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Just floating around in the void. Reblogging art at @eyeballapproved

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[roomwithavoid]

[darkshrimpemotions]

All the people in the comments saying "unless your doctor recommended it your diet is an eating disorder" listen. Sometimes even if your doctor recommended it, it is still an eating disorder. Your doctors grew up in the same fatphobic culture you did. Your doctors are not immune to diet culture. Intentional weight loss is extremely hard on your body, and the behaviors associated with intentional weight loss are also associated with eating disorders, regardless of whether a doctor prescribed them.

If your doctor is fixated on your weight that is a RED FLAG. Yes even if you do have health problems, because here's something nobody wants to acknowledge: weight loss is not a proven treatment plan for any health condition, because it cannot be sustained. Upwards of 95% of intentional weight loss attempts fail and actually result in more weight gain long term. Not to mention weight cycling damages your metabolism and causes or worsens many of the same issues associated with high weight.

So you have to ask yourself: even if losing weight would cure what ails you if it were successful, why is your doctor recommending a treatment plan that is more likely to give you more health problems than be successful in solving the one you already have?

[lastoneout]

Things real actually medical doctors told me to do when they were trying to force me to lose weight to fix a health problem that was not fixed by weight loss at all:

Intermittent Fasting, namely only eating during specific, arbitrary time frames and completely restricting everything other than water the rest, so starving yourself.

Eating on smaller plates so I feel like I ate more than I did.

Stop eating all fruit because it's sweet.

Eat only spinach, fish, and blueberries.

Keto, despite that being a specific diet for kids with epilepsy that is usually only successful under the strict and constant guidance of a dietician. I was not referred to a dietician by the doctor who suggested it.

Low-carb in general which is, at it's core, starving yourself.

Stop eating so much fried food. Without asking me what I was eating already which was, incidentally, not primarily fried foods.

To be happy about my colon cancer scare because the severe, painful, chronic diarrhea was great for helping me lose weight.

Most doctors don't know anything about nutrition at all. The doctor who tried to get me to do intermittent fasting? After going gluten free I told her I was worried about not getting enough folic acid and iron as I know a lot of grains are fortified with those and I won't be getting that supplemented in my diet like that anymore, and asked if she had any advice, and IN FRONT OF ME JUST GOOGLED WHAT FOODS HAVE FOLIC ACID AND IRON IN THEM and then told me as long as I eat veggies I should be fine. A woman who just told me to starve myself didn't even know what foods have folic acid or iron in them off the top of her head.

And even nutritionists aren't safe, my second one ended up being my last because she admitted she said she had no idea how to help me because she "just microwaves some lettuce with cheese" and that's a meal for her and me doing things like *checks notes* eating at chipotle was confusing.

Doctors will just fucking give you eating disorder advice and pretend because they have a degree it's fine but fr, see a registered dietician, those guys are the only ones actually qualified to give you advice on what you eat outside of gastroenterologists and allergists.

Most people's nutrition knowledge is just feelings that they pretend are facts, and that includes doctors.

[creative-anchorage]

Tags by @viss-and-pinegar:

#I love everyone in the tags assuming this only applies to weight loss #y'all want to pretend the gains bros aren't also going disordered with every meal #your exclusively-protein-shake-and-boiled-chicken-diet is disordered and you need to eat a carb and a vegetable once in a while

[plantnerderyallday]

There is a very particular, weird kind of prejudice that some people have and it's just bothering me today because my coworker exemplified it:

She was telling me about this guy that was "real country and you wouldn't think it to look at him because he looks like a redneck but he knows all the plants and mushrooms growing around him."

And my initial reaction was that of course the guy who lives out in the county and has his whole life knows all the plants and fungi, but she thought that country people in general don't know plants. Now I might have a biased sample, having grown up way out in the country in a family fairly obsessed with plants, but why would you assume people surrounded by plants would know less than your average city person?

It feels really connected to those folks who think the real measure of knowing a plant is if you know it's scientific name, and discount a person who has been foraging from that plant and walking around it's native habitat and watching it through the years, just because they know the plant by another name. I've seen it myself, and I see how people take me more seriously if I spit out a plant's scientific name than if I describe its habitat, growing season, ediblity and other used.

[creative-anchorage]

Tags by @sunnydogs:

#the name is the made up part #the function and physiology of the plant is the information #how silly we value latin over function

[cowbell-ghuleh]

So here's my take on Vessel from Sleep Token.

I can draw non ghost stuff occasionally 😅 and this seemed a good excuse to do some studies of more a more organic subject matter, tentacles (both jellyfish and cephalopods/molluscs), rather than the wires, clockwork and machinery I often do.

I went a bit Hermeas mora with this (Skyrim / Elder Scrolls thing)... Suppose they're both inspired by the same lovecraftian source.

Traditional pen & ink line art with digital colours.

[transtarks]

no because i LOOOOVE the idea that grace is 100% on board with being studied and kinda poked and prodded by eridian doctors. he’s a scientist, and his only hard line is obviously being like. vivisected lol. but here’s a piece of muscle tissue i won’t miss (and of course this becomes the meburgers), here’s a nail clipping, some of my hair, bodily fluids, go ahead and scan me listen to me monitor me learn all you can about me! he’s enthusiastic as hell about it, even though rocky might not be, but grace knows how exciting it must be for them to be able to study alien life for the first time and they’re SO respectful about it too. this is the thing that saved our planet and one of our people, we will learn everything we can about him in the most careful of ways so we know how to take care of him forever.

[probuccalfat]

one time i told a group of lesbian and bi women that i have never watched wicked and they were shocked, gagged, gooped, “but you’re queer. you like pussy. how have you not seen wicked?” yeah. well. i like pussy, not musicals?

[probuccalfat]

i’m this exact post. all this just to fuck women.

[probuccalfat]

“are you going to the lucy dacus concert?” no. i listen to gucci mane.

[veil-of-exordia]

[assortedinsanities]

Even just not being in the US and not having a lot of friends who are very online, it is so weird to me what people claim is 'queer culture'. Like no actually that is a musician that only started to make music like 5 years ago, this is a mass produced novelty item, that's an overpriced energy drink, this is a completely gender neutral haircut and that is literally just a brand with no queer connection whasoever.

I promise that it's actually enough to just be gay or trans or ace or whatever, you don't actually need to do and buy all that. Your identity is not for sale.

[huariqueje]

Ribwort plantain and grasses - Paula von Goeschen-Rösler

German , 1875-1941

Opaque paints on cardboard , 39.7 x 34 cm.

[kaylmao]

[gremlinservant]

Just vaccinated three kids and got kicked thank GOD I am selling them today

Edit:

THIS IS A POST ABOUT GOATS!!

[creekfiend]

sometimes kind and effective are the same thing when it comes to social interactions. sometimes people get mad bc they interpret stuff i am saying like "be kind to people who do x because they deserve it" when what I'm really saying is "approaching this kindly in this specific way will make the other person more able to hear your feedback without becoming defensive and thus hopefully improve your communication with them and thus the relationship"

I'm not responding gently to my terrible grandmother's passive aggressive bids for attention because it's kind and she deserves it. I'm doing it because responding gently to her passive aggressive bids for attention is the more effective method of getting the outcome I want in my interactions with her in the future. 🤷 I know sometimes I make this sound like supervillain shit, but like honest to god. we HAVE to admit that sometimes the emotional impulse IS TO PUNISH, bc punishment feels good. it feels good to pretend I have no idea what she means and watch her dig herself into a deeper and deeper hole getting more and more frustrated trying to escalate her passive aggression until she gets a reaction! but it's not effective at accomplishing anything. I don't want to have visits with her wherein I spend hours pretending I am unable to pick up on her increasingly angry bullshit. that's the nightmare scenario. if I can cut it off and redirect her by politely inquiring clarification about what she is trying to say to me, I vastly prefer the outcome of that option. it has the additional benefit of her interpreting it as a kindness that I am showing her. this makes her feel positively towards me and decreases chances of antagonist behavior at future visits.

idk. people are like "well that's not my responsibility it's her responsibility" sure. okay. but I'm not doing it because I think it's my responsibility to compensate for her poor communication skills. I'm doing it as part of my sinister strategy to experience less aversive grandmother visits. its not actually more emotional labor than the ignoring method for me. 🤷

[gnurbot]

Made a post before about how the uncredited sexy rocky voice was totally done by James Ortiz, but I wanted confirmation on this so I hopped over to cameo! He gives some really good behind the scenes bits here too.

[nat-20s]

out of curiosity, how many books have you read this year

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Voting ended onJun 5

[kosmogrl]

[ninjakittycomics]

for me this means assertive, and also, warning folks when i see trainwreck people coming.

I used to be more polite. 'its none of my business', "they'll sort it out"... Lost too many good people that way.

All because when i was younger i was told that this was "being bitchy".

Fuck that.

[homunculus-argument]

Those who think that wisdom and whimsy are mutually exclusive have neither. It's vitally important to do the right thing when the consequences are dire, and to do a whole bunch of utterly frivolous silly dumb shit when it doesn't matter what you do.

[localcryptidsteg]

Often, the wise thing must be disguised as silly frivolous dumb shit in order to actually work

[homunculus-argument]

Nobody's going to let you do anything if they think it's actually going to work.

[crying-mascara]

how can one achieve wisdom without whimsy? wisdom is built up of the curious whims of those who wonder

[verenakauer]

I know there's a popular headcanon that Grace's crew died because of feeding tubes malfunction (based on the paperwork Grace was doing right before the explosion), but — in the book he specifically says that even after the accident he kept dealing with that same paperwork on minor Hail Mary issues, so I doubt that feeding tube problem was left unaddressed. May I offer instead:

Grace was put into coma by the people who cared about him. They (especially Yáo being Yáo) probably double-triple-quadruple checked everything. They watched him sleep for those first few days — I doubt they went into coma immediately after leaving Earth's orbit. They probably talked to him, assuring him that he'll be okay.

Ilyukhina's coma procedure was probably supervised by Yáo. He made sure that everything was in order, but — he is just one man and he is not a doctor. There was much more room for mistakes.

When Yáo went to sleep, he was alone. He had to rely on the technology completely.

We know that he died first.

[the-stars-have-lit-my-soul]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS BECAUSE HE HAD SOMEONE TO WATCH HIM SLEEP 😭😭😭

[theweight]

this orange was pregnant. Isn’t the world amazing

[dailymanners]

I feel as though what drives most rude / inconsiderate behavior I experience IRL on a day to day basis comes from a place of having this unearned and unnecessary sense of urgency in situations that aren't actually urgent. I think if more people became aware of this completely unnecessary sense of urgency in situations that actually aren't urgent, it might make co-existing and sharing public spaces with other people a lot easier and more tolerable.

That text post that's been making the rounds that goes something like "Omg you made it to the same red light as everyone else but faster and more dangerously and recklessly, should we call nascar? Do you want a medal?" summarizes exactly what I'm trying to talk about.

It's like when I have to change buses at one of the bigger and busier bus stops, and the people who get off the same bus as me shove and elbow past me to get off before me, and then shove and elbow past anyone even slightly in their way on the way to the bus they're switching, only to end up on the same bus as all the people they shoved and elbowed with several minutes to spare before it leaves and plenty of open seats left.

I think this unnecessary urgency a lot of people feel in their day to day lives drives a lot of bad behavior. I'm not saying I'm innocent of this, I've felt it too in plenty of situations that didn't call for it, and regrettably was less kind than I should have been as a result. But I try to be aware of it, and always try to ask myself it it's really as urgent as my lizard brain is trying to tell me it is, and even if it was that urgent, does that still justify unkind behavior?

Is shoving or elbowing another person aside going to make the difference between whether or not you make it to the bus before it pulls away? (hint: at least where I live, most of the time that's a no because the drivers usually won't leave if they see people from another bus heading towards their bus). Is shoving and elbowing people aside in a crowded grocery store going to make any noticeable difference in how quickly you get your shopping done?

Does a few extra seconds of time actually justify cruel and unkind behavior towards people you perceive as slightly inconveniencing you?

[purlturtle]

Someone pointed out to me once how a lot of people, when out grocery shopping, amble through the aisles at a leisurely pace, maybe checking out this new product or that tester... But when the time comes to queue for checkout, all of a sudden everyone is super impatient and not leisurely at all.

That fully rewired my brain.

Ever since then I've tried to keep that in mind when I shop. If I'm not hurrying through the store, I'm not gonna be impatient in line for checkout.

[dailymanners]

#the urgency and impatience tends to drive a lot of ableism too#Gods forbid someone need help or walk slower or get stuck somewhere#people will walk into my chair because they're not looking where they're going#and I've almost gotten run over at intersections because I wasn't crossing the street fast enough even though I still had right of way#people who rush tend not to signal or say excuse me either which is both rude and unsafe

Thanks for these tags @disability-etiquette, because this unnecessary urgency (in situations that aren't actually urgent) really is a massive driving factor for ableism, and that needs to be addressed and discussed.

So many strangers have been so cruel to my elderly and disabled family members for being "too slow" in public.

And not to derail from the ableism, but this urgency / impatience also fuels a lot of fatphobia too. I've already had to block some people in the notes of this post for making fatphobic comments. People often get very angry at fat people for moving slower and/or taking up more space, and will use their unnecessary urgency and impatience to justify being mean and impatient with fat strangers in public.