general, Winston says common types of meditation focus on skills like awareness, concentration, guided visualizations, and cultivating certain qualities of the heart and mind, such as compassion and lovingkindness. If you want to develop a specific skill or practice, try to gauge whether the app has single tracks and courses on that topic.
Also, meditation apps often package themselves as secular to appeal to broad audiences, even if the meditation practices offered are rooted in spiritual traditions like Buddhism.
This doesn’t mean that your app is secretly religious, but it does reflect a decades-long trend of secularizing meditation for the American public — and unfortunately obscuring its roots and sources.
2. Before choosing a meditation app, take stock of your strengths and challenges.
Forming a new habit is hard for most people. It takes repetition and consistency to turn an interest or task into part of our everyday lives. Building a meditation practice comes with its own unique challenges. People tend to have high expectations, both of themselves and the benefits they’ll experience.
But there is no perfect way to practice, and meditation can be hard and unsatisfying. For some people, being present with their thoughts and the sensation of their breath can prompt severe anxiety or trigger a pre-existing trauma.
It’s helpful to reflect on these factors as you select an app. Unfortunately, making that choice is an art, not a science — at least for now. Some research suggests that mindfulness interventions can affect people differently, depending on their personal characteristics.
A British Journal of Health Psychology study that comprehensively looked at that effect found that participants who scored highly on tests that assessed their motivation, medical conditions, mindfulness, and interpersonal problems showed increased levels of positive meditation outcomes. A higher baseline of mental disorders or depression was linked to poorer mental health following a meditation intervention.
In other words, who you are and what you experience could influence how well meditation works for you.
This field of research is still evolving. A much smaller study, published last year in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, found that personality traits may affect the success of mind-body interventions, too. People who are easily absorbed in experiences found meditating easier, and they meditated for longer than others without the same trait.
They also were more likely to report increased well-being and body awareness. Those with more vulnerable personality traits, like higher anxiety and lower self-compassion, also saw more benefits.
Dr. Karin Matko, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow at Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany, told Mashable that she hopes to ultimately better understand who does well with which type of mindfulness approach — yoga or mantra meditation, for example — in order to help people get the most benefits.
While science may not be able to provide those answers for now, it’s worth considering that a certain app or meditation style simply might not be the right match for you, instead of believing that you’re terrible at the practice.
3. When selecting a meditation app, apply a little skepticism — and trust your instincts.
Even if you’re specifically interested in meditation, you might find some guided meditations laughably corny or well outside your comfort zone. If an app’s overall style seems too touchy-feely or too humorless, then it’s probably not for you. Not wanting guided meditations at all is also a legitimate choice.
Just because it’s been uploaded to a meditation app, doesn’t mean a guided track is a well-known practice that’s been passed down over the millennia by monks or gurus. While a meditation doesn’t have to meet that criteria to be helpful, Diana Winston also says that it’s the “Wild West of meditation out there.”
People teaching meditation have come up with very creative practices that may stretch the definition of what it means to meditate. This might include using poetry, spoken word readings, storytelling, and “manifestation” techniques.
While Winston isn’t worried for people’s physical safety, she does wonder if exposure to certain types of guided tracks will discourage people from continuing with meditation.
“I do think that there are plenty [of meditations] that would be not helpful or ineffective or might turn people off to meditation if they were to get proper instruction somewhere else,” says Winston, director of mindfulness education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center.
Winston recommends that people “fall back on their own best thinking” as they assess meditations and the apps that host them.
After all, a meditation app’s marketing campaign may uniquely grab your attention, but you’re the only authority on whether the substance under the shiny surface is right for you.
The One Thing You’re Doing Wrong That’s Ruining Your Health
WWE 2K23’s MyRise story mode is a slow burn that’s worth the effort
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For immersion, it’s hard to beat the career mode. Be prepared to spend a lot of time out of the ring
Resident Evil 4 Remake Review – Stranga, Stranga, Now That’s A Remake
How do you remake Resident Evil 4, an experience that changed the way action games are made today? It is, at best, an unfair challenge and, at worst, an impossible task. So, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel a second time, developer Capcom has doubled down on the brilliance of the original’s design–elaborated on it, and finely tuned the experience. The result is a stunning remake that reminds longtime fans like me of its brilliance, while also introducing an all-new generation to a modern classic and one of the most important games of all time.
If you’re not familiar, the premise of Resident Evil 4 is straightforward: Leon S. Kennedy, the cool and handsome rookie-cop-turned-government-agent who you may remember from his escapades in Resident Evil 2’s Raccoon City, has been sent to rural Spain to track down Ashley Graham, the US President’s missing daughter. Yes, it’s a “save the princess” trope but, even 18 years later, its juxtaposition against the survival-horror genre serves as an immaculate setup for the game’s over-the-top set pieces. In this case, the princess is in another castle, but it’s a castle besieged by parasitic infections and mind-controlled cultists, so you’ll have to blast your way from a rundown village to a military island to get her back. While the core pillars of tense, up-close-and-personal action and careful resource management remain welcomingly unchanged, improvements to character development elevate the story as a whole. Now more than ever, Capcom is aware of the tone and humor of the game after it felt accidental in the original. This time, it feels like Capcom is leaning into it, striking a considered balance between heart-pounding horror and laugh-out-loud cheese.
This time, Leon isn’t just a cool-looking dude with swoopy hair and a sweet jacket, who says sometimes cool, sometimes corny things, and does super-cool stuff. He’s more than that: Now he’s a cool dude with cool hair doing cool stuff who also acts like a human being. This is a Leon who carries the trauma of the Raccoon City incident from Resident Evil 2 remake, which gives more weight to his character and serves as compelling context for his motivation to save Ashley Graham. This time around, it’s not just another assignment for Leon–it’s a chance at redemption for the lives he couldn’t save in Raccoon City. This narrative continuity is a strong thread that ties the remakes together with emotional heft, making this new era of the franchise feel stronger and more unified than the originals.
House hunters left stunned by detail in bedroom of ‘ideal family home’ that’s left them disgusted
A HOUSE on sale has left prospective buyers stunned by the strange layout of the master bedroom.
The three-bedroom property is described as an “ideal family home” boasting ocean views but the bedroom has left some people disgusted.
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The room seems appealingly decorated but it’s the ensuite that’s causing people to do a double take.
Right at the end of the bed is a toilet, without any partition, and facing directly at whoever might be sharing the double bed.
While the shower has a partition, it doesn’t hide the toilet, leading to potentially awkward situations.
The house is on sale in the coastal town of Manyana in New South Wales, Australia and fetched £255,000 when it was last on the market.
Writer and editor Amber Robinson was first to point out the unusual design, sharing a photo of the room on Twitter.
“When did we start incorporating toilets into bedrooms,” she captioned her post.
“There are already three other toilets in the house. No reason whatsoever to need one in the master bedroom too.”
With no walls or doors to dividing the ensuite from the sleeping area, many have questioned how the room functions.
“So gross! Toilet aerosols where you sleep, plus sharing EVERYTHING with your significant other. And waking them to flush. Ugh,” one of Amber’s follower commented.
Another added: “I hate a toilet in a bathroom. I’ll never have one. No privacy. A toilet needs its own room. When did we start putting beds in bathrooms?”
A third simply said: “That is disgusting.”
The estate agent dealing with the sale Brendan Shipp from McGrath, admitted he was confused when he saw the layout noting
“It’s not normal but it’s not a negative thing, it’s a point of difference,” he told news.com.au.
He explained the design was not a trend but rather a decision by the homeowners to open up the space.
“The vendors wanted to open up the master bedroom and make it more free-flowing to get extra light,” he said.
“(For) the married couple that were there, there were no issues. They were married and knew each other’s secrets anyway.”
The two-storey home on a street The Wheelhouse is modernly designed with open-space living and ample storage.
The living area, dining area, kitchen, lounge and bedrooms are all located on the second floor, above two lockup garages, a second bathroom and laundry found on the ground level.
The listing listing went live on Tuesday night and six parties have inquired about the property.
Despite the unusual feature, it appears there is still a lot of interest in the newly renovated property.
It come after house for sale in Galesburg, Michigan, USA, also has a toilet in the master bedroom, catching the attention of baffled prospective buyers.
It claims to have “2.5” bathrooms, and thankfully, the two others have walls enclosed around them.
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Google-backed Anthropic launches Claude, an AI chatbot that’s easier to talk to
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Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company founded by ex-OpenAI employees, has launched its AI chatbot, Claude. While the tool does much of what OpenAI’s ChatGPT can, Anthropic says its early clients report the tool’s “less likely to produce harmful outputs” and is “easier to converse with.”
Like OpenAI, Anthropic also has big tech backing: Google invested $300 million into Anthropic in February. The company’s chatbot — similar to ChatGPT — can provide summaries, answer questions, provide assistance with writing, and generate code. You can also tweak the chatbot’s tone, personality, and behavior, which sounds a bit more comprehensive than the “creative, balanced, and precise” settings Bing’s chatbot offers.
After working for the…