How Alice Hamilton Waged a One-Woman Campaign to Get the Lead Out of Everything
At first a crusader for workplace safety, the trained physician railed against the use of the toxic and ubiquitous material
By Daniel Stone
More information about Alice Hamilton:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Hamilton
After Trump signed an executive order authorizing sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) officials & supporters, 79 ICC member countries issued a statement reaffirming their “unwavering support” for the ICC.
LESSON: Governments can stand up to Trump's madness.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/12/world-responds-trumps-targeting-international-criminal-court
US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on February 6 authorizing sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) officials and others supporting the court’s work. The ICC’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, was the first individual targeted with these sanctions.
I'm glad I'm finally able to work on @loops again, now that Pixelfed is becoming more stable.
Loops presents a lot of exciting challenges like the FYP algo, federation, self-hosting, federated discovery, bandwidth optimizations and opt-in centralized double blind contact discovery.
Just like with Pixelfed and the LitePub, Ephemeral Stories and Comment Control innovations I made, Loops will be pushing the boundaries for our mainstream TikTok alternative.
P.S: We're hiring.
When street art meets nature, the results are stunning. Some artists blend their murals seamlessly with the landscape, while others use real plants to bring their work to life. In Ecuador, El Decertor painted a mural that merges with the natural surroundings. In Martinique, Nuxuno Xän turned a tree trunk into part of a painted…
Let's play a game.
Don't say PowerPoint presentation, say slidedeck
Don't say Word, say text document
Don't say Photoshop, say image editing
Don't say Excel, say spreadsheet
Don't say...
Language is important. When corporate companies own the names of the tasks or the digital items you create, you have become a cog in their branding machine.
Ich teile nicht die Positionen der CDU/CSU und der FDP. Muss ich in der Demokratie auch nicht.
Was neu für mich ist, ist die Verachtung, die sie den Millionen Menschen entgegenbringen, die gegen ihre Positionen demonstrieren.
Wann genau begann diese Verachtung der wehrhaften Zivilgesellschaft?