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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nope sorry that was Dean Martin! they look alike tho also Tony Curtis was in a movie with Jerry Lewis once

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

RE-LEASH YOUR INNER BICHONS FEEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN

A groomed bichon frise dog with a spherical head of fur and Yosemite Sam mustache, glaring at the camera, on a leash.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

how interesting: www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-e... 2015. ( they filed a lawsuit about its removal in 2020, lol)

I don’t believe Ann Rice O’Hanlon would willingly have painted “a painful and degrading personification of a false, romanticized rendering of our shared history.” I don’t think she did. I don’t think, to quote President Eli Capilouto again, that “the mural provides a sanitized image of that history” or that her “artistic talent actually painted over the stark reality” of slavery. The president further objects to the fresco on the ground that it reminds “one black student . . . that his ancestors were slaves.” That statement has at least two arresting implications: (1) that black students should not ever be reminded that their ancestors were slaves, and (2) that white students should not ever be reminded that their ancestors were slave owners. Do students, then, study history at our “flagship university” in order to forget it?

Though I willingly would do so if it were possible, I cannot understand the University of Kentucky’s decision to hide Ann Rice O’Hanlon’s fresco in Memorial Hall. The reason given is only that it shows people doing what they actually did. Black people did work in tobacco fields. Black musicians did play for white dancers. Indians did seriously threaten the settlers at Bryan’s Station. Ann Rice O’Hanlon was a native of Lexington. She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1930. She spent most of her life in Marin County, Calif. She taught art for many years at Dominican College in San Rafael, where her students were of several races. She was the sister of Dee Rice Amyx, wife of Clifford Amyx, once a professor in the art department of the University of Kentucky. My wife, Tanya Amyx Berry, is a niece of Ann Rice O’Hanlon, whom I therefore knew well and for many years. Ann was a liberal, if anybody ever was – too liberal, in fact, to approve entirely of me. I never heard her utter one racist word.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

reading about the history of Kentucky thanks to the passing of Wendell Berry, but having a hard time because every person is named something like Zebadiah Honeycutt

On September 4, 1861, Confederate General Leonidas Polk, outraged by Union intrusions in the state, invaded Columbus, Kentucky. As a result of the Confederate invasion, Union General Ulysses S. Grant entered Paducah, Kentucky. Jefferson Davis allowed Confederate troops to stay in Kentucky. General Albert Sidney Johnston, commander of all Confederate forces in the West, sent General Simon Bolivar Buckner of Kentucky to invade Bowling Green, Kentucky. Union forces in Kentucky saw Buckner's move toward Bowling Green as the beginning of a massive attack on Louisville. With twenty thousand troops, Johnston established a defensive line stretching from Columbus in western Kentucky to the Cumberland Gap, controlled by Confederate General Felix Zollicoffer.

Union General Lovell Rousseau.

On July 15, 1861, the War Department authorized United States Navy Lieutenant William "Bull" Nelson to establish a training camp and organize a brigade of infantry. Nelson commissioned William J. Landram, a colonel of cavalry; and Theophilus T. Garrard, Thomas E. Bramlette, and Speed S. Fry colonels of infantry. Landram turned his commission over to Lieutenant Colonel Frank Wolford. When Garrard, Bramlette, and Fry established their camps at Camp Dick Robinson in Garrard County, and Wolford erected his camp near Harrodsburg, Kentucky's neutrality effectively ended.[2] Brigadier General Rousseau established a Union training camp opposite Louisville in Jeffersonville, Indiana, naming the camp after Joseph Holt. Governor Magoffin protested to Lincoln about the Union camps, but he ignored Magoffin, stating that the will of the people wanted the camps to remain in Kentucky.[3]

In August 1861, Kentucky held elections for the State General Assembly, and Unionists won majorities in both houses. Residents of Louisville continued to be divided on the issue of which side to join. The Louisville Courier was very much pro-Confederate, while the Louisville Journal was pro-Union.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

… do they? I honestly have not observed this (in my normie circles idk what everyone is doing) I thought people think it’s just a fun* movie **for being less straight and more oddball than usual

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

**whooping, hooting, hollering** public health public health public health

In the 1930s and early 1940s, H. Trendley Dean and colleagues at the newly created U.S. National Institutes of Health published several epidemiological studies suggesting that a fluoride concentration of about 1 mg/L was associated with substantially fewer cavities in temperate climates, and that it increased fluorosis but only to a level that was of no medical or aesthetic concern.[113] Other studies found no other significant adverse effects even in areas with fluoride levels as high as 8 mg/L.[114] To test the hypothesis that adding fluoride would prevent cavities, Dean and his colleagues conducted a controlled experiment by fluoridating the water in Grand Rapids, Michigan, starting 25 January 1945. The results, published in 1950, showed significant reduction of cavities.[31][115] Significant reductions in tooth decay were also reported by important early studies outside the U.S., including the Brantford–Sarnia–Stratford study in Canada (1945–1962), the Tiel–Culemborg study in the Netherlands (1953–1969), the Hastings study in New Zealand (1954–1970), and the Department of Health study in the U.K. (1955–1960).[111] By present-day standards these and other pioneering studies were crude, but the large reductions in cavities convinced public health professionals of the benefits of fluoridation.[29]

Fluoridation became an official policy of the U.S. Public Health Service by 1951, and by 1960 water fluoridation had become widely used in the U.S., reaching about 50 million people.[114] By 2006, 69.2% of the U.S. population on public water systems were receiving fluoridated water, amounting to 61.5% of the total U.S. population; 3.0% of the population on public water systems were receiving naturally occurring fluoride.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

every. single. time smdh was just looking up the plot to dr. stranglove and thought oh that's interesting had fluoridated water started right then then, answer no - kind of... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposit...

Communist conspiracy theory (1940s–1960s)

Water fluoridation has frequently been the subject of conspiracy theories. During the "Second Red Scare" in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s, and to a lesser extent in the 1960s, activists on the far right of American politics routinely asserted that fluoridation was part of a far-reaching plot to impose a socialist or communist regime. These opponents believed it was "another aspect of President Truman's drive to socialize medicine."[100] They also opposed other public health programs, notably mass vaccination and mental health services.[101] Their views were influenced by opposition to a number of major social and political changes that had happened in recent years: the growth of internationalism, particularly the UN and its programs; the introduction of social welfare provisions, particularly the various programs established by the New Deal; and government efforts to reduce perceived inequalities in the social structure of the United States.[102]

The communist conspiracy argument declined in influence by the mid-1960s, becoming associated in the public mind with irrational fear and paranoia. It was portrayed in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, in which the character General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear war in the hope of thwarting a communist plot to "sap and impurify" the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people with fluoridated water. Another satire appeared in the 1967 movie In Like Flint, in which a character's fear of fluoridation is used to indicate that he is insane. Some anti-fluoridationists claimed that the conspiracy theories were damaging their goals; Frederick Exner, an anti-fluoridation campaigner in the early 1960s, told a conference: "most people are not prepared to believe that fluoridation is a communist plot, and if you say it is, you are successfully ridiculed by the promoters. It is being done, effectively, every day ... some of the people on our side are the fluoridators' 'fifth column'."[11]

Later conspiracy theories
In 1987, Ian E. Stephens authored a self-published booklet, an extract of which was published in the Australian New Age publication Nexus in 1995. In it he claimed he was told by "Charles Elliot Perkins" that: "Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual's power to resist domination by slowly poisoning and narcotising a certain area of the brain and will thus make him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him ... Both the Germans and the Russians added sodium fluoride to the drinking water of prisoners of war to make them stupid and docile." These statements have been dismissed by reputable Holocaust historians as untrue, but they are regularly repeated to the present day in conspiracy publications and websites.[103]

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

THEY"VE BEEN TRYING TO DO THIS FOR 20 YEARS. the mayor was crying bruh ( that's funny only because i recently finished Widow's Bay, but in all seriousness i would cry too. like HOLY FUCK)

The stench from the Atlantic Seafood Sauce Company building has been wafting over parts of St. Mary’s, N.L., since it was left behind by its owner more than 20 years ago. When the wind is just right, the thick odour of rotten fish drifts into the nearby school and prevents at least one resident from hanging her laundry out to dry, Ryan said.

He and his colleagues on the town’s volunteer council have been begging the federal and provincial governments to help clean up the plant for decades. This summer, with the Newfoundland and Labrador government footing the bill, that work finally began.

Over the next few months, workers will drain the 110 towering vats of left-behind fluids and mix it with peat moss, which will absorb all the liquids. Trucks with giant hoses attached will then suck up the material and transport it to a pit in nearby Sunnyside, N.L., which was dug over three weeks and lined with high-density polyethylene used in landfills, said Glenn Sharp, owner of Sharp Management, the company overseeing the task.

“This is a unique job,” Sharp told reporters Tuesday. “This is a special waste, designated as a unique special waste. This does not fall under any of the standard classifications.”

In a demonstration for members of the press, workers inside the plant sliced open a vat, releasing the greyish brown muck onto the floor.

The smell inside the plant was immediately worse.

“It almost makes a feeling in the back of your throat from the smell,” Sharp said.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

www.thedailybeast.com/trump-quietl...

$The perceived go-slow that followed Minneapolis had infuriated the president’s MAGA base. Arrests had slumped to as low as 1,200 a day, a fraction of Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s stated goal of 3,000 detentions daily—a target the agency has never hit. The renewed push suggests Trump wants to at least attempt to deliver on his signature promise of mass deportations. It comes days after the Supreme Court handed him a mixed result, expanding his power over immigration policy while blocking his bid to end birthright citizenship. In South Texas, Nigerian nun Sister Letty Ugboaja, a local nurse, was arrested on her way to church on Sunday morning, according to her colleague Sister Norma Pimentel. She was released the same day after congressional officials intervened. “It took her a while to be able to talk—she was crying,” Pimentel told the Times. Immigration lawyers report the same pattern across the country. In Utah, attorney Ysabel Lonazco said one client, a man who had overstayed his visa, was picked up while driving over the weekend. “People don’t want to leave their houses,” she said. “They are afraid to drive to do their grocery shopping.”$

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

some funny quotes in this article. "Otherwise, what are we saying?" is good stuff

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I thought I was too, but no ! 🐣

History

Radio telephony (telephony without wires) predated cordless phones by at least two decades. The first, MTS, or Mobile Telephone Service went into service in 1946. Because the range was intended to cover the widest possible service area, capacity was extremely low, and the early tube technology made equipment rather large and heavy. The second generation radio telephone, or IMTS, or Improved Mobile Telephone Service became active in 1964.

Beginning in 1963, a small team of Bell Laboratories engineers were tasked with developing a practical and fully functional duplex wireless telephone.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Ah HA they are two different versions

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Um this culture pop soda is DELICIOUS thank you @iwburg.bsky.social for introducing me 🤩

A can of Orange Mango and Lime Culture Pop soda, “Fizzy & gutsy probiotic soda, 12 fl oz (355mL) non gmo plant based & vegan, 45 calories per can” it shows an illustrated orange and slice as the o in Pop, and the entire can is orange. In the background is some light blue knitting on my lap.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"Surin Warakijthamrong, head of the Department of Pollution Control, told Bangkok Post that 12 containers were sent to Thailand under a false pretext that they had scrap metal from Haiti." somehow that seems especially egregious to me🤬

The United States thought it could get away with dumping its waste in an Asian country, but this time, its plan has failed. Thailand seized 284 tonnes of electronic waste that reached its port under false declarations. Authorities are planning to ship all of its back to the country of origin - Trump's America. Thai customs authorities encountered the illegal waste at Laem Chabang Port in Chon Buri province and have decided to give a clear message to the US that it isn't a dumping ground. Surin Warakijthamrong, head of the Department of Pollution Control, told Bangkok Post that 12 containers were sent to Thailand under a false pretext that they had scrap metal from Haiti. “Authorities have been checking the remaining containers — there are 21 in all — and we expect to find more illegal electronic waste. It will be sent back to the US under the terms of the Basel Convention,” Surin said.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

lamont.columbia.edu/news/wine-re... "Scientists have long suspected that crop diversity is key to making agriculture more resilient to climate change, and wine grapes offer a unique opportunity to test this assumption. They're both extremely diverse — there are more than 1,100 different varieties

For the 11 varieties, the team used vintner and researcher archives to build a model for when each would bud, flower, and ripen in wine-growing regions around the world under three different warming scenarios: 0, 2, and 4 degrees of warming. Then they used climate change projections to see where those varieties would be viable in the future.

Losses were unavoidable in both warming scenarios, due to shifting temperatures and seasonal changes that would affect conditions while the varieties were ripening. These factors would affect the wines’ quality. But the team found that “by switching these varieties around, you can reduce losses by a significant amount,” said Cook.

With 2 degrees of global warming and no attempts at adaptation, 56 percent of the world’s wine-growing areas may no longer be suitable for growing wine. But if wine growers switch to varieties more suitable for the changing climate, only 24 percent would be lost. For example, in France’s Burgundy region, heat-loving mourvedre and grenache could replace current varieties such as pinot noir. In Bordeaux, cabernet sauvignon and merlot could be replaced with mourvedre.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

capitalbnews.org/georgia-rail... Tarbutton said, “Regrettably, I cannot change what happened generations ago.” “My family, and the other Tarbuttons of my generation, however, are responsible for how we lead today,” he added. 🤨

the company portrayed the Hanson Spur as a lifeline for Sparta and Hancock County, projecting more than $1.5 million a year in “economic benefits.” At a Public Service Commission hearing, Sandersville’s representatives repeated that figure, framing the spur as a rare development opportunity in a rural county that has seen decades of disinvestment and is regarded as the poorest in the state.

But under oath, when regulators pressed for details, Tarbutton acknowledged he would not hire a single new operating employee to run the trains on the new line. Instead, he pointed to the quarry, suggesting it would add up to a dozen jobs at salaries of about $90,000 a year. The quarry’s owner later undercut that claim, testifying that any new workers would earn closer to $24 to $28 an hour — decent wages, residents noted, but far from the $90,000 jobs that had been held out as part of the project’s upside.

To bolster its case that the spur would serve the broader public, Sandersville also pointed to five small businesses it said would use the line, including one company that Sandersville Railroad solely owns through its LLC.

A representative from this company, Southern Chips, which provides wood chips to pulp and paper mills, told Capital B they plan to utilize the railroad if it is built and that Sandersville Railroad is the sole transporter of their products.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

used this wonderful tutorial for the heel but i maybe decreased too many times because they are pretty pointy lol youtu.be/zu5YAKsAEpY

in progress picture of the heels, showing the short rows with no wrap and turn

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

the only problem with #knitting socks/slippers/hand warmers etc is getting two identical, *count everything 3x identical* projects to be the same size (difficulty somehow impossible) otherwise very fun, nice and short

Picture of two feet with black and grey marled long socks on, wearing hand knit slippers in cream and pink. The toes are cream, the foot is pink, and the top half of them are in single row stripes. They are constructed to resemble a no-show sock, only going a short way up around the heel and across the top of the foot.

another view showing the back of the "good" slipper, showing short rows of the heel in cream like the tow, and the rest of the slipper in pink, with the top half of it in single row cream and pink stripes.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

jadotville named after Jean Jadot (belgian engineer, whose family is most of the wiki entries) carlrobinson.substack.com/p/my-congo-y... but no references to from the Belgian family to the French (from Belgium) family. HMMM.

Jadotville—named after a Belgian mining engineer who never set foot in the Congo—was a company town run by the Anglo-Belgian mining giant Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, or simply l’Union Minière (UMHK).

Later infamous for backing Katanga’s secession after Congo’s tumultuous independence in 1960, UMHK helped trigger a massive United Nations intervention—and, in 1961, the death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in a still-haunting air crash at Ndola, just across the North Rhodesian border.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Right after what’s coming comes re: Everything Else, I would like to see some labeling and package reform. Why is it that everything consumable doesn’t have its ingredients labeled? Why do I see calorie counts on water, but no info on what’s in “pumpkin spice” Rumchata

The back of a bottle of Rumchata, with the text:
“RumChata Pumpkin Spice combines Premium Caribbean rum and real Midwestern cream with the taste of home cooked pumpkin pie For the perfect first of autumn to spice up your coffee.”
Government Warning: 1) According to the surgeon General, women should not drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy because of the risk of birth defects. 2) Consumption of alcohol like beverages impairs your ability to drive a car operate machinery and may cause health problems.”

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

although i think this is what you're talking about. "Put up with" stuff about bees?! smh.

A review in The Guardian says the non-shooting scenes are rushed and both Rashad and Driver are underused, and describes it as "a solid, low-stakes, medium-reward new year's effort".[25] Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert praised the film's various aspects, including its range of villains, but regretted: "It's a real shame that The Beekeeper isn't the righteous trash masterpiece that it keeps threatening to turn into."[26] John Nugent of Empire magazine said that Statham is "as gruffly convincing as he usually is (though it's 20 minutes before he's even allowed to kick any ass)" but called the action scenes "horribly inconsistent" and *noted that "you do have to put up with quite a lot of stuff about bees".* [27]

* = text highlighted in green.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This logo. Who did this? Why?? Why. It bothers me so much: do they know what Trois means? Or am I missing a sort of negative space magic eye third person in between these two? What is happening 🧐

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

this website makes my old laptop breathe too hard but this was making my blood boil already, to read on a different device:

Unlike people born in the other U.S. territories of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoans are classified simply as “U.S. nationals”—a sort of limbo state that acknowledges they are American by birth, but still denied the full rights and privileges of citizenship.

Even though they pay taxes, owe “allegiance” by law to the United States, and can join or be drafted into the military—American Samoans have long served in and died for the U.S. military at exceptionally high rates—non-citizen American Samoan nationals cannot register to vote, run for office, serve on juries, or hold any job requiring citizenship. Unless they can claim citizenship through a parent or grandparent, American Samoan nationals must apply for citizenship as though they were immigrants. That process can be costly, confusing, and long.

As non-citizen nationals, they exist in a formal underclass of democracy that precludes them from, for one, running for a local school board.

“I’m not saying you murdered someone or anything like that, OK?” Bucknall told Smith. “Unfortunately, I have some bad news here: There’s an arrest warrant out for.."

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“The federal government doesn’t need to attack schools.” An incredible sentence.

The school official said some high school students were involved in altercations with officers. Many sheltered at a nearby library.

Kate Winkel, who lives in the neighborhood near Roosevelt said she saw the Border Patrol agents on her drive home from work and witnessed agents pull a person into one of their vehicles.

In a video shared with MPR News, a Border Patrol official is shown pushing 47-year-old Winkel to the ground after telling her to get out of the street.

Winkel said she witnessed agents in other physical confrontations with school staff and parents on and near school property.

“I think school property should be off-limits. I think our kids need to feel safe at school,” Winkel said. “The federal government doesn’t need to attack schools.”

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

my apologies, deleted this before seeing your reply

point 1: mice don't get Alzheimer's. The mouse models don't have actual Alzheimer's (like ALS and others. "No model recapitulates the human disease perfectly."
link to @befh.bsky.social "There are a few issues here..."

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

www.websters1913.com/words/Politic the 1913 definitions are always insightful

Politic
Pol"i*tic (?), a. [L. politicus political, Gr. ? belonging to the citizens or to the state, fr.? citizen: cf. F. politique. See Police, and cf. ePolitical.]

1. Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government; political; as, the body politic. See under Body.

He with his people made all but one politic body.
Sir P. Sidney.

2. Pertaining to, or promoting, a policy, especially a national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether right or wrong; -- said of things; as, a politic treaty. "Enrich'd with politic grave counsel." Shak.

3. Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons.

Politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
Shak.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Isn’t any amount of lead harmful? Although great news tritium has a half life of only 12 years

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

ahha! bingo the guardian article is good, whew

But with each passing write-up, the knowing humorous element has been rinsed away, until Vox earnestly announced in its piece that the “MeToo movement showed us that even supposed ‘nice guy’ could be capable of alleged manipulation and abuse – that in fact, they could use their enlightenment as a kind of shield”. If you see a man with a matcha latte, you need to run!

None of the pieces particularly wanted to reckon with the fact that, as Judith Butler put it, “gender identity is a performative accomplishment” to begin with, or that Arthur Schopenhauer was complaining in the mid-19th century that a performative reader “usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents”. Do we read in order to get laid? Only since forever.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

1. fuck the new york times 2. the teen vogue article need not have chosen one gender (or even one era) to talk about re: this phenomenon. everybody does this. everybody. always have. all genders, all ages, etc etc etc

To work, the whole persona depends on buying into a very curated, visible lifestyle filled with new outfits, new accessories, new books, and new hobbies, feeding into overconsumption. Worse, it’s consumption for the sake of appearance, not actually for use, enjoyment, or longevity.

It’s one thing if you genuinely love Sally Rooney or plan to wear your Elwood cardigan for years. But cycling through trends every few months, buying and discarding things the moment they’re no longer in vogue, is the exact opposite of sustainability. More than that, it also clashes with the underconsumption values that many of these same men claim to align with in their broader liberal or progressive politics.

Turns out, “looking like you care” costs a lot, but says very little.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

lmaooo 1. fuck the new york times 2. the teen vogue article should not have chosen one gender to talk about re: this phenomenon.

This time it is the “performative male”, basically the idea that posturing straight men only read books to get laid, outlined in recent trend pieces including the New York Times, Vox, Teen Vogue, Hypebeast, GQ and millions of TikToks.

According to the Times, this man “curates his aesthetic in a way that he thinks might render him more likable to progressive women. He is, in short, the antithesis of the toxic man.” Apparently these heterosexual men who read Joan Didion, carry tote bags and listen to Clairo are not in fact human beings who enjoy things but performative jerk-offs who don’t really care about any of that girly stuff and are just trying to impress their feminine opposites. As Vox put it: “think Jacob Elordi when he was photographed with three different books on his person, or Paul Mescal publicly admiring Mitski”. Reading! Enjoying music by women! Perish the thought.

Each piece differed slightly in what it defined as the key characteristics of the performative male, but they all shared one detail: he drinks matcha lattes.

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

what are the top fields like this? re a conversation I was having in the car

@_bri_chandler_ " Agreed. Abolitionist social workers exist and we try to avoid jobs like working for CPS/ the government, do our best to work around the carceral practice of mandated reporting, etc, but there's only so much that can be done to minimize harm within an oppressive framework."

@dream_geas - "I'm getting my degrees to be a social worker and this was my fear. How fucking disgusting, this is why I'm so hesitant to be a social worker in the States."

@Legitimatedgar - "After I got my masters, I realized that the majority of sociologists work for incredibly evil corporations.

Sad panda."

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Not to mention, Parked arrived at 7 years old, so in 1977ish. Context: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_... good immigration is the least difficult, most self-serving thing we could do.

South Korea
Postwar recovery was different in the two Koreas. South Korea, which started from a far lower industrial base than North Korea (the latter contained 80% of Korea's heavy industry in 1945),[25] stagnated in the first postwar decade. In 1953, South Korea and the United States signed a Mutual Defense Treaty.

South Korean anti-Americanism after the war was fueled by the presence and behavior of United States Forces Korea military personnel and U.S. support for Park's authoritarian regime, a fact still evident during the country's democratic transition in the 1980s.[382] However, anti-Americanism has declined significantly in South Korea in recent years, from 46% favorable in 2003 to 74% favorable in 2011,[383] making South Korea one of the most pro-U.S. countries.[384]

A large number of mixed-race "GI babies" (offspring of U.S. and other UN soldiers and Korean women) were filling up the country's orphanages. Because Korean traditional society places significant weight on paternal family ties, bloodlines, and purity of race, children of mixed race or those without fathers are not easily accepted in South Korean society. International adoption of Korean children began in 1954.[385] The U.S. Immigration Act of 1952 legalized the naturalization of non-Blacks and non-Whites as U.S. citizens and made possible the entry of military spouses and children from South Korea. With the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, which substantially changed U.S. immigration policy toward non-Europeans, Koreans became one of the fastest-growing Asian groups in the United States.[386]

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Municipal Solid Waste @maiambic.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"On Monday morning, Park hugged his loved ones goodbye. Then, just like he had as a child, Park boarded a plane all by himself — this time, bound for a country he barely remembers, leaving behind the one he fought for."