This site has been going around Twitter trans accounts quite a bit lately, so just pointing out here too that it'll do fuck all, they're exploiting trans people at a time when hrt is particularly hard to access and please don't give them your money
No actually, this needs to be in the body of the post.
This isn't someone looking to make a quick buck off the backs of desperate trans women.
This is someone who is gathering a hit list. This person may use your info for active swatting, but not just that, this product will kill you.
This product is outright dangerous. This dose of ashwagandha is ASTRONOMICAL. It's anxiolytic - meaning that it causes agitation and anxiety - and if you take this dose every day you'll be developing serotonin syndrome within 4-6 weeks, and an ER trip/death within 8. And if you're on medications that interact (SSRIs, antipsychotics, most kinds of opiates) or alcohol, this risk is magnified.
Also the photo they're using for the founder is AI generated. The easiest tell is the neck tattoo seemingly merging with the collar of the shirt, and none of the locs actually having an end that connects them to the scalp.
There's a terf in the comments screeding about how this totally isn't a rightwing psyop and it's asian fetishizing trans ppl obsessed with anime doing this, so here's some irrefutable proof that it is, in fact, a right-wing dox honeypot!
If you go to any post by TheQueerQuirk on Twitter and replace the username part of the url with transaretr8ors it will redirect you to the same tweet with the new username, indicating that TheQueerQuirk's old username WAS in fact transaretr8ors. You can test this yourself.
They're also stealing images from r/transtimelines for fake reviews.
Their domain name was registered on June 2 and the address marked is a common scam address (seemingly of the Icelandic Phallological Museum).
THIS IS A HONEYPOT. THEY'RE COLLECTING ADDRESSES. YOU COULD BE SWATTED, HAVE YOUR IDENTITY STOLEN, OR AT THE VERY BEST RECEIVE A PRODUCT THAT WILL CAUSE SEROTONIN SYNDROME.
from personal expirence, i am begging yall to completely avoid betterhelp. they specifically push christian therapists onto patients who ask for non-christian help. they did it to me and theyve done it to others. the therapists will consistently pressure you into using a camera or doing audio calls, even if you request against it. the therapists are actively homophobic and transphobic and will spread that rhetoric during your sessions.
do not use betterhelp. do not even give them the time of day.
I have colleagues who have found public-facing profiles FOR THEMSELVES that are being run by Better Help despite being completely unaffiliated with the company. In at least one case, the profile was riddled with inaccuracies and bad info and the way my colleague FOUND OUT IT EXISTED was by being issued an initial warning by their fucking licensing board about it. You are reading that correctly, she was sanctioned by her licensing board for a public facing profofessional profile page she hadNO PART IN CREATING AND DID NOT KNOW EXISTED because A COMPANY SHE DID NOT WORK FOR decided to make shit up for it.
Better Help is incredibly unethical and should not be allowed to continue existing given its current business practices.
Tyre Nichol’s mother has set up a memorial fund to help pay for mental health services for his family and a memorial skate park in his name. If you cannot donate, please share.
I'm saying this from a place of genuine care: if you are seeing ghosts or shadows or having nightmares... and sageing, eggshells, Crystal's, and psychics arent cutting it..
Please.. please... check for things like gas leaks, water damage, vermin. I'm not saying your house isnt haunted, I'm just saying that carbon monoxide poisoning looks a LOT like being haunted.
I know that, you know that, but when it looks like supernatural things you look to supernatural solutions and you might not be thinking clearly.
I'm having a conversation with a pagan mom right now who thinks that dark forces are after her, so she's tried all the things that she knows... which apparently is not checking the hvac system for leaks.
Shes mad at me because I suggested getting an inspection because shes lived in the house for 14 years and she's always seen things like this and it's just gotten worse since she took over the house. Shes seeing entities, things are moving on their own, doors open and close on their own, people are being touched and scratched. 'Mold and gas dont do that!'
Drafty house. Uneven floors. Pressure changes.
Toxic mold syndrome can mimic depression and anxiety, cause listlessness. Guess what extreme anxiety can do. It can mess with your head. It can mess with your memory.
If you have scratches on you and you dont know where they came from, see a doctor. See a doctor. I dont know why you wont see a doctor. They can tell you if it comes from an animal. They can tell you if you're suffering from a mold allergy. They can tell you if you're experiencing side effects of gas exposure.
I wholeheartedly believe in ghosts. Absolutley not debating that ghosts and spirits and whatever you think you're seeing. I am posting this in a pagan facebook group. I 100% believe in ghosts.
I also believe in carbon monoxide.
Please check for gas leaks in your home. Please check for mold. Please check for critters. Like girl I believe you but please check these things.
This is why we need to stress, and I mean really stress, that mundane explanations are just as important as superstitious ones, and why I genuinely worry about our echo chambers.
Yes, I know we all want to believe that the feelings of dread may be coming from an evil presence in the room, but also certain hvac systems hum at a frequency that causes confusion and anxiety.
Yes it seems reasonable that your doors open and close on their own because granmas ghost is still hanging around. But please consider that the foundation of your house might be shifting.
Yes, you might feel a sense that something bad is going to happen, but that can also be generalized anxiety or obsessive compulsive disorder.
And being in a circle that refuses to accept that mundane explanations for supernatural problems feeds and triggers delusions. The pagan/witchcraft community is extremely neuro diverse, and these delusions can trigger spirals and put people in very... very bad places.
Please accept mundane explanations.
You are not 'crazy' for seeing ghosts and your house is not dirty for needing an inspection.
If you get an inspection and it comes back clean, you can feel smug about being right. If you dont get an inspection and you're wrong you and your children could get sick and die.
This is relevant to something else I saw online today from Greg from How to Drink:
With a lot of things in the brain, we don't have another person's perspectives to know what's usually experienced- this is why I know a lot of us have had the, "Wait, that's an ADHD symptom?" moment. It's never bad to check out your experiences with a doctor.
as a person with fucked up funny visual/neurological stuff like visual snow and palinopsia (I probably need to get it checked out) yeah this stuff is not normal. Kid me thought my vision was so good that I could see individual molecules but naaaah it’s astigmatism and difficult to diagnose/mostly inconsequential funny stuff with my brain
I know I already made a post about this. But ICWA is LITERALLY being challenged by a white couple that wants to adopt indigenous children to Christianize them. The tribe, whom has a say in who can take their children, is like "Nah, we don't want our youth Christianized like you tride last time"
And the lawyer that's helping the white couple try to overturn ICWA (so that they can convert indigenous children) is doing it pro-bono (which means he's not charging the couple anything).
AND that lawyer is a big time lawyer whose clients are usually oil and gas industries. He's literally fighting for indigenous children to be ripped from their tribes and culture so there's less indigenous people to protest big oil destroying their sacred land.
The Indian Child Welfare Act is at the center of a Supreme Court case, where its challengers are reportedly represented by a firm connected
this is cultural genocide. it happened when jewish children were stolen from their families during ww2 and given to christian families to raise as christian, it happened with residential schools where american indigenous children were stolen to have their culture beaten out of them, it happened to australian aboriginal children when their government literally tried to breed indigenous australians out of existence. we cannot let this keep happening. we cannot allow white christians to continue to steal our children and rob them of their culture and family and community.
Pardon me for having an emotional reaction but while we were distracted by the US Midterms, the Iranian government voted to execute over fourteen thousand protesters who are in custody.
Lord Jesus Christ have mercy.
Nearly 15,000 Iranians have been arrested in connection with the protests, which were spurred by the death of Mahsa Amini in September.
it’s unclear when these protestors are going to be given trials - if at all - but 9 people, the youngest of whom is 17, have already been convicted of crimes punishable by death. two have been given finalized death sentences.
the UN human rights body has scheduled a meeting regarding iran’s human rights situation for the week of nov 21, and the us and eu are trying to get a separate meeting regarding the nuclear situation soon, but the more international awareness and pressure on iran to back down, the better.
@persiangirlsunited on instagram has made an email template that can be found in her linktree - https://linktr.ee/persiangirlsunited - if the link isn’t working you may need to open it on mobile and follow the link to your email app, or go to her instagram, where she’s posted the template text and addressees.
after all our stuff getting stolen by other homeless kids, we're really left with nothing, only thing left is this phone im using to apply for jobs. the typhoon left but the area we're at is still waist deep flooded
all i and my brothers are praying for now is food and shelter and warm clothes and rain coats and rain boots to help us survive. and paracetamol for my brother who caught a cold from the rain
please help me boost this again, im trying to raise just $100 for all we'll need. im praying this gets traction. anything helps, we're losing hope
Go to paypal.me/alexmngs and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
i wish all working class brits a very riot when your government tries to spend a billion dollars on that bitch’s funeral while your cost of living skyrockets, and i wish all non brits a very support working class brits while their country catches on fire
amid the celebrations about the queen probably dying soon, we need to remember how this will negatively affect the country. there will be millions spent on a funeral and charles’s coronation while we are in the middle of a severe economic crisis and working class families are having to choose between heating and food. it will take attention away from all the important politics and parliament may be suspended. all news and television will be about her death and her reign — it’s been said that comedy programmes will be cancelled for potentially up to a fortnight out of ‘respect’.
yes, celebrate this news. but her death does not erase the fact that the monarchy exists, and it will be a spit in the face for working people when the money we all so desperately need is spent on her and the rest of her family
I wrap an injured bat in a towel and go inside for help just to get scolded for helping it and kicked out now I'm sitting outside in the heat holding a bat trying to Google wildlife facilities with one hand how's yalls morning
what up im still outside and my family left and i need to take this little man to the wildlife center. the center itself is short staffed and cant send someone out, and theyre having trouble contacting their associate PACC to relocate him and they want me to bring him down before they close at 6 since i already have him contained. basically i need some cash for an uber (will an uber let me transport a bat in a cat carrier???) uhhh help please?
My job has been offering overtime, so in an attempt to try and get my life in order (pay some bills), I’ve been working like 10-14 hour days, which requires me to drive to work, and I’m so physically and mentally tired and I haven’t gotten this paycheck with this overtime yet.
I have no groceries, I haven’t ate since Wednesday and I have a terrible migraine, can y’all pretty please help me out with some funds, I’d really appreciate it to buy a few things so I can eat.
P*ypal: paypal.me/charliechains02
C*sh App: $acefluid03
Hey friends, nothing yet and my migraine is awful rn. I just need a few bucks to grab some items to eat.
ice cream listeria outbreak. again. did you know that illness due to listeria has a 20-30% mortality rate?
family dollar recalling a bunch of drugs and supplements because they stored them wrong
lucky charms and cheerios continue to make children and adults sick, the cause is still under investigation, and no recall has been issued. terrifying. that means it is almost definitely not one of the common causes like salmonella...
daily harvest said tara flour made customers sick. FDA is mad they announced that because the exact cause has still not been found. daily harvest products have given people liver damage so bad they needed to have their gallbladders removed. while the current FDA investigation only involves the leek + lentil crumbles, there are many reports of other daily harvest foods like the flatbreads also harming people. if you have been affected by daily harvest's bullshit, there is now a subreddit for it.
revive superfoods also pulling products with tara flour, for also giving people severe liver damage
several honey products are being recalled for having undisclosed, get this...VIAGRA in them. and cialis. sildenafil and tadalafil.
CVS is recalling lemon flavored magnesium-based laxatives due to contamination with gluconacetobacter liquefaciens, which can cause life-threatening infections in immunodeficient people.
some more from july 2022. everything in this post is VERY recent.
the FDA is the US food & drug administration. I am not tracking recalls in other countries.
unsafe levels of fucking lead in natierra organic freeze dried blueberries which were sold across the country. these were labeled incorrectly on the FDA website which is why I missed them
organic amaranth grain being recalled across the country due to salmonella
the CVS recall of potentially life-threatening contaminated laxatives applies to over 30 different lemon flavored laxative products, this one manufacturer is responsible for the bulk of the supply
over a dozen different enjoy life & trader joe's soft baked cookies and chewy bars are being recalled because they may contain shards of plastic. enjoy life cookies are advertised as "free from 14 allergens" and as non-GMO and gluten free. the amazon variety pack is included. trader joe's recall is limited to snickerdoodle.
no FDA link for this one but apparently factor 75 meal delivery service is recalling some of their rice products for containing shards of GLASS. emails are being sent out to affected customers
the family dollar recall affects HUNDREDS of different products to the point you have to click a PDF to see them all. this includes products like: midol, toothpaste, sunscreen, lidocaine, soap, deodorant, ibuprofen, acetaminophen, benadryl, nyquil, pepcid, pepto bismol, medication for children, zyrtec, lib balm, cough drops, rash ointment, baby products, prilosec, advil, epsom salt, imodium, miralax, claritin, mouthwash, eye drops, dish soap, and MORE. if you have shopped at family dollar recently, you are going to want to check this HUGE FUCKING LIST (scroll down to "list of recalled products")
august 11, 2022. all listings are either recent (past few months) or ongoing since the previous post unless otherwise dated. some of these recalls are now worldwide. if you want to link this information off of tumblr, then use the provided FDA links rather than the post itself. I am not the FDA, this is not official FDA communication, this is not a comprehensive list of regulatory activities (there are WAY more than what I posted), this is not a comprehensive summary of all links. my goal is to encourage you to keep up to date with recalls and share regulatory activities from their official sources, which I have provided.
there might be mistakes because I probably have food poisoning right now. go figure.
food:
dozens of nutritional shakes, plant-based drinks, oat milk, almond milk, coconut milk, dairy-based drinks, and coffees have been recalled due to contamination with invasive illness-causing microbes. infants, the elderly, and people with reduced immune function are more likely to be severely impacted. affected product brands include lyons ready care, pirq, glucerna, aloha, intelligentsia, kate farms, oatly, premier protein, MRE, stumptown, and imperial. these products were sold online and in stores nationwide.
and then the nutrition shake recall was expanded again to include fucking pediatric, lactation, and tube feeding formulations. ensure harvest, pediasure, sweetie pie organics, rejuvenate, sated, tone it up, uproot, cafe grumpy, multiple types of barista products, optimum nutrition, pediasure harvest, and more. if you drink any kind of meal replacement, protein shake, plant-based 'milk' drink, or nutritional beverage, check this recall. these microbes can kill.
revive superfoods is now being investigated by the FDA as a part of the daily harvest investigation (#1076) for ingredients that caused severe liver damage and emergency gallbladder removal.
everything else is under a cut because this got really fucking LONG. below contains information about drugs, warnings, sunscreen containing cancer-causing ingredients, worldwide recalls of laxatives, cancer medication being pulled from the market, pulse oximeters not working on darker skin, UV disinfectant wands containing unsafe levels of radiation, updates on previously posted investigations, products causing neck injuries in babies, and a lot more.
categories listed below the cut:
dietary supplements,
drugs
warnings, communications, shortages, and more
updates
misc
resources
dietary supplements:
more dietary supplements (usually advertised for sexual health) have been recalled for containing undeclared prescription drugs. at least one of these recalls affects products sold in canada. you should probably make a habit of searching "[supplement name] site:fda.gov". maybe slightly a funny, one of them was called "launch sequence"...as in...for your pocket rocket.
dietary supplements, including ones sold in stores such as vitamin supplements, are not approved or inspected by the FDA before sale and are not regulated the same way as food and drugs. the FDA tells dietary supplement companies to investigate themselves before selling any given product, which inevitably often contain undeclared allergens, undeclared ingredients, undeclared drug ingredients, undeclared prescription ingredients, contamination, and even lie about the potency of their supplements. and this is only when these companies get CAUGHT by the FDA, which can be years after a product launches on the market. these issues are not exclusive to aphrodisiacs sold on aliexpress, and even apply to over the counter vitamin C.
biotin (vitamin b7) can make you false negative covid-19 tests, and can make many other medical tests inaccurate.
drugs:
banana boat 30spf spray-on sunscreen has been recalled due to testing positive benzene, a cancer-causing substance
the recall of magnesium citrate based laxatives due to contamination with dangerous bacteria has expanded beyond just lemon flavors. there have been multiple reports of severe illness. this bacteria usually only harms those with reduced immune function.
even more magnesium citrate laxative recalls, and this recall is WORLDWIDE. repeating again, the magnesium citrate laxative recall is worldwide
plakiston healthcare expands june recall of milk of magnesia, magnesium hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide, simethicone oral suspension due to microbial contamination.
june 6: lymphoma medicine ukoniq (umbralisib) had its FDA approval removed and has been taken off the market due to being unsafe, after several months of investigating reports of increased risk of death.
back in april a nationwide recall was issued due to injections for testosterone, tacrolimus, cyclosporine, gonadorelin, and gonadoraline acetate from APS pharmacy/drug depot llc due to not being sterile. these recalls affected both human and animal supplies.
warnings, communications, shortages, and more:
june 21: FDA announces a committee meeting later this year to address how pulse oximeters (usually finger clamps) are WAY less accurate on darker skin due to not being calibrated for darker skin. incorrect pulse oximeter readings continue to prevent patients from receiving adequate and sometimes life-saving care, because the devices claimed the patients were doing better than they actually were. the racial bias in these devices is very dangerous.
june 30: FDA issued a warning that cancer drug copiktra (duvelisib) can cause severe side effects, including death.
FDA issued a medical device safety communication about UV disinfectant wands having unsafe levels of radiation and do not abide by safety regulations. these are sold nationwide and potentially worldwide, in stores and online. they can cause injury within a few seconds. one familiar included brand is sharper image.
stop using neck floats on babies. "Neck floats are inflatable plastic rings that can be worn around a baby’s neck and allow babies to float freely in water. Some neck floats are marketed for babies as young as two weeks old or premature babies and are designed to cradle a baby's head while their body moves freely in the water." these can decapitate your baby
when testing for monkeypox, use swabs from the skin lesions (boils, cuts, etc). do not use tests taken from saliva, blood, or anywhere other than the skin. there is not enough data showing that tests swabs from places other than lesions are accurate.
april 2022 but still important: FDA has found a link between pediatric iodine contrast exposure and hypothyroidism.
FDA's website lists over 120 drugs currently experiencing shortages, many of them due to increased demand. the FDA website is also experiencing technical difficulties.
there are also shortages of medical devices, equipment, and protective gear for reasons such as increased demand and products being discontinued
updates:
the investigation into cheerios and lucky charms is still open, active, and ongoing. no cause has been found yet. it is unclear how many products have been affected and no products have been recalled. reports of illness continue. investigation #1064
if you did not get sick from cheerios or lucky charms, congratulations, you just found out that not everyone gets sick from many types of food poisoning. the investigation is still ongoing and active with no indication of how many products are affected, or what they are affected with.
the FDA has not issued an updated statement on why daily harvest or revive superfoods are giving people liver problems to the point of needing surgery.
I am never fucking shopping at family dollar again unless I feel like consuming dead rat juice. it is absolutely repulsive how many times they get caught doing unsafe and potentially deadly things with their products.
misc
covid-19 tests have a significant chance of false negative, sometimes ABOVE 50%. yes, even PCR tests can tell you that you do not have covid-19 when you actually do, which is what a false negative is. a positive result means you probably have covid-19. negative result on a covid-19 test means you probably have a nose. at home tests (rapid antigen testing, aka RATs) cannot detect the majority of asymptomatic covid-19 cases. over a 60% false negative rate what the absolute shitting fuck. false negatives will increase as covid-19 continues to mutate.
30% of covid-19 cases, including those which are asymptomatic and vaccinated, get long covid. link is from dysautonomia international, which is a worldwide leader in researching, treating, and educating about causes and triggers of autonomic dysfunction like coronaviruses. they recently wrapped up an international medical conference with a heavy focus on the many long-term effects of covid-19 and how to diagnose and treat them. I attended this conference, and I will post when the dysautonomia international presentations become available to the public.
my tag for food and drugs is #fo&dr. I keep forgetting to add things to it, though.
resources:
report and track local cases of food poisoning: iwaspoisoned
report unsafe practices, adverse effects, food poisoning: FDA
subscribe to alerts for recalls
safe food handling
food information by topic
USDA foodkeeper app
not directly related to FDA stuff, but if you are feeling overwhelmed, I curated a reading list to learn about stationery.
whew! this took a long time to write.
if you want to toss me a coin for compiling this information, please only do so if you are financially stable, comfortable, and will not otherwise impacted by giving me money. food poisoning has played a big role in my health being eviscerated, so I am glad just to know I have been able to help others.
thank you to everyone who has helped affirm the need for posts like this or has reached out to let me know I was able to help you, and I hope I have convinced you to keep up to date with FDA activities!
Police exploit people’s love of dogs to make the abuse of human beings by K9 units and the abuse of the dogs themselves seem acceptable.
Cops are constantly scouting for K-9 handlers at my animal-based university and place of work and I’m fucking sick of it. Heres a really good article detailing the use of K-9s to maul and criminalise people (particularly people of color) without repercussions for the handlers and setting out how they’re an inaccurate bias that furthers the agenda for jailing black people as well as a propaganda tool to incite good public perception of the police amongst Your Average Joes
were not ready for electric cars yall!!!!! on the list of things we need to just stop gunning so hard for electric cars are at the top of the list. we dont have the electrical infrastructure. we dont have the EARTH to spare.
