decision to use Greek yoghurt as protein base for my daily smoothie: justified

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...

Aw, people said don't adopt a bear and my friend did that without any problems right before they stopped answering their phone or their email and stopped showing up at work.

I have to say their Halloween diorama--bones on the front lawn--is on point.

8. Also the route to domestication will be weird because foxes aren't true pack animals like wolves; they have family structure (sometimes) but also they like solitude (sometimes)

9. Can't Stress This Enough, Don't Adopt A Fox

5. You Should Not Adopt A Fox

6. Foxes will likely not be ready for true domestication anytime soon, like maybe decades at best

7. Seriously Though Don't Adopt A Fox

3. specifically they are becoming human-sociable at a near-exponential rate, which is... a big deal, evolutionary-scientifically speaking

4. but that doesn't mean they've (yet) picked up trainable instincts, which is important if you don't want them pooping just anywhere

since this has blown up a bit, a few addendums:

1. foxes are not anywhere near domesticated *yet* thankyouverymuch, they're just kinda on the way there

2. yes I know about the Russian fox experiment, what's wild about right now is that foxes are self-selecting much faster than that experiment ran

all of these dorks look like the guy who freaks out and flips the table when he loses a game

"wow that's like Max Payne!" Max Payne is "what if HARD BOILED but game." "this reminds me of THE MATRIX!" the Wachowskis freely admit they lifted from HARD BOILED. "this is like the Scorcese movie with the corrupt cops?" THE DEPARTED, remaking INFERNAL AFFAIRS, which owes its existence to HARD BOIL

There aren't many HARD BOILED reaction videos on YouTube (because it's been scarce for so long) but there are a couple, and it's about every thirty or forty seconds where the reactor says "oh, man, that's like [a thing which was literally stealing from HARD BOILED]"

and, as many others have already pointed out, a lot of the "money" is circular, with company A, B and C transferring "fifty billion dollars" in a circle amongst themselves

also, let's all give props to Sabretooth, because they've tried to rehabilitate him as a hero multiple times and it never takes, because everybody knows the appeal of Sabretooth is that he is "what if Wolverine was just a total piece of shit"

this is something the Krakoa era occasionally touched on - the Sabretooth mini in particular, where it became clear there were different rules for Proper X-Men and rank-and-file losers, was especially good about this

I hate to have to say this again, but now - if you're of a certain age - EVERY year is going to be brutal. We're well into the boomer die-off and the early Xer deaths are starting to hit too.

oh, the fact that they are *definitely on their way* to domestication is not the same thing as being *domesticable right now*

The thing about Apocalypse is not only that he is a monstrous eugenicists, but also, crucially, he is very, very stupid - an "evolutionist" who does not understand that you can have beneficial traits that do not come with, like, long knives.

#TheTwen2ie5 day 14:

"The Spark" by Kabin Crew and Lisdoonvarna Crew (2024)

the kids are all right

reading how foxes are self-selecting now, on an evolutionary basis, for "sociable with humans" and then seeing a flood of "this fox decided to be fwiends with me" videos and it's like foxes finally decided that that one particular group of wolves had the right idea when they decided to become dogs

Far, far too many X-Men villains have been "redeemed" because writers or fans thought they were cool rather than because they deserved redemption, and the Krakoa era was absolutely the worst about this

they literally did the first one at the end of Krakoa

Bari Weiss truly has Ted Cruz level haters. I keep seeing people who are like “I knew her when she was nine and I fucking hated her” lol

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

"i gotta say I was talking to a raven the other day and they're seriously trying to get in on the pet angle, the problem is not enough humans think they're cute, and here we are with the humans literally writing songs for millennia about how cute we are. we've been fools, fools I say"

"look guys this is really simple. either we do this or the fucking raccoons do it. it's gonna be one of us eating out of garbage cans and one of us getting soft beds and indoor temperature control and toys. if you want the garbage can, more power to you. tell me sometime how the raccoons are doing"