Alex

And so... it continues. I am humbled to be named "Hero" alongside such giants.

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

@FREAM FREAM: Love and Fury

Imagine taking an edible on 420 But only for it to kick in after you have a tummy ache and now you’re on the toilet after being ragebaited so hard by your husband and his cute as fuck curly black hair glasses jacket n shirt wearing aaa- Yeah. Thats me. 🧍‍♀️

@zentreya And as always... Rock On 🤘

Stay strong. 🫶

And many of the creators and their community members not only make that possible, but actively work to bring in EVERY0NE for a fun, goofy time. Chief among those I enjoy include @ThePapaMutt and his wife RadicalMari, @zentreya , and @FroggyLoch. Each of them improves the world 🌎

I've just got to say... over the past couple of years I've discovered a new world of online streaming, and specifically VTubing. It fosters a LARGE community of individuals, many of whom have historically been ostracized due to their interests, etc. As such, it's so welcoming.

@ThePapaMutt Oh HELL yeah! I cannot WAIT to see this old dog's new tricks!

I've been doing content for going on 5 years (not much in the grand scheme but nothing to sneeze at either) and I gotta say man- I feel like I'm only just getting started! So many ideas, plans, and so much fun my old bones can't wait to get to work! IT'S GONNA BE A GOOD YEAR FR

@CottontailVA Erm.... only if you have an oral fixation. So... PROBABLY not? For most people. But you do you.

my mom saw me suckin on my favourite candy and said: “oh, is it your 5th birthday, bug?” so now you guys have to back me up and say these are still acceptable to have when you’re in your 20’s. thanks. ☺️

@BarefootElleck 1) This is terrifying 2) This is fascinating, and good on this guy for the work he is doing to raise awareness about this. 3) Elle, thank you for elevating this reality for people. In this VERY real context, and related tragic events, it's important to see. 4) This is terrifying.

Remember last week when everyone told me the video I retweeted of the “joke video” of the guy finding the girl based on a picture and told me “this isn’t it, this is fake.” This is, once again, why most VTubers don’t post IRL pics, use IRL voice, or even places they visit. He isn’t even doing this to scare people. This is for education. The next time you pick on someone for being private, I dare you to send the most obscure photo of yourself to this man and when he tells you your address back, remember that feeling. When did we stop remembering the golden rule? Stay safe out there.

@BarefootElleck @yuviemi WHOAWHOAWHOAWHOA WHATDAHELLY SHOTSFIRE--wait, no, yeah. That tracks.

Hey guys @yuviemi is a stinker.

@BarefootElleck @zentreya Well said, Elle

I am so PROUD of you. Words cannot express how absolutely proud I am of you and all you’ve accomplished, worked for, grinded for, and keep striving for. I’m so proud. But I’ve never been more proud of you than I am in this moment for you to take a step back and evaluate YOUR needs, your mental and physical health, and then act on what you need to be healthy and proud of yourself as well. As a manager, we all hope to guide talents to do this. As a friend, we push and support each other to be the healthiest and best version we can be. To get the honor to be both in this situation—my pride exceeds my joy. Take all the time you need. We will be here when you get back. 💜

Just a small vent : Was hoping to be my best this year, and every time I just end up getting into my head. Super honest, lately I started focusing on the numbers game. I treat this like a job, and I work hard on trying to push them up. So much as to where I do an 8 hour stream on Twitch then 4 hours on Youtube seperate. Figuring out what is next to do. How to best incorporate new and fun content cause I hate react content. I just focused on it too much and I just looked at myself today for a brief moment and saw I was so miserable. I looked so tired and I am sure my community noticed it too, so I am so sorry. Taking these next few days off to just breathe and reevaluate my priorities. A reminder to Content Creators, looking at those numbers all the time is not good for your health at all. It will make you so miserable that you lose sight of making content for fun. Make sure you have fun cause you got given a amazing opportunity lots of people give up their world for. Don't turn it into something you start hating. Take a break when you need to and go outside and listen to the birds and bee's and think on ideas you've been wanting to do and just breathe.

L-....LISTEN. Listen. I am a born Wisconsite. Cheddar and Colby run as purely as hemoglobin in my veins.

@AQUELECARA And that's why we love Dr. House.

Todo episódio de Dr. House: >Paciente chega no hospital >É uma Prostituta ou um fanático religioso >Dr. House entra em cena - Doutor Doutor não sabemos o que fazer ela está sangrando pelos olhos - Faça os exames seu imbecil >Ele vai falar com a paciente - Você é burra vá tomar no cu - Doutor House eu te odeio me curaaaa >Os ajudantes voltam pra sala - Doutor todos os exames deram negativo ela vai morrer em 2 horas se não fizermos nada vai ser game over - hmmm game over.... Ajudantes, tem um gameboy na bunda dela, isso é o problema - Doutor house você é um imbecil mas vamos ver se tem mesmo um gameboy na bunda dela >Encontram um gameboy na bunda dela - OH MEU DEUS DOUTOR HOUSE VOCÊ ESTAVA CERTO COMO VOCÊ SOUBE??? - Os gameboys lançados em 1997 na edição do Pikachu tinham bateria com base de iodo, que se inseridos na bunda fazem seus olhos sangrarem >Ajudantes fazem o emote do pepe Poggers na vida real >Paciente entra na sala curada - Eu estava errada sobre você - Vá te fuder sua Vagabunda >Episódio acaba

@halenhargreevs Honestly? It just feels like an obligation to host and attend to the invitees. My favourite birthday celebration of all time was calling in to work, buying a new book, and going to a coffee shop to read and nurse a large hot chocolate(s) for 6hrs with my phone off. 🥰

why are men always ok with doing nothing for their birthday?

For whatever it is worth, I truly believe that @CriticalRole 's "Exandria Unlimited: Calamity" is one of the most powerfully told, and acted, stories of all time. It is a masterpiece, and I will return to it time and again for years to come. youtu.be/KlIkkeWmVvA?si…

I....genuinely can't tell if @Bluto2U2 legitimately hates Zen but agrees to her collabs for audience reach, just plays an anti-Zen "heel" for content, or is actually Zen's good friend but has an amicably antagonistic relationship with her. Whatever it is, I love Bluto content!!

@ThePapaMutt @crellythecow @FroggyLoch @KokoNutsVT @Bluto2U2 @GrimmiVT ALSO... I would love to see a collab between @crellythecow and @Bluto2U2 . I have a suspicion that their humour and quick-wittedness would work really well together. Maybe add on other person as a "straight man" role, but... I think it could be a "sleeper build" of a collab.

That's a funny joke, @crellythecow. (ft @FroggyLoch, @KokoNutsVT, @Bluto2U2, @GrimmiVT)

@ThePapaMutt @crellythecow @FroggyLoch @KokoNutsVT @Bluto2U2 @GrimmiVT @crellythecow simply as friend: monster. As a Content Creator: brilliant. As a New-Content-Creator-Friend? Absolute perfection!!! Having the gall to dominate a brand new set of people like that, and yet do so in such a PERFECTLY funny way with everyone in on the joke is 10/10 😂

@mistressdivy As for what I do on nights I'm alone and bored... I sing and play guitar, read a book, draw, watchTwitch, YouTube, or Netflix; play a video game, do some creative writing, do some woodworking or other hands-on projects, cook, clean, go for a walk.... there're so many options!

@mistressdivy Honestly, the REASON I live alone is because I rarely feel lonely. I recognize this is not a "normal" stance, but... this is how I am. The first time I ever experienced Loneliness was during COVID lockdowns. And since then...not really at all. Just giving my 2 cents. 🤷‍♂️

Single men who live alone, with no wife or girlfriend… what do you guys do on the nights you feel really lonely?

@ThrillaRilla369 Yup!

Trying to prove a point Have you ever had to work more than 55 hours in a week