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Anna @verysmallanna.bsky.social · 16m

No thank you

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 13h

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23m

remembering how we passed the Pure Food and Drug Act due to a plague of Formadehyde Milk bsky.app/profile/pari...

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1h

two of the products we tested — Huel's Black Edition meal replacement powder and Naked Nutrition's vegan mass gainer — had enough lead that our experts caution against using them at all

a single serving of these protein powders contained between 1,200 and 1,600% of CR’s level of concern for lead

Two plant-based protein powders contained enough lead that our experts advise against consuming them. Naked Nutrition’s Mass Gainer powder contained 7.7 micrograms of lead per serving, which is roughly 1,570 percent of CR’s level of concern for the heavy metal. One serving of Huel’s Black Edition powder contained 6.3 micrograms of lead, or about 1,290 percent of CR’s daily lead limit.

Two other powders contained lead between 400 and 600 percent of CR’s level of concern: Garden of Life’s Sport Organic Plant-Based Protein and Momentous’ 100% Plant Protein. Consumers should limit these to once a week, Akinleye says. (See company responses below.)

The only non-plant-based protein powder with lead detected at over 200 percent of CR’s level of concern was MuscleMeds’ Carnivor Mass powder. Six additional plant-based powders, five dairy-based powders and shakes, and one beef powder contained lead above CR’s level of concern.

We also found measurable levels of cadmium and inorganic arsenic in some products. One serving of Huel’s Black Edition plant-based protein powder contained 9.2 micrograms of cadmium, more than double the level that public health authorities and CR’s experts say may be harmful to have daily, which is 4.1 micrograms.

Another plant-based option, Vega’s Premium Sport powder, had enough cadmium that one serving would also put you just over that level. In one dairy-based product, Optimum Nutrition’s Serious Mass whey protein powder, we also detected 8.5 micrograms per serving of inorganic arsenic, which is twice the limit of what our scientists say is safe to consume daily.

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Anna @verysmallanna.bsky.social · 23m

No one is entitled to a crop that is used to subjugate subsistence farmers into participating in neo liberal global commodity trade. Also, addiction isn't cute, even when it's caffeine.

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Anna @verysmallanna.bsky.social · 1h

You guys won't like what I have to say about this one

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Anna @verysmallanna.bsky.social · 1h

Wet cat food has a lot of taurine, for that matter so do mice, I assume

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Anna @verysmallanna.bsky.social · 15h

I'll order pasta if it's handmade because I'm never gonna make fresh pasta at home and I can tell the difference, but it should be illegal to serve non house made dried pasta in a restaurant.

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The Red-Headed Strangler @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 15h

Beloved is one of the scariest books and should be included on more horror lists

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Anna @verysmallanna.bsky.social · 15h

An audiobook read by the author counts double

The Red-Headed Strangler @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 15h

if you listen to an audiobook it's fine to say you read the book and anyone who disagrees is just being obnoxious

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Anna @verysmallanna.bsky.social · 15h

Food comes from the grocery store 🙂

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Anna @verysmallanna.bsky.social · 15h

It's gotta be such a good feeling knowing they're not gonna send you a cease and desist

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Anna @verysmallanna.bsky.social · 16h

My books are an insurance policy against collapse/actual banning. Also I won't remember I want to read them if I don't see them regularly.

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Anna @verysmallanna.bsky.social · 19h

I eat (locally sourced) meat, but the whole concept of literal flesh as a commodity really encapsulates what a death cult capitalism is

George Pearkes @peark.es · 21h

Beef is just crazy expensive rn, especially compared to other commodities

Chart showing beef prices relative to the Bloomberg Commodity Index since 1965

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.