This is my main blog. I post mostly recipes, nature ASMR, flowers, gardening, and thoughts about chronic illness.
36 female, she/her
Open to chat but in a serious relationship with an AudHd woman
You're safe with me if you're:
LGBTQA and all the rest of the alphabet crew
Neurodivergent
A person of color
Displaced or impoverished
Chronically ill or chronically in pain
Not a bigoted, misogynistic asshole
I've got psoriatic arthritis, fibromyalgia, a bunch of comorbidities, MDD, anxiety, cPTSD and PTSD. I still work full time, help manage a craft LLC, and try to survive life. I enjoy writing, reading, art, baking, crochet, cross stitch, embroidery, fashion, gardening, hiking, and dancing. Those last three are difficult to impossible for me in the last two years.
More than 80% of urine samples drawn from children and adults in a US health study contained a weedkilling chemical linked to cancer, a finding scientists have called “disturbing” and “concerning”.
The report by a unit of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that out of 2,310 urine samples, taken from a group of Americans intended to be representative of the US population, 1,885 were laced with detectable traces of glyphosate.
Globally, glyphosate use has risen almost 15-fold since so-called “Roundup Ready,” genetically engineered glyphosate-tolerant crops were introduced in 1996. Two-thirds of the total volume of glyphosate applied in the U.S. from 1974 to 2014 has been sprayed in just the last 10 years.
Kremer explained how glyphosates not only kill beneficial microbes and bacteria but encourage the spores that produce the fungi responsible for sudden-death syndrome that affects both corn and soybeans. Glyphosate “locks up” manganese (PDF) and other minerals in the soil so that they can’t be utilized by the plants that need them. It’s also toxic to rhizobia, the bacterium that fixes nitrogen in the soil. Kremer found that some Roundup ready crops are more susceptible to Fusarium, a type of fungi that produces mycotoxins in cereal crops that are harmful, even deadly, to humans. Kremer also discovered evidence the glyphosates can make their way to ground water supplies, something long denied by its producers.
Bayer, which bought Roundup maker Monsanto for $63 billion last year, says Roundup and its active ingredient glyphosate are safe for human use and not carcinogenic. It faces Roundup cancer lawsuits by more than 13,400 plaintiffs.
Bayer, famous for selling Aspirin, potentially killed thousands by knowingly selling medicine contaminated with HIV. They produced Factor VIII, a medicine for hemophiliacs developed from blood plasma. At the time Bayer sold HIV medication, hemophiliacs had a 90% chance of catching the deadly disease. In October of 1984, Bayer knew that heat treatment killed the AIDS virus, and that unheated Factor VIII concentrations were a death sentence for hemophiliacs. And yet Bayer's Cutter Biological unit decided to sell infected medicine overseas, denying the safer heat-treated product to "use up stocks" of the HIV-infected drug. Many people from Asia and Latin America died as a result of Bayer's prioritization of profits over people.
A program cosponsored by more than a dozen NIH Institutes and Centers supports basic and population-based research on the role that environmental, infectious, and genetic factors play in initiating or exacerbating autoimmune diseases. Infectious agents have received particular attention. For example, the product of a human gene that confers susceptibility to Crohn’s disease recognizes components of certain bacteria. Viral infections have long been suspected as triggers of type 1 diabetes. Other recent research suggests that the numbers of regulatory T cells that normally hold potentially destructive immune responses in check are reduced by viral infection. New data have also emerged that link dietary exposure to certain foods, particularly the timing of introduction of cereals in infant diets, as a possible etiologic factor in type 1 diabetes. Another NIH program investigates whether in utero exposures cause increased susceptibility to autoimmune or other diseases later in life.
Twenty-one oat-based cereal and snack products popular with children contain traces of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup, according to tests from the Environmental Working Group. EWG said the tests found glyphosate levels above what it considers safe for children in all but four of the products.
Essentially the theory is that glyphosate is a trigger effecting DNA to contribute to the development of autoimmune diseases. Changes in the gut microbiome are heavily connected to the development of autoimmune diseases. We carry the genetics and then environmental factors trigger certain genes.
Celiac disease, and, more generally, gluten intolerance, is a growing problem worldwide, but especially in North America and Europe, where a
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the broad-spectrum herbicide RoundupTM, has been a topic of discussion for decades due to contradictory
This article mentions the effect of glyphosate on bees and beetles due to disrupting their amino acid synthesis.
We provide evidence from the scientific literature that glyphosate can be metabolized by humans, that it disrupts the intestinal microbiota, causes severe metabolic acidosis when ingested in high doses and leads to mitochondrial dysfunction by uncoupling of phosphorylation. The symptoms and diseases associated with metabolic acidosis and mitochondrial dysfunction compare well with those attributed to glyphosate. Taken together, this evidence suggests that glyphosate, in the doses equivalent to allowed residues in food ingested over a long period of time, causes a low-grade, chronic acidosis as well as mitochondrial dysfunction.
New insights into the role of mitochondria in autoimmune diseases
These findings show a novel mechanism by which pores formed on stressed mitochondria release mtDNA into the cell and trigger a damaging immune response
Cells regulate gene expression in part through the chemical labelling of histone proteins. Discovery of a label derived from lactate molecules reveals a way in which cells link gene expression to nutrient metabolism.
This is my look at the end of PrideFest 2026. New hair color, new eyeliner, new lipstick. I felt really pretty. I felt like me.
I'm hoping we did well vending. I'm really proud I did it even though it was difficult due to my psoriatic arthritis and fibromyalgia. Part of the reason I can is the ability to sit stand and walk at will. I also live 5 minutes from the festival area. I work so hard for months to make stock. My hands cramped, back aches, and eyes burned. (My fingers burnt from the glue gun, too.)
I have been doing a lot to try to help my illness. I take 7 pills a day, give myself a shot every week, get an infusion every 2 months, do aquatic physical therapy as much as I can, use a CPAP, and use a Nuropod. I'm hoping to be able to drive again this year.
It was loud and the smoke bothered my asthma. Luckily, my wife has a mask that blocks the smoke. At one point, there was a strange chemical smell and I thought I was going to faint. I sat down for a while. I'm sweaty, tired, sore, and bruised with swollen hands and feet. I know I won't be able to do anything for the rest of today and tomorrow. I'll be fatigued for several days and my pain level will raise. But I'm grateful for all I was able to do today. I talked to a lot of kind people who appreciated my art. It's difficult for me to be social (I'm shy and anxious). This really helps me feel part of the community.
There are a couple of things about this that bother me. It doesn't explain how narrow street widths make those rates go down. Is it people driving slower? Do people tend to stay on the sidewalk? I'd like to know that.
I'm sure there are more pedestrian fatalities in the U.S. The U.S. is not pedestrian friendly in the majority of it's cities and towns. That does need to change.
But, if I may make a point, Stockholm is one city and it's being compared to the entirety of the U.S. That seems odd. Shouldn't we compare a similar size city in the U.S. to Stockholm?
Also, European cities were made to be walkable. Many of them were developed before cars existed. However, a LOT of the U.S. still had dirt roads when cars were first developed. People were travelling by horse and carriage or they never left their town. Highways began being developed in the 1916 but what we consider modern highways were not developed until 1956. I have a photo of the area near my great grandfather's Ohio farm in the 1950s and there was a dirt road. I STILL see a lot of dirt roads in Ohio.
The infrastructure of much of America was built for cars, trains, and horses. It wasn't built for pedestrians. That hasn't changed over the years when cities get repaired. If they get repaired. (There were several passenger train systems across Ohio built in the 1850s. They just let them go to disrepair in the 1940s. We still don't have passenger trains. We're finally getting one.) Walkable cities or towns are rare and often extremely expensive to live in. It disenfranchises a lot of disabled people. Oh and some of those walkable towns aren't wheelchair accessible meaning you can't use a wheelchair on those sidewalks (too narrow or uneven) or get into shops because there are no ramps on private businesses.
Because there are often no side walks or appropriate lighting along many U.S. roads, people who walk by the side of the road may get hit. Drunk driving is also prevalent here, unfortunately. Texting and driving is a real problem. People drive like they are insane here. It's gotten worse in the last ten years. Or I'm just getting old and idealizing the past (except accident rates agree with me).
Or maybe some of them like being touched by those who make them feel safe being themselves and hate being touched by those who wish to control them. And the people inventing those theories are the people who wish to control them.
If you act like you're superior to someone and label every move they make as rude, of course they're not going to want you to touch them.
There are some autistic people who don't like being touched by anyone, just like there are some neurotypical people who don't like being touched by anyone. But it seems to you like they all hate being touched only because those who want to be touched wouldn't want you to be the one touching them.
