A gentleman with a paradoxical twitter handle ๐ Dog & animal lover ๐ถ WoSo โฝ CovidConscious ๐ท๐ pro LBGTQ+ rights ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Stand w/ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฑ Trust Science โ๏ธ
Abdul El-Sayed gives a BRILLIANT response to a guy asking him is he disavows the Muslim Brotherhood (he disavows them).
Why doesn't every Christian candidate get asked if they disavow the Proud Boys, or the KKK, or other Christian Nationalist terrorists?
North Carolina A&T students marched an hour each way to vote on the first day of early voting after their campus polling site was removed by the Guilford County Elections Board. Proud ๐๐ฝ
If protecting people is really the goal, censorship has its priorities backward. Books offer context and invite reflection. Broadcasting violence turns harm into spectacle.
There is a mountain of unworn clothes in the driest desert on earth, large enough to be photographed from space. It grows by 39,000 tons a year and almost none of it will ever rot.
The Atacama, in northern Chile, is a place where it may not rain for a decade. On its edge is a duty-free port called Iquique. Every year about 59,000 tons of clothing arrives there from Europe, America and Asia. It is last season's stock that never sold, and the bags people leave at charity shops.
Dealers pick through it for anything they can resell across South America. Two thirds of it is worthless. Nobody will pay to ship it back out, so lorries drive it into the desert at night and tip it.
The local landfill refuses to take it. The reason given is that the clothing does not biodegrade and is full of chemicals. Most of it is polyester, which is plastic, and in a place with no rain and no soil life it will lie there for centuries. Some of it is set alight, and the smoke drifts over a town of 100,000 people.
In 2025 a Chilean court ruled that the dumps had done serious damage to the land.
For most of history this could not have happened. Clothes were wool, linen and leather. They were worn out, handed down and patched, and at the very end a rag merchant paid for the scraps. In Yorkshire, from 1813, old woollens were shredded and spun into new cloth. Anything left went on the fields, where wool breaks down in months and feeds the grass.
Nobody ever had to find a desert for worn-out wool. We invented a fabric that cannot die, and then we started making it to be thrown away.
Joking about women dressing like whores is about maligning morally neutral behaviors--how someone is dressed, how many sexual partners they've had, etc--to implicitly or explicitly create consensus that they're deserving of some form of violence/degradation etc
@AuntieCfc@USWNT When she came on I said to myself "imagine if she scores a brace and ties things up." We can dream. ๐ Wish she had made better contact on that one cross. Would have been great for her, even if it didn't go in. I'm hoping she gets more minutes on Tuesday.
@SabresClassics One of the things that always gets me when you watch footage from this era is that when they show the fans, it's not a sea of $125 NFL jerseys.
@BovbjergMarit So many people don't want to be the only one. But once they see someone else with the strength to be the first, and possibly the only one, they will mask.
@Mia_loves_tacos You changed your hair? Sorry, when I see a picture of you, I am too mesmerized by your eyes and smile to notice your hair color. You look stunningly beautiful as always.