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Day 27 of #Veiltober - Wraith! If there's an excuse to draw Fenris you better believe it I'll draw Fenris

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you will never beat the biphobia allegations until you radically accept bisexuals who are stereotypical. you must accept the sluts, the polyamorous, the girls with straight boyfriends, the questioning, the confused, the ones who want to be another couple's unicorn, the ones who are in a phase and will eventually identify differently, and even the ones you suspect aren't truly bisexual but just want attention. take people at their word when they tell you who they are. let them live and express their identity as they see fit. happy bi visibility day

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him: >.(

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rip mythbusters you would've loved destroying cybertrucks

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I do agree that young men have been failed in some ways. I’ve heard many times, from multiple parents that they’re glad they have sons instead of daughters because daughters require more emotional labor, essentially. Which is a bonkers thing to say! My son doesn’t deserve the same amount of care and empathy because he’s male. Behaviors are excused because boys will be boys instead of teaching them emotional intelligence and to be comfortable in expressing their emotions in healthy ways, and how to live and respect others in society.

But placing all the blame on women for “demonizing” men and making them feel bad is also misguided. We live in a patriarchal society that favors cis men over any other gender. Just like we live in a racist society that favors white people over brown people. And when you have social privilege, even if it doesn’t feel like it, you need to acknowledge it at some point. And then have the humility to do the hard work to unlearn it.

Men are human beings just like everyone else and they deserve love, respect, and safety just like everyone else. It sucks when you’re called out. But instead of being defensive, step back and try to take perspective. The answer here isn’t to just coddle men. Men need to be prepared to listen and do the work too.

"men were radicalized because they were tired of being demonized" oh piss off. since the beginning of time women have been blamed for all the ills of the world on a literal, cosmic sense. for most of human history there was a belief that there is an inherent wickedness to the female nature that made us all treacherous vixens using our feminine wiles to reach our shady purposes, and the only women who avoided the stigma by being literal saints were seen as the exception that proves the rule. the natural inferiority of women was attributed not just to a feebleness of mind but to a feebleness of character. we were seen as cowardly and cunning and the stereotypes used to justify our oppression never really went away, they just lurk now in the people's collective unconscious waiting to be weaponized against any detested woman via confirmation bias. but god forbid you fragile losers have a moment of reckoning about all the bullshit you've been putting women through without wanting to hitler out. if "this demographic was mean to me so i get to take away their rights" was a valid political stance feminism would be about getting to hang men on the public square. you should count yourselves lucky we just want independence for us and accountability for you.

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Ten Years Later: Alistair Edition

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it's just really fucking frustrating that we live in a world where I grew up being trained to believe that addicts are unloveable. and then I became an addict and I was still told that addicts are unloveable. and I just have to deal with the fact that there are people out there who believe that I don't deserve love, or that my partner is brave for loving me, or that my family and friends are suffering just from me existing. and that's fine that's just the way it is

but then on top of that. I have to deal with tumblr users telling me (an addict!!!) that they hate addicts in a cool new way that I should be totally sympathetic towards. see, they had a family member who was the most evil person on the planet! and that family member was an addict! so they can't help the fact that they now want all addicts to die! they can't help it! blast them all.

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« We'll need someone with fire in their blood. » Fiery and gorgeous Taash 🔥

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new fire emblem game has me thinking about the blue lions again. they are so silly and depressed

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Your story is not pointless. The fact that you liked the idea enough to spend your time writing it down, turning it into something, bringing it into existence out of nothing, that already means so much. It is worth telling.

I promise you, your stories are never pointless.

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"This is where we part"

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A fan comic depicting my headcanon on why Kieran and the Hero of Ferelden won't be around for Veilguard's events.

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huge carrot recall affecting canada and the united states, including puerto rico, due to shiga toxin-producing e. coli

november 16, 2024

this recall may expand. see below for details.

Grimmway Farms has issued a recall of select organic whole carrots and organic baby carrots that should no longer be in grocery stores but may be in consumers' refrigerators or freezers. These products may have been contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (E. coli) O121:H19. E. coli O121:H19 is a bacterium that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, elderly people, and those with a weakened immune system. Some infections can cause severe bloody diarrhea conditions, such as a hemolytic uremic syndrome, or the development of high blood pressure, chronic kidney disease, and neurologic problems. Symptoms include severe stomach cramps, diarrhea, fever, nausea, and/or vomiting. The incubation period for E. coli O121:H19 in humans can range from 24 hours to as much as ten days. The average incubation period is 3 to 4 days.

The following recalled products were shipped directly to retail distribution centers nationwide in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada: - Organic whole carrots, which do not have a best-if-used-by date printed on the bag, but were available for purchase at retail stores from August 14 through October 23, 2024, - Organic baby carrots with best-if-used-by-dates ranging from September 11 through November 12, 2024. The recalled carrots should not be available for purchase in stores but may be in consumers' refrigerators or freezers.

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affected whole carrot brands and their bag sizes:

365 1Ib, 2lb, 5lb

Bunny Luv 1lb, 2lb, 5lb, 10lb, 25lb

Cal-Organic 1Ib, 2lb, 51b, 6lb, 10lb, 25lb

Compliments 2lb

Full Circle 1lb, 2lb, 5lb

Good & Gather 2lb

GreenWise 1Ib, 25lbs

Marketside 2lb

Nature's Promise 1Ib, 5lb

O-Organics 1lb, 2Ib, 5lb, 10lb

President's Choice 2lb

Simple Truth 1lb, 2lb, 5lb

Trader Joe's 1lb

Wegmans 1lb, 2lb, 5lb

Wholesome Pantry 1lb, 2lb, 5lb

affected baby (cut and peeled) carrot brands and their bag sizes:

365 12oz, 1lb, 2lb

Bunny Luv 1lb, 2lb, 3lb, 5lb

Cal-Organic 12oz, 1lb, 2lb, 2pk/2lbs

Compliments 1lb

Full Circle 1 lb

Good & Gather 12oz, 1lb

GreenWise 1lb

Grimmway Farms 25 lb bag

Kroger 2lb

LIDL 1lb

Marketside 12oz, 1lb, 2lb

Nature's Promise 1lb

O-Organics 12oz, 1lb, 2lb

President's Choice 1Ib, 2lb

Raley's 1lb

Simple Truth 1 Ib, 2lb

Sprouts 1 Ib, 2lb

Trader Joe's 1lb

Wegmans 12oz, 1lb, 2lb

Wholesome Pantry 1lb, 2lb

formatting on tumblr is difficult, please see the FDA outbreak investigation page for the affected ranges of best-by dates for baby carrots, and pictures of the affected carrots.

as of time of posting, the main FDA recall page and the CDC investigation page have an error and do not list Kroger or LIDL baby carrots, while the FDA outbreak investigation page does. I am assuming that this means they are part of the recall and that this error will probably be fixed soon.

the recalled carrots are thought to be associated with an E. coli O121:H19 outbreak. 39 illnesses, 15 hospitalizations, and one death have been linked to this outbreak so far.

as always, these numbers are expected to be lower than the true number of illnesses and deaths, and will likely rise. not everyone seeks medical attention, and even when all testing and reporting procedures go as smoothly as possible, it can take weeks to officially link an illness to an outbreak.

noteworthy from the FDA investigation page:

FDA is working with the firm to determine the source of contamination and whether additional products are affected. This advisory will be updated as information becomes available.

in short, there is a possibility this contamination may affect more than just the recalled carrots. keep up to date with these pages to stay on top of this outbreak.

the recalled carrots are no longer on shelves. but if they are in your fridge or freezer, destroy or discard them and clean anything they may have touched.

do NOT eat these carrots! this strain of e. coli is dangerous and at least one person has died.

if you think you got sick in relation to this outbreak, please seek medical attention, even if just to get your illness officially associated with this outbreak.

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It's only a passing thing, this shadow.

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i really believe that discussing the character with someone who shares ur interpretation is the closest u can get to modern day philosophy. we are like plato and aristotle but talking about a fictional guys trauma