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That is, in large part, due to Clair Patterson (and the various people who no doubt worked in his labs) who was just a regular geologist who was trying to measure the age of the Earth using zircon crystals only to find everything horribly contaminated with lead, fucking up his research. (He did eventually get a more contamination-free lab and massively improved the measurement at the time.)

He went on to do more research on lead, learnt more about how it had massively increased in the environment in more recent times and how bad it was for human health, which resulted in him lobbying the US government to get lead out of petrol and paint. He fought against the lead and oil industries to do this, getting blocked from receiving various research contracts, even from relevant government bodies.

He did however, eventually win, despite them making his life super difficult. He got the government to put laws in to keep lead out of food, water, petrol and paint, among other things, which is an insanely impressive achievement.

I'm making an offer on a house built in the 60s so that means I get to read all these fun government info packets about the massive amounts of lead baked into the structure

#apologies for the way too serious and excessive rant #the us government seems to really not like talking about this guy #i too am grateful not to have a brain full of lead #and will tell people about this story whenever I can #text post #sorry for going off op but congrats on the new house!

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Bunch of arthropod guys - refs created for OC purposes! ;)

#furry

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May I please have... one... grotesque... bug...?

#useful #gift ideas #omg m they have a dickensonia

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hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.

works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.

#useful

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found a new worm it’s huge it’s pink it’s thrashing around I love being a biologist

#wormderful #wonderful worms

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#inspiration pixel art #pixel art

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Miniature Crochet Insect Encyclopedia - Japanese Craft Book by pomadour24

#useful #crochet

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Just a bunch of sasquatches pulling on the volcano bong

the very rare phenomenon of a volcano producing vapor rings/volcanic vortex rings. Mount Etna today (April 5, 2024) by Boris Behncke

#the big lez show #volcanoes

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had a minor crisis when 12ft.io went down yesterday and thankfully it's back now but this seems like a good opportunity to compile a list of similar paywall-evading tools in case 12ft ever gets canned for real:

12ft.io: the legend himself. definitely my favorite of the bunch by virtue of being the easiest to use (and the easiest url to remember), but it's configured to disable paywall evasion for a handful of popular sites like the new york times, so you'll have to go elsewhere for those.

printfriendly: works great; never had any issues with removing paywalls, even on domains that don't work with 12ft.io. since this site is literally designed to make sites print-friendly, it might simplify the overall formatting of the page you're trying to access, which can be a good or bad thing. my only real issue is that the "element zapper" (which lets you remove content blocks from the print-friendly preview) is a little sensitive if you're browsing on a touchscreen device, which means you might accidentally delete a paragraph when you're just trying to scroll. but if that happens you can reload the page and it'll revert everything back to its original state.

fifteen feet: basically a 12ft clone, minus 12ft's restrictions. haven't used it much since I only discovered it yesterday in the wake of 12ft's 451 error but it seems to do the trick.

archive.today: an archival tool very similar to the wayback machine, but it also works as a de facto paywall removal tool. (the wayback machine seems to remove paywalls as well, but archive.today has better UX imo and is way faster to use.)

and an honorable mention for sci-hub: only works for scientific/academic journals, not random news articles, but the other sites listed above only work for random news articles and not academic publications so you gotta have this one in your toolbelt for full coverage. pubmed is your oyster.

#useful

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I always see the dog choking info on here, so here’s what to do if a kitty is choking

Save your kitties, we all know they eat everything anyway. 

http://www.wikihow.com/Save-a-Choking-Cat

http://www.wikihow.com/Perform-CPR-on-a-Cat

#cat cpr

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He is round and VERY green

#he has bug vibes

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#pizza funeral

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You open up the urn and the corpse of Grandpa Bonzo comes flying out like a snake nut can

Today's goodwill find: The Clown Urn.

Or, Clurn, if you will.

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It's important to drink a lot of fluids when you're sick so that your body has the raw materials to generate gallons of snot.

#certified hagfish post

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Gerhard Marcks (German, 1889 - 1981)

#inspiration printmaking

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Edouard Vuillard - Place Vintimille (1911)

#inspiration painting #edouard vuillard

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Armored woodlice:

1. Pseudarmadillo spinosus 2. Unknown, Armadillidiidae 3. Loreola sp. 4. Loreola sp. 5. Unknown, Armadillidiidae 6. Echinarmadillidium fruxgalli

Photos by Nicky Bay // Facebook // Website

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

#inspiration creatures