I hate how my allergies make me seem like a republican.
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IDK I've had people try to bond with me on the evils of seed oils and I'm like "please stop. it is not that deep."
@futurebird OK, good point :( :( but that's people making ass-umptions.
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@futurebird OK, good point :( :( but that's people making ass-umptions.
@geonz
I hadn't heard about the Republican obsession with seed oils before, but I can't ever figure out the logic of what's good or not to them anymore. The splinter groups keep forming, with their own kinks.
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@futurebird SERIOUSLY. The human immune systems are _so weird_.
I really want to know if I was born this way or if it is caused by what foods I ate when I was young?
My husband can't tolerate apple peels. Just the peels, the inside is fine. I wonder what the strangest food allergy must be?
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What makes this worse is restaurants who can't tell you their ingredients lists. I just give up and get the most basic foods.
Then there are the things that no one believes: like the "shelled peanut problem"
I can eat peanuts, love them! but not if they have been shelled in a "facility" because whatever they do it gets some kind of other nut dust on them and down i go! Toss me the epipen it's gonna be a long night.
Allergies are so odd. Obscure but serious ones are annoying.
@futurebird I avoid shrimps and prawns: not allergic to them as such but I am allergic to whatever gets fed to them in Thai shrimp farms.
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@geonz
I hadn't heard about the Republican obsession with seed oils before, but I can't ever figure out the logic of what's good or not to them anymore. The splinter groups keep forming, with their own kinks.
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I really want to know if I was born this way or if it is caused by what foods I ate when I was young?
My husband can't tolerate apple peels. Just the peels, the inside is fine. I wonder what the strangest food allergy must be?
@futurebird So just the peels: probably oral allergy syndrome; there's a lot of pollen proteins on the surface.
In general pollen exposure at formative moments seems to have a huge impact.
It's regional too: peanut allergies are way more common in the US than in Europe. Sesame allergies are vanishingly rare the US, but common in MENA.
And then I think a hidden component is a general sensitivity in the form of subclinical MCAS, and new immune learning caused by stressors and viral illnesses. Suddenly new allergies pop up, either real ones (due to inappropriately large IgE production in response to something) or MCAS-like ones (where normal-high amounts of IgE inappropriately trigger mast cells.)
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I hate how my allergies make me seem like a republican.
Can't eat sunflowers so people think I hate "seed oils" (the other ones are fine, it's just the sunflowers they are deadly)
Can't eat most vegan meats because these people always want to put sunflowers 'n nuts and chickpeas in them.
Generally suspicious of vegan food because of the whole nut issue, even though I really like it when there are no nuts.
it really bothers me when you say "i can't do this, it will kill me. dead.", and people somehow hear "i hate this thing".
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I hate how my allergies make me seem like a republican.
Can't eat sunflowers so people think I hate "seed oils" (the other ones are fine, it's just the sunflowers they are deadly)
Can't eat most vegan meats because these people always want to put sunflowers 'n nuts and chickpeas in them.
Generally suspicious of vegan food because of the whole nut issue, even though I really like it when there are no nuts.
@futurebird no worries - that just makes you seem like someone who has figured out their sensitivities! I just can’t do almond products anymore. But it’s always refreshing to go to #disneyland where they really take that kind of thing seriously.
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What makes this worse is restaurants who can't tell you their ingredients lists. I just give up and get the most basic foods.
Then there are the things that no one believes: like the "shelled peanut problem"
I can eat peanuts, love them! but not if they have been shelled in a "facility" because whatever they do it gets some kind of other nut dust on them and down i go! Toss me the epipen it's gonna be a long night.
Allergies are so odd. Obscure but serious ones are annoying.
@futurebird there are restaurants that won't tell you the ingredients?! that seems like it should be a legal requirement
the best was when I went to Germany and if you ask for the "allergy menu" the most hole-in-the-wall place in the middle of nowhere will have a big spreadsheet with all the menu items and the government mandated list of allergens
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@futurebird So just the peels: probably oral allergy syndrome; there's a lot of pollen proteins on the surface.
In general pollen exposure at formative moments seems to have a huge impact.
It's regional too: peanut allergies are way more common in the US than in Europe. Sesame allergies are vanishingly rare the US, but common in MENA.
And then I think a hidden component is a general sensitivity in the form of subclinical MCAS, and new immune learning caused by stressors and viral illnesses. Suddenly new allergies pop up, either real ones (due to inappropriately large IgE production in response to something) or MCAS-like ones (where normal-high amounts of IgE inappropriately trigger mast cells.)
@futurebird I've got friends with corn allergies and that one fuckin' sucks. It's in everything in the US. And nobody knows how to read labels for it. And one had to move out of Arizona because the pollen was so bad.
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What makes this worse is restaurants who can't tell you their ingredients lists. I just give up and get the most basic foods.
Then there are the things that no one believes: like the "shelled peanut problem"
I can eat peanuts, love them! but not if they have been shelled in a "facility" because whatever they do it gets some kind of other nut dust on them and down i go! Toss me the epipen it's gonna be a long night.
Allergies are so odd. Obscure but serious ones are annoying.
@futurebird
Oh good grief, the shelled peanut thing sounds so annoying! Like, in and of itself, but also you have to try to explain and convince people over and over. -
I really want to know if I was born this way or if it is caused by what foods I ate when I was young?
My husband can't tolerate apple peels. Just the peels, the inside is fine. I wonder what the strangest food allergy must be?
@futurebird @aredridel birch pollen, maybe? Are cooked apples safe?
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@futurebird So just the peels: probably oral allergy syndrome; there's a lot of pollen proteins on the surface.
In general pollen exposure at formative moments seems to have a huge impact.
It's regional too: peanut allergies are way more common in the US than in Europe. Sesame allergies are vanishingly rare the US, but common in MENA.
And then I think a hidden component is a general sensitivity in the form of subclinical MCAS, and new immune learning caused by stressors and viral illnesses. Suddenly new allergies pop up, either real ones (due to inappropriately large IgE production in response to something) or MCAS-like ones (where normal-high amounts of IgE inappropriately trigger mast cells.)
@aredridel @futurebird I thought the peanut allergy thing was largely caused by a misguided pediatrician who said let's keep infants away from peanuts so they don't develop allergies, and it became a recommendation but it turned out to be totally wrong and the opposite is true
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I hate how my allergies make me seem like a republican.
Can't eat sunflowers so people think I hate "seed oils" (the other ones are fine, it's just the sunflowers they are deadly)
Can't eat most vegan meats because these people always want to put sunflowers 'n nuts and chickpeas in them.
Generally suspicious of vegan food because of the whole nut issue, even though I really like it when there are no nuts.
@futurebird I have to reassure suspicious people when I admit I can't eat much soy without a toilet apocalypse occurring lol
I'm like I'm sorry, I would actually love to eat tofu I just cant, it looks delicious tho
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@aredridel @futurebird I thought the peanut allergy thing was largely caused by a misguided pediatrician who said let's keep infants away from peanuts so they don't develop allergies, and it became a recommendation but it turned out to be totally wrong and the opposite is true
@aburka @futurebird Made worse, but the actual reality is complex and we're still learning all the situations that can lead to sensitization, and how to desensitize. We're getting there but it's definitely not a simple single factor thing.
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What makes this worse is restaurants who can't tell you their ingredients lists. I just give up and get the most basic foods.
Then there are the things that no one believes: like the "shelled peanut problem"
I can eat peanuts, love them! but not if they have been shelled in a "facility" because whatever they do it gets some kind of other nut dust on them and down i go! Toss me the epipen it's gonna be a long night.
Allergies are so odd. Obscure but serious ones are annoying.
@futurebird why can't restaurants take personal health seriously? i thought that's what vegans really care about?
i have big problems with vegan culture, and the way a lot of vegans treat criticism of their racism, lack of care about the workers picking their veg, lack of giving any fucks about poverty and food deserts, and lack of care about how various peoples' diet works, as being completely anti-vegan, and will not listen, and will call you a hateful murderer behind your back if you won't swallow their bullshit whole.
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What makes this worse is restaurants who can't tell you their ingredients lists. I just give up and get the most basic foods.
Then there are the things that no one believes: like the "shelled peanut problem"
I can eat peanuts, love them! but not if they have been shelled in a "facility" because whatever they do it gets some kind of other nut dust on them and down i go! Toss me the epipen it's gonna be a long night.
Allergies are so odd. Obscure but serious ones are annoying.
@futurebird I used to think I was allergic to peanuts and was surprised when I didn't test for it. It turns out many peanuts are processed on equipment shared with cashews and that's what I'm allergic to!
Edit to fix the autocucumber of Manny to the intended many -
@futurebird why can't restaurants take personal health seriously? i thought that's what vegans really care about?
i have big problems with vegan culture, and the way a lot of vegans treat criticism of their racism, lack of care about the workers picking their veg, lack of giving any fucks about poverty and food deserts, and lack of care about how various peoples' diet works, as being completely anti-vegan, and will not listen, and will call you a hateful murderer behind your back if you won't swallow their bullshit whole.
Most of the vegans I know have grown out of that. Or ... I don't hang around them anymore LOL.
But I know a lot of chill vegans.
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@futurebird I used to think I was allergic to peanuts and was surprised when I didn't test for it. It turns out many peanuts are processed on equipment shared with cashews and that's what I'm allergic to!
Edit to fix the autocucumber of Manny to the intended manyYUP.
If you get peanuts in the shell you will be safe and can enjoy them.
But shelling peanuts is a bit tedious.
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Most of the vegans I know have grown out of that. Or ... I don't hang around them anymore LOL.
But I know a lot of chill vegans.
@futurebird there are some popular long-standing accounts around fedi behind whom are people i've mutually blocked because they don't give a single fuck about the humans being exploited to provide them with any food at all.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Una nota dell’Osservatorio par condicio Comitato Società Civile per il NO, rileva che è gravissimo il fatto
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@fsinn hang tough and thanks for what you do.
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@jessamyn nice!
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I’m so tired of these assholes. I’m logging off.
Goodnight, folks. Be well, stay safe. ✌🏻
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Taranto, un’altra vita spezzata sul lavoro
@giornalismo
articolo21.org/2026/03/taranto…
Aveva ventisei anni e lavorava dentro lo stabilimento siderurgico di Taranto, uno dei più grandi d’Europa. Questa mattina è precipitato durante un intervento in un’area dell’impianto e non è sopravvissuto alle ferite riportate nella caduta. Ventisei
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@evan First boyfriend had the sunset van!
