#protect everyone's health

[reasonsforhope]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule Tuesday [April 9, 2024] that will require 218 chemical plants to reduce toxic and carcinogenic airborne pollutants, aiming to reduce the number of people with elevated cancer risk by 96% nationwide.

The rulings principally address chloroprene: used to make rubber products, and ethylene oxide, used primarily for sterilizing medical supplies. Long-term exposure to these chemicals and their manufacturing have been identified as possible carcinogens, or cancer-causing agents.

According to a report in the Washington Post, this can include lymphoma, leukemia, breast cancer, and liver cancer.

Across a strip of Louisiana and Texas where half of the 218 chemical manufacturing facilities set to be affected by the new regulations are located, cancer rates of these kinds are substantially higher than national averages, leading it to be colloquially called “Cancer Alley.”

EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited Cancer Alley during the open-comment period of the proposed ruling, and said that across the 85 miles dotted with communities, he failed to meet a single person who didn’t know a loved one or friend who had either developed cancer, died of it, or knew someone who had.

Once implemented, the ruling will reduce more than 6,200 tons of toxic air pollution each year, according to the Post."

-via Good News Network, April 15, 2024

#I was going to say “wait isn't it normal for everyone to know someone who got cancer” #then I remembered that I grew up three miles from the site of a gigantic nuclear meltdown #which hardly anyone knows about it because they fucking covered it up btw #so it's possible I'm wrong and that is not a normal thing #united states #epa #environmental protection agency #louisiana #texas #cancer #cw cancer #public health #pollution #air pollution #environmental racism #environmental justice #oncology #good news #hope #cancer alley

[idolomantises]

I think I’m gonna discuss this once and hopefully never have to bring it up again. Originally I wanted to talk about it on Twitter but people are very disrespectful when it comes to mental health so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Basically, I haven’t been doing so great, mentally. Nothing bad has happened to me, I’m safe and surrounded by people I care about, and it’s been like that for months. I just, I haven’t been feeling good.

For people who do follow me on accounts like Twitter and Instagram, you may have noticed I haven’t posted anything new since January. I was struggling to feel motivated to make something for my main accounts despite having countless ideas I’d love to work on. I feel better now and do plan on getting something done in March, but that sudden lack of motivation is pretty rare for me. Art is not only my job but a big hobby for me, I just love drawing. I did get some nsfw art done at least.

I don’t know what really prompted my mental health decline, I’ve been getting a few worried messages and fanart because someone insulted my art. But that didn’t hurt me at all, it actually boosted my account and patreon.

I guess I just… got sad?

I have a really bad tendency to suppress and even ignore my trauma and feelings of guilt. And I guess one day I really sat with my thoughts and I just, lost it I guess. I have so much traumatic memories and sudden and intense feelings of self loathing, something I’ve never felt in almost a decade, that it got overwhelming. I couldn’t reassure myself, I couldn’t really talk to anyone about it because how do you confront things that happened years ago? You feel almost irrational. It’s just memories that haunt you, it’s nothing physical or tangible and yet it’s a crushing feeling of anxiety, self hatred and resentment.

I was crying almost every day, and crying so much that my eyes kept hurting long after I was done, and I could barely see my own screen. I’ve had paranoid thoughts about myself and others, thoughts I can’t get into because they’re so deeply irrational. I was feeling suicidal urges and thoughts of self harm. I don’t see myself doing it, but it’s so frequent and overwhelming it’s like I’m already planning my suicide note.

I was talking to my therapist about it, that I was starting to hate being alive. That I hated living. That I could spend the next 50 years of my life with no more conflict or trauma and I’d still be in intense misery and turmoil. They’re feelings I couldn’t really bring myself to tell friends about because what could they say? How do you calm yourself down and reassure yourself. I can’t even talk about my trauma verbally without crying. And it’s funny because sometimes minor irks started to affect me negatively. I was feeling anxious about what to draw because I didn’t want to do deal with homophobic backlash.

I went to a therapist, I talked to friends, Ive been working out more and eating better, I did everything I should do to improve my mental health and all of a sudden a single night just sitting in my room destroyed everything I was slowly building up over the past 5 years.

It’s been really difficult for me. I think also, I just felt so much guilt over not being the best person I could be. I decided to lessen my online usage, not just for my mental health but because I really wanted to work on being a better person. I want to stop hating myself and letting my trauma push me down and I want to do just be better and do better as a person. A lot of people have been very forgiving and kind to me but I don’t feel like it’s enough and I want to do more and I want to feel better about myself. I want to give everything I can to people around me. I’ve been going to therapy a lot more lately and things are getting better for me, but it’s been a very slow process.

I just want to repeat that nothing serious has happened to me. Nobody attacked me in a way that negatively affected my health. A lot of people, friends and strangers have been really nice to me these past few months. I just was doing a lot of self reflecting and unintentionally forced myself to confront a lot of my trauma. I’m saying trauma a lot. I don’t want to get into depth about what I endured because it’s my business but people who do know me know how bad things were for me. I don’t want to feel like that again. I want to feel better, and I want to do better.

Sorry for the long read. That’s just how I feel.

#txt #suicide tw #self harm tw #I was very hesitant to discuss this because whenever I talk about mental health it leans into #one side. who are super well meaning but feel obligated to make sure that I’m okay. like I’m their responsibility when I’m just a stranger #online and my thoughts and feelings should never make someone feel like they have to ‘protect’ me #and another side who sees me purposefully be vague about some of the things I discuss like trauma and regret #and just construct their own narrative and get mad at me for it #at this point I’m just too tired to care about the potential backlash of the latter #if you read all this and think I’m saying I did nothing wrong and everyone is bad except for me that’s your fantasy you get to live in #I just want to be honest about my thoughts and feelings

[nerosdayinanime]

if i do go w sakonji being the owner im gonna pull that naruto gag for kakashi where every image of his face is perfectly obscured by some random object

leaf. bird. a large beetle. some paper flying in the wind. light glare. someone walking in front of him. a bag of coffee thrown across the shop. someone else's hair. speech bubbles. him facing the other way. etc

#kny x tokyo ghoul au #urokodaki sakonji #m tryna think abt how to change the storyline enough to fit w new characters #^silly idea that popped up while i was doing that #i think im gonna go with tanjuro died- kie overworked herself- nezuko was caught in a horrible (orchestrated) accident tanjiro found her in- #she gets ghoul organ transplant and goes home- its a slower transition than in tkg first she gets sick of human food then after a bit #the taste catches up and she stops trying to eat entirely- tanjiro's extremely worried abt her health yadda yadda- she loses herself to #hunger and goes out- tanjiro follows her worried- she stumbles across the temple demon who attacks her- #tanjiro tries to attack him from behind but gets knocked away- giyuu kicks the ghoul's head off- tanjiro immediately #covers nezuko with his own body and begs him not to hurt thema- giyuu takes pause and sniffs. noticing tanjiro's human. also noricing how #hes protecting a ghoul- yadda yadda he ends up bringing them both to coffee shop where sakonji gives nezuko a package and sends them #off with a 'come back whenever you need more'- tanjiro is kinda. in denial. not really processing. #nezuko asks if shes a monster now and his heart breaks. he couldnt believe that no matter what. #he swears she'll never be a monster to him and he'll always be by her side- they get jobs (nezukos 'job') at coffee place #im thinking maybe shinobu to take up touka's place storywise? shes (passive)aggressive towards them (& giyuu<3) #need to rewatch the first 3 eps i skipped them (dumb move) but im also thinking enmu as Sir Freakass #dont know how im gonna integrate genya now #i think i can give him & sanemi touka & ayato's line w genya being. aggressive but not as actively hostile as sanemi #originally i was gonna make him halfsies like nezuko (might still? need some ccg bitches in here) w sanemi as a dove #something something theres NO communication. everyone believes tanjiro is completely clueless except for giyuu & sakonji. when they start #working at the coffee shop everyone hides the ghoul shit from tanjiro (enabling him to stay in denial) up until enmu kidnapps him to #lure nezuko. her and shinobu beat his ass then shino tries to kill him since he Knows but when he looks at her staring him down #with black&red eyes poised to kill him he just calls her beautiful. stops her in her tracks and he notices the carnage & panics over nezuko #broken winged butterfly who stared kindness in the eye. #problem is that part was supposed to be the time genya saw tan&nezu and chilled out. if i do That^ thn i dont know how ill get to there #dont know how id shove genya anywhere in there in the first place but. whatever ill figure it out #this is fun tho #also gonna differentiate between like. character replacements w orig storyline & characters in that worldbuilding #like the KNY Clan au is its own story shit but with naruto mechanics while this is Tokyo Ghoul story but w KNY characters. KNYxTokyo Ghoul #ive thought abt it a few times but if i started replacing naruto characters w kny ones id label it different from ckan au. KNYxNaruto. yk?

[mereeples]

Hello again~! (TW for religious elements and inappropriate behaviors by content creators)

I’m doing better since my last rant. I’ll prob be deleting it, mostly because I write for fun not views. I mainly just want this blog to be a place where I share my writing and interests with others.

Why have I been quiet? My current interest is not PG, and I want the “mereeples” stuff to remain PG. Why? I apparently wrote stuff younger fandom fans like and I want to promote a safe atmosphere for them. I’m not trying to say that I’ll be all little kid friendly here, I’m still gonna slip “fuck” into something by accident or because it’s a good adjective to the sentence.

But ever since 2024 started, a lot of the content creators I used to follow as a teen ended up being predators (not saying all of them, but it’s a little unnerving how many). And with everything that just came out with Nickelodeon, I guess I’m just upset and concerned.

I don’t mention this much, mostly because I don’t want to upset anyone with religious trauma. I follow the Christian faith, have all my life. One of the aspects that I’ve recently started focusing on the most is from this one verse:

“Anyone who causes these little ones to stumble, it would be better to have a millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.” - Matt 18:6 (NIV)

I interpret it as this: I don’t want to be someone who introduces things to younger generations that they don’t need to know right now. I’m not saying to shelter them, I’m just saying to remember the boundaries between adult and minor.

Also remember to ask ages! You don’t even have to be specific, just say if you’re over 18 or not. I was an idiot when I first started posting on the internet. I just assumed other people I was talking to were older than I thought. It’s why I have the little blip in my pinned page about being uncomfy with minors now. That, and I also believe someone lied about their age to me once… just don’t do that either. Luckily I got advice from someone in a server I’m in about how to avoid something that could lead to trouble. I don’t really talk about inappropriate things that much to begin with, but it’s better to be safe than sorry, Y’know?

That’s going to be my spiel/vent for the day. Prob won’t mention biblical stuff again, only because I don’t want to offend anyone. Bad apples ruined the bunch, if you know what I mean.

Stay safe for me out there and to keep smiling your brightest smiles! Until next time, buds!

#life update #spiel #vent #fandom safety #Matt 18:6 #tw religious themes #mental health #boundaries #keep fandoms comfy and safe #shows and media like lmk #PG #I’m not trying to convert anyone don’t attack me plz #protect minors #protect fandom minors #protect older fandom members #just protect everyone #keep smiling

[arsonmurderandjaywalking]

Najin and Jiroon are. like. They're good for each other, but they have to tear each other apart first. This is still one of Najin's healthiest relationships. It's arguing until they're both too tired to argue anymore and then refusing to look each other in the face as they spill their guts. It's them saying something about yourself that you already know, but don't like looking at. One of you will flinch away but the other one won't, and it's not the one everyone thinks of as fearless. It's finding someone who you can be mean and messy with and it's finding someone who can actually take your horrible attitude down a peg. It's seeing someone who excels at something you're not good at, and one of you works to get better and find her place without much prompting other than her own resolve, and the other one of you has to be figuratively mauled to get his ass into gear.

#najin time loop au #got to thinking and. najin and jiroon are like such foils it has to have been intentional (if im right about his personality) #jiroon isnt very strong but she seems to have been the most emotionally intelligent and healthy of the apprentices by far #and najin was by far the strongest of the apprentices but was probably the absolute worst at emotions and mental health #also the whole dead kid thing. haunting the narrative and what-not #also. the ways they were trying to protect the people they died for. information lockout vs always trying to keep everyone in the loop #the subsequent revenge quests for jiroon being a lot less self-destructive and more constructive #the developing of new abilities and trying to grow from character flaws (naivety and cowardice) vs nags elaborate suicide plot #the ember knight #yeah sure main tag. why not #not to say that revenge is a good thing. its not. but its certainly not as bad as how nags is doing it

[carmenlire]

I can’t get Jaewon and the eighth sense out of my head because i see so much of myself in him. The way he’s always there for his friends, even to the detriment to himself. and it doesn’t have to be anything tragic. it’s going out and getting drunk and putting on that mask every day. it’s getting out of your own head long enough to realize that your friend is going through it and you need to care.

i’ve only watched it once but it’s in the way depression can, occasionally, manifest as a sort of manic episode. like you’re so empty and numb but 1) you can’t let anyone find out 2) you decide you’re going to be better. just like that, through sheer force of will. and so Jaewon smiles brightly and meets with friends and greets teachers and does a bang-up job of acting like he’s perfect he’s fucking perfect but inside there’s just nothing there. or maybe it’s not that there’s nothing there-- it’s that there’s so much but he can’t access it, he’s afraid to touch it because if he does then it will overwhelm him.

Jaewon has a lot of trauma and circumstances that definitely didn’t help his mental health but Jihyun was the breath of fresh air he desperately needed. and not in a Jihyun saved Jaewon kinda way but in the way that this new person broke up the monotony, showed him it was okay to reach out for help that, there was at least one person he didn’t have to hide from.

and just-- 10/10 to this show for showing that Jaewon very much struggles with depression-- he takes antidepressants, he sees a therapist, and even with those tools (and Jihyun) he isn’t magically cured. he can still sink low. that this kinda shit is cyclical and you can try your best but it can still be hard, you can still suffer, you will still have to drag yourself back up from underwater. but you can do it. because you’ve done it before.

#i have so many feelings about jaewon and all of them begin and end with i see myself when i look at him #damn now if only i could have a meetcute and happen along the loml #idk i appreciated his portrayal through the whole show #and even when i was mad at him on jihyun's behalf i still understood him #because another thing about depression: you don't think people actually care #so he's 1) protecting jihyun after episode 6 #but also even when jihyun is reaching out #we very much know that jaewon's mental health is spiralling and everything is just going so wrong and he is just too numb and tired to do #anything about it and so even when jihyun is reaching out #i feel like there was a part of jaewon terrified that it wasn't real #he was afraid to get his hopes up that 1) it could all end up okay and 2) jihyun feels the same #ah god fuck i love him #also just this all originated from what i perceive to be manic depression? i'm sure that's not clinical #but i have felt like jaewon there so many times..... laughing too hard smiling too much #feeling like everyone could see the cracks behind it even if they couldn't #trying so hard when it's all so wrong #the eighth sense #seo jaewon #me #... ykw #fic ideas #my writing tag

[forewerinmyheart]

Prayer for evening Monday and a New Week blessing 🙏

Dear God, we just want to thank you for all you have done for us🙏

Heavenly Father, thank you for loving us and seeing us always. We are very grateful that we are not invisible to you. You call us the light of your eyes, the crown of creation, friend and lover. We repeat and declare that we will praise You, Lord. You are worthy of all praise, blessing, honor and glory. In Jesus name. Amen 🙏

#amen 🙏 #faith in god #hope #health #family #friendship #strenght #prayer for healing #hope in god #prayer for today #praytogether #praytoday #prayfromhome #prayer for protection #pray for one another #god loves everyone #god save us all #god hand #godlight #godnightmonday #godhome #jesusloveseveryone #jesus loves us #mondaymotivation #monday blessings #bible study #bible verse #lovegod #lovejesus #encouraging words

[zerodiscriminationday]

When girl's rights to education and empowerment are realized, their vulnerability to HIV is significantly reduced.

POSTCARD I - Zero Discrimination Day 2024; March 1st.

#zero discrimination day #1 march #unaids #campaign #protect everyone's health #protect everyone's rights #access to health services #vulnerability to hiv #create laws that empower #women's rights #women's empowerment

[madigoround]

💜

#listen i really don’t want to ruin anyone’s holiday by being ms blues on main #it’s just that it really does help to get it out of my head and I can never keep a journal so feel free to ignore this and I hope you’re #having a merry Christmas if you celebrate and if not I hope you’re having a wonderful Monday #i just got off the phone with my grandma and I love her so much I just want to protect her from everything #and she’s been feeling really sad and heartbroken from all this with my aunt and not having any Christmas decorations at the hotel near the #hospital like she’s not complaining about there not being any decorations in general it’s just that it doesn’t feel joyful or comforting to #her at all and it’s been a tough Christmas and my great aunt is still on the ventilator sedated and it’s looking grim #and i am so scared not just for my great aunt but also because I can see it wearing down my grandma and she has her own significant health #issues I just want to make it all better for everyone #i want everyone in the world to be happy and surrounded by people they love and feel comfort #and it hurts that I can’t make that happen

[fluorescentbrains]

fitness articles will be like “cardio is a waste of time it doesn’t even burn FAT!!” as if there aren’t like a million good reasons to do cardio that are unrelated to fat and calories… brain worms!! brain worms everywhere!!!!

#cardiovascular health is protective against literally so many nasty health problems as you age but i guess everyone is also like #subconsciously telling themselves they will be 25 forever

[confused-book-noises]

Your life is not your own

Keep your hands off it

#mental health #benedict cumberbatch #positive mental attitude #mental health quotes #your death is something that happens to everyone else #Sherlock #bbc sherlock #it’s not yours to take #you are loved #you are not alone #you are enough #let me cradle your life in my hands #I want to protect it #it is a beautiful thing #don’t hurt it

[saltcherry]

my hot take on ‘can you use food words to describe skin color, especially of nonwhite people or characters’ is, you probably can do it in a reasonable way, it just depends on how racist the rest of your writing is whether is comes off as creepy. like it’s well-established in English literature to describe skin “as white as milk” and “cheeks as rosy as apples” etc., typically to describe young women or girls. the fetishistic tone is not going to hinge solely on the words chosen (of course, associations have to be considered). the real issue is that the fetishization of white women and of Black women or brown women operates differently. the words used to do it are different. the associations with sexuality are different (y do u think white women who want to assert sexuality often choose to do it by either embodying stereotypes associated with women of color or by directly appropriating aspects of nonwhite culture?). so really the challenge for the writer is not to remove all purple descriptors from their language, even stilted or outdated ones, and their associations (impossible task) but to be good enough at their craft to challenge, remake, critique, etc. those associations. like idk it seems like a very hard task and that’s why the advice is to simply remove that language! however it’s more interesting to try to grapple with language imo. and ultimately more productive because many many types of words carry associations of otherness, sexuality, prejudice, etc. when applied to nonwhite vs white people, Black vs nonBlack people, etc. the language problem can only be understood when you know this and only solved when you work at it with deep knowledge. (I guess the reason some people balk hard at “I don’t get why this is perceived as racist” over e.g. “she had skin like chocolate” is because they are lacking that deep knowledge accrued from reading a lot. related: if you don’t read a lot, and you write with that type of language, without knowledge either conscious or unconscious of those biases, will you replicate them? form new associations? is knowledge a curse, lol?

#i gotta delete this it's just a rant about context and knowledge and reclamation of language again #like the fact that no one complains about how white women can be described as apple cheeked simply bc no one even associates such things #with sexualization or fetishization of white women bc apple cheeked speaks to like hale and hearty type thoughts #and if anything that points to a sexualization across class: rural working class women with rude good health #it's an inter white problem #in literature! #meanwhile a white woman described as a fragile pale spring flower wilting in tropical heat IS being sexualized in response to a quote #oriental unquote sexuality that actually sort of replaces the intra english rural working class maiden vs the fragile upper class woman #as over and undersexualized respectively and displaces the over sexualization onto nonwhite women #in the latter case the white woman is being like protectively sexualized #the sexuality is hidden as a contrast #it's still fetishized basically but in a way that uphholds the social status of white women so it is accepted #like literally the descriptors that invoke sexuality are basically only relevant in their operation as contrats #also the fetishization of women esp nonwhite women only matters in the context of patriarchy esp white partriarchy #the problem is everyone who writes in English is subject to this paradigm #great!

[persephoneflouwers]

Flying to San Francisco today!

#wanted to say a few things that I’ve been thinking since this morning #the first one is silly and it’s that bad bunny story with kendal and gucci is hilarious really #especially since everyone was wishing gucci to die amd im like wait til Sabato gets on track again #so they took the most streammed and probably famous artist right now lol #and one of the kardashians 💀💀💀💀💀 marketing is so fucking nuts at times #secondly… im so worried about shawn #things haven’t been quite right since that fucking rainbow flag on his ig story #the tour cancelled no music the mental health stuff everyone shitting on him… idk i want to protect him #but im so proud of him for taking the courage it takes to make such risky decisions everytime #not everyone is open to accept everything and be the yes man #it depends what values you believe in i guess

[solemntitty]

oof yeah, 44% of the wastewater surveillance sites (currently our best indicator after hospitalizations/deaths for COVID community transmission levels) that the CDC receives info from are in that 80-100% bucket. (dug a little deeper into their metrics for ww surveillance, basically it's like a percentile of the individual ww surveillance sites previous data, so can be a bit inaccurate but is a best possible measure from such a broad epidemiological surveillance data source). yikes.

big rip to the east part of the US rn

#seems like portlands ok but didnt zoom in so not sure #jamie has made a statement #me: gets a degree in public health #me in 2020 graduating: damn everyone thinks they knows epidemiology now.... #hospitalizations up 20% since last week and deaths up 12.4% since last week iirc the metrics #not great.... #however there are a few winter storms so maybe that will abate some transmission as far as public #sorry i get epidemiologist brain. its a work habit #epidemiology #covid #i think we're just seeing an increase bc lack of up to date vaccination status w the new vatiant #+ a lot of ppl have stopped wearing masks or doing any protective measures and treat covid and flu season like pre pandemic shit

[hussyknee]

Listen I love Ellen and Oscar but

June Claremont-Diaz 🫱🏽‍🫲🏻 Princess Bea

↓↓

✨ Parentification Trauma ✨

#listen I know there's many reasons this happens even with loving parents #but it's incredibly psychologically damaging to have to fill a parent's shoes for a sibling even if you're legally an adult #because your brain doesnt give a shit how legal you are #it just knows you're prioritizing playing a parental role when you need to be focusing on yourself #my most intense parentification trauma years was between 17–22 #it broke my heart that June left her boyfriend to be with Alex because she knew she's the only one who would prioritise him #and Bea pumping the brakes on her mental health spiral because her baby brother didnt have a functional parent left #granted that may have saved her but having to claw yourself back to sanity bc you have to take care of someone else is seriously non-ideal #and yeah I know that their brothers were worth it and they dont regret it #but they have so much reason to be burnt out and hold their mothers to account good god #women arent caretakers and protectors because we're just built naturally kind. it's because we get left to do the nurturing and caretaking #until it becomes second nature #for my part being a big sister is fundamental part of me and caretaking and protecting and nurturing is who I am now #but the inability to ever put myself first and take space when someone needs me #the inability to turn off the kindness tap even when it's running blood #the instinct to fix things and take responsibility for everyone #it's all incredibly damaging in the long run #''southern goodness'' baby that's the gender conditioning ideal #do you know how much repressed pain it takes to be that kind and gentle #firstprince #june claremont diaz #bea fox mountchristen windsor #parentification #child neglect #emotional neglect #feminism #gender conditioning #knee of huss #rwrb #red white & royal blue