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It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.
It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.
It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.
It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.
It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.
It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.
It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.
It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.
It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.
It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.
It’s labour rights and less work.
It’s science and arts.
It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.
It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.
It’s sailboats and zeppelins.
It’s the speculative and the possible.
It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.
It’s global and local.
It’s me and you.
Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.
SHE IS A TRUE HERO
No, she’s a bitch is what she is
what do u mean???? it was clearly an accident she even said “Oooppsss”
LMFAOOOO
kildesr
Look, rather than being petty and destroying it, why not talk to the girl. Really ask them why they are using the confederate flag. But no, low level terrorism is the answer.
LOW LEVEL TERRORISM?
Low level terrorism
wereralph
ICONIC
world heritage post
empathviv
This is a NO GIMMICK ACCOUNT ZONE
If your shit is called something like "we-rate-posts," YOU ARE NOT WELCOME. GO HOME
I disagree
There's a tension here that's really interesting to observe. The OP is almost a call to action for gimmick blogs, inviting attention despite the contradiction. It comes across as almost tsundere, doesn't it?
The call is answered by the perfect gimmick blog, calling out the contradiction by way of simple disagreement. The response is teasing and even domineering in the way it recontextualizes the entire post. It is the punchline, the center of attention, but wouldn't exist without the original setup.
While it seems like this post could be seen as a negative interaction, I think it's actually quite cute. It shows the kind of playful back and forth that could occur between two flirty girls.
Conclusion: This is yuri.
AHHHHHHHHH OW
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would anyone here like a baptism?
A doctor saying "Good news! Your labs look great" is like if you were watching a cop show and the chief walked in like "Great news, everybody! The best news! The killer is still at large and we have no leads."
One time I was like pretty sure I had finally figured out that I had Symptoms Disease due to all the Symptoms and my doctor did some tests and she was like. Good news! You don't have Symptoms Disease!
And I started crying and she was like, is there something in your eye? And I said no I'm crying? And she was like, oh? Why? And I said, because we can't fix my Symptoms because we still don't know what's wrong with me? And she was like. Nothing's wrong with you! :)
Actually something similar had happened to me multiple times (and in some of those cases I did in fact get diagnosed with the relevant Symptoms Disease years later) but the one where the doctor asked if I had something in my eye because she couldn't comprehend that not having answers would be upsetting, that was definitely one of the most situations ever.
today for disability pride month, i’d like to discuss something not many able-bodied people know about: ambulatory wheelchair users!
first, “what is an ambulatory wheelchair user?”
it’s a term used to describe people who use wheelchairs that can stand and or walk in some capacity. the amount a person can walk can vary greatly between ambulatory wheelchair users, some may need their wheelchair 60% of the time, some may need theirs 90% of the time.
“why would someone use a wheelchair if they can walk?”
there are tons of reasons someone who can walk might use a wheelchair, such as fatigue, balance, heart problems, pain, fainting, and many, many more. it could be dangerous for them to walk.
“isn’t that being lazy?”
nope! take shoes, for example. you *could* walk without them, but it would be painful, and could give you cuts or blisters. would you consider wearing shoes to be lazy? also, many disabilities and conditions are progressive, using a wheelchair can help slow progression and damage to your body.
so next time you see a wheelchair user move their leg, remember that ambulatory wheelchair users exist!
For the whole “nobody deserves to die” crowd you better be wearing a fucking mask.
Shitty Movie Details:
In Renfield (2023) Rebecca learns how to make a protective circle from wiccan tumblr. This wrongly implies that tumblr has a usable search function
Do high school kids these days just have trans classmates now. Like I keep seeing zoomer posts casually referring to it. Fucking wild if true.
Here's what prompted this post btw
yeah my younger sibling's friend group made bets about if any more of them would end up as trans lol
[ID: tags reading “I mean yeah” and “were we. not supposed to have trans classmates (keysmash)” end ID]
I’m going to take these tags a little more seriously than they were probably intended.
We are elated y’all have trans classmates. We didn’t. We didn’t because it wasn’t an option to be trans, you probably didn’t even know the word. And if you did, your parents would have abused it out of you. And if they didn’t, the school staff would have. And if they didn’t, the other kids definitively would have.
I’m not even that old and let me tell you, my first year of high school, gay rights got discussed and that was it. Most were favorable about it and thought gays should just be allowed to do their own thing! So it wasn’t horrible on that front! But I had teachers tell me in the same breath bisexuality didn’t exist. And transness? Wasn’t even discussed. Even in my friend group of multiple bisexuals, I could count the number of times I even heard the word before I graduated high school, and it was said with apprehension. Like we were gonna get in trouble for knowing the word. Because in some families, you would have been in trouble for knowing the word “transgender”.
Trans acceptance has a long way to go, but please please please be aware that 10 years ago it was unthinkable, not because everyone hated trans people, but because a lot of people didn’t know they existed to think it.
This. I went to school before section 28 was repealed. I didn’t know trans people existed and, assuming my teachers even did, it would have been illegal for them to inform me. Queer people were officially not supposed to exist. Was I the only trans kid in my school? Probably not. Were there kids who, unlike me, knew they were trans? Maybe! I know people my age who transitioned younger. It was possible, just less common than now. I don’t know what my single-sex boarding school would have done if someone had come out as trans, but I do know when a boy at my then-boyfriend’s single-sex boarding school was outed as gay his parents were called to pick him up for his own safety. And yeah, boarding schools were probably worse than normal schools but section 28 applied everywhere.
So it is strange to think of openly-trans kids just living their lives and being a normal part of school life. (Kind of like how my grandad probably found it strange that there weren’t a load of kids with post-polio syndrome at my dad’s school.) It is, in fact, fucking amazing. Because we didn’t have that. It’s wonderful that it’s normal to gen Z, but maybe some people in the notes could stop expecting the rest of us to not marvel at how far the world has come in the span of less than a generation. Progress is good and should be celebrated.
Fun fatphobia fact of the day:
CMS/HCC is a way for insurance companies to estimate how much money a patient will cost to insure, based on the major problems they have.
This is my list of diagnoses.
I blacked out one of them because it is my intersex condition and has to do with my assigned gender, which I don't want to be associated with my online presence. Also, there are a few repeats because doctors will put in their own phrasing, so sometimes when I switch doctors, I get re-diagnosed with the same thing, with slightly different wording. It's also missing a few diagnoses i got as a kid, namely my autism and a comprehensive list of the specific learning disorders I have, because I didn't think they were relevant to a general practitioner and i didn't want them on my record for safety reasons. Anyways, you'll notice that there are several of them that have the aforementioned CMS/HCC label. Those are schizoaffective disorder, major depression (which is part of my sza,) and two counts of "morbid obesity". My adhd, which I need to take two different medications daily to treat sufficiently enough to function, is not labeled as a major disorder, but my size is. Twice!
You'll notice that nowhere on this list is any diagnosis that is supposedly related to my fatness. That is because, metabolically speaking, my health is perfect. My lipids, a1c, blood pressure, pulse, and o2 are all in the excellent range. I am not on any kind of medications for any of these, either. The fact that I have more body tissue than their ideal, which has no bearing on my actual health, is considered more important to address than my neurodevelopmental disorder that requires two expensive medications to treat. They think that I am more of a risk for them because of an imagined bogeyman of a diagnosis ("morbid obesity", aka being fat) than something which actually has real life functional and financial consequences (my severe combined type adhd). Or, for that matter, my ocd, which I needed intensive outpatient therapy for; my transgender identity, which has cost them thousands of dollars in hormones and surgery; my asthma, which requires two medications to treat; and my gerd, which requires one.
I'm not advocating for medical insurance companies to make it harder for people with these diagnoses to get treatment. I'm just pointing out that the medical system sees me as a drain on their resources specifically because of my weight rather than the diagnoses that actually cost them money (albeit with one exception). They think my adipose tissue, which is not causing me any health problems, is more important to note than most of my legitimate health problems.
That is medical fatphobia.
I wanted to look this up to make sure I understood this before reblogging, and the article I read made this even more damning.
You can read the article here.
I implore people to read the article since I don't have the emotional energy to dissect all of this into an entire essay. These are the few points I have the energy to make right now:
All of these conditions are either not proven to be caused by fatness, have weight gain as a resulting symptom of the condition, or are often caused by medical fatphobia (such as oppression resulting in developing mental illnesses or a fat person developing cancer because doctors refused to ever do any tests due to A) Being too disgusted and bigoted to touch a fat body and/or B) Blaming everything on weight for years and just prescribing weight loss, leading the cancer to become worse at it went untreated). But since many of these conditions are associated with fatness (not caused by it, as I explained above), the medical field loves to suddenly forget the vital research/science/medical fact of correlation does not equal causation. After all, medicalizing fatness is a huge moneymaker, which leads me to the next point I wanted to make.
These doctors intentionally go out of their way to medicalize fatness to make even more money. Also hilarious how the article says being 240 pounds is why the hypothetical "female" had a BMI (a proven bullshit health tool) of 44 despite BMI being decided using weight AND height. The article, these doctors, and the medical field care solely about making money off of fatness that even this example has fatphobic tunnel vision.
The last point I want to make (though so much can be said about all of this fatphobia) is how one of the listings of "ob*sity" on the pictured document is specifically labeled "morbid (severe) ob*sity due to excessive calories."
Unless the doctor that wrote that label had a detailed, hour by hour food log of everything the op has eaten for months, a log of every minute of exercise, and looked at every health condition the op has without fatphobic bias but actual medical expertise, there is no fucking way to know the op "eats too much."
Fat bodies are not grocery store receipts. You cannot look at a fat person and tell how much they eat, what they eat, when they eat, how they exercise, how much they exercise, what their health is, etc. There are fat people who starve and stay fat. Fatness is barely affected by food and exercise. 70% of weight variance is due to genetics, and the other 30% includes a plethora of other factors like disabilities and socioeconomic status. Research has made evident that long term weight loss no matter what method used is a feat as possible as climbing Mount Everest without a sherpa (aka not gonna fucking happen). There are fat people who go to the Olympics and exercise constantly while never not being fat. There are fat people who eat as much as any random thin person you know, who eat even better than whatever thin person you can think of, who are dealing with food insecurity and can barely even afford to eat, who have dieted their entire lives and are still fat because they will never not be fat. Just like how there are thin people who stay thin no matter what and how they eat, countless fat people are fat just because that's how their body is meant to exist. Their body fights to stay that way.
Assuming the op "eats too much" because they're fat is absolutely, positively, fucking horseshit. Everyone also needs different amounts of calories, the recommended 2000 calorie daily diet was intentionally lowered despite the research saying people need more calories than that, and calories are not a simple equation. "Calories in, calories out" doesn't fucking work. Bodies are more complicated than a mechanical machine with inputs and outputs. That label of "excessive calories" is a fucking disgusting, fatphobic, shitty joke, and I am appalled at the audacity required for that doctor to call themself a medical "professional" when their decisions are based on making assumptions using bigoted stereotypes that conveniently make the doctor more money.
Fuck the current state of the medical field and this entire fatphobic world.
-Mod Worthy
Adding to the bit about "morbid obesity due to excess calories", I actually complained to my doctor's office three times about it because my doctor has never, ever discussed my dietary habits with me. Ever. I said they either need to find a way to indicate weight without attributing it to excess calories, or remove it from my medical records. After my third complaint they finally removed it entirely. The fact that they conflate higher weight with "excess calories" is infuriating on its own, but especially in the context of care and insurance considerations.
I'm seriously proud of you for advocating for yourself against this oppression. That is incredibly hard, and we shouldn't have to be advocates for ourselves to keep us from being harmed by a system supposedly meant to help people. Your strength gives other fat people the strength to advocate for themselves too. We deserve actual healthcare.
-Mod Worthy
Thank you 💜
Your blog was the start of me realizing that I do deserve better, so thank you for putting that in motion to begin with. What you do matters so much. 🤝
I can't take credit for all of this blog since I'm one in a long line of mods who have taken up this mantle, but I know that I, the current mods, and every mod before me would be proud to know that we helped you stand up for yourself because you know you deserve the same respect and quality of healthcare as people with thin bodies. You make the world better by fighting for what's right. Thank you for helping us create such vital change!
-Mod Worthy
I feel like american football is going to be the symbol of the US 500 years from now, the way we think of monks in medieval europe
They're going to make historical movies about the US President doing the thumbs up/thumbs down thing to football teams like in Gladiator. Everyone in the stadium cheers. The losing Super Bowl team is ripped to shreds by bald eagles.
Going from being an introverted lurker on reddit to trying to post my own stuff here is so wild. I keep typing out a post, deleting it, then retyping because I think it's not good enough but then I look at other posts and why am I so worried?
It's like I'm at a fancy Italian restaurant and keep glancing around the room to see which hand people use to pick up the forks. But then I realize that everyone is shoveling spaghetti into their mouths using their bare hands and I'm like ah okay so I'm clearly overthinking this
This restaurant is absolute chaos and I'm giving it 5 stars
Face down, consume, wearing Kirby Shirt
??? this cat is attempting to calm her steed
This looks like a fuckin’ classical painting.
There I painted it.
lastxleviathan
Dude.
do people actually read books while in the bathtub
how do you not get everything wet
karnsway
why is this making me laugh so fucking hard
tophatfloof
isabellaphant
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This is why I get meal kits. Do I need them? No. Can I easily make them myself? For way cheaper? Yes. WILL I??? No.
Other tips: if you are going to buy things that aren’t pre-taxed, you need to make a habit of always doing the prep AS SOON AS YOU GET HOME. it will NEVER HAPPEN if you don’t.
Get the bulk pack of steaks! But you are never gonna eat them before they go bad. If you freeze them in individual ziplocks as soon as you unpack you probably will?
Get the celery, but you need to cut it ALL UP and store it in the fridge in water or it will rot.
And don’t do all tgese at once, get like, one or two prep things a trip. You aren’t gonna get it started if it’s a huge task.
Don’t pass by these tips because you don’t have ADHD!
These are valid points for the busy parent, the overstressed college student, and the person working the “wrong” shift.
Real story - I have thrown away SO MUCH meat and produce in my time. Frozen veggies can even be better than fresh, since they are picked when ripe and frozen rather than picked early and expected to ripen in shipping. My local grocer will sometimes pre-chop less-than-desirable veggies and sell them in the discount cooler - a chopped onion is more useful than a whole one! Meat in bulk packs is WAY cheaper, but you have to make breaking up that huge pack part of putting away the groceries. Also, having a place to put the groceries away helps make the process easier. It’s taken me more than one decade of life to figure these things out.
It’s not lazy if it is efficient. Professionals call it “time management.”