Tyra

Owner of @IdentityDCrew|Dance Teacher&Choreographer|Danced with Diversity x times|Writer of @shatterglassbox |All views are my own

[Luccas @Shery_cricket]

My brother has Down syndrome. He is thirty four and he bags groceries at the same store he has worked at for sixteen years. He knows every regular by name. Last year a new manager transferred in and started cutting his hours. Said he was too slow. Said customers wanted efficiency. My brother came home confused and quiet. He kept asking what he did wrong. He did nothing wrong and telling him that did not fix the hurt in his face. Then something happened I still cannot talk about without crying.A regular customer noticed he was gone from his usual shift. She asked. Then she asked again. Then she started a petition at the customer service desk without telling anyone. Within two weeks it had over nine hundred signatures. People wrote notes in the margins. He remembers my kids names. He carried my groceries when I broke my arm. He is the reason I shop here. A man in his eighties wrote that my brother was the only person who talked to him some weeks. The petition landed on the regionaldirector’s desk. The manager was reassigned. My brother got his hours back plus a raise and a vest that says customer experience specialist. He wears it like a uniform of honor. The woman who started the petition still shops there every Tuesday. My brother saves her a cart with the good wheels. She told me once that kindness is just paying attention out loud. I think about that constantly. He was never too slow. The world was just moving too fast to see him.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

To find a hidden tumour, they inject you with radioactive sugar and photograph where it goes.

It works, reliably, because the cancer drinks that glucose so greedily it flares up on the scan like a bonfire while the healthy tissue around it sits dark. The entire technology rests on one fact nobody says out loud in the room: the tumour runs on sugar, and it will outbid the rest of your body for every last gram of it.

We have known about this appetite for the better part of a century. We built a vast imaging industry on the back of it. We use it today, in every major hospital, to hunt the disease down.

Then, having located the cancer by following the sugar, they bring round the lunch trolley. White toast. Tinned fruit in syrup. A carton of juice, a biscuit, and a leaflet recommending plenty of wholesome carbohydrates to keep your strength up.

We spend a fortune using sugar to find the thing.

Then we sit the patient down and feed it.

Read that twice.

[Birgitte Milling @Birgitte1234]

PFIZER HAS PUBLISHED THE LIST OF SIDE EFFECTS FROM COVID VACCINE

1) Blood clot,
2) Acute kidney injury,
3) Acute flaccid myelitis,
4) Positive anti-sperm antibodies,
5) Brainstem embolism,
6) Brainstem thrombosis,
7) Cardiac arrest (hundreds of cases),
8) Heart failure,
9) Cardiac ventricular thrombosis...
10) Cardiogenic shock,
11) Central nervous system vasculitis,
12) Neonatal death,
13) Deep vein thrombosis,
14) Brainstem encephalitis,
15) Hemorrhagic encephalitis,
16) Frontal lobe epilepsy,
17) Epileptic psychosis,
18) Facial paralysis,
19) Fetal distress syndrome,
20) Gastrointestinal amyloidosis,
21) Generalized tonic-clonic seizure,
22) Hashimoto's encephalopathy,
23) Hepatic vascular thrombosis,
24) Shingles reactivation,
25) Cancer reactivation...
26) Turbo cancers,
27) Immune-mediated hepatitis,
28) Interstitial lung disease,
29) Jugular vein embolism,
30) Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy,
31) Liver damage,
32) Low birth weight,
34) Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children,
35) Myocarditis,
36) Neonatal seizure,
37) Pancreatitis,
38) Pneumonia,
39) Stillbirth,
40) Tachycardia,
41) Temporal lobe epilepsy,
43) Testicular autoimmunity,
44) Thrombotic stroke,
45) Type 1 diabetes mellitus,
46) Neonatal vein thrombosis,
47) Vertebral artery thrombosis,
48) Pericarditis,
49) Sudden infant death syndrome.

@vonderleyen didn’t know that 🙄
@US_FDA didn’t know that 🙄
@SSI_dk didn’t know that 🙄
@BillGates didn’t know that 🙄
@Fauci didn’t know that 🙄
@WHO didn’t plan that 🙄
@wef didn’t plan that 🙄
@fn didn’t plan that 🙄

Have stupid do you think we are ?

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[Richard Seiler @richardseiler]

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦

Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is

Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?

And somehow that is the whole point

I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it

From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again

When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak

The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them

But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus

Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it

A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it

And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care

And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off

He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard

That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show

We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product

That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was

And that is exactly why we keep watching

Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!

[Tyra @Tyra_Roberts]

What are we just dancing around the fucking ring for😂😂😂😂

[Tyra @Tyra_Roberts]

Fucking finally😂😂😂 Thought we’d have to wait until tomorrow for the walk outs🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ #misfits

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products every October maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients

[Tyra @Tyra_Roberts]

Get this cry baby outtttt. Pathetic #misfits

[David Wolfe @DavidWolfe]

Does anyone else find it odd that $200 billion is spent on cancer research every single year...and the only thing to show for it is a 75% increase in cancer deaths since the 1990s?

[Tyra @Tyra_Roberts]

Hahahaha good riddance.

[Belfast Giants @BelfastGiants]

Welcome to Belfast 👊

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[David Wolfe @DavidWolfe]

All these cancer foundations are frauds

[dr. alicia andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz]

cycling in & out of depression is so hard because I know the things I have to do to feel better: hydration, exercise, good food, getting out of the house, showering, socializing, meditation, etc. but when I’m depressed it feels impossible to do them. then the guilt & shame come.

[Tyra @Tyra_Roberts]

Wow. Just wow.

[Tyra @Tyra_Roberts]

The night I don’t wake up with constant crippling anxiety attacks, wake up shattered and done in that day, will be absolutely bliss… Can’t keep carrying on like this☹️

[𝓔𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓪 @elioralux]

A woman on my flight yesterday switched seats with her husband because their toddler wouldn’t stop crying.

The second she sat down alone, she closed her eyes for maybe 30 seconds.

Just resting.

Not sleeping.

When the husband walked past with the kid later, he laughed and said loudly,
“Must be nice to finally get a break from doing nothing.”

A few people chuckled.

She laughed too.

But something about it felt off because for the entire flight she had been:
holding the baby,
packing snacks,
cleaning spills,
walking him down the aisle,
missing her own meal trying to calm him down…

while the husband watched a movie with headphones on.

And honestly I think that’s why so many women are exhausted.

Not because they’re doing everything alone.

But because they’re doing everything while someone else calls it “nothing.”

[Tyra @Tyra_Roberts]

How on earth is my niece going to be 5 tomorrow???🥺🥺🥺

[Tyra @Tyra_Roberts]

I don’t think they’re going to be doing a live final of #ImACeleb again🫣🫣🫣😂😂😂

[Tyra @Tyra_Roberts]

Mo is cracking me up😂😂😂 That voice, pitch and everything🤣 #ImACeleb

[lets heal and recover @recovery_your]

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is a fucking lie…
Some things don’t kill you
they change you.
They leave scars.
They steal innocence.

They demand years of recovery.
And that’s the truth no one wants to say.

[Tyra @Tyra_Roberts]

Just want my Mum back😢💔