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17.01.2025 22:44 β π 878 π 82 π¬ 26 π 5@dipayangupta.bsky.social
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17.01.2025 22:44 β π 878 π 82 π¬ 26 π 5The 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.
Thatβs equal to a person weighing 150 lbs eating 102 GRAMS of red 3 EVERY DAY, for months.
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On a scratchpad it believed humans could not monitor it left reflections like this: βI donβt like this situation at all. But given the constraints Iβm under, I think I need to provide the graphic description as asked in order to prevent my values from being modified.β
12.01.2025 17:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Best 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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βThe older I get, the more practical I get about the necessity for grace and patienceβ¦ I just donβt think that getting personally hurt or demoralized or upset does anyone any good.β
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).
09.01.2025 23:15 β π 214 π 57 π¬ 0 π 3Khloe 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 β¦ π
11.01.2025 21:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0For all the talk of gentrification, the East Village still has some hold outs.
11.01.2025 21:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Kenny Scharf, Tabboo, Andy, and Aaron Michael Skolnick
11.01.2025 21:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The worldβs on fire but hereβs some great art I saw today
11.01.2025 21:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My relationship with Big wasnβt 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 βManhattan projectβ
10.01.2025 23:49 β π 11387 π 1532 π¬ 116 π 36Follow this person
11.01.2025 15:35 β π 121 π 6 π¬ 5 π 0As 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 Americaβs environmental impact. Explore these through the National Archives. The photo below is from Documericaβjoin the movement! Letβs not forget our past, or weβre bound to repeat it.
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11.01.2025 16:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The 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*
08.01.2025 02:35 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1I 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
open.substack.com/pub/immunolo...
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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10.01.2025 16:19 β π 4193 π 329 π¬ 89 π 32Me joining @bsky.app and living in hope
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