Thought my gf cheated on me again so I messed around with her gay brother, but it turns out it really *was* just her cousin that she was spending time with, so now I’m kinda feeling guilty and confused
Is this how a priest in a confessional booth feels… ten hail marys
rb this and tell me what ur accent is. this has no purpose except the fact i just realized i could have like... mutuals with cockney accents or newfoundland accents or something and thats just wild
the solid hundred americans saying "idk general american". i dont know what that is so im gonna pretend you mean "I sound like a disney channel character"
shoutout to whoever said "gay". also whoever said "autism".
to those curious; 'newfoundland' accents are what everyone i know says to refer to the stereotypical "canadian accent" that bad american TV has, 'cause you're basically only gonna hear that in a random fishing town on the Maritimes' coast.
the fact that almost every french person called their accent sexy
all my fellow canadians who are saying "canadian but i dONT SOUND NEWFIE" like yes babe we are not all One Single Fishing Town Accent (no hate to the newfies tho ily)
the one who said "i sound like siri. i have no accent" meanwhile siri is So Fucking Accented to my ears
the amount of people with english as a second language in the notes who now love their accents <3 that's great, love urself
everyone going "i'm TOLD i sound british. please not that"
the one person who described their accent instead of just saying a word. they happened to be canadian and i was like "you just. absolutely and totally described how i talk"
the amount of californians going "californian but i dONT SOUND SURFER OR VALLEY GIRL" like the US version of "im not newfie"
the one single californian who was like "yeah i sound surfer. what are u gonna do about it"
'She is so old': One-eyed wolf in Yellowstone defies odds by having 10th litter of pups in 11 years
By Patrick Pester, published June 3, 2024
Wolf 907F recently gave birth to her 10th litter of pups, which researchers say is likely a Yellowstone National Park record.
Wolf 907F walking past a trail camera in Yellowstone National Park. (Image credit: Yellowstone Wolf and Cougar Project)
The alpha female of a Yellowstone gray-wolf pack has defied the odds by having a 10th litter of pups at the age of 11.
The one-eyed wolf elder, named Wolf 907F, gave birth to her latest litter last month, the Cowboy State Daily reported. Gray wolves (Canis lupus) have an average life span of three to four years, so it's rare for them to reach 11, let alone have pups at that age.
Wolf 907F has given birth to pups every year for a decade straight since she became sexually mature, which Kira Cassidy, a research associate at the Yellowstone Wolf Project, said is likely a record for the wolves of Yellowstone National Park.
At age 11, Yellowstone’s Wolf 907F has lived more than twice a wild wolf’s average life expectancy. In this photo from April, she was pregnant with a litter of pups that she’s since given birth to. (Courtesy Yellowstone Wildlife Project)
"Every day, I expect that she might die just because she is so elderly, but I've been thinking that for the last few years, and she keeps going," Cassidy told Live Science.
Cassidy has calculated that only about 1 in 250 wolves in Yellowstone make it to their 11th birthday, with just six recorded examples since wolves were reintroduced to the park in 1995. The oldest of all of these great elders lived to 12.5 years, according to the National Park Service.
Wolf 907F lies in the snow in Yellowstone in 2015. (Image credit: Kira Cassidy/NPS)
Wolf 907F is the oldest wolf to have lived her whole life in the park's Northern Range, where there is more prey but also more competition from other wolves. Wolves rarely die of old age in the wild, and in Yellowstone National Park, the biggest threat is other wolves.
"In a protected place like Yellowstone, their number-one cause of death is when two packs fight with each other," Cassidy said. "That accounts for about half of the mortality."
One of Yellowstone's oldest wolves, Wolf 907F is pictured here with her pack last year. She's the gray collared wolf on the lower left. (Courtesy Yellowstone Wildlife Project)
Wolf 907F is the alpha female of the Junction Butte pack, which has between 10 and 35 members at any given time. Cassidy noted that this is a large pack — the average wolf pack size is about 12 individuals — and that reduces the risk of being killed in territorial fights. Wolf 907F's experience also gives her pack an edge.
"Packs that have elderly wolves are much more successful in those pack-versus-pack conflicts because of the accumulated knowledge and the experience that they bring to that really stressful situation," Cassidy said.
Wolf 907F has likely boosted her pack's survival chances outside of battle, too. Cassidy noted that the Junction Butte pack rarely leaves Yellowstone's border and that Wolf 907F is "savvy" when it comes to things like crossing roads and avoiding humans.
Wolf 907F, Yellowstone's aging matriarch at 11 years old, only has one eye. She's the fourth wolf to pass by this trail cam. (Courtesy Yellowstone Wildlife Project)
What makes Wolf 907F even more impressive is that she does all of this with only one functioning eye. Researchers aren't sure what happened, but her left eye has been small and sunken since before she turned 4. "You would never know [when] watching her," Cassidy said.
Like other elders, Wolf 907F takes a back seat in hunts now that she's older, and she spends most of her day hanging around with the pack's pups. Cassidy and her colleagues have counted three pups in her current litter, which is smaller than the average litter size of four to five but not surprising. A 2012 study of Yellowstone wolves published in the Journal of Animal Ecology found that litter size declines with age.
"The fact that 907 is still having pups is amazing, and her litter being small is expected given that she is so old," Cassidy said.
A few of Wolf 907F's offspring now lead packs of their own, but most of her pups never reach adulthood due to the perilous nature of being a wolf. However, Wolf 907F and the others in the park don't seem to live like death is on their mind.
"They are happy to be with their family going from day to day," Cassidy said. "Even if they have injuries or are missing an eye or something really stressful is going on in their life, they move through that stress and go back to seemingly really enjoying their life."
At age 11, Yellowstone's Wolf 907F - the gray wolf in the center of this photo from 2020- has lived more than double the typical lifespan of wolves in the wild. (Courtesy Yellowstone Wildlife Project)
crazy to remember "tell him...i love him more than anything he could ever do wrong" was in the same episode as "oppression is the mask of fear", which was in the same episode as “the empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep." three showstopping monologues in the same episode. none being THE monologue you'd associate with the show, with THEE monologue being a toss-up between two other show-stoppers two episodes prior. we should let the andor writers punt that baby yoda prop into the moon
the US deli meat recall has expanded 35 times over, going from 200,000 pounds to 7 MILLION pounds of meat and poultry recalled due to listeria contamination.
if you checked your fridge before, check it again with the new list, there are over 70 products being recalled!
this recall of boar's head products now includes old country branded products. some were also exported to the cayman islands, dominican republic, mexico, and panama.
please note, people have died from this outbreak, dozens of people have been hospitalized, and since listeria can take months to kick someone's ass after exposure and then a while to be investigated and recorded by the government, these numbers are expected to rise. you do not need to have eaten meat or poultry to be exposed to listeria from this outbreak, you could have just eaten food that has come in contact with it like in a kitchen, deli, restaurant, or anywhere else these meats were used to prepare food. listeria is a nasty fucker that loves to contaminate whatever it touches. there is more information on listeriosis and high-risk groups further down this post.
announced july 30th, 2024, current as of july 31st, 2024. this is not a complete copy/paste of the announcement or all relevant information, please check the links for more complete information and updates from the government.
WASHINGTON, July 30, 2024 – Boar's Head Provisions Co., Inc., a Jarratt, Va., establishment, is expanding its July 26, 2024, recall of deli meat products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The establishment is recalling approximately 7 million additional pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products. Whole genome sequencing results show that a liverwurst sample collected by the Maryland Department of Health tested positive for the outbreak strain of Listeria monocytogenes.
This expansion includes 71 products produced between May 10, 2024, and July 29, 2024, under the Boar’s Head and Old Country brand names. These items include meat intended for slicing at retail delis as well as some packaged meat and poultry products sold at retail locations. These products have “sell by” dates ranging from 29-JUL-2024 through 17-OCT-24. View full product list. View labels.
The products subject to recall were distributed to retail locations nationwide and some were exported to the Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Panama. The products shipped to retailers bear establishment number “EST. 12612” or “P-12612” inside the USDA mark of inspection on the product labels.
most people exposed to listeria will not experience a serious infection. but listeriosis, the illness caused by listeria, can become pretty bad and can take weeks to show symptoms after exposure. listeriosis can cause lifelong disability or death. for people who are pregnant, listeriosis can cause stillbirths, miscarriages, premature births, and life-threatening infections in newborns.
say you ate a bad deli meat sandwich a week ago, or any food that may have come into contact with these deli meats, and you theoretically got exposed to listeria with an immune system not strong enough to fight it off. it could be weeks or even months before listeriosis starts affecting you. consider writing down what you ate, and where, and when, just in case you need to tell this to a medical provider in the future. if you do develop listeriosis, it may become difficult to remember these details later.
if your hypothetical sandwich (or whatever you ate involving the recalled products) had been thoroughly cooked, it may have killed off the listeria. listeria is killed with heat, which is why deli meats are suseptible to listeria contamination.
this is a type of contamination so serious and easily spread that entire delis are going to be shut down to be thoroughly cleaned. if you had these products in your kitchen, even if you cooked them before eating, the united states food safety and inspection service recommends deep cleaning your fridge to stay safe. consider what else may have come into contact with the contaminated food.
as a reminder, having previously been infected by covid-19 is one of the many things that can cause a weakened immune system, and many people with weakened immune systems do not know they have weakened immune systems until they get infected with something serious. you can temporarily have a weakened immune system just from a lot of stress or not getting enough sleep, so make sure you get plenty of rest if you are concerned. good quality rest makes the immune system stronger.
Consumption of food contaminated with L. monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, a serious infection that primarily affects people who are pregnant, aged 65 or older, or with weakened immune systems. Less commonly, persons outside these risk groups are affected.
Listeriosis can cause fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms. An invasive infection spreads beyond the gastrointestinal tract. In people who are pregnant, the infection can cause miscarriages, stillbirths, premature delivery or life-threatening infection of the newborn. In addition, serious and sometimes fatal infections can occur in older adults and persons with weakened immune systems. Listeriosis is treated with antibiotics. Persons in the higher-risk categories who experience flu-like symptoms within two months after eating contaminated food should seek medical care and tell the health care provider about eating the contaminated food. (rune note: emphasis mine)
FSIS is concerned that some product may be in consumers’ refrigerators and in retail deli cases. Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them and retailers are urged not to sell these products with the referenced sell by dates. These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase. Consumers who have purchased these products are also urged to clean refrigerators thoroughly to prevent the risk of cross-contamination.
FSIS recommends retail delis clean and sanitize all food and non-food surfaces and discard any open meats and cheeses in the deli. Retailers may refer to FSIS’ guideline, Best Practices Guidance for Controlling Listeria monocytogenes in Retail Delicatessens, for information on steps to prevent certain ready-to-eat foods that are prepared or sliced in retail delis and consumed in the home, such as deli meats and deli salads, from becoming contaminated with L. monocytogenes.
the wikipedia page for listeriosis notes: “Listeriosis may cause mild, self-limiting gastroenteritis and fever in anyone.” and “People who were previously healthy but were exposed to a very large dose of Listeria can develop a noninvasive illness in which the bacteria do not spread into their bloodstream or other body sites. Symptoms can include diarrhea and fever.”
and here is the united states center for disease control page on this outbreak.
Get the most up-to-date information here.
as of the time this post is going up, the CDC page has not yet been updated with the latest recall information, and reflects the previous, smaller recall.
list of all affected product names under the cut. check the product information list for more information on each product and where they were exported, and here is what the labels look like.
this list is long.
do not risk this. do not mess with listeria. do not eat these recalled foods!
I did this on my phone while recovering from medical treatment, so please let me know if the formatting came out wrong.
LIST OF BOAR'S HEAD PRODUCTS CONTAMINATED AND RECALLED:
Virginia Ham
Whole Fiber Cappy Ham
Half Hot Butt Cappy Ham
Gourmet Pepper Ham Half
Sweet Slice Ham
Whole Sweet Slice Ham
Half Natural Casing Cappy Ham Half
Tavern Ham
Extra Hot Cappy Ham
Rosemary Sundried Tomato Ham
Sweet Slice Ham Baby Half
Head Cheese Olive Loaf
Pickle & Pepper Loaf
Liverwurst Paté 8oz Bologna
Thin Half Bologna
Thick Half Beef Salami Natural Casing
Pork & Beef Frankfurters
Giant Steakhouse Slab Bacon
Natural Casing Beef Franks 8/1 Canadian Style Bacon
All Natural Traditional Ham
All Natural Applewood Smoked Ham
Garlic Bologna
Lower Sodium Bologna
Beef Bologna Spiced Ham Square Half
Hot Smoked Sausage 1LB
Skinless Pork & Beef Franks 8/1 1LB
Beef Knockwurst 1LB
Skinless Beef Frankfurters 4/1 8"
Cocktail Frankfurters 12oz
Virginia Ham Half Skinless Pork & Beef Frankfurters 4/1 2.5 LB
SmokeMaster Beechwood Smoked Black Forest Ham
Whole SmokeMaster Beechwood Smoked Black Forest Ham Half
LIST OF OLD COUNTRY PRODUCTS CONTAMINATED AND RECALLED:
OC CAPPY HAM FIBER 1/2
OC HOT BUTT CAPPY- FIBER
OC GOURMET PEPPER HAM
OC BLACK FOREST HAM 1/2
OC SWT SLICE SMK HAM 1/2
OC CAPPY BRAND HAM NC 1/2
OC TAVERN HAM OC ROSEMARY/TOMATO HAM
OC SWT SLICE HAM BABY1/2
OC ALL NATURAL UNC HAM
OC CANADIAN STYLE BACN JR
OC ALL NAT UNC SMKD HAM
OC HABANERO HAM OC SEASONED CKD FRESH HAM
OC BEECHWOOD SMOKD HAM WH
OC BOURBONRIDGE SMKD HAM
OC BROWN SUGAR & SPICE DELIGHT OFF THE BONE HAM
if you are a high-risk group and have eaten these foods or anything that may have come into contact with them, breathe. get a lot of rest and pay attention to your body over the coming weeks and months, and figure out where you can go to get medical care in case you start showing signs of infection.
the united states centers for disease control and prevention (CDC) reports another person has been confirmed dead as a result of this outbreak, and there have been 10 new confirmed hospitalizations. even in the best of circumstances where all information is available and everyone participates in the investigation from the start, it takes up to a month for illnesses and deaths to become officially associated with an outbreak. and it can take weeks after exposure for listeria to cause illness to begin with. the number of people infected as a result of this contaminated meat is expected to rise.
if you are in a high-risk group and believe you have been exposed to listeria as a result of this outbreak, especially if you have eaten a lot of these products lately, consider reaching out to your healthcare provider even if you have not shown signs of illness yet. they may choose to prescribe you antibiotics to help keep you safe.
The CDC says this is the largest listeriosis outbreak since 2011.
CBS news requested and received USDA's food safety inspection service records for the factory where the recalled meat was produced.
there have been 69 noncompliances (violations, basically), including mold buildup, mildew, leaks, ample amounts of blood on the floor, insects and...
"heavy meat buildup" on the walls.
since the last CDC investigation update on august 8th, 6 more deaths have been attributed to this listeria contamination, with 57 total hospitalizations. CBS news calls this the largest listeria outbreak in the united states in 13 years.
Learn about a Listeria outbreak linked to meats sliced at delis.
the US CDC continues to report that the number of deaths, illnesses, and hospitalizations are expected to rise, especially since many of the meats have sell by dates into october 2024 and may still be in people's refrigerators. and then it can take months for listeria exposure to cause illness, and then several more weeks for diagnosed, reported, and investigated cases to become associated with the outbreak. not every illness or death from this outbreak will get diagnosed, reported, or investigated.
you can read the full list of the boar's head factory violations here.
might not want to read it while nauseous or eating. tag your favorite lines!
“Meat overspray on walls and large pieces of meat on the floor behind line. Meat build up on the power cords of line 2. The floor scales at the end on lines 1 and 2 had large pieces of meat and trash in them, with an appearance of an odor. The polar catwalk had pieces of meat and fat in the support braces and plastic floor pieces. All of the polar electrical control boxes had meat and fat build on the bottom. All polar legs and framework had meat and fat build up on them. 1 metal polar vat had meat and fat particles in the tube that connects it to the polars. The 2 polars closest to netted hams department had meat/fat build up in the vacuum ports on the bottom.”
this is not even half of the very non-meat places that were described to be covered in meat
“I went into the the Raw Receiving cooler. | observed multiple combos in which were saturated, there were ample amounts of blood in puddles on the floor, and on the rack that were heavily soiled to the point they appeared to leak at a steady pace. There was also a rancid smell in the cooler.”
...
“Upon entering the pickle vat pump out room approximately 15-20 flies were observed going in and out of the 4 vats of pickle left in the room. Small flying gnat like insects were observed crawling on the walls and flying around the room. The rooms walls had heavy meat buildup, pink/orange discoloration, and denaturant over spray on them.”
yeah just spray over the meat oozing off of the gnat-covered walls. good enough.
...
“The inedible room also had a presence of flying insects. The room also had multiple instances of meat/ meat product on the floor, as well as trash. The cure cooler man door in the back right corner of the room insects were observed. 7 ladybugs, 1 beetle like insect, and 1 cockroach like insect.”
I appreciate the humbleness of not wanting to explicitly identify a beetle as a beetle, just in case it might not be a beetle.
all emphasis mine.
does anyone here know about how this all compares to factories that get shut down before people die?
it’s why he’s always doing the riker lean, too! where he puts one foot up on something and rests an arm on his own leg! he fucked up his back moving furniture when he was younger.
Disability accommodations do not have to be made into a big deal. He just… did that. And it became part of the physicality of the character. And we all joked about it, because without the context of the actor’s physical discomfort/pain, that is an objectively funny way to approach a chair. But Jonathan Frakes has the raw charisma to make it work, and by Gd he worked the hell out of it.
Yeah, not to get, just, TOTALLY off on a tangent, but it reminds me of the classic “Bartlet Jacket Maneuver” from The West Wing.
This is how Martin Sheen puts on a jacket, and he does it that way because of an injury done to his arm when he was born. His left arm was crushed by forceps as they were removing him from the birth canal, which made that arm shorter than the other and also limited his overall movement. So, he puts on a jacket like this–because he has to. He just doesn’t have the movement and flexibility necessary to slip his arm into the sleeves another way.
But, on the show…he just did it, and did it with such panache and confidence that no one dared even question it. He played President Bartlet on TV for, like, 6 years, and so for 6 years that was just how Fictional President of the United States put his jacket on. And, yeah, it was a bit odd maybe, people definitely noticed, but mostly all anyone actually thought about it was “Damn, that looks cool and badass as fuck.”
It became a signature for the character, not in any kind of negative or “that’s weird” way, but just, like…something unique and special that people recognized and had really positive associations with. You’d see that jacket flip and it would trigger this little bright smiley “Fuck yeah, you go get’em!” feeling inside.
There’s even this bit, in one of the show’s most acclaimed episodes, that includes flashbacks to when the character is much younger, and they had the younger actor do this move when he puts on a jacket (which he had to learn how to do of course) and then used it as a transition cut to the present day character finishing the motion–a way of linking them together, making them feel more like one person with one continuing story to the audience. And like, I remember, seeing it when it first aired, and fuck, I got chills, it was just such great moment! They were literally using this little detail, that was entirely due to the actor adapting to his disability, as a way to ground their flashback sequences with the present storyline and make those scenes feel more real and present to the audience and it worked. Because nobody working on the show saw Sheen’s funky jacket move as problem, they actually found a way for it to actively make the story better.
Anyway, blah blah blah, characters being interesting and having unique elements informed by their actors doesn’t take anything away from the work but actually adds to it, yadda yadda yadda.
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