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(reply to the kroger & walmart chicken fettucine alfredo listeria outbreak)

hey holy shit. the sound I made when I read this. this is exactly why the chicken fettucine recall is so scary, it is such a huge comfort food and a bunch of folks eat it while pregnant. I am so fucking glad my post found you and that you got medical attention right away.

yours is an example of doing exactly the right thing: listeria is especially dangerous while pregnant, and there are antibiotics that can be prescribed for high-risk folks during the early stages of symptoms or even before symptoms begin. and while listeria can take up to 80 days to cause illness, it can also cause issues within hours or days of eating contaminated food.

for you and for everyone else trying to avoid the general news right now, here is a list to help keep up with recalls and foodborne illness outbreaks in the united states since I do not post all of them:

FDA recall list (food, drug, medical device, etc recalls with press announcements, usually bigger food recalls have announcements)

FDA enforcement reports (more recalls go here, but more difficult to navigate than the recall list with announcements)

USDA FSIS recall list (they cover different food than FDA, especially meat. the chicken fettucine alfredo recall was posted here)

NHTSA recall list (vehicles, car seats, tires, and equipment recalls!)

CPSC recall and safety warning list (products! there have been a LOT of recalls of baby stuff recently!)

FDA outbreak investigations (you can see the status of outbreaks as they happen and get investigated, this is often where recalls start)

CDC active investigations of foodborne illness outbreaks (outbreaks can have both an FDA page and a CDC page. they cover different information)

foodsafetynews (news about food safety ONLY! not a government source. mostly focused on the US and canada, but also news around the world. some of what they post involves commentary on the current administration, BUT they post about bigger and more relevant recalls that wind up in the ever-tricky FDA enforcement reports.)

best of luck to you and your baby, and make sure you get plenty of rest!!!!!

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i think all quiet on the western front and the lord of the rings are in direct conversation with each other, as in theyre the retelling of the same war with one saying here’s what happened, we all died, and it did not matter at all and another going hush little boy, of course we won, of course your friends came back

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current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.

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James Skyrme a Welsh pirate

One of Bartholomew Robert's captains was the Welshman James Skyrme (c. 1678-1722)

His flag, according to a description by Captain Ogle

Not much is known about him (only what Captain Ogle later reported), except that he sailed from Bristol in the summer of 1720 as first mate of the Greyhound. That October, Bartholomew Roberts captured a dozen ships off St Lucia, including the Greyhound. After her capture, Skyrme signed her articles and joined Roberts' crew while Roberts burned the Greyhound.

Two French ships attacked Roberts in April 1721, but were themselves captured by the pirates. Roberts renamed the ships, handed over command of the Ranger to Thomas Sutton and gave the Little Ranger to the Skyrme, which Roberts used as a storage ship. Sailing alongside Roberts, they captured a number of other ships and their crews. Later that year, Roberts docked at Cape Lopez to cruise, replacing Sutton with Skyrme as captain of the Ranger.

In February 1722, Captain Chaloner Ogle of HMS Swallow baited Roberts with an attack on his 50-gun warship. Mistaking it for a fleeing merchant ship, Roberts sent Skyrme with the Ranger to capture it. When the Ranger was alone, Ogle set the trap and opened fire on the pirates. After a brief skirmish, Ranger was badly damaged, several pirates had been killed, and Skyrme's leg had been severed by cannon fire. Skyrme tried to continue the fight, but the Ranger finally struck the flag and surrendered. Desperate pirates tried to blow up the Rangers by firing a pistol into a barrel of gunpowder, but they failed and were badly burned. Five days after the victory over Skyrme, Ogle returned to Cape Lopez and destroyed the rest of Roberts' fleet; Roberts died early in the battle. Swallow took the survivors and the badly wounded Skyrme to Cape Coast Castle, where they were tried and most of them, including Skyrme, were hanged in March.

Ranger herself survived the battle against Ogle's Swallow, though not much longer. She was sent back across the Atlantic as a prize ship and sank off Port Royal when a hurricane devastated the town in August 1722.

The Pirate Encyclopedia: The Pirate's Way, by Arne Zuidhoek

Pirates: The Truth Behind the Robbers of the High Seas, by Nigel Cawthorne

Black Bart Roberts: The Greatest Pirate of Them All, by Terry Breverton

Daily Life of Pirates, by Marley David

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you definitely have eight and a half minutes right now to watch an adorable gl mini-drama called "my hot butch roommate" (translated into english by the amazing @douqi7s), don't you? (you do)

(also there's a brief kimpie reference in there for fans of "yes and no"!)

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Your fetish doesn’t have to be praxis.

Read that sentence. Read it again. Really drill it into your skull. Internalize the idea until it cannot be removed from your brain.

Then stop making really annoying discourse posts on why this or that kink is WrongBad or how everyone with it is WrongBad and start caring more about how this person treats others outside of a consensual kink context. You’re allowed to hate a kink because of how much it resembles real life issues you suffer with, but other people are going to engage in it whether you like it or not and the only reasonable thing you can ask of them is to not involve you or anyone else who doesn’t want to be a part of it.

And before “three guesses on what kink OP has” if you don’t know me, you’re probably wrong and about to make yourself look like an ass by making assumptions. Go ahead, test your luck, I dare you.

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you’re not “behind” on your story. you’re building something. and sometimes building requires standing in the ruins for a bit.

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Mansa Musa I

Mansa Musa I was the ruler of the Mali Empire in West Africa from 1312 to 1337. Controlling territories rich in gold and copper, and monopolising trade between the north and interior of the continent, Mali grew extremely wealthy. Mansa Musa was said to have spent so much gold in Cairo that the value of bullion crashed by 20%.

A Muslim like his royal predecessors, Mansa Musa brought back architects and scholars from his pilgrimage to Mecca who would build mosques and universities that made such cities as Timbuktu internationally famous. Mansa Musa’s 1324 stopover in Cairo, though, would spread Mali’s fame even further and on to Europe where tall tales of this king’s fabulous wealth in gold began to stir the interest of traders and explorers.

The Mali Empire

The Mali Empire (1240-1645), the largest and richest empire yet seen in West Africa, was founded by Sundiata Keita (aka Sunjaata, r. 1230-1255). The Mali capital was Niani, and the most important trading city was Timbuktu near the River Niger and located where major waterways and land routes converged. Immense wealth was gained from acting as a trade hub between the interior and southern coast of West Africa and North of Africa across the Sahara desert’s caravan routes. Salt was a major commodity traded from the north while from the south came gold and ivory. The empire eventually included Ghana, Walata, Tadmekka, and the kingdom of Songhai and ultimately stretched all the way to the Atlantic coast. Indigenous rulers adopted Islam from their contact with Arab merchants, and the Mali Empire would thus play a significant part in the spread of Islam across West Africa. Locals, or at least urban ones, were converted, which created communities that then attracted Muslim clerics from the north, strengthening the religion’s grip on the region. Local leaders would even perform pilgrimages to the Islamic holy sites like Mecca, including their greatest ever ruler, Mansa Musa.

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is there a heat wave where you live right now?

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it's true and you should say it.

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the only things i know about jimmy carter are:

-he looked straight up dead when he turned 100 and voted early cos he was straight up dead and now he's actually dead dead

-was president during the three mile island reactor partial meltdown incident and because he had worked on nuclear subs before he knew that shit was fine and went over there to be like lalala i <3 reactors while the media were shitting their britches over a teeny tiny amount of radiation

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Light painting photography . Credit : Darius Twin

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good read for teachers.