#PFO

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Harry after his second year, mindlessly cooking dinner by his Aunt Petunia's side.

Harry: .......*sigh*

Petunia:.....😑

Harry:.......*sigh* .......😞

Petunia, eye twitching: .......

Harry: .....*SIG-

Petunia: "What!?"

Harry: "Why did you never tell me my dad dated Professor Snape?"

Petunia exe has stopped working: "Excuse me?"

Harry no paying attention to her, just stirring the stew: "I mean, I guessed you didn't like talking about my parents but Snape would kind of count as a psuedo-parent right? I mean he's my dad's ex but the Wizarding world is weird so their laws are probably weird so maybe I should have gone to him?"

Petunia, still horribly confused: "I'm sorry?"

Harry: "We don't have to pretend anymore, Petunia. You don't like me. You never have. I don't like you. That's a given. So like....why didn't I go with Snape? Was his and my dad's breakup really that bad?"

Petunia having a crisis: "He was your mother's boyfriend."

Harry: *gasp* "Snape is my double almost parent!"

Petunia: "I don't....what?"

Harry: "I have to tell the club about this...."

Petunia losing her shit: "Club?"

Que Harry telling her everything about the Potter Family Opera so far and though she won't admit it....Petunia is more than a little hooked and feeds Harry so much dirt and false info on Snape when Vernon isn't home.

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What do firefighting foam, non-stick cookware, water-repellent textiles and pesticides all have in common? They all contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS—human-made chemicals that don't break down naturally. It's no wonder, then, that PFAS are now contaminating soil and water and can also be detected in the bodies of humans and animals. The dangers are well known: these forever chemicals can damage the liver, trigger hormonal disorders and cause cancer, to mention just a few of their effects. Researchers in the group under Salvador Pané i Vidal, Professor at ETH Zurich's Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, have developed a new method to break down a subgroup of PFAS called perfluorooctane sulfonates, or PFOS. Due to their toxicity, PFOS are now severely restricted or even banned. The study is published in the journal Small Science.

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Excerpt from this New York Times story:

The Biden administration is designating two “forever chemicals,” man-made compounds that are linked to serious health risks, as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, shifting responsibility for their cleanup to polluters from taxpayers.

The new rule announced on Friday empowers the government to force the many companies that manufacture or use perfluorooctanoic acid, also known as PFOA, and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, known as PFOS, to monitor any releases into the environment and be responsible for cleaning them up. Those companies could face billions of dollars in liabilities.

The pair of compounds are part of a larger family of chemical substances known collectively as PFAS.

The compounds, found in everything from dental floss to firefighting foams to children’s toys, are called forever chemicals because they degrade very slowly and can accumulate in the body and the environment. Exposure to PFAS has been associated with metabolic disorders, decreased fertility in women, developmental delays in children and increased risk of some prostate, kidney and testicular cancers, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

The chemicals are so ubiquitous that they can be detected in the blood of almost every person in the United States. One recent government study discovered PFAS chemicals in nearly half of the nation’s tap water. In 2022, the E.P.A. found the chemicals could cause harm at levels “much lower than previously understood” and that almost no level of exposure was safe.

The announcement follows an extraordinary move last week from the E.P.A. mandating that water utilities reduce the PFAS in drinking water to near-zero levels. The agency has also proposed to designate seven additional PFAS chemicals as hazardous waste.

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About the PFO. I don't know if you're still making content about this or if someone has asked this yet but did someone tell Harry about the rumors of James dating Regulus? If so does he think James left Snape and moved on to Regulus or the other way around?

Ohohohoho man.

Sirius is the one to mention it, but it is very offhandedly. His mind healer said it would be good for him to talk about his brother to other people, and who better than Harry? And of course, Remus, Remus somewhat knew him too, so they mostly tell stories to Harry.

Sirius said there were rumors of the two dating, but he knew they never did but he did confirm that the two had crushes one each other. Harry has no idea where this fits into the PFO timeline but he for sure tells everyone.

The most popular theory going around is that James and Regulus did date, but then Severus caught his eye. So people pretty much think that James was somewhat an airhead who couldn't decide. And somewhat a playboy.

Sirius gets wind of that and immediately is like, "No. No. No. James was dumb. That's a fact, but like he knew what he wanted. He and Regulus did NOT date, but they had crushes on one another. Nothing came of them, though I have no idea why not. I thought they'd be brilliant together!"

Well now the kids think Severus seduced James away from Regulus.

Severus doesn't even know what to say at this point. Anytime he opens his mouth, it somehow makes the whole thing worse.

Harry is getting worried that he'll be just like his dad. A himbo. Harry loves so many people! What would happen if he fell in love with one of them??? Would his affection be so easily won over that he would switch?? He hopes not because he likes to think that love is forever.

All his admirers reassure him that he is not that kind of person.

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I’ve hit this fun little patch of dopamine with making posters for thing, so here’s a couple I’ve made so far. I have some more, but they’re for a project so I’ll need to ask if I can post them here first, but for now enjoy these

Apparently making posters for a fake institute meant I have to make like 50 for different things

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Yahoo News: Research uncovers stunning factor behind nearly 200,000 cases of dementia each year: ‘Toxins for the brain’

For years, health issues, like heart attacks, respiratory problems, and decreased lung function, have been linked to air pollution.

Now, new research has added another disease to the laundry list of health issues that may be caused by dirty air: dementia.

What happened?

CBS News reported that new estimates from researchers published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine showed that annually nearly 188,000 dementia cases in the U.S. may have been caused by air pollution.

The study, one of the latest to spotlight health risks from air pollution, looked at how specific causes of air pollution seem to be more strongly tied to dementia than others.

It indicated exposure to pollution from wildfires and agriculture as having the strongest links to increasing a person’s risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia later in life.

Research findings were based on survey data that spanned decades and is backed by the National Institutes of Health. The data was then combined with air quality modeling, according to CBS.

“They model all sources at once: coal-fired power plants, agriculture, wildfires, traffic — all these different emission sources — and then they turn off the source in the model one at a time. And then they can see the difference in what levels are there with the emissions sources and what are there without them,” Sara Adar, associate chair of epidemiology at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, told CBS News.

Researchers focused on particulate matter with diameters that are generally 2.5 micrometers and smaller in air pollution that is breathable and found that direct emissions aren’t the only concern.

In addition to the smoke directly from wildfires, other toxic molecules travel with the smoke as fires burn through communities. Farming was also found to worsen serious air pollution.

“Farms will release a lot of ammonia gas,” Adar said, “and then in the air with the sunlight and other pollutants out there, they’ll react to make particles, and those particles are what we see are likely toxins for the brain.”

Why are these findings concerning?

With wildfires and agriculture being the leading causes, if we don’t change our habits, we will likely see even more cases of dementia apparently caused by air pollution.

Agriculture is another significant contributor to air pollution, with livestock accounting for 14.5% of human-made planet-heating pollution, according to the United Nations. Overall, agriculture makes up over 11% of this type of pollution, per the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions.

Further, extreme temperatures and less rainfall — both becoming increasingly common, at least in some places, as our planet heats up — make for longer and worse fire seasons, meaning air pollution from wildfires will only worsen as well.

What can I do to help?

To protect ourselves and others from this risk, we must all work to reduce the amount of pollution released into the air.

“Unlike many other common risk factors for dementia (e.g., hypertension, stroke, and diabetes),” the study’s authors wrote, “exposures to air pollution can be modified at the population level, making it a prime target for large-scale prevention efforts.”

We can do this by moving away from single-use plastics, switching from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles, and utilizing clean energy sources whenever possible.