Loving yourself as a form of activism

romy, 26, she/her or they/them, dutch

[ecranimaginaire]

Official poster for Joachim Trier’s SENTIMENTAL VALUE starring Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, and Elle Fanning. In Theaters 20 Aug 2025 (France)

[feral-ballad]

Andrea Gibson, from The Madness Vase; “Somewhere, A Carpenter”

[Text ID: “This life / is built almost entirely / of love / and losing, / isn’t it?”]

[radicalgraff]

"Do you believe in life after work"

Spotted in Lucca, Italy

[rylandgraces]

Verdens Verste Menneske The Worst Person in the World (2021) dir. Joachim Trier

[lovestereo]

Visit Original Link

[hungryfictions]

Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

[heartmis]

#character development

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— May Sarton, from “Journal of a Solitude.”

[llovelymoonn]

on grief

kyra wilder john wick is so tired \\ jamie anderson \\ jandy nelson the sky is everywhere \\ okechukwu nzelu here again now \\ nadia mota grief poem #4, in traffic \\ victoria hannan marshmallow

kofi

[lucienballard]

Loisy, Paris

Jacques Henri Lartigue

October 1964

[killyridols]

in time, i suppose, i can let this go too (somehow) by tin nguyen, 2023, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

[florinefournier]

Lake Ohrid

[dog-teeth]

badweird feelings

[anarchopuppy]

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

[queeranarchism]

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

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.

[halsee-arc]

i’m old, i’m satisfied, and you were my purpose. THE LAST OF US, 1x03: LONG, LONG TIME.

[forestgreenlesbian]

In Order To Bloom, Laura Foster

[hollandwhore]

omg ashley johnson is playing ellie’s mom!!!