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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.
All day Astronomy@forallcurious
🚨: Dasia Taylor, a 17-year-old, created surgical threads that change color upon detecting infections.
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it’s my birthday and all i’m asking for is a simple retweet of this post in hope of finding a living kidney donor. blood type B+
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raise hell for this. for every black teen and adult that has been killed, not due to suspicion, but due to pure & unadulterated racism. this has to fucking stop
Atlanta Black Star@ATLBlackStar
A San Diego cop fatally shot a Black teen running for his life from an active shooter, without ever giving him a chance to ID himself. atlantablackstar.com/2025/02/25/san…
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TRUMP ADMITTING THE 2024 ELECTION WAS RIGGED FOR HIM! REPOST! REPOST! REPOST!
ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ@LePapillonBlu2
Here’s trump admitting the 2024 election was rigged in his favour?
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We’re about to go to war with Iran to distract us from the fact that Donald Trump is accused of raping children.
Let me repeat that: Trump is about to send US troops to their deaths to distract the public from him being an alleged child rapist.
Pamphlets@PamphletsY
🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING — Rep. Lieu said Full Epstein Files Show Trump Raping Children.
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SUPPORT VICTIMS WHILE THEY'RE ALIVE. do not wait until they've been further silenced by their abusers.
rally behind them NOW.
Pop Base@PopBase
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have shared a new video demanding the full release of the rest of the files: “Tell Attorney General Pam Bondi it’s time for the truth.”
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WE OUTNUMBER THEM!
We OUTNUMBER THEM
WE OUTNUMBER THEM
John Collins@Logically_JC
This is wild.
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This is why when those two guys on that podcast tried to talk down on Rep Crockett a lot of us got heated.. she is fighting for ALL of us when we need it now more then ever.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Crockett: "You only love enforcement when they're going after Black, brown, immigrants, that kind of folk. But on January 6, you didn't care about law enforcement."
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A Gen Z joined the team.
Week one.
During onboarding, the manager said,
“We sometimes stay late during peak periods.”
Gen Z nodded.
Then asked,
“Is that paid… or just expected?”
The room went quiet.
- No attitude.
- No rebellion.
- Just a question.
Later that day, HR mentioned “growth opportunities.”
Gen Z replied,
“Does growth include raises, or just more responsibility?”
Again, silence.
- No laziness.
- No entitlement.
- Just clarity.
That’s when the team realized something.
When people say
“Gen Z is lazy,”
what they really mean is:
Gen Z watched old generation
- skip meals,
- miss birthdays,
- work weekends,
- and burn out
only to be told
“budgets are tight”
and “be grateful you have a job.”
So Gen Z chose differently.
- They don’t romanticize overwork.
- They don’t confuse suffering with ambition.
- They don’t trade health for praise.
They still work hard.
They just refuse to work for nothing.
It’s not laziness.
It’s pattern recognition.
And honestly,
after everything old generation went through…
Can you really blame them?
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Keith Porter Jr’s death isn’t getting much media attention.
His shooting wasn’t caught on video.
An off duty ICE agent shot and killed him on New Years Eve.
That’s two US citizens killed by ICE in two weeks. Not to mention more than 30 people dying in camps.
Ben Crump@AttorneyCrump
Keith Porter Jr. was a father of two, a son, and a brother whose life was stolen by an off-duty ICE agent. His family gathered in grief demanding the truth. We will continue to stand with Keith Porter Jr.’s family until there is justice, transparency, and answers.
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IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH
JD Vance@JDVance
This is preposterous. First of all, she's not waving the officers through and has no right to do so even if she were. She is waving another car through, before the officers approach her car. Second, the officers are not randomly searching her, they are approaching her vehicle because she is violating the law: namely, she is obstructing a lawful enforcement operation. You're not allowed to walk up to or drive up to people who are enforcing the law to make it harder for them to do their jobs. Third, this defense attorney is drawing a meaningless distinction between an ICE officer and a "real police officer." Again, you're not allowed to interrupt a lawful enforcement operation, which is exactly what this woman was doing. Fourth, the officer didn't discharge his weapon to prevent her from fleeing. When he discharged his weapon, she had pointed the vehicle at him and pressed the gas. He discharged his weapon in self defense, and other angles of the video show the woman *clearly* hit the officer with her car while accelerating. The gaslighting is off the charts and I'm having none of it. This guy was doing his job. She tried to stop him from doing his job. When he approached her car, she tried to hit him. A tragedy? Absolutely. But a tragedy that falls on this woman and all of the radicals who teach people that immigration is the one type of law that rioters are allowed to interfere with.
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Y’all better lock the fuck in when voting starts I swear to god
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
Trump to House Republicans: "If we don't win the midterms, I will get impeached."
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I’m most thankful for clarity this year. I have never been more clear about where I want to be and who I want to be surrounded by!
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