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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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@realityremedy
I do think "literally zero evidence indicates that gatekeeping medical transition does anything to prevent regret, but the harm done by gatekeeping is extensively documented" is a much stronger argument than "regret isn't real" cause there's always going to be some anecdote that puts you in a weak-looking rhetorical position for the latter, but the former is pretty unassailable.
What is it with diabetes that makes people think they know more about it than the people who have the disorder. People hear the word diabetes and flock to compete with who can be the most ableist.
Found a video of a girl showing off Diet Soda detector strips (if there's any diabaddies that see this and want it I can link them, they're super helpful), and half of the comments were "you're diabetic you should just be drinking water..." First of all, not only are you just wrong, but you seriously expect diabetics to just never enjoy themselves? Ever?.
Saw another comment under a video about type 1 saying "you did this to yourselves. you ate too much sugar and you got yourself into this situation." And it's just so funny because they're Wrong™️. Type one diabetes is autoimmune and fully hereditary, and not at all effected by diet.
I mean, I know the answer. It's diet culture. People on their fancy diets think they're a superior human being because other people are "unhealthier" than them, and they hear diabetes and think "big fat and lazy with a bad diet" and think they're allowed to walk all over them since they're so superior. Despite the fact that it's a completely false stereotype that doesn't apply to most diabetics.
And btw please do not come under this post saying "but other disorders have that too" this is a vent post about diabetes. Do not derail.
The other thing about diabetes type 2 is that what the evidence actually suggests is that there's an underlying metabolic disorder that causes weight gain and sugar craving before actual diabetes develops.
A lot of type 2's start out as hypoglycemic -- their pancreas is over-producing insulin, causing blood sugar crashes. Insulin stuffs sugar into fat cells, causing people to get fat, if there's too much of it. The overproduction of insulin is a response to slow-growing insulin resistance. Because sugar is a vital part of human energy, people who cannot easily process sugar due to insulin resistance and insulin over-response may crave sugar in order to have enough energy to function.
So you didn't get diabetes because you got fat. You got fat because you were on track to get diabetes. and nobody is addressing the metabolic disorder. Hypoglycemics can be quite skinny -- I was for years. But if you're skinny, nobody is concerned about the fact that you are passing out when you haven't had enough to eat. Because only being fat is ever a medical problem. People who are "normal" weight obviously have nothing wrong with their metabolism whatsoever. :-(
I just learned that a lot of vintage perfumes and fragrances were intentionally created to blend well with the ever-present smell of cigarettes, and in specific a lot of iconic ones that are super musky and floral and civet-heavy were intended to compliment the smell of fur coats or even "refresh" that new fur coat smell, which is one of the reasons (besides just shifting preferences and trends) that a lot of them smell really, really bad to modern noses.
I bet there's some stunning genius diva out there right now who meticulously coordinates her Victoria's Secret body mists with her vape flavors.
I hate living with you. I hate your passive aggressive bitchiness. I'm so so tired of dealing with your shit. You've been back here for less than six hours and I'm already so done. Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you FFFFFFUUUUUUUCCCCKKKK YYYYYOOOOOUUUUUU!
This is by Canadian artist Deirdre Sokolowska @unwashedace . You can buy a sticker of this piggy here on Etsy.
I have an idea to try and help myself cope with my situation by using my art skills.
Right now, the only way out of this hell I can see is getting a job and getting money for our own place. But it's all such a long slog. Even getting a job is proving to be a challenge, and then I have to save up. It feels like I'll never get there. It feels hopeless.
But maybe thinking about it like a story can help. I can even draw a comic?
I'm a traveller who's been separated from my party. I find myself trapped in a spiderweb in a cave, something like Shelob in LOTR.
I'm the healer/herbalist of the party so I don't have much in the way of weapons. I have some small degree of offensive magic capabilities, but my hands are bound by the spiderweb.
I'm going to have to struggle to get out. Every time I apply for a job, that's me flailing and struggling, trying to get free. Some of the fine threads of the web snap. It's not much, but it's progress. I just have to keep going.
If I get a job, I've managed to free a hand and I'm on the way to reaching the knife in my belt, which will make the task a little easier.
I'm not alone, though. My partner is with me. So she got trapped, too. She's also struggling. She's trying to get out.
I just have to keep struggling. It's an uphill battle, but all I can do is keep trying.
Why does she have to snap and take out her anger on us all the goddamn time?
She twisted her ankle and yelled and snapped at my wife for suggesting the hospital. And I would give her some leeway because she was in pain but I'm SO fucking worn down from having her shitty moods taken out on us Every. Single. Day.
I am so tired of us being the object of her anger. I'm so sick of the way I feel all the time. I'm sick of biting my tongue all the time and keeping it in. I'm sick of being angry.
I don't like the person I've become because she was hurt and I just... I don't care anymore. I was just mad.
I don't want to live here anymore. But there's no way I can escape for MONTHS at least.
I don't want to be dependent on weed but it's all I can do not to turn to worse coping mechanisms. If I still had a car I'd sleep in it.
I need out of here now. I want to cry because I know it's not possible.
Had a funny phone call recently. Normally I don't really answer my phone, but I've started applying for jobs, so I decided I should stop ignoring phone calls for the moment. (For context, I'm a trans man and my name has been legally changed everywhere for like...6 or 7 years?)
I picked up and the person on the other end was like "Hello is this [birthname]?"
And I paused for a moment because:
1) I didn't know what exactly the truthful answer to that was. Because like...technically no? That's not my name anymore. But I guess I am the person they're trying to reach? I don't know.
2) I didn't know who this was and if it was wise to even be honest with my answer.
But when I make snap decisions I'm usually honest without really thinking. So I was like
".... Well I haven't gone by that name in over a decade but... technically yes. How can I help you?"
There was a brief silence... and then they hung up. Lol
I think they thought I was fucking with them, but I was being honest. It was actually really funny.
My MIL and I cannot get along, but I can't get out of here yet. I don't know when I'll be able to.
I am miserable and depressed as fuck. I don't like what this has made me. I'm bitter and unhappy and really angry all the time. I get in these spirals where I just sit and spin in my head about how angry I am and revisit all the things she's done to piss me off.
I miss how kind and patient I used to be. I hope I can get that back when I escape.
It's so hard to hold on some days. I'm so tired of going to bed dreading waking up because I have to deal with her again. I don't want to go to sleep because then my time away from her ends.
I would sell an organ if it meant we could move out of here right now.
Unbelievably dire.. how did we get here
fat bugs *lunges at you*
as someone who has gone long stretches without electricity, let alone an internet connection
BACK UP YOUR WORK---YES, EVEN PHYSICAL COPIES. HAVE OFFLINE RESOURCES. KEEP YOUR LANDLINE. CARRY CASH. DON'T GET IMPORTANT APPLIANCES THAT RUN ON WIFI. LEARN TO READ A PAPER MAP
Just going to add:
HAVE A RADIO (with a battery power option).
If you do not have electricity, the radio may be your only source of information!
Local radio will: give weather updates, give updates on restoring power, let you know if you need to evacuate or are on evacuation alert, and as a bonus, it can provide entertainment/music.
y'all sleeping on this post/info. this isn't about "oh, but natural disasters don't happen where i live" this is about
"natural disasters are going to start happening here as the climate keeps changing"
"one shift in government regulations or corporate ownership and essential needs become artificially scarce"
"they haven't updated the infrastructure since the 1940s and it's about to blow"
"one financial downfall and i'm living out of my car"
"i can live without basic needs for a while, but my kids/pets/dependents can't"
also, some of you are living in countries with unstable govts or with conflict right next door and you need to be at least a little prepared in case the unthinkable happens. PLEASE
lets hear it for transgenderism and faggotry. can I get a round of applause for transgenderism and faggotry
also shoutout to queerness and dykishness and gender fuckery. if you reblog this post you hate conservatives
no lie i genuinely believe brands are so behind the pleather movement bc they can just buy cheap plastic sell it as expensive 'vegan leather' and be ready for you to return in a couple years to buy another 'vegan peeta approved™ leather jacket' bc they last like 5 minutes compared to the way leather lasts decades all the while you can pat yourself and coorporate's back for being sutainable all the while pvc (what some fake leather products are made of) has been labeled the single most environmentally damaging type of plastic and while there are non pvc fake leathers such as pu leather... its not like thats much better producing plastic pollutes and the second your pleather clothes start to breakdown (which happens much faster than you think) theyll wound up on landfills for at least a 100 years...
also they love love LOVE to try and sell you "plant-based leather" that you then look at the details and it's "45% cactus" or whatever and there's no mention of what the rest of it is
it's plastic.
it's always plastic.
Let me tell you a story.
50 years ago or so a cow died. It died in a slaughterhouse after a life on a cattle ranch. It was butchered in a meat packing plant, and it's body was sent off to a grocery store where it then became an overdone steak or a dry hamburger or maybe dog food. It was the 70s and people had only recently realized that you could put food in things that were not jello. Cut them some slack.
But its skin went to a tannery. And that skin was processed in the hide and then leather. That leather was bought by a clothing company who made jackets out of it, long leather dusters for working men and ranchhands. Cowboy shit.
The dead cow that is now a leather jacket is not technically waterproof because if you stand out in the rain for 6 hours water will eventually work its way through the seams at the shoulders. But its pretty damn waterproof. It keeps off the rain and the snow and the dust and the mud and the brambles and it doesn't melt if it catches a spark. So 50 years ago a man bought one and he wore it pretty much until he died and his wife shoved it in a closet. Decades of use, from the deserts in the southwest to the arctic, because it turns out that cowboys are wildly adaptable.
Anyway, I pulled grandad's jacket out of the closet a while back and there is nothing wrong with that coat. It does have some distinctly non-modern vibes, but more importantly it is cool as hell and looks almost new. I have seen faux distressed leather that looks worse.
The cow is still dead. There will be another cow that dies tomorrow for the same reason. But there's no market for leather these days. Its skin won't be a garment that lasts 50 years. Its gonna rot in a pile with all the others. Someone will sell a "vintage" cowboycore Americana aesthetic dark academia plastic peice of shit that will be garbage in a year. And then they'll sell another one.
That cow, that became a leather coat?
It's probably also a saddle that another cowboy is still riding.
And several belts. Probably some wallets, several gloves, some riding tack.
Nobody who doesn't work with leather understands how much material you get from one cow. I have sides (like 1/4 of a cow) that I've been making things out of for years and there's still lots left in my materials stash.
Once that coat is too worn out to wear, there will still be lots of the leather that's still good. Someone who can't afford to buy hides will probably make smaller things from those pieces (that's how I started working with leather).
Even when every piece of that hide is completely unusable, it will decompose like it was originally going to, and shed no microplastic particles. A synthetic alternative lasts a fraction as long and sheds microplastics for its entire life.
You also can't use that synthetic leather for many of the things you'd use real leather for. It's not fire resistant, so welders can't use it to protect them from sparks. it doesn't have the tensile strength of real leather, so you can make equestrian tack out of it. It doesn't provide any abrasion resistance, so you can't make motorcycle leathers from it. It can't be used for protective equipment in sports like archery, because it would disintegrate under normal use.
Synthetic leather can only be used in place of real leather in fashion and upholstery applications, and it's not very good at either. It requires hundreds of times more material for the same applications due to its short lifespan, and it produces plastic pollution constantly.
There's literally no good argument for replacing real leather with synthetic alternatives. Even if you want to go the animal rights route, how many marine and aquatic ecosystems are you willing to sacrifice for the life of a few cows? Are you even saving cows, when we use them for so many other industries? Does a domesticated animal have more right to life than the wild species impacted by synthetic leather production?
In the long run, it's just not worth it.
these are the areas where plastic needs to be cut down, not your disabled friendly straws. real sustainability sometimes can be found in the pre industrial ways.
Official nature post
ah yes, lasagna
He doesn't show her face. He tries not to laugh at a basic question so she's not embarrassed. Films his reaction, and is so kind. This is SUCH a good video.
