Merry Christmas everyone but more importantly happy birthday Doug Eiffel

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.

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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. 

“Unknown scientist”? That was Clair Cameron Patterson.

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

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

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.

Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day!

Oh, hey, it’s almost Clair Cameron Patterson day!

Thanks for the question, Anon!

ARE YOU SHITTING ME

Happy Birthday Snoopy!

happy ides of March

yo why is this on my dash its august

Yeah, why is this getting notes? It's August!

It's knife day

Oh

you’re angry all of the time because you don’t listen to enough jazz.

ofc, hon :) how's your summer going?

I GOT ACCEPTED TO COLLEGE. IN MY FIRST INTERVIEW. WITH A HALF FINISHED APPLICATION. NO ONE DOES IT LIKE ME.

i'm imagining The Winter Soldier in a highschool desk (idk what college looks like ok sue me) and thoroughly enjoying myself.

CONGRATS GREENIE!!!

That's absolutely amazing, SO proud of you <33

my hobbies include watching the trees sway in the wind, drinking warm beverages, walking to places, yearning,

QUESTION stolen from my dear @wistfulenchantress <33

just out of curiosity...

Always curious

The book is 1984, which is neither. It's anti-authoritarian, which tells you a lot.

Ya know, sometimes I wish the joke *didn’t* write itself.

fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video.

Tits are a mindset, babe ;)

It's not about size, it's all about how you wear 'em

...how do I wear them? 😅

With panache! with confidence!

wear something fun and flaunt it. And walk like you have 'em, let your chest stick out a bit

From my (admittedly limited) experience, it's mostly straight men who are looking at shape. Most straight women and a lot of queer ppl seem to pay more attention to body language and what you're wearing :)

just like...pretend to have really small tits?

if you want to, go for it haha!

All I'm saying is-it's about confidence and energy, not anatomy. (BTE: big titty energy??) You don't need specific proportions to be pretty and/or feminine, and neither does anyone else (cis, trans, or otherwise)

do you have any outfit ideas? 🥺

(wrong blog before, sorryy!)

Honey, wear whatever you feel like :) what you enjoy/what's flattering on you isn't necessarily gonna match what I wear, just have fun with clothes and figure that out for yourself.

(Although I will say-if someone is ever, for any reason, trying to draw attention away from their chest, interesting pants/skirts and lots of layers on top are generally a good bet. Not that you need to! just btw)

I sorta just take what I think people would find attractive and develop an obsession with it 🫠

mm :) I'm sure it's gorgeous, hon. As long as you enjoy whatever your wearing, real happy for you!!