twitchy one 🏳️‍🌈♿

Unapologetically Nerdy. Out and proud. Disabled and meh.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

She thanked her husband in her Oscar speech. He was cheating on her while their newborn waited at home.

March 7, 2010.

The Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

Sandra Bullock, 45, stood onstage holding the Oscar for Best Actress, the greatest moment of her twenty-five-year career.

Through tears, she looked toward her husband.

“I never knew what it felt like for someone to have my back,” she said. “So thank you for teaching me that.”

The audience erupted.

It looked like a perfect ending.

It wasn't.

While Sandra celebrated the biggest night of her career, Jesse James had been hiding multiple affairs throughout much of their five-year marriage. As she filmed the role that earned her the Oscar, he was living a completely different life.

She had no idea.

Neither did the millions watching.

Away from the spotlight, another secret filled their home.

Sandra and Jesse had quietly welcomed a three-month-old baby boy named Louis. The adoption wasn't yet finalized, so they planned to share the news after awards season.

She smiled for cameras.

Then went home to her newborn.

Only ten days later, everything collapsed.

A tattoo model revealed an eleven-month affair with Jesse. Within hours, more women came forward with messages, photographs, and stories that turned private heartbreak into front-page news.

Sandra suddenly faced a shattered marriage while holding a baby who needed her more than anyone else did.

She didn't make speeches.

She made decisions.

She moved out immediately, took Louis with her, filed for divorce, and completed the adoption on her own.

When reporters wanted anger or revenge, she offered only one thought.

Her son's first year mattered more than her heartbreak.

Then she disappeared.

Months passed without interviews or public explanations. She focused entirely on motherhood before quietly adopting her daughter, Laila, years later.

Love eventually returned through photographer Bryan Randall.

Their relationship remained private, steady, and deeply grounded. When he was diagnosed with ALS in 2020, Sandra cared for him quietly until his passing in 2023.

Again, she grieved without turning pain into a performance.

Sandra Bullock won an Oscar, lost a marriage, became a mother, found love again, and endured heartbreaking loss.

She never let tragedy become her identity.

She simply kept choosing the people she loved over the attention the world offered.

Because real strength isn't found in standing on a stage.

It's found in quietly standing back up after life brings the curtain down.

[twitchy one 🏳️‍🌈♿ @CourtneyWinburn]

@iTheWolfman Wait, wait, wait, sorry, tall person here. Wouldn't you want to move the seat then put the belt on? The bombastic side-eye is required for the entire ride up, of course, but all I'm wondering is why is she hurting herself!?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Video of an eagle and a fox holding what looks like a serious meeting in Dutch Harbor is going viral.

The agenda remains top secret, with no leaks from the meeting so far.

Writer: Daniyal

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Not all heroes wear capes, some wear underwear.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

> Be Jonny Kim
> Born to South Korean immigrants in Los Angeles
> Grows up in an intensely abusive household, constantly full of fear
> The night before he graduates high school, his father threatens the family with a gun
> Police arrive, a shootout happens, and his father is killed
> Decides he wants to protect people so he enlists in the Navy at 18
> Survives Hell Week and becomes a Navy SEAL
> Deploys to Iraq twice as a combat medic, sniper, and point man
> Completes over 100 combat operations under fire
> Earns a Silver Star and a Bronze Star for saving wounded comrades
> Watches his close friends die in battle and realizes he wants to heal people, not just fight
> Leaves active duty to get a degree in Mathematics from USD
> Auditions for medical school and gets accepted into Harvard
> Graduates from Harvard Medical School as an M.D. in 2016
> Starts his residency in emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
> Gets bored of being a regular doctor and applies to NASA
> Selected as 1 of only 12 candidates out of 18,300 applicants
> Becomes a NASA Astronaut in 2020
> Decides space isn't enough, so he joins Navy flight school to face his fear of flying
> Earns his wings as a fully certified military pilot and naval flight surgeon
> Launches into space on a rocket to the International Space Station
> Logs 245 days in orbit, traveling 104 million miles around the Earth before returning home
> Returns to Earth as a SEAL, a Harvard Doctor, an Aviator, and an Astronaut at just 41 years old

And Jonny Kim is still the most humble guy on the planet who makes everyone else's resume look blank.

Jonny Kim is badass.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

On August 22, 2002, Michelle Knight missed a court hearing in Cleveland, Ohio. She had been fighting the state for custody of her young son, and investigators assumed she had simply given up and walked away. A missing persons report was eventually filed, but it was removed from active lists roughly fifteen months after she vanished. There were no search parties, no vigils, no posters. The quiet, systemic assumption was that she had probably left on her own.

She hadn't. She had been taken.

Ariel Castro, a local school bus driver, had driven her to his house at 2207 Seymour Avenue, attacked her, and locked her inside. She was 21 years old. She would not leave for eleven years.

In April 2003, Castro abducted sixteen-year-old Amanda Berry as she walked home from her job at Burger King. The community response was immediate and sustained — her family organized, campaigned, and kept her face on television for years. America's Most Wanted covered the case, the FBI got involved. A year later, in April 2004, he abducted fourteen-year-old Gina DeJesus. Her family responded with the same fierce determination: billboards, vigils, community organizations. The world was actively searching for two of the three women locked inside that house.

Inside, Michelle had already been a prisoner for years. She was impregnated five times and lost every pregnancy through Castro's deliberate violence. He physically beat her so severely she miscarried each time. He taunted her daily with the fact that no one was looking for her. Castro reportedly told her: "Your families don't care about you. Ain't you glad I took you?"

She refused to disappear inside her own mind.

On Christmas Day 2006, Amanda Berry went into labor. Castro panicked and threatened Michelle's life if the baby died, then left the house. Amanda was alone and terrified. Michelle had no medical training, and had lost five pregnancies of her own through violence, but she stepped in anyway. She delivered Jocelyn. When the infant wasn't breathing, she performed CPR until the baby cried. She saved two lives that night — in the dark, in captivity, with no help coming.

On May 6, 2013, Castro left a door unsecured. Amanda broke free, called for help from neighbor Charles Ramsey, and police arrived to find all three women and six-year-old Jocelyn. All of them walked out into daylight.

Amanda and Gina were welcomed home by families who had never stopped fighting for them. Their reunions were broadcast live. Michelle walked out of the same house on the same day into a very different reality. In much of the media coverage that followed, she was barely a footnote.

She has spoken about this openly in the years since — not with bitterness, but with striking clarity. She wrote two memoirs: *Finding Me* in 2014 and *Life After Darkness* in 2018, both New York Times bestsellers. She legally changed her name to Lily Rose Lee, choosing an identity for herself on her own terms. She founded a nonprofit, Lily's Ray of Hope, supporting survivors of child abuse, domestic violence, and human trafficking. In 2015, she married Miguel Rodriguez, a courier she met through mutual friends.

She speaks publicly about missing persons — specifically the ones who fall through the cracks: those with complicated backgrounds, unstable housing, difficult histories, whose disappearances get explained away rather than investigated. She speaks about the documented disparity in how resources and coverage are allocated to different victims based on class, race, and circumstance.

Castro pleaded guilty to 937 criminal counts of rape, kidnapping, and aggravated murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole, plus 1,000 years. He hanged himself in his cell weeks after his sentencing.

Lily Rose Lee is still working. She knows exactly what it feels like to vanish while still breathing. She knows what it means to be declared not worth searching for. She knows that somewhere, right now, there is another vulnerable person whose disappearance is being explained away.

The woman who delivered a baby with her bare hands in the darkest place imaginable is now using those same hands to pull others into the light.

[Dan Hightower @Danhightower]

Daycare calls me. That's never good.

For them.

Daycare: "your son hurt his elbow and won't move his arm. Can you come take him to a doctor's office?"

Me (ex Special Forces Medic): "A real doctor is on the way to you now. I am 6 mikes out. Alert me of status changes."

I arrive at daycare. I locate the patient. 21 month old male. Scene is not safe. I drag the patient to cover and concealment behind a seesaw, away from the other small terrorists in the AO.

I begin my assessment. Blood sweep negative for massive hemorrhage. Mental status: conscious and verbal but confused (answers "dada" when asked for blood type). One breath every 2 seconds. Bilateral rise and fall of the chest. Strong carotid pulse, strong bilat radial pulse.

Teeth and tongue intact no blood no mucus no dip or foreign objects. Eyes PERRLA, negative JVD/trach deviation, C-spine intact upon palpation.

Heart sounds strong upon auscultation. Percussion negative for hemo-T. Abdominal quads normal upon palpation. Pelvis negative for book sign.

Arms and legs negative for crepitus. However, Patient indicates discomfort in right arm upon palpation and supination/flexion of the elbow.

Nursemaid's elbow.

I begin interventions. Supination/flexion technique complete at 1215. Palpable clunk on successful reduction. I write the time on his chest in Sharpie. I tape a popsicle to his hand and tell the patient to suck but do not bite/chew. I write "1 x popsicle (10g sugar)" on his chest in Sharpie.

I reassess the patient after performing interventions then package the patient for handoff to daycare/higher level of care. I yell at daycare over the Blackhawk in my head: "21 month old male!!! Nursemaids elbow!!! Treated with supination/flexion technique at 1215!!! Patient has 1 x popsicle onboard!!"

Daycare: "sir please leave."

Me: "you should have called my wife."

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Groundbreaking botanical research is challenging the long-held belief in human exceptionalism, suggesting that plants possess forms of spatial awareness, intentionality, and consciousness.

For centuries, humans have regarded plants as passive organisms, but pioneering studies are rewriting this view. According to plant neurobiologist Dr. Stefano Mancuso, plants display sophisticated behaviors that parallel those of conscious animals. In laboratory experiments, plants react to anesthesia in ways strikingly similar to humans and animals — for instance, the Venus flytrap becomes completely unresponsive when anesthetized.

Time-lapse studies further reveal remarkable intelligence in common bean plants, which demonstrate clear spatial awareness by precisely aiming shoots toward supports and even adjusting their growth strategy when they detect another plant has already claimed a support.

These findings indicate that consciousness may not be limited to organisms with brains, but could be a more flexible property emerging in diverse life forms. As trees migrate northward in response to climate change, mirroring animal migration, researchers argue that our understanding of “mind” must expand beyond traditional boundaries.

With over three trillion trees on Earth, acknowledging plant consciousness could transform our ethical frameworks, agricultural practices, and relationship with nature, shifting from viewing plants as mere resources to recognizing them as active, aware participants in our shared ecosystem.

[Yokawa, K., Kagenishi, T., Pavlovič, A., Gall, S., Weiland, M., Mancuso, S., & Baluška, F. (2018). Anaesthetics stop diverse plant organ movements, affect endocytic vesicle recycling and ROS homeostasis, and block action potentials in Venus flytraps. Annals of Botany, 122(5), 747–756. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcx155]

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Nature gets revenge on millionaire influencer.

A millionaire influencer bought a remote luxury home near the forests of Rwanda, but locals said he brought his reckless lifestyle with him. Sports cars, parties, cameras everywhere, and constant complaints that he was speeding through narrow roads where wildlife crossed. Then one morning, he called officials after his security camera caught a massive gorilla smashing one of his sports cars.

At first, it looked like a crazy viral clip, but officials knew gorillas do not usually act like that for no reason. When they checked the car, they found gorilla fur underneath it that matched a younger gorilla, not the adult seen on camera. That led them back to a recent report of a baby gorilla found injured on the side of the road after being hit by an unknown vehicle. Once the pieces came together, researchers said it was not a random attack. The influencer was arrested for a suspected wildlife hit-and-run, and officials believe the adult gorilla recognized the car that had hurt its baby.

[FeelGoodTales @feelgoodtale]

A shocking moment was caught on surveillance cameras at Westport Pier.
A man threw a black sports bag into the water and quickly disappeared.
Nearby, a homeless man noticed the bag moving in the water.
Without hesitation, he jumped into the cold water to save whatever was inside.
When he reached the bag and opened it, he found a tiny puppy inside.
The puppy was wet, frightened, and struggling to move.
The man wrapped the puppy in his own jacket to keep it warm until help arrived.
Even though he was freezing and soaked himself, he focused on protecting the puppy.
When people asked why he risked his life, he simply said:
“I am here because of my choices. The dog did not choose this.”
The puppy survived and is now recovering safely.
Many people online are trying to find the man and thank him for his bravery and kindness.
This story reminds us that compassion can come from unexpected places.
Sometimes people with the least still choose to give the most.

[twitchy one 🏳️‍🌈♿ @CourtneyWinburn]

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[Science girl @sciencegirl]

How different actors fall

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[twitchy one 🏳️‍🌈♿ @CourtneyWinburn]

Again, look at our past, Hollywood. Our past is full to brim with heros that would be an awesome character besides redoing classics.

[twitchy one 🏳️‍🌈♿ @CourtneyWinburn]

I want that pilot on every fight I ever take for the rest of my life. Don't even tell me it's him, let me find out the hilarious way, by the tears of the other passengers.

[Be Believing @Be_Believing]

The moment your pilot forgets he’s not flying a fighter jet anymore 😭

[Be Believing @Be_Believing]

The moment your pilot forgets he’s not flying a fighter jet anymore 😭

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

He was supposed to be on vacation.
Spencer Stone, 23, was dozing on a high-speed train hurtling through Belgium at nearly 320 km/h. He was backpacking across Europe with his two best childhood friends—three young men simply looking to see the world before life got complicated.
Suddenly, a man emerged from the restroom, a Kalashnikov in his hand.
In seconds, the calm of that summer afternoon plunged into the unimaginable. Passengers screamed. People dove under the seats. A French-American man named Mark Moogalian rushed to grab the rifle and was shot in the back. The assailant was armed with a pistol, a box cutter, and 270 rounds of ammunition. The train was locked, speeding along, and the police were nowhere to be seen.

554 people had nowhere to go. Spencer Stone had no weapon. No body armor. No plan.

He got up anyway.
Without a word to his friends, he started running—at full speed down the center aisle—directly toward an armed assailant who had already shot someone. His friend Alek Skarlatos followed closely behind. Anthony Sadler, a student, joined them. A 62-year-old British businessman, Chris Norman—a complete stranger—also joined them.
None of them had to. They all did.
Stone reached the assailant first, pinned him in a headlock, and forced him to the ground. The struggle was violent and desperate. The assailant pulled out a box cutter and slashed Stone's face, neck, and hands—giving him a deep gash on his neck and nearly severing his thumb. Blood soaked the aisle floor. Stone didn't let go.
For nearly 90 seconds, four ordinary men held a terrorist on the ground as he planned a mass slaughter. They finally subdued him and tied him down with belts and a tie.
Then Stone collapsed.
Bleeding profusely from his neck wound and fighting to stay conscious, he saw Mark Moogalian lying a few meters away—the man who had been shot while trying to stop the attacker. His wife stood beside him, screaming in terror.
Stone crawled to him. With one hand, he pressed down on his own wound to close it; with the other, he worked to save Moogalian. The young pilot managed to keep the wounded man alive—breathing and speaking—until the train made an emergency stop and the rescuers arrived. The surgeons who subsequently treated Stone said his neck wound had been only millimeters from fatal. He had lost a tremendous amount of blood. He had come within inches of not surviving.

But he pulled through.
When he regained consciousness after his operation, he asked only one question—not about himself, his injuries, or what lay ahead.

He asked if anyone else had been hurt.
He was told no: no one else had died. Thanks to what he and his friends had accomplished in those 90 seconds, 554 people were able to return home to their families that night.
French President François Hollande awarded Stone, Skarlatos, and Sadler the Legion of Honor—France's highest distinction. President Obama received them at the Pentagon. The world applauded their actions.

Stone consistently declined all honors. “I only did what anyone would have done,” he kept repeating.

But that’s precisely the difference: most people wouldn’t have. When danger strikes, all your instincts tell you to flee in the opposite direction. The rarest thing in the world is to see someone run toward that danger—unarmed—for the safety of strangers they’ve never met.
Three friends from Sacramento and a British stranger they’d never spoken to decided—in a spontaneous and unforeseen moment—that the lives of others mattered more than their own safety.
That decision saved the lives of everyone on board that train.

554 people were able to get home.

Because four ordinary people had chosen, without the slightest hesitation, to do something extraordinary.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

In 1984, Ruth Coker Burks was 25 years old, visiting a friend at a hospital in Little Rock, when she noticed nurses drawing straws outside a patient's room. Someone had to go in. She didn't wait for the straws. She opened the door herself. What she found inside would define the next decade of her life. 🕯️**

Inside was a young man reduced to bones — maybe 80 pounds, dying alone, terrified. He kept whispering one word.

*"Mama."*

Ruth told the nurses to call his mother.

They laughed.

*"Honey, we've called. He's been here six weeks. Nobody's coming."*

Ruth made them give her the number. She tried one last time.

The mother's answer was cold and final: her son was sinful, already dead to her, and she would not be coming.

So Ruth went back into that room. She took his hand. She stayed.

For 13 hours, she held the hand of a dying stranger, promising him he wouldn't leave this world alone.

When he died, his family refused to claim the body.

Ruth decided she would bury him herself.

She owned plots in her family cemetery in Hot Springs — where her father and grandparents rested. The nearest funeral home willing to handle an AIDS death was 70 miles away. Ruth paid from her own pocket. A local potter gave her a chipped cookie jar for an urn.

She used posthole diggers to dig the grave herself.

She spoke kind words over the earth because no minister would come to pray over a man who died of AIDS.

Ruth thought that would be the end.

It was the beginning.

Word traveled through the quiet networks of fear and desperation across Arkansas.

*There's a woman in Hot Springs who isn't afraid. There's a woman who will sit with you. There's a woman who will make sure you're buried with dignity when your own family won't claim you.*

They started arriving. Dying young men from rural hospitals across the state, abandoned by the people who were supposed to love them most.

Over the next decade, Ruth Coker Burks cared for more than 1,000 people dying of AIDS.

She personally buried 40 of them in Files Cemetery — digging the graves herself, with her young daughter beside her carrying a small spade, holding their own funerals because no one else would speak over these graves.

Of those 1,000 people, only a handful of families didn't abandon their dying children.

Ruth called parents. Begged them to come say goodbye. To claim their child's body.

Most refused.

*"Who knew,"* she said, *"there'd come a time when parents didn't want to bury their own children?"*

But she also witnessed something else — something that stayed with her.

She watched gay men care for dying partners with a devotion that shattered every stereotype. She watched a terrified community take care of its own — and take care of her.

*"They would twirl up a drag show on Saturday night and here'd come the money. That's how we bought medicine. That's how we paid rent. If it hadn't been for the drag queens, I don't know what we would have done."*

By the mid-1990s, new treatments emerged. The crisis began to shift.

And then, like so many heroes of the AIDS crisis, Ruth Coker Burks faded from public memory.

She wrote a memoir in 2019 called *All the Young Men* because she needed people to understand what happened in Arkansas. What happened across America. What happens when fear convinces people to abandon their own children.

And what happens when one person refuses to walk past a door everyone else fears.

She didn't have medical training. She didn't have institutional backing. She didn't have money.

She had compassion. Courage. Posthole diggers. And a family cemetery.

That was enough to make sure 1,000 people didn't die believing they were worthless.

The next time someone says one person can't change anything —

Remember the red bag on the door.

Remember the 13 hours she stayed with a stranger.

Remember the 40 graves she dug with her own hands.

She walked through that door in 1984. And 1,000 lives were forever changed because of it.

[Geoff Wacker @GeoffWacker]

That's fuckin' right!

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

When he was first approached for the role of Tyrion Lannister, he was skeptical. He told the producers, “I don’t want a long beard and pointy shoes.”

Peter Dinklage was tired of the world looking at him and seeing a caricature instead of a man. For years, Hollywood had tried to shove him into boxes labeled “elf” or “magical creature,” but Peter had a different plan.

He didn’t want to be a punchline; he wanted to be an actor.

“I didn’t grow up like others,” Peter once said while looking back on his journey, “but I discovered that my stature doesn’t limit the size of my steps.” Those steps were often taken on cold, hard pavement.

After moving to New York City, he lived the life of a starving artist in the truest sense. He stayed in a cramped Brooklyn apartment where the only “amenity” was a lack of heat and the presence of rats. To pay the bills, he spent six years at a data-processing job he absolutely hated.

Despite having no money, he stayed stubborn. He turned down role after role that mocked his height. He knew that if he accepted those parts, he would be telling the world that those were the only stories people like him were allowed to tell.

“I said no a lot. It is very easy to say no when you have a bank account, but it’s much harder when you’re hungry.”

He chose the hunger over the humiliation.

His patience eventually led him to The Station Agent, a film where he played a complex, quiet man looking for connection. It was the first time many people saw him as a leading man. He proved that he could carry a movie with just a look or a pause. He wasn’t a “dwarf actor”; he was just a brilliant actor.

When Game of Thrones finally arrived, he transformed Tyrion Lannister into one of the most beloved characters in television history.

He wasn’t the hero because he could swing a sword; he was the hero because he was the smartest person in the room. He won four Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe, not by changing his height, but by changing how the entire world perceived it.

He forced the industry to look up to him.

Peter Dinklage’s life is a masterclass in self-respect. He showed everyone that you don’t have to fit the mold to break the mold. He didn’t wait for the world to give him permission to be great; he simply refused to be anything less.

He taught us that we should never trade our dignity for a paycheck or a bit of comfort.

People will treat you exactly the way you allow them to. If you refuse to play a small part in your own life, you eventually give yourself the space to become a giant.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.

This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Trump's recklessness is needlessly putting our brave service members in harm's way, destroying America's global standing, and making life even more unaffordable for the American people.

We must all stand against this and oppose funding this illegal war of choice.