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Ohh Spider-Man crocs?? I WANT them🥹🫰🏽

Your tattoo ink doesn't stay in your skin. It breaks apart and travels through your body to your lymph nodes, where it settles for life. And in the US, nobody has ever tested what's actually in it. Lund University in Sweden studied 5,695 people for this one. They controlled for sun exposure, tanning beds, skin type, smoking, income. After stripping out all those variables, people with tattoos still had a 29% higher risk of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Mixed black and colored ink pushed that number to 38%. People who'd had their tattoos for 10 to 15 years had 67% higher risk. Only 30% of the melanomas showed up where the tattoo actually was. The other 70% appeared on completely different parts of the body. The ink is traveling through the body, doing damage far from where it was injected. Your immune system is the reason. It treats tattoo ink like an invader. White blood cells swallow the particles and try to drag them to your lymph nodes (small filters spread throughout your body that help fight infections). But the particles never leave. They just sit there. A research team in France used X-ray imaging on donated human bodies and confirmed tattoo pigments stay lodged in the lymph nodes permanently. A separate 2025 study then found this causes inflammation in the lymph nodes for months, and it actually weakened the body's response to COVID vaccines. Black tattoo ink is loaded with the same compounds found in coal tar and cigarette smoke. The World Health Organization classifies these as cancer-causing. Colored inks use pigments that break down into different cancer-causing compounds when they get hit by sunlight or during laser tattoo removal. Arsenic, cadmium, lead, and chromium show up across almost every ink color. The EU saw the data and in January 2022 restricted over 4,000 chemicals in tattoo ink across all 27 member states. The FDA has the authority to do the same thing. They have never used it. No tattoo ink sold in America has ever been FDA-approved for injection into human skin. The only guidance the agency has issued was in 2024, and it covered bacteria in ink bottles, not the cancer-causing chemicals in the ink itself. 82 million Americans have at least one tattoo, roughly 1 in 3 adults. Every one of them has permanent, untested chemical deposits sitting in their lymph nodes right now. The EU already decided those chemicals were too dangerous to leave on the market.

@Fareeida That’s the only downside that i dislike. I will have to switch

@batulaa_ It’s wonderful, you’re welcome🤭💗Fenugreek water was making me lose weight😭I had to stop taking it.

Girl to girl: Blackseed/oil, honey, warm water, hibiscus tea, sleep, collagen, pray, sweet potatoes, eggs, green tea, chia seeds, ground flaxseed, breathe, B complex, smile, fruits, morning sunlight, movement, cloves, cinnamon, say no, veggies, EVOO, probiotics, stretch, avocado.

Classism will be the end of Abuja!

@Fareeida My goodness! I neverrrr knew. I’ve always associated it with hair care. Any time there is a talk about things that support digestive health i will be there on the Front row🤣 i take fenugreek water at the moment, it works wonders

@batulaa_ Rich in omega 3, good for skin and hair health, contains lignans and protein, it supports hormonal health, it is a prebiotic, supports digestive health, *whispers (it makes you curvier too)

Told a barista today that I was really nervous for a job interview and she gave me this…humans can be so beautiful

Kocamın arabama aldığı Tom ve Jerry'lere bakın

@Fareeida I see alot of it around. Mostly in residential areas! The orange ones and dark pink are my favorites

@batulaa_ Oh wow, growing up I used to see it here but not anymore.

Another lost art in this country.

Incoming video call…

Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover received a hero's welcome from his neighbors! 🇺🇸

Babacığım ve biricik hobisi sepetleri🫶(yorumlarınız büyük bir keyifle okunacaktır)☺️

Yan Arewa need to understand this! The mediocrity is too much!

Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work. In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them. He literally went on quests where he did things like, tracking a lost variety back to a stump of a long-ago-cut-down tree near an abandoned homestead in remote Appalachia, took cuttings from the green shoots coming out of the stump, brought them back and planted them. Absolute legend.

The science behind why those 52 seconds feel better than the 7 hours before them is genuinely wild. Your brain tracks your alarm time after about 3 days of consistency. Roughly 60-90 minutes before it goes off, your body starts tapering melatonin and ramping cortisol to prepare you for waking. The moment you become conscious before the alarm, you're in the final stage of that hormonal transition. Going back to sleep interrupts the transition mid-sequence. Your brain reads the return to unconsciousness as "false alarm, stand down," dumps a fresh micro-dose of melatonin, and drops your body temperature slightly. When the alarm hits 52 seconds later, you're now fighting both the original wake-up process AND the new sleep signal layered on top of it. Those 52 seconds feel incredible because your brain just gave you the neurochemical equivalent of a weighted blanket while simultaneously knowing the deadline is real. Scarcity plus comfort plus defiance. Three reward signals from one terrible decision.

Your odds of getting into Harvard are about 50 times better than your odds of becoming a NASA astronaut. In 2020, 12,000 people applied to be astronauts. NASA picked 10. A 0.08% acceptance rate. Harvard, the school everyone treats as shorthand for "impossible to get into," accepts about 4% of applicants. And you can't even apply without a master's degree in science or engineering, three years of work experience after that degree, and U.S. citizenship. A bachelor's won't cut it, period. NASA raised the minimum from bachelor's to master's in 2020, and that one change locked out thousands of people who would've been eligible the year before. The people who actually get picked are way beyond even those minimums. Average age at selection is 34. Most hold a PhD or medical degree on top of their master's. If you went the pilot route instead of the science route, you need 1,000 hours flying jets as the lead pilot, which is about two full years of flight time. Get selected and you're still not an astronaut yet. Two years of training come next: military water survival, SCUBA certification, learning Russian, and a swimming test you take in a full flight suit and shoes. Not everyone passes. I looked up the salary expecting it to match the difficulty. It does and it doesn't. Astronauts make $152,258 a year. But a fresh college grad at SpaceX with just a four-year degree starts at $95,000 to $115,000. NASA starts that same engineer at $54,557. If you spent eight-plus years earning a PhD, your NASA starting salary tops out at $73,038. A 22-year-old out of college at SpaceX earns more than a 30-year-old with a doctorate at NASA. In 65 years of spaceflight, NASA has selected a total of 370 astronaut candidates. More people have stood on top of Mount Everest than have ever worn a NASA flight suit.

you go finish the kanuribalism, still go buy fuel 1600 tomorrow👍🏾

Very poor country with useless classism.

@ibrah_shuwa This is the second sensible reply I’ve seen on that tweet. I dunno why everyone is getting all worked up over it!

Don’t see anything wrong with the question tbh. Also, there’s no denying that Wagambari is more closely associated with Borno tribes than any other group in Nigeria. It does not mean they own it. But when you see Wagambari with the red cap, your first instinct is usually Kanuri