solidad 🇲🇽

so like um basically •🇲🇽🇩🇪 • he/him

[solidad 🇲🇽 @Solidadgg]

I would like to formally apologize to any univeristy that looks at my Twitter profile in the future

[elohel @whatthehe11y_]

wife kissing my shoulder at the club

[@ratlimit @ratlimit]

People who back into parking spots cannot be truly present. You envisualized your departure the moment you arrived

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The 22M+ people who saw this tweet are missing the real story here.

This research is from 2019. Dr. Eva Ramón Gallegos at Mexico’s National Polytechnic Institute published these results six years ago. It went viral then too. Salma Hayek posted about it on Instagram. ABC News ran a fact check. It resurfaced in January 2025 across Mexican media. And now it’s recycling through your feed again as “BREAKING” with 22 million views, because an engagement account slapped a siren emoji on six-year-old science.

The actual study treated 29 women in Mexico City using photodynamic therapy, a technique where you apply a light-sensitive chemical to the cervix, wait four hours, then hit it with a laser. HPV cleared in 100% of patients who had the virus without lesions. In patients with both HPV and premalignant lesions, it cleared in 64.3%. Those numbers are real and published in peer-reviewed journals.

Here’s what 22 million people aren’t asking: why hasn’t this scaled in six years?

Three reasons. First, the sample size. Twenty-nine women is a pilot study. The FDA requires thousands of patients across multiple sites before approving a therapy. Gallegos ran earlier studies on 420 women in Oaxaca and Veracruz with similar clearance rates, but nobody has funded the Phase III trials needed to move this toward approval.

Second, PDT has a physics limitation. The light that activates the drug can only penetrate about one centimeter of tissue. That means it works on surface-level cervical HPV, but the virus also hides deeper in tissue and in other parts of the body. The National Cancer Institute flagged this exact constraint years ago. You can clear what you can see. You can’t guarantee you’ve cleared what you can’t.

Third, 50% of high-risk HPV infections clear on their own within one to two years without any treatment. A 100% clearance rate in 29 patients with no lesions, measured at six months, sits in a window where spontaneous clearance is already happening. Without a proper control group, which this study lacked, you can’t isolate how much the therapy did versus what the immune system would have done anyway.

A separate Chinese study in 2024 randomized 60 patients and found PDT hit 100% HPV clearance at six months versus conventional treatment. That’s more rigorous. Multiple research groups worldwide are now publishing PDT results for cervical HPV. The science is real and progressing.

The gap between “promising pilot results in 29 women” and “successfully eliminates HPV” is about a decade of clinical trials and a few hundred million dollars in funding. Gallegos has been doing this work for 20 years. The bottleneck was never the science. It’s that nobody writes the check for Phase III trials on a non-patentable therapy that competes with a multibillion-dollar vaccine market.

That’s the actual story worth 22 million views.

[starfish127 @starfishh127]

20260206 Mexican commentary:
"The glory days of figure skating are gone. Yuzuru Hanyu - what grace, what fluidity. Truly, if you don't know what Hanyu did, look him up, take a look, because it’s hard to imagine that the art of skating on ice will ever reach those levels again."

[Vianey @Vianeicita]

Lo del asesinato de la familia interprete de señas, debería ser escándalo nacional. Los pendejos andan más preocupados juzgando lo que hacen los gringos.

[Memes para Otakus Gaymers de Closet en Inglés @Waifustep]

But no hay pedo porque cuando le demos nuestros datos biométricos a Shitbaun los va a cuidar mucho

[EZ🎲 @MIKEL0WERY_]

Is this not what you’re supposed to do when reading?

[note @derpatron6000]

does it really come with an eggroll or are they fucking with me

[𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑮𝑬𝑵𝑬𝑹𝑨𝑳 𝑺𝑵𝑶𝑾 🇨🇮 @GeneralSnow_]

No matter how rich you are individually as a Nigerian, we are all collectively poor. Very poor.

You only realize this during emergencies. A fire breaks out and there is no fire service. An accident happens and there is no first aid, no ambulance, no system.

Today, a world boxing champion like Anthony Joshua was involved in a car accident and not a single ambulance showed up. Someone that rich and globally known. People only gathered around him like it was a carnival. No safety measures. No trained response. Just chaos.
An accident that claimed two lives o!

Last month, an aide to a sitting governor was stabbed at a political event.. Somebody lifted him on his shoulder ! Such a gory sight!
Still no ambulance
Not even for a governor’s aide.

That is real poverty.

In Nigeria, money does not save you in a crisis. Influence does not protect you. When it matters most, everyone is poor.

To the rich and influential Nigerian who thinks demanding a better country is for the poor masses, one day you will understand. In an emergency, you are just as poor as the rest of us.

Nigeria is poor.
Poor poor.

RIP to the dead and wishing Anthony Joshua quick recovery.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this image is insane.

New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data.

The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space.

Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything.

The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.

[𝕃ᵘⁱᔕ @chucho_cuerero]

"Un hombre malvado quemará su propia nación hasta los cimientos para gobernar sobre las cenizas".

~ Sun Tzu.

[ivanaca ˆ𐃷ˆ @kaheiivn]

El pobre es pobre porque nunca ha desviado 90 millones de pesos federales

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.

OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.

A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

[Anime News And Facts @AniNewsAndFacts]

Shueisha, Japan’s largest publisher and home of Shonen Jump hits like One Piece, Dragon Ball, and Demon Slayer, has issued an official statement threatening OpenAI.

"This autumn, with the release of OpenAI’s new generative AI service Sora2, a large number of videos resembling famous works have appeared online."

"However, such progress cannot be tolerated if it is built upon acts that harm the dignity of authors who have devoted themselves to their creations and violate the rights of many individuals."

[Gabo @_Gabo_N]

Un hombre en el piso que sigue protestando.
Una mujer esposada con la cabeza levantada.
La policía que reprime.
Un limón en el Estado en el que asesinan limoneros.

No es una foto, es la foto.

[Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin]

Poverty exists not because we can't feed the poor but because we can't satisfy the rich

[Smyrdakov @Smyrdakov]

Yo no quiero vivir en otro país, quiero vivir en otro México.