MyiaK

[LLONER 🦅🪐 @eyojoel77]

i saw a girl on tiktok who said "accountability is so important to me. nobody's perfect, but don't try to flip the script and make my reaction the issue when your actions lit the match" i felt this to the core.

[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.

[ɿoƚɔɘ||oɔ ʏɘᴎbiʞ 💕 @astldbyash]

it’s my birthday and all i’m asking for is a simple retweet of this post in hope of finding a living kidney donor. blood type B+

[maria ☭🔻 @resistancestan]

raise hell for this. for every black teen and adult that has been killed, not due to suspicion, but due to pure & unadulterated racism. this has to fucking stop

[Michelle @Michell33650674]

TRUMP ADMITTING THE 2024 ELECTION WAS RIGGED FOR HIM! REPOST! REPOST! REPOST!

[MyiaK @_aaiym]

he so handsome i cant wait to give him a kid ughh 😍

[davey @jerseyh0mo]

We’re about to go to war with Iran to distract us from the fact that Donald Trump is accused of raping children.

Let me repeat that: Trump is about to send US troops to their deaths to distract the public from him being an alleged child rapist.

[MyiaK @_aaiym]

dont ever ask me was i talkin bout you cause ima say yes & whatchu gon do next ?

[unite! - commissions open!! 🎨🍉 @sistertonin]

SUPPORT VICTIMS WHILE THEY'RE ALIVE. do not wait until they've been further silenced by their abusers.

rally behind them NOW.

[Doctor @DipshikhaGhosh]

Her name is Bohlale Mphahlele. Not 16 year old girl. The headline should read :

Bohlale Mphahlele, at merely 16 years of age, has invented something to protect all women everywhere. She’s a legend.

[☆ @bardioutside]

Anyways, Salute to these REAL BCHES 🫡 who never bootlicked or married a criminal

[Haters_gonna_hate @princess_kim_k]

WE OUTNUMBER THEM!

We OUTNUMBER THEM

WE OUTNUMBER THEM

[Loni Love @LoniLove]

This is why when those two guys on that podcast tried to talk down on Rep Crockett a lot of us got heated.. she is fighting for ALL of us when we need it now more then ever.

[QueenKema, MBA👸🏽 @kemaaaaa_____]

He never made a joke about God. These Pastors are Not God! Are yall ok?

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

A Gen Z joined the team.

Week one.

During onboarding, the manager said,
“We sometimes stay late during peak periods.”

Gen Z nodded.

Then asked,
“Is that paid… or just expected?”

The room went quiet.

- No attitude.
- No rebellion.
- Just a question.

Later that day, HR mentioned “growth opportunities.”

Gen Z replied,
“Does growth include raises, or just more responsibility?”

Again, silence.
- No laziness.
- No entitlement.
- Just clarity.

That’s when the team realized something.

When people say
“Gen Z is lazy,”
what they really mean is:

Gen Z watched old generation
- skip meals,
- miss birthdays,
- work weekends,
- and burn out

only to be told
“budgets are tight”
and “be grateful you have a job.”

So Gen Z chose differently.

- They don’t romanticize overwork.
- They don’t confuse suffering with ambition.
- They don’t trade health for praise.

They still work hard.
They just refuse to work for nothing.

It’s not laziness.
It’s pattern recognition.

And honestly,
after everything old generation went through…

Can you really blame them?

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Keith Porter Jr’s death isn’t getting much media attention.

His shooting wasn’t caught on video.

An off duty ICE agent shot and killed him on New Years Eve.

That’s two US citizens killed by ICE in two weeks. Not to mention more than 30 people dying in camps.

[J.D. @jdwitherspoon]

IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

Y’all better lock the fuck in when voting starts I swear to god

[OrigiNIY.🍭 @_niyyy]

I’m most thankful for clarity this year. I have never been more clear about where I want to be and who I want to be surrounded by!