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Fen ✨ 30s ✨ he/they

[heartbeastsgame]

Happy Pride from Nimbuscribble, one of our most colourful little beasts! This was a video, but Tumblr loves to devour videos whole and spit them out as glitchy messes. So instead, you get to see a flock of LGBT Nimbuscribble showing off their favourite pride flags.

We’re one of many many queer creators in the TTRPG space, and love that this hobby has become such a hotspot for us. Go play an indie TTRPG: a lot of them are gay!

[letmebegaytodd]

Overheard in the office hallway between two older businessmen:

“Don’t you dare pull my shirt up, I have a meeting.”

[letmebegaytodd]

You know what happy pride to those two guys

[infestuous]

have yall heard about the 17lb cannibal cat named Baby Jesus

[infestuous]

thats a big a boy

[herpsandbirds]

Purple Glossy Starling (Lamprotornis purpureus), family Sturnidae, order Passeriformes, Jos, Nigeria

photograph by Kim Choji

[ladyothelakes]

The Night Shepard

A little comic from last spring I made that hasn’t really had a home anywhere.

I liked the idea of immortality leading to a reverence for life and the world around it, rather than nihilism and wanton destruction. It was also a comforting thought that if immortal beings walked among us, they could see the future of our hope become a reality someday… so it felt relevant again.

[angiestown]

[nyaa]

[さくたけ🐇]

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[anja-nuehm]

Quick (unfinished) drawing of dandelions

[keplercryptids]

[image description: a drawing of dandelions against a blue background. Three of the flowers are in bloom and one is a puff.]

[mevil]

[tragedtea-arts]

very happy abt totally normal guy anime debut :3

[fatliberation]

I saw a comment on your blog that says 'the way you eat does not cause diabetes'...are you able to expand on that or provide a source I could read? I've been told by doctors that my pre-diabetes was due to weight gain because I get more hungry on my anti psychotics and I'd like to fact check what they've told me! Thank you so much!

You Can’t Sweets Your Way Into Diabetes

There are a lot more factors at play in diabetes — more complicated than “I had a cupcake at lunch.”

Pre-diabetes was rejected as a diagnosis by the World Health Organization (although it is used by the US and UK) - the correct term for the condition is impaired glucose tolerance. Approximately 2% of people with "pre-diabetes" go on to develop diabetes per year. You heard that right - TWO PERCENT. Most diabetics actually skip the pre-diabetic phase.

There are currently no treatments for pre-diabetes besides intentional weight loss. (Hmm, that's convenient, right?) There has yet to be evidence that losing weight prevents progression from pre-diabetes to T2DM beyond a year. Interestingly, drug companies are trying to persuade the medical world to start treating patients earlier and earlier. They are using the term “pre-diabetes” to sell their drugs (including Wegovy, a weight-loss drug). Surgeons are using it to sell weight loss surgery. Everyone’s a winner, right? Not patients. Especially fat patients.

Check out these articles:

Prediabetes: The epidemic that never was, and shouldn’t be

The war on ‘prediabetes' could be a boon for pharma—but is it good medicine?

Also - I love what Dr. Asher Larmie @fatdoctorUK has to say about T2DM and insulin resistance, so here's one of their threads I pulled from Twitter:

1️⃣ You can't prevent insulin resistance. It's coded in your DNA. It may be impacted by your environment. Studies have shown it has nothing to do with your BMI.

2️⃣ The term "pre-diabetes" is a PR stunt. The correct term is impaired glucose tolerance (or impaired fasting glucose) which is sometimes referred to as intermittent hyperglycemia. It does not predict T2DM. It is best ignored and tested for every 3-5yrs.

3️⃣ there is no evidence that losing weight prevents diabetes. That's because you can't reverse insulin resistance. You can possibly postpone it by 2yrs? Furthermore there is evidence that those who are fat at the time of diagnosis fair much better than those who are thin.

4️⃣ Weight loss does not reverse diabetes in the VAST majority of people. Those that do reverse it are usually thinner with recent onset T2DM and a low A1c. Only a tiny minority can sustain that over 2yrs. Weight loss does not improve A1c levels beyond 2 yrs either.

5️⃣ Weight loss in T2DM does not improve macrovascular or microvascular health outcomes beyond 2 years. In fact, weight loss in diabetics is associated with increased mortality and morbidity (although it is not clear why). Weight cycling is known to impacts A1c levels.

6️⃣ Weight GAIN does NOT increase the risk of cardiovascular OR all causes mortality in diabetics. In fact, one might even go so far as to say that it's better to be fat and diabetic than to be thin and diabetic.

Dr. Larmie cites 18 peer reviewed journal articles (most from the last decade) that are included in their webinar on the subject, linked below.

Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes

Available to buy on SendOwl

[canadianwheatpirates]

The link to “Prediabetes: The epidemic that never was, and shouldn't be” goes to the wrong article, here’s the correct one:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-prediabetes-diabetes-pharma-epidemic-perspec-0801-jm-20160729-story.html

[fatliberation]

Oops! Thanks for this!

[bina-binrays]

[mesooph]

layers

[pangur-and-grim]

Please look at the baby chinchilla from work. Look at as much of it you can see without a microscope. Please PLEASE I need people to see it's it's such a THING

how can that exist

[drawnsnake]

Uncaring

[cipheramnesia]

"I literally don't care. I just wanna live." like really unlocked something in me. About house centipedes, about bugs, about me.

[prokopetz]

Call me easily impressed, but after thirty-odd years of gaming, boss fight music that starts out with traditional acoustic instrumentation, then when the really good bit kicks in it adds a single electric guitar still gets me pumped every single time.