Three cats died after their owners used an anti-inflammatory cream used to treat arthritis. The Food and Drug Administration warns to keep drugs away from pets; a tiny bit can be toxic.
Important for spoonies with cats!
Creams with Flurbiprofen are fatal to cats.
Brands that use this chemical (Not a complete list):
Myoflex Traumeel Capzasin
If you have cats, check your pain relieving cream for this, and keep them from ingesting it, please!
All NSAIDs are toxic to cats - this includes ibuprofen (Advil/Motrin), Aleve (naproxen), Voltaren – which also comes in a gel form – (diclofenac), Mobic (meloxicam), aspirin… If you’re unsure, ask your pharmacist or check drugs.com.
reminder: if you’re getting an intramuscular injection (e.g. a covid booster or flu shot) and you’re above 200 lbs with estrogen-based body fat distribution or 260 lbs with testosterone-based body fat distribution, you should be requesting a 1.5-inch/38mm needle. you might want to print out this sheet and bring it with you, because I have had pharmacy employees blithely tell me the 1-inch needle is fine for everyone, and I find a clear directive from the CDC just makes life a little easier.
(this is one major reason why obesity is associated with so many negative health outcomes, btw—shit is not designed for us and providers are not educated about our needs, so we have to educate ourselves about appropriate care and then make special requests to receive that care just to get to the baseline chances of success straight-sized people have by default.)
Okay now I’m curious- I try to recommend fewer shows that I think are pretty well known these days, but I wonder if most of them are as well known as I think. Here’s my list and my question, remember it’sheard ofnot even necessarily listened to:
The Magnus Archives, The White Vault, Wooden Overcoats, The Bright Sessions, Welcome to Nightvale, The Black Tapes, Wolf 359, Video Palace, I Am In Eskew, Archive 81, Two Princes, Midnight Burger, Brimstone Valley Mall, Woe.Begone, Malevolent, Ars Paradoxica, Eos 10, King Falls AM, The Adventure Zone
I’m a terminally ill Indigenous woman, engaged to a white autistic person, and were surviving solely off of my ODSP cheques, and it’s NOT enough to survive for two disabled people.
If you’re on Windows 11 like I am for my “main” computer (in my case for school purposes and because I can’t get Baldur’s Gate 3 to play on Linux), then you might’ve seen this annoying piece of AI shit show up on your taskbar:
This is Windows Copilot, and it’s fulled by the same shit ChatGPT is fuelled by. There is currently no way to uninstall it, but there is a way to deactivate it completely, which I’ve linked below. It’s very easy, and it took me like, 2 minutes to do.
the fact that fat people are made to feel bad about everything down to how loud or hard they are breathing says a lot about this society
so many people are sharing their own experiences with this and i want to thank you all for being vulnerable and bringing more awareness to the struggles the fat community face.
i grew up dancing and ALWAYS breathed so hard and sweat A LOT. to the point my dance teacher would ask me if i’m okay in front of the whole class and i would feel utter humiliation.
i, too, have held my breath when walking across college campus for my classes, or when i was filming a video because i was so scared of someone commenting on my breathing.
this is not something we should have to feel bad for, a NORMAL human thing such as BREATHING. it’s been said many times, but it cannot be said enough. we deserve so, so much better than this.
ALT
