Jenn Dowling-Medley

Grey and white tuxedo cat lying in a dog bed.

Source of 95% of the goes bump in the night noises 😈😼

so far it is alleged that two other people saw "the thing" but neither have appeared in the docuseries so that seems sus

Oh boy now we’re onto the catholic priest who will surely not validate mental illness as demons or ghosts

Sad that everybody let this guy down really. The supporting people (ex college friends) seem to have all had deeply traumatic experiences in their teens re: coming upon someone dying/trying to save them.

Claims had athletic scholarship but goes to D3 school smh

Same vibe as “if you believe in god hard enough you will be able to eat the gluten host without harm”

Further the episode claims that some people are “special” and attract supernatural things. Holy harmful misinformation for someone experiencing these symptoms and/or the people around them

Unfortunately everything can be explained by dude in his late teens/early 20s developing a mental illness with psychotic features (him seeing stuff that no one else present does).
This type of narrative creates harm.

Cannot take ghost claims seriously in this context

I mean that’s fine but the claim is buddy ran 17 and change and aspired to the Olympics
I was a high school girl at this level and I was nowhere close lol

Me watching some Netflix paranormal thing to mentally debunk but now I’m debunking the impressiveness of the running claims (“18-19’ for 3.1 miles is good for a high school boy”)

The key here is being specific. I have no problem with someone who say, has another AI disease and who finds avoiding mega gluten helps their symptoms as long as they are clear that what they're doing is not truly a GFD (the F stands for "free", i.e. <10 mg of gluten per day).

ran out of chars, but I would clarify "dictate design in a more permissive way that suits their needs, but not the needs of wheelchair users."

A comparison I like here is about ramps and curb cuts. These are design features that are accommodations for wheelchair users. They may well benefit other groups such as ambulatory assistive device users, cyclists, people with strollers etc. but those people should not dictate the design.

Gluten isn't a single protein, in a regulatory sense it is defined as protein that elicits a problem in a person with celiac. There is some variability in how that is interpreted by country but that's the metric. If other groups benefit from this definition cool, but it's not theirs to change.

the only medical condition for which there is unequivocal evidence that gluten (wheat, barley, rye, oats) is a problem is celiac. I include other manifestations like gluten ataxia, dermatitis herpetiformis under this umbrella.
The medico-legal term GF was created with celiac in mind alone.

the problem is that since NCGS (mostly self-diagnosed, studies suggest probably a fodmap issue that is incidentally improved via gross gluten avoidance) is a larger pop and so their anecdotes about "sourdough is safe" or "I can eat bread in Europe" dominate the discourse

my sole Taylor Swift post will be to denounce her claim that regular sourdough bread is safe for people who need to avoid gluten for medical reasons
some people with NCGS (debatable as to whether gluten is the problem) might be ok but the public does not distinguish between NCGS and celiac

if you consider the true objective, which was to overthrow a government that was democratically elected only a few months prior in a legitimate election, including threats to elected officials, the analysis changes.

So really, for normies who have accepted that the Convoy was a public health protest, their only real objection to the movement was of political aesthetics. If one feels that way, the situation reduces to something like "guy with anti-abortion sign on random sidewalk" (ick, but not illegal).

That "the return to normal" writing on the wall was already in motion made a revisionist history even easier. If you ask an educated normie what they think about mandates, I bet they'll say that we should have got rid of all of it after everyone got their 2 doses of vaccine (summer 2021) at latest.

by "doofus quotient," I mean the average rubes who showed up to occupy the streets. Many of those people were there to protest public health measures. They needed human shields and plausible deniability.
They also conveniently chose a time when mandates were likely to end soon anyways.

positioning it as a protest against public health measures was a strategic marketing choice to make the whole thing more palatable to the "doofus quotient."
The actual purpose was our version of Jan 6. The organizers tried and failed to do this prior to Covid (see: yellow vest movement).

if someone wanted to get me a very silly and inexpensive present that I would love it would be a JDM sticker for car, which is a Volkswagen

pls don't make me explain joak

JDM indeed

Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber sentenced to 12 months house arrest Chris Barber and Tamara Lich were sentenced to 12 months of house arrest and six months of curfew for their roles in the 2022 blockade.

bet there will be a celebration at the Bikers' Church...
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

"I think people have pity for the birds ... but let's be realistic. If the government aren't going to kill their birds, the next day, me and the other guys they owe money to are going to be there and take most of their birds," Talica told CBC News. "So they're going to be slaughtered anyway. So either way, the birds are being raised to be slaughtered, they're not being raised to be pets."

Whether CFIA culls the birds or the ostrich repo man comes for them, their fate is sealed.

this is also why, for many years, Canada sent so few track athletes to the Olympics/Worlds... sending people who would place 10th would impact our funding so we'd rather send no one at all. Growing up I was under the impression that Canadians were just too slow to make the Olympics.

this has implications for how sports are funded, btw. Government schemes mostly focus on "winningness," which tends to dumping lots of funds into niche sports, under the premise that winningness will inspire the public (dubious given that these sports are niche for a reason - $/facilities)