How History Books Will Remember The Government Shut Down: A Masterpost
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Good motherfucking god
OH MY GOD THATS EXACTLY WHAT ITS LIKE
EXACTLY
When I finally got medicated for ADHD, I asked why insomnia was such a problem for me.
The doctor paused, and then said, thoughtfully: "Well, you see, you also have ADHD at night."
i’ve started looking at weight and health the way i look at class and income and it really puts a lot of things into a new perspective.
let me explain: in america at least, the lower class have significantly worse health outcomes, even when accounting for other factors. just being poor is enough to make your overall health worse. we don’t know that being fat makes your health directly worse, like the data just isn’t there, but for a moment, pretend it does.
imagine going to the doctor with a health problem and the doctor looking at your chart and saying well, this problem will be less severe if you go up an income bracket. have you thought about becoming rich? it would really help. start by saving a little money every month.
ridiculous, right?? very few people successfully go from working class to rich, it just doesn’t happen on a large scale in society. maybe for a time you pick up some overtime hours, spend a little beyond your means, and appear rich. but eventually you burn out, your car needs to be repaired, and you return to being working class.
we do have this data: only some people can successfully lose large amounts of weight, and only a tiny fraction of people who lose that weight actually keep it off for more than a year. telling people to lose weight for their health is just absurd because they almost certainly can’t do it any more than they can double their income for their health.
and yet i see it everywhere. a little poster in my work breakroom tells me to improve my blood pressure by losing weight! a psa on the radio says you need to take care of your heart by losing weight! we can’t even conclusively prove that weight is the cause rather than just correlated with a lot of these problems but here it is offered anyway: have you tried being rich?
You hit the nail on the head. A lot of people tend to try and invalidate fatphobia as a form of oppression by saying its not an immutible quality like race or sexuality or gender. The old “you can lose weight, i can’t become white/straight/cis” argument.
That’s because fatphobia is a lot more like classism; i.e. it’s a form of bigotry that is only TECHNICALLY changeable. They’re both seen as a lot more changeable than they actually are, for all the reasons you’ve listed.
sound off everyone what’s the worst texture. just in anything. for me it’s ground beef not even a question
what just happened?
Why the hell did I start laughing half way through this?
What is life
O____o what the fuck
sometimes there’s a lot of things wrong with tumblr
u ok internet
this is kind of really fucking terrifying
OMFG WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL IS THIS SHIT
IS THERE ANY FCUKING WAY TO GET AUDIO CLIPS FROM TUMBLR ON MY PHONE. ACTUALLY. IM BROKE AND I WANT TO FALL ASLEEP TO THIS
I. What. A pickle shifts uneasily.
SO THIS IS WHAT THAT DAMN PHRASE IS FROM
AHHHHHHH
…I don’t think I’ll be eating any hamburgers for a while.
OMG KALINDA YOUR FACE
IS STILL THERE
THEY CUT OUT EVERYTHING PRIOR BUT THEY KEPT YOUR FACE
PLEASE handle this relic with CARE, tumblr users. Wear nitrite gloves and only take it out of its case in a climate controlled environment.
@weenie-extraordinaire introduced this to me when we were dating
Now if I ever give him a burger I say I give you a hamburger.
thought i’d give needle felting a try. it’s surprisingly similar to sculpting, once you get the hang of it. only broke 2 needles before i figured out the proper way to do it, lol. it’s still far from perfect, but i’m happy with how it’s turning out
May I present to you Wheel Running In the Wild, a published research paper that delights me to no end:
This paper intended to test whether would mice would run on a wheel if they found one, to try and determine if this was a natural behavior or a stress response in captivity. They put a wheel in a protected little box with a camera that took pictures any time the wheel turned, and tallied up how often it was used by what.
Mice were, happily, the most common users of the wheel, and their patterns of use indicated they were doing so voluntarily once they figured it out.
But the second most common users.
Those were slugs.
i see a lot of neurodivergent people talk about how they can't handle bright white overhead lighting at home, so their preference is to have warm/yellow bulbs in lamps as the main source of household lighting, often with colouful neon lights/fairylights/candles as other secondary lighting sources. I feel like this is actually more common than we think but maybe there are some insane people who love or at least are indifferent to bright white overhead lighting. so poll time.
What is your main indoor lighting preference at home?
Bright white overhead lighting
Warm/yellow overhead lighting
Overhead lighting OFF and warm/yellow lamp ON
A mixture of the above (explain in the tags)
I am a cave gremlin and my preference is to have no lights on at home
See Resultsif you say bright white overhead lighting is your main lighting preference please tell me why
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