The Worst Attraction in Every State

Oh Big Blue Bug that’s interesting I wonder what that looks like—

Jesus H. Christ

get in everyone we’re going on a roadtrip

Barbie (2023) // The Good Place (2016-2020)

this looks like the same party

they’re shouting back and forth across the club

Honestly if you don’t see what megapope did as sexual harassment of a trans woman whose post was literally devoid of sexuality then I don’t trust you around trans women lol

No, the trans woman was the sex freak here making “a mouse walks into a bar” joke! Not megapope who immediately jumped into a rant accusing this woman of secretly sexualizing the situation in great detail in a giant block paragraph! He’s clearly the normal, adjusted party.

hey dont cry. thousands and thousands of bisexual trans people in the world ok?

humbled

It's end of May, yall know what that means

SAG-AFTRA, Teamsters, IATSE, Writers Guild Issue Joint Statement in Solidarity with Directors Guild of America

May 31, 2023

Los Angeles, CA — As the Directors Guild of America’s negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) enter their final scheduled week, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), the Teamsters, Hollywood Basic Crafts (Teamsters Local 399, IBEW Local 40, LiUNA! Local 724, OPCMIA Local 755 and UA Local 78), the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE), the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW), and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) stand alongside our sisters, brothers, and kin in the DGA in their pursuit of a fair contract.

We believe in a Hollywood where every worker is valued and their contributions recognized, whether their labor is on or off screen. A fair contract for directors does not benefit just a select few; it uplifts every worker in the film and television industry and acknowledges the interconnected nature of our work. We call on the AMPTP to immediately negotiate a fair agreement that addresses the Directors Guild of America’s unique priorities in good faith.

As eyes around the world again turn towards the negotiation table, we send a clear message to the AMPTP: Our solidarity is not to be underestimated. The Hollywood guilds and unions stand united, and we stand strong.

In solidarity,

Matthew D. Loeb International President, IATSE

Lindsay Dougherty Motion Picture Division Director & Western Region Vice President, Teamsters Hollywood Basic Crafts, Chairperson

Duncan Crabtree-Ireland National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator, SAG-AFTRA

Michael Winship President, Writers Guild of America, East

Meredith Stiehm President, Writers Guild of America West

being disabled is daydreaming about disability aids you know you’ll never be able to afford

love it when our profit-oriented market society's primary mechanism to defray risk from the utterly unsustainable and ecologically incredulous development decisions stops working

30 May 23

alright so i absolutely hate doing this, but, i need money, i am moving to a different city in a month, have a massive bill to pay and potentially have some legal costs coming up soon. and i currently don't even have enough to cover that one invoice :/ i am glad about any money i can get via ko-fi or merch sales (profit margins are temporarily raised a bit) to help through this significantly more expensive coming month

👁️👄👁️ I’m hot and cold simultaneously constantly and eating electrolyte chews like candy

Psychosis support and solidarity should include postpartum psychosis

I don’t recall ever seeing posts mentioning postpartum psychosis, however it’s only other people who have experienced psychosis that I ever see posting about psychosis so I feel like it’s important to highlight this group

Having conditions that pre-disposition you to psychosis can increase your risk of developing postpartum psychosis, and I experienced it firsthand during my postpartum period. But anyone can experience postpartum psychosis- with risk factors like young age and perinatal/neonatal complications increasing the gestational parent’s risk.

Postpartum psychosis is extremely stigmatized and dramatized for media consumption and does not prioritize early detection for the safety of the parent and child. The risk of suicide is greater than the risk of injuring a child, and I think we can definitely do better on awareness of PPP from an antipsych perspective to promote peer intervention in these situations

I gave my soapbox speech about how weight loss is mostly bullshit to two different patients in a row yesterday and so help me I’m pretty sure one of these days someone is going to say “but SURELY you agree I’d be HEALTHIER if I lost weight!” bc you can see the disbelief in their eyes. And like. Sure, maybe! You might see some improvement in biomarkers like LDL and A1c, and your knees would probably feel better. But you would be amazed at how much more good you can do for yourself by focusing on things you can actually meaningfully change without resorting to making yourself miserable. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables—it’s hard bc they’re more difficult to prepare and more expensive per calorie and go bad faster than other foods, but they’re what we evolved eating the most of so they’re what our bodies need the most of. And walk around more; sure, cardio is great for you, but if it sucks so bad you don’t do it, it isn’t doing shit for you. And we evolved to walk very very long distances, a little bit at a time, so our bodies respond actually very well to adding walks into our schedules, which is vastly easier than adding workouts that are frankly designed to be punishing when the definition of punishing is “makes you less likely to do it again in the future.”

You get one life. It is shorter than you can begin to imagine. Don’t waste it hating yourself because somebody is going to make money off that self-hatred. You deserve better than to be a cash cow for billionaires who pay aestheticians and dermatologists to make them (or at least their trophy wives) look thin and beautiful no matter what they actually do.

And ONE MORE THING—listen. We are NOT evolved to lose weight, we are evolved to hoard it. We came about in a world of famines. Not only does your brain have MULTIPLE failsafes built in SPECIFICALLY TO PREVENT WEIGHT LOSS, but there are epigenetic factors—factors that are not DNA but travel with it and affect how it is expressed. So if your parents or grandparents lived through a famine, like, oh, say, the Great Depression, YOU are more likely to gain weight and more likely to have difficulty losing it. AND! We live in a world highly affected by industrial pollution—there is no corner of the world free from it, micro plastics and industrial chemical pollution have been found literally everywhere ever studied—and many of those pollutants affect our endocrine systems. Looking at records of lab animals going back to the 1960s, where we have excellent records of what genetically essentially identical animals ate, we know that LAB ANIMALS FED THE SAME AMOUNT OF THE SAME CHOW WEIGH MORE NOW THAN THEY DID THE IN SIXTIES. So no. You’re not fat because your willpower is somehow busted. (Willpower, fun fact, can be depleted! By DEPLETING BLOOD SUGAR! Baumeister’s work in the 2000s demonstrated that.) You’re fat because your body wants you to live, and because the ultra rich have knowingly poured poison into the world because they don’t care if you die.

So YOU need to care if you live. And how you live. Please love yourself, because the billionaires will never give a shit about you. Weight Watchers has a 96-99% failure rate. Weight loss is a scam that makes billions of dollars every year. Love yourself too much to fall for that. Don’t wait until you’re thin to love yourself or to start living, because a) that day may never come and b) it’s okay if that day never comes. You are worthwhile and enough right now. I promise you that.

Did I mention that all studies on the subject are very clear--like, we do not need more studies on this, which is a bananas thing for a scientist to say--exercise does not lead to weight loss. It just doesn't. Anyone who tells you it does is wrong. It's good for you because it's good for you, not because it makes you thin. It improves your blood vessel health; it improves your heart health; it improves your body's ability to manage blood sugar; it improves your muscular health. It does not make you thin.

Reducing calories can reduce weight, but your body, as previously mentioned, is trying REAL HARD not to lose weight. I see a lot of recommendations for 1200 calorie a day diets. Google "starvation study" and look at how much the men in that study were given. It was over 1500 calories a day, and they were miserable. They became skeletal. They felt awful, depressed, foggy--because your brain is the single biggest user of calories in your body. It is so metabolically active that your brain uses around 30% of all the calories your body uses. Guess what happens when you starve your brain? You feel like shit. You feel stupid and depressed. Don't starve yourself. It doesn't work and it makes you feel awful and you will get rebound weight gain above whatever you lost, guaranteed, and then you'll blame yourself for "letting yourself go" because our society is built on lies.

We also cannot and should not ever suggest that anyone can lose more than 5-10% of their body weight and keep that off. It's just not possible. Bariatric surgery is a WHOLE other can of worms, I don't have the energy to explain why I almost never recommend it to my patients, but just know that if anyone has ever suggested you lose more than 10% of your body weight through behavioral changes, they are bullshitting you.

today i made an extensive edit to the ring sprite from sonic mania to use as a transgender symbol emote on my sonic discord server

well that certainly puts things into perspective. perhaps target understands that the white male supremacy throwing domestic terrorism tantrums over rainbow shirts has significant overlap with the militarized police force.

idk if it's this way everywhere but the targets in my city all are super militarized and have target security patrols walking around in tactical vests and shit

y’all are really gonna start defending the guy who said this?

tumblr communists will go to bat for the statement “poor people are lying scum and their pets deserve to die”