Disaster Area Inc.

I'm thinking about moving.

[DJ Lippy @JocastaMoney]

I love Mexicans acting like they're the plucky underdogs against the English Colonisers. Lol. You desend from the Conquistadors. You're a nation that wiped out an entire Civilisation to bring it under the heel of the Roman Catholic Church. Fuck off. Silly hat looking little twats.

[Disaster Area Inc. @kryptikmo]

@BurnsideWasTosh You forgot the mastermind trophy

https://t.co/8RVFmCcr3j

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

Let’s see if a random fork can break 6.74M views.

[Disaster Area Inc. @kryptikmo]

@bencooper Not saying for. a second that there's any fraud; the pens and curtains are nonsense. Just saying that incopmpetence in many fields doesn't necessarily carry across to a real existential threat.

[Disaster Area Inc. @kryptikmo]

@bencooper Well, maybe. But they don't really care about the bottle recycling scheme and they *do* really care about the election fraud.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Disaster Area Inc. @kryptikmo]

@echetus

[Leanne @LeanneSpurs]

Return your unwanted Green flyers to this address, and it costs them money.

Pop this address on an envelope with the flyer in, and pop it in a post box!

The more we return, the less they will send!

This works both ways, Harry...

#TwoCanPlayThatGame

[Disaster Area Inc. @kryptikmo]

@summoningsalt Shining Force

[Disaster Area Inc. @kryptikmo]

@summoningsalt Finally, Summoning Salt x Leisure Suit Larry

[Disaster Area Inc. @kryptikmo]

@John_Stepek @VintageMrHobbes He appears to think you play basketball on grass. That...won't work.

[Disaster Area Inc. @kryptikmo]

@93vintagejones @TheCriticMag Mountain Goats ref ftw!

[Dr. N.R. Luke @_LukeCSkywalker]

Does she not understand that the sign makes it worse? I mean, doesn't it? Like, if you GENUINELY believe you're on stolen land (as this sign suggests) then this is like holding a sign that says "Acknowledging that I'm running over your cat" WHILE CONTINUING TO RUN OVER THE CAT.

[Disaster Area Inc. @kryptikmo]

@BDSixsmith If Britain was angering its allies due to some well-thought-through plan through which we might gain that would be one thing. It's hard to escape the feeling that the school-prefect-in-charge is simply a prig falling back on 'rules' to suit his own (poor) aesthetic taste though.

[Disaster Area Inc. @kryptikmo]

@wil_da_beast630 You would kill off a lot of satire, political speech and comedy with this rule, and you would fail to stop anyone determined to be creepy.

[Disaster Area Inc. @kryptikmo]

@eugyppius1 "Run somebody over" when "tram-pled someone" was right there smh.

[Disaster Area Inc. @kryptikmo]

@boatposting Thermal pollution making water unfit for consumption, I type into Twitter, while enjoying a nice cup of tea. The kettle stays boiled forever.

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

Budget 2025 - the highest tax rates ever

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

Hinkley Point C is set to be the most expensive nuclear plant ever built.

The numbers below reveal they spent £700m on fish protection.

Based on the latest estimates that’s £280,000 per fish.