St. Michael

I'm falling but no matter how hard I hit the ground I'll still smile Ear to ear as if that's all I'm here for - Eyedea

Colorized photo of the 1900 Paris World's Fair. Humanity has regressed.

wait till you hear what they did to the real one

If Kamala Harris were president and went to war with Iran, Thomas Massie would still vote for a war powers resolution to rein her in. The difference? Most Republicans probably would too. Massie’s consistent. It's not about who is president.

I think I speak for all THC-infused people when I say that’s a firm “pass”

@Intel_Dork The Originals, a Vampire Diaries spinoff, but it's the best of the two (I'm not even going to count Legacies as it's that bad).

@StMichael93 OoOoOo....what's this?

What's the last television show you binge watched?

@Coleidoscopes We've got garden stands like this around my way, there are even a few stores that have a shack out back just for selling fresh veggies/fruits in the summer, a little notebook to tally up what you bought, and an open register for making change.

This is just how hungry populations are. It doesn't matter the race or even the species. I have lived where all poor white people live and those stands wouldn't last a minute there either. It's like throwing a single steak to 100 hungry wolves. We’re animals and manners only make sense when no one is fighting to survive. Everyone thinks they wouldn't eat anything if everything were gone, but they would.

"He withstood the chill and worked for a moment at envisioning the forms of those countervailing forces, gratitude and sacrifice, which powered this fluid machine of sorrow called the world."

@douglasisadope Voila The portrait of Dorian Grey is a great touch

@El_ahrairah207 Hell yeah

@StMichael93 It did, it was nice to see them

I finally got to meet my niece, first time seeing my sister in like 12 years too.

goth 2.0 anyone wanna hang out around some candles and listen to bauhaus while smoking clove cigarettes?

@douglasisadope @Paul_B485 @TSweeze88 @Sib_Rev The headphones are dope, unironically

@StMichael93 @Paul_B485 @TSweeze88 @Sib_Rev i want headphones that look like those now.

everyone check out the latest @Sib_Rev with @douglasisadope and @Paul_B485 this week guest fan-favorite @StMichael93 Loved this one for the back and forth and Darkroom Doug brought the vibes we needed rumble.com/v78orfy-siblin…

@douglasisadope @Paul_B485 @TSweeze88 @Sib_Rev I worked on your background just a little

@StMichael93 @Paul_B485 @TSweeze88 @Sib_Rev literally my new favorite thing.

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.

So.. The war that was never a war is in a cease-fire, though none of the firing has ceased. And we have blockade the Strait of Hormuz with the stated goal of opening the Strait of Hormuz. Yeah, that makes sense.

@Paul_B485 @TSweeze88 @Sib_Rev @douglasisadope

@TSweeze88 @Sib_Rev @douglasisadope @StMichael93 @douglasisadope is goth now! 😆

@Coleidoscopes My nephew prefers to listen to his music on vinyl, makes buying gifts for him easy ^_^

I left my house before 6 a.m. this morning to wait in line at a record store, two hours before open, with at least 20 other people in line with me. All of the “old” devices are still sold as new and artists release CDs, Vinyls, Cassettes. The problem isn’t the cloud.