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[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

This is absolutely disgraceful footage coming out of an England youth team on national duty. In a hotel room, players turn on one of their own in what looks on its face like straight-up bullying.

One lad is pinned, wrestled and slammed while the rest of the squad stands around laughing and filming instead of stepping in.

This is not just lads blowing off steam or a normal clash. It is players in full England gear behaving like this while on duty for their country. It looks horrendous and reflects terribly on the whole setup.

Someone should have intervened immediately. There is no excuse. And who thought it was a good idea to leak this footage online for the world to see?

Where is the FA statement? Where is the investigation or any context at all? The silence so far only makes it worse.

England football needs to explain exactly what happened here right now. This damages the badge and the next generation. Completely unacceptable.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

I know they underperformed the most optimistic expectations, but making them land in Birmingham seems excessively cruel, more appropriate for a Group Stage exit

[اسماء | ستايلي AAA20 @Asmaa_otb]

من عادات حجاج إندونيسيا إذا رجعوا لأهاليهم يلبسون أحلى ما عندهم احتفالًا بإتمام فريضة الحج الله يتقبل منهم 🤍🤲🏼

[͏͏͏𝐉𝐚𝐲 ⌖ 🇿🇦🇪🇸 @cagiago_]

This is the coldest clap back I’ve ever seen in my life.

[Half-Time Hooks @HalfTimeHooksTV]

I DONT REMEMBER COMPANIES CHANGING THEIR BRAND COLOURS FOR CITY OR LIVERPOOL I TOLD MAN WE DIFFERENT

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The people in this photo aren't friendlier than you. Their apartments are just smaller. So small that Parisians basically gave up on living indoors and moved their living rooms onto the sidewalk. And that was the whole plan.

In the 1850s, a city planner named Baron Haussmann tore apart medieval Paris and rebuilt it. He widened streets into boulevards, capped every building at five stories, and added one rule that explains this entire photo: the ground floor of every building had to be a café, a bakery, or a shop. The apartments above were intentionally tiny. Some were single rooms carved out of old mansions. No garden. Barely any sunlight. A private balcony was something most Parisians would never have.

So the café became home. You ate breakfast there. Held meetings there. Received your mail there. By the late 1700s, Paris already had close to 2,000 of them. In 2002, there were still 1,907. Even now, after years of closures brought that number to about 1,410, the coverage is absurd: a 2020 city study found 94% of Parisians live within a five-minute walk of a bakery. When COVID shut indoor dining in 2020, Paris ripped out parking spaces, turned them into outdoor terraces, and let 9,800 cafés and restaurants keep them permanently.

An American sociologist named Ray Oldenburg wrote a book in 1989 called The Great Good Place. He had a name for spots like the Parisian café: "third places." Not your home, not your office, but the casual in-between spots where you actually get to know people. Cafés, pubs, barbershops, the corner store where the owner knows your name. His whole argument was that American suburbs were built with only two zones, your house and your job, connected by a car. No sidewalk café, no place to bump into a neighbor by accident.

The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a national health epidemic in 2023. Being alone all the time is as bad for your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Half of American adults say they feel lonely. Weekly socializing dropped from 5.5 hours in 2003 to just 4 hours in 2023, and it never bounced back after COVID. Americans between 15 and 29 now spend 45% more time alone than they did in 2010.

The scene in this tweet looks like a personality trait. It is a 170-year-old engineering project that works exactly as designed.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

This is Cherise Doyley.

She was 12 hours into labor when a nurse told her to cover up with a bedsheet.

Then a tablet appeared at her bedside.

On the screen: a judge. Lawyers. Hospital staff.

She hadn’t asked for a hearing. The hospital had.

Doyley is a professional birthing doula. She refused a C-section — she’d had three before, and one left her hemorrhaging. She knew the risks.

It didn’t matter.

And here’s the part people should pay attention to.

The state filed an emergency petition. She had minutes to prepare. No lawyer. No advocate.

A three-hour hearing. In the middle of active labor.

A judge decided how she would give birth.

This is the fetal personhood movement, fully realized.

And it’s already happening. To Black women. In Florida.

Read the full @ProPublica investigation.

“A judge decided how she would give birth.

That’s legal right now.

Should it be?

#ReproductiveRights #DemsUnited

[Cjay @ced_jayy]

This is a nation of professional protesters.

[Ma🧚 @the_iheoma]

The article on BREAST IRONING is up, please click the link below to read it.
https://t.co/ty01cvNwKj

[Vincent The Therapist @mrhighfoster]

Let me explain so that understand better

For many years, there lived a germ called HPV that could hide inside a girl's special parts and sometimes make big trouble later, like bumps or even cancer.

A kind female scientist named Eva said "Let's fight it with a unique light"

So she put a special jelly (like invisible paint) on the bad spots.

The jelly only stuck to the germ cells, not the good oness

Then she shined a gentle red laser light on the jelly, which made the jelly wake up, made some tiny angry bubbles inside the bad cells, and popped them all gone.

The germ disappeared, and the good cells stayed happy and safeeee
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There was no cutting, no piercing and no hurtingg

With further tests and approvals, this can be fully rolled out as a permanent cure!

Thanks to the Mexican researchers 🇲🇽
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✍️ Vincent the Therapist

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

when we have a moment, I'd like to discuss this unit if measurement please.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

The science of fetal microchimerism should have broken the internet by now.

It hasn’t.

When I read about a research I was so curious to know what’s actually happening.

Fetal cells — carrying the child’s own DNA — cross into the mother’s bloodstream during pregnancy and never fully leave. They embed into her organs. Her heart muscle. Her brain tissue.

Researchers have found a child’s living cells inside mothers in their 90s, from pregnancies six decades old. The child left the womb. The cells didn’t.

And they don’t just sit there. They migrate toward damage. Women with heart injuries show fetal cells concentrated at the wound site. Women with thyroid disease show their children’s cells inside the affected tissue.

The body that built the child gets tended to, in return, by the child’s own cells. Nobody designed this consciously. Evolution quietly built a repair system out of the mother-child bond itself.

The brain side of this is equally staggering. Pregnancy triggers gray matter reorganization — a structural rewiring that sharpens threat detection, deepens empathy, fundamentally alters how a mother processes the world. These changes persist for years after birth.

Possibly permanently. A mother’s nervous system doesn’t return to its factory settings. It was updated by the experience of carrying another person, and that update sticks.

The part worth sitting with longest — women who experienced pregnancy loss carry fetal cells too. The cellular merging doesn’t require a birth. It doesn’t require years of raising someone. Those cells remain regardless of what happened after. A mother grieving a child she never brought home is grieving someone biologically still present inside her. The world consistently underestimates that grief. The science says we have no business doing that.

Mothers always knew the connection didn’t end at birth.

Turns out it doesn’t end at the cellular level either.

[Kia 🧸ྀི @xevekiah]

My older cousin got pregnant at 29 after years of saying she wasn’t sure she even wanted kids. When she finally decided she did, it felt intentional. Thought out. Safe. At 14 weeks she developed intense itching on her hands and feet. She mentioned it at her appointment. The nurse said pregnancy does weird things to skin. She went home with lotion samples. The itching got worse. She couldn’t sleep. She called again. They told her it was probably hormones. At 28 weeks she noticed the baby wasn’t moving as much. At the hospital they found no heartbeat. They called it “one of those unexplained stillbirths.” She drowned in that word. Unexplained. Her marriage didn’t survive the silence that followed. He wanted to try again immediately. She was terrified. They divorced two years later. At 45 she was reading about intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy and felt sick. The symptoms matched exactly. She requested her old labs. Her bile acid levels had been elevated. The result was flagged. No one had followed up. No medication. No monitoring plan. Just lotion. It wasn’t random. It was missed. She spent years thinking her body failed quietly. It turns out it had been asking for help the whole time.

[• @Alhamdhulillaah]

This tradition in Kosovo where a rural village has only one mosque, children wait outside for the mosque's light to turn on so they can race home and tell their families it is time for iftar.

[ً @archivedlooks]

Badgley Mischka, 2003 collection

[Sandra ETD @Sandrah_Oh]

Est-ce que tes ancêtres travaillaient dans des champs de canne à sucre ?

[re: emma @evemmore]

mixing friend groups for my birthday makes me feel like graham norton

[🥷🏿 @kftwt]

feels on brand after meeting a somali woman