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Nerdery, feminism, politics and beautiful things

[stickyfrogs]

Tiny escapes! Also Gumby!

[gifcraft]

Stop the bullets. Kill the gun.

[sixcatsandtwodogs-deactivated20]

I held my breath at the last one.

[indeterminate-void]

IT WAS COOL AND THEN IT GOT SCARY AS SHIT

[insanity-in-motion]

i’d say this is a very effective message

[girlsjustwannahavefunds]

Reblogging again.

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Man, when I was like 16 I got so sick of being made fun of for being the fat kid that I took an axe down inna woods, chopped down a tree, and started doing log-lifts all the time. I got strong as fuck, but I didn’t lose no weight. I actually got bigger.

Same thing happened when I got into fighting. I got even stronger, and I got *fast*, man, and nimble, like a cat. Still chubby.

Body-building culture is a bunch of crap, my dude. Functional muscle is not necessarily toned or lean. You can be swole as hell and still be heavy. And that’s cool.

Embrace your inner barbarian. And when fatphobic little gym twinks try to body shame you, you should DESTROY THEM with your MIGHTY AXE

[littlegreydove]

Can comfirm, i am Quite Fat ™ but i still hit my punching bag hard enough last week make it touch the ceiling and broke a finger in the process

[systlin]

You know, I train with (martial arts) a bunch of dudes, and a few bodybuilders have showed up over the years. 

And every damn one of those huge shredded motherfuckers has the endurance of a fucking newborn puppy. Fifteen minutes into warmups and they’re panting for air like like they’re about to die. I’ve sparred them and every one of them telegraphs their moves about two weeks in advance, and are slower than my dead grandpa because their huge useless muscles get in the damn way. 

Now. I also work with a couple of guys who are not weightlifters. They do, however, do very physical jobs and are Big Dudes. Picture this sort of build. 

No abs to speak of, a bit of a tummy, and those motherfuckers can pick up one of the weightlifters and throw them. 

And they’re fast. Like, unfair fast. 

Bodybuilding culture is bullshit. Embrace your status as a giant barbarian and if anyone gives you crap throw them off a mountain. 

[weedeledledledle-deactivated202]

This is true for all humans, too!

At my heaviest (well over 300lbs) I still ran an 11 minute mile (pre-disability). And even when I was at my most active, and training intensely, I was never hardbodied despite working out full time. Functional muscle for me looks like horse legs and a big muscular butt with a soft tummy and big arms.

I’m built like a Celtic Warrior Goddess and I will never have a flat tummy and toned arms and that is fine by me because I could snap a grown man in half.

[systlin]

Yes!

Have you seen olympic powerlifters? 

This is Sarah Robles, on the USA Olympic Powerlifting team. 

Skinny? No. Could pick me up with one arm? Absofuckinglutely. 

[avishabilis]

Sarah Robles was once in an auto accident. She braced her arms against the steering wheel & by main force held it back from smashing her in the chest.

She fought her car & she won.

[systlin]

wHAT

Holy shit I love her even more. 

That would shatter my arms like glass. 

[stickyfrogs]

Feed Wayne! Feed Wayne NOW! (By Wayne!)

[books-in-order]

Pup interrupts soccer match, gives interview.

[the-stray-liger]

The commentator narrating the pup’s moves with the ball is AMAZING and I’m crying

[loseinadaydream]

“(…) right, but he decides to kick the ball. He gets close, and who grabs it? The Friend(dog)! Yes! A pup got into the field. He’s tied to it. He puts it under his paws and shows what football was missing in the Gasometro (field’s name). The [team]’s men want to grab him, but they cant! The Friend has his eyes on the ball. He runs to find it again. Yes! He bites! He kneads! He wants it close! He gets lost, he’s so happy! Castro (player) wants to kick his Corner but he can’t. He tells the pup “enough, enough, go over there”… however *commentator laughs*, there’s the pup! When he puts it on the floor, [the dog] goes again for the ball. And of course, as any skilled man, wants it all for himself. A bit of an over-eater, this pup. And he clearly has shown conditions / talent. [The team] found the way to the goal thanks to the Pichicho’s (little dog) essential input…. who, of course, as any protagonist had his place at [the tv show].“

*camera switches to interview where dog barks and mounches on the reporter’s mic (who allows him do it)*

I’ve been watching Argentinean football all my life and I can confirm this is the best to ever happen on a match.

[veritashopian]

@king-ludwig-ii

[quitesquees]

The added translation makes this even better

[babyanimalgifs]

his first hops 😂❤ credit: @thekangaroosanctuary

[gaylor-moon]

i wasnt ready,,, i love him so much 😢😢

[ughitsanjali]

excuse me?!?

[maneth985]

MY HEART. he’s so SMOL😍

[cuddlemycat]

Yarrrrrrrr Cat

[catloversplace-blog]

Follow Us For Cats!

[brutgroup]

#BRUTgroup in Samara, Russian Federation. Contributor @northern.friend #SocialistModernism

[vladtheunfollower]

[vladtheunfollower]

[trabbs-boy]

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

Thousands of starlings over Rome. Source

[deathcarpets-deactivated2019042]

someone kicked the cable on the skybox and it’s just static

[wepon]

“the sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

[zooophagous]

AHHHHH

[earthlynation-blog]

Osteocephalus buckleyi (by Lucas M. Bustamante-Enríquez)

[gusgrissom]

NASA astronaut Anne McClain and her son during McClain’s official portrait session, August 2017. Photos by Bill Stafford for NASA.

@astroannimal: Sometimes, I bring him to work with me. Not sure who enjoys it more!

[trabbs-boy]

Binge fodder

Zumbo’s Just Desserts is an Australian show on Netflix, and it is the balm Great British Bake-Off fans needed after it went corporate.  Not quite the charm of GBBO, but none of the awful American in-your-face competition and effort to be the most outrageous TV personality.

Zumbo makes extraordinarily intricate desserts.  Freakishly intricate.  

The contestants try to as well, with mixed success but good will and support (with one notable exception) all around.  Lovely way to spend a few days when you’re sick in bed.

photo credits

[babyanimalgifs]

via @Jackalcakes

[markv5]

Главный помощник ветеринара…

[malutianshi-deactivated20220516]

“chief veterinarian assistant…”

[ok2befat]

I’m not going to answer the same question about being fat any more. Ask me something else | Lindy West

If the people who asked me ‘caring’ questions about my size were really bothered, they would pour that energy into battling for better healthcare or food

“And they always ask me the same questions, over and over, as though I have never addressed them before, as though they aren’t addressed in the book, as though previous generations of fat activists did not address them literally before I was born. 

They ask anyway, even if they have already heard the answers, because the answers are not the point. 

Making me defend my humanity is the point. 

Making me dance for them is the point. 

The abuse is the point.”

[bifurcatedcloset]

“…you could pour that seemingly boundless time and energy into battles that actually do affect people’s bodies: you could fight for better healthcare and mental healthcare, the overhaul of our food production and distribution systems, a higher minimum wage and functional social safety net, and the dismantling of fat stigma so that fat people can feel comfortable leaving their homes and moving their bodies and leading full, vibrant public lives. If you claim to care about fat people’s health but do nothing to fight fat stigma, you are a liar.”

[earthlynation-blog]

Photo by Felipe Villegas