Elias

Twitter amateur. I love maps. Go Ducks! KCCO! Kill 'em with kindness.

[Ben Bobeck @bo_bobeck]

This is what is being stolen from you. Criminals.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.

The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.

India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.

Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.

The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.

So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.

[Elias @thEliasNevarez]

@BlakeyLocks Julen Lopetegui vibes

[travis tuthill @capstrav1s]

imagine being a hockey player in 2006 and you see THIS fucking psychopath on skates putting up 46 goals 92 points 400 shots on net and over 200 hits and he’s only 21 years old AND he looks like this.

absolutely preposterous. demon on skates.

[Elias @thEliasNevarez]

@BrennaGreene_ @FormerDuckNews Damn Covid

[Brenna Greene @BrennaGreene_]

Cool moment as Sabrina Ionescu in an Oregon hoodie hugs her former head coach Kelly Graves :)

[Elias @thEliasNevarez]

@scoduckz And why not Masoli?

[Bussin' With The Boys @BussinWTB]

The perfect photo doesn’t exi—

[Elias @thEliasNevarez]

@TownsUsa Ain’t got time to bleed

[Rachel Bachman @Bachscore]

How famous was Steve Prefontaine? He was a distance runner. On the cover of Sports Illustrated. As a college freshman.

[B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce]

Ovi has a new custom suit for breaking the all-time goals record that features all of his “goal pucks” in the liner and “GR895” embroidered in the collar 😱🔥

(@TomBarnettNY)

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Legend cemented in ice 🥶

📸: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images

[B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce]

How It Started How It’s Going

[Portland Timbers @TimbersFC]

50 years old today.

50+ more years to come 🔜

[Elias @thEliasNevarez]

@MattPrehm Thank you. There was no pit crew

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

From the heavens 🌩️⚡️

@AGarnacho7 🏆

#MUFC || #PuskasAward

[Elias @thEliasNevarez]

@travishend4577 @RossDellenger Thank you! Came to the comments for this- Teddy KGB.

[Jeff Kassouf @JeffKassouf]

Washington Spirit owner Michele Kang has pledged $30M over five years to U.S. Soccer's women's + girls programs, the largest donation specifically for that. USSF will double the # of #USWNT youth camps, and increase #s of players, coaches, refs, with $.

https://t.co/PaaOhoSZI8

[Elias @thEliasNevarez]

@ChrisChavez Why wouldn’t you run after that?

[Elias @thEliasNevarez]

@heatdaddy69420 The goat of MN peewee hockey