Btw the Palestine Film Institute provides a palestinian film of the week for free (no email/subscription necessary). When im bored Ill go to the site to see what films they have available
Rn it looks like theyre doing a week of sudan films
For the development, promotion, and preservation of Palestine's cinema.
watching my husband get diagnosed with and treated for sleep apnea over the last year was not the thing that radicalized me re: weight and healthcare but my goodness it has solidified my stances.
sleep apnea is more common in people who are fat.
society decided for some reason that this meant that being fat causes sleep apnea. its often difficult to get referrals for sleep apnea treatment if you are fat, because some PCPs will tell you try losing weight first.
turns out!! having untreated sleep apnea causes weight gain in a not-insignificant number of people. it also makes it fucking impossible for many people to lose weight.
my husband worked out the same amount before he got a cpap as he does now. there have been no major diet changes either. yet he has been losing weight -- and gaining muscle tone -- consistently since he started using a cpap in january.
also, his blood pressure -- which was high, which docs blamed on his weight/diet -- went down significantly within one month of starting cpap treatment, before his weight changed significantly.
ANYWAYS. this is getting long. two final thoughts.
- I Want To Strangle Medical Fatphobia With My Bare Fucking Hands
- if you are exhausted constantly for "no reason", and especially if you snore, you should probably ask your doctor about getting tested for sleep apnea. it is extremely common -- estimates are around 1 in 10 people -- and is also wildly under-diagnosed. like, some estimates suggest that 80% of people with moderate-severe sleep apnea are undiagnosed.
Fat person with sleep apnea here. Before I got a CPAP, my resting heart rate was in the 110s. Everyone wanted to blame that on my weight. I lost 100 lbs and my heart rate didn't budge. But I was also constantly tired and napping all day with no relief from the exhaustion. I eventually got a sleep study and learned I had sleep apnea, and within weeks of starting CPAP therapy, my heart rate dropped to under 80 bpm.
Sleep apnea can cause so much harm when left untreated. If you suspect you might have it, PLEASE insist upon testing and treatment. It can change (and save!) your life.
I recently spoke with my dear friend Suad @suad-khaled and she gave me an update on her life as a displaced mother in south-central Gaza. I want to share with you all some of what she told me:
Our situation has become far worse than before.
My baby, Khaled, who is now 6 months old, depends on formula milk, which is either unavailable or sold at prices I simply cannot afford. Diapers are also ridiculously expensive, and even basic food has become out of reach.
Some vegetables and fruits are available in the market, but I can only afford to buy a single piece at a time, which becomes one meal for Khaled. But what about the rest of the day? What about the following days? As a mother, I can endure hunger, but how can a baby?
Even flour, which we relied on for our basic sustenance, is almost unavailable. The little we managed to buy is infested with bugs and worms, unhealthy but the only option we have left. And now, it’s almost gone. What will we do after that?
Khaled’s health has also worsened. He struggles to breathe due to his chest allergies, a condition that developed under these harsh circumstances. He needs regular nebulizer sessions and medication, but we can barely afford to provide them.
Here is precious little Khaled, tired and fatigued from hunger and sickness, receiving nebulizer treatment:
And here is the flour Suad and her family are forced to pick through in order to survive.
Sifting only removes the largest insects that have made their home in the flour. It does not remove larvae, detached wings, or excrement. Suad and her family are forced to eat them in order to (barely) avoid starvation.
Suad’s situation has never been more dire than it is right now. Food and basic necessities are extremely scarce and expensive. And the threat of IOF attack is omnipresent.
Please, if you can spare anything at all, send something to Suad. We are her and her baby’s best chance at surviving genocide.
My name is Farzana and I, along with my cousin Preya, are helping Suad collect donations so she can purchase essentials in Gaza. Aid has bee
I've become convinced that this is absolutely true. There is no way Democratic voters split their ballots on the scale necessary to elect Trump while still electing down-ballot Democrats.
The technology, the intent, the corruption, and the players were all there.
I have food poisoning, I’m on my period, I have a migraine, my POTS is out of control, and I’m meant to get on a flight tomorrow to hopefully make it to my father’s death bed in time.
Emailing me a “review” of my book calling it cringe cannot hurt me. And if you claim you hoped to achieve anything else you’re either a liar or in denial about your own motives. You should reflect on that.
I made this non-rebloggable earlier because I didn’t want it to leave containment, but after discussing this with some other friends who primarily sell their work via booktok and Insta, this is apparently a thing right now where readers are going out of their way to message authors “honest and valuable feedback” because they believe authors need to be told how to improve.
Except they’re not giving actual valuable feedback, because being critical of something does not actually mean having constructive critical feedback.
Being able to offer constructive feedback is a skill. It doesn’t mean “having a negative opinion.”
You don’t need to be a professional writer or editor, but you do preferably need to have a basic understanding of technical writing skill, an understanding of the genre you are critiquing and a very basic grasp that just because you do not like something, does not make something objectively bad.
Messaging me to tell me you find something “cringe” isn’t valuable feedback. That’s you going out of your way to make sure a stranger knows you don’t like them.
Doubling down and emailing me back to tell me you “just wanted to help,” like help where? Where was the feedback?
What am I supposed to do with that except feel bad and stop writing?
You knew what you were doing and I will hold that mirror up. If the reflection you see makes you uncomfortable, that’s on you.
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Also, as a wider note: don’t do this in general, don’t tag or email authors in negative reviews.
Reviews are for other readers. They belong in reader spaces. If an author invades reader spaces and gets mad about what they see, that’s on them. But don’t go up to the author’s online door and demand they acknowledge your personal dislike. That’s weird. Why are you doing that? Rate the book one star for your own records and move on to the next one.
I've been working on this picture for a couple of months now, and it's finally done. I want to have pictures to commemorate the end point of my characters in the campaign they were in, and it was Relent's turn. Relent is an air genasi/eladrin druid/cleric, and honestly also blorbo from my heart. The heart in his hands is related to when he got to resurrect his partner by literally shaping a heart out of his own crystal~
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