I’m going to like pics of your pets, your successes, your great days and the bad ones too. That’s what’s so great here on Twitter, experiencing the fullness of the human experience, the beauty and the fear. I’m here to hope that good can overcome the grim reality of our future…
The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.
As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.
Texan here
A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!
Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.
Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.
This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.
How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.
@vtss_pl M, SHABANG in San Luis Obispo County, only because it takes place a few minutes from my house. Website is https://t.co/oAl0cnEdlt - I can dm you the bookers name on insta
I love of Art, Dance & OSINT, Here's ID's of Ballerinas in Olivia Rodrigo's new MV, shot in Manhattan recently.
Principal: Tiler Peck
Corps de Ballet: India Bradley, Rommie Tomasini, Lauren Collett, Kloe Walker & Kennedy Targosz
Dancing in the video will be gooooood....
To all the “unemployment is near record low” folks, just know they’re counting gig employment (I.e DoorDash, Uber, etc.) in their figures. Roughly 27 million people are underemployed. If you measure real wages against cost of living, 87 million people are functionally unemployed.
There's a wonderful interior design enthusiast on TikTok named Kyle William who has such a beautifully expansive understanding of aesthetics, and the best feature he does is titled "Ancient Crafts to Counter Brainrot." Here, he talks to a Palestinian tatreez artist, Jenna, about cross-stitch