this is an elaboration of a Bluesky thread I wrote off the cuff in April, 2025. I’m incorporating comments I made into the text.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-food-safety-inspections-plans/
Category: <span>Health</span>
This started as a thread in response to something at Bluesky (which I usually like, but which is, like the entire internet in 2024, frequently poisoned with too much binary thinking) and I decided I wanted it here. Comments are off.
So, I deleted a bunch of replies to a high profile account because I’m not someone's punching bag when they’re getting dugeony about a profession they profoundly do not understand.
A rescued thread from Twitter, originally posted in March, 2022
An interesting observation from a session today: Cruelty evolves from fear, because if one cannot name a fear, all unknowns become a threat. And selfishness evolves from anxiety, because anxiety’s universalized unnamed fears limit the ability to use theory of mind skills.
I blended this after looking at several commercial mixes that weren’t giving me what I needed, or were using massively excessive packaging, or both, or were using ingredients I cannot tolerate. No stevia for me, please, I’m allergic to ragweeds and stevia is cross reactive.
Or, how The Handmaid’s Tale is failing its own history if it’s not VERY careful.
Spoilers through the end of Season 5. Stop here, or abandon all hope of being unspoiled.
(There was a twitter thread, this was my response. The anonymized post that started it.)
Yeah, no, to this whole tweet about Tylenol, CBD and ibuprofen. This is a lot of bad information packed into 280 characters.
Originally a Twitter thread. (Minor edits for clarity) (and some additions)
Koldony seems to miss a major factor in opiates use: demographics. His favorite statistic is opiate use increased drastically starting in 1997. (Koldony is the founder of the anti-opioid activist group Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) and makes a tidy fortune as an expert witness in opiate litigation.)