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I hate this so much.

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Psych 2x13 for @cupric-solution (4th gif!)

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

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When times are hard and the news is basically awful, I feel it’s necessary to repost this photo of Darwin as Science Officer Meow.

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

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2-for-1! lead in your cinnamon! come get some lead in your cinnamon! brand new report! newer than the older lead-in-your-cinnamon reports!

published september 12th 2024.

got to say, I did NOT expect costco's cinnamon to have 40 times more lead than fucking amazon. yikes.

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Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube

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"This character is too over powered" this and "This character would win a fight against so-and-so" that. Everyone making assertions as to who the strongest character ever is and they're always wrong.

He was created in 1940 and his name is Bugs Bunny.

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yr locked in a room alone with three adult men but you feel perfectly safe. who are they

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galavant + guide to troubled birds (aka the crossover nobody asked for)

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Hey has tumblr heard about the Chase “Infinite Money glitch” debacle from tiktok yet because

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The Next Generation Delivery Vehicle that the USPS ordered is legit the most fucked up thing you'll ever see in your life.

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We don’t talk enough about the systemic health effects of casual fatphobia and how much they fucking skew the data to the point where we literally cannot know how much outcomes are actually related to fatness and how much they are related to society not being designed for fat people, like literal design.

My best friend cannot find a bra.

She’s fat. We won’t get into the ~why~ here because it honestly wouldn’t matter whether it was “all her fault” or whether it was a result of outside forces like genes and such, she still deserves a goddamn fucking bra that fits.

And she cannot find a bra.

She’s short and fat, and Fat Bras are usually full cup, but because she’s short the full cups are usually too tall, or the armbands around them are too tall, to the point where what’ll fit around her chest and over her boobs will also dig up into her arms or have such high coverage that she literally cannot wear a shirt with a neckline high enough. Any bra that goes out enough goes too high.

This affects her ability to find clothing, impacting her ability to go outside sometimes, because she has this tiny selection of bras and she constantly has to wash them and when they’re gone she has no idea when she’ll next be able to find another unicorn bra. They appear in a flash usually in startups that die soon after, and COVID has killed most the small businesses remaining where she had even a hint of a chance of finding a fitting bra.

So she wears bras that don’t fit. Or she doesn’t leave the house. One gives her back pain. The other is, obviously, not very active. She likes to be active.

If she brings it up, people suggest breast reduction surgery.

But the thing is, with a good bra, she does not get back pain.

But if it’s that hard to find a good bra, they say, wouldn’t a reduction just be easier?

Wouldn’t it be easier for you to chop off part of your flesh, they say, then for us to cut fabric and underwire to more sizes? As if that is normal. As if that isn’t horrifying.

It’s not just bras. It’s chairs. It’s benches. It’s goddamn shoes. It’s seatbelts. It’s exercise equipment - I just got an exercise bike for Christmas. I had to shop around to find an affordable one that was also rated to take my level of fat. If I were 100 pounds heavier, which some people are? I don’t think any equipment would have existed in a price range that any working person could expect to afford. I don’t think most people even look at the weight ratings on chairs and couches and furniture. Once you start? They are lower than you think. There are absolutely 100% people you love in your life - whether really tall men or just average kinda overweight fat people - who should not be using the things they are using. Who are not getting support from their mattress, their footwear, their office chair. It might be you! You might be thinking “but I am average size!”, but the amount of furniture out there that’s only weighted to about 200lbs? Or 175??? It’s SO MUCH MORE THAN YOU REALIZE. Get into the Proper Fat? The 350lb, 400lb, 500lb fat? There’s virtually nothing.

Seatbelts are not tested for fat bodies and seatbelt extenders aren’t regulated.

We know about the problems with too small a blood pressure cuff. With too low a medicine dose. With no MRI a really fat body can fit in for a thousand miles.

We know, from multiple studies on multiple oppressed communities, that social bias by itself, with zero other compounding factors, can give people worse health outcomes.

Now add up

+ one of the social biases with the least pushback even from the educated liberal set with

+ having a world that is literally not made for you. Where you cannot get clothes, furniture, or transportation in a way that will actually accommodate you,

+ where society is constantly blaming you for this. And even if you somehow (and if you know how, please tell me) manage to retain some sense of self worth and optimism and determination despite all that

+ that’s not gonna magically give you access to the daily supplies a person needs in their home and out in public that’ll make living safe and healthy life literally physically possible.

If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health start a bra company. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health mandate changes to seatbelt requirements. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health have a variety of chairs in your waiting room with at least some being properly Fat Rated. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health, make it easier for fat people to be active by making exercise equipment that fits them, swimwear that’ll actually stay on them, athletic shoes that can bear them. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health ask they be included in more medical trials. If you’re really so concerned about fat people’s health, promote fat visibility and fat people loving their bodies - because hating yourself has literally never been good for anyone’s health.

If you’re using “concern for health” as a shield to allow you to judge and criticize strangers, you don’t give a fuck about anyone’s health. You’re just an asshole who prefers a veneer of respectability when you bully people. You’re hateful and we can see right through you.

But fatphobia isn’t just bullying. It isn’t just judgment from strangers. It isn’t just medical neglect and medical bias. Even if we could wave a wand and make all that go away, my best friend still wouldn’t have a bra that fits, people still wouldn’t have a chair that supports them, a seatbelt that protects them. It’s literally engineered in. And it slowly kills people day by day by day.

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Last few Days of Paralympics Recap

I got behind on my recaps, but I've been watching plenty! And watching so much, I've forgotten most of it. Oops!

But today at least I still remember what I've watched.

A wonderful gold medal match in Wheelchair Tennis (men's) Oda from Japan took down GB's Hewitt in a thrilling 3 set match. That went 5-7 in the third. The third also same 3 games go break point back to back to back which was awesome to watch.

Women's Sitting Volleyball, I actually score watched this one, but the US came out ahead 3-1 continuing their gold medal reign and weird tradition of losing to China in pool play to turn around and beat them in the medal round.

Men's wheelchair basketball also ended with the US winning against GB in a very close game as well.

And France winning gold in Blind Soccer in a shootout against Argentina.

There has been so much good stuff that I'll definitely be going back to watch when I have free time again!

Tomorrow is the last day! We have the marathon in two classes, para powerlifting, Para Canoe and Wheelchair basketball (women's). Plus the closing ceremony.

The last few days did add a few more countries bringing us to a total of 85 countries so far. Tokyo saw 86 countries, will Paris be able to tie or surpass Tokyo? We will see tomorrow!

China, GB and the US sit 1-2-3 having all broken 100 total medals (and China breaking 200!!) Host France is siting in 8th with 19 Golds.

Looking forward to seeing what tomorrow brings!!

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On Friday, a group of protestors walked on Highway 89 in Cameron, Ariz., protesting Pinyon Plain Mine owner Energy Fuels trucking uranium ore through the Navajo Nation to Utah. Uranium has a long history of impacts on the Navajo Nation and its people since the 1940s. "We've seen the effects of these things in the past on our land, the spills into our rivers, into our communities, the residual effects on our on our health, of our children, our elders," Cameron resident Adair Klopfenstein said. "It's awful, and we don't want it to happen again." The Pinyon Plain Mine, formerly known as Canyon Mine, began mining uranium ore in December and is expected to be actively mining for at least five years. The company had told 12News at the end of June it would start transporting the uranium ore to a mill in southeast Utah in July or August. That hauling appears to have started before the pause was put in place. "I call it illegal smuggling across our border and then through the Navajo Nation," Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said.

And from June:

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