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No one ever tell me anything bad about the person who runs this account.

the person who runs this account, Katie Gouldin, is an evolutionary biologist who has an EXCELLENT podcast called Creature Feature which compares and contrasts the weird behaviors of man and beast! she is super cute and funny too!

lavender-lily

oh thank GOD

andypantsx3

just want to add i love how much she hates elon

yeahokayillreblogthat

yeah okay ill reblog that

baddywronglegs

She is also credited by the Audubon society with coining the word “birb”

madlori

Also source for probably the best reaction image in history:

2-point-5

it bugs me how many lesbians have issues with trans women. like, we're supposed to love women. what's next, you gonna start hating short people too? fuck off.

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AND TRANS GUYS. "ooohhhhh they're betraying womanhood" no, they're men. jfc not everything is a personal attack some people are just guys.

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reblog this version too actually

prismatic-bell

I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.

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OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?

Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.

Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.

What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.

Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.

You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.

When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.

Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.

It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!

I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.

Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.

Go forth. Rejuvenate your clothing. Strip your laundry.

#I'm curious to try this out

aforlorngazeintoyesterday-deact

oh shit we got december tomorrow…

spirit-box-recording-deactivate

you're lying

aforlorngazeintoyesterday-deact

WE GOT DECEMBER TOMORROW

therootbeersprite

thisisthinprivilege

I work at a daycare with infants.

One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.

There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”

My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”

To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”

Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.

thecrazygeek-rant

This reminds me of a cousin of mine who ended up with her kids being taken away from her by social services for a number of reasons but mostly for nearly killing her baby daughter. How?

By starving her. She insisted that her baby was ‘too fat’ and had an aim to remove any and all ‘chubbyness’ so her baby would be thin. She’d already been warned by her doctor about the baby not getting enough food, but insisted she knew best.

After several months of this her baby passed out cold one day and was rushed into hospital where the doctors found her to have severe malnutrition, a low body temperature and low pulse rate. They asked my cousin what she’d been feeding her daughter and she said “one bottle of skimmed milk a day. I don’t want her growing up fat.”

Even after nearly killing her daughter my cousin maintained her view that fat = bad and ended up with all her kids taken from her because she was starving them and neglecting them.

When your fatphobia leads you to starving your own children then you’ve got serious problems.

(Note. She still, to this day, maintains the view that she was right and the doctors were wrong. “They just want fat kids so they can keep employed treating them for all those diseases that being fat causes.” = her actual words.)

sinthiasweet

My mom had me dieting with her when I was eleven. She had me eating less than 600 calories a day because she was worried I was going to “get huge.” She even grounded me once because she found out my friends were bringing me lunches! I ended up passing out, going to the ER, and getting two IVs at once BC I was so goddamn dehydrated. Soooooo surprised they didn’t call child services… And looking back, this was the root of my anorexia. I’m nearly 22 and still fighting it. Please don’t starve your fucking children.

viergacht

For fucks sake babies are SUPPOSED to be fat, what is wrong with people? It’s just stored energy, and growing children need stored energy - an 11 year old is just about to hit some major growing years. Damn.

fattyatomicmutant-deactivated20

Fatphobia

Real

and it kills

mexicanxthighs-deactivated20190

This is no joke. people will literally starve their own babies cause they don’t want them getting fat. A parent brought in their six month old baby who was having breathing issues and kept getting sick. the parent was asked if the baby was eating regularly and the parent straight up told the doctor that they only feed the baby once a day. ONCE A DAY. A FUCKING BABY. they even had the nerve to say because they didn’t want the baby to get fat. people like this are real. they would rather have a dead baby than a fat one.

bigfatscience

My youngest son is a very big boy and has been since he was born. When he was 10 months old I took him for his well-baby check and vaccinations. The nurse noted his weight and said, quite casually, “He is in the 99th percentile for weight so he is at risk for obesity. You may want to keep an eye on that.” I said, “He is exclusively breastfed. He refuses to eat any solids yet.” What did she expect me to do? What would it mean to “keep an eye on” an exclusively breastfed baby’s weight?

She backed off saying, ‘Well he looks fine!” – proving once again that weight bias is not truly about health – But I know many other parents who are not as informed as I am about weight science and size diversity would react to this interaction by policing their child’s food intake, if not as an infant, then when he was an older child. This is exactly the type of seemingly-inconsequential interaction that starts the ball rolling on a lifetime of dieting, disordered eating, negative body image, and weight-based abuse for too many fat people.

Years later when he was five, another doctor measured his weight and height and commented that he is off the charts on both, but “at least he is in proportion.” And if he was not “in proportion,” I am sure I would have been advised once again to “watch his weight.”

I no longer allow healthcare providers to weight my children unless it is absolutely medically necessary. They are unable to control their weight talk, which is a known harm for children.

We need to completely eliminate weight talk from medicine, especially when it comes to children. Even the smallest exposure can have terrible consequences.

loverofbrownsugar

Wtf…

mainstreamqueen-deactivated2020

A friend from college had been going to the doctor because she was having trouble breathing. She was told to lose weight. Over the course of several years, she went back to the doctors time and time again, telling them that she’d been sticking to the diet but because of her breathing problems she had been unable to even walk for more than 20 minutes at a time. The doctor got her into an exercise programme and told her that she just needed to really try to lose weight because that was clearly the reason for her breathing problems. By the time they found the tumour on her lungs, it was inoperable. She only lived three months after diagnosis. She was 25. She’d had the tumour for over five years. The doctor was so focused on the fact that my friend was “fat”, that they refused to look for any underlying cause. They killed her.

thisisthinprivilege

Weight-first treatment KILLS. Fatphobia KILLS.

lady-yomi-deactivated20171102

I have 2 scary stories to share about fatphobic doctors & parents harming their childs/patients’ health:

1. The 4 years old daughter of a friend of mine came to our house to spend the weekend. She gave me a letter from her mom that said that the child was in a glutenfree diet because she was getting ‘awfully fat’ when eating cookies or bread (my celiac ass; who gets dhiarrea and loses a scary amount of weight whenever I eat something with gluten was like ’???’).

You can bet that I went to the supermarket with the kid and told her ‘go & take whatever you feel like eating’ and the poor child came back smiling with her arms full of biscuits and cupcakes.

She didn’t got sick (as a celiac would get) and told me later that she hated the diet her mother made her follow; because her cousins didn’t had to pass through that.

And what’s the scariest thing about this story? Her mother was a NURSE. A fucking nurse who didn’t have a clue of the harm that she was doing to her daughter’s body!

2. My little sister started to feel fatigued and dizzy at 9 years old. She felt nauseated at the sight of food and had abdominal pain that increased with physical activity.

Mom got her to the ER and the doctor dismissed it saying: ‘she’s fat and probably is feeling ill after eating too much burgers, get her to make some exercise and she will be better in no time’.My mom didn’t felt ok with the diagnosis and took my sister with a second doctor who also told her that ‘the child was just fat’.

My sister’s skin was starting to get yellow as the days passed and the abdominal pain was getting awful so my mom (heaven bless her!) got her to the ER for the third time:

SHE HAD STAGE 4 HEPATITIS AND WAS ABOUT TO DIE.

She survived after a long and painful recovery who involved being in bed for a whole year (remember that we’re speaking of a 9 years old child). Luckily they saved her liver and she didn’t went through a transplant… but let this sink:

If it weren’t for my mother, fatphobia would have killed her. Fatphobia kills kids and teenagers, fatphobia kills inocent people everyday. It treats human beings as lesser than others and hurts them in their most vulnerable times.

It’s a real shame that we all have so much stories to share about this issue. A REAL SHAME.

agreekdoctor

Future doctors, interns, and residents following me:

FUCKING TAKE NOTE OF THIS!

Don’t let bias against your fat patients kill them!

clatterbane

(#and this is just when we actually go to the doctor and tell them we have problems #how many of us just give up #or won’t mention anything that seems like too much of a ‘fat’ problem)

thelittlestastronaut

i’d really like my thin followers to reblog this if you can. fat people are already here for each other, we need you guys to help us out too. this is something i never see anyone actually talking about in-depth, and it’s disappointing. be there for your fat siblings, too.

ohmightysmiter

I had pain in my back for a really long time but I’d learned to live with it, because I’d been to the doctor once and two different chiropractors and they all told me losing weight would make it go away. Finally when I was working two jobs and it became too much I went to a new chiropractor in my town (this is when I was living up in Mass) telling him I knew it was because of my weight but I needed pain relief please. He did a full exam anyway and I HAD SOMETHING MISALIGNED WITH MY SPINE. Thankfully it didn’t wind up doing any lasting damage but it was YEARS of pain I didn’t have to go through. I have never seen someone so heated as when he was ranting about how I should have been treated when I first came in. He demanded the names of the other chiropractors, which I unfortunately didn’t have, but yeah. Being diagnosed fat is way too common and it hurts more than just emotions.

arcsimper5

I’ve literally just had my confirmation laproscopy for endometriosis after 8 years because they said my pain was caused by being fat for the first 4 years.

My mum had endo. Her mum had endo. My sister (who is thin) was treated for endo, but I couldn’t possibly have it. I was just fat.

There are some doctors who, you could walk in with a gunshot wound to the chest, and they’d ask if you’d tried going to the gym.

femme-flower

My parents put me on an extremely restrictive diet (lean chicken breast and salad with no dressing for every single meal) at EIGHT. They were advised to do that by the endocrinologist I was seeing for early puberty, which was messing with my hormones and making me gain weight. I never became thin, I just spent so many years of my life having to sneak any food I could get because I was constantly starving, had anemia several times growing up, etc.

I was also forced to exercise until I literally passed out - which happened often because I was malnourished and also because I had a hard time breathing. Which was, of course, attributed to me being fat and out of shape.

Since I was a small child, I complained of breathing difficulty while exercising and was told if I lost weight, it would get better.

The year I turned 30, I moved to an extremely cold place. I arrived in the summer and was walking to work and back (40 min each way) every day. When the weather got very cold, suddenly I couldn’t even walk to the bus stop a block and a half away without needing a break to catch my breath. I knew it couldn’t possibly be me being out of shape because the change was so sudden. I went to a doctor and was diagnosed with extremely severe asthma. Biggest triggers: cold air and exercise.

It took at least twenty two years (if not more) of complaining about breathing difficulties to get diagnosed. The doctor said “with the amount of respiratory allergies you have, I’m shocked you have never been tested for asthma”. I wasn’t shocked, though. I was fat. Of course no one tested me for asthma. Fat kid gets out of breath when exercising? Must be the fat. Why look further, when you can blame the fat?

wut-igay

You can get so much from this, but if you get anything from this or need a TL;DR: FATPHOBIA HAS KILLED BEFORE! FATPHOBIA KILLS NOW EVERY DAY! FATPHOBIA WILL KILL AGAIN! AND IF WE DONT CHANGE HOW WE THINK, FATPHOBIA WILL KEEP KILLING!!!

headspace-hotel

I feel like this post and its notes should be like. Required reading for all medical students.

It’s so scary how these biases in society have influenced the minds of everyone, even doctors, to the point that unexplained rapid weight loss is likely to be considered a “good” thing even though it’s a sign of cancer and other life threatening illnesses.

darth-snuggles

My mother was told by a doctor when I was an infant that she was “overfeeding” me (as an explanation for gastro issues that would turn out, in my 30s, to be several food allergies). I spent the rest of my life having my food intake policed and being forced into crash diets. I remember eating packed lunches in grade school that consisted off a can of Slim-Fast and a baggie of carrot sticks. In high school, she put me on a low-carb diet and I remember one of my friends, aghast, asking “what kind of diet doesn’t allow FRUIT?” after I explained why I was eating cottage cheese and pickled artichoke hearts.

My mother loves me and would never intentionally harm me (or anyone). She believed, genuinely, that the torture she put me through was the only way to improve my health, because that is what society and my childhood doctors told her. I lived with disordered eating and a deeply distorted view of food and my body even after I was an adult living on my own.

It wasn’t until I was in my mid-thirties and hospitalized for severe colitis that *anyone* looked beyond my weight for the source of my health problems. It wasn’t until my (wonderful, beloved, bold) partner coldly informed the endocrinology nurse lecturing me about portion control that “she barely eats one meal a day; she needs MORE calories, not less!” that I finally started to work on my relationship with food and stop thinking of it as the enemy.

Fatphobia does lifelong harm to children.

#fatphobia #sizeism #still relevant and important to read and re read

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Streaming Service Rant

chemychems-deactivated20210407

You could make this shorter by just going “I’m a thief and refuse to pay for content”. Would save you a lot of time.

amvs

I’m a thief and refuse to pay for content and i encourage everyone else to do the same! Don’t be a little bitch like chemychems and jump aboard the ship, matey!

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Hi um

I just wanted to see something, people tell me that demi is just straight with standards and its not a valid thing and Im just trying to be queer

Like if you think demisexual is NOT a valid sexuality

Reblog if you think demisexuals are valid and not just 'straight with standards'

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i hope those 102 likes are accidental, op

sawasawako-archived

writers and poets were also polemicists so it is very baffling that now we expect artists not to be “political”

sawasawako-archived

up until quite recently, art was intimately intertwined with politics. just look at the writing that came out in the 60s, 70s, 80s. i single out this period bc for many of us it’s still in recent memory, but in truth there is no period of time in which art was not, in some respect, political. even the “art for art’s sake” movement was political bc it was a reaction against the primacy of the social function of art. not to mention that the charge against art and entertainment being “too political” is rooted in a fundamental disrespect for, and misunderstanding of, marginalised peoples and their circumstances. like you can’t separate people complaining about their sources of entertainment failing to uphold the illusion of being independent from the politics of “real life” from the fact that cultural production by oppressed peoples (Black artists, Indigenous artists, immigrant artists, working class artists, etc.) is inherently political bc they do not have the luxury of escapist art, as their bodies & existences are racialised, politicised, classed and gendered by colonial-capitalist society.

the whole sentiment of like, separating the art from the artist and believing that criticism and appreciation are diametrically opposed is rooted in a culture of (often anti-Black) racism, classism, and cissexism bc poc (woc especially), lgbt people, economically disadvantaged & exploited people, have historically gotten clapbacks and backlash for making art in a way that doesn’t coddle white audiences, cishet audiences, etc., or that doesn’t capitulate or make compromises for mass / generic appeal. Black American writers like Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin have talked extensively about this regarding their own work and grappled with it their whole careers, and the issue continues on today in the debate about literary pigeonholing and cultural appropriation + commodification and media representation and fanfiction, the list goes on. like really it all boils down to whether or not you have the luxury of turning a blind eye to these problems in society and it seems like a lot of you do, and have no qualms about it either

jam-is-my-food

diversity win! you are the gay cousin!

typhonserpent

If you are American, PLEASE SUPPORT THE SSI RESTORATION ACT OF 2021

This new bill has been introduced in both the house and the Senate.

Among other things, it will:

Raise the monthly disability income by just over 30 percent - bringing it to poverty level.

Remove penalties for recieving financial help from friends and family.

Increase the amount of assets a disabled person may have from $2,000 to $10,000 (this hasn't been updated since 1989)

Update outside income restrictions to allow disabled people to receive up to $399 a month without reducing their benefits.

REWARD, not penalize, people who want to receive additional income while on social security income.

REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT THIS WILL REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN

For those unaware current regulations do a lot to oppress disabled people. In fact marriage equality doesn't even extend to disbled people who risk having their benefits reduced or outright taken away if they marry someone. This means that in common law states disabled people can't even live with their significant other or they risk losing their financial independence.

Current regulations mean that if you're disbled you can't have so much as one penny over $2,000 to your name. So buying a car and gaining more independence or freedom is largely out of the question for disabled people.

Current regulations penalize social security recipients who receive income from outside sources, even if those sources are reimbursement. Did you get paid to babysit for a few hours? That's income, and you get your benefits reduced. Did you loan a friend $10 and they pay you back? The government considers that $10 income, and you get your benefits reduced.

These aren't mere anecdotes - these are all examples of actual things that have happened to disbled people I know, and if you have any disabled friends in your life I'm sure they can tell you the same stories.

If you value marriage equality, if you value financial independence, if you value the rights of disbled people, please PLEASE support this bill! Contact your reps, vote, and make noise! This is a great thing!

refinery29

Watch: A documentary is explaining the many ways movies, TV shows and ads makes fat people feel cursed and invisible

When you only see yourself depicted on the screen as a sidekick, a villain, a predator, or a joke, how does that affect the way you view yourself in real life?

Gifs: Fattitude

WATCH THE PREVIEW

swindlefingrs

“At the end of the day, fat is portrayed mostly just as a joke,” says Lieberman. “Or a monster,” adds Averill. “That’s the two-sided coin.”

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jackironsides

I really resent the way that the Overton window has shifted for online privacy, so that I sound like a hysteric when I say that I don’t want Facebook and Google to know everything about my life.

‘I don’t mind Facebook showing me pretty dresses.’

Cool! That’s the absolute least of what they do, though! They’ve experimented on inducing depression in their users! They actively interfere with elections! And they spy on everyone – not just their users, but all internet users. And they’re capable of working out who non-users are based on information their users feed them! Pardon me for thinking that’s not okay!

‘Advertisers don’t listen into your phone as much as everyone thinks.’

Cool! But they do fucking do it! And the amount I would like them to listen in on my conversations is none! I would like none spying! Zero tracking of my internet activity! Especially by companies who want to sell me shit!

Remember how in the 80s, ad companies would listen in to your private conversations in your house, and then send different catalogues to your mailbox as a result? No! Because they didn’t, and couldn’t. And people would have – quite rightly – considered that a massive invasion of privacy.

Remember how in the 90s, ad companies opened and read all of your personal mail, making copies to keep on microfiche, before allowing the re-sealed envelopes to reach your house? Because they didn’t, but it’s what Google does with your email! So they can serve you ‘more relevant ads’ in your inbox!

Why am I the outrageous radical for thinking that I should be able to at least partly control my own data? My own likes and dislikes? I’m not even proposing leaving the internet entirely! I didn’t even stop using Facebook because they’re shitlords, but because using it made me miserable. And I’m considering switching from Gmail to something else like Protonmail. I already use Firefox, and have an add-on installed that reduces Facebook’s ability to track me from site to site.

Why am I so strange for wanting to return to an internet where the people who serve me ads can’t name my age, postcode, eye colour, purchasing history, dietary preferences, and half-dozen closest friends without having to try to do it?

thelovers-thedreamers-and-me

love that we live in a time where "hey, maybe a scenario that the tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists of yore imagined, where you were constantly being spied on and that data was used to adjust your environment to influence your political leanings and state of mind is.... not good?" is a weird opinion

natural-magics

if we're friends or even just mutuals on here:

just because I’m quiet doesn’t mean I don’t care about you

I send happy thoughts and good energy your way

I’m bad at expressing these things a lot of the time

communication just takes a lot out of me sometimes (so I end up being pretty slow to reply to messages/texts/etc)

I read your posts and updates

I care about the stories/poems you write, the jewelry you make and/or the art you create

I hope the best for you

I care about you and I think you’re awesome

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They put the ‘cat’ in caterpillar.

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