Sid

[Mittens @JUSTcatmeme]

Ngl (not gonna lie) this is pretty damn accurate

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.

The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.

India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.

Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.

The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.

So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.

[☠️ Death to the Dummies🧠🧠 @PrinceZion]

@jmichelle555 Its actually if you want to impress me bite a brick drown water or make medicine sick

[WORLDSTARHIPHOP @WORLDSTAR]

bro couldn't wait to tell his story😭

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

Meet Bruce Taylor, of Taylor Farms. This man makes huge contributions to Trump so his lettuce is never inspected. So far, this man has given us E. coli, and cyclospora.

He does NOT allow his lettuce pickers to take bathroom breaks.

Kroger brand lettuce is actually Taylor’s.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

New broadcasting guidelines for women's athletics have been released to crack down on camera angles and slow-motion replays that ‘sexualize’ athletes

The guidelines highlight shots broadcasters are urged to avoid

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Omg @Cheering4Change this you?

[Ethan Levins ✝️ @EthanLevins2]

BREAKING: The IDF detained and held congressman Khanna at GUNPOINT.

Why won’t the media show this?

[Anthony Ellis @skydog811]

“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
― Aristophanes

[Archive @archivebycosmos]

Interiors by Somerset House.

[Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart]

The FRAMA Office*

København, Denmark 🇩🇰

[Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart]

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[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Live-action ‘Magic School Bus’ movie is moving forward 🚌

Elizabeth Banks will star as Ms. Frizzle

[Modern Notoriety @ModernNotoriety]

“ohhhh bet”

Vans reacts to Pharrell’s new Louis Vuitton Combi sneaker

[Saganism @Saganismm]

There is a cult of ignorance... nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

— Isaac Asimov

[Sid @KryptikCharles]

@ComplexMusic Pac would be disgusted with you, Snoop

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”

— James Baldwin

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Ranitomeya fantastica frog from Peru

📹 alvarowildlifephoto

[Black-Owned Businesses in Texas @SAUEBLACKTX]

A Black-Owned Soul Food Restaurant in Houston

Annie B’s Southern Cuisine (Black-Owned) | 9603 FM 1960 W, Houston, TX 77070