As a bisexual, it sickens me that some people WILL keep scrolling.
I’m probably gonna have the creepiest, gayest, and awesomest graveyard wedding one day. So yeah.
I support them
Honestly, even those who don’t agree with people being gay should shut the hell up. You live your life the way you want, and let other people live their lives the way they want. So ye, even if you don’t agree with gay people(which in of itself is dumb), it is even more dumb to get mad at others for it
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better for the visually impaired (can’t have braille on a touchscreen can you)
less prone to failure (you can use a button if you’re wearing gloves or with a prosthetic hand)
make fun clicky sound sometimes
the only thing I think touchscreens are better for (aside from the obvious) is their ease of sterilization, it’s easier to wipe a flat smooth surface than a button with ridges and grooves
If homophobes weren’t so awful to LGBT people, then maybe we’d be happier.
Also bitch don’t act like you aren’t screaming and pissing mad every time you see a happy queer person, cus you’ve decided they don’t “deserve” it for whatever reason. We’re out here living our best lives, way happier than you’ll ever be, and you’re stewing in your own hatred and trying so hard to convince yourself that that’s the Best & Most Correct way to live
yeah, people do lie on the internet, however i am so passionate about things that if i lie it will feel like i committed an autistic sin
if i just accidentally say something wrong i panic tbh catch me putting “to my knowledge” and “from what i remember” disclaimers on everything to account for human error
From what I remember, 1 + 1 = 2. I think. Not an expert though, feel free to fact check me! This is just an educated guess.
@liquidstar i’m afraid taking him somewhere will make it worse… whenever he moves he makes a depressed little cry that sounds a lot like the windows disconnecting noise
my dear baby daughter goblin has learned to open doors and has elected to demonstrate this to me at nearly 3am by poking her little idiot darling head into my room and screaming at. a bug
two seconds before smacking her skull into mine at maximum speed. to show love. and crime
Someday I’m gonna need to actually write about this conservative tactic of demanding we basically turn off the part of our brain that interprets words and finds meaning when we talk to them. If they don’t specifically say some exact words, well you can’t respond to those words. You can’t assume JK Rowling is saying she’s a victim of a witch hunt by trans people because she never said those exact words in that exact order.
It’s a fascinating form of intellectual cowardice, where they want to essentially say something without ever being held responsible for saying that thing.
Sometimes you gotta pick a cat up just to set them back down somewhere nearby. Remind them who calls the shots in your house. Oh you thought you were lying on the floor? Dead wrong fool you’re standing on the couch cushion now staring up at me waiting for an explanation. You’ll never get it. I’m gone. I’m walking away. I’m already in the next room before you can so much as mutter a confused “meow.” later son. you’re reexamining your place in the universe all by yourself. Consider my power in a empty living room
I hand over an id with a picture of a horrific fleshy creature, at least five mouts, all full off endless rows of, tentacles protruding from various spots along the skin, not an eye in sight.
it’s so beautiful how cops instinctively protect whichever protest group is the most fascist. like how albatrosses can instantly identify their partners after a year at sea
“Parents can often be the last to know about their child’s gender identity, Ehrensaft says. Coming out can be terrifying for many transgender kids. Family members often respond with violence or distrust or may even kick the child out of the house. Almost 40 percent of transgender youth experience homelessness or housing instability, according to a 2022 report from the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that provides crisis support for young LGBTQ+ people. Many kids who wait to discuss their gender identity with their parents before appearing to “suddenly” come out are simply keeping themselves safe, Ehrensaft says.
”‘It is not rapid-onset gender dysphoria,’ she says. 'It’s rapid-onset parental discovery.’“
I’ve been saying for years that when someone comes out as trans, it only seems rapid to you, because they’ve been secretly living with it for years. There’s a mountain of stuff they need to figure out, and virtually nobody to discuss it with.
If you have a trans kid, and you think about it… you might actually recall your son asking "would you still love me if I was a girl?” when he was five, or your daughter saying “I don’t feel like I was supposed to be a girl” when she was nine.
And you might recall what you said, and how you said it, and how awful it might have been for them to hear. Because you didn’t know. How could you? Even they didn’t know, not really.
Or then again, maybe you don’t recall. Because for them, it was an important conversation, and for you it was Tuesday.
No trans person just wakes up one morning and says “I think I’m trans.” It’s a long and difficult process they go through very much alone, and it sure would be nice if you didn’t make it harder for them when they start sharing.
Me: Exercise does not cause weight loss. This is a fact that has been demonstrated so robustly in research that even doctors, who hate and fear evidence, are grudgingly starting to admit this.
Someone reading that post: Cool, but have you considered that exercise leads to weight loss?
does it? not for people exercising for their non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Interactive computer-based reminders to diet and exercise are useless.
I mean, I literally went to Cochrane Reviews, one of the best-respected sources for massive meta-analyses, and I just input the keywords “weight loss” and “exercise,” and I’m tooling through the results. Every one of the damn things shows that we do not have high-quality research indicating that exercise leads to weight loss. So no. I’m right, and you need to adjust your worldview–ask yourself, if not for weight loss, then why? Re-read those sources: exercise improved muscle density, insulin sensitivity, and cholesterol. It’s good for your blood vessels, it’s good for your strength, it’s good for your brain.
But it won’t make you thin. Maybe two pounds, maybe five, but that’s about it. If you’re looking at short-term, like a year, sure, you can lose weight–but the effort will almost always result in your body going “oh shit, we’re living in a famine” and you will regain it, and now, with your body at a new set-point, losing it will be harder. Regaining will be easier. Welcome to the life-destroying yo-yo.
#then what the fuck are we supposed to do?
Exercise and eat lots of fruits and vegetables and whole grains because those things will keep you healthier longer, regardless of how much you weigh, and pick up your pick-axe in the ongoing horribly slow and frustrating fight of chipping away at the idea that being fat is a bad thing that means you’re a bad person. I recommend the book Fat Talk for a good place to start.
Lotta people going “the authors say different things about their data than you do!” Yep. Doesn’t mean I’m wrong. Means the authors have an axe to grind and they’re ignoring the implications of their own data. Back when I worked as, you know, a coordinator for an Institutional Review Board for an R-1 institution, checking that was my job. So you need to be able to look at data and understand things like confidence intervals and effect sizes. It’s not enough to let researchers tell you what their data mean; they may have lots of reasons to come to conclusions their data don’t actually support.
This is, by the way, one of the most frustrating parts of experimental psychology, which was my background before medicine. People like to believe that they would change their mind based on evidence, but in practice, once you make someone pick a position, they’ll defend it long past the point at which it would make sense to switch. This is why it’s important to repeat and repeat and repeat things: I didn’t believe that exercise doesn’t cause weight loss the first, oh, probably half a dozen times I heard it. I had to get to a point where I was in medical school watching a professor talk about all the data on weight loss and slowly feel it dawn on me that he was saying one thing when he was explaining the data, and then saying THE EXACT OPPOSITE THING when he was drawing conclusions. It was so clear to me that what he had just said was “there is no widely scalable weight loss program that works” and then he said “but we should still be encouraging patients to exercise and eat less to lose weight” as if those weren’t DIRECTLY CONFLICTING.
Me: Exercise does not cause weight loss. This is a fact that has been demonstrated so robustly in research that even doctors, who hate and fear evidence, are grudgingly starting to admit this.
Someone reading that post: Cool, but have you considered that exercise leads to weight loss?
does it? not for people exercising for their non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Interactive computer-based reminders to diet and exercise are useless.
I mean, I literally went to Cochrane Reviews, one of the best-respected sources for massive meta-analyses, and I just input the keywords “weight loss” and “exercise,” and I’m tooling through the results. Every one of the damn things shows that we do not have high-quality research indicating that exercise leads to weight loss. So no. I’m right, and you need to adjust your worldview–ask yourself, if not for weight loss, then why? Re-read those sources: exercise improved muscle density, insulin sensitivity, and cholesterol. It’s good for your blood vessels, it’s good for your strength, it’s good for your brain.
But it won’t make you thin. Maybe two pounds, maybe five, but that’s about it. If you’re looking at short-term, like a year, sure, you can lose weight–but the effort will almost always result in your body going “oh shit, we’re living in a famine” and you will regain it, and now, with your body at a new set-point, losing it will be harder. Regaining will be easier. Welcome to the life-destroying yo-yo.
#then what the fuck are we supposed to do?
Exercise and eat lots of fruits and vegetables and whole grains because those things will keep you healthier longer, regardless of how much you weigh, and pick up your pick-axe in the ongoing horribly slow and frustrating fight of chipping away at the idea that being fat is a bad thing that means you’re a bad person. I recommend the book Fat Talk for a good place to start.
Lotta people going “the authors say different things about their data than you do!” Yep. Doesn’t mean I’m wrong. Means the authors have an axe to grind and they’re ignoring the implications of their own data. Back when I worked as, you know, a coordinator for an Institutional Review Board for an R-1 institution, checking that was my job. So you need to be able to look at data and understand things like confidence intervals and effect sizes. It’s not enough to let researchers tell you what their data mean; they may have lots of reasons to come to conclusions their data don’t actually support.
This is, by the way, one of the most frustrating parts of experimental psychology, which was my background before medicine. People like to believe that they would change their mind based on evidence, but in practice, once you make someone pick a position, they’ll defend it long past the point at which it would make sense to switch. This is why it’s important to repeat and repeat and repeat things: I didn’t believe that exercise doesn’t cause weight loss the first, oh, probably half a dozen times I heard it. I had to get to a point where I was in medical school watching a professor talk about all the data on weight loss and slowly feel it dawn on me that he was saying one thing when he was explaining the data, and then saying THE EXACT OPPOSITE THING when he was drawing conclusions. It was so clear to me that what he had just said was “there is no widely scalable weight loss program that works” and then he said “but we should still be encouraging patients to exercise and eat less to lose weight” as if those weren’t DIRECTLY CONFLICTING.
Babe, ever since I met you, your power level has been over 9000. With you, I know the cake won’t be a lie. Together we can rule the galaxy, and all their base will belong to us. I can haz marriage?
OP I am going to break into your house and unleash a horde of locusts in your closet if you don’t stop
wouldn’t even notice with the type of shit i got goin on
I interned at a place w butterflies and had to tell a mom to please stop offering the “snacks” on the pedestals to her kids and we had to give a speech to all the ppl who entered which I added lines to daily. Including the infamous “butterflies like fruit that’s a little older than what we eat, so the fruit is just for them! Please don’t eat it!” And “please please please please please don’t come in here if you’re afraid of butterflies.” It was the closest thing to hell I’ve ever experienced
*going to a butterfly farm* there better not be any fuckin butterflies in here
If my mutuals can’t rb this then we can’t be mutuals
My DMs are too :3
safe
no one is safe here
I will postb
enbies are welcome (considering i am agender myself) but my blog is not a safe zone for anyone this blog emits 42 rems per second regardless of your gender. the chaos does not discriminate
after a lot of self reflection and curiosity and growth i’ve uncovered that there is something wrong with me. like psychologically. and therapy isn’t enough. i need a sword
One thing that pisses me off a lot as a trans teen is the straight up ignorance that so many people have when it comes to prescribing hormones. Everywhere you go, you’ll hear right-wingers say that “children are being mutilated” and that “children are forced to take hormones” and while in the trans, perisex, healthy perspective that is untrue, intersex people and folks with problems in their organs often ARE forced to do those things, and take hormones SO much easier that trans teens.
Last week, I visited an OBGYN for missed periods. After a quick ultrasound, she straight up signed a paper and gave me progesterone. You know, one of the “scary”, “mutilating” hormones (not birth control btw, the opposite of that).
I did not consent to this. I never wanted to take those hormones. And it’s bone-chilling how quickly they rushed to give me the pills once they assumed I’m a cis girl. And frankly, this is way more dangerous than testosterone. To put it simply, I’m 3x more likely to have a stroke, heart attack, thrombosis, and some forms of cancers and it came with a whole LIST of side effects.
Say I’m a trans girl instead. Do you have any idea how long this would’ve taken for me to get? While my doctor mindlessly signed a paper, if I were a trans girl I would’ve had months if not YEARS of waiting, visiting different doctors and psychiatrist, and a whole struggle of trying to get the same exact substance.
And the progesterone they gave me isn’t even necessary. It was not something they knew my body needed. Even my doctor admitted it was to “see if it works and what it will do”
The ignorance of bigots is more and more visible day by day, but by along with them, many allies are also ignorant about hormones.
Hormone therapy is like eating more protein to push muscle growth faster. Except instead of animal muscle. You’re injecting a specific chemical.
It’s like, insulin pumping but with the logic of eating protein.
By injecting female hormones you grow more female gendered, male to grow more male. And stuff.
And like. These are just the generic brands that mark your body for more or less “masculine” and “feminine” parts.
Some people. They go full ham and change completely.
Some people do barely anything and just enough to look a little more. Manly, or feminine and whatever.
