𝔩𝔲𝔵³ ×͜×

|only the brave|
|enjoy the butterflies|
|leo| |🏳️‍🌈|

[sushi @tandoorinightts]

😭😭😭

[mahrukh @parhloumahrukh]

when someone tries to tell me abt wattpad, but i was on it before there was a premium option, it had no ads, authors posted new chapters at 3am, the comment section was easily pushing 100+ under an hr, mafia troupes were taking over rankings, & 1D was buying me every other story

[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.

[Fabiana Alba🌅 @__Fabiana___]

scrive questa cosa sotto la notizia di un femminicidio in una coppia ETEROSSESSUALE col fratello (gay) della vittima che adesso cresce le due nipoti col compagno

[` @lisaawrites]

Books are amazing because a stranger from 200 years ago can still ruin your afternoon emotionally.

[Rori 💖 @slytherin_qveen]

Noi abbiamo una cosa che batte ogni forma di indottinamento nazionalista:

[D. @Lush_Beauty1]

Nobody talks about the stage of grief where you can't even talk about it to anyone anymore because everyone expects you to be getting over it but it still runs through your mind everyday.

[Big Tee @societyhatestee]

hot take: your friends SHOULD call you out on your shitty behavior.

[📖🎧 @inkandseerah]

dating is hard when you’re a hopeless romantic, a reader AND a man hater at the same time.

[ludovica🪽 @woondeerwall]

gente tra quarant’anni dirà poi ci fu la goccia che fece traboccare il vaso e non starà parlando dell’attentato all’arciduca francesco ferdinando ma dell’acc x dell’ambasciata iraniana che risponde amiamo rimini a trump che dice che vogliono far saltare l’italia

[melinda🍎🍏 @_mattia_meli]

giorgia meloni in piena crisi, il no vincitore al referendum, orban sfanculato, trump ai minimi storici di gradimento, salvini sempre coglione, le giornate si allungano e il caldo sta arrivando

[regina george but leftist @arianagrimmie]

come lo spieghi fuori da twitter che la politica mondiale è influenzata da twitter user e la sua strega di etsy di fiducia?

[Gli Scarabocchi di Maicol & Mirco @GliScarabocchi]

Non abbiamo

Scarabocchio dalla prima de @ilmanifesto, oggi in edicola.

[Maria🤎 @KeeRah6s]

Normalize sleeping when you have mood swings. Don't go around transferring aggression.

[` @lisaawrites]

How lucky we are to experience boring, ordinary, uneventful days. Somewhere in the world, that kind of safety is unimaginable.

[yimika| @yimikaaaa]

Wherever I am in the next 2-3yrs,I hope I’m genuinely happy

[D. @Lush_Beauty1]

Give yourself permission to be mean. People are weird.