I think about pokemon in non-battle situations a lot. Like pokemon who have been trained/raised to be helpers and assistants than to be battle partners.
Pokemon visiting hospitals to cheer patients up like dogs and cats do. Or ones that help kids learn to read, speak, swim, go through therapy?! Even pokemon who’s abilities help owners with specific disabilities?!
I love thinking of pokemon outside of battle situations.
i can’t play second life anymore because we were in a furry sex club one time and someone showed up with this tiny litle rat avatar it was only like two inches off the ground and they didn’t say a single word once. it looked like this
@jennhoney :#is that Black Phillip ass Turkey trying to live deliciously with a cross country skier?View post
Seriously, this is somehow adorable and goofy and also a close encounter with something very eldritch. You can stop romanticising spooky deer; there's spooky grouse now.
#is this that motherfucker that made those weird ass sounds#different than this#that one was white
@indiiglow Yup, two different birds.
While the willow grouse (the white bird, tho only white during winter) is smaller and relatively harmless, the capercaillie (the black one) is big and will not hesitate to throw hands and fuck you up.
For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public percepti
"For 60 years, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or even saved, millions of lives. The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolism—a body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.
The second big lesson the medical establishment has learned and rejected over and over again is that weight and health are not perfect synonyms. Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages: Studies have found that anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol. Meanwhile, about a quarter of non-overweight people are what epidemiologists call “the lean unhealthy.” A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people."
A surprising article to find on the Huffington post. I think, especially towards the end, there's still a saturation of healthism and diet talk (just of the "clean eating" variety), but the information about weight discrimination is absolutely on point, especially within the medical field ignoring decades of research.
Not only do we know that weight loss isn't sustainable or possible, we also know that weight discrimination kills, in a myriad of ways. If you actually care about "health" then start unlearning your weight bias NOW and realize that fat people are just people who are a different shape.
And this article doesn't even touch on "the obesity paradox"(the fact that fat people survive heart attacks and injuries BETTER THAN thin people) or the fact that dieting, especially "yo-yo dieting," is a better predictor for heart disease than weight, and that many of the fat people who have cardiovascular diseases have a long history of dieting that (understandably) didn't work.
encouraged to rb but fatphobes will just be blocked.
New Yorkers: Writers Against the War on Gaza is seeking jail support right now at 1 Police Plaza in Manhattan. Most if not all sit-in demonstrators were handcuffed and arrested.
Link to their IG post
Currently they are seeking physical support at the location, no info about bail funds or financial support yet. Advocate for these people as you share the incredible images they risked their safety to create.
[ID: Tweet by muna @Muna_Mire reading "This image is incredible." Attached photo is of a course of protesters holding small Palestinian flags and a large banner that reads, in red all caps, "Genocide then, genocide now," and in black, "Free Palestine" and "Land back." A McDonald's parade float is on the street behind them. End ID]
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