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  1. Journal Square, Where the Library Only Takes Returns

    On August 17, 2026, the Jersey City Free Public Library installed a book drop outside its Five Corners Branch at 678 Newark Avenue. The building behind it, sixty-nine years old and dark since early July, will accept what you give back. It will lend you nothing. A parking lot where a Bookmobile idles four days a week is now the whole of the public library in Journal Square, the neighborhood at the center of the loudest building boom in New Jersey's second-largest city. I live in this city. I have spent my working life writing, editing, and publishing books, and I can tell you what that steel drop says to a child walking past it on the way to school: the city will take from you, and the city has stopped giving. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/04/jour

  2. Journal Square, Where the Library Only Takes Returns

    On August 17, 2026, the Jersey City Free Public Library installed a book drop outside its Five Corners Branch at 678 Newark Avenue. The building behind it, sixty-nine years old and dark since early July, will accept what you give back. It will lend you nothing. A parking lot where a Bookmobile idles four days a week is now the whole of the public library in Journal Square, the neighborhood at the center of the loudest building boom in New Jersey's second-largest city. I live in this city. I have spent my working life writing, editing, and publishing books, and I can tell you what that steel drop says to a child walking past it on the way to school: the city will take from you, and the city has stopped giving. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/04/jour

  3. Journal Square, Where the Library Only Takes Returns

    On August 17, 2026, the Jersey City Free Public Library installed a book drop outside its Five Corners Branch at 678 Newark Avenue. The building behind it, sixty-nine years old and dark since early July, will accept what you give back. It will lend you nothing. A parking lot where a Bookmobile idles four days a week is now the whole of the public library in Journal Square, the neighborhood at the center of the loudest building boom in New Jersey's second-largest city. I live in this city. I have spent my working life writing, editing, and publishing books, and I can tell you what that steel drop says to a child walking past it on the way to school: the city will take from you, and the city has stopped giving. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/04/jour

  4. 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

    (sorry for repost, had a massive typo)

  5. "Essa nova lei é, na verdade, uma prorrogação de doze anos para a indústria do amianto. Mas o que podemos esperar, se nem o Supremo está cumprindo a própria decisão?"
    -Fernanda Giannasi, fundadora da Abrea (Associação Brasileira dos Expostos ao Amianto)
    #asbestos #amianto #Caiado #Goias #cancer #DPOC
    noticias.uol.com.br/politica/u