George Huxley

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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

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-alice-hamilton-waged-one-woman-campaign-get-lead-out-everything-180985960/

More information about Alice Hamilton:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Hamilton

#occupational_medicine #womeninStem

Happy #GalentinesDay! Today is a special day dedicated to the magic of friendship with the special ladies in your life, and we're going to post a few lovely depictions of friendship goals which might inspire you to celebrate with your pals...

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

World Responds to Trump’s Targeting of 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.

Human Rights Watch

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.

Any prayers coming from the White House are automatically caught by my spam filter.
When Street Art Meets Nature (40 Photos) | STREET ART UTOPIA

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.

#bigtech #DataSociety #academicchatter

I had no idea Wikipedia allowed editors to use the Heritage Foundation's extremist garbage-spewing as a trustworthy source in a journalistic sense. So it's gratifying to see that Wikipedia is taking steps to forbid editors from citing it as evidence of anything.

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?