Micky

🖤🖤🖤❤️❤️❤️🔱❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤🖤Foundational Black American 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Lyn🦋 @_ayandamay]

THE FUCKING NERVE OF NETFLIX AND OTHER STREAMING SERVICES TO ENCOURAGE US TO CANCEL OUR CABLE WITH THE PROMISE TO DELIVER AN AD FREE SERVICE, ONLY TO TURN AROUND AND RE INTRODUCE ADS, AND THEN CHARGE YOU ON TOP OF YOUR CURRENT PLAN FOR THE PRIVILEGE TO REMOVE THEM!!!!!

[MACÈO MULAN @maceomulan]

even the dollar store got tap pay, walmart so fucking raggedy

[Maine @mainey_maine]

Jim Crow in the South never died, just rebranded

[Micky @Lars_XOX]

@BigTex51215 @Coutorce @madeyawook @int_Righteous Orrrrrr…. You could stop stealing bitch.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project.

She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it.

Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda.

Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly.

She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype.

Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection.

The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table.

Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests.

Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.

[The Notorious J.O.V. @whotfisjovana]

some of y’all didn’t hear him clearly

[throwbacks @solelynostalgia]

he would’ve fought the hantavirus himself if it was on his ship

[Qadi @Bigqadi]

Realizing how many Black American families were killed or robbed of this, yet her ancestors survived it all in Mississippi… Just beautiful.

[Nicole ✨ @BombshellCole]

Enjoy prison, bitch.

[Sun Ra @KailSovl]

Y’all know how many people died for voting rights and that shit was wiped out with 6 votes???

[໊໊ @juniorkingpp]

the fact the US used the full force of the federal government to eliminate the Black Panthers while the KKK is still running around tells you a lot about this country

[Kay_Cee @EzehKene]

The Thriller album is bigger than Taylor Swift's career.

[Jum @JesterJum]

"YoU aReN't AlWaYs GoNnA hAvE a CaLcUlAtOr In YoUr PoCkEt"

-Lying ass 90s teachers

[ Legendary Self-Made Progress THA GREAT 🏁 @1EntreProNegro]

Absolutely Nobody :

Black people when we’re cooking😂😂😭😭😭😭💀💀💀

[SwiftieLee 🖤 @SwiftieLee1]

Please stop going into the medical or healthcare field if you lack empathy

[Micky @Lars_XOX]

@UnspkenFacts True, but I see it significantly less with that combo and when it does happen it’s usually from racist Asians, not blk or yt people

[Micky @Lars_XOX]

@UnspkenFacts @dazyasia @Anniebe9266802 Which I find interesting because you don’t see this behavior for blasians, then they understand but when it comes to blk/yt mixed people it’s confusing for them to get that🤔

[Strictly 4 My X’ers @Lizzs_Lockeroom]

The accuracy 🤣🤣... and the voice tone is different for each one...

[🦂THEE Auntie with no kids♏️ @prmade313raised]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Stop stealing!

[A @freauxmama]

I love being black omg