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Insert the I'm doing my part Gif.

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In the arms of the angels...

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Last but not least!!

Billy’s own fabulous Halloween joke !

“What would you find on a haunted beach ?

- I’m stumped!

- A Sand-Witch!”

(Still not my joke lol)

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lets be 25¢ with mama

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Steve Harrington be like:

Hey um, I don't know why I made this meme @intothedysphoria do you know why this is on my computer?

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okay so is everyone collectively back on the billy train or am i losing my marbles

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billy and eddie deserved so much better than to be killed off for shock value and i will never shut up about it

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Billy: *says anything*

Max: 😐

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And almost 8k fics later he's still horned up for King Steve.

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Rip to my sanity.

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You get it, or you don't.

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Your move, Hargrove.

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Uno reverse.

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the listeria outbreak of contaminated nutrition shakes served at medical facilities, hospitals, and long-term care facilities has been declared over. the shakes were lyons readycare and sysco imperial frozen supplemental shakes, by prairie farms dairy in fort wayne indiana.

42 cases of listeria were linked to it, with 41 hospitalizations across 21 states. 14 people died. the true number of people who got sick is likely way fucking higher because these were distributed all over the united states.

I never actually posted about this outbreak, its FDA investigation, or its recall. I drafted a bunch of posts about it but could never hit post.

because it was just so upsetting. this one just hit different. these were drinks that were often served in unlabeled cups to people who were already in medical settings, who were already struggling to eat food, and had no real way to do anything about it.

at least fourteen people never got to come home. fourteen people were killed by drinks that were sent out to hospitals and care facilities. fourteen people paid for their trust of medical facilities with their life.

and how many people died before they were diagnosed with listeriosis? how many families refused an autopsy not knowing that the death of their loved one was preventable? illness from listeria can look like a lot of other illnesses.

these were nutritional drinks that were made for medical facilities. the manufacturer knew full fucking well where they were going. and despite knowing that some of the most medically frail people would be drinking these, they were shipped out contaminated with listeria for YEARS.

it is harrowing and repulsive.

never assume a food manufacturer must have good food safety. not because of their reputation, not because of where their products go, not because of "well, surely" this or that or the other thing. in the united states, people get sick, become disabled, and die every single day because of food contamination. and there are very rarely any significant consequences for someone's health being destroyed or someone's life being taken from them.

food safety needs to be taken more seriously than this. and there needs to be more consequences for these deadly failures. reputation is not enough. "surely" is not enough. food in the united states needs to be safer.

this was completely preventable...

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sorry not to get all upset about billy hargrove except exactly to get upset about billy hargrove but im just thinking about all those anti arguments of how billy should be like jonathan. how billy should have made the hargrove-mayfields like the byers, like that was somehow his responsibility. how billy should’ve stood up to his abuser… but like, at every turn billy literally is unable to. when will’s whereabouts are in question and lonnie pushes jonathan up against a wall, jonathan is easily able to push him off. when max’s whereabouts are in question and neil pushes billy up into a wall, billy gets hit. when will or jonathan need their mom to be there for them, she’s ready to fight to protect them. when billy needs his mom/step mom to be there for him, she leaves or she turns a blind eye. when will stands up to the mindflayer (his abuser) everyone is there to help him even when it makes him lash out. when billy stands up to the mindflayer (his abuser) everyone just watches and he dies. like its right there and its so clear and its SO TRAGIC! i know we all already know this but its so fucking explicit in canon. the parallels are right there and they highlight that billy straight up cant be like jonathan/the byers even when he tries. i cannot fucking get over the wilful ignorance of that when we are shown it again and again