si. 🦀

Sierra Lynn ♋️ Stl.

[Claire Dunphy @cee_suella]

Or romance. You either have it in you or you don’t.

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

and for the lady, perhaps a deep cleaned house, cancelled plans, a new series to watch, and zero human interaction?

[i make beats ✞ @DonDadaNYC]

I’m so quick to send a voice note lmaoo that texting shit is not for me, LISTEN TO THIS TRACK BITCH

[Marie🧚 @glitchu__]

Just bc a man is trying his best doesn’t mean you have to accept it

[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.

[الكسندرا ميراي @Lexi3Alexander]

I can't stop thinking about how bleak the situation in Gaza has to be for the BBC to report on this

[sofie ☭ @darlingube]

barely even tried with the drug trafficking lie now they're fully bombing venezuela and we all know it's over oil. all this fucking country does is bomb kill steal and lie

[si. 🦀 @SiSi_321]

@jeanece_ Who tf 🤨🤨?!

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

She really is an incredible example of how to use your platform for good.

[Raymonte @BDTRELILBROTHER]

I love black women more than any and every body

[Kehlani @Kehlani]

Out The Window out now!

[corinne ☆ @MIUCClAMUSE]

ms. rachel also said every illustration on her dress was drawn by kid in gaza, that’s MY woman of the year!!!

[Drebae @Drebae_]

YOUR religion doesn’t prohibit ME from doing anything. It prohibits YOU.

Learn the difference & stay out my business.

[Jen ne sais quoi 🇦🇬 @JenSainty]

The way we stopped hearing or seeing media about Palestine, and there are new types of bombs being dropped in a ceasefire

[MusChampion @Less_HumbleTeej]

Yeah turn this shit UP

[$ @aliyahvallen]

yes and i think more politicians should be younger & ethnically diverse. america is exactly in the state it’s in bc of OLD WHITE politicians

[si. 🦀 @SiSi_321]

Hate the club. Top 2 & it ain’t #2

[𝙠𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣 @kuhlaniszn]

best kehlani song of all time but you aren’t allowed to say folded or nights like this

[Loud and Right. @b0mbchell_]

I be like

[⋆ ｡ ° ༺˚ 𖦹 gîchœ łīçbåkt 𖦹 ˚༻ ° ｡ ⋆ @ichriecheblut]

being incorrect is an important part of the learning process.

[𝒯 ᥫ᭡ @saturn4you]

You hate her