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I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

beardedmrbean

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

yyh-tarot-deck-project

Update on Project

Hello everyone! We wanted to provide an update to the project.

This project is a long time coming but we are onto the next step. We have completed the preliminary artwork for all of the cards.

So what's next?

We have to make sure the cards are print ready and then get them printed! Once we get them printed, a store will be set up for pre-orders. We are still debating price points and would like your input. Please fill in the form below to help us out!

This is a complete set of tarot cards and includes a booklet.

Estimated Timeline:

We will need a few months to make sure all the cards are print ready, get them test printed, and then create the booklet. We project that the cards will go on pre-sale late 2026 or early 2027. If we have any delays, we'll update here.

Thank you everyone for contributing and for staying patient! We wanted to make sure our artists have the time to do their cards without stress, so the cards were created in batches, resulting in the slow process. However, I do believe the wait will be worth it!

Any questions, please feel free to DM or reply in the comments. @lola1b is the headmod for this project so you can send me a direct message here or on discord as well.

Thank you everyone!

~ Mod Lola

mitakuye-oyasinn

Set of three Coiled Snakes, Bronze, possibly Spain or Germany, 1570-1629, detail. © The Wallace Collection

2productive

sirenofthegreenbanks

this is from "research as a leisure activity" by celine nguyen, publs. on stubstack in 2024. it's a very good read

depsidase

doctorprofessorsong

As an older queer, allow me to say: the walls of the closet are load-bearing. It is our job as a community to stand in front of that door and tell everyone who wants to peek inside to fuck off.

There are so many reasons a person may choose not to come out and there is no reason a person would owe the public or a stranger that information. Certainly it's not owed simply because someone is famous.

We have fought for decades to make it safer for people to be open and authentic about themselves, but we are not yet there. And even if we were, the closet would still be something we need to maintain for those who are not ready to reveal that part of themselves.

warmhappycat

May we never become so obsessed with representation that we forget the sanctity of privacy.

tesb

The Force will be with you, always. HAPPY STAR WARS DAY!

dailycatsblog

keepcalmandcarriefischer

It's the last day of April

my-little-bologna

Wake up babe, new meta layer just dropped

depsidase

lazyscience

To everyone who thinks "wow this is so violent, gross" - consider that this happens to multiple REGULAR people every day when they're diagnosed with cancer. Oh, not the shark part, but the having to throw all their worldly resources at the equally rapacious predators of the medical billing and insurance industries or they'll die in pain, drowning or both.

I am dead fucking serious. A serious car accident or a major illness is how a lot of the "working" homeless get that way. They played payment roulette with the wrong bills that subsequently snowballed while they were too sick to work/in the 'donut hole' of spend-down before you qualify for medicaid and lost everything.

Bankrupting 3 billionaires to keep literally hundreds of thousands of people housed, fed and part of the social safety net? yeah. don't threaten ME with a good time.

the-big-mood

wizardshark

How do I explain Plato's allegory of the cave to my cat?

sexshopshenanigans

gato’s allegory of the fishtank

dragon-in-a-fez

There's a coffee shop near me that has two signs posted on the door.

One says "Students! Looking for a great part-time job that works around your school hours? Apply inside!"

The other one says "No under 18s allowed after 5:00pm without an adult."

And I'm just like, damn, I wonder if "you can be a servant but never a customer" is a well-known hallmark of systematic discrimination or anything. Like come on. How do you not see this