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Likely Jan Lukas

Finally! ❤️ A knowledgable scientist breaks down why Canada's AQHI is incredibly useless and even perhaps dangerous framing wrt wildfire smoke!

docs.google.com/document/d/1s9

Thank you, @jeffgilchrist !

mstdn.science/@jeffgilchrist/1

#air
#AirPollution
#AQ
#AirQuality
#AQHI
#Canada
#AQI
#wildfires
#WildfireSmoke
#WildfireSafety
#safety
#particulate
#VOC
#formaldehyde
#toxic
#smoking
#lungs
#breathing
#PPE

Google DocsUnderstanding Canadian Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) & Wildfire SmokeUnderstanding Canadian Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) & Wildfire Smoke Written by: Jeff Gilchrist, PhD Link to this document: https://tinyurl.com/AQHIwildfire Last updated: June 9, 2025 This document helps describe the Canadian AQHI in relation to wildfire smoke, describes the dangers of partic...
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Wen

Concerned about your cooking ware that might be poisoning you? Don’t worry the manufacturers are muddying the waters to increase any confusion

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

The pans are likely not “nontoxic” some independent testing and research suggests. Nor are they even “ceramic” – at least not in the way the public broadly thinks of ceramics. Now, regulators are investigating some of the pan sellers’ claims.

Graphic from article. A red, presumably ceramic shallow pan and lid against a background of different colours and a prominent if wiggly question mark
#Cooking#Pots#Pans
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NotImpressed

#Israel #toxic
@palestine

Some good news
"...Israeli companies since 2023 are finding it increasingly difficult everywhere around the world to attract new customers, leading to advertising-cost increases in the billions"
"Despite Meta’s unprecedented support for Israel during the war in Gaza, including its complicity in mass censorship of pro-Palestinian content and criticism of Israel...global consumer sentiment is turning sharply against Israeli brands"

dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data

www.dropsitenews.comLeaked Data From Meta Reveal Israeli Companies Are Struggling To Find CustomersFor the year 2025, the Israeli government announced it would be earmarking an additional $150 million toward global public relations, an unprecedented increase in spending that comes alongside a striking collapse in perception for Israel around the world.
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Succotash 'n' Smiles

"Fast forward to today, and we see the long-term effects of that post-9/11 mindset, which range in severity from harmless to worrisome... The #toxic culture of division, born from years of fear-driven decisions, now defines much of #American life... We must come together and focus on mending this rift that is tearing this country, I’d say even the world, apart."

New #Blog Post - From #Fear to Connection: Rebuilding What 9/11 Took From Us.

succotashnsmiles.com/06092025/

succotashnsmiles.com06/09/2025 – From Fear to Connection: Rebuilding What 9/11 Took From Us – SUCCOTASHNSMILES.COM
#succotashnsmiles#anger#nowwhat
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Joseph Lim :mastodon:

#Toxic tide still flows
" #PRC was considered te world's primary electronic & toxic #waste #dumping ground b4 Beijing cracked down in 2018. As a result, such op'ns migrated to #Thailand & #SEAsia.. a month doesn't pass w/o reports of #illegal waste tpt, #locals complaining abt #pollution, or fire accidents caused by #recycling factories, many of which owned by #Chinese #investors.. #government needs to ramp up #guardrails to prevent these illegal shipments from entering🇹🇭"
bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinio

Bangkok Post · Toxic tide still flowsBy Editorial
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DoomsdaysCW

The smoke from #Canada’s #wildfires may be even more #toxic than usual

A legacy of #mining means that #ToxicMetals could be carried along plumes of smoke.

by Matt Simon, June 5, 2025

"More than 200 wildfires are blazing across central and western Canada, half of which are out of control because they’re so hard for crews to access, forcing 27,000 people to evacuate. Even those nowhere near the wildfires are suffering as smoke swirls around Canada and wafts south, creating hazardous air quality all over the midwestern and eastern parts of the United States. The smoke is even reaching Europe.

"As the climate changes, the far north is drying and warming, which means wildfires are getting bigger and more intense. The area burned in Canada is now the second largest on record for this time of year, trailing behind the brutal wildfire season of 2023. That year, the amount of #carbon blazed into the atmosphere was about three times the country’s #FossilFuel emissions. And the more carbon that’s emitted from wildfires — in Canada and elsewhere — the faster the #PlanetaryWarming, and the worse the fires.

" 'There’s obviously the #ClimateFeedback concern,' said Mike Waddington, an environmental scientist at McMaster University in Ontario who studies Canada’s forests. 'But increasingly we’re also concerned about the smoke.'

"That’s because there’s much more to wildfire smoke than charred sticks and leaves, especially where these blazes are burning in Canada. The country’s #forests have long been #mined, operations that loaded #soils and #waterways with #ToxicMetals like #lead and #mercury, especially before clean-air standards kicked in 50 years ago. Now everyone downwind of these wildfires may have to contend with that legacy and those pollutants, in addition to all the other nasties inherent in #WildfireSmoke, which are known to exacerbate respiratory and cardiac problems.

" 'You have there the burning of these organic soils resulting in a lot of carbon and a lot of #ParticulateMatter,' said Waddington. 'Now you have this triple whammy, where you have the metals #remobilized in addition to that.'

"What exactly is lurking in the smoke from Canadian wildfires will require further testing by scientists. But an area of particular concern is around the mining city of #FlinFlon, in #ManitobaCanada, which is known to have elevated levels of toxic metals in the landscape, said Colin McCarter, an environmental scientist who studies pollutants at Ontario’s #NipissingUniversity. Flin Flon’s 5,000 residents have been evacuated as a wildfire approaches, though so far no structures have been destroyed.

"But a fire doesn’t need to directly burn mining operations to mobilize toxicants. For example, in #Yellowknife, in Canada’s #NorthwestTerritories, #GoldMining operations between 1934 and 2004 spread #arsenic as far as 18 miles away, adding to a landscape with an already high concentration of naturally occurring arsenic. In a paper published last year, Waddington and McCarter estimated that between 1972 and 2023, wildfires around Yellowknife fired up to 840,000 pounds of arsenic into the atmosphere. Arsenic is a known carcinogen associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and developmental problems, according to the World Health Organization. (After the 2023 #LahainaFire in Maui, officials reported elevated levels of arsenic, lead, and other toxic substances in ash samples. California officials also found lots of lead in smoke from 2018’s #CampFire.)"

Source:
grist.org/climate/canada-wildf

Grist · The smoke from Canada’s wildfires may be even more toxic than usualBy Matt Simon
#WaterIsLife#SoilIsLife#AirIsLife
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@BrodieOnLinux @qdot I find this to be the worst way to decide a #TechStack.

  • If #IT was developed and maintained that way, we'd not have #Linux or even #Windows, most likely not even #CPM & #UNIX because "everyone uses punchcards and tubes, so stop complaining!"...

#NetworkEffects are #toxic when it comes to #SaaS and #proprietary shite, regardless if the bad guys are #discord, #Autodesk, #Adobe, #Apple or #Microsoft for that matter. (Don't even get me started on #SAP & #Oracle!)…

  • I just don't vibe with that appeal and would rather #SelfHost than compromise. If that makes me an outlyer then I'm happy to pay that price!

infosec.space/@kkarhan/1146231

But if I was wrong, I 'd not be called upon as a Linux #Sysadmin and to act as "#BenevolentDictator" in terms of Tech Stack Decisions...

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)@MxVerda@lgbtqia.space @BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social @qdot@buttplug.engineer Well, depending on what you want to develop or communicate there are various options. - Many folks went from #GitHub to @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de / #Codeberg to do their #FLOSS development as it too has #IssueTrackers and means to discuss things without #loginwalled read-only access. Others like @torproject@mastodon.social have their own @gitlab@mastodon.social / #GitLab servers #SelfHosted. - If you want a #Chat then consider #LiberaChat if you don't demand #privacy. Otherwise @delta@chaos.social / #deltaChat and/or #XMPP via @monocles@monocles.social & @gajim@fosstodon.org may be an option. - If you do want some #LoginWalling for some reason, consider @zulip@fosstodon.org / #ZulipChat as it has a nice #threading model that can handle both asynchronous communication and high traffic without becoming unfindable or unarchiveable. Otherwise there's like @RocketChat@fosstodon.org / #RocketChat which also works great by my own experience. Case in point: #discord just makes it more cumbersome and painful than anything. It's basically *#Slack + #MicrosoftTeams, but worse*…
#benevolentdictator
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Manly Blog

Mass mortality events - A hot and polluted ocean

"It's too much. The ocean can't take it … the ecosystem is teetering on collapse."

"It is the biggest "bloom" in almost a decade...The bloom had been caused by an oversupply of nutrients in the water, from runoff, overfishing, and a natural upwelling in the ocean."

"We need to reduce pollution and other pressures on our rivers and coastal waters to make them as resilient as possible. This would include the reduction in nutrient loads from fish farming, agriculture and sewage."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-06-02/hea
#Ocean #rivers #pollution #HABs #Biodiversity #marine #FossilFuels #climate #salmon #agriculture #runoff #coast #sewage #toxic #algalblooms #overfishing

ABC News · Six months of major marine events in south-east TasmaniaBy Penny McLeod
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