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These pescatarian birds are directly exposed to PFAS contamination due to the island's position near the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.

While continued vigilance a regulation is needed, this data indicates that regulations are working to reduce PFAS concentrations in marine ecosystems.

sattarehi

Yes!!!! I did a review of literature on PFASs in human drinking water about half a year ago, and there is a lot of really good progress! Please celebrate this, please don't let this solution be forgotten (at least so quickly) as the ozone layer or acid rain.

We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!

Environmental problems CAN BE SOLVED.

wholesomepostarchive

8/11/2026

jelloapocalypse

Someone asked me a while ago if I still had a photo of the worst sink I had ever seen while apartment hunting in Los Angeles. I assumed I deleted it so I didn't answer the ask and now it's gone, but as it turns out, yes, I do still have a photo of it.

grayghostofthenorth

Borzoi White Mohair with zipper (box for pajamas), glass eyes

elodieunderglass

It’s so weird that pyjama cases were a thing. They went so abruptly out of fashion, too. The idea was (I think) that it was vaguely indecent to leave your pajamas around, and it definitely spoils the look of your nicely made bed, so lots of people put them under the pillow; but a cuter thing to do was to have a specially made empty stuffed animal or cute purse or pillow thing, with a zipper, and you’d stuff it with your pajamas in the morning and place it cutely on your nicely made bed. Then in the evening, you would unzip and disembowel the soft plump object, and reclaim the pajamas. It wasn’t just a thing for kids; adults did it too. In the kind of pre-1950s novels I like to pick up, authors describe a character’s pyjama case to reveal a bit about the character; but of course they never say why you’d have a pyjama case. “Everyone knows what a horse is.”

I suppose it’s been culturally decided that it’s an unnecessary step in the bedtime process. We’re busy bastards, aren’t we? Who makes their bed every morning, I mean, really?

Perhaps, also, our clothing is no longer of the material and methodology where you have to spend extra time/attention/tools on them. Pyjama cases may have had some benefit - extending the life of the pyjamas, or something. Perhaps it was more common in those days for mice to climb into your silk pyjamas, or they kept them from being attacked by dogs, or something. It’s possible that there are unspoken benefits to keeping your pyjamas in a stuffed toy, which previous generations knew instinctively and we have forgotten. Some people are like that, they maintain rituals and practices that don’t get written down, and so become arcana. My father-in-law owns special clothing maintenance tools such as shoe trees (which you place in your shoes every night at night) and trouser presses (in which you leave your worn-but-not-dirty trousers overnight so they are crisp in the morning). He irons his pocket handkerchiefs - why? so that they fold into a precise pocket shape, with the same fold pattern as plastic-wrapped disposable tissues: the optimised shape for pockets. You are not going to read in the literature about there being a reason for ironing pocket handkerchiefs. It is a habit that is not captured by history. You have to speak to a practitioner to even consider that there is a specific value in pocket handkerchief folding. Maybe we operate at a remove from the people who could have told us why they bothered with the idea and then stopped.

You can buy a selection of pyjama cases online, but with no explanation of why you’d want to, it’s hard to see how this helps. The only real thing i can see is that it’s cute and tidies the pyjamas up, but we’ve all decided that untidy pyjamas are a problem that doesn’t need solving.

Pyjama cases have no Wikipedia article; search engines have nothing to offer. Old books only self-reference them being a normal thing. Someone who knows about pyjama cases or textile history could heroically fill this in. Please do. Otherwise, this tumblr post is going to suddenly become the leading analysis of pyjama cases, and that would be sad.

thoodleoo

if your website has an AI "assistant" that keeps popping up in the corner of my screen i hate you forever

thoodleoo

no. begone

tesdradgon

They truly are awful. I have to show you (/gen) the strangest one that I have seen.

Would you like Emperor Nero to help you figure out how to visit the Colosseum and the Roman Forum? Probably not, but here he is.

thoodleoo

"speak with nero" i'd really rather not i think!

deep-state-partisan

dontlistentothemmoose

eldritchbauble

Getting plowed is for the country folk. Here in the city we call it being taken to pound town. And if it's a place with decent public transit, getting railed.

pmamtraveller

Riga, Latvia

homophobla

Twice a year in Hawaii the sun passes directly overhead and objects cast no shadow. It’s a phenomenon called “Lahaina Noon”

phoenix-theurge

You're full of shit, Hawaiians are just able to levitate coconut milk.

dirty-noona

As a Native Hawaiian, 1) I thought this happened everywhere, 2) ofc we can levitate coconut milk

rockleaves

during the writing process all authors should be asking themselves “does my character belong to a genre of character that exists in naruto?” and “am i executing said genre of character worse than kishimoto did?” and if the answer to both is yes they should do some revisions. this does not need to be legally or contractually mandated because the embarrassment of doing something worse than kishimoto did should be enough motivation in and of itself.

erikag59

thetrekkiehasthephonebox

the best fanfic is the one the author had fun writing actually.

thetrekkiehasthephonebox

the second best is the one the author used to work through some issues.

mikkeneko

the third best is the one the author wrote out of spite due to some really dogshit discourse going on in their fandom

ellewantsrevenge

my favorite fantasy world is tortall

elphabaoftheopera

okay tumblr we had a fun time with the polls last week to decide what tumblr's favorite musical was from each decade (out of the ones that got included!!).

Now I present the list of the winners from each decade polls so you may vote for your favorite...of the favorites.

best of luck!

Favorite musical out of tumblr's TOP VOTED musicals from each decade

pre-1950s: The Wizard of Oz (1939)

1950s: The Sound of Music (1959)

1960s: Cabaret (1966)

1970s: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979)

1980s: Les Misérables (1987)

1990s: Rent (1996)

2000s: Wicked (2003)

2010s: Hadestown (2019)

2020s: Six (2021)