#toxic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #toxic, aggregated by home.social.
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Data Centre Backlash: Texas Gov. “Abbott told telling ABC's Jonathan Karl on "This Week" that the backlash stems partly from the sheer speed of the buildout, and partly from developers moving into communities without first gaining support.
"Gaining the support of people in local communities is essential," Abbott said.
"They basically dug their own grave for the problem that's been caused for them," he continued. "And that's why they got the backlash they deserve."“Last week, Abbott told Fox News Sunday that fewer than 10% of data center companies had responded to a state request for information needed to project future power demand.”
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/23/greg-abbott-texas-data-centers-ai-backlash
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'A Man Like This Should Not Be President': Jeffrey Sachs discussed Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJUr7YiHfsM&t=210s
Jeffrey Sachs pinpoints the current problem in the US and it is huge... complete political polarization, a malignant narcisist in office, a mute press, complicit political parties, what could possibly go wrong. Deranged..
Wake up America... you are responsible for this and you will go down with this if you do not fix it...
#usa #uspol #trump #trumpadministration #iran #malignantnarcisist #toxic
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‘Toxic’ Season 2, Hosted by Elizabeth Chambers, Sets Investigation Discovery Premiere Date, Unveils First Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
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Toxic gas leak kills eight at Bangladesh shipyard
At least eight workers were killed and five others were reported missing after toxic gas leaked from a vessel at a shipbreaking yard in Bangladesh on Friday. The incident occurred at the Ferdous Steel Shipbreaking Yard and Recycling Factory in Chittagong, a ma…
https://justpaste.in/news/toxic-gas-leak-kills-eight-at-bangladesh-shipyard/
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When Good #Intentions Go #Toxic: What #Urban #Wildflowers Are Hiding from #Bees : Medium
A better way to turn #2D #Designs into #3D #Models for rapid #Prototyping : MIT
Rare #Stellar #Explosion Gives #Astronomers a Front-Row Seat to a Massive #Star’s #Death : CMU
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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I hate what this vile company did to our land. They should be forced to pay for complete decontamination and restoration. 🤬🤬🤬
BBC News: What he told me made my blood run cold - Michael Sheen investigates #Wales' #toxic legacy. #Cymru #MichaelSheen #Monsanto #pollution
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Just when you think Zucky @zuck is finally out of ideas - to steal.
It starts to feel like even a weak #LLM like #MetaAI is more creative than him.
Maybe we already have created truly artificial intelligence because he is more of an #SLM: a Small Language Model?
https://futurism.com/future-society/jealous-meta-claims-ai-went-hacking-too
#toxic #humor #Meta #News #Facebook #Zuckerberg #MarkZuckerberg #ai #artificialintelligence #creativity #robot #sarcasm
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/06/canada-wildfires-climate-crisis; https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/. "The human-driven #climatecrisis made the conditions that led to blazes roaring across #Canada, which have caused #toxic #smoke to spew throughout the #country & into the #US, twice as likely to occur, a new #analysis has found."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/06/all-bodies-of-water-england-polluted-toxic-chemicals. "Every single #English #water body is #polluted with #toxic #chemicals, new #Government #data shows, while just 14.3% of #surface #waters achieved good #ecological #status." See also: https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/new-environment-agency-classifications-show-only-14-of-englands-surface-waters-meet-eu-derived-standards-06-08-2026/.
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Humans Will Never Live on Mars Permanently
Humans Will Never Live on Mars Permanently
Direct link to original post:https://verysmallocean.org/blog.html#never-live-on-mars
In a recent video, Taylor Lorenz’ YouTube show Power User breaks down why it is essentially impossible to colonize Mars with physicist Adam Becker, author of the new book More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Future of Humanity. They get into the actual meat of the Mars question starting about the 12 minute mark, but I’ll summarize some of the main issues for you here. As much as they try to make it sound like space could be a consumer product for the masses, it will not happen. Ever. Before I dive in here’s the video link (also embedded below): A Physicist Destroys Elon Musk’s Mars Fantasy.
Some of the most hostile features of a journey to or stay on Mars (They concede that you could probably build a research base on Mars but it would be a sad, cramped, underground experience) “You don’t see people lining up to live isolated on the Antarctic ice, but the worst day in Antarctica is far more human-friendly than the best day on Mars”:
- Muscle atrophy & bone density loss: even with intense exercise astronauts who have spent months in microgravity/zero gravity have difficulty walking when they return and have to rehabilitate. To leap ahead towards the end, this also makes it likely babies could not survive birth after gestating in Mars’ low gravity (about 38% of Earth gravity).
- Radiation en route: The International Space Station still gets about half the radiation shielding from Earth’s magnetic field plus some from the thermosphere, which the ISS it’s still inside, and the exosphere, which it’s still below. On the journey to Mars, probably on a ship much smaller than the ISS, you have none of that
- Radiation on Mars: Mars does not have any significant magnetosphere (magnetic field) like Earth does, and the atmosphere at the surface has about 1% of Earth’s surface atmosphere denisty. Consequently the radiation problem is nearly as bad as outer space unless you spend all your time underground (which is kind of infeasible)
- Rockets and Space are Insanely Expensive: “One challenge is the extreme cost of transporting building materials to the Martian surface, which by the 2010s was estimated to be about US$2 million per brick.[6]” (from Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_habitat)
- Not in the video, but no better propulsion technology than chemical rockets, ion thrusters, and MAYBE rudimentary solar sails will ever exist. Fusion is too hot for any materials you could make. Hyperspace and warp drive are mere fantasies
- The dirt is filled with toxic perchlorates which would contaminate all the construction and cause lung disease besides being toxic to crops
- How will you get all the construction equipment and materials to Mars?
- How will you ever get more than a few dozens of people at most to Mars
- Again, there is no air (no, you can’t geoengineer or terraform it. That is so far beyond human technological capacity it’s just laughable)
- All construction of habitats would have to be done in spacesuits while being bombarded with ionizing radiation
They make the point that even the day the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs landed was a nicer day than any day on Mars, since mammals, plants, insects and other life SURVIVED it
Estimates are that a self-sustaining high tech civilization would require 500 million to 1 billion colonists, but we can’t even get to 100….
As well, there are few launch windows, when Earth and Mars are making approaches to each other and travel time would be 6-9 months in a tiny can, unlike the 3 days to the moon, which we can launch to every day
It’s all a Big Lie, a delusion, a fantasy. That seems like enough for now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOm_ucvQKRY&t=696s
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#astronomy #atmosphere #civilization #climateChange #colonization #elonMusk #habitat #humanLife #Mars #NASA #politics #radiation #science #scienceFiction #space #spaceFlight #toxic -
I wish I could convince south Asian (and all dark-skinned) women their natural skin and hair colours are beautiful -- they don't need to use sometimes dangerous chemicals to try to look European. But I can't overcome the huge volume of Western media full of White people.
#southasia #asia #black #brown #darkskinned #white #fair #beauty #beautiful #beautyproducts #danger #chemicals #mercury #steroids #toxic
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Typical comment on Reddit (actual quote):
"My worst kind of peiple [sic] are the one who always complain about other people complaining."
#SocialMedia #Toxic -ity
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🗺️ For the past few days, this year's Finalists have been submitting their #games from around the world.
🎮Today is the last day to submit their games and we can't wait to send them to the judging panel. Winners will share a $10,000 prize pool.
📣 Thank you to everybody for your support and participation -- we are eager to share what you have created!🥳
#VideoGames #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev #toxify #nonprofit #PublicHealth #culture #noAI #zuzai #sociology #psychology #education #toxic @stopTDV @gamingagainstv @[email protected]
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A lot of ‘recycled’ plastic is being burned overseas – and causing widespread pollution linked to health problems. #Airpollution #Burningplasticwaste #China #Indonesia #Plastic #Pollution #Recycling #Toxic #Wasteexportban #Wasteexports
https://iwpost.com/a-lot-of-recycled-plastic-is-being-burned-overseas-and-causing-widespread-pollution-linked-to-health-problems/?fsp_sid=12980 -
Perhaps a safer subject to share today than my last, drowned creature. I realize I may be one of the few people who get super excited about rocks but perhaps people will find my realgar and orpiment specimens interesting. They, like the afforementioned defunct creature, are also very poisonous. #Minerals #Realgar #Orpiment #Toxic #Arsenic #Rocks
Yes, I handled arsenic compounds today when I finally opened up My Precious from a LOT of packaging wrap. Washed my hands very carefully several times. I had to persuade the vendor these 3 pieces I bought from him 3 years ago were very toxic and needed a lot of wrapping for me to take.
He likely was hired as a Tucson local to work at the show venue off Lester Avenue, part of the annual gem & mineral shows. Is Chinese and barely speaks any English. He certainly had little knowledge of the minerals he sold. Pretty sure he thought I was a crazy lady trying to pantomime my concern about touching these.
Anyway, just got some deep, clear acrylic boxes so I could unwrap and put these inside right away. So glad to know there had been little if any oxidation and light damage over the years. The bright yellow is orpiment and the dark orange to red crystals are Realgar. Woot!
Now I have to start getting serious about setting up my real camera with real macro lens to start photographing my collection more seriously.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🔥🫁 Wildfire smoke carries particles and #toxic #chemicals that travel deep into #lungs, enter the bloodstream, and affect the #heart, #brain, and developing fetuses.
Researchers found that even moderate recurring #smoke exposure raises risks of #stroke, #cancer, and #autoimmune #disease. A #Stanford team projects 1.9 million excess deaths from #wildfire smoke in the #USA between 2026 and 2055.
#airquality #pm25 #publichealth #health #climate #climatechange #asthma #cardiovascular #environment #pregnancy #science
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📣 Announcing the judging panel for the 2026 Toxify Game Design Challenge!
🧐 This panel of experts in game design and/or trauma-informed practices will score & critique the games submitted by this year's Finalists. Winning games will share a $10,000 USD prize pool.
📆 The Finalists will submit their completed #toxify games by July 28th.
🌐 https://toxify.org/judges/index.html#judges
#gamedesign #gamedev #contest #indiegame #TraumaInformed #nonprofit #games #toxic #GameStudies #prevention #GameJournalism #VideoGames #education #manosphere #ToxicRelationships #noAI
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"The #social-media industry spent a decade making its #toxic practices legally and politically untouchable. The children, parents, and loved ones of those harmed are now demanding #accountability. The question is whether #policymakers will respond before the #AI industry replicates the same model."
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mr3xivszk22i -
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jul/18/andrew-tristan-tate-arrested-miami. If this meant the end of the "manosphere", it would be a matter for rejoicing. Unfortunately, I suspect that others will continue where the #Tate brothers have left off, & - in their absence - #toxic #masculinity will still thrive, as long as the #social, #economic & #cultural forces that maintain it in existence are unchecked. The Tates will simply be martyrs to their pernicious #ideology.
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Leave it to the #NewYorkPost to point out upsides of #toxic #rain while historically championing #motorist interests
https://nypost.com/2026/07/17/us-news/dirty-rain-will-dump-toxin-riddled-water-onto-nyc-but-theres-an-upside-experts/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost_lifestyle&fbclid=Iwb21leATH2QhjbGNrBMfZAmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHi_tZS7SYgEgIOBYpXQAQ6ZWa_fGcvOJzUDt7E6Fz4sA2p3t877yyx3FNi7__aem_rYVX5MO_RaXZyKNHmNtUdg #wildfires #climate #canada #airquality #nyc -
‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ Anchors India’s Strongest Post-Pandemic First Half at the Box Office
#Variety #Asia #BoxOffice #Global #News #Border2 #DhurandharTheRevenge #Ramayana #Toxichttps://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/dhurandhar-india-box-office-h1-2026-1236814649/
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Distant #wildfires cast long, #toxic shadow over #Maine
https://www.centralmaine.com/2026/07/15/distant-wildfires-cast-long-toxic-shadow-over-maine/Prevailing winds have been directing more wildfire smoke to New England in recent years, experts say.
