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US cinnamon and spice recall!

September 12, 2024

USA TODAY

'Throw it away': High traces of lead found in 12 brands' cinnamon, spice powders, report says

A recent report found high levels of lead in 12 brands' cinnamon and multi-spice powders, prompting some of the companies to remove product

EGN cinnamon powder (2.91 ppm)

Mimi's Products ground cinnamon (2.03 ppm)

Bowl & Basket ground cinnamon (1.82 ppm)

Rani Brand ground cinnamon (1.39 ppm)

Zara Foods cinnamon powder (1.27 ppm)

Three Rivers cinnamon stick powder (1.26 ppm)

Yu Yee Brand five spice powder (1.25 ppm)

BaiLiFeng five spice powder (1.15 ppm)

Spicy King five spices powder (1.05 ppm)

Badia cinnamon powder (1.03 ppm)

Deep cinnamon powder (1.02 ppm)

A group of goobers confused over a strange tablet

(Blue and yellow: my partner, had a rahkshi and a bohrok growing up but nothing much past that in terms of bionicle sets)

(Red and white: my other partner, never got into bionicle but is interested now as an adult)

(Orange and green: mine)

Shout out to Stuart Sayger for never drawing the mouth on Hahli Inika's mask literally one single time. Could've just been shorthand, but it's so consistent I could definitely see it being intentional.

This like instantly fixes her mask for me without actually redesigning it.

...this is basically her canon look in my head.

Thank Mata Nui I found this again I just wanted to say thank you. This was stuck in my head and spiraled from there and now I have one of my most fleshed out ocs

Cool little G1+G2 detail I found last night:

Just like how Krana can infect Mata heads (ig Kraata can too but those look silly) you can jam a Kraata into a G2 skull to give it a solid eye color (even unusual ones like purple, yellow, white) plus a sick as fuck head spike/tail

I’m sure this could work with Metru heads, albeit a little tighter.

So like, it's no real secret that the Bohrok were inspired by the Xenomorphs from Aliens right? The way their nest looks, the Exo-Toa/Power Loader, the Krana pull double duty as both facehuggers and as the human skull you can see in the Xenomorphs head under the right angles and lighting, the way the Bohrok head snaps forward to knock your mask of is similar to the Xeno's little mouth darting out to bite your face off, and ofc the Lehvak using acid (like the Xenomorph's blood) rather than air as it's element, even though the other breeds matched theirs up with the main six elements. The references are all very obvious in hindsight, though probably went over most of our little kid brains.

With all that in mind however...

...was this literally just another fucking Aliens reference?

How many of the Matoran were OCs made by the Great Beings? How many of the other GSR residents were also OC builds?

This thought just took over my entire brain for the next week…

HOW DARE MY BOI KURAHK GET LEFT OUT ON THE ORIGINAL POST.

all my rahkshi models. i decided to included the heat vision one from stars, took a few artistic liberties cuz i can. i love all these slimy bois

Since I had these two I figured I'd try recreating a shot from the commercial

Genuine question for trans girls; (keep in mind I am AMAB, identify as nonbinary but comfortable being perceived masc((facial hair and the like))) what were some activities that helped "Crack the Egg"?