She was an executive director for a financial institution, with the word “community” in her job title, caught on camera in broad daylight, both stealing from and desecrating “the community”. A retail employee would get fired for less. It was exceptionally poor judgment.
lmao actually one of the best relatable examples of walter rodney's theory of how the west siphons resources from periphery states to maintain their systemic positioning as 'better' than
ppl need to differentiate bullying as an interpersonal issue and bullying that is reinforced by structural subjugation. like yeah you MAY have been bullied for being skinny (or lightskinned or “talking white” etc.) but those are not institutionalized oppressions
suffering isn’t a virtue but it is inevitable. that it must happen to human beings means that there is virtue in learning how to suffer well. not languishing in your suffering or taking pride in it, but trying to get through it a better person. that is fortitude—a virtue
i don’t do much “luxury” shopping but ever since seeing this tweet i wanted to have this book.
bought it as a birthday present for myself
has only 1000 copies, and it’s such a nice little thing i shall cherish it for years
Peace on earth is just shutting the fuck up. Dont rush. Letting that car merge. Sharing the arm rest on the plane. Letting unc put his numbers in…
Just chill. Fuck it.
There is no finish line
Let it happen
in a very real sense, we become the stories others tell about us. words actively shape us as much as they describe us
full essay on this: https://t.co/uAxa6LmLF8
Mike Plotkin, who’s been a New York City sanitation worker for 20 years, recently noticed something happening at his garage on Staten Island. In the last 14 months, there have been 15 incidents in which one of his colleagues has gotten stuck by a needle someone tossed in the trash alongside their used tissues and Oreo wrappers. That number felt unprecedented. And he had a theory about the apparent increase in needle sticks: GLP-1’s. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans are doing this now. All of them new to needles, most of them with no medical training.”
It was a compelling enough theory that @mattsedacca reached out to the Sanitation Department to see if they’d noticed anything similar. It turns out that what Plotkin had noticed at his garage appears to be part of a citywide trend. Per DSNY, in 2019, there were just 25 cases of sanitation workers getting stuck by a needle while on the job. By 2024, there were 36 reported cases. And in 2025, there were 46. As of June 3 of this year, there have already been 35 needle injuries, which puts the city on track for about 83 by year’s end. A spokesman for the department declined to speculate on what might be behind the rise in incidents.
But we are, increasingly, a city of injectors, right? Beyond the more familiar terrain of diabetics, IVF patients, people using hormone therapy, and intravenous users of illicit drugs, people have been turning themselves into lab rats for new wellness frontiers. Per a 2025 Gallup survey, 12.4 percent of people nationwide said they were using semaglutide drugs. Dr. Neil Paulvin says that his midtown office has seen a 50 percent increase in patient inquiries about peptides this year, and William Allen of the West Village–based Extension Health says peptide orders to his clinic have essentially doubled since 2025. It seemed worth asking around, so Sedacca started reaching out to people in the city using peptides, semaglutides, and other at-home cosmetic injectables about how they discard their spent needles.
Read what he found: https://t.co/187mUIKcFI
Y’all, not to be a huge nerd but for the reflecting pool you would need a minimum of about 8,000 liters of 12% hydrogen peroxide to reach the 50 parts per million concentration to kill algae…
Is this what happens when you have 0 scientists in your administration?