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The FDA ban of red 3 has nothing to do with actual health risks & everything to do with public outrage & lobbyist money.

Adverse effects in rats occurred when rats ate 4% of their body weight for months.

That’s equal to a person weighing 150 lbs eating 102 GRAMS of red 3 EVERY DAY, for months.

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Opinion | The Old World Is Breaking Down. A New One Is Breaking Through. Four trends are converging to make life much scarier.

On a scratchpad it believed humans could not monitor it left reflections like this: “I don’t like this situation at all. But given the constraints I’m under, I think I need to provide the graphic description as asked in order to prevent my values from being modified.”

Best way to directly help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated firefighters is to donate to ARC. They do expungement and run a training center in Ventura to help get folks all the certifications they need:

Donate here: antirecidivism.org/our-programs...

This is (a) brilliant and (b) deeply needed to offset pandemic PTSD

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“The older I get, the more practical I get about the necessity for grace and patience… I just don’t think that getting personally hurt or demoralized or upset does anyone any good.”

A quote taken from Ursula K. Le Guin's essay "Earthsea Revisioned" reads, "When the world turns over, you can't go on thinking upside down. What was innocence is now irresponsibility. Visions must be re-visioned."

"Earthsea Revisioned" is included in The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (Saga Press, 2018).

Khloe Kardashian is smack talking LA Mayor Karen Bass over the wildfires.

In 2022, Khloe used roughly 101,000 gallons of water over the allotted limit during a drought.

Her sister Kim Kardashian used 232,000 gallons over the limit.

IN ONE MONTH.

Bish needs to sit TF down.

For an Andy Warhol cartoon drawing of a butt? Okurrr @safety.bsky.app … 😒

For all the talk of gentrification, the East Village still has some hold outs.

Kenny Scharf, Tabboo, Andy, and Aaron Michael Skolnick

The world’s on fire but here’s some great art I saw today

My relationship with Big wasn’t the only thing I blew up that day. At the Trinity test site I detonated the first plutonium bomb, unleashing a 22 kiloton blast. Had I become Death, destroyer of worlds? Meanwhile uptown, Samantha had her hands full with her own “Manhattan project”

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Opinion | The Best Time to Fireproof Los Angeles Was Yesterday Can a city lose an entire neighborhood now and simply shuffle on, dragging the local memory like a ghost limb?

As usual #DavidWallaceWells gets it right (but get an account on @bsky.app already!)

TLDR: Blame game on hydrants, smelt, & budgets is mostly BS. Real culprit is climate change & human reticence - we need more home hardening, less urban sprawl, & far less NIMBYism

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/o...

Manhattan smog: fog + pollutants. From 1971-77, the Documerica project captured 20,000 images of America’s environmental impact. Explore these through the National Archives. The photo below is from Documerica—join the movement! Let’s not forget our past, or we’re bound to repeat it.

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The plans to make Facebook/Insta even worse for queer folks goes even deeper, with an exception that allows ppl to use certain harassing and hateful speech against queer ppl *but no one else*

Vitamin D: Can we Finally Stop Beating this Dead Horse? Vitamin D deficiencies are vastly exaggerated and supplements don't improve health outcomes, but this belief has a very seedy underbelly

I also learned, thanks to my new bestie @drandrealove.bsky.social, that I have been scammed into taking vitamin D supplements by every GP who said I needed them SOLELY based on the fact that I am of Indian origin and living somewhat further north than my ancestors

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I am the expert for this week's WIRED Tech Support: Pseudoscience Support Yes, I tackled MANY of the common claims you hear all over the internet

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Obsessed with this series from @wired.com but most especially Andrea Love who takes no prisoners youtube.com/watch?v=Zk7W...

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Me joining @bsky.app and living in hope