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The FDA has upgraded an egg recall issued last month to “Class I,” its highest risk level, as it warns the public that consuming the products could cause “serious adverse health consequences or death.”
The recall of 1,589,577 dozen white-shell eggs and brown cage-free shell eggs was initially issued by Midwest Poultry Services in late July, which warned they might be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis.
According to the company, the eggs were produced and distributed from farms in Texas between June 6 and July 3 and have sell-by or best-by dates between July 20 and August 17. The recalled egg cartons have either the code P-1950 or 0840962 and Julian Dates between 157-184.
"Good <insert time of day> to my loyal voters and subscribers! 😘 We've got an emergency update for you today: violence is erupting across the Sovereign Polycule of Seattle! The story is still developing, but according to our inside source (a nonbinary weed farmer named Squintch) it all started when the Southside branch of the polycule-polity decided to have all of its members participate in a 'soul-link' Nuzlocke run of Shintendo's latest release, Pokemon Taupe. To quote Squintch, 'I lost my starter pokemon to an unlucky crit, and when I broke the news to the Aiden, Kayden, Brayden, and Zoë, well... the next thing you know people were throwing improvised explosives.' Yowza! 😱To all of my followers in the Cascadia region, stay safe and try not to be such a frickin nerd that it causes a diplomatic incident, mmkay?"
I am so glad to learn that the ever-expanding Seattle polycule threatening to consume the Pacific Northwest is a sovereign state. If it turns out that citysized Walmarts now dominate Texas you can have my firstborn.
reading this as someone who does cross stitch but is scared of the other kinds of embroidery is like overhearing an incredibly tall and buff person say they have beef with Mr. Tom, the kitten that chills at the bookstore
huge coming from the site who is so against black art that 'tumblr users are afraid of rap' has been a meme for the best part of a decade. You know that yall are 4channers with pronouns right?
Technically not Isekai, but it is time-skip/rewindcarnation*...
Our protagonist is Jill Cervel who has Shonen Protagonist level powers... Like flying, throwing war ships, kicking through stone castle walls, and punching people who definitely survived that kind of force 😔.
The show starts with Jill on the run, after having escaped prison, after being framed by her fiancé Gerald der Kratos, he falsely accused her of attempting to assassinate him/scheduled her execution for tomorrow, after she caught him having sex with his sister.
She won't keep it secret so obviously she has to die.
Jill is cornered and throws herself from the clock tower, and is stabbed by the sacred black spear thrown by Gerald. The hands of the clock spin backwards... Giving Jill the opportunity to make different decisions and rewrite not just her personal history but the history of entire nations.
The show is really good, the characters are engaging, the politics is interesting, a jealous love goddess who wants her husband is pulling the strings of most disasters behind the scenes... 10/10 recommend watching.
Spoilers below the cut.
Reverse time-skip and suddenly you're back at the party where Gerald the sister fucker/future you killer, proposes to you and you're on the run hiking your skirts to dodge every attempt to corner you...
You're 10 years old again and damn those little legs can skedaddle... But Gerald is a pursuit predator that keeps catching up to you, so in an act of desperation you propose to whoever happens to be behind you, that whoever is Hadis Teos Rave the Cursed Dragon Emperor...
Literally gets teleported out of the party to Hadis's ship, where he gives her a new outfit to wear (the outfit is awesome) and she does wonder how he has girls clothes in her size... This is never properly answered except that he doesn't seem to be a creep despite understandable suspicions to the contrary.
Speeding things up... On the trip to the empire receives the ring of the Dragon Consort, Punches a cannon ball, throws the ship to port in the Empire...
In the Empire, she foils a coup... Foils another coup... Fights the love goddess Kratos (no relation to the god killer) in the sky over the city... Another coup, Jill's magic is sealed away (kind of had to to raise the stakes, she's op af) they end up on the run... Dance of Dragons anime edition.
Hadis is like if kronk from the Emperor's New Groove also used his muscles for violence... The guy is a puppy who "doesn't understand affection or romance" and his first instinct is to solve problems with murder, but when Jill says he can't do that (she often dishes out violence in his name anyway) he spends all his time baking because he wants to feed her things that make her happy.
And despite there being an age gap of 9 years in their political marriage, their relationship consists of her beating threats to a pulp and him baking/fainting if she compliments him.
The thing about Gerald deciding to have Jill executed because she finds out about him and his sister doing the Lannisters tango... Feels like an overreaction to me. Gerald is going to be King, with enough power he can probably just like, do what he wants re: sister wife, openly.
They’re using it to make up for being shorthanded and lacking expertise and trying to get everything done fast, fast, fast. Someday the shoe is gonna drop. I saw it when one of my coworkers used AI to quickly write a document on a topic that I knew in my bones, but he had little experience with. I couldn’t get angry, because he did it under the same intense pressure to produce results FAST FAST FAST that had driven me to a near breakdown in July. But at least I could step in and make improvements because I had spent most of my career working in that specialty. The stuff I used AI for, no one on the team has much experience doing. My work has been reviewed by the whole team, but is that enough?
I have a feeling that this approach is going to bite the company in the ass someday. I have also accepted that there’s little I can do about it.
The Baldur's Gate 3 fandom's treatment of Wyll is fascinating in how much people want to invent reasons out of the ether to ignore, dismiss, and demonize him.
They say that he's boring and has no real interesting story, and I have to point out that 1. that's wrong, just inherently so, and 2. okay, so why is it not suspicious to you that the one Black companion in the game is painfully underwritten? Also, Wyll not having as much of a storyline as the rest of the companions isn't an excuse when I've seen white fandom make mountains out of lesser molehills! I've seen, time and time again, white fandom create whole rich worlds and stories for background characters with one line, or side characters with even less to work with than Wyll! They can invent story threads and motivations for a pocket of lint, but not this one Black character?
When they say that his whole hero thing and general kind and romantic nature makes him less interesting or annoying, I can't help but think that that would not be a problem if he were white, or if his personality and questline were transferred to a white character. For God's sake, there's a mod that takes Wyll's dance scene and replaces him with Astarion (which is an issue in and of itself but that's another post for another time)! That's all I need to know about where people's heads are at!
I've even seen people writing angry screeds demonizing Wyll for making the deal with Mizora. I'm sorry, was 17 year old Wyll just supposed to sit back and watch everyone die? Would a white hero faced with this kind of dilemma be received so poorly by fandom? I think not!
It all comes back around to antiblackness, and I always feel like I'm the crazy one for noticing it!
The problem here is that people love heroism, but only when it's a white character. When heroism wears the face of a Black person, then suddenly it's cheesy and boring and evil and all the bad things in the world.
I swear, some of you people somehow manage to possess all of the three most unfortunate character traits someone can have: a) kinda stupid, b) obnoxiously contrarian, c) deeply annoying.
