marsha j

writer | podcaster @toronto3rd | opinions are my own

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

Since the WNBA's inaugural season in 1997, Angel Reese is 1 of 4 basketball players (including NBA) with 50+ double-doubles in her first 75 games, and one away from tying Blake Griffin for the most in that span, regardless of league 😤

[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

Someone said the most healing thing for a neurodivergent person isn't sleep or a hot shower or a good meal. It's a long stretch of time where nobody needs anything from them at all.

[ray @ln4norris]

the 2026 monaco gp

[marsha j @_mojoseph]

I cannot help but chuckle

[marsha j @_mojoseph]

@dsherwoodb While u technically evaded by not tapping they likely wont bother with the ticket bc you’re in possession of the metropass itll get cancelled in a dispute, unless its a fare type issue. they will waste ur time and try to scare u tho

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A beekeeper got stung on the arm and did the hardest thing possible: he held completely still. The bee slowly screwed its own stinger back out of his skin and flew off. Most honeybees never get that chance. They sting once, tear their own guts out pulling away, and die.

A honeybee's stinger is not a smooth needle. It is two tiny blades lined with backward-facing barbs, like a pair of fishhooks. They take turns digging in, twisting the stinger deeper like a screw. Once those barbs catch in your skin, the bee cannot pull the stinger straight back out. So when it panics and yanks away, the stinger stays put and rips out a piece of the bee with it: the venom pouch, some muscle, a few nerves, and part of its gut.

The torn-off stinger does not stop there. It keeps pumping venom on its own. Most of it goes into you in the first 20 seconds, and the last of it within about a minute, long after the bee has gone. That is why a doctor tells you to scrape a stinger out fast. The bee itself is already finished. It cannot live with a hole where its insides used to be.

None of this is built to kill the bee. When a honeybee stings another insect, it pulls the stinger straight back out and flies off fine, because a hard insect shell does not trap the barbs. Our soft, stretchy skin does. Out of more than 20,000 kinds of bees, the honeybee is just about the only one that dies when it stings. Wasps and hornets have smooth stingers and can sting you again and again.

A bee can escape human skin too, but only one way. It has to turn its whole body in slow circles and unscrew the stinger, backing it out the same way it drilled in. It only works if the sting was shallow and nobody panics and swats it. When a sting sinks in deep, the bee usually cannot pull free at all, which is why this video split people right down the middle. The biologist Richard Dawkins once described watching a bee slowly unscrew its stinger out of his own hand and fly away unharmed.

The beekeeper in the clip kept his arm still in a quiet spot, and the bee worked the stinger loose, turn by turn, and flew off with it still attached. A swat is what usually tears a bee apart. This one got to do the rare thing: slowly back its stinger out of a trap its own body is built to lock shut.

[marsha j @_mojoseph]

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[Ian Kennedy @IanKennedyCK]

Gina Kingsbury said that Daryl Watts was not interested in staying in Toronto despite the team’s belief they were close on a deal.

Almost certain she will not be a member of the Toronto Sceptres by the end of this week.

#PWHL

[marsha j @_mojoseph]

It’s unfortunate that this is a reference i can make.

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

NEW: the Ford government confirms the Ontario legislature will begin a 102-day summer break today, not returning until Oct. 27.

Government house leader Steve Clark explains the province doesn’t want to interfere with the municipal elections, so they’ll return the day after.

[Tito’s n Soda. 🇻🇮 @ViSneakerBoy]

Why don’t yall put yall backpacks under the seat instead of the overhead bin like the flight attendants tell yall?

[marsha j @_mojoseph]

😭😭😭😭😭 #tempobasketball

[marsha j @_mojoseph]

@MR_STiXX Im sitting behind them in 109 and the guys are still laughing 💀💀💀😭😭😭😭😭

[marsha j @_mojoseph]

Does anderson paak know he looks like that? 😭💀

[Holiness @F1BigData]

Abbi Pulling has today become the first woman to win a GB3 race in history

[marsha j @_mojoseph]

Me: at rogers stadium
Also me: not understanding the rogers stadium hate

[marsha j @_mojoseph]

@davesbarnett87 Bro i just saw a commercial TODAY the way my mouth dropped

[marsha j @_mojoseph]

Tims actually brought back the grilled cheese??????

[Edward Row 𓃡 @edwardrow]

reminder: Chloe Brown received more than double the votes of Brad Bradford in the 2023 mayoral by-election despite having been almost entirely shut out of polls, most media, and, subsequently, major debates - something Bradford had access to https://t.co/S2O9efJuva

[marsha j @_mojoseph]

@degennethKen @davesbarnett87 @Avry @Toronto3rd dude is gender neutral 😌

[marsha j @_mojoseph]

@degennethKen @Avry @Toronto3rd This is weak af, please go be a better human