humanfist

honorarycassowary

rebeccathenaturalist

Polynesian snails release is biggest ever of ‘extinct in the wild’ species | Conservation | The Guardian

Misguided introduction of alien predator saw partula snails driven from their habitat – but zoos have reared new populations

amp.theguardian.com

This is super exciting! Invertebrates are often overlooked in favor of the charismatic megafauna, but in a lot of ways they're even more ecologically crucial. These little native snails are detritivores, helping to break down decaying matter and convert it back to nutrients more accessible to other living beings. The invasive snails that overtook their habitat--the African giant land snail and the rosy wolf snail--don't fulfill the same ecological roles. The former voraciously chows down on live plants, while the latter is a carnivore that hunts down other snails.

It's even more important to be reintroducing the native partula snails, because these species have been declared extinct in the wild. The last few members of each species were brought into captivity and bred in safe enclosures, and now their descendants are heading back to their historic range in places that have had all of their predators removed so they have a good chance of building up a healthy population before spreading out beyond those safe confines.

And to that I say: "Go, little snails, go!"

overtrolled

ddeeric

First arts of da new year!!! June sustenance

hxhhasmysoul

medeasfirstborn

Togashi: Yusuke is conflicted over winning his fight with sensui after raizen triggered his mazoku form. Reverting back to youko has an increasingly negative effect on kurama’s mental state and sense of self. Godspeed is only possible because killua can withstand the pain he endured during his years of abuse. Kurapika has lost years of his life to emperor time. Gon’s nen contract was a suicide attempt by a child who forced himself to “grow up” to handle his grief

hxhhasmysoul

kurapikas-fucking-pissed

literally what is not to get abt Pitou's gender. every time someone is misgendered in HxH the story goes out of its way to make sure you know it is incorrect. so we can very easily extrapolate that, because Pitou is essentially referred to with any pronouns, and the story does not correct any particular usage, that any pronouns are fine for them

like. she is an ant and a cat. you expect him to have a gender???

mayasaura

thelifeofsharks

killy

violentdevotion

rose tyler hated her shitty job, wore £1 mascara, charity shop sweatpants, boxed hair bleach, couldn't keep her room clean, hated rich people, was called a slag by the queen, constantly chat shit about her mum, slapped a guy that made her mum cry, astonished herself when she could do maths, 19 year old runaway, and the most beautiful woman on my tv 2005 - 2006

saintjosie

chismosite

LAPD detonated 5000 lbs of fireworks in the middle of a residential area, injuring at least 17 people and causing $900 million in various damages in a low-income, majority-POC neighborhood.

They then continue to pursue caging the person whose fireworks they stole while news media misreports to cover for police incompetency and destruction.

post on the damages

post on the explosion

in depth article

gayberdnird

LAPD refused to ID officers behind a huge fireworks explosion. Now we have their names

The LAPD destroyed much of a South L.A. neighborhood, but would not identify the officers involved. Through investigative records, court doc

Los Angeles Times

It took TWO YEARS to get the names of those involved with this incident. There are people still protesting, still living in hotels, still with unfulfilled claims to the city from this shit

gender-trash

anistarrose

the uncommon allergy haver to anticapitalist pipeline

anistarrose

in January 2023, companies became required to label sesame on all products it was present in, and undergo rigorous cleaning procedures to prevent sesame contamination, after it was declared the 9th "major" food allergen in the United States.

so, instead of considering this a mandate to give a single shit about people with sesame allergies, almost all American companies decided to just add sesame flour to all their relevant products. because apparently that was cheaper.

it's almost impossible for me to find hot dog and hamburger buns without sesame now. and I am one of the lucky ones. I'm someone who just so happened to notice the label updates, not get caught unawares and have a severe allergic reaction. I'm someone lucky enough to be surrounded by multiple choices of supermarkets, and someone with the incredible privilege to have parents who'll help me search the shelves, and cover those costs that my allergies rack up. not everyone with allergies/other intolerances has all or any of those privileges to begin with.

most food allergies will never be prevalent enough that under capitalism, it will be profitable to give them the level of accommodation that they deserve. I speak from experience with a wide portfolio of hypersensitivity quirks when I say that the rarer the food allergy, the worse it gets.

and here's the thing: I can live without hamburger buns, with only superficial decreases in my quality of life. but sesame isn't my only rare allergy, and ever since this legislation hit, I've been lying awake at night, afraid of what I might lose access to next.

I've been lying awake at night wondering what I'll have to do to live, to obtain enough safe food to survive, if any of my other allergies get this same treatment. and I reiterate. I am one of the privlidged ones.

what these companies have done is completely legal. what these companies did has also cut off up to over a million people from what were previously safe, affordable staples of their diets. a system that has any incentive not to accommodate the dietary needs of any population is not a system that can be allowed to exist. this is the uncommon allergy haver to angry, fuming anticapitalist pipeline.

anistarrose

[Image description: two screenshots of tumblr tags, reading:

"also pea protein. mcdicks just added pea protein without any proper warning so if you got a legume allergy, don't eat their buns."

"did you know pea protein and pea flour is a thing. i didn't. but i sure found out quick after i ate frozen nuggets and when i got gravy from a restaurant. now i have to check fucking everything because i've also found pea protein in ice cream of all things." End description.]

thank you @butchwelddone and @insidejupiter respectively for these psas. signal boosting here for all my fellow legume-allergic folks, stay safe (and stay away from McDonalds buns)

tamlins-stories-and-poems

My dad has a cow milk allergy, my sibling has a coconut allergy, one of our close friends is allergic to most spices, wheat, and soy. If we’re lucky, we can find a product that any two of them can eat. Almost anything that calls itself “allergy free” is loaded with coconut.

Also! Fifteen years or so ago, all the whipped toppings went from being dairy free to advertising how they were “made with real cream!” Not to mention various other foods that followed the trend, and really screwed everyone over for having cow’s milk and whatever original milk alternative they used to cut costs both in everything.

So, yeah. For-profit food my belothed.

ms-demeanor

USAmerican corn-allergy-haver here l love you all and I think we should burn it all down.

ms-demeanor

By the way the practical [miserable] advice is to cook most things from scratch for yourself and to eat out rarely and only at restaurants you've completely vetted.

The advice that fucking nobody ever tells you about and that is why I literally went back to school to get a degree in nutrition is

If you suffer from a food allergy that cuts you off from bread and cereal products in the US you probably need to supplement your diet with vitamins because the primary source of folate in the American diet is fortified cereals and a severe folate deficiency is basically a form of anemia.

You can supplement this with vitamins but :) if you have :) grain allergies :) make sure :) that your allergens :) aren't used :) as fillers in :) the vitamins :) :) :) :)

Either you can take folate/folic acid on its own or you can take half a daily prenatal vitamin to meet the RDA for folate.

ms-demeanor

I have wheat, corn, and sesame allergies. I eat out about once a month and have to bring my own food to weddings, conferences, and anything else that will take me away from my own kitchen. I don't go to theme parks because there's nothing I can eat there. Backpacking and camping are difficult because pre-made camping foods contain my allergens and it's hard to carry foods that I know I can eat. If I go out to eat with friends no I don't I go out to have a cup of coffee - oh, is artificial creamer all you've got? nah it's got cornstarch in it, that's fine, I'll just drink it black that's okay oh wait all you've got is decaf that's fine I'll just have water OH you are using eco-friendly corn plastic cups well that's okay I am at least here being with people I'll eat when I get home. I am not on at least three medications my doctor recommended because corn is part of the product and I can't afford to have the meds made at a compounding pharmacy. Corn is in all of these things because it is RIDICULOUSLY cheap which is at least partially as a result of subsidies and is also at least partially as a result of the scaling economics of monocrops for agribusiness.

It is ten dollars cheaper to get 21 ounces more mac and cheese *shipped from canada* than it is to buy one of the pre-made foods that I can actually eat.

You may say "oh, well that's because that's the weenie organic brand that uses artisinal cheddar, of course it's more expensive than kraft" and I would have to say: