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Reversing the polarity of the neutron flow since 2000.

[THIS DAY IN METAL @ThisDayInMETAL]

On This Day in Metal

June 1st, 1989

Sodom unleashed Agent Orange, an album that would become one of the most important releases in thrash metal history. Featuring classics like “Agent Orange,” “Remember the Fallen,” and “Ausgebombt,” the record combined blistering speed, crushing riffs, and anti-war themes that helped cement Sodom’s place among Germany’s legendary Big Four of Thrash.

More than three decades later, Agent Orange remains a benchmark for extreme metal and a fan favorite around the world.

#ThisDayInMetal #Sodom #AgentOrange #ThrashMetal #GermanThrash

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

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@Warhag69 Underrated krunch kings. #Vomitor @markluntzel

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@Warhag69

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@SNY_Mets #LGM

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Moby Dick, Drum Solo, The Mule. Led Zeppelin , Deep Purple - Hank Shermann @MercyfulFate_HQ

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Great looking Dutch oven.

[Yennifer, a Hillbilly of the North 🌿 @BstKidEva]

It’s like Cracker Jack but better.

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The cassette is somewhere in a box... Rock N’ Roll. Possessed Mrk. I Death/Thrash/Black/Doom

[Mets Weather @WxMets]

First Pitch will be at 7:30PM #LGM

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@BradleyGelber #LetsGoBuffalo

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@WillPounderNY @FlushnFaithful @CodifyBaseball Indeed. More time to Bbq and enjoy the game.

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@Surtur @PulpLibrarian In Through The Out Door. Nice. #LZ Rock N’ Roll

[Will Pounder @WillPounderNY]

@CodifyBaseball Remove. The. Pitch. Clock.

[SleeperMets @SleeperMets]

Yankees play-by-play announcer Michael Kay on Mets POBO David Stearns:

“Every move he made has not worked. This guy is operating under his own guidelines when the rest of the sport is operating completely differently.”

Via @nypostsports

[The Japan Times @japantimes]

The Trump administration's public portrayal of a shattered Iranian military is sharply at odds with what U.S. intelligence agencies are telling policymakers behind closed doors. | via @nytimes https://t.co/Lex3MgpFvg

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Gulf-Martini-Porsche 917

[デビッド @KGRM1979]

@Mets Congratulations, @Mets! You’ve just lost the season series to the shitty Rockies! But it’s okay. Stearns and Mendoza know what they’re doing! 🙄👎🏻

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