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Is information that profoundly reframes the problem. Portraying ...

2024-08-23T00:42:05Z

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Is information that profoundly reframes the problem.

Portraying microplastics as colorful confetti bits places it within discourse about "recycling" as diversionary tactic, circle-jerk arguments about individual vs corporate responsibility.

Recognizing that microplastics are mostly tire dust is to confront the issue that these are being produced my mechanical processes of our transportation system. Moreover, aggravated by choices to lean in to heavier (*cough* EV *cough*) machines.

Sitting with fact that fourth estate's depiction of ...

2024-08-22T23:20:57Z

Sitting with fact that fourth estate's depiction of microplastics is typically a photograph of a (white) hand or finger dusted with festive or mostly bright white specks, even geometric pieces of gaily colored confetti.

See news coverage of recent discovery of microplastics in human brains, as an example.

Meanwhile, the vast majority (over three quarters) of microplastics are tire rubber dust.

Imagine if articles about microplastics opened with hands full of dark, misshapen, particulate muck.

For anyone who missed the history. There were rises in chronic ...

2024-06-14T03:20:50Z

For anyone who missed the history.

There were rises in chronic illness following the 1889 and 1918 influenza pandemics.

Those so harmed aren't mentioned by Niemöller. But then, neither are trans folk or the Romani people.

Those they came for before those for whom first they came are those they're coming for now:

Those who do not comply with workerist glorification.

Those who do not comply with gender essentialism.

Those who do not comply with border exclusions.

Disabled. Trans. Refugees.