Brandon Oliver

somebody said "rockbottom is actually a trampoline" and i have never felt so alive

overly walkable. spongebob don't got a license and somehow be everywhere

he wanted Santorini in his backyard and he really got it 🤩

YOU MUST LEARN TO ENJOY LIFE WITHOUT NEEDING AN AUDIENCE TO SEE THAT YOU ARE ENJOYING LIFE

It’s actually insane that people used to casually receive a giant book with everyone’s home address and phone number in it. 😭

This sentences by Van Gogh hits hard: “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”

Vegas hotels are doing all inclusive now cause tourism is so low… basically you get two nights and it includes 6 meals with 6 drinks and tickets to a show….

If you're in America, you have a massive unfair advantage. You won the birth lottery just by being born in a first-world country.

Somebody on TikTok said “why do I have to pay $75 to be in a run club.. what would y’all do if I just came and started running with y’all? Y’all are in public” LMAOOO

I think about this at least 1x a week.

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.

I’ve got a theory. When people don’t create music art ideas anything… they start creating problems instead. Unused energy gets weird.

Blues came from Black culture. Jazz came from Black culture. Rock ’n roll came from Black culture. Funk came from Black culture. Soul came from Black culture. Hip-hop came from Black culture. Disco came from Black culture. House came from Black culture.

How can you be bored when you’ve got a career to build,a body to perfect,a mind to make smarter and success to chase.

Me realizing that if you replace the "W" in "What", "Where", "When" with a "T" you will answer the questions

When you realize that Jesus fed 5,000, but only 500 followed him after the meal. He had 12 disciples, but only 3 went farther into the garden, and only 1 stood by him at the cross. The closer you get to the cross, the smaller the crowd becomes.

the scorpio full moon is for the ones that are ready to fight their traumas and welcome better days. for the sensitive ones that need support. for the ones that know healing takes time. for the beautiful souls that deserve more than being constantly mistreated.

You either marry someone who pushes you to be better or drags you down to stay the same. There is no in between.