I got gunk in my head and they won’t go Sporks in my head and they won’t go www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t... - ThreadSky

gwillow.me • 36 days ago

I got gunk in my head and they won’t go
Sporks in my head and they won’t go

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-human-brain-may-contain-as-much-as-a-spoons-worth-of-microplastics-new-research-suggests-180985995/

Comments

eagleneedle.bsky.social•35 days ago

Does that explain Trump and Musk's cognitive derangement.

tetleygirl.bsky.social•35 days ago

No the drugs did it

29irati.bsky.social•36 days ago

No lo dicen pero se refieren a dos cerebros privilegiados y de ahí el pavor: son Trump y Musk quienes tienen un indice superlativo de plásticos y desperdicios metálicos, lipidos y gaseosos de todo EEUU:

gdetorre.bsky.social•36 days ago

I am surprised this is coming out in 2025. With the massive research on alzheimers since the 90s, shouldn’t we have heard about this before

ashfae.bsky.social•36 days ago

Well that frikking terrifying.

dan-neil.bsky.social•35 days ago

😮

tetleygirl.bsky.social•35 days ago

I hear your secretary for health also has a worm 🐛 in his brain that has already eaten at half of his

chiliconkarma.bsky.social•35 days ago

I would say yes to immortality purely to learn how evolution will shape around the fact of human behaviour and products.

wendyleighb.bsky.social•36 days ago

📌

leohorishny.bsky.social•35 days ago

It explains a lot of what's going on rn.

clarlune.bsky.social•36 days ago

From this day on, this will be my excuse: "It's the micro plastics!"

nadyes.bsky.social•36 days ago

So we’re hybrids?

david-e-laramy.bsky.social•35 days ago

Re: Microplastics , from the macro to the micro. Two questions: Are they(we), causing Atmospheric rivers, and Strokes in humans? The latter due to a "damming" effect, and the former, condensate accretion? So, basically; we have lint in our bodies, and in the sky?

thespeciousreport.bsky.social•36 days ago

...and a spork's worth of forever chemicals.

michaeljameshawk.bsky.social•36 days ago

But shareholder value!

robmetters.bsky.social•19 days ago

Trump must have 3 spoons

stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social•36 days ago

Now I feel silly for collecting action figures when I have the raw material for one in me.

sandwichfrank.bsky.social•36 days ago

Around age 4 I went through a phase where I gnawed all my Barbies' hands off. Guess that makes me literally part Barbie for the rest of my days, huh.

handdrawnfacsimile.bsky.social•35 days ago

It’s horrific. The plastics thing, sure, but I mean how hard I laughed at the lyrics.

reedeisenhart.bsky.social•35 days ago

A spoon, a fork, a spork, it's in my head.

Is this spork inside my head? I think so!

I lingered long in line for brains and the one I got was sorta plastic and insane.

juliabenda.bsky.social•35 days ago

Dat verklaart veel…

hayleeisabellah.bsky.social•32 days ago

Easy, just scoop them out

theoutlier1.bsky.social•36 days ago

(sound of terrified scream)

saaremartha.bsky.social•36 days ago

I'd bet there is a LOT more than that in JFK Jr's head, maybe half a kilo or more.

dopamachine.bsky.social•35 days ago

He should have enough room for it since that worm cleaned him out

saaremartha.bsky.social•34 days ago

There is that.

wingnutkj.bsky.social•36 days ago

meat-jun.bsky.social•36 days ago

Greeeaaaaatttttt

mangaturtle.bsky.social•35 days ago

"A spoons worth" gfy with that nebulous unit of measurement.

opjohn.bsky.social•35 days ago

Teaspoons or tablespoons? Stupid empirical system of weights and measures.

dm-murdock.bsky.social•36 days ago

must be what switches on the silicon chip ...

I don't Like Mondays

buffaloskydive.bsky.social•36 days ago

The most interesting thing about this is the microplastics themselves look nothing like they've ever seen before. They're like tiny cylindrical shards and it's confusing the hell out of the scientists.