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Ryan @charminggrump.bsky.social · 22m

Well, I guess it's awesome, as a society of lead-based organisms, that we keep finding ways to consume more and more lead.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Geology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 10h

3.2 billion year old microbial mats on one of Earth's first beaches. The dark wrinkles are the mats. This has been weathered, so the mat is easy to see. #geology #paleontology

Photo of yellow sand stone with dark green wrinkly microbial mats. The core is 6 cm wide.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 11h

if newsmax can refuse to sign a loyalty pledge to pete hegseth then the nations colleges and universities can refuse to sign a binding settlement requiring them to do DEI for nazis and hasbarists

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15h

Solidarity is the only way

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Ryan @charminggrump.bsky.social · 1d

I love this show. But maybe more importantly, the B plot is a secondary show contained within the framework of the main show and I love THAT show.

Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 1d

The final season of #SolarOpposites is NOW STREAMING on HULU and with Hulu on Disney+!

THE ALIENS
THE WALL
IT ALL COMES TO THIS

Tell your parents to resubscribe so you can use their account.

Final season of Solar Opposites poster - now streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+

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Ryan @charminggrump.bsky.social · 1d

Soup day

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

‘Wait, this is happening to ME so we need to do something about it.’ -ancient Republican mantra

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 1d

15 years of every C suite going “we need to fire the skilled workers and do more internet” and this is how every business works now.

Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 1d

Wife did a gravel order from Lowe’s for me to pick up. I drive to the pick up dock. Guy with a radio comes out. I show him the order receipt. He radios inside. They tell him to tell me to tell my wife to download the app so that she can check in on it to let them know I’m here to pick up the order.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 1d

For people getting the advice “It’s dumb to do it alone, you need to do it en masse”, the counterpoint is that it is also dumb to make it hard to navigate a large flying heavy thing when you under it. This is also why it is a felony.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 1d

I am very tired of this, but a quick review.

In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.

How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 1d

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Spanfeller bought the site

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 1d

Our brunch place is showing antifa propaganda smh.

Restaurant TV showing Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indy and Sallah in the "bad dates" scene.)

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Ryan @charminggrump.bsky.social · 1d

Like the Myspace guy

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Ryan @charminggrump.bsky.social · 1d

Like look at everyone sitting around him. Lol

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 2d

God Bless America is just a song by Irving Berlin. It’s not the national anthem. America is so far down the moron hole it will never get out

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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static klinger @jessespector.com · 1d

penn state head coach bill belichick

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Ryan @charminggrump.bsky.social · 1d

Because he controls the levers of power and it doesn't matter that he's constantly being outsmarted, because he then just goes on and on and on saying made up shit that the president backs, and the newspapers don't refute him.