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If you've seen these floating around.. they uh might be my fault :3

I want to see more polyamory pride this pride month i'm serious. Stop being weird about people with multiple partners polyamory is awesome and beautiful and queer

slasherslvtt

Mini repo poster dump cuz I can.. I luv these oh so much!! When I get my hands on a printer OH WE RUNNIN OUTTA INK 😭🙏🤞

peachmuffinsquish

Here’s the thing: imagine if we fixed the housing market, so that the price of housing only increased to match inflation. That would be great, right? Except, homeowners typically spend $2000-$10000 per year on maintenance. So homeownership would go from an investment to an endless money pit, just like renting. The idea of a house as an investment, a house as a way to build wealth, requires that housing prices increase faster than inflation forever, which means that the burden of housing costs on working people must keep increasing forever, and the number of homeless people must keep increasing forever.

The housing crisis isn’t just a result of greedy landlords and investors. It’s an inevitable result of social policies that encourage people to treat their houses as in investment. Because once a homeowner internalizes the idea that their financial future depends on housing prices going up, they start favoring policies (such as NIMBYism) that make housing prices go up.

Conversely, if we want to end homelessness for good, we need to accept that housing is someone we’ll all have to continuously pour resources into, because buildings are complex physical objects that break a lot.

peachmuffinsquish

The reason I say this is because every time I read an article about the housing crisis, they always say something along the lines of “The housing crisis has robbed people of the opportunity to build wealth via homeownership!” without acknowledging that the housing crisis is what created the opportunity to build wealth via homeownership

canadianwheatpirates

What gets me is that “this is not an asset, it will not increase in value, do not expect it to or base any plans on that happening” is what we already say to people who are buying cars (or bikes or other personal transport). We already have a model for “owning something that has ongoing costs and doesn’t increase in value, but it’s worth it for its uses”. There’s no reason we can’t view housing like that as well.

sheldenthegirl

omg yes.

I was just browsing Zillow and saw a house near me built in 1959 that sold for $70k in 1999. The interior has not been updated since then and some of the exterior features (a covered back patio and shed) are rotted and falling down. They now want $300k for it.

It's one thing to factor in the value of recent repairs and renovations, it's another to just say "market value" when the actual realized value of living in a space has diminished over time.

sumodump

Did you ever hear back from Tatsunami-beya about being a supporter? I noticed they recently updated their YouTube channel name to include English characters which has made it so much easier for me to find their content. Maybe they are catering to their foreign fans?

Sadly I didn’t. :( I tried a few more times, but to no avail.

sumodump

@sheldenthegirl - Crazy to think that if you hadn’t sent me that ask, we wouldn’t be getting the fanclub that everyone’s so excited about rn? Talk about butterfly effect!

sheldenthegirl

YAY!!! I am pre-registered and dying for it to get started. I'm so excited! Thank you for being cool and brave and persistent to get it started.

fishtrouts

Always a good time to burn down yet another village!

Patreon

synchodai

Watching sumo videos and going through the comments made me realize how deep fatphobia runs in some people. They will literally see men deliberately and meticulously training their bodies to look and act a certain way to gain a competitive advantage in their sport and say, "they're ruining their bodies, it's unhealthy." Professional strongmen, bodybuilders, and powerlifters all sustain injuries and have shortened average lifespans due to the amount of stress they put their bodies through, but somehow sumo wrestlers are seen as uniquely grotesque and unhealthy simply because people have such an engrained mindset that any sort of fatness is unhealthy. Sigh....

sheldenthegirl

Yay another sumo fan!

I, too, hate the anti-fat bias and weirdness people have towards sumo wrestlers. Even in fan spaces, there's often prejudice against western amateur wrestlers who tend to carry more weight than their Asian counterparts.

Rikishi certainly have eating and exercise routines that could easily be seen as disordered outside the sport, but it's on par with most other professional sports. It's a shame that people turn a blind eye that when it results in a body that we conceptualize as "healthy" (i.e. thin).

I will definitely rail about the JSA's injury policy any day though. The current system incentivizes playing injured and leads to early retirements and more severe injuries. Also, could we please lower the ring a bit for these beautiful boys?

comedownstairsandsayhello

2027: Wizards of the Coast and the American Psychological Association collaborate on the D&DSM, 6th Edition, widely regarded as the worst thing ever published

longdistancepyromania

My chronic pain doctor suggested I exercise more

I asked him “how?”

He looked confused. Said I should try a bit every day

I said “not when, how?” I asked what exercises I should do

He suggested half a dozen options that had all been explicitly banned by other doctors. I’m not allowed to run. I’m not allowed to bike. I’m not allowed to use my rowing machine or my punching bag.

I walk my dog whenever I have the energy and when it doesn’t hurt too much

What else can I do?

He told me I should exercise more

And then he changed the subject.

crippledpunks

doctors: you need to exercise more

disabled patients: can you give me an example of exercises someone with my condition can/should do?

doctors:

jadedresearcher

I've found it helpful to look up guides for elderly patients, since doctors are more likely to acknowledge needing an approach with them that assumes there may be unexpected difficulties with their standard advice

There's a fairly wide range of elderly focused tips on how to exercise if in pain, if deconditioned, if your balance is compromised, etc.

Plus it focuses more on keeping and increasing ability rather than say, weight loss.

jadedresearcher

Update: found one of those guides specifically for any issue that might make it hard to be standing vs sitting: https://www.verywellfit.com/chair-exercises-for-seniors-4161267

sheldenthegirl

I wish more doctors were cool with admitting when something is outside their expertise.

It would be fine for this pain specialist to not know the details of safe exercise for all their patients if they had a referral list of physical therapists, coaches, and gyms that specialize in exercise for folks with pain/the causes of pain (age, disability, weight, mental health, etc.). Even a website or guidebook would be a start.

And if you come across a novel situation where you don't have a referral already handy, then tell your patient you'll get back to them. It should be the doctor's responsibility to help you remove barriers to the care they are prescribing, even if it's just a simple referral.

kimitrii

Nikki for president

sumogifs

Part 2 for @sheldenthegirl , the gyoji!

Sandanme Gyoji Kimura Katsunosuke

Kimura Katsunosuke(this time with shokkiri shenanigans!)

Juryo Gyoji Kimura Kankuro performing the Gyoji send off ceremony

Juryo Gyoji Kimura Mitsunosuke

Juryo Gyoji Kimura Chishu doing calligraphy

39th Tate-Gyoji Kimura Shonosuke

38th Tate-Gyoji Kimura Shonosuke performing the dohyo matsuri

38th Tate-Gyoji Kimura Shonosuke

sumogifs

Can we get a set of yobidashi and gyoji? Please and thank you!

Ask and ye shall receive! This was a tough one(turns out there isn't a ton of footage of the yobidashi and gyoji) but I ended up finding some cool videos! This will be part 1, part 2 will include the gyoji 😄