#asbestos — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/116556777340743157
From the text of the ad:
"it is tasteless,"
Yep, they got that right, tasteless indeed. :derpface:
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/116556777340743157
From the text of the ad:
"it is tasteless,"
Yep, they got that right, tasteless indeed. :derpface:
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/116556777340743157
From the text of the ad:
"it is tasteless,"
Yep, they got that right, tasteless indeed. :derpface:
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/116556777340743157
From the text of the ad:
"it is tasteless,"
Yep, they got that right, tasteless indeed. :derpface:
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This is repeating horseshit hype.
Arstechnica should do better.
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This is repeating horseshit hype.
Arstechnica should do better.
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This is repeating horseshit hype.
Arstechnica should do better.
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This is repeating horseshit hype.
Arstechnica should do better.
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Asbestos at Guy-Favreau Complex: Canadian government 🇨🇦 offers reassurances; unions have received the reports
https://montreal.citynews.ca/2026/04/22/asbestos-guy-favreau-ottawa-unions-reports/
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Amiante au Complexe Guy-Favreau: le gouvernement canadien 🇨🇦 rassure, les syndicats ont reçu les rapports -
Half-century old shenanigans by Big Talc-Asbestos only now being retracted:
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/25/lancet-retraction-commentary-talc-powder-johnson-johnson-industry-consultant/
#asbestos #talc #retraction -
How One Rock (Almost) Poisoned The Entire Planet
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Wednesday 4th Feb 2026
“World Cancer Day”
https://asbestosdiseases.org.au/ -
1000 child porn ai pictures an hour is the current estimate. Being made, on Musk's twitter, now known as shit.
Some are suggesting Musk is creating lists of Child porn makers on twitter, who dont realise they're being filmed, 👈 so they can be blackmailed into criminal acts, like Putin compromised Trump. 👈
#musk #uspol #csam #twitter #porn #ai #asbestos #enshittification #compromise #trap
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@angiebaby we played on #asbestos #eternit roof not sure if that is fine probably not
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Manitoba strengthens asbestos protections for workers in the province:
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What do bubbles do?
"The Financial Times notes that, over the course of the past week, approximately $1 trillion in stock value has been wiped from several of Silicon Valley’s heaviest hitters..."
https://gizmodo.com/1-trillion-in-tech-stocks-sold-off-as-market-grows-skeptical-of-ai-2000683226
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Democratic senators and public health advocates are demanding that the White House and its contractors prove their rapid demolition of the East Wing last week did not expose workers and passersby to #asbestos a construction material that has been linked to cancer and lung disease.
White House officials have said work to abate #hazardous materials at the site was performed last month but have so far not provided documentation . . . https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/30/east-wing-demolition-asbestos-abatement/ -
An iron ore #miner has applied to explore the mineral potential of one of Western #Australia's most heavily contaminated landscapes.
For more than 30 years Wittenoom, 1,400km north of Perth in WA's Pilbara, was the site of a blue #asbestos mine.
Its operations contaminated the surrounding area, and are linked to the deaths of more than 1,200 former workers and residents.
Miners push exploration of asbestos-contaminated land at Wittenoom - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-05/wittenoom-iron-ore-mining-exploration-application-asbestos/105382116 -
Beware of the #dangers of #Silicon #Dioxide!
- Silicon Dioxide is a side product of dehydration of #asbestos
- Inhaling Silicon Dioxide causes #silicosis which is a condition that can fatally damage the lungs
- Silicon Dioxide is commonly used to contain #DihydrogenMonoxide
- Silicon Dioxide is a substance frequently warned about on packages
- Silicon Dioxide is used to manufacture #5G endpoint devices
- Silicon Dioxide is used by the #military to direct the effect of #TerahertzRadiation at the intended target
- Silicon Dioxide is a chemical known to the State of #California to cause #cancer.
- Silicon Dioxide is an essential component of #Molotov Cocktails
- Substantial amounts of Silicon Dioxide are often among trash washed up by the sea
- Silicon Dioxide, even in form of medium sized crystals, is a known "chicken killer"
- Silicon Dioxide is, as known for a long time, where the #foolish man built his home
- Silicon Dioxide is a commonly used extinguishing agent for Class D fires
- Contact with Silicon Dioxide often causes bleeding and injuries up to and including death
- Silicon Dioxide is used to enhance the effect of abrasive blasting, and can even chip away at steel
- Silicon Dioxide is often shipped alongside other dangerous chemicals such as #SulfuricAcid
- Just small quantities of Silicon Dioxide in your bed can cause #insomnia
Despite all this, even today Silicon Dioxide is still used as a building material for homes! #SiliconDioxide #conspiracy
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#Brazing equipment from a 1950s book "#Automobile #Workshop practice" - a #hearth fuelled by #towngas (full with CO) - North Sea
#gas hadn't been discovered yet!, a paraffin (kerosene) torch and #asbestos blocks used to prop up the workpieces. Further on in the book there is a whole section on repairing #bodywork with #lead rather than filler (bondo) -
#Brazing equipment from a 1950s book "#Automobile #Workshop practice" - a #hearth fuelled by #towngas (full with CO) - North Sea
#gas hadn't been discovered yet!, a paraffin (kerosene) torch and #asbestos blocks used to prop up the workpieces. Further on in the book there is a whole section on repairing #bodywork with #lead rather than filler (bondo) -
#Brazing equipment from a 1950s book "#Automobile #Workshop practice" - a #hearth fuelled by #towngas (full with CO) - North Sea
#gas hadn't been discovered yet!, a paraffin (kerosene) torch and #asbestos blocks used to prop up the workpieces. Further on in the book there is a whole section on repairing #bodywork with #lead rather than filler (bondo) -
#Brazing equipment from a 1950s book "#Automobile #Workshop practice" - a #hearth fuelled by #towngas (full with CO) - North Sea
#gas hadn't been discovered yet!, a paraffin (kerosene) torch and #asbestos blocks used to prop up the workpieces. Further on in the book there is a whole section on repairing #bodywork with #lead rather than filler (bondo) -
#Brazing equipment from a 1950s book "#Automobile #Workshop practice" - a #hearth fuelled by #towngas (full with CO) - North Sea
#gas hadn't been discovered yet!, a paraffin (kerosene) torch and #asbestos blocks used to prop up the workpieces. Further on in the book there is a whole section on repairing #bodywork with #lead rather than filler (bondo) -
I heard about this from a relative in the Southern US (NOT a Trump supporter).
Trump funding freeze could leave communities on their own as climate threats grow
By Michael Copley
Published February 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM ESTExcerpts: "The funding freeze is being felt across the U.S.
"A #Missouri school district couldn't pay for almost two dozen electric school buses it ordered to replace a fleet of diesel buses. In #SpringfieldMassachusetts, officials didn't know if the city would get money it was promised to #weatherize homes, remove #LeadPaint and #RepairRoads. #Oklahoma regulators warned $100 million in grant funding to plug abandoned #OilAndGas wells was in jeopardy. A #NorthCarolina official said the state risks losing out on more than $100 million in conservation projects that could protect communities from #floods and #wildfires. And in Kersey, Colo., officials had to hope the government would unfreeze money to remove an old grain elevator covered in #asbestos, a cancer-causing substance that's linked to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans every year.
"'We wouldn't be able to move forward without it,' Susie Thielbert, a grant analyst for Kersey, told Colorado Public Radio about the grain-elevator project. 'We are a very small community.'"
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"Parts of West Virginia 'have been left behind' for decades, Crowe says, but money had started flowing in from the Biden-era laws that Trump's now targeting.
"'Their infrastructure is failing,' Crowe says. 'And without the federal government coming in to help support them, they're not going to be able to come up with that money on their own.'
"Similar concerns are rippling through the region, says Dana Kuhnline, senior program director at ReImagine Appalachia, an advocacy group."
Read more:
https://www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/2025-02-12/trump-funding-freeze-could-leave-communities-on-their-own-as-climate-threats-grow
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Not just human health! The #Toxic Blend of LA’s Urban #WildfireSmoke Will Have Lasting Health Consequences
Los Angeles residents are breathing bits of "cars, metal pipes, plastics."
By Zoya Teirstein, January 22, 2025“These fires are different from previous quote-unquote ‘wildfires,’ because there are so many structures that burned,” said Yifang Zhu, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. 'Everything in the households got burned — cars, metal pipes, plastics.'
"#Wildfiresmoke is toxic. Burning trees and shrubs produce very fine #particulatematter, known by the shorthand PM 2.5, which burrow deep into the lungs and can even infiltrate the bloodstream, causing cold- and flu-like symptoms in the short term, and heart disease, lung cancer, and other chronic issues over time.
"But the fires that raced through Los Angeles burned thousands of homes, schools, historic buildings, and even medical clinics, blanketing the city in thick smoke. For several days after the first fire started, the city’s air quality index, or #AQI, exceeded 100, the threshold, typically seen during wildfires, at which air becomes unhealthy to breathe for children, the elderly, and those with asthma. In some parts of the city, the AQI reached 500, a number rarely seen and always hazardous for everyone.
"At the moment, air pollution experts know how much smoke fills the air. That’s shown improvement in recent days. But they don’t know what’s in it. 'What are the chemical mixtures in this smoke?' asked Kai Chen, an environmental scientist at the Yale School of Public Health. 'In addition to fine particulate matter, there are potentially other hazardous and #carcinogenic organic compounds — gas pollutants, trace metals, and microplastics.'
"Previous research shows that the spikes in unhealthy air quality seen during such events lead to higher rates of hospitalizations for issues like asthma, and even contribute to heart attacks among those with that chronic disease. A 2024 study on the long-term effects of smoke exposure in California showed that particulate matter from wildfires in the state from 2008 to 2018 contributed to anywhere from 52,000 to 56,000 premature deaths. A health assessment of 148 firefighters who worked the Tubbs Fire, which burned more than 36,000 acres in Northern California in 2017 and destroyed an unusually high number of structures, found elevated levels of the #PFAS known as forever chemicals, #HeavyMetals, and flame retardants in their blood and urine.
"The L.A. County Department of Public Health has formally urged people to stay inside and wear masks to protect themselves from windblown toxic dust and ash. Air quality measurements don’t take these particles into account, which means the air quality index doesn’t reveal the extent of contaminants in the air.
"Zhu and her colleagues have been collecting samples of wildfire smoke in neighborhoods near the fires. It’ll be months before that data is fully analyzed, but Zhu suspects she will find a dangerous mix of chemicals, including, potentially, #asbestos and lead — materials used in many buildings constructed before the 1970s.
"The risk will linger even after the smoke clears. The plumes that wafted over the landscape will deposit chemicals into drinking #water supplies and #contaminate# soil. When rains do come, they’ll wash #ToxicAsh into streams and across the land, said Fernando Rosario-Ortiz, an environmental engineer and interim dean of the University of Colorado Boulder environmental engineering program. 'There’s a lot of manmade materials that are now being combusted. The potential is there for contamination,' he said, noting that little research on how toxic ash and other byproducts of wildfires in urban areas currently exists. 'What we don’t have a lot of information on is what happens now.'
"After the Camp Fire razed Paradise, California, in 2018, water utilities found high levels of volatile organic compounds [#VOCs] in #DrinkingWater. Similar issues have arisen in places like Boulder County, Colorado, where the Marshall Fire destroyed nearly 1,000 structures in 2021, Rosario-Ortiz said, though the presence of a contaminant in a home doesn’t necessarily mean it will be present in high levels in the water. Still, several municipal water agencies in Los Angeles issued preemptive advisories urging residents not to drink tap water in neighborhoods near the Palisades and Eaton fires. It’ll be weeks before they know exactly what’s in the water.
"As wildfires grow ever more intense and encroach upon urban areas, cities and counties must be prepared to monitor the health impacts and respond to them. 'This is the first time I’ve ever even witnessed or heard anything like this,' said Zhu, who raised her daughter in Los Angeles and has lived there for decades, said. 'Even being in the field studying wildfires and air quality impacts, I never imagined that a whole neighborhood, a whole community in Palisades, would burn down.'"
Read more:
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-toxic-blend-of-las-urban-wildfire-smoke-will-have-lasting-health-consequences/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=flipboard_rss&utm_campaign=znetwork
#AirPollution #WaterPollution #AirIsLife #WaterIsLife #ToxicMaterials #EnvironmentalDisaster #EnvironmentalDamage #Pyrocene #PyroceneEra -
Our exploration of Clear Creek Management Area (CCMA) in California’s Coastal Range is now live!
EDIT: IDK what’s up w/my YouTube thumbnails not showing on my Mastodon, so I’ve attached the thumbnail.
#clearcreek #clearcreekmanagementarea #ccma #californiacentralcoast #californiacoastalrange #newidria #idria #oakflatcampground #serpentine #asbestos #mercury #offroad #overland #ramtruck #powerwagon #ovrlndcamper #offthebeatentrack #fourwheeltravel
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Dayton Daily News investigation found #contamination, sick workers at #PiketonOhio plant
By Lynn Hulsey
May 15, 2019"A polluted former #UraniumEnrichment plant in #Piketon closed years ago but it's impact continues to resonate through the community, including this week when a #MiddleSchool was closed after traces of radioactive #neptunium were found at an air monitoring station at the school.
"Contamination with radiation and multiple toxic substances at the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant led to an ongoing, multibillion dollar environmental cleanup and sickened plant workers who had to fight for compensation as they battled debilitating terminal illnesses related to their years at the plant.
"A massive 2006 investigation by the Dayton Daily News found five plumes of poisoned #groundwater, contamination with radiation, #beryllium, polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs) and #asbestos.
"The investigation found lax safety practices, routine mishandling of toxic and #radioactive material and at least 400 accidental releases of #UraniumGas or toxic fluorine. Toxins were dumped into unlined #landfills and ditches and leached into #groundwater and the Little #BeaverCreek, a tributary of the #SciotoRiver.
"The plant was operated by the federal government and contractors from 1954 to 2001 and enriched uranium to high levels for #NuclearWeapons and #NuclearSubmarines and to lower levels for #nuclearpowerplants.
#WaterIsLife #Ohio #NoNukes #NoWar #UraniumEnrichment #UraniumHexafluoride #RECA #PortsmouthGaseousDiffusionPlant #InvestigativeJournalism #RadiationExposureCompensationAct #NoUraniumMining #NoUraniumEnrichment
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Talc is a common ingredient in personal care products, not just baby powder but also cosmetics. Talc is a mined mineral and sadly often contains traces of asbestos - which causes cancer and lung disease. There is testing, but cosmetics companies have often used an insensitive method. Mesothelioma is a horrible price to pay for using makeup.
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Geht es da etwa voran? Die orangefarbenen Geländer sehen so neu aus? (Könnten aber auch einfach die Sonnenstrahlen sein, die mir einen Streich spielen!)
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Geht es da etwa voran? Die orangefarbenen Geländer sehen so neu aus? (Könnten aber auch einfach die Sonnenstrahlen sein, die mir einen Streich spielen!)
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Geht es da etwa voran? Die orangefarbenen Geländer sehen so neu aus? (Könnten aber auch einfach die Sonnenstrahlen sein, die mir einen Streich spielen!)
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Geht es da etwa voran? Die orangefarbenen Geländer sehen so neu aus? (Könnten aber auch einfach die Sonnenstrahlen sein, die mir einen Streich spielen!)
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Geht es da etwa voran? Die orangefarbenen Geländer sehen so neu aus? (Könnten aber auch einfach die Sonnenstrahlen sein, die mir einen Streich spielen!)
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Where Science Enters the Courtroom, the Daubert Name Looms Large
Decades ago, two parents sued a drug company over their newborn’s deformity — and changed courtroom science forever.
By Peter Andrey Smith
02.17.2020"The plaintiffs countered that #corporations and other #industries with deep pockets ginned up research solely for the purpose of #discrediting #litigation. Scientists paid by the #asbestos industry, for instance, had suppressed results that could damage the product’s reputation. As Nace explained in an interview with The Washington Informer, #MerrellDow had been 'financing scientific articles to get their way.' In some ways, here was the fake news of its time: If you lacked any compelling scientific support for your case, one way to undermine the credibility of your opponents was by calling their evidence 'junk science.'"
Read more:
https://undark.org/2020/02/17/daubert-standard-joyce-jason/#BirthDefects #MerrellDow #BigPharma #Corporations #Benectin
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Chrysotile asbestos finally banned in the US after decades of EPA efforts - Enlarge / An asbestos warning sign is seen at Victoria Park in Camperd... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2011064 #carcinogen #asbestos #science #health #cancer #biden #trump #ban #epa
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Toxic asbestos is now fully banned, a move that EPA calls ‘historic’
The Environmental Protection Agency bans #chrysotile #asbestos, the only form of the #cancer-#causing mineral that the U.S. still imports and uses in new products
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/18/chrysotile-asbestos-ban-epa/
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Toxic asbestos is now fully banned, a move that EPA calls ‘historic’
The Environmental Protection Agency bans #chrysotile #asbestos, the only form of the #cancer-#causing mineral that the U.S. still imports and uses in new products
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/18/chrysotile-asbestos-ban-epa/
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Toxic asbestos is now fully banned, a move that EPA calls ‘historic’
The Environmental Protection Agency bans #chrysotile #asbestos, the only form of the #cancer-#causing mineral that the U.S. still imports and uses in new products
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/18/chrysotile-asbestos-ban-epa/
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Toxic asbestos is now fully banned, a move that EPA calls ‘historic’
The Environmental Protection Agency bans #chrysotile #asbestos, the only form of the #cancer-#causing mineral that the U.S. still imports and uses in new products
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/18/chrysotile-asbestos-ban-epa/
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Toxic asbestos is now fully banned, a move that EPA calls ‘historic’
The Environmental Protection Agency bans #chrysotile #asbestos, the only form of the #cancer-#causing mineral that the U.S. still imports and uses in new products
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/18/chrysotile-asbestos-ban-epa/
