•Perminante State Of Confusion•

Hey. Stay warm this winter by purchasing a blanket from KotahBear - a native owned and operated group by Kotah and Missy, two members of the Diné tribe. While you’re at it, buy some cool jewelry while supporting native owned businesses.

Ah yes. The good old ‘reverse uno card’.

This video cured every single chemical imbalance I had

she knows what she’s talking about 🎃🍂

since eid al adha is next week, please consider donating to islamic relief usa to gift meat to countries like yemen and afghanistan! many people in these countries don’t have access to halal meat and this is an effort to help relieve families of a little bit of their burdens.

i made a campaign page for afghanistan, whose overall goal is $20,000 and have only collected about $200. the goal for my campaign is $1,500 so please help me reach this goal! anything helps and if you can’t donate please rb!

link to my campaign for afghanistan: https://give.irusa.org/fundraiser/2827453 link to ‘lean on me’ fundraiser page: http://irusa.org/meat4eid 

How the fuck has this site become so bearable. This place was a shit show a few years ago but now it's actually good and not full of instant discourse the way Facebook and Twitter are

everyone is just tired

The site hasnt improved the rest of the world just crash and burned so hard that this palce looks like a haven in comparison

If anyone had told me tumblr would be the most tolerable social media site in 2020 I would've called them crazy, yet here we are

We’re OK with letting them have this BAR though:

Reblogging for the “shut the nazis down while they are being ‘nice’ before they escalate and become a more serious problem.”

Don’t talk to bigots. Don’t ‘debate’ bigots. Don’t let them talk you into ‘having a civil conversation.’

The worst atrocities in the world started with people downplaying the early warning signs.

A playlist entirely made of non-binary artists

Let me know if there are any I forgot to include!

Kendra Wells.

Good on this man for filming and keeping his hands up. That cop was looking for an excuse to shoot him.

After claiming loudly for EVERYONE ELSE to hear that there’s a gun, he tells that guy much more quietly to turn his car off, meaning the driver would have to pull at least one of his hands inside the car, which would give the sad excuse for a human being every reason he wants to shoot the poor guy. He’d be telling investigators, “Yeah, I saw something that looked like a gun, he reached for it, and I feared for my life. Everyone around me heard me yell ‘gun’. You can ask my coworkers who would vouch for me.” District Attorney would then say, “We found that the officer was complying with protocols and violated no law. He can return to work after his life was nearly ruined by the false claims of onlookers who didn’t see what the officer saw.”

It’s almost as if they’re all reading from the same script.

This might be the best thing ever filmed.

I’ve seen the gif, but it’s even better with the context of how little time it took.

This is an accurate representation of 2020 so far

From Twitter.

is it weird that as i got through the tweet my understanding of it lessens?

If you had a recent ancestor who went through starvation it actually altered their genetics and may have passed down genes to you that make you hold on to fat. So this tweet is more accurate than you’d think.

More on that.

Seriously, my body is expecting the next ice age.

OH MY FUCKING GOD.

MY FUCKING GREAT GRANDFATHER LITERALLY FLED LEBANON DUE TO A FUCKING FAMINE AND MY GRANDMOTHER AND DAD AND I ARE ALL FAT AS FUCKING HELL.

FUCK ME RUNNING I DID NOT KNOW THIS.

…That’s going to apply also to anyone whose recent ancestors voluntarily dieted a lot, isn’t it. Diet culture long-term causes more obesity. Sure, it takes decades to show up, but anything you’d hear today about childhood obesity would reflect that. Exercising is still very good for most people, but trying to lose weight shouldn’t be the goal for most people, because a) it usually doesn’t work very well or it comes back and b) your kids or grandkids could end up with extra wonky metabolisms. (And while fat itself is actually not that much of a problem if you keep your fitness up, it can be hard on your joints. That’s actually the biggest health risk if you’re “small end of fat,” under 40, and active–joint problems.)

THAT MOTHERFUCKING ARTIFICIAL FAMINE THAT’S IT I’M GONNA FIGHT THE ENGLISH 

Honestly, “I’m gonna fight the English” is a good reaction to a lot of things.

the ‘obesity epidemic’ in america is probably due to a combo of our grandparents living through the great depression and our parents being teens and young adults during the days of twiggy and heroin chic and the rise of diet culture.

combine that with the fact that gen x was the last generation allowed to play outside, pretty much, and the fact that everybody nowdays is working service jobs that exhaust them without working their muscles, and there is basically no way on earth you’re going to get a fit and healthy population without changing the basic structure of our society.

don’t fall for the hype. don’t focus on weight. it’s actually far more dangerous to be underweight than overweight. even with what is clinically defined as ‘morbid obesity’ it’s possible to be healthy as a horse, if your bone structure and metabolism are set up for it and you’ve got lots of muscle to support it.

on top of that, the charts for ideal weight are at least a generation out of date. they were compiled based on a population that didn’t regularly get enough dairy and fresh produce, at a time when girls didn’t do athletics in school. young women in the 1960′s were measurably smaller than young women today. their bones were thinner, they had less muscle mass, their shoulders were more sloped, they had a smaller lung capacity – society discouraged them from being physically active past the age of ten or twelve, and they finished their physical development in a sedentary setting.

boys were plenty active, but just like the girls, they were eating just about nothing but red meat and starch and some mushy greens with the vitamins boiled out. the thing where the poor get fat because sugar and fat are cheap wasn’t really happening yet, especially in rural areas; a farm kid’s diet was beef and wheat in the north, pork and corn in the south. “eat your vegetables” was such a hard sell because everything else was expensive and bland and overcooked. you’ve seen the godawful cookbook excerpts from that time. mushy green beans and fried spam on a bed of mashed potatoes, seasoned with nothing but a pinch of white pepper.

sorry, that was kind of a tangent. i guess my point is, even the people who ate well by the standards of the time were malnourished compared to the standard of today. your lunch of a matcha cucumber smoothie and a cobb salad with one ounce of ham, one ounce of turkey, and 15 kinds of fresh vegetable, would give them the explosive shits because they’ve never had that much fiber in one place before. there’s more vitamins and antioxidants in your black bean fajita dinner than they saw in a week.

so first of all, the idea of trying to be the same size and shape they were is absurd.

and second, if malnourishment in one generation primes the next two for protective fat retention, the combination of that and the incredible wealth of nutrition we have available to us today is obviously going to make us HYUGE.

instead of fighting it, we should embrace it. we could all be HUMAN BOULDERS OF MIGHT.

I know a number of gen z kids who are active, regularly exercise / do sports, and are mindful or careful about what they eat but who are considered overweight. They’re healthy kids. They’re strong and have energy. But they’re repeatedly criticized by parents and doctors alike for being “fat”. You wonder why so many kids have anxiety disorders? When you’re trying your best and are still told at every checkup that you need to stop eating junk food and sugar and lying on the couch watching tv because the doctor assumes that a kid living healthily couldn’t possibly be fat so that must be what you’re doing, it hurts. You feel like something is wrong with you. You internalize what you’re being told and it turns to feeling shameful, guilty, not good enough, messed up. I wish parents and doctors could wrap their brains around the fact that fat children can be healthy

I am 5'9", and for a solid portion of the last decade I was also 125lbs. It’s only in the last couple years that I’ve managed to put on a reasonable amount of weight. I’m between 180 and 190lbs right now, and very happy about it

When I was 125, not a single doctor was ever worried. I was constantly cold, stressed, and exhausted. I was literally always eating, and still could not gain anything. I was hungry all the time, but at the same time I would have given anything to just go to bed and sleep for days, because being chronically underweight does screwy things to your entire system

Now, a couple years into being an actual reasonable weight for my height, I’ve had a doctor, on our first visit, include ‘healthy eating and weight loss’ tips in my visit notes without even asking if I was happy at my weight. I am still mad about this. But also, I have so much more energy, I sleep better, I can actually regulate my own damn temperature, and I just over-all feel better

Eat the food, guys. The alternative isn’t worth it

Also, women who were pregnant in the 50′s and 60′s were ruthlessly exhorted to minimize weight gain during pregnancy, with doctors often demanding they gain only 15 pounds.  In fact, if they were overweight before getting pregnant, their doctors might urge them to actually lose weight in early pregnancy.  This led to a whole generation of babies who were undernourished during development, which studies have shown can lead to overweight in adults for two or three generations.

There’s a lot wrong with America but Jesus fucking Christ this is the royal cherry on the shitty sundae

Can all the dipshit exclusionists, terfs, and transmeds that keep pointing at eachother whining “STOP SAYING I’M LIKE THEM” just fight eachother instead of doing it in my notes? Bitch I ain’t gonna listen. You’re all dicks. I don’t want any of you on my blog. That’s all I care about right now. Die mad about the fact that you’re associated with shitty people because you’re a shitty person

“Why are people saying they don’t want me on their blogs? Why am I, someone that discriminates against a large part of the LGBTQ community and thinks myself better than everyone for it, listed alongside other people that discriminate against a large part of the LGBTQ community and thinks themselves better than everyone for it?! I don’t understand!”

Umbrella Academy characters as titles from the relationship advice subreddit

Luther:

Allison:

Patrick:

Diego:

Klaus:

Five:

Delores:

Ben:

Vanya:

Reginald:

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