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Current USA Politics in 2026 ... ya.

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Ancient Wisdom III

Woodcarving

Last sculpture of 2025

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Space

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Good chart for bugs

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Liz Mamont

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It will be OK

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australian sour patch kids have gluten in them i am truly at my fucking limit im crashing out im waging war against wheat idgaf anymore

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oh is that one of those things where ableist companies put in traces of common allergens so they can just avoid the cost of making it safe

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WHAT

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Why Manufacturers Are Intentionally Adding Allergens to Their Foods

A trend we predicted in 2016 continues.

US based but it’s similar reasons in other countries. and of course many companies have international locations. idk if that’s why it’s happening with sour patch kids but this is a thing

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I cannot even explain how ANGRY I am at this.

My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.

They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.

"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.

At the time, Kellogg’s notified Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) about the impending change and left it to them to warn the allergic community. In this case, Pearson’s didn’t even bother as near as we can tell."

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I wonder if that’s part of the reason behind my seeing an upswing in products adding corn starch or corn flour to things that didn’t have those before? <- rhetorical question, because I’m certain that’s what’s going on.

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Ha

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Take a brake

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Sheepstealer

art by Daniel James Caraballo

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Allegory of Satan

(Lord of the World) (1900) 

Ludwik Stasiak  1858-1924)

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yes

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“Epic is listed in a 1969 Lettergraphics catalog in four all-caps styles; Epic, E. Solid, E. Outline, E. Shaded. Allan Haley claims to be the designer of Epic Shaded. A 1976 catalog additionally shows a lowercase.”

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how it feels to message a friend who's having Problems that you can't do anything to help with.

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#i appreciate how genuine and non-judgemental this comic feels #like left one is not upset at right one for caring while being powerless #and right one seems genuinely distraught and not performative

I'm glad the facial expressions are coming across accurately! It can feel so absurd to say gosh I hope the torment maze removes some fire and rusty nails soon, but alas, sometimes that's all one can do.