Xavid
@xavid.itch.io
Genderqueer game designer, union activist, and treehugger. I also do stuff with computers?
(I do support fancy baked goods of one sort or another.)
November 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
(I do support fancy baked goods of one sort or another.)
I do feel like a lot of people end up throwing a bunch of money into a party that is more concerned with keeping up appearances than having a good time, which is pretty ridiculous. Focusing on you and your partner rather than what the Wedding Industrial Complex wants to sell you is the way to go.
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I do feel like a lot of people end up throwing a bunch of money into a party that is more concerned with keeping up appearances than having a good time, which is pretty ridiculous. Focusing on you and your partner rather than what the Wedding Industrial Complex wants to sell you is the way to go.
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For a more nuanced approach that jettisons the term "hygiene hypothesis" in favor of "targeted hygiene" strategies that let beneficial microbes into our personal ecosystems, this is a good read:
Time to abandon the hygiene hypothesis: new perspectives on allergic disease, the human microbiome, infectious disease prevention and the role of targeted hygiene
To review the burden of allergic and infectious diseases and the evidence for a link to microbial exposure, the human microbiome and immune system, and to assess whether we could develop lifestyles which reconnect us with exposures which could ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
For a more nuanced approach that jettisons the term "hygiene hypothesis" in favor of "targeted hygiene" strategies that let beneficial microbes into our personal ecosystems, this is a good read:
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I'm really tired of people acting like car dependency happened organically when even a cursory look at history will make it clear that automakers pushed infrastructure and even zoning to juice car sales.
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I'm really tired of people acting like car dependency happened organically when even a cursory look at history will make it clear that automakers pushed infrastructure and even zoning to juice car sales.