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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

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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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 1d

In the excellent category

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 1d

Frankenstein

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 2d

You're RIFed - just kidding!

DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 3d

Nononono

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 4d

Also the Lab Leadership Service Fellows were RIF'd. They were fired on Valentine's Day and brought back 3 weeks later.

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 5d

Along the same vein: the people terrified to ride the subway are the same ones who think they would have stopped 9/11 if they had been on the planes.

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 8d

Similar vibe:

a man holding a microphone says let 's do that hockey in front of a hockey rink

Alt: Chance the Rapper saying "let 's do that hockey," a phrase used as often as "let's do the news."

media.tenor.com

DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 10d

It was in fact the most fun I ever had talking about fascism!

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 13d

Someone made a connection between the Lions giving up first-drive touchdowns and first drives being scripted. Why would a defense be worse against a scripted drive?

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 14d

The look of someone who watched the Tigers go 27-35 after the All Star break.

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 16d

If I remember Anthony Bourdain's biography of her correctly, people kept hiring her even knowing about her! She was that good!

DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 22d

Narrator: it was not too much liquid.

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 22d

His number one boy!

DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 23d

45 minutes ago this was a pretty boring day of football!

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 24d

Must be the big star about to fall.

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 25d

Buffy the AI Slayer

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · 26d

Wallace and Gromit!

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · Sep 14

Me, every time someone calls Elon a "disrupter":

a person is holding a glass with a netflix logo on the bottom

Alt: Janelle Monae dropping a glass, about to unleash hell in Glass Onion.

media.tenor.com

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · Sep 12

Oceans are battlefields!

DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · Sep 11

He still hasn't addressed the shooting at CDC and the death of officer David Rose.

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · Aug 30

The modern day equivalent of this:

Onion headline stating "Sight of Matt Millen on TV Simply Too Much for Nation's Unemployed to Handle."

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · Aug 30

I think The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths (who others have mentioned here) could fit in this category, but is more academic-adjacent.

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · Aug 30

Margaret Maron's first Sigrid Harald book "One Coffee With" is a good one and "Parting Breath" by Catherine Aird are both good and maybe lesser well-known.

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DianaMartin @dianamartin.bsky.social · Aug 30

Completely agree - I have reread these many times over the years!

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