lux
@eluxon.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Political Science. Researching environment, climate, sludge, policy, power, responsibility, discourse. Reposts are not endorsements nor legally indicative of anything at all. Maybe I post and repost statements I disagree with 🤷♀️.
@fastlerner.bsky.social is a national treasure. Best chemicals reporting out there! If you’re not reading it, you’re being poisoned by corporations without your knowledge.
NEW: Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
They finally got their wish.
They finally got their wish.
Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Threshold for Safe Formaldehyde Exposure
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
www.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 AM
@fastlerner.bsky.social is a national treasure. Best chemicals reporting out there! If you’re not reading it, you’re being poisoned by corporations without your knowledge.
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Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
December 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
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In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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Having worked in prevention my entire career—cancer, then vaccines, and then COVID19, I can say that while many people understand that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, for others, if it doesn’t happen immediately they aren’t able to follow cause and effect.
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Having worked in prevention my entire career—cancer, then vaccines, and then COVID19, I can say that while many people understand that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, for others, if it doesn’t happen immediately they aren’t able to follow cause and effect.
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One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
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“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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This creater puts "reading levels" into perspective in a really helpful way, so sharing it here.
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This creater puts "reading levels" into perspective in a really helpful way, so sharing it here.
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Africa has more than a point- they are absolutely right.
WHAT IF WE JUST STOPPED USING FOSSIL FUELS INSTEAD OF THIS SHIT
WHAT IF WE JUST STOPPED USING FOSSIL FUELS INSTEAD OF THIS SHIT
The Guardian view on solar geoengineering: Africa has a point about this risky technology | Editorial
The Guardian view on solar geoengineering: Africa has a point about this risky technology | Editorial
Editorial: Sun-dimming risks putting the planet’s thermostat under Donald Trump’s control. Better to adopt the precautionary principle with high-stakes science
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Africa has more than a point- they are absolutely right.
WHAT IF WE JUST STOPPED USING FOSSIL FUELS INSTEAD OF THIS SHIT
WHAT IF WE JUST STOPPED USING FOSSIL FUELS INSTEAD OF THIS SHIT
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"i suffered and am still suffering and rather than confront how that has shaped me, i want other people to suffer as i have"
December 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"i suffered and am still suffering and rather than confront how that has shaped me, i want other people to suffer as i have"
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A classic, easy-to-do and legal piece of resistance. Animal rights activists and others have used it for years.
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
A classic, easy-to-do and legal piece of resistance. Animal rights activists and others have used it for years.
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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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Soil sealing is the permanent covering of the soil surface with impervious materials such as concrete or asphalt, tar seal, and buildings or other structures that cannot be easily removed.
Soil sealing: easy to do, hard to undo.
#WorldSoilDay #SoilSealing
Soil sealing: easy to do, hard to undo.
#WorldSoilDay #SoilSealing
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Soil sealing is the permanent covering of the soil surface with impervious materials such as concrete or asphalt, tar seal, and buildings or other structures that cannot be easily removed.
Soil sealing: easy to do, hard to undo.
#WorldSoilDay #SoilSealing
Soil sealing: easy to do, hard to undo.
#WorldSoilDay #SoilSealing
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Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.
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I am opposed to mandates on universities from legislatures in general BUT we have to teach the Nevada constitution. I am the course designer. And I really do think it’s of benefit that every educated person in my state knows their rights.
It's largely lost today because we've allowed constitutional law to become the exclusive preserve of lawyers, but the original idea of written constitutionalism was partly one of public education, publicity, & (proto-)democracy—people should be able to read & come to know the law which binds them
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I am opposed to mandates on universities from legislatures in general BUT we have to teach the Nevada constitution. I am the course designer. And I really do think it’s of benefit that every educated person in my state knows their rights.
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This is why yall have to stop laughing at things because you can tell someone is TRYING TO BE funny, and only laugh at things that actually make you involuntarily laugh. The stakes are too high for polite or status laughter.
My hottest current take :
White and edgelord humor is one long line of insincere bullying that depends in you not wanting to be the person who “doesn’t get the joke”
White and edgelord humor is one long line of insincere bullying that depends in you not wanting to be the person who “doesn’t get the joke”
December 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is why yall have to stop laughing at things because you can tell someone is TRYING TO BE funny, and only laugh at things that actually make you involuntarily laugh. The stakes are too high for polite or status laughter.
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[adjusts glasses, racistly] Actually, the plain and clear text of the Constitution does not say what you and everyone else has thought it said for 150 years. You fool. You rube.
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
[adjusts glasses, racistly] Actually, the plain and clear text of the Constitution does not say what you and everyone else has thought it said for 150 years. You fool. You rube.
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Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged against them?
December 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged against them?
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On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
December 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
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It's also: you don't know who is going to become what. A society more confident in itself would believe a little bit more in its ability to make anyone thrive and give back.
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It's also: you don't know who is going to become what. A society more confident in itself would believe a little bit more in its ability to make anyone thrive and give back.
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Remember, when anyone asks some version of “but where are the leaders? who could lead a proper movement or government?” Whether it be Iran or Palestine or any other repressive or authoritarian regime, the answer is almost always, “in prison.”
Marwan Barghouti's lawyer Ben Marmarelli: there are reports that Barghouti was badly assaulted in prison, they "broke his ribs, teeth, fingers and cut part of his ear". Israeli Prison Service refused to comment or let the lawyer meet with him.
December 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Remember, when anyone asks some version of “but where are the leaders? who could lead a proper movement or government?” Whether it be Iran or Palestine or any other repressive or authoritarian regime, the answer is almost always, “in prison.”
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(2/2) #Rewilding land freed from animal #agriculture could remove 8 billion t #CO₂ each year, as much as all #emissions from the US & EU combined. Adopting #plantbased diets plus rewilding provides far greater #environment benefits than any grazing approach: iffs.earth/living-repor... #regenerative
Living Report: Regenerative Agriculture vs. Rewilding
A comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed evidence on regenerative grazing vs. rewilding through dietary shifts that reduce land use and restore soil, water, climate, and biodiversity
iffs.earth
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
(2/2) #Rewilding land freed from animal #agriculture could remove 8 billion t #CO₂ each year, as much as all #emissions from the US & EU combined. Adopting #plantbased diets plus rewilding provides far greater #environment benefits than any grazing approach: iffs.earth/living-repor... #regenerative
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Animal #farming occupies more land than all of North & South America combined, while providing only 12% of global calories. Over 100 studies show that removing #livestock consistently increases plant & animal diversity, while #grazing reduces native species richness… (1/2) iffs.earth/living-repor...
Living Report: Regenerative Agriculture vs. Rewilding
A comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed evidence on regenerative grazing vs. rewilding through dietary shifts that reduce land use and restore soil, water, climate, and biodiversity
iffs.earth
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Animal #farming occupies more land than all of North & South America combined, while providing only 12% of global calories. Over 100 studies show that removing #livestock consistently increases plant & animal diversity, while #grazing reduces native species richness… (1/2) iffs.earth/living-repor...
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"Tying a dignified retirement to perpetual 7–10% S&P 500 returns, rather than it being a public good guaranteed to all people, is great for Wall Street and death to working class solidarity."
Affordability: This Math Ain't Mathing
Life in the United States for the lower 75% of income earners has become unaffordable. For people in the bottom 25% it's a full blown crisis. This has been...
buttondown.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"Tying a dignified retirement to perpetual 7–10% S&P 500 returns, rather than it being a public good guaranteed to all people, is great for Wall Street and death to working class solidarity."