today is the 21st day in the 21st week of the 21st year in the 21st century

I'm rebloging this on the 21st hour and minute of the day my time, which I think is beautiful personally.

I Made Romeo + Juliet (1996) Memes -_-

Hisoka, at Starbucks: Can I get a venti vanilla latte with uhh, seven espresso shots

Illumi, next in line: My god just do cocaine

Hisoka, with a concussion: The frogs are taking over the nation.

Illumi: What? With pitchforks?

Hisoka: Oh my god, pitchforks.

Hisoka: If I see a bug, I simply leave the room elegantly and require someone else do something about it. Hisoka: If no one fulfills my wish, I simply never go back in there.

Hisoka: If you sneeze and I say “Bless you”, the only thing you should say is “Thank you”.

Hisoka: I don’t need to hear “How did you get in my house?”, “Why is my window broken?”, “I’m calling the police”.

Illumi: ‘You wanna fuck me so bad’ can’t always be your response to criticism.

Hisoka: It’s a defense mechanism, okay?

“These six-pack rings are 100 percent biodegradable and edible—constructed of barley and wheat ribbons from the brewing process. This packaging can actually be safely eaten by animals that may come into contact with the refuse.“ (x) 

They use food their food waste to make them, so it’s a safer alternative that cuts down on plastic waste and food waste

I also love that "Floridaman" is one word.

To the Celiacs in the notes upset that the ring is not gluten free:

WHY ARE YOU PURCHASING BEER?

WHAT DO YOU MEAN CROSS CONTAMINATION? WHY ARE YOU EATING OUT OF THE BEER COOLER?

WHY ARE YOU UPSET YOU CAN'T EAT THE HOLDER, DESIGNED TO BE EATEN BY ANIMALS, FOR THE CANS OF DEADLY POISON YOU CAN'T DRINK?

Do y'all go to Tractor Supply and yell at the cashiers because the horse feed might kill you?

I know that the above is a shitty, bad-faith response, but let's pretend that these are serious questions and answer them like you actually give a fuck about the concerns of disabled people:

1. Why are you purchasing beer?

Because I live with 3 people who can drink it, and I host people at my house who can drink it. Because beer cans shouldn't be a source of cross-contamination I need to worry about. And, get this: this product is expressly intended to be used industry-wide, by companies which also produce things like cider, which is usually safe for celiacs to drink. The creators say they hope this is adopted industry-wide, which would include not just cider, but actual gluten-free beer, which does exist.

2. Why are you drinking out of the beer cooler?

Because up until this point, there's been no reason to worry that there would be cross-contamination from the drinks cooler, so if I wanted to put my sodas in the cooler with the beer, it's not a big deal. People don't normally, you know, pour their fucking beer into the water/ice in the cooler, so normally putting those cans in the cooler would be relatively safe.

3. Why are you upset you can't eat the holder?

I'm not upset I can't eat the holder. I'm upset that it isn't required to declare these things so that I can make a decision about my health appropriately. Right now, in the US, companies aren't required to tell us about changes like this, so we don't have the information we need to be able to make informed decisions about our food.

Gluten cross-contamination occurs with extremely small amounts of gluten, and gluten permeates plastic and other permeable surfaces, making them permanently unsafe. Putting a biodegradable item made of poison, or the residue of that item, unknowingly into a plastic cooler full of water means I've just ruined that container for my safe use forever. And if I don't KNOW ABOUT IT, I can't make an informed decision and protect my health.

It's also extremely short-sighted to say "they're only using this for beer," while not recognizing that gluten-free beer exists, that cider is often made by the same manufacturers (who aren't thinking about whether or not this makes celiacs unsafe), and not recognizing that the issue is that these things are undeclared and that the law in the US doesn't require them to be declared.

I'm excited for the possibilities of this for people who can have these things near them. I'm also upset by the fact that these materials are not required to be declared in situations where they are very clearly in a food preparation situation, and that this is a very common problem. The proliferation of paper straws made with undeclared wheat byproducts, of compostable forks made of undeclared compressed barley, and other things like that made out of undeclared common fucking allergens whose presence can kill people quick or slow, means that now I have to be eternally on my guard and treat every food-related formerly-plastic thing marked as "compostable" as if it might send me to bed for three days of crying while my joints burn and I shit myself for hours. And, you know, while people like you talk about me like I'm a fucking animal.

The reason why we don't go to Tractor Supply and complain about horse feed, but this is a problem, is because

I'M NOT A FUCKING HORSE, YOU WEEPING ANAL PUSTULE.

Tractor Supply isn't putting undeclared barley all over HUMAN FOOD CONTAINERS and then yelling at the top of its caps lock at me about it. If this is clearly declared, I can make different choices - I can buy beer in a case for my non-celiac family and guests, I could buy beer in glass bottles instead. I can choose beer which isn't processed or bottled in the same facility with that beer for my guests. I can buy cider which isn't covered with microscopic amounts of two of the most common allergies.

Are you gonna all-caps at me if I'm in my wheelchair and don't like not knowing about a set of stairs so that I can plan to go around it or just not buy tickets to an event in an inaccessible building next, you soggy dog biscuit? Are you gonna all-caps at someone with epilepsy for being upset about undeclared flashing lights in a video next, you brillo thong of a human being?

The presence of undeclared allergens in food-adjacent items, toiletries, and medications in the United States is a fucking problem, and the fact that people like you feel like it's appropriate to virtually scream at disabled people for being concerned about things that can hurt or kill us, well.

I wish I could be surprised, but I'm not, because celiac isn't actually treated like a disability by most people, even though in the eyes of the ADA it is exactly the same legally as being blind, as requiring a wheelchair. It's a fucking disability, but it doesn't get treated that way. Gluten-free food is a fucking punchline. People have deliberately contaminated my food. All that we want is to fucking know about these things so that we can make appropriate decisions about our health and our lives.

But, you know, you could also just behave like this instead, you fucking sandpaper tampon. You could compare disabled people to fucking animals and spend 4 paragraphs all-capsing at, again, disabled people, who have to deal all the fucking time with behavior like yours and with the proliferation of ✨️undeclared✨️ wheat and barley in ✨️fucking food containers✨️, you moldy jock strap. You could do that. That's a choice you could make.

That would be a true asshole maneuver, but, you know, that's a choice you could make, just like the choice I could make to buy beer in a different container or fashion in order to allow my family and guests to drink what I can't while still keeping myself safe.

We all make choices, right? You ... just... made this one.

Asshole.

It must be exhausting going through life like this.

It is. I have to read the labels on everything I buy every time unless it comes from a specialty manufacturer who specializes in gluten-free/allergen-free food, because manufacturers change their formulas and manufacturing locations all the time. I had to throw out literally everything permeable in my kitchen when I was diagnosed, because it was already contaminated. All my cutting boards, most of my small appliances, everything plastic or wood or non-stick. Donated or thrown out.

I have to do extensive research on restaurants if I want to ever eat out, unless the restaurant is totally gluten-free. Usually it's just not worth the hassle.

I have to carry food with me everywhere, because I can't count on being able to buy things.

So yeah, it fucking sucks. And it really fucking sucks when people treat it like that makes me some sort of animal or that I don't deserve to have the information necessary to make wise choices. If I don't take this level of care, I will die -- not today, not tomorrow, but much sooner than I would have. The average lifespan of a celiac after diagnosis before we knew what celiac was?

About five years.

We get cancer. Our immune systems attack us constantly. I had horrible paranoia and constant fiery joint pain.

So yeah. It does suck.

of course you have red hair and homosexual tendencies

Roaming chess gangs

the cool thing about my brain is that i cannot pay attention to more than one sensory input at once or i will explode and also if i do not have at least three things to focus on i will go insane

it is too loud and I am ready to murder someone