this is an elaboration of a Bluesky thread I wrote off the cuff in April, 2025. I’m incorporating comments I made into the text.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-food-safety-inspections-plans/
Category: <span>science</span>
Let’s catch up.
On February 13, 2017, a Monday and the last day of a 3 day weekend, 13 year old Abigail Williams and 14 year old Liberty German were best friends, and being young teenagers, they wanted to try to fulfill their local rite of passage — walking across a disused, very tall railroad bridge.
From a 2021 twitter thread
Summer reminder, since many are heading out into the national parks and federal lands:
Be VERY careful with anything that looks like a sprinkler head or trash in the ground – it could easily be an M44 cyanide device. It can kill humans and dogs.
Our tax dollars pay for this poison.
(There was a twitter thread, this was my response. The anonymized post that started it.)
Yeah, no, to this whole tweet about Tylenol, CBD and ibuprofen. This is a lot of bad information packed into 280 characters.
An aside to yesterday’s thread: (and it’s own thread, here)
Well into the Enlightenment, most educated people thought it was impossible for highly complex beings (like humans) to be assembled from parts. Therefore, everything grew out of teeny-tiny versions of themselves, all created at the same time.
A twitter thread, simultaneously posted here.
No, we’re not going to the 17th century for women. This fuckery on abortion is only possible in the 21st century.
Originally a Twitter thread. (Minor edits for clarity) (and some additions)
Koldony seems to miss a major factor in opiates use: demographics. His favorite statistic is opiate use increased drastically starting in 1997. (Koldony is the founder of the anti-opioid activist group Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) and makes a tidy fortune as an expert witness in opiate litigation.)
Expansion on a twitter thread.
Let’s talk about cardiac cells.
You know we can grow them in a Petri dish? When they’re alone, they just twitch. But if they’re touching? They start beating together. It’s What They Do.
Hearts are simple.
They’re just muscle pumps.
It’s why we can yank & reinstall if we have parts.