Lou Coetzer Wildlife Photographer
African Fish Eagle and Bateleur Eagle
territorial dispute.
Chobe River Botswana
Polished, unpainted, inedible, and 15% is being donated to LGBTQ-friendly charities!
The link is embedded in the name ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🖤
I made some pride bats, enjoy! 🦇🏳️🌈
“The average US president has been charged with 1.54 felonies” factoid isn’t true. The average US President has been charged with 0 felonies. Donald trump, who has been charged with 71, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted
Felonies Donld is now up to 79 felonies, for a statistical average of 1.71 felonies per president
Update:
With 91 felonies, felonies Donld has now broken the 2 felonies per president average average (2.02 felonies per president)
Recipe: spice (optional)
Me: Now, see, what we have here is a disagreement regarding the purpose of this undertaking.
You can show your dish a photograph of black pepper if you really want to kick the flavour up a notch.
Standing over the pan, brow furrowed with the memory of garlic.
plato's allegory of the clove
Hi Neil. I’ve let a lot of my questions go unanswered or stuck to my own speculation because I know you’ve got quite a full inbox, but there’s one scene that I can’t seem to make any sense of even after doing outside research. When Crowley and Aziraphale go to the pub in S2E2 and Aziraphale asks Crowley if he knows who Jane Austen is, Crowley says that he’d never forget her because she was the “mastermind” behind the 1810 Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery. When I first watched the episode, that reference did seem familiar to me but I couldn’t place my finger on where it was from. So I did some research on this supposed heist and all that comes up is text posts of people on Tumblr quoting that conversation from the show, or the Clerkenwell Crime Syndicate in the 1980s-‘90s. The Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery isn’t a real thing that happened, is it? What is Crowley alluding to with that? Or who is he getting Jane Austen mixed up with?
I'm surprised that enterprising people haven't created an entire website by now telling in detail the story of the 1810 Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery. Perhaps it was hushed up.
That's how you know she was good at it, people haven't even heard of her crimes.
"When people talk about gender-affirming surgery using words like “mutilation,” that's not very nice. Is that how you think about people who've had surgery for other things? It's a disgust reaction, and I do not take disgust into account as a legitimate point of discourse. I don't have to entertain it and I'm not going to. It's a waste of everybody's time, it's knee-jerk, it's not grounded in reality, and it's not useful. And it's a squeamishness about medical intervention. I think the idea of making legislative or cultural decisions in and around [that] is laughable. Your squeamishness is not what the world turns on; it doesn't matter."
Liv Hewson in Teen Vogue (italics added by me for emphasis)
Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.
Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.
This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.
there's something really funny about scrolling through this site and seeing a piece of fanart with mild, non-sexual nudity flagged with a community label and twelve tw tags, and then the post directly below it is completely untagged hardcore gay porn
I love it here and I will never leave
sorry for killing and cannibalizing your boyfriend. ive been practicing intuitive eating lately
workneverover
Dominatrix Maîtresse Nuit and submissive, photographed by Lucina Nathanael; more images in the set can be viewed here.
Just found out that the dietary calorie is still measured by burning food in a "bomb calorimeter" and then measuring the heat produced. There's no solid evidence that this method is at all equivalent to how our bodies process food (an entirely different chemical process from combustion), the accuracy of this system has been disputed for as long as it's existed, and there are no available alternatives
There are 4800 calories in a kilogram of dry sawdust even though wood is completely indigestible to humans, because calories don't measure nutritional value, just how well something burns
Nutritional "science" is pure bullshit
A good primer on this topic is the Maintenance Phase podcast episode ‘The Trouble with Calories’: https://maintenancephase.buzzsprout.com/1411126/10671811
Prefer reading? The sources list for that episode is full of goodies:
- History of the Calorie in Nutrition
- Caloric Equivalents of Gained or Lost Weight
- The Foreign Policy of the Calorie
- Why the most popular rule of weight loss is completely wrong
- The energy balance model of obesity: beyond calories in, calories out
- “Calories in, calories out” and macronutrient intake
- Calories on food packets are wrong—it’s time to change that
- Why Does the FDA Recommend 2,000 Calories Per Day?
- Who Actually Needs a 2,000 Calorie a Day Diet?
- The Nutrition Facts Label: Its History and Updates
It doesn’t stop there though, almost everything we think we know about nutrition is kind of bullshit.
- You need 2000-2500 calories a day? There’s no evidence to support that claim. It’s fully a made up number.
- Calories in - calories out = weight gain or loss’? Absolute bullshit. No credible scientist believes this anymore. Your body compensates for dieting in like a billion ways to the point where reducing calorie intake often results in long term weight gain.
- 2 liters of water per day? Again: a made up number. ZERO evidence.
- The BMI? Not remotely based on science. Absolute bullshit.
- Being ‘overweight’ or ‘obese’ is bad for you? Heavily disputed for all but the highest weight categories.
- And of course: there is no evidence based way to lose weight and keep it off. The idea that people can decide to be thinner if not supported by evidence. Almost every study shows that almost all humans just keep returning to their set weight again and again.
- Vitamin supplements? We still don’t really know why they sometimes work and sometimes don’t. Your body seems to decide whether to absorb them pretty much on a whim.
It all falls apart the moment you go looking for evidence. It’s such a sham.
- Oh, I forgot the 10.000 steps one. Also a completely made up number!
On a more serious note: it might be worth adding that ‘Nutritional science is pure bullshit’ is of course a bit of an overstatement.
Nutritional science is a very young field full of unknowns, in which a lot of actual science is being done but the main conclusions those nutrition scientists keep on drawing is ‘shit, this was more complicated than we thought it was’ and ‘wow, the human body is surprisingly capable of self regulation, neat!’. Plus some obvious ones like ‘jup, veggies are still good for you’.
It’s just that almost all of the bullshit that gets presented to the public as ‘dietary guidelines’ isn’t nutritional science at all, it’s fatphobia dressed up as science. The science consistently shows that (1) weight is not causally related to health and (2) most people can not lose weight, nothing will work in the long term and most attempts make you less healthy. But this is consistently ignored by public officials in order to keep pushing ‘obesity epidemic’ bullshit and diet culture.
So they come up with weird unscientific catchphrases like ‘2000 calories per day’ and ‘calories in, calories out’ because there is no scientific way to defend their unscientific hatred or fat people.
this is so upsetting, PLEASE rb to spread awareness
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PLEASE, PLEASE REBLOG THIS, WHETHER YOURE JEWISH OR NOT.
THIS IS A SUPER IMPORTANT PART OF OUR HISTORY, DONT LET IT GET DESTROYED.
perhaps help take steps to stop them now from future attempts...
some of you need to check yourself before you wreck yourself when it comes to overgeneralizing and minimizing transmascs experiences with gender based violence (both transphobia and misogyny) and acting as if we are overprivelaged cry babies who have it easy when it comes to transitioning and passing and life generally.. with peace and love learn about the nuances and pain that comes with any trans persons experience in a cisgender world and how our suffering is all inherently intertwined
IMAGE ID: The meme of a bald white man handing the viewer an L, where the L is replaced with a copy of Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg. END ID.
i like sailing myths and superstitions because most of them can be boiled down to "if the ocean doesn't like you it will chew you up and spit out your bones. and if it really loves you it will swallow you whole and keep you forever. good luck 👍"