[alarmist-nonsense]

[chillgamesh-the-swing]

direct link to the article

link to the original study

Basically, increased co2 concentration in the air makes plants make more carbohydrates, but not take in more nutrients from the soil, so they grow faster but have a lower density of vitamins and minerals. Plus, they're "breathing" more efficiently and actually using slightly less water, so they're taking in even fewer nutrients. And the faster growth can't make up for the rates of damage due to climate instability (droughts, floods, extreme heat etc).

The research shows approximately a 3% drop in nutrient density since the 1980s, particularly in carbohydrate heavy crops (like most starchy staple foods), but so many people around the globe depend on those crops for over half their diet that it's very easy for them to fall into malnutrition without access to more expensive shit like enriched products, supplements, and even just fruits and vegetables. Like all the effects of the climate crisis, this impacts those least responsible first.

[caseyscraftycorner]

watching my husband get diagnosed with and treated for sleep apnea over the last year was not the thing that radicalized me re: weight and healthcare but my goodness it has solidified my stances.

sleep apnea is more common in people who are fat.

society decided for some reason that this meant that being fat causes sleep apnea. its often difficult to get referrals for sleep apnea treatment if you are fat, because some PCPs will tell you try losing weight first.

turns out!! having untreated sleep apnea causes weight gain in a not-insignificant number of people. it also makes it fucking impossible for many people to lose weight.

my husband worked out the same amount before he got a cpap as he does now. there have been no major diet changes either. yet he has been losing weight -- and gaining muscle tone -- consistently since he started using a cpap in january.

also, his blood pressure -- which was high, which docs blamed on his weight/diet -- went down significantly within one month of starting cpap treatment, before his weight changed significantly.

ANYWAYS. this is getting long. two final thoughts.

- I Want To Strangle Medical Fatphobia With My Bare Fucking Hands

- if you are exhausted constantly for "no reason", and especially if you snore, you should probably ask your doctor about getting tested for sleep apnea. it is extremely common -- estimates are around 1 in 10 people -- and is also wildly under-diagnosed. like, some estimates suggest that 80% of people with moderate-severe sleep apnea are undiagnosed.

[funnier-as-a-feedist]

Insurance companies are also really shitty about covering CPAP machines and will try to make you lease them for hundreds a month before you own one, and they reserve the right to repossess it if you don't wear it enough! But there are cheaper ways to own one ⤵️

💬 0  🔁 12  ❤️ 45 · Let's talk sleep apnea and cpaps · (I am a US American so mileage may vary) Hey friends! If you get diagnosed with sleep

[psyduckworld]

the cpap guide linked here is so good

[forestgranted]

HAPPY HADESTOWN WEEKEND ❤️❤️❤️

this will be available as a foil print at animeNYC next month :)

[torchichate]

I think the argument of “audiobooks are okay actually because it means more people are reading books even though they’re still reading them in a lesser manner” is still not the woke take you think it is. What is morally superior about the Sense of Sight. Is it impossible to understands themes and motifs through the wicked ear

[d1g1t4l-cr1ppl3]

Happy disability pride to people who are suicidal because of their conditions

[d1g1t4l-cr1ppl3]

I've put this in the comments but I will also reblog it.

Can people stop tagging this post with anything along the lines of tw suicide. I have not gone into any detail about suicide, I have merely typed out the word suicidal. I find it incredibly disrespectful to treat acknowledging my reality and the reality of many other disabled people as a triggering topic. If you are triggered by the word suicidal, you need to get off the Internet and heal.

[voidvelociraptor]

My little family is struggling to eat. It's my disabled Black queer ass, my sweet little ten year old, and my hard working husband out here with a whole job and three side hustles tryna make ends meet on his own, and my fat cat who likes to sleep at the end of my bed and under my kid's bed during the day.

I'm doing my best to earn money, but you can only earn so much so fast on survey sites and shit. I'm just trying to make it to the back half of August when I get my refund check from school. It won't solve all my problems, but I can pay off my klarna payments I had to make to get food the last couple months and get food for August at least.

I haven't made even half my survival goals since April, I've been stretched razor thin and my husband had to take out a small loan to pay off some debts cuz consolidating it was better than paying on each individually. That'll improve our finances, next month, but that don't change the fact we've got one carton of milk and half a loaf of bread.

Kiddo is neurodivergent and picky and she's been complaining about her stomach hurting for a while, so I need to try something different for her, maybe gluten free bread and pasta, and find some protein she'll eat, cuz that's really what the issue is here. She won't eat nothing, but is really hungry lately. If a diet change doesn't work it's the doctor next, but I'm worried about copays.

If you want to help a Black family doing their best to make it a little longer, or you want to get something off our wishlist that we need (trash bags, new towels, sneakers, clothes to replace the shit that's falling apart and full of holes) you can hit up my ko-fi, or my throne wishlist

My Ko-fi

My Throne Wishlist

Cashapp/Venmo both SingsongRaptor

Goal is 0/440

[voidvelociraptor]

Getting a little traction!

50/440

[rainbowpoisonpudding]

60/440

[voidvelociraptor]

Look at me doing the update from the wrong blog lol been stuck on traction, still at 60/440, spent half yesterday to get not very much from the corner store. We have to order grocery delivery, so we try to reduce the number of orders per month since every order needs to pay fees and tip the driver/shopper. We also really need trash bags, which are on my wishlist, and a new can for the kitchen would be nice, we lost the top in a previous move and the heat is making things stinky

[voidvelociraptor]

160/440

Getting a little somewhere, thanks to the people that have helped so far!

[becquerel]

i love when people on the internet get denied stuff and you find the most innovative minds of the generation dedicated to making goddamn sure other people get what they want come hell or high water

[becquerel]

[sorrow-hollow]

Okay but I get this. All of you worms who have things blocked on your wifi or whatever and have IbisPaint this is how you do it

Open IbisPaint go to a canvas (any canvas, or make. a new one)

Select the font tool (if you don’t know what or where that is, press the tool icon (normally a paint brush or eraser) and press the T button

From there you should be able to create a text box (writing is not important…). Find the font button and add a new font. I can’t remember what it’s called but you’ll know when you see it

It’ll automatically search for you “free fonts.” Do not follow this. Your app is misdirecting you. Instead search up whatever it is you’re looking for in the search bar, and that should work

Knowledge should not be trapped behind bars, bend and break them until you can grasp it

[sevastiel]

The Point of Gathering Knowledge to me has been to use it. I can only use so much. But getting to share what I’ve learned with others??? And make their lives just a tiny, tiny bit better??????? Oh boy is that worth every ounce of effort.

[dittography-direwolf]

Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.

[strictlyquadrilateral]

i read an anecdote ages and ages ago from a gay person who grew up with gay parents, and struggled to find any kind of belonging in the gay community because everyone else there was bonding over having homophobic parents. everyone else was defining themselves by their suffering and oppression rather than by their sexuality, leaving this gay person to feel like they weren't really gay because they didn't have the right experiences. they wondered whether more gay people would feel this way as more children grew up with gay parents, if the gay community would leave them behind for not having suffered enough. i think about that anecdote a lot.

a lot of the current rhetoric around gender reminds me of that anecdote. a lot of people are willing to go "transgender people are oppressed for their gender presentation, therefore if you're not oppressed for your gender presentation, you're not trans." but i don't think we should be defining ourselves by our suffering and oppression. what will we do, in a few years, in a few decades, as there start to be, say, adults who were supported in their transition as children? what will we do when a stereotypical trans person can genuinely say they didn't suffer hardship for being trans?

i'm afraid i know the answer. i'm afraid that people are going to close ranks as they've already started closing ranks against intersex people, against nonbinary people, against double binary people, against closeted people. as some people have started closing ranks against people who transitioned in the opposite direction from them. as many people have closed ranks against people with edge case gender experiences. "i don't consider you to be oppressed, therefore you are not welcome to share in this community you might otherwise belong in."

i wish people would understand that we shouldn't do this. i wish people would understand that we benefit from a broader, more inclusive community more than we benefit from whatever purity testing oppression olympics it is that i keep running into.

[fairycosmos]

no one is coming to save you its true its true someone might be coming to hang outttttttttt though. someday

[curiositysavesthecat]

If you could restart your life from age 15 with all the knowledge you possessed now, so that you COULD go back and fix all your regrets/mistakes, would you do it?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 3 days 11 hours

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[40ouncesandamule]

Orcas filmed ramming one of the world's heaviest fish so hard it explodes, possibly for fun

Orcas are known to be smart and ruthless hunters. They've been observed hunting a variety of prey, with some species, such as whales, larger

I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is Jackass

[40ouncesandamule]

[marxistlesbianist]

Yup

[staranos]

That's absolutely insane.

[stroebe2]

June and July are the same months btw. They want you to think they're two different months but it's the same month that's 60 days long. Same way August is actually August and the first half of September

[hellenhighwater]

Please I am dying, the only cure is the single most pathetic photo taken of Vice

I'm afraid you're doomed, it's impossible to choose just one.

But perhaps........

[chulip-blossoms]

a really really really underrated feeling in learning a different language is when you start to hear words. as in it's no longer a string of sounds, you can parse through where words start and stop as you're hearing them. even words that you don't know what they mean yet but you can distinctly hear it as a whole word

[falsedetective]

cake is such an underappreciated band. i can’t believe we brought back low rise flare jeans before we brought back cake in the top 40

[falsedetective]

i’m just saying cake’s music would be widely regarded as so sexy if it wasn’t for all the mariachi horns and vibraslap and the vocalist didn’t always sound like he was explaining his suicide plans to a gun store clerk in sacramento. the world wasn’t ready for them

[digital-morganism-deactivated20]

The fact that it sounds like a dispassionate reading of a terrorist manifesto is a feature

[mxjackparker]

Making motivational "it's never too late to transition" posts is really undercut if the age you're highlighting is still young. Claiming that your transition was late and it worked out great for you actually makes older people more afraid to transition if you're saying that shit in your 20s. How do you think a trans person in their 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s feels when you're 23 and calling yourself a late transitioner?

It's never too late until you're in a coffin. It is worth it for a single day of being yourself, even if you're 110.