maggie🍇🌿

do not ask me things i am trying to ascend

[KYO @ThaKidKY0_]

this video kills me all the time why does he have a 3 second realisation of his existence and forgets it a frame after

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

There have been only four Black congressmen elected to the U.S. House from Louisiana since Reconstruction.

They’re all in this photo.

[bug girl @buggirl]

calling things that help keep normal people alive “entitlements” while they hold the earth hostage, lighting it on fire after extracting every drop of perceived value from it and its resources. it’s unbelievable that we’re letting these parasites live for so long

[turbomander @turbomander]

no shade but personally after riding through the entire desert i would’ve given the horse a name

[Touya! ★ @Touyarokii]

big fan of how they described the measurements here

[Leah Dionne @leahdionne__]

It makes me sad that he’s been ringing the alarm of climate disaster for decades and everyone is just like ‘aw what a sweet old national treasure’ and ignoring him

[Ibraheem Abioye @DrAbioye]

The idea is to find a group of people most people regard as terrible examples, use them to make revoking passports a more acceptable form of punishment, then expand it from there.

[Pat Hedge @oldmanbayin]

The people that make these tutorials deserve Heaven

[Joana Fraga @jojo_fraga]

Florence Cathedral
Santa Maria del Fiore

And their children!

[nathan @nathanrobii]

i think a solution to the historical accuracy problem for the odyssey would be to set it in the 1930s in the south and change their outfits to something like prison uniforms, and maybe cast someone like george clooney instead of matt damon

[Berwyn Choobs @sabatonfan69]

Dentists be like hello I am your dentist and this is my harem

[Ethel Braithwaite @Ethelbrait1941]

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

[malena @malenairl]

la grasa en el pelo te susurra cosas

[mena @timoatreides]

paul atreides telling him through the subtitles to stand up and say “Let’s Go Knicks” and him doing so immediately 😭

[maddy catgirlprostate @catgirlprostate]

The simple truth is that anyone with anything close to that level of empathy simply wouldn't be able to reach anything close to bezos levels of wealthy, because that amount of money requires unbelievable amounts of human exploitation

[Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes_]

The platypus should be sleeping, but instead he is watching tutorials on how to fall asleep fast... it is 4 AM.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project.

She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it.

Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda.

Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly.

She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype.

Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection.

The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table.

Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests.

Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.