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-Can cook

-Cares about proper nutrition

-Has decades-long trauma that he avoided addressing until his friends helped him through it

-Cares about the environment/ecosystem he's in, helps keep the dungeon clean and nice

-will make you bread (among other things)

[Gif ID: Senshi from Dungeon Meshi saying: "Give it to me! I'll make you bread!" and then chanting "Bread!" before being hit in the face with the ingredients for bread. End ID

-Once got turned into an elf

-Look at him

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In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:

Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.

This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.

And here:

The United States is currently in the grip of an outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite, which causes severe diarrhea and has sickened more than 3,000 people across the U.S. Last August, Aria Bendix of NBC News reported that on July 1, 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), overseen by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., would no longer track infections caused by cyclospora and five other common causes of foodborne illnesses.

The CDC, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and ten state health departments covering about 54 million people have run a program called the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, or FoodNet, since 1995. Until last July 1 it monitored eight pathogens. Now it monitors only salmonella and toxin-producing E. coli. -----

The CDC link you shared does say they're investigating, but doesn't give a lot of details. I looked around a bit more and found this Your Local Epidemiologist newsletter, which clears things up: Public health cuts have played a role here, but not the one getting the headlines. A lot of blame is landing on last year’s cuts to FoodNet, a CDC surveillance program. But FoodNet was never designed for real-time outbreak detection or response. Instead, it tracks longer-term background trends for research. The more accurate culprits are the lack of centralized coordination by the federal government, our siloed health systems, and insufficient capacity at state and local health departments. The work is laborious, and public health is chronically underresourced. Local public health departments are doing this while tracking everything else, like measles. If the American public wants a public health system, then the U.S. needs to pay for it.

---- Really I think we're both right. Government infrastructure in all areas has been damaged by the actions of the current administration, and that is affecting all of us. But there's still a lot of knowledgeable, organized people out there doing their best to keep us safe. I agree that it doesn't make sense to write off everything the CDC says as worthless, or completely distrust government at all levels.

the thing:

I really wanna get better at drawing more horror/spooky pieces! So here's this one I cooked up. Lenny Obsessed Minecraft

I also drew his entire body, but since you can only see about 15% of it, I'm also posting that since I really like how I drew him