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Michael Vilabrera~FullMetalFist@techhub.social

@MVilabrera

Dad & Dreamer Books & libraries are essential So are parks, museums & public spaces 🌲🏔

Wandering Katılım Kasım 2012
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Matty McTech
Matty McTech@setupspawn·
You need to know these computer tricks
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Anish Moonka
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.
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🚨: Dasia Taylor, a 17-year-old, created surgical threads that change color upon detecting infections.

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s.🍒@shvnique·
I just went to a gas station that’s $4.25 a gallon.
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Chris
Chris@Chris490360·
Shity people do this and it comes from the top governor mayor police they allow this treatment notice it’s democratic cities always liberal cities and states
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Don Salmon
Don Salmon@dijoni·
I do not know if this is a sketch. A stepfather who raised a stepdaughter for 17 years and then out of all of the sudden the real father decide to show up and the mama sided with her daughter to take her daddy to the prom.. but the stepdaddy have to pay for everything. I have seen a few few cases like this.. I had a friend of mine who experienced similar. Was he wrong?.
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Jacob Bartlett
Jacob Bartlett@jacobtechtavern·
My 25 year old self literally wouldn’t have believed I’d be paid to go to the pub
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Blackboy
Blackboy@blackboyrizzy·
Betrayal on top of betrayal, and then a whole new level.
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MAGA X Times Daily News 🇺🇸
After close to a year of dating this woman drops a bombshell on this man stating if he wants to take this to the next level he must “convert to Islam” while she is recording him, what advice would you give this man ?
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African Hub
African Hub@AfricanHub_·
This pastor shaves his female church members private parts for easy penetration of the holy spirit into their bodies
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Rinne
Rinne@Rinne_yt·
A Japanese fan spent about $4,000 for a “dream date” with his favorite underground idol, a full Disneyland day with rides, meals, and photos, all paid by him. Days later, he claimed he discovered the “bodyguard” she brought along was actually her husband, and that he had unknowingly paid for all three of them. The story exploded online after he said he felt “emotionally deceived”, sparking a huge debate about idol culture in Japan, especially the expectation that idols stay “available” to maintain fans’ fantasy. After the backlash, the idol issued a public apology and said she had already left her idol, but she never confirmed the marriage.
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Ambar
Ambar@Ambar_SIFF_MRA·
So when she touched him it was fine but when he did that it became harassment?
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