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Robert Marston

@BeholdNewThings

Christ-follower, husband, dad, people-lover, collector of tools... wannabe geek. Aɴᴄᴏʀᴀ Iᴍᴘᴀʀᴏ. "Behold, new things have come" 2 Cor 5:17b

 Ventura County, CA (USA)
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Joined August 2008
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Is plant-based plastic really better for the environment? The Plant Based Products Council says yes, it can be. pbpc.com/better-for-the-envi… #plasticbags #CaliforniaPlasticBan #onetimeuse #California
Are Plant-Based Products Really Better for the Environment?

Are Plant-Based Products Really Better for the Environment?

Much has been discussed about the actual environmental benefits of plant-based products. Many articles and think-pieces have misinterpreted basic facts

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What about microplastic pollution (how long with "compostable" fragments persist in soil? in water? in the atmosphere?) What about PFAS and other additives?
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Riley Gaines
@Riley_Gaines_25 Aug 2024
Reminder that a dog has more rights than women in Afghanistan and other Islamic countries. A dog can bark without getting imprisoned.
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100,000+ people w/ cancer have sued Monsanto/@Bayer over this toxic product, and yet it is STILL sold at @HomeDepot and @Lowes. Sign your name to demand that #Roundup is removed from shelves. #GetRoundupOut actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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If it doesn’t help, why bathe in it? seths.blog/2018/02/ignore-su…
Ignore sunk clowns

Ignore sunk clowns

Yes there was supposed to be a clown at your birthday party. No, he didn’t show up. That’s a bummer. But! But your friends are all here, and the sun is shining and you’ve got cake and a game of pin…

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First grow soil, then nourish crops and forests, then turn wastelands into fuel/soil farms (parks) using biochar and wastewater
Robert Marston (@BeholdNewThings) profile pictureRobert Marston@BeholdNewThings22 Jan 2021
Replying to @elonmusk
Folks, forests of trees are only temporary carbon sinks at best. Turn greenhouse gases into biochar (soil) and it will not gasify for a LONG time.
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@NBCNews28 Nov 2020
More than 8 months into the pandemic, the very isolation meant to protect nursing home residents is also contributing to their deaths. Confined to their rooms and largely cut off from visitors, many residents are experiencing mental and physical decline. nbcnews.to/39n1900
Hidden in a pandemic: Elderly in nursing homes are dying from isolation

Hidden in a pandemic: Elderly in nursing homes are dying from isolation

More than eight months into the pandemic, the very isolation that is meant to protect nursing home residents from Covid-19 is also contributing to their deaths. Confined to their rooms and largely...

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Interested in exploring and discussing the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) and Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD)
Robert Marston (@BeholdNewThings) profile pictureRobert Marston@BeholdNewThings20 Nov 2020
The National Map hydrography data stewardship: what is it and why is it important? USGS Pub pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication… via @USGS_Pubs
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The National Map hydrography data stewardship: what is it and why is it important? USGS Pub pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication… via @USGS_Pubs
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I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one. —Martin Luther
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"Currently, CA taxes scooters at roughly 30x the rate it taxes Uber and Lyft rides." comotionnews.com/2020/04/22/…
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Robin Young@hereandnowrobin5 Apr 2020
“I didn’t know we HAD this many countries in the world!!l “ #trump on countries affected by #Covid_19
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Thanks to all those on the front lines, and HFT folk who made this work in 5 days harborfreight.com/hospital-d… #COVID2019 #COVID #impactforgood
If you work at a hospital with a 24 hour emergency room in need of these items, please ask the office in charge of procurement at your hospital to visit this URL hf.tools/ppe-request so they can provide us with the information we’ll need to determine if we can make a donation.
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Was just walkin n sneezin @ UT Austin, TX and found this #MonarchWaystation
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This is so Buckley :-) Love how many #dogpeople returned the ball
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"Journalists should also be mindful of the tendency to blame the victim and to attribute agency to inanimate objects"
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@CityLab11 Dec 2019
Safety advocates have long complained that media outlets tend to blame pedestrians and cyclists who are hit by cars. Research suggests they're right, writes @Richard_Florida. trib.al/e3hW4wU
"During the night of November 9th, 1938, SS men came to our house about 1 a.m. and smashed all the windows... All over Dortmund, entire residences were demolished and their inhabitants beaten up. A few were even killed. The next day my dear father was arrested." #Kristallnacht
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The Telegraph
@Telegraph7 Nov 2019
A poll of 16-24 year-olds found that 28 per cent had never heard of Stalin, almost half had never heard of Lenin and 70% had never heard of Mao Tse Tung telegraph.co.uk/politics/201…
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