When your father is a professor and your mom directed Salaam Bombay

Coffeebot: do u like drinking caramel
Me: I guess so
Coffeebot: do u like drinking toothpicks
Me: no
Coffeebot: alright u want full caramel and half toothpicks now here is a map to the ocean

Picture of Thornton-Cleveleys resident, Samantha Linacre-Hanmond, in her garden, where testing by the Environment Agency + UK Health Security Agency has revealed high levels of internationally banned PFOA, a type of PFAS forever chemical classed by the World Health Organisation as a group 1 carcinogen. Headline, 'Don't eat home-grown veg, council warns residents near chemical plant' subheading, 'Householders alerted to health risk from toxic soil found in gardens', The Telegraph

“It makes me angry and guilty for poisoning my children for all of these years"

One of the more insidious aspects of PFAS pollution is the way it can turn what ought to be health-giving activities like growing your own veg into health-harming ones:

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Someone please write a children's book about penguin toxicologists doing research in Patagonia www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans:

In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else.

www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Abortion bans reshaped reproductive health, and now the rental market New research found that abortion bans resulted in lower rental prices and higher vacancies.

People are leaving or avoiding living in states with abortion bans, a new paper shows — resulting in lower rental prices and higher vacancies than in states that protect reproductive rights.

New England in revolt over report RFK Jr. has Dunkin’ in his sights How a story about GRAS reform went viral and sparked a full-blown frenzy on the East Coast.

How a story about GRAS reform went viral and sparked a full-blown frenzy on the East Coast.

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ok I would definitely watch baseball if each team got one (1) animal to let loose during the game. when will you use your animal delay. what animal will you choose

Report finds over 100 food chemicals companies declared safe without notifying FDA A new report has identified over 100 food chemicals that companies have declared are safe for consumption without notifying the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), leveraging what critics say is a leg...

“I think people should be concerned that the FDA doesn’t know what’s in food and that we have a regulatory process that allows companies to bypass the FDA's safety review process,” said @melaniebenesh.bsky.social, @ewgofficial.bsky.social’s VP of gov't affairs.
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Secret GRAS: How 100+ food chemicals bypassed government safety review Thousands of everyday food products potentially could contain substances that carry unknown health risks, a new EWG analysis finds.

New report with @mvmaffini.bsky.social today on 111
"secret" GRAS ingredients: www.ewg.org/research/sec...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

PFAS at the Olympics! www.msn.com/en-us/sports...

the first choice is literally what Jesus would teach, i feel like i'm losing my mind

As EPA weakens air pollution regulations, Black women stand to face the greatest health risks They already face the highest rates of asthma-related mortality in the nation. Dirtier air will make that worse.

As EPA weakens air pollution regulations, Black women stand to face the greatest health risks 19thnews.org/2026/02/epa-... via @19thnews.org

Fresh Take Fridays Webinar — Understanding the GRAS Loophole and Food Additive Regulation in the U.S. – Association of Food and Drug Officials

Come learn about food additive regulation and the #GRAS loophole with me next Friday: www.afdo.org/event/unders...

Weaponizing Wastewater Laws to Block Abortion Opinion | An anti-abortion group has been co-opting environmental laws in an effort to restrict access to medication abortion.

Proposed laws would force miscarriage patients to collect fetal tissue, then return it in a medical waste bag. Anti-abortion groups claiming abortion pills threaten environment—with no evidence.

Weaponizing Wastewater Laws to Block Abortion Opinion | An anti-abortion group has been co-opting environmental laws in an effort to restrict access to medication abortion.

"Lawmakers should devote energy to strengthening our outdated wastewater laws and funding the agencies tasked with implementing them, instead of using those laws as cover for an anti-abortion agenda." - @melaniebenesh.bsky.social

Thank you @undark.org for letting me write this piece about this insane trend

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Weaponizing Wastewater Laws to Block Abortion Opinion | An anti-abortion group has been co-opting environmental laws in an effort to restrict access to medication abortion.

I wrote for @undark.org about abortion, wastewater, and having fetal tissue stuck in my cervix for 9 days: undark.org/2025/11/13/o...

Chat is it good when a lawyer for DOJ says this

Opinion | Relax, America, There Is Life After Nonstick Pans

Relax, America, There Is Life After Nonstick Pans. Great piece this morning from Chef Andrew Zimmern www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Maybe not the most important thing right now, but it is utterly bizarre that the already very delayed Spring 2025 agenda was up for a couple hours nearly 3 weeks ago and still hasn't restored

Overflowing with love for this city

A bunch of feds lined up before Trump and Bondi and these other White House freaks. Bove visible at upper right, as identified by the NYT

The only reason for Emil Bove to be still showing up for Trump administration photo opps (in this photo from Trump’s D.C. takeover, peeking out at top right) is that Emil Bove understands himself to be part of the Trump administration on an ongoing basis www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

Alarming levels of Pfas in blood of those living near US air force base, study finds Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ were found at a level 10 times higher than people who did not work in contaminated zone

And yet the EPA will likely kneecap its own ability to clean up those very bases by repealing PFAS Superfund designation

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The article says that the EPA now thinks the cons outweigh the pros of adding PFOA and PFOS to the Superfund hazardous substance list. To be clear, those pros and cons are:

Pro: cleaning up extremely polluted communities

Con: hurting industry profits

An Industry Insider’s Changes at the E.P.A. Could Cost Taxpayers Billions

There is no scientific or legal basis for arguing that PFOA and PFOS are not extremely hazardous substances. They are toxic at levels much lower, in some cases orders of magnitude lower, than many (most?) other CERCLA hazardous substances.

This is about protecting industry profits full stop.

"Cockroaches" the exact literal term most used in Rwanda by Hutu ultranationalists against Tutsis in the lead up to when they killed hundreds of thousands of them in a matter of weeks. Also used by Begin to describe Palestinians, "drugged cockroaches in a bottle."

We are getting closer and closer to confirming @dqasci.bsky.social's estimate of 200 million Americans with PFAS in their water