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Do I miss some foods I can't eat anymore without getting sick? Sure, but that's not what really bothers me. What bothers me is being excluded from a huge portion of human social life of which food is a crucial component. What bothers me is the stress and social stigma of trying to figure out what I can safely eat. What bothers me is the amount of extra work and cost that is required of me to identify, obtain, and prepare safe foods. What bothers me is people treating my needs like a nuisance, as though I chose to be like this - as though their brief inconvenience to check an ingredients list is unreasonable, when I deal with this every day of my life forever.

I don't miss the food that much. I miss not having to worry about what I eat. I miss freedom. I miss when trying new foods and new restaurants was fun instead of a minefield. I miss not having to plan my entire life around the need for safe foods.

Small update 12/08/26: Hello. I'm putting PLAN first because trad media in our country is ignoring Chocó as they always did. This region was the most damaged and several towns remain isolated and without communication.

ORGANIZACIÓN PLAN (Channel for the epicenter):

https://plan.org.co/quiero-ayudar/terremoto-en-colombia/

Click on "Dona aquí desde el exterior"

Colombian Red Cross:

https://www.cruzrojacolombiana.org/

https://ayuda.cruzrojacolombiana.org/emergencia-colombia-terremoto

https://donar.cruzrojabogota.org.co/#FormularioAfrus

ABACO:

https://donahoy.abaco.org.co/colombia2026

PRESENTES:

https://presentes.co/dona/

BANCO DE ALIMENTOS DE BOGOTA (pick MercadoPago to use international cards):

https://www.bancodealimentos.org.co/donaciones-hoy-min/

UN Crisis Relief:

https://crisisrelief.un.org/en/donate-colombia-crisis

DirectRelief:

https://www.directrelief.org/2026/08/colombia-earthquake-7-4-magnitude-direct-relief-response/

World Central Kitchen:

https://donate.wck.org/campaign/831452/donate?c_src=site-blog-rlf192

GEM:

https://www.globalempowermentmission.org/es/mission/colombia-earthquake/

More national channels (Local donations only):

AbacoCol

Second interview with the vampire

You're hired with the vampire

New employee orientation with the vampire

Training period with the vampire

Lunch break with the vampire

Getting yelled at by a customer with the vampire

I don't make enough to deal with this with the vampire

Can't find a better paying job with the vampire

you're not an ally to intersex people if you don't support "afab" intersex people considering themselves trans women and/or cis men.

you're not an ally to intersex people if you don't support "amab" intersex people considering themselves trans men and/or cis women.

you're not an ally to intersex people if you don't support intersex people refusing to identify as trans or cis.

you're not an ally to intersex people if you don't support intersex people identifying as both trans and cis for the same gender.

you're not an ally to intersex people if you use shi/hir pronouns, the h slur, the fu slur, etc while being perisex.

you're not an ally to intersex people if you are unable to listen to us without mentioning your kinks.

While this isn't news to anyone who works in this space, it is useful to have this water-is-wet research to affirm that Indigenous knowledge and land management are extremely effective at storing carbon and protecting biodiversity.

I want to draw special attention to this part of the article:

I get a fair number of asks and comments on my posts expressing sentiments like "human beings are a plague on this Earth", "humans ruin everything, we deserve to be wiped out", "humanity is inherently selfish, evil, and irredeemable".

I don't think the folks saying these things have bad intentions, I know their words come from a place of very understandable pain, fear, and anger. But to act as though humanity's impact on nature is inherently damaging and extractive is to erase thousands of years of Indigenous stewardship of nature. These ecosystems are thriving because there are humans living there.

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine1. The drug could be a lifeline for those who still face real danger from the virus, such as care-home residents or transplant recipients on immune-suppressing medication.