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a thirty something queer office lady who has been on this site way too long. always happy to chat! she/her

[janglez]

Pijin

[opatofazquack-deactivated202411]

[kassasaurus-rex]

[theconcealedweapon]

[knowing-smile]

Vintage EPA photos reveal what US waterways looked like before pollution was regulated

In the years after the US Environmental Protection Agency was founded, the agency dispatched photographers to document pollution and contami

What was food like before the FDA?

Formaldehyde, brick dust, lead, and borax once made grocery shopping a minefield.

Shit used to be wild, and this is just what I could find that had decent sources, I've heard a lot more horror stories.

I'm not excited to live in a word without regulation. 🙃

[bogleech]

"Regulations don't exist because governments enjoy them" is an important statement here. The government has to spend money and labor to enforce regulations. The government has to be begged for years and sometimes threatened by the American people into even creating the regulations. The people with the money want you to believe regulations are "BIG GOVERNMENT INFRINGING ON OUR FREEDOMS" so you'll help them undo the regulations your grandparents had to force that same government to install in the first fucking place. They count on you being ignorant of the past so they can make another round of dirty money by poisoning you all over again.

[lew-basnight]

Whenever I hear "cutting red tape" I think of food inspections and water runoff rules. Whenever I hear someone complain that it's not fair, how they can't compete as a business with all these "unnecessary" regulations, I think of the safety guards on various industrial machines I've worked. "It's not fair that I could be making so much more money if I was allowed to lie cheat steal and harm the public" is not actually a winning take, and yet

[mapsontheweb]

How close do their borders come to?

[changeling-ash]

Hmmm…Seems like they touch.

hmm??

…you have to be kidding me.

…..

…Wow….

[metrickulous]

[mx-t4t0]

yep it checks out

[dementedgnomicwizard]

i went to the met today

[sinsumeria1-blog]

Just an fyi cobalt is currently the most toxic oil paint usually. Older oil paints from old masters are also most likely made with lead.

So the death via oil paint isn’t impossible tbh

[dementedgnomicwizard]

i can’t die but thank you :) im sure this information will be useful for someone who can

[luxangelae]

I drew St. Hildegard if she was a cat

prints

[muuutant]

You ever just realize how lucky you are that you did that weird thing that led to you being friends with the people you are friends with?

[littlestpersimmon]

Respite

[chamomile-teabag]

WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me

[hunter-rodrigez]

Source, Jan 15th 2026

common bandcamp win

[iriluu]

[kominfyrirkattarnef]

Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. O click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Power is a funny thing.

[energyprison]

Notice there hasnt been a wednesday this year

[brawltogethernow]

Suspicious.

[datasoong47]

Six days and still no Wednesday. I think it's safe to conclude that there will be no more Wednesdays ever

[crow-with-a-pencil]

No... no, it can't be...

[daysleftofsecondterm]

1,109 days left on Wednesday

[chronicillnesshumor-deactivated]

[thebeautifulcomics]

Here (1989) by Richard mcguire (raw magazine)

[randomredneck]

We stan a supportive old man.

[animentality]