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puffins! puffins!!
May 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
puffins! puffins!!
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My painting NORTHERN ENGLAND
April 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My painting NORTHERN ENGLAND
As much as I don't like to add vinegar/salad dressing to my salad greens, I just learned that the vinegar kills some bacteria in our fresh salad greens. Which is helpful for digestion and preventing bowel cancer.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9713753/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9713753/
Antibacterial action of vinegar against food-borne pathogenic bacteria including Escherichia coli O157:H7 - PubMed
The bacteriostatic and bactericidal actions of vinegar on food-borne pathogenic bacteria including enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) O157:H7 were examined. The growth of all strains evaluated was inhib...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
April 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
As much as I don't like to add vinegar/salad dressing to my salad greens, I just learned that the vinegar kills some bacteria in our fresh salad greens. Which is helpful for digestion and preventing bowel cancer.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9713753/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9713753/
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You must read this article from Liz Cheney on what we need to do now, georgiatoday.ge/former-us-co...
Former US Congresswoman Liz Cheney issues urgent call to Democrats: “stop fundraising and start fighting”
In the US, as political tensions reach a boiling point and democratic norms continue to erode under what many now
georgiatoday.ge
April 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
You must read this article from Liz Cheney on what we need to do now, georgiatoday.ge/former-us-co...
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
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FDA cuts to food safety, and bird flu testing clearly indicates, like a neon light flashing, DANGER! Your odds to die an early death have increased.
April 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
FDA cuts to food safety, and bird flu testing clearly indicates, like a neon light flashing, DANGER! Your odds to die an early death have increased.
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Fresh raw produce that is safe to eat, was already a hard problem even with an FDA.
Being vegan with an intact FDA was being a vegan on *easy mode*.
You could roast vegetables instead of just boiling the hell out of them, not worry too much about getting salmonella or listeria from fresh oranges
Being vegan with an intact FDA was being a vegan on *easy mode*.
You could roast vegetables instead of just boiling the hell out of them, not worry too much about getting salmonella or listeria from fresh oranges
Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Cantaloupes, November 2023
Page provides information on an outbreak linked to cantaloupes.
www.cdc.gov
April 22, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Fresh raw produce that is safe to eat, was already a hard problem even with an FDA.
Being vegan with an intact FDA was being a vegan on *easy mode*.
You could roast vegetables instead of just boiling the hell out of them, not worry too much about getting salmonella or listeria from fresh oranges
Being vegan with an intact FDA was being a vegan on *easy mode*.
You could roast vegetables instead of just boiling the hell out of them, not worry too much about getting salmonella or listeria from fresh oranges
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DOGE just cut FDA safety testing for milk. They must not remember the Swill Milk Scandal where 8000 Babies Died.
April 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
DOGE just cut FDA safety testing for milk. They must not remember the Swill Milk Scandal where 8000 Babies Died.
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The FDA was literally created because in the 1880s, milk sellers were thinning milk with chalk, cow brains, and formaldehyde to make more money. Like milk specifically was a main driving force behind the creation of the FDA.
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
April 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The FDA was literally created because in the 1880s, milk sellers were thinning milk with chalk, cow brains, and formaldehyde to make more money. Like milk specifically was a main driving force behind the creation of the FDA.
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
April 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
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US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts reut.rs/4cHdnz3
April 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts reut.rs/4cHdnz3
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They claim their authority encompasses everywhere within 100 miles from the border. Any border. That’s where 2/3 of US citizens live. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Know Your Rights | 100 Mile Border Zone | ACLU
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless sto...
www.aclu.org
April 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
They claim their authority encompasses everywhere within 100 miles from the border. Any border. That’s where 2/3 of US citizens live. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
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Do Customs and Border Protection officials have the authority to search your phone at the border? Short answer? Yes.
Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
www.wired.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Do Customs and Border Protection officials have the authority to search your phone at the border? Short answer? Yes.
Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
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The scale at which DOGE is seeking to interconnect data, including sensitive biometric data, is unprecedented, raising alarms with experts who fear it may lead to disastrous privacy violations for citizens and immigrants alike.
DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, an IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
www.wired.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The scale at which DOGE is seeking to interconnect data, including sensitive biometric data, is unprecedented, raising alarms with experts who fear it may lead to disastrous privacy violations for citizens and immigrants alike.
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How to identify a half wit
April 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
How to identify a half wit
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4/19 prawtests get up and move
April 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
4/19 prawtests get up and move
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🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY
I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent.
It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy.
based on
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
1/18
I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent.
It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy.
based on
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
1/18
April 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY
I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent.
It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy.
based on
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
1/18
I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent.
It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy.
based on
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
1/18
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You are very right.
April 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
You are very right.
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Oh, how I miss President Obama and competent government. 🇺🇸
April 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Oh, how I miss President Obama and competent government. 🇺🇸
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April 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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remembering fondly when people were like "don't promote 50501, it's not real, it's a psyop"
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
remembering fondly when people were like "don't promote 50501, it's not real, it's a psyop"
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