“For 60 years, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or even saved, millions of lives. The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolism—a body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.
The second big lesson the medical establishment has learned and rejected over and over again is that weight and health are not perfect synonyms. Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages: Studies have found that anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol. Meanwhile, about a quarter of non-overweight people are what epidemiologists call “the lean unhealthy.” A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people.”
A surprising article to find on the Huffington post. I think, especially towards the end, there’s still a saturation of healthism and diet talk (just of the “clean eating” variety), but the information about weight discrimination is absolutely on point, especially within the medical field ignoring decades of research.
Not only do we know that weight loss isn’t sustainable or possible, we also know that weight discrimination kills, in a myriad of ways. If you actually care about “health” then start unlearning your weight bias NOW and realize that fat people are just people who are a different shape.
When it is sunny and miserably hot (>65F) outside and someone tells you to “enjoy the beautiful weather,” they’re not being ironic and genuinely think it is pleasant weather.
The default amount of pain most people are in is literally 0, not figuratively.
Most people feel a compulsory urge to breed with their preferred variety of people. Sex isn’t supposed to be some kind of trial you endure to prove you love someone, and it’s ok if you don’t want any.
Polyamory doesn’t have to be [people A-N in a relationship with each other at the same time] it can be (and is much more logistically feasible as [person A in a relationship with every person B-N individually]
If you think something is wrong with your body, follow that hunch as far as it will go. Your body doesn’t just hand out warning signs for fun, those serve a purpose. Sometimes your body spamming you with warning signs for no reason is the problem in and of itself, and you should see a neurologist.
The golden rule is usually pretty good, but it can get you in hot water if you’re autistic and trying to help someone. (I don’t have a fix for this, just try to make sure people know your intentions before you speak to them.)
You don’t need a “type”
You don’t need a label.
You deserve accommodations for any disability you have, even if “it’s minor” and you can live without them.
People tend to want to help each other out. Often you do not need to make it worth someone’s time to ask for help, and they would prefer spending time to help you over spending time watching you flounder around without help.
It’s ok to stop talking to people you don’t vibe with, just be nice about it.
If you know someone who has a condition triggered by someone doing something they can’t control such as Misophonia (when certain sounds send them into a panicky rage) triggered by a family member’s eating noises: Neither of them are at fault, and it’s ok to for either to ask the other to leave.
Equality is great in an ideal world but we live in a horrible bastard world where equity (certain marginalized groups receiving the aid they need before and in larger volume than advantaged groups) makes more sense.
Capitalism will always be at odds with general prosperity.
People give each other gifts because they like them. You should not feel obligated to give someone a thank you gift or feel guilty or indebted in any way. They would not like that.
Visualizing things from other people’s perspective if you have low or no empathy is made easier by picturing it’s you in their situation. A reminder that the world is complex and all those other people living in it are like you sort of.
Sorry this turned more into life advice! Hope it helps at all!
This is a very important post, I’m rebloging and tagging my friends
me about all my beloved mutuals after tumblr dies because i refused to message them even one single time over five entire years of reblogging funny pictures from eachother
Toby Fox may be the creator I respect most because after creating a game so huge that Nintendo sniped his character for Smash and the Pope’s orchestra played his music for the Goddamn Pope I VERY much think it would be within Toby’s right to develop of God complex, crack and become insane, go on a bender in the streets of LA, and then have an extremely public Twitter meltdown before getting suspended. Imagining the pressure, I think I personally would do all those things, in that order, in under 6 months’ time.
Instead as far as I can tell he’s just like “I’m dog” and has been like “I’m dog” since Undertale launched and he’s just out there somewhere with near-total anonymity just making his little haha games. Absolute King.
toby fox has had the rightest idea of us all, that he has simply Not Interacted with the internet for the majority of his career. shit aint worth it
It’s Halloween! Time for spooky spells and crime! Also, if anyone presses my doorbell trying to get candy, it will activate the trapdoor beneath the unwelcome mat.
Where does it lead?
The flesh corridor
Yum
I wanna go on the flesh slide!!
me next me next!
Not a slide
send me in boss!
Are none of you wondering where the flesh corridor actually goes?
With a name like ‘the Flesh Corridor’ it can only lead to something good
Wrong
Don’t tell me what I can consider 'good’. You don’t know me
don’t spend your energy trying to organize to get everyone to vote for “the lesser of two evils” when you could spend that energy organizing together to dismantle the system that keeps these people in power instead.
Please be aware though, re-posting art work without credit to the artist is NOT anarchist, anti-capitalist, or in any way punk.
I searched Google for “firing all the billionaires into the sun comic”, found the image —> used it to search for a nicer one and lo and behold found a link to their own Twitter. This took about 5 minutes. Slower than a 5 second reblog but still fast - and also much more important.
The creator is First Dog on The Moon and what makes this version^ so much worse to spread around is that the original HAD the author’s handle on it but it was cropped out.
I’m not sure what I expected, but seeing people with those toy horses that are just a horse head on a stick so you can “ride” it doing actual horse show routines, including jumps of a height that actual horses would probably think twice about, was NOT it.
Some of those jumps should be fucking impossible what the fuck
I need the Bob’s Burgers episode of this post fücking haste
Specifically, places where people can gather, have fun, host events or even just hang out. Similar to what libraries are, but not quite–a place where kids can be loud and rowdy and hang out, make friends, practice sports. Though they definitely should still have quiet areas, maybe craft rooms too. A nice place to go to and hang out after school before you’re ready to head home–or a safe place to stay if you don’t want to head home. Community centers could also still be fantastic for adults too–they could be used as a place to host classes on different crafts, or repairs, etc.–and still be a perfectly valid place to hang out and seek refuge.
Places like these do exist in many places in a few different forms, but a lot of them are directly tied to organizations and groups that may make people more hesitant to partake in them (ie churches, Police Athletic Leagues), or they have a cost barrier to taking part of the amenities (YMCA). While these places are definitely suitable and fulfilling for many people, they’re often limiting and stifling for others–if not just flat-out inaccessible. Not to mention, they don’t all fill the roles I mentioned above.
I think having robust community centers would be great for societies all over. I’ll admit, my imagination is a bit grand–community gardens, sports rec rooms, swimming pools, reading and craft rooms, a repair cafe, a food cafe, maybe a dorming area for overnight stays, soup kitchens, showers, mutual aid closets and such.
Though I guess that brings about the question of how this would be funded. With churches, it’s tithes and other forms of community fundraising. With police athletic leagues, its… taxes, I guess? Alongside other donations. And with the YMCA, it’s memberships that provide the funding for their amenities. My initial instinct is to say a mix of taxes and maybe some community contributions would be what funds a good community center, but then there comes the issue of some places having better or worse community centers depending on the median income of their area… especially when you see how places like libraries already get little funding in favor of larger policing budgets (the libraries in my city are all closed on Sundays, and have shorter hours in general, for example)
I know I’m just rambling at this point. I just think community centers are cool! They’re punk! And we should have them–cool, fun community centers!
I think the only person I’ve met in real life with 100% career satisfaction was this gal I knew who was a presenter at a children’s science museum and delivered every line like she was running a WWE match. Every time you passed the room where she was giving a presentation, you’d hear something like “WHO’S READY FOR CEPHALOPODS?!?” and the kids would go absolutely nuts cheering.
shout the fuck out to bald girls btw. let it be known that i will show the fuck up for bald/balding girls any hour of the day, any day of the week, any week of the year. you could call me up at 3 in the morning and tell me that you happened upon some receding hairline queens who need hyping up and i would tell you i’ll be there in five. i love you bald girls
to clarify for some who asked: i’m talking ALL bald/balding girls, regardless of the cause of hair loss. alopecia, chemo treatment, trichotillomania, hormones (looking at you, trans girlies!!!), or even if you’ve shaved your head yourself, all of you deserve to be hyped up and to be reminded that you look fucking amazing and you are 1000 times stronger and swaggier than anyone who isn’t willing to let go of beauty standards to see how brilliantly you shine. to take it again: I LOVE YOU BALD GIRLS
Diplomatic relations with the fey have broken down. The Empire of Helmgar now officially declares war on the Feywild. There will be no Feywild. We will be using goblin Blitzkrieg tactics. There will be no survivors.
That’ll teach those shithead pixies to insult my hat.
I cast wall.
No war.
Problem solved
Do… do you think a wall will stop me?
Yes. :3
Fool
Okay but how you getting past it? The wall is quite b i g
Break wall
but what jf theres a bigger wall behind it
Break
What if there’s a series of bigger walls behind each wall, and when you break a wall it starts reconfiguring into a bigger wall at the end?
Break them all at once
What if the whole world is a wall and the sky is a wall and YOU are a wall???
“You aren’t OK with AI Voices but you’re OK with Miku????”
First off, never insult my dearest friend Hatsune Miku like that ever again.
Second, Miku isn’t stealing voices. That’s the issue with AI voices. They’re stealing other people’s voices. Miku? She is a funky little hologram with a funky little hologram voice.
Big difference.
Edit: The difference is Hatsune Miku’s voice bank originator consented to have her voice be used. The people making voice copies of say, Commander Jane Shepard are directly violating the voice actor’s wishes.
“You aren’t OK
with AI Voices but you’re
OK with Miku????”
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Remember how many messages out of Gaza in the last three weeks have been simple pleas to be remembered, to be prayed for and thought of, to not be left alone. Demonstrations need to be combined with other forms of direct action to have a hope of changing policy, and that needs to remain the goal. But this is one thing protests can do in themselves: say, “We have not forgotten you. We are here.”
omg so yesterday i put a salt line on the pathway to our front door because i was fucking around and my brother was pretending to be a demon
and today we ordered pizza and the salt line was still there
and my brother went outside to sign for the pizza
and the pizzaman refused to step over the salt line, like he almost did and then he backed up and handed my bro the pizza and left; which is pretty ridiculous because it’s far from our door
so a heads up to everyone i’m pretty sure domino’s is actually run by demons??? kind of like how in men in black the post office is run by aliens
What if they thought you guys were the demons
ohmygod
plot twist he was just a bunch of slugs in a man costume
i do not care if someone learned compassion from a cartoon or a comic or an anime im just glad they’re here with us now a better person fighting the good fight. should it have taken something so trivial? maybe not- but it’s in the past! and this is the now! and if they’re objectively better for it who cares
“it took gay shipping for this adult to stop being homophobic 😬” ok but they stopped being actively homophobic. that’s what you just said. that’s literally the only important part you understand that right? this is a win for everyone you get that?
we all start somewhere and im going to be real buddy i only care about the harm you did or didn’t cause on your journey and where you ended up. whatever set it off only matters as much as you want it too
Surely that is a major part of why we want more representation in mainstream media in the first place. It’s very weird to campaign for good portrayals and then get mad when they work.
A friend of mine wrote, some years back, about her 85-year-old grandmother who was sort of vaguely homophobic until a nice gay couple moved in and she saw them gardening and they were social and friendly and good neighbors, and then she declared that obviously they were fine, and if God had a problem with them, she would give God a good talking-to.
The confidence of an 85-year-old woman can be an amazing thing to behold from a safe distance.
Colonialism and genocide justification 101 is “these savage men will rape our beautiful pure white women” and “the barbarians of this land drink our children’s blood” by the way
You are literally falling for the oldest piece of propaganda in the book. These dehumanising and made-up claims were used against Indigenous Americans, Arabs, Africans, Asians and yes, Jews too. They make everyone believe that every one of us is a filthy child eating beast with no understanding of nature or the world to justify stealing our lands and murdering our people without mercy.
Do you believe that Algeria, Haiti, South Africa, or any victim of colonisation doesn’t deserve their independence because they used violence to achieve it? Do you believe that France and England still deserve to lay claim to countless lands?
