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The majority of TERFs are racist too
Yikes
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The new pride flag is way more metal than the original, like even if you are a racist you gotta admit it looks better.
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“GenX” is not describing the generation born between 1961 and 1981, but a dangerous chemical. (I can feel the sneers from boomers.) Here’s the story as an excerpt from the EcoWatch article, and it’s a scary story.
In February, DuPont and its spinoff Chemours finally agreed to pay out the $670+ million settlement stemming from their toxic chemical Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), commonly known as C8. The chemical was shown to cause kidney, pancreatic, liver and testicular cancer, high cholesterol (hypercholesterolemia), pregnancy issues, including preeclampsia, thyroid disease and ulcerative colitis in thousands of cases.
The carcinogenic chemical was used to manufacture Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), known as Teflon. Teflon is most commonly used as a non-stick coating found in cookware. But by 2003, DuPont had dumped almost 2.5 million pounds of C8 from its Washington Works plant into the mid-Ohio River Valley area. To date, the chemical has been found in drinking water in 27 states. This all took place even 53 years after DuPont classified C8 as a toxin.
Now, it appears that the chemical that DuPont and Chemours have relied on to replace C8 in Teflon may be just as bad. Known as GenX, the new chemical has been known by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have negative health effects since at least 2006. Yet, the unregulated chemical has been continuously dumped into the Cape Fear River in North Carolina since 2009.
Detailing just how terrible GenX can be, The Columbus Dispatch reported in February that:
“From 2006 through 2013, DuPont filed reports with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on its testing of the substances that make up GenX. In 2006, DuPont reported that a 1963 study of those substances showed that adult rats given 7,500 milligrams died gasping, convulsive deaths within three hours. Those that received smaller doses survived with slightly enlarged livers. A 2013 report stated that rats given a much lower dose of GenX developed tumors in some organs. The report stated that "these tumor findings are not considered relevant for human risk assessment.”
Though DuPont and Chemours had previously assured regulators that GenX would not enter the environment, researchers have found the chemical in large quantities in North Carolina’s water supply. Wilmington’s The StarNews has reported that “researchers had found GenX in the Cape Fear River on three separate occasions in recent years. In 2013-14, a team of researchers and scientists found a GenX average of 631 parts per trillion, or nine times the advisory level for C8, at [the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority’s] water intake on the river.”
Unfortunately, because of the diminutive size of the molecule chain and the fact that Chemours and DuPont kept the chemical composition of GenX secret for many years, there is no way for a utility company to effectively filter GenX out of a water supply, meaning as many as 250,000 residents along the Cape Fear River could be consuming the harmful chemical.
#fucking fuck#dupont#chemours#genx chemical#<-- to distinguish it from#*my own generation*#ffs#water#cape fear river#environmental justice#or the lack thereof#capitalism#so fucking angry
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If any of my followers live near the Cape Fear river like I do. Please stop drinking your tap water. It has been found that Chemours a DuPont subsidiary has been releasing GenX into our drinking water. In 2009 the EPA gave this company the permit to manufacture this toxic chemical on the stipulation that they do not release it into the river which is the water supply source for much of this region. Cancer is the primary side effect of this chemical. There is an ongoing “investigation” on this situation.This region is mostly poor people and people of color. (big surprise) So again if you can afford bottled water (it was at the dollar store the other day) Please avoid drinking your tap water. Tbh this shit scares me and pisses me off.
http://whqr.org/post/genx-dhhs-health-effects-statement-genx#stream/0
#boost#reblogging again#to spread the word#chemours#dupont#water#cape fear river#capitalism#genx chemical
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Zinnias look like a bunch of tiny flowers inside a bigger flower
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A Red Fox makes its way through the snow at Yosemite National Park in California, USA.
photograph via: National Park Service
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Ah—so that’s how it works!
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From the article (June 6, 2017):
Trans women of color Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were on the front lines of the Stonewall Riots. But nearly 50 years later, the LGBTQ pride events that grew out of those early acts of public resistance still don’t always feel inclusive of transgender people.
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This exclusion is especially disheartening in light of trans people’s role in the movement for LGBTQ equality.
Content warning for article: Vile transphobia. I mean it. Vile. There’s a good refutation of the transphobia as well, but still. Proceed with caution.
#pride#transphobia#trans erasure#transmisogyny#transmisogynoir#racism#stonewall#queer history#trans history
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Red Spotted Purple Butterfly
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The Hard Work and Harsh Conditions of Mexican Farm Labor Camps
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Flashy flamboyant cuttlefish aren’t fazed when found by a foe. In a blink they broadcast boldly, blinding bedazzled brutes with a bluff:
“Don’t bother with this beast, because I could be your bane.”
#cuttlefish#cephalopods#...#...i can't decide if i like this more or less#than the puns...#(okay i admit#i like them both)#monterey bay aquarium
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Jessika Pava sketch request
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On the best of nights...
On the best of nights I can feel this sense of purpose coursing through my entire being.
I am here to party.
I am here to celebrate.
I am here to uplift.
I am here to inspire.
But most of all…
I am here to exist.
To create a save haven for the damned, lost and forgotten.
To tell their stories.
So that the world knows of our existence and the value of our experiences.
May it acknowlede us.
And in doing so, learn from it’s past mistakes.
To create a better future.
Where no one is left behind.
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🌺🌺🌺
#lovely people#fatshion#90s style#i remember this style#like irl#bc i am an old#gorgeous rendition of the look#beautiful
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Wonder Woman.
#lovely people#fatshion#wonder woman#is this casual cosplay?#this could be#casual cosplay#lovely either way#very wonder woman
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