QOTD 10/7/2026

Back in the 1980s, tobacco giants began aggressively expanding into manufactured foods, buying up some of the biggest food firms. For example, Philip Morris used to own Kraft General Foods and R.J. Reynolds owned Nabisco. This was the era when ultra-processed food production really ramped up in the U.S., [Laura] Schmidt says.

She says tobacco firms had spent decades amassing research on how to make cigarettes more pleasurable and addictive with chemical additives. And she says internal company records show they deliberately applied this knowledge to food manufacturing.

“The very technologies that were used to figure out how to optimize the addictive properties of nicotine using added sugar and artificial flavorings - that core technology was transferred from the tobacco industry to ultra-processed food development,” Schmidt says.

Maria Goddoy, “Big Tobacco hooked us on ultra-processed foods. It might teach us how to cut back” (June 9, 2026)

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the Irish-American pagan secular-hijabi xitter user who threatened to firebomb the covid-cautious lesbian bar was just screenshotted/featured in a vegan gc I'm in. apparently veganism is colonial and anti-Irish

@mxchara no I just like occult stuff

@mxchara thanks, I'm an avid PG volunteer and reader so I'll check this out

challenging myself to grow a mustache

@mxchara link?

updated pronouns

so apparently Lizzie Borden's family home is a B&B now

hey pals it is once again wintertime in ye olde klanada and our neighbors living outside need to fight to stay warm each night. i'd like to raise money to buy propane tanks, winter clothing, candles, and insulated tarps. i already dropped off a substantial number of sweaters and long pants yesterday at my local encampment as it was nearing freezing at 7 pm

as always you can etransfer me at elsabrout32@gmail.com with tent city in the description, thank you so much!! last year i was able to buy so many propane heaters and tarps and clothes with your donations!!

edit tysm folks we have raised $350 so far!!!

QOTD 10/6/2026

The American Beverage Association sued to overturn a soda tax in Santa Cruz, which it has so far failed to do. Santa Cruz Local uncovers details of the group’s earlier success squashing a soda tax effort in Watsonville, a neighbouring city. The Santa Cruz lawsuit has far-reaching consequences: the recent victory for the city could unlock the ability for charter cities across California to tax sugary beverages. We found that the soda industry recruited and leveraged the credibility of prominent Black and Latino leaders to amplify opposition against public health taxes within their own communities. We have also identified five other lawsuits. The ABA was involved in four of them.

Thin Lei Win et al., “Big Food vs. the People” (July 22, 2026)

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@FoxFunction what languages are you learning

@Nigel_Purchase go vegan tbh

imagining showing up to class to take notes on a tiny laptop running windows xp

if I wanted to completely destroy American civil infrastructure, I would wage an influence campaign to convince Republicans that furries cannot be trusted around any IT, systems administration, or tech leadership positions

the Oak Ridge study that showed "criminally insane psychopaths become more dangerous with therapy" was based on psychiatric abuse that was later ruled to be torture by the Supreme Court of Canada

https://onlinelibrary....

@catsalad what

I kinda want to grow out my facial hair a bit but I don't want it to interfere with the masks I wear when I go out

@ug why is the Buddha in the thumbnail what does he have to do with this