John Erwin Aulia

100% Cotton

[Camus @newstart_2024]

This guy’s vow after learning about polyester is spreading fast for good reason:

“I will never let my little girl wear polyester again — and after hearing why, you might not either.”

In 65 seconds he explains the process:

Polyester is plastic — made from crude oil or recycled bottles, melted at high heat, extruded into threads through spinnerets, stretched, and coated with synthetic dyes, phthalates, BPA, antimony, and chemical treatments.

The problem:

Plastic fibers shed microplastics and nanoplastics that absorb through your skin — especially when you sweat (sports bras, activewear, leggings).

These carry endocrine-disrupting chemicals linked to hormone imbalance, fertility issues, and long-term accumulation in organs, blood, and brain.

His wake-up call:

What you wear against your skin is absorbed by your body.

Polyester clothing = wearing plastic all day.

How much of your current wardrobe is polyester?

Drop the percentage below — are you planning to make a change after this?

[Dr. Rahul Baxi @baxirahul]

In 1980 Singapore Airlines faced a major pilot strike. Here’s how PM Lee Kuan Yew dealt with it.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

The Adoration of the Maga. A few thoughts. It all felt a step too far by Gianni Infantino. The award of the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize felt more to do with its president’s desire to please powerful politicians as much as Donald Trump’s love of such glitzy, expensive offerings of loyalty last seen in medieval courts.

It felt more about politics than sport, a risky game for Fifa to play whenever it wants to bring a national association into line for perceived interference by government in the future. The Trump trophy weakens Fifa statutes. It also distracted from the real trophy, the World Cup, and the group-stage draw, traditionally a celebration about bringing countries together. Infantino took his eye off the balls.

A football draw designed to work out who plays who and (eventually) where and when is not the time or place for such politics. Infantino wasn’t speaking for the world in bestowing the Peace Prize, as he claimed. So presumptuous. So out of touch. Many probably agree that Trump has been a force for good in geopolitics, some might disagree. Most would probably feel such decisions should be left to experienced experts like the Nobel Committee and, please, can we get on with a football draw.

It’s spectacularly naïve or simply arrogant for Fifa to enter such non-football areas. It feels more and more that this was as much an Infantino initiative as Fifa’s. Infantino was supposed to drain the swamp when he arrived at Fifa in 2016 in the wake of assorted corruption scandals bedevilling the governing body of world football. How fitting that the nadir of Infantino’s propensity for self-aggrandisement as leader of what’s supposed to be a team game came in Washington. It was there that Trump promised to transform politics with his “drain the swamp” rhetoric, also in 2016.

The selfie moment was particularly cringe-worthy. Infantino forgets that football is the star of the show, not a 55-year lawyer. A senior football executive, who’s been at the heart of the English and European game for more than 20 years, messaged me during the drawn-out draw with his verdict on Infantino. “I feel revulsion, anger, shame, disgust – how has our sport been taken over by a Swiss ***** and turned into a total travesty???” He also pointed out that ensuring the leaders of USA, Mexico and Canada each somehow pulled out their own country’s name was not a good look for a draw based on chance.

Great for the cameras, though. Flash, bang, wallop, what a picture of Infantino's priorities. And who gets the next FIFA Peace Prize? And wouldn't Infantino have gained more respect had he used the money for the Trump trophy to subsidise excessive ticket costs? He's lost sight of what should be the real priorities for the leader of football. The game.

It's sad, really. Many sensible people work at Fifa, passionate about the game not their own ego, but it's alarming what happens to the leadership when they take power there. Even the great football manager Arsene Wenger has changed since becoming Chief of Global Football Development at Fifa. He now campaigns for more games, backing the expanded World Cup, which he would have railed against as a widely-admired, free-thinking club manager, fiercely protective of his players' well-being. "I believe that 48 teams is the right number." Arsene, just listen to yourself.

Many fans probably won’t lose much sleep that Wenger dances to Fifa's tune or that Infantino cosies up to Trump, Aramco and co. Some probably think Fifa’s a video game. Most just can’t wait for the football. The game’s about Mbappe and Messi, Haaland and Salah, Kane and Dembele, not Infantino and Trump.

The game’s about the Tartan Army, the brilliant Mexican following, the ever-hopeful English, the mobile carnival of Brazilians and the millions of other fans flocking to venue cities next summer, only a third with tickets. The USA is prepared for the party. I covered USA 94 and you couldn’t really tell there was a tournament on, certainly where I was in Detroit, Chicago and DC. You will this time, also in Canada. Mexico's total immersion was never in doubt given their passion for the game.

Infantino should remember this. He runs a great football organisation, not a political organisation. He needs to re-focus. Fifa is undeniably a force for good in many countries. The Fifa Foundation runs a new community programme that supports 154,924 people in 54 nations. Its new Digital Education Programme works on computer literacy amongst disadvantaged groups, helping them into the workplace. It’s easy to say it’s all about Infantino (Foundation board president), soft power and ensuring he keeps countries onside, voting for him, but the Foundation undeniably changes lives.

Infantino needs to look at his Adoration of the Maga and remember what he should be doing for football: serving it, not himself. #FIFAWorldCup.

[Every Movie Plug @everymovieplug]

Top 100 movies based on true events.

1. Schindler's List (1993)
2. Titanic (1997)
3. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
4. The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
5. Apollo 13 (1995)
6. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
7. The Imitation Game (2014)
8. Spotlight (2015)
9. The Revenant (2015)
10. Sully (2016)
11. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
12. Dunkirk (2017)
13. The Post (2017)
14. Darkest Hour (2017)
15. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
16. Green Book (2018)
17. Vice (2018)
18. First Man (2018)
19. The Social Network (2010)
20. Ford v Ferrari (2019)
21. 1917 (2019)
22. Just Mercy (2019)
23. Bombshell (2019)
24. Harriet (2019)
25. Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
26. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
27. Richard Jewell (2019)
28. Captain Phillips (2013)
29. The King's Speech (2010)
30. The Blind Side (2009)
31. Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
32. Moneyball (2011)
33. American Sniper (2014)
34. The Theory of Everything (2014)
35. Erin Brockovich (2000)
36. Goodfellas (1990)
37. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
38. 127 Hours (2010)
39. The Fighter (2010)
40. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
41. Bridge of Spies (2015)
42. Unbroken (2014)
43. The Founder (2016)
44. Hidden Figures (2016)
45. The Danish Girl (2015)
46. Invictus (2009)
47. The Elephant Man (1980)
48. Catch Me If You Can (2002)
49. Sully (2016)
50. The Pianist (2002)
51. Into the Wild (2007)
52. Ray (2004)
53. Milk (2008)
54. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
55. The Hurricane (1999)
56. The Last King of Scotland (2006)
57. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
58. The Great Debaters (2007)
59. The Fighter (2010)
60. The Butler (2013)
61. The Big Short (2015)
62. American Hustle (2013)
63. Invictus (2009)
64. Lincoln (2012)
65. The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
66. The Aviator (2004)
67. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
68. The Elephant Man (1980)
69. My Left Foot (1989)
70. Chaplin (1992)
71. Frida (2002)
72. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
73. Monster (2003)
74. Zodiac (2007)
75. Selma (2014)
76. Steve Jobs (2015)
77. Jackie (2016)
78. The Walk (2015)
79. The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)
80. The Post (2017)
81. All the Money in the World (2017)
82. Molly's Game (2017)
83. The Florida Project (2017)
84. The 33 (2015)
85. The Railway Man (2013)
86. Stronger (2017)
87. Loving (2016)
88. Snowden (2016)
89. The Lost City of Z (2016)
90. The Founder (2016)
91. The Front Runner (2018)
92. The Disaster Artist (2017)
93. The Current War (2017)
94. The Favourite (2018)
95. Stan & Ollie (2018)
96. BlacKkKlansman (2018)
97. On the Basis of Sex (2018)
98. Judy (2019)
99. Bombshell (2019)
100. The Irishman (2019)

[SPORTbible @sportbible]

Man United fans after their 4-0 loss at Crystal Palace 🎶👏

Not the reaction most teams would have got after a defeat like that… pure class from the United fans 🙌

[Supima @Supima]

Supima planting day 🚜

Enjoy this insider’s look at the process of planting the world’s finest cottons with Supima farmer Keith Deputy.

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

From field to fabric, cotton is woven into our lives.

The cotton sector contributes to the livelihoods of millions of rural smallholders worldwide.

Let's weave a bright path into the future & ensure no one is left behind 👇

#WorldCottonDay

[NBA @NBA]

THE BEST GAME WINNERS SINCE 2015.

#NBAClutchWeek 😤

[ICAC @ICAC_cotton]

The ICAC Says Farewell to Andrew Macdonald, a Dear Friend and a True Legend of the Global Cotton Industry

Cotton lost one of its most ardent defenders and beloved figures yesterday with the passing of Mr Andrew Macdonald, who’s been a fixture in the industry for decades.

[Firing Line with Margaret Hoover @FiringLineShow]

Inflation is up 7% year-over-year, the sharpest spike since 1982 — with Jerome Powell telling Congress the Fed may move faster on interest rate hikes.

In September, economist @elerianm called #inflation "the great unequalizer because it tends to hit-low income people hardest."

[GOAL @goal]

Old Trafford from the sky is something else 🤯

[World Cotton Day @WorldCottonDay]

HUGE NEWS!!

"United Nations Designates 7 October
‘World Cotton Day’ on Its Permanent Calendar"

The theme for 2021: 'Cotton for Good'

Read the full press release here:
https://t.co/jIziIAoFWE

#worldcottonday

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

✍️ He's here. It's signed.

Welcome to Manchester United, welcome to Old Trafford, Raphaël Varane! 👋

Even a hug for @rioferdy5...

[ITMF @ITMForg]

##ITMF Industry Statement on the knitting machinery market is ready to watch, by ITMF.
#Knitting machinery industry: Learn how the demand for knitted fabric has grown in this interview with Mr. #Mayer, CEO of #Mayer & Cie.
> more info under: https://t.co/qVn80u2jN3

[U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol @trustuscotton]

Happy #WorldOceansDay! Thanks to precision agriculture and a variety of innovations, U.S. cotton growers have reduced water use by 79% over the past 35 years. Watch our water animation animation to learn how they're going to reduce their water use by 18% by 2025. #TrustUSCotton

[ICAC @ICAC_cotton]

The stakes couldn't be higher. Choose wisely when you shop.

#TruthAboutCotton

[ICAC @ICAC_cotton]

The more you learn, the scarier it is because those microfibres never go away. Other than plastics that are incinerated (an environmental disaster of its own), every piece of plastic ever made is still here — and always will be.

[ICAC @ICAC_cotton]

Words matter. Terms that at first might seem very similar, if not interchangeable, can hide some surprising truths. Take, for example, the difference between 'biodegrade' and 'decompose'. Natural fibres biodegrade; synthetics decompose.

But what does that actually MEAN? Read on.

[John Erwin Aulia @JErwinAulia]

@CottonZapata Many thanks. Basically nothing in the last 24 hours. Very helpful. Keep up great works Zapata. Cheers!

[John Erwin Aulia @JErwinAulia]

@CottonZapata Thanks. So are those little green squares indicate 0.01 inch of rain received, correct?