Dr. Jen M
@awesomebiota.bsky.social
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FT Partnership Queen ✍️, PT Bio Prof 🧪, mycologist 🍄, knitter 🧶, urban wanderer 🥾, captain of the Thoop Troop 🍲, ice cream conoisseur 🍦. Follower of Floaty Boaties 🛳️⛴️🚢. Living in Halifax, NS ☕️ https://ko-fi.com/awesomebiota
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Also, it’s going to be another terrible sunrise this morning. Just awful.
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Teeny tiny Floaty Boaty alert! Le Boreal is here today, one of the smallest cruise ships to stop here. It holds only 264 passengers (and she full!). Isn’t she *cute*?!
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Mine are all in my office, which is why losing my job for any reason would be a nightmare. The art on the walls and the trinkets on the bookcase (which now features FIVE books, thankyouverymuch)
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I’ve done…a lot of mini bricks. Lol. I usually do “animals and boats” 😂 I’ve done cranes in front of a waterfall, the titanic, a pirate ship, lobster, puffin, hummingbird, stegosaurus… one day I want to do the LEGO “Endurance” (ship) but at $350 it’s a big Yikes. Lol
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It also has to do with where/how lead is stored in animals vs plants. We have circulating lead but we can also sequester it in fat and the liver, which is rarely where protein comes from. Plants don’t usually have storage organs like that, so their cells are more evenly effected.
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They are very, very wee. Lol. I think I still have 1 intact nail left. All the rest of them are already chipped and cracked
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4.5mm square for the 1x1 squares. Lol
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I’m going to make a plaque at the end that describes it as a neurotic rooster, that’s for sure.
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Nope! Mini-bricks. The 1x1 squares are 4.5mm across and 6mm tall
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lol. I only did 8 steps tonight! I’m moving slower now because my fingertips hurt…
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You’ll have to wait to find out! I forgot how long it takes me to swear-snap together almost 3,000 mini-bricks. Lol. So many broken nails…
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Done to Step 30 (of 74). Can you see it yet?!
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Monday…wait, today is Fake Monday, aka Real Tuesday, Thrifty Bits: thrifted dress and cardigan! Earrings made by the great Terri Power, of course.
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Optimum Standard (one of their "you should only consume this 1x/wk" brands) is sold at Supplement King in Park Lane Mall.

Just because "it's the USA" doesn't mean it doesn't apply to Canadian products because of (formerly...) free trade agreements. The supplement market is the wild west.
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Sorry, if the RCMP is claiming they only shot the person once, that's not correct.

I should have known that HRP couldn't have found the person with a bullet if the person was the size of a billboard and standing 2 feet away.
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You may hope, but Health Canada has less oversight over "health supplements" than you would think (or hope). I would guess that anything found in the USA would be broadly applicable to Canadian products and standards as well. Happy to be proven wrong via third-party testing, though!
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On the radio call Halifax Fire said there were 3 very clear and distinct gunshot wounds: "center of mass" (abdomen somewhere), stomach, and leg. So if HRP is claiming the person was shot once by police...no they weren't.
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At the very bottom of the CR article they do those "related articles" links, and there should be one there about lead in spices in general, and another for lead in cinnamon specifically. They show which brands are worst, and which are best!
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They do have a set of graphics at the bottom of the brands they tested and how often you should consume each one. There are a couple that they say you can take daily!

I had forgotten that Consumer Reports also did a thing about lead in cinnamon a couple yrs ago (bad news if you like cinnamon. lol)
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Oh it gets even better (I'm now about 12 paragraphs into the linked article). The second-worst product for lead (1200%) also has 2x more the recommended limit for cadmium, a known carcinogen. Don't take Huel’s Black Edition plant-based protein powder either.
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The absolute worst offender, at 1600% higher than the daily recommended amount of lead, was Naked Nutrition’s Vegan Mass Gainer
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Lucky for me, I'm not allowed to have protein supplements (and I'm even cautioned away from protein, period).

I wouldn't necessarily recommend my method of preventing lead poisoning because it comes with the rather heavy side-effect of kidney failure, but it's one way of doing it.
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A *very* interesting thread about the level of lead found in protein supplements (more in a single serving than is safe to consume in an entire day). Most interesting to me: more in plant-based protein powers. Like...significantly more lead.
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my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
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EHS has arrived, and the person has 3 distinct gunshot wounds. Patient care has been handed over to EHS and the scene has been handed over to HRP.

I think that's the extent of all I'll ever know for this call! Avoid the area for the next several hours if you can.