Both parties are clearly not the same. #VoteBlue
More you might like
Zen Master level trolling from President Biden, with a timely assist from Community Notes.
Sorry to everyone who’s enjoyed the last 130 years of science and culture journalism, but Disney needs the money to fund Toy Story 9
Black History Month: Ruth Ellis
Lesbian centenarian Ruth Ellis was born in the 19th century, and lived into the 21st. Despite having no queer role-models, Ruth came out as a lesbian in her teens, and in the 1930s, she began a relationship with Babe Franklin.
Ruth and Babe were together for 30 years, with their home in Detroit forming a centre for queer Black life, and a refuge for queer Black people in the years before the Civil Rights movement and Stonewall.
In 1999, when she turned 100, Ruth was celebrated as the USA’s oldest living out lesbian.
Learn more
[Image:
Ruth as an elderly woman, wearing a t-shirt which reads ‘DYKE MARCH’]
i'm having so much fun
okay wow it gets. Way Worse.
I disagree that the original is bad... I love that song 🤣🤣
But like... not only does Fall Out Boy's version have some... interesting lyric choices, they also did not seem to even realize that the original didn't just list off random stuff that rhymes
Like, it's in chronological order from 1949 to 1989, because it's supposed to feel like you're constantly being bombarded with things year after year.
Fall Out Boy just picked random things with no apparent order. Like, Prince and the Queen die? That makes it sound like it was the same year, and also ignores that whole thing where in 2016 a ton of celebrities seemed to die.
Also, "England's got a new Queen" is a line from the original... mentioning the Queen again seems like it would be a throwback, so like... putting it together with Prince doesn't work
Also... it's supposed to be events from 1989 to 2023... Metroid was 1986 lol and SSRIs came out in 1987
Like... there's a lot to say about this song, but the messed up timeline is bothering me 🤣
Collagen craze drives deforestation and rights abuses
For the first time an investigation has linked collagen powder to violence against Indigenous peoples in Brazilian forests
ALTThe stench arrives before the lorries do. They are carrying skins that were stripped from cattle carcasses days ago. Flies are everywhere.
The lorries’ destination is Amparo, a small industrial town in São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil. Here, Rousselot, a company owned by the Texan business Darling Ingredients, extracts collagen – the active ingredient in health supplements at the centre of a global wellness craze.
But while collagen’s most evangelical users claim the protein can improve hair, skin, nails and joints, slowing the ageing process, it has a dubious effect on the health of the planet. Collagen can be extracted from fish, pig and cattle skin, but behind the wildly popular “bovine” variety in particular lies an opaque industry driving the destruction of tropical forests and fuelling violence and human rights abuses in the Brazilian Amazon.
An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the Guardian, ITV and O Joio e O Trigo has found that tens of thousands of cattle raised on farms damaging tropical forests were processed at abattoirs connected to international collagen supply chains.
Some of this collagen can be traced all the way to Nestlé-owned Vital Proteins, a major producer of collagen supplements championed by the actress Jennifer Aniston. Vital Proteins is sold globally – including online on Amazon, in Walmart stores in the US, in Holland & Barrett and Boots in the UK and in Costco in both countries.
The investigation – the first to connect bovine collagen with tropical forest loss and violence against Indigenous peoples – found at least 2,600 sq km of deforestation linked to the supply chains of two Brazil-based collagen operations with connections to Darling: Rousselot and Gelnex, which is in the process of being acquired by Darling for $1.2bn. It is unclear how much of this deforestation, which was calculated by the Center for Climate Crime Analysis, is linked to Vital Proteins.
Also collagen supplements like. Literally do not work. Not that this would be remotely okay if they did, but also like. They really really don't.
As someone who works with a lot of biologists and biochemists you can mention collagen supplements to them and watch their eyes immediately go red with rage as they launch into an impromptu lecture on how THAT'S NOT HOW THAT WORKS. Just because you consume collagen doesn't mean your body can actually USE IT it like that. You literally might as well just take capsules of protein powder instead, at least then your body doesn't have to work to try and break it down itself. Which is what it will do to the collagen. It won't just go "oh free collagen" and use it. It'll break it down into smaller proteins and amino acids best it can and then use those for literally whatever and dispose of the rest. It will not provide or produce more collagen specifically. You are just taking the shittiest most inefficient protein powder possible.
Collagen supplements are a scam and a lie. A scam that is apparently also contributing to environmental harm and racist exploitation and violence.