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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 2h

Indoctrinating the youths today.

Central thesis: bureaucracy does many good things, actually.

Corollary: the alternatives are far worse.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 21h

Heavy metals bioaccumulate in plants all the time, from normal soil and from polluted soil. When you take the plant and refine it down to a supplement, you concentrate everything. Not saying there isn’t the possibility of contamination during processing, but I wouldn’t just assume it.

Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 21h

FWIW, when Consumer Reports started looking at lead in protein powder a few years ago, the subsequent scholarly follow-up yielded much less alarming results. Not saying the new CR work is bad, but I’m waiting to see how it’s received by the toxicology community. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

A human health risk assessment of heavy metal ingestion among consumers of protein powder supplements

Keywords: Protein powder, Supplements, Risk assessment, Heavy metals

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 1d

HA. As I used to tell my journalism students, you don’t know what people believe; you only know what they say. The distinction is particularly meaningful here, @dawgnation.bsky.social.

www.dawgnation.com/football/kir...

ATHENS — Kirby Smart still believes he was in the right in terms of what he was signaling during Georgia’s win over Auburn.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man, I made that video at the nadir of my major depressive episode and I just barely got through it, I was sure it was the worst thing I’d ever done. I literally didn’t even watch it back after editing it. Glad to see it was useful to at least someone!

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 2d

This kind of headline formulation ought to be beneath NPR.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 3d

NIGHT BIRD!

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 3d

Great color

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 4d

We were chatting under the basketball arena in our commencement garb when a student rushed over and asked, “Is anybody here a doctor?” Jeff replied, “…of math?”

(A graduate had passed out and the situation was well in hand. Dr. Denny gave all for his students. And he was sneaky hilarious.)

Jeff Denny, Mercer professor of mathematics, dies Sunday at 53 -

www.mercercluster.com

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 5d

You don’t think it’s possible Ari was trying to get a rise out of the guy?

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 6d

Felt cute thought I’d post something smutty

Me in a cornfield next to some corn smut

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 7d

Oh yeah at room temperature

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 9d

Like a firework!

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 10d

huh

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 12d

This what the internet once was and could be again if we are penitent.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 12d

“Cringe” is a you problem.

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Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social · 12d

I hear you on the reputation singles but I feel like the rest of the album had aged quite well?

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