Doctor Basketball

the other, other Tom Cruise (former hate account)

[Doctor Basketball @amberyllis_]

my source? god reveals truth to me through my thoughts

[Doctor Basketball @amberyllis_]

I hope this finds you as my email,

[Doctor Basketball @amberyllis_]

my source? god reveals truth to me through my thoughts

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Faith @alive___girl]

Didnt I do it for you

[Doctor Basketball @amberyllis_]

genuinely what was I cooking here …

[Doctor Basketball @amberyllis_]

how I think each of the twelve disciples would act if they found out you were self harming: 🧵

[lavitalenta @lavitalenta]

You guessed it folks, it’s the personification of Death from the 1957 Swedish thriller “Seventh Seal”

[Doctor Basketball @amberyllis_]

does anyone know if you’re allowed to stop playing Tetris or do you just kind of have to keep playing forever

[Doctor Basketball @amberyllis_]

I’m schizophrenic and I have visual hallucinations. So i trained my chat mods to greet people

[This is world @_10world]

Palestine – Ramallah, 2016

[Richard Shepard @SaltyShep]

Loved doing this episode. Hand held. No marks on the ground. Sometimes no permits. We run and gunned so much of it, just letting the energy of the actors and the script take us where they might.

[Doctor Basketball @amberyllis_]

I post mostly out of faith. But sometimes
sometimes It is out of spite

[Doctor Basketball @amberyllis_]

I cured a lot of my social anxiety and feelings of false guilt by viewing my actions more like an experiment. Bc there’s no shame in trying something out. We’re just testing hypotheses and observing results. That’s the scientific method baby!

[Doctor Basketball @amberyllis_]

being insane and telling myself it’s exposure therapy for rejection sensitivity

[Doctor Basketball @amberyllis_]

you’re in his dms,
yeah girl so am I 😭

[john @johnsemley3000]

doing a land acknowledgment to recognize the ancestors who built shoes. com

[woo woo woman @witti_indi]

He stole her swag. Men really just steal their personalities from their cooler ex girlfriends.

[Doctor Basketball @amberyllis_]

Jacob elordi gonna love this

[HARDEST FIT PICS @HardestFitPics]

Hermès Spring 2026 Menswear