BlindMan

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

It's an absolutely perfect indictment of US sports that all the major US sports leagues have banned this kind of ownership model.

Fantastic stuff @MorePerfectUS. Packers fans kickass.

[BlindMan @blindmandaniel]

@THROWBACKS4EVER @MiamiDolphins

[BlindMan @blindmandaniel]

@DVERandy SNL needed @druski but he’s fine without SNL

[Lancesico 🇱🇨 @Bornakang]

Animals are so unintentionally funny lol

[BlindMan @blindmandaniel]

@ManzTrades The eventual invasion of Taiwan will have a whole chapter written on the little we find out from this.

[Jacob Shell @JacobAShell]

Interesting that FDR didn't think the interstates should go right into the middle of the major cities.

[BlindMan @blindmandaniel]

@ShannonJean We used Golf Carts to pull feed trailers down turkey farms, would be a supped up upgrade.

[Coastal @thelacoast]

The spread of fire ants in the US.

You can thank someone from Mobile, AL for bringing this into our country in 1918.

[Lolo D. Amazon @BigYellaBtch]

I’ve been a North Carolinian for 34 years and I’ve never heard anybody say move to Kinston.

[chrissy. @ChrissyReeseee]

you know someone else NC never played about.. Miss Cherie Berry!

Our Elevator Queen 👑
(read: former NC Labor Commissioner)

[BlindMan @blindmandaniel]

@CarolinaConect I’ll vote for that if coastal NC is in charge and plows down the gates blocking access to most of Southern SC and GAs best beaches and returns them to public lands.

Also, no more of whatever the hell Myrtle is.

[BlindMan @blindmandaniel]

Honestly, I hope some nice aliens are interested. Like a little brother program because they’ll be recognized intergalacticly for their humanitarian efforts.

I think that’s probably the best-case scenario, so I’ll hope for that. “They saved the frail mammals that 99% can survive only in the slimmest of temperature conditions. Let’s welcome, Zeta Centauri and their earth mammals.” 👏👏👏

[ᐰTLANTIS @AitorMiller]

Casi 50 años y solo ha recorrido un día luz. La estrella más cercana, Alfa Centauri, está a 4,37 años luz. Siempre nos quedará la ciencia ficción.

[Jack Neisen @jackneisen3]

Got to direct this game last night, can’t believe we ended up getting this live 😂😭😂

[John Ellis @1PantherPlace]

That’s an insane stat

[Alex Baltzegar @AlexBaltzegar]

Weirdly, UNC is this close to being 8-0 & ranked #1 in the nation.

Clemson: Led 17-3 until a 2.5-hour weather delay.

#3 ND: Within 1 point early in the 2nd half.

Syracuse: Scored 1st in OT, lost on a 2-pt conversion.

#1 Miami: ⬇️

[Kristof @CoastalFuturist]

Literal boomer vs millennial/genz experience

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1873. Your wife tires easily and reads too much. The doctor prescribes the rest cure: six weeks flat in bed, no books, no visitors, fed on milk, forbidden to sit up without his permission. The man who devised it is the most famous nerve specialist in America, and the women come out of it quieter, which is taken as the cure.

The year is 1915. The hospital has a new way of delivering your child. Morphine, then scopolamine, and the mother wakes two days later with a baby she cannot remember having. They call it twilight sleep. The women are strapped into padded cots so they do not hurt themselves while they scream, and the straps are the modern part. The babies arrive blue and slow to breathe.

The year is 1945. The truck comes down your street fogging DDT, and the children run behind it in the white cloud because the man on the back says it is harmless. At the beach it is sprayed over the bathers on their towels. It goes on the cattle, over the barn, and across the kitchen table.

The year is 1948. Your son has trouble with his ears. The doctor slides a rod tipped with radium up each nostril and holds it there for the best part of ten minutes, and you bring him back three more times. Hundreds of thousands of American children get the same treatment. The cancers arrive in their fifties.

The year is 1962. The health visitor tells you breastfeeding is old-fashioned and the formula is scientific. By 1972 fewer than one American baby in four is breastfed at all. The formula is skimmed milk and sugar, with the milk fat taken out and vegetable oil put in.

The year is 1971. The family planning clinic fits a small plastic crab called the Dalkon Shield. Its tail is a bundle of fibres that wicks bacteria up into the womb. 2.8 million are fitted in America before it is withdrawn, and the company goes bankrupt under the claims. It had been sold as safe and superior.

The year is 1983. The doctor says your arteries are the butter's fault. The dripping tin goes in the bin, the yolks go to the dog, the margarine goes in the fridge, and you have the heart attack anyway, on skimmed milk, having done everything right.

The year is 2001. Your 15-year-old is low, and the doctor prescribes Paxil, because the trial in the journal says it is effective and well tolerated in adolescents. The raw data, reanalysed 14 years later, shows more suicidal thinking on the drug than on the sugar pill. The company pays $3 billion to settle. Nobody rings the house.

The year is 2009. The government has spent around £500 million stockpiling Tamiflu for the pandemic, on the strength of the manufacturer's trials. When the trials are finally prised loose five years later, the drug shortens flu by about half a day and nothing shows it keeps anyone out of hospital. The stockpile goes out of date in a warehouse.

The year is 2026. The doctor has ten minutes and a screen. The number is high, so the tablet is for life. The weight is high, so the injection is for life. The meat is bad for the planet and the oil is good for the heart, and the person in the chair is as certain as everyone who ever sat in it.

Every one of those was settled, by a committee, in a journal, with a doubter somewhere being laughed at. The rest cure, the straps, the fog, the rod, the formula, the crab, the margarine, the trial, the stockpile. All of it certain, all of it printed, all of it done to somebody who had asked for help.

You were never the one who was wrong. You were the one it was done to, and the only person in the story who did as they were told every single time.

The apology comes a generation late, in a footnote, addressed to nobody.

The next one is being drafted now.

[Louie Gee @FF_LouieGee]

Sometimes I feel silly loving sports the way I do and then sometimes I see shit like this and want to cry for a stranger's happiness

[BlindMan @blindmandaniel]

@travyyy06 Is it just me or does he lunge and move like @KDTrey5