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Check your hand sanitizer y'all

Here's the full, updated list from the FDA. It's currently (well, as of March 14 '24) 67 pages.

Also be aware that a LOT of companies substitute cheaper ingredients in their food products. Which is obnoxious but fine, unless you're allergic to the substitute ingredients.

Olive oil, tea, honey, cinnamon (not that lead is exactly "safe" to eat), vanilla, coffee, fish, blah blah blah. The list goes on. Any corners a company can cut to save .001%, they will. Usually the substitutes are mostly harmless, but it isn't as if companies care about consumer safety when there's profit to be made.

To clarify, the list linked is ALL hand sanitizer products officially recalled (and may have ongoing additions). It is NOT just the Aruba Aloe brand; there are many brands by various manufacturers on the list. So please check to see if you own anything on that list.

Ok so today I was on the bus with another trans guy and we were talking about how hard it is to get testosterone. The waiting lists, the price, all the doctors you have to go to, that kind of stuff. Except, we were calling it ’T’, like you do when you’re both closeted and in public.

Then suddenly the elderly lady sitting behind us was like ‘young men, either I’m going crazy or you both have never heard of supermarkets, they have shelves full of tea there! Do you need directions to one?’

To which my buddy starts to explain, because why not. ‘Well you see, we’re both trans, and… ’

The lady didn’t wait for him to finish his sentence. ‘Oh no, I don’t mind that at all! Now do you want to know how to get to a place that sells tea? I’m actually heading there right now!’

We let her take us to the supermarket. We let her show us, excitedly, where the tea was. We both bought loads.

MONKEY MAN 2024, dir. Dev Patel

hater of socks

what is your problem !!!

which is definitely not an omen

oh lads king chucky isn't doing so hot

The omens begin, predicting king death in a month

Communists and anarchists will spend all day talking about abstract concepts and structures like capitalism and the state, but willfully ignore the very real, tangible curse placed upon me by the foul necromancer

You people are victim blaming me when I'm literally shrouded in a miasma of unholy pestilence

which of the animaniacs do you dress like

Shinjuku Boys (1995). Tatsu, a transgender man, jokes with his barber about his changing appearance, and his newly masculine features.

you guys are getting queerbaited big time but its kinda beautiful to see in 2024. firemen arent gay everybody knows that.....

shoutout to myself who didn’t know 911 was a show and thought this person was tagging this as spoilers for September 11th

Kinda funny how Vivian TTYD being a trans woman hinges on whether Beldam is a transphobe or not in the remake/remaster

Congratulations! Transphobia is canon!

To explain, in the Japanese localisation, the group is called the Shadow Sisters, while in the English version of the original game, they're called The Shadow Sirens. In the Japanese localisation, Vivian is misgendered and bullied because Beldam sees her as a "man", and doesn't consider her to be a part of the sisterhood.

The remake decides to follow the Japanese localisation a bit closer. Beldam is withholding calling the group "Shadow Sisters" because she doesn't consider Vivian to be one. Vivian being a trans woman is only ever confirmed because of Beldam's transphobia.

shrinkflation gonna make this a reality by the end of next year istg

i do think it’s a really fun feature that operas have birthdays. i know that everything can have a birthday if you know how to look at things but i love that every march 6 i see people saying happy birthday la traviata!! and every october 29 i see jokes about how of course don giovanni the opera is a scorpio (although i think don giovanni the character should have been born in may). there’s something so kind about it

Here's a big list I've made (because of course I had to) of opera birthdays, for anyone who wants to remember and celebrate them.

(Les Contes d'Hoffmann shares my birthday!)

January

2: Der Fliegende Holländer

3: Don Pasquale

14: Tosca

19: Il Trovatore, Manon

21: Jenufa

22: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

23: Eugene Onegin

24: I Puritani

25: La Cenerentola, Elektra

26: Cosí Fan Tutte, Der Rosenkavalier, Dialogues des Carmélites

27: Boris Godunov

29: Idomeneo

February

1: La Bohéme, Manon Lescaut

2: Louise

3: Semiramide

5: Otello

6: La Voix Humaine

7: Orphée aux Enfers, Four Saints in Three Acts, Il Matrimonio Segreto,

9: Falstaff, Khovanschina

10: Les Contes d’Hoffmann

11: La Fille du Régiment

16: Werther

17: Madama Butterfly, Un Ballo in Maschera

19: Don Quichotte

20: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Giulio Cesare

February 29: La Forza del Destino

March

3: Carmen

6: La Traviata, La Sonnambula

9: Nabucco, Ernani, Die Lustige Weiber von Windsor

11: Rigoletto, Don Carlos, I Capuleti e I Montecchi

12: Simon Boccanegra

13: Médée (Cherubini)

14: Macbeth

16: Thaïs

17: Attila

18: Faust

21: L’Enfant et les Sortileges

27: La Rondine

28: Andréa Chenier

31: Rusalka

April

5: Die Fledermaus

8: La Gioconda

14: Lakmé

15: Serse

16: Alcina, Le Prophéte

25: Turandot

27: Roméo et Juliette

28: L’Africaine

30: Pelléas et Melisande

May

1: Le Nozze di Figaro

5: Mefistofele

12: L’Elisir d’Amore

17: Cavalleria Rusticana

18: Iphigénie en Tauride

21: Pagliacci, Doktor Faust

22: L’Italiana in Algeri

24: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, Cendrillon

30: The Bartered Bride

June

6: Moses und Aron

7: Peter Grimes

10: Tristan und Isolde

11: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten)

12: War and Peace

18: Der Freischütz

20: Albert Herring

21: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

26: Die Wälkure

July

16: Die Entführung aus dem Serail

26: Parsifal

August

3: Guillaume Tell

9: Béatrice et Bénédict

14: Il Turco in Italia

16: Siegfried

17: Götterdämmerung

28: Lohengrin

September

5: La Serva Padrona

6: La Clemenza di Tito

11: The Rake’s Progress

14: The Turn of the Screw

22: Das Rheingold

26: Lucia di Lammermoor:

30: Die Zauberflöte, Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Porgy and Bess

October

5: Orfeo ed Euridice

7: The Golden Cockerel

10: Die Frau ohne Schatten

19: Tannhäuser

22: Nixon in China

25: Ariadne auf Naxos

29: Don Giovanni

November

4: Les Troyens, Prince Igor

6: Adriana Lecouvreur, The Cunning Little Vixen

10: La Forza del Destino

16: Stiffelio

20: Fidelio

23: Kát’a Kabanová

25: Martha

27: Ruslan and Lyudmila

December

1: Billy Budd

2: Samson et Dalila

4: Die Tote Stadt

6: La Damnation de Faust

8: Luisa Miller

9: Salome

10: La Fanciulla del West

14: Il Trittico (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi), Wozzeck

18: Iolanta

19: Pique Dame

23: Hänsel und Gretel

24: Aida, Amahl and the Night Visitors

26: Norma, Alceste

30: The Merry Widow, The Love for Three Oranges