Chris Hatfield🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

Chemist, rugby player, tap dancer, choral singer. Lover of horror, sci-fi, & all things that go bump in the night. Nothing has been the same since Prince died.

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@DCHomos The Venture Inn in Philly. The restaurant was excellent. Their Blue Cheese salad dressing was legendary.

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@CHRISBSFW @iceman81x Wow, that is a great achievement. Great cut. Now go eat something. 😊

[Philadelphia Phillies @Phillies]

Baseball is for all 🏳️‍🌈

Happy Pride Month!

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@CHRISBSFW Stunning

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@TheExtremeMusi1 Magnificent

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@u2songs That must mean the new album is done.

[U2tour @U2tour]

Happy Birthday to the Showman, who gives us front row to his heart! We wish you all the best 🥳🎁❤️ #U2 #Bono

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@LucasSa56947288 I like 2, 5, and 10.

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@Neo_Manifesto Grief shows up in unexpected ways. Prince threw himself into work to promote Emancipation with the tour in early 1997. I am not sure if he allowed himself to grieve his son’s death then. It’s dark and brooding music to me. He was depressed and did not know how to heal his pain.

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@RonFilipkowski It looks like a swimming pool. Tacky is Trump’s aesthetic.

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@CHRISBSFW Great progress.

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@Demeter_Erinia Yes. It lasted a few years. 1982-1984. So many hits singles that dominated all radio stations 24/7 and the videos. The marketing set the standard of everything that came afterwards for Pop Music.

[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.

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@Eywildd Yes

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@TheSwiftSociety Is 6/3 a release date for something?

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@CHRISBSFW Beautiful progress.

[ALBUMISM @Albumism]

George Michael's "Fastlove" from 'Older' hit #1 on the UK singles chart 30 years ago on May 4, 1996

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[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

“A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT COULD STACK THE SUPREME COURT WITH JUSTICES WHO WILL RIP AWAY ALL OF THE PROGRESS WE’VE MADE.”—Hillary Clinton in 2016. Again she was right. She deserves to be respected

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@ATRightMovies Dances With Wolves

[Madonna Ultimate @MadonnaUltimate]

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