Thought Compost

[sunsbleeding]

[steveyockey]

D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, the first indigenous actor nominated in any lead category, attends the 2024 Emmys with a red handprint over his mouth, the symbol for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). September 15, 2024.

[toastbutteregg]

[toastbutteregg]

[fairycosmos]

it is very childish and naive but i am still so shocked to see that so many people are just fucking outright mean

[nonbinarythorin]

[just-start-the-tape]

tried my best

[kaijuno]

[starry-eyed-darling]

[sunsbleeding]

[viejospellejos]

[sunsbleeding]

[regexkind]

I think that when we tell teenagers that their lives will be over if they don't have the most perfect possible trajectory through the education system, that this is, perhaps, if I may be bold, not good for them,

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

[tredlocity]

rawing people on couches is so hard yet most of my ideas involve that

[tredlocity]

DRAWING

[tredlocity]

I MEANT DRAWING PEOPLE ON COUCHES

[ride-ai]

Every time I get frustrated with a tool or appliance I think about the bit in 17776 about how people crave a little bit of inefficiency, how if everything always worked perfectly and instantly we would lose a lot of the joys of being human, how deeply humans want to want, and I try to find the joy and humanity in what's frustrating me and enjoy that it's not perfect

but this does not apply to printers. absolute bastard machines

[conscious-alignment-deactivated]

[salty-inc]

Just something I really want to share on here because it’s important.

[salty-inc]

[adhdandcomics]

this is really important to remember, even if you said something stupid and don’t feel like repeating it- it can still feel isolating to folks with hearing and auditory processing problems!

[tilthat]

TIL that the reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because of an unknown scientist who fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, suggested its removal from pipes, and campaigned for the removal of lead solder from cans.

via ift.tt

[squeeful]

Yep.  It also correlates extremely strongly with an increasing decrease of violent crime.  One of the symptoms of low level constant lead exposure is increased aggression and volatility. 

[kurowrites]

“Unknown scientist”? That was Clair Cameron Patterson.

[solarpunkcast]

Gas companies are still so mad at him he’s “unknown scientist”, know his name

[bogleech]

Daily reminder that health and safety standards like these are what politicians mean when they talk about “deregulation.”

[prismatic-bell]

Patterson died 5 December 1995.

Petition to make his date of death a Tumblr holiday celebrated by talking about cool shit the gas and petroleum industries don’t want us to know about, and fighting to continue his work.

[augustdementhe]

Merry CCP Day!

[nyansense-the-nyanbinary]

Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day, and fuck the oil and gas industries