Not that I judge people that are "fat" but here's my suggestion to deal with the "obesity epidemic" in the United States.

The goals are to make it cheaper to eat healthy, give people more time to cook, make healthy food more accessible, and allow people to get out and exercise because when the fuck do you think we're exercising when we're working 40/hrs a week, have a 1 hr lunch break every day, and have to drive to and from work every day? Plus expected to cook and clean?

-fae

As a fat disabled person, all of these are a great start. I would also add things such as:

Even with all of this implemented, it will not get rid of fat people. That isn’t the point. It is, however, about giving people access to lose weight or live a healthy lifestyle in which you have fruits and vegetables, etc. Healthy doesn’t mean lose weight. Sometimes it’s about being the best you, and you could still be at the same weight.

I would also like to add that minorities in general are more likely to end up in these circumstances. And that the system including white supremacy is a major problem that will always be a part of fatphobia.

Yes. I should have clarified. "Obesity epidemic" is in quotes because it's more a goal to make healthy lifestyles accessible to everyone which may help people lose weight. But some fat people are still going to be fat because of Disability or that's just the way their body is built. (Also not every body is capable of being healthy and that's okay too)

Also I'd like to add a few things I forgot

-fae

Not that I judge people that are "fat" but here's my suggestion to deal with the "obesity epidemic" in the United States.

The goals are to make it cheaper to eat healthy, give people more time to cook, make healthy food more accessible, and allow people to get out and exercise because when the fuck do you think we're exercising when we're working 40/hrs a week, have a 1 hr lunch break every day, and have to drive to and from work every day? Plus expected to cook and clean?

-fae

As a fat disabled person, all of these are a great start. I would also add things such as:

Even with all of this implemented, it will not get rid of fat people. That isn’t the point. It is, however, about giving people access to lose weight or live a healthy lifestyle in which you have fruits and vegetables, etc. Healthy doesn’t mean lose weight. Sometimes it’s about being the best you, and you could still be at the same weight.

I would also like to add that minorities in general are more likely to end up in these circumstances. And that the system including white supremacy is a major problem that will always be a part of fatphobia.

Bad Omens is such a Jason Todd band send tweet

No, bc you’re right

JENNIE KIM as DYANNE THE IDOL, E02 ‘DOUBLE FANTASY’

This kicks ass. Disabled activists are protesting for their rights in South Korea by literally just riding the train during rush hour.

full article

I mean, if you have so few accommodations that a wheelchair user can seriously affect train schedules just by using the train, then I think they’ve got a problem.

Well done, Korean disability activists, for making your point clearly and bravely.

Americans not giving a shit about the wildfires burning down forests and homes in Canada until smoke starts spreading across the border. Meanwhile Indigenous communities across the country are far more likely to be impacted by the fires and I’ve seen all of one link to a charity and about nine million memes. 🙃

The charity is based in Ottawa and accepts in-person donations as well:

[ID: Tweet from @OdawaNFC with an attached image. Text:

Odawa Native Friendship Centre is collecting donations for First Nations community members that have recently been evacuated. Drop donations at Odawa's office at 815 St. Laurent Blvd. When donating online, choose "Wild Fire Evacuees". Miigwetch, Odawa.

Image Text: Needed: Gently used/clean clothing for babies, children, youth and adult sizes. Food donations, gift cards, money donations.

End ID]

Add “distress” to your pain scale

Pain scale? More like pain in the booty. No two people seem to read it the same way, and chronic folks tend to downplay their pain.

So here’s an idea: when asked to rate your pain, provide a number to rate your distress levels in addition to your pain levels.

Some examples:

It’s a great way to consider how your pain is impacting you—and to get a doctor’s attention where it’s actually needed.

OP is a genius

Jennie for Vogue Japan 🎀

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The boys put on an absolute clinic 😤

Jensen Ackles | Family Business Beer Company, April 22, 2023 [x] 

if i were showrunner i would have simply licensed ABBA

I’ve never seen a single episode of supernatural. Is this the ship everyone has been waiting to become canon? Because I get why

i sometimes forget that if u haven’t seen spn u would have absolutely no idea that misha collins had to put on this ridiculous fucking voice for 12 years

um. fat people are allowed to be outside btw. fat people are allowed to wear clothes that do not completely flatter them. fat people are allowed to have their belly showing or wear clothes too small for them. fat people are allowed to exist in whatever they want and we dont have to constantly make ourselves look appealing + attractive. skinny people can wear lazy clothes and be called gorgeous but god forbid a fat person not put 100% into their fucking appearance every single day of their life

some avatar sketches except theyre human

atwow characters as humans compiled together!

tried making the human sully kids resemble themselves more + cleaned up my sketches of the metkayina kids

the parents as humans!

Can we please appreciate how human Jake has his wheelchair like he did before he became fully Na’vi and no longer needed his human body. Because I feel like that needs a lot of appreciation.

Capitalism is getting very much more dystopian very quickly

It’s a matter of time before companies start their own Pod-communities and ‘strongly encourage’ workers to live there and set up rules like no alcohol and no defamation of the company in the Pods. 

As nightmarish as this is (and it is), this is only new for documented white people. From seasonal archiculture workers to construction workers to sweatshops, ‘sleep where you work and live your whole life controlled by your boss and coworkers pressured to spy on you’, has been very much a thing for a looooooooong time. 

This is one of many things capitalism has always done to workers and now they’re going “hhmmmm.. if I can do this to some workers, why not all of them? if I present it as a hip new way of urban living people for the ‘freelancers’ that I exploit, I might even be able to do it without the armed guards that run my sweatshops and plantations.”

I don’t really get the issue with the “sex is banned” part tho

I don’t want to hyperfocus on that part because ‘live without privacy, convert your bed into a desk by day and just work work work’ is distopian enough as it is and I don’t really want to distract from a conversation about the new fuedalism to just talk about sex. 

But can you not understand how that monotomous soulless life defined by work becomes even more soulless when you are not permitted to engage in (what is for most allosexuals) one of the most intimate moments of recreational joy and interpersonal connection? & how much it says about our lack of power when we live in places that control our sexual and reproductive lives? 

well yeah, but it’s communal living. I mean you’re spot on with the rest but idk, a ban on sex when you share your living quarters with like two dozen other people? it doesn’t seem that deep tbh. 

You know, I’ve spend time in socialist and anarchist self-organized communal living spaces where lots of people shared bedrooms because they liked it and all these spaces had a place for sex. They all acknowledged that that was a thing many humans loved and valued and so they organized to make that good thing possible. Some had a spare room with a lock on the inside that couples could use, others had dorms where sex was okay and dorms where it was not so people could choose where to sleep. It is not difficult to have communal living for those that like sharing bedrooms and also organize a place for sex. 

This, however, is not communal living. This is crammed, dehumanized corporate living. This is squeezing as many people as possible into a space defined by work. The inhabitants own nothing in this space and have no control over their environment, they can’t even paint the walls let along organize the space to meet their needs. In such a space, sex is made impossible on purpose:

“We built the pods facing each other so the community polices itself”

The people that made this could have organized privacy and opportunities for sex. They deliberately did not do this, they dilerabetely designed the space for minimum privacy. The purposeful banning of sex from this space is just one part, but one very obvious part, of the way these spaces are not build for humans, they are build for employees whose whole identity should be limited to their productivity. 

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, mining communities and factory towns encouraged workers to join their ranks by offering company housing and company stores, where workers and their families wouldn’t have to worry about money, because their rent and whatever they wanted from the store would simply be deducted from their paychecks.

Didn’t take long for workers to realize they were spending over 100% of their paychecks, and would have to work the rest of their lives in soul-crushing poverty to pay the company back.

Slavery isn’t gone, it just changed its name.

Adding to what @robstmartin has to say:

“I sold my soul to the company store” isn’t just a line in a song, it’s about Miner’s Scrip. When coal mines forced their employees to live in company housing, paid them in company credit usable only in the literal company store, and they charged astronomical rates for rent and food. 

Most miners ended up in multi-generational debt because their wages were so low they could not afford the basic necessities of food, clothing and shelter and ended up owing so much to the company store their grandchildren would essentially be enslaved to the company to pay off the debt.

This becomes especially chilling when you realize Cheeto Supremo ran on a policy of “bring back coal jobs”.

This is just deadass feudalism 2 Electric Boogaloo

Gilded Age exploitation popping up at a time when Gilded Age inequality has returned. That’s not a coincidence. I can’t speak for the Tories, but in the US bringing ^^^THIS^^^ back has been the goal of the Republicans since the New Deal.

By the way, the lyric isn’t “I sold my soul to the company store.” It’s “St. Peter, don’t you call me, ‘cause I can’t go/I OWE my soul to the company store.” Which is a hell of a lot bleaker, and, given how expensive company stores were and how deeply in debt employees could be when they died, painfully accurate.

Here’s a playlist of pre-1970s American bluegrass music about how much coal mining is trying to kill you – you worked for a company, lived in company housing, shopped at company stores, owed the company money, and got to die of black lung disease at the age of 50: https://www.allmusic.com/album/music-of-coal-mining-songs-from-the-appalachian-coalfields-mw0000490027

We don’t need that to be a revived economic model for the future, thanks.

As a West Virginian, someone who has ancestors that were coal miners, and currently has a nephew who works in the mines— this is why unions are so important. Unions were literally fought for by coal miners because of how bad the conditions were. The term redneck came from those who were protesting because they wore red bandanas around their neck to show as a sign of protest. The Battle of Blair Mountain was a major turning point and I really suggest people look into it. Do not let the soul-sucking life of capitalism lead you to believe that living at your job like that is normal. If you work 9-5, that is NOT normal. In all honesty you will probably be less productive as you don’t get enough space to yourself and the idea of self-policing is a terrifying thought as that could mean different things to everyone. If you are wondering why it is less productive, how truly productive where you if you lived in a college dorm? Sure, you got easy access to help, but did you actually feel MORE productive?

My grandmother’s father was one of the participants at the Battle of Blair Mountain. They got bombed by the National Guard.

Sends a salute from South Western PA

Hills- proud to be a descendent of proud red necks.

If you’re LGBT reblog and tag with your opinion on beer.