#FLINT

2025-06-21

Feuerstein – der Werkstoff, der den Menschen über Millionen Jahre begleitet hat. Von seiner Entstehung bis zu Faustkeilen und Fischschwanzdolchen: Entdecke, was ihn so besonders macht! 🪨✨
👉 miss-jones.de/2020/11/13/was-i
#Steinzeit #Archäologie #Geschichte #Flint

Dr. Sonja B. GrimmSonjaBGrimm@archaeo.social
2025-06-05

🥳 Very exciting topic! The #networks that we can identify in the Late #Palaeolithic are very dependent on mostly mineral resources transported from one area to another. Rarely it is possible to compare 2 different types such as #flint & #ochre as was done in this 👇🏼 paper.
doi.org/10.35686/AR.2025.261

Virgil Tibbs 🏳️‍🌈virgil_tibbs@norden.social
2025-05-27

Die Macht der #Tech-Konzerne eindämmen„Wir müssen so gut werden wie die“

Was tun gegen die Macht von Big Tech? Auf der #Digitalkonferenz re:­pu­bli­ca zeigen Expert:innen, woran es scheitert – und wie es besser ginge.

#taz #bergt #fuckMeta #jun #ki #flint #bundesnetzagentur

taz.de/Digitalkonferenz-republ

2025-05-20

As #Flint struggled with #WaterQuality, it also saw an outbreak of #Legionnaires' disease, leading to the #deaths of at least 12 people & sickening dozens more.

Today, the #EPA states 97% of #lead service lines have been replaced, although last year a federal judge held the city of Flint in #contempt over taking too long to replace some remaining lead pipes.

#law #regulation #EnvironmentalJustice #Michigan #FlintWaterCrisis #Trump

2025-05-20

The #FlintWaterCrisis began in 2014, when the city, while under emergency management from the state, switched water sources from the #Detroit Water & Sewerage Dept to the #Flint River as a cost-cutting measure. State ofcls overseeing the switch failed to ensure #corrosion-control measures were taken for the more acidic river #water. #Lead, a #neurotoxin particularly dangerous to #children, leached from aged service lines into the city's water supply as a result.

#law #regulation #Michigan

2025-05-20

#Trump #EPA lifts emergency order on #Flint, #Michigan #water

The EPA had been monitoring stricter lead-level standards in Flint's drinking water since 2016.

The order, put in place after the #FlintWaterCrisis, was lifted after federal ofcls said the city has reached compliance with safe #DrinkingWater requirements.

In a statement, EPA Administrator #LeeZeldin called the lifting of the emergency order a major milestone for the city & federal partners.

#law #regulation
freep.com/story/news/local/mic

Turpentine CreekTurpentineCreek
2025-05-19

Flint, the feisty, ornery, sneaky, playful bobcat, says, "Good morning, everyone! The keepers are on their way with breakfast, so it's time for me to get ready to hide, stalk and tease them!"

2025-05-06

So the flint mining conference in Worthing, UK is about to start! ⛏️
#archaeology #Conference #flint #mining

First page of conference programme, with logo, and textA white/black photo with two people, empty room, and logo of the conference presented on the wall
2025-05-05

"We the Poisoned" by Jordan Chariton tells the story of the #Flint water crisis, which should be a cautionary tale for all of us but not just a cautionary tale. It should compel justice and compensation for Flint residents. It should compel us to seek universal healthcare. It should compel us to make decisions that center people and the planet rather than corporations' and politicians' gains.

Orkney Riddlerjiffynorm@c.im
2025-05-04

I'm going to keep on harping on about land in the middle of the North Sea until I'm hoarse!

It's difficult to convince people of the idea partly because it seems so unlikely.  The level of the seabed east of Shetland is over 100 metres below present sea level. The idea that a depth of material of that height could have been washed away in the recent past is too incredible to be believed.
There is lots evidence to support this notion , but it's a bit like being aware of something that's invisible only by the touch of the breeze on your skin as it passes. It requires the willingness to consider the possibility.
The first piece of evidence is actually archaeological.  A flint artefact was discovered in a borehole in the floor of the North Sea half way between Shetland and Norway.  It was identified, by Caroline Wickham-Jones , as a piece of prehistoric struck flint. How an article created by a prehistoric human could have been deposited so far from land is a bit of a head- scratcher.

The second piece of evidence referrs to a meltwater surge that drained off from glaciers on Norway and Sweden at 12,000BP. Water and ice fell into the Skaggerak and flowed down a wide trench beside the coast of Norway,  called the Norwegian Channel. 
As sea level in the area was 60 metres below our sea level at 12,000BP,  and the height of the surge , as demonstrated on the sea level graphs on the sketch below , was 10 metres, the surge was supported at 50 metres below current sea level.
This 50 metres surge was supported along most of the length of the Norwegian Channel,  dissipating in the Atlantic Ocean.
As there was deep water against the English and Scottish coasts the west bank of the Norwegian Channel may have been a narrow strip of land running north from Doggerland to the Atlantic coast,  where the flint artefact was found.

This looks suspiciously as if prehistoric people may have been able to walk on land in the northern North Sea,  and that the land they walked on was higher than we thought.

What do you think?

Detailed, if longwinded, analysis is in the blog:-

orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/202

#archaeology #Orkney #prehistory #Neolithic #Norway #Shetland #flint #artefact

Turpentine CreekTurpentineCreek
2025-04-30

Flint the bobcat is always on the lookout, keeping an eye on his cat neighbors and his loving caretakers. This clever and funny bobcat never misses a thing!

Have you seen the newest Big Cat Chronicles?
turpentinecreek.org/about/abou

MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:MusiqueNow@todon.eu
2025-04-26
2025-04-21

Free Store, the first Saturday of every month in #Flint #Michigan USA. They're always looking for funds too to keep accessible food options and high need items available, including N95/KN95 masks, safe use kits, etc. etc.

#DirectAid #MutualAid #FreeStore

A white background with a yellow sign on a blue post reads "Free Store" Flint Local 432. 124 W 1st Street. 10AM-1PM. First Saturday monthly. Clothes, food, hygiene, and more. The message is repeated in Spanish and Arabic. In the top left is a red heart encircled in yellow, with the words, "Genesee County Mutual Aid" around it. In the upper right is a QR code. @ GCMutualAid on Instagram.
2025-04-18

New Site Updates 🧵

Goyim Defense League and White Lives Matter - Michigan member "Face In Flint" has been identified as Ryan Willis of Montrose, MI by anonymous antifascists.

goyimdefenseleague.noblogs.org

#Montrose #Michigan #Flint #Antifa

Three photos of neo-Nazi Ryan Willis
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:MusiqueNow@todon.eu
2025-04-14

'Asleep at the wheel': Michigan city braces for impact of Trump's tariffs
Just north of downtown Flint, Mich., is building known for its rich history here of the American automobile industry. The factory, the birthplace of General Motors, still stands as a beacon of innovation. 
#politics #economics #industry #Flint #Michigan #News
cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/mic

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