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Mirror Mirror by Antsiart

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I feel kinda bad for Catherine Tate, of Dr. Who fame, because often when I see a picture of her, it takes me second or two to figure out whether it's her, or jk rowling.

Catherine Tate seems nice, and it makes me sad that she bears a passing resemblance to such a rotten souled piece of shit

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the greatest picture ever taken

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Yeah, tell me again how democrats supposedly never shut up about trans rights.

Fucking hell, I wish.

a transgender woman is elected to congress and the only allies we have are defending her on the merit of being good at makeup. women trans or cis will never be free

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you ever feel like you were born with something rotten inside you and if people get close enough they’re gonna find out

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How is she SO FUCKING COOL HOLY SHIT!?

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does anyone else feel like they're actually kind of a stupid person but just particularly good at masking it with a decent vocabulary

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US recall of yu shang food inc ready-to-eat products due to deadly listeria contamination

this recall was announced november 9, but expanded on november 21, and deaths were reported on november 22. today is november 23.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2024 – Yu Shang Food, Inc., a Spartanburg, SC, establishment, is recalling approximately 72,240 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry products within their shelf life that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). This release is being reissued to expand the scope of the November 9, 2024, recall.

All ready-to-eat products produced prior to October 28, 2024, are subject to recall. View full product list. View labels.

The products subject to recall bear establishment number “P-46684” or “EST. M46684” inside the USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped to retail locations nationwide and available for purchase online. 

some emphasis mine.

Consumption of food contaminated with L. monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, a serious infection that primarily affects older adults, persons with weakened immune systems, and pregnant women and their newborns. Less commonly, persons outside these risk groups are affected.

Listeriosis can cause fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms. An invasive infection spreads beyond the gastrointestinal tract. In pregnant women, the infection can cause miscarriages, stillbirths, premature delivery or life-threatening infection of the newborn. In addition, serious and sometimes fatal infections in older adults and persons with weakened immune systems. Listeriosis is treated with antibiotics. Persons in the higher-risk categories who experience flu-like symptoms within two months after eating contaminated food should seek medical care and tell the health care provider about eating the contaminated food. Anyone concerned about an injury or illness should contact a healthcare provider.

emphasis mine. for the record, it can take up to around 90 days for listeria to cause illness. as in, closer to three months after eating something contaminated with listeria.

and unfortunately, a pregnant person has died, losing both of their twins. but only one of the twins tested positive for listeria, so the other one does not technically count as a related death. might be a false negative.

right now there have been 11 cases, 9 hospitalizations, and 2-3 deaths depending on how you count. these numbers are expected to rise. do not rely on the list of states with confirmed illnesses to keep you safe. these products were shipped nationwide, and are contaminated and capable of causing illness within the affected date range regardless of where they were sold. (before october 28, 2024)

although the CDC uses yu shang braised beef shank as the thumbnail for their investigation, the FSIS has not yet added its picture to the official list of label pictures as of when I am typing this.

this is the style of packaging on these products. there are too many images of the recalled products to add to this post, but if you recognize this style of packaging, please check your fridge and freezer. if you find these products, do not eat them. throw them out or return them to wherever you bought them. sometimes a recall will include a note that it is safe to eat a recalled product if cooked thoroughly, but there is no such language on this FSIS recall.

ALL of these products produced before october 28, 2024, are being recalled.

list of recalled yu shang product names:

Japanese Chasu Pork Belly

Braised Pork Belly In Brown Sauce

Seasoned Pork Feet

Seasoned Pork Hock

Chinese Brand Spicy Duck Head

Yushang Brand Cooked Chicken

Chinese Brand Spicy Duck Neck

Bazhen Seasoned Whole Chicken

Chinese Brand Spicy Duck Tongues

Chinese Brand Spicy Duck Wings

Chinese Brand Chicken Feet

Yushang Sausage Made with Pork and Chicken

Seasoned Pork Tongues

Seasoned Chicken Quarter Leg

Braised Beef Shank

Braised Chicken Szechuan Pepper Flavor

Yu Shang Brand Cooked Pork Hock

Seasoned Pork Snout Meat

Spicy Pork Ear

Spicy Chicken Gizzards

Spicy Pork Feet

Lambs Head Soup (frozen)

Chinese Brand Spicy Chicken Feet

as of the time I am posting this, the label list on the FSIS website is outdated, but the product list is the correct expanded version.

listeria can take months to cause illness after exposure, and then up to a month or so for an illness to become officially associated with a foorborne illness outbreak. the true number of people who got sick is expected to be higher, and the number of listeria cases associated with this outbreak is expected to rise. not everyone who gets sick from listeria seeks out medical attention.

most people exposed to listeria will not develop major illness. but if you are in a high risk group and have eaten these products, talk to your doctor. there are antibiotics you can be prescribed before possibly developing symptoms. and as always, if you think you have gotten sick from the recalled products, please consider seeking medical attention, even if just to get your case officially linked to this outbreak. listeriosis can cause long-term medical issues, and if it does, you really want as many relevant medical records of it as possible.

the FSIS is currently working on a list of retail locations that sold these products, but as I post this now, it has not yet been uploaded. these products were also sold online.

as a reminder, I do not post every unites states food recall. please consider staying informed from official government recall sources. and if US recalls are irrelevant to you, please consider staying informed about whatever recalls are relevant to you. chances are, there are more recalls than you realize.

https://www.recalls.gov/ <- official website for recalls in the united states.

stay safe and take care!

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OH FUCK YES!!!!!!!!!

SCREAMING!!!!!!

Laura is playing a show near me oh fucking hell yes oh my god holy shitfuck hell yes I just bought tickets this is amazing I'm so fuckingexcited!!!!!!

Now I just have to wait until April and manage to not forget about the tickets I bought.

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this too shall pass

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she jack off my trades till im master of none

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Gender is entirely made-up and I don't understand why some people are so fixated on it being "true" in the sense of like...are trans women women? Of course they are, insofar as "a woman" can be said to exist in the first place. But people have gotten obsessed with proving objectively that a trans woman is a woman, when the actual core of trans liberation is that anyone forcing their preferred gender on you is fascist. It's missing the forest for the trees. When all you do is play the "I am [x] really truly deep down just like everyone else" game you're meeting the transphobes on their level and accepting their premise that "man" and "woman" are distinct, tangible things.

To be clear, it's not that you CAN'T feel gender is a kinna spiritual force within you, or something to that effect. I think we all do on at least some level. But my point is that trying to rip that spiritual force out of our bodies to dissect it and prove all the haters wrong because look it was here all along is just a waste of time and effort.

The truth of the matter is that the goal is not to get people to see trans women as women, it's to get them to stop feeling like clothes and pronouns and names and locker rooms should be dictated by what some asshole wrote down on your birth certificate.

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I may have misread this as self-bondage is also and was like "I mean sure, I guess. Not sure if that's a great idea though"