more people have been to russia than i have

if youre in the US (especially the northeast + michigan) i would avoid bagged salads/greens and generally wash your produce very thoroughly unless you want the diarrhea parasite

also note this is a PARASITIC infection. most diarrhea-causing pathogens you expect to contaminate your greens are bacteria (e.g. e. coli and salmonella), which are a different domain of organism altogether. cyclospora is a protozoan, which is bigger and more complicated than a bacteria (for reference, malaria is also caused by a protozoan). bacterial diarrhea can be dangerous, but you might also expect to weather it and survive unscathed. do NOT fuck with PARASITIC contamination. you should be scared of this one!

Extra note: this parasite can only be found in human feces, this food was contaminated due to a lack of bathrooms and washing stations on harvesting sites due to loosening enforcement of food safety regulations. This was more than preventable, we used to prevent it.

One of the major dividing lines of our age is between those who think it's worthwhile to cooperate and work with other people, accepting their flaws and limitations, to build something larger than ourselves, and those who think everything is fundamentally hopeless and that other people are corrupt, degenerate, and suspect. And the latter is not conducive to having any kind of culture at all.

#'complacency' is close but not quite I think -- #-- the problem is that hope is seen as COLLUSION #if this world is so filthy and fucked as to be beyond redemption#then by engaging with it AT ALL -- regardless of what you are trying to achieve -- #-- then you are validating it. normalizing it. glorifying it even! #behaving in a way that suggests that the world DESERVES to exist #suggests the people in it DESERVE to live and have their situations improve #and well! that's pretty Problematic of you. #the only Correct way to regard the world is with complete and total nihilistic passivity. anything else makes you a filthy collaborator #salty sunday (via @mikkeneko)

letting family members sit in for dead senators is just monarchy logic im appalled that this has even happened before

An unelected individual getting grandfathered into a real political position due to their blood or legal relationship with a deceased elected official is not pretty good actually

New York is the exact opposite of Minnesota. New York is where the Big Apple is and Minnesota is where Minneapolis

Wednesday the 15th. What an excellent day. Middle of the week, middle of the month. Truly, we are in the middle of things.

Just saw somebody refer to highly disposable collectibles (labubus, funko pops, stuff like that) as "landfillcore" and I'm stealing that.

I need my weird alone time or I will explode