Whenever a new fantasy/historical drama comes out I eagerly look forward to the rants from the handful of people I follow on here who are deeply into historical fashion and costuming. It’s like
I need you to FREAKING listen to me. Back when I lived with my parents my mom would watch Hallmark channel and there was this show called When Calls the Heart. It was supposed to be in like late Victorian era or Edwardian era……. I think? (they have early cars) And THIS is what the costumes look like……
Literally all you had to do to make it quasi-believable was fix their hair/facial hair and give them hats. Also fix the character’s neckline, she’s the only character in the show where they’re like “no she must be hot and have a V neck”
I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.
It’s right-handed
I am right-handed
There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly
I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.
There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.
I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.
A homo erectus made it
Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.
Who were you
A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?
Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?
Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?
Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?
Who were you?
What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?
What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby’s head when a stranger holds them.
Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?
Or has it always been divine?
Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?
Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.
The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it’s done.
Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?
I’m not religious.
But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn’t partaking in the divine
I work at a restaurant and nothing will ever beat the time this woman threw an absolute hissy fit at brunch because we ran out of home fries and all we had were french fries, she yelled at me, she demanded to speak to my manager, and when she’s in the middle of complaining, my manager just stopped her and went “hey do you want a hug?” and this woman went “what?” and my manager was like “you just seem super upset about the shape of these potatoes and I thought maybe you needed a hug” fucking hysterical, I got to watch a human blue screen in real life, absolutely the best way to shame someone for their nonsense I’ve ever seen
the rule34 sites are like. such a unique landscape. they have to be the sites that have the most users so out of touch with their core concept. “if it exists theres porn of it”. a simple premise, no? tell that to the people who act like they need their eyes bleached when they see a video of masterchief and doom guy, 2 conventionally attractive men, fuck eachother.
also the amount of people i see complain about mpreg images is so funny. “wtf. 2 guys fucking eachother? and getting each other pregnant? you can’t get pregnant through the ass!” like my guy, this is an image of 2 buff lizard people with cocks wider than their head making so much cum they could fill an olympic-sized swimming pool. the fact that one of them is getting pregnant here is not the standalone unrealistic thing in the image stop tryna pretend it is so you can dunk on mpreg. like we know you can’t get pregnant through the ass were on rule34.xxx do you think we’re here for realistic porn?
the upside is you get images like this
nah this aint gonna get any notes. i posted it in the middle of the night and its about rule34 and mpreg which arent popular topics on tumblr.
bro trust me it aint gonna work this post aint gonna blow up cause you keep rebloggin every week
Happy Pride Month
this is literally all your fault
my mutual here has just made an entirely new account linked to a different email just so they could reblog this post until they hit post limit >:(
i saw this and it made me think of this post. luckily my mutual isnt doin a good job cause my notifications arent flooded with this post and it has yet to breach 100000 so good try but i toldja so
The Dublin Arm was invented in 1921, It was a significant advancement in artificial limb technology. It operated using a Bowden cable mechanism, where cables connected to the individuals residual limb enabled hand or hook movements. By contracting specific muscles, the user could control the cables, allowing them to grasp objects and perform various tasks with improved dexterity. This pioneering prosthetic limb set the foundation for future advancements in the field.
But the headline is a little misleading, as by “Investors” they really mean the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, a NFP based in Denver that has been doing good things for decades.
The investment here is in people, not a profit-making pyramid scheme that rich assholes buy into then cash out later for $profit$.
Also, all of this happened in early 2020, as COVID terror was first stirring in the US. Good timing.
I appreciate this video a lot–people don’t realize how important it is to start slow if you’re trying to come back from a completely sedentary lifestyle, and they get really hurt as a result. Straining your muscles too much, too suddenly can land you in the E.R. and the wrong joint injury can permanently affect your mobility, so please start with absolute basics and easy stretches!
Not socialist in a “I won’t have to work” type of way but socialist in a “I’ll still be working but I won’t be worried I won’t make the rent” type of way. In a “billions won’t be hoarded by one person” type of way. In a “janitors, fast-food workers, child care workers, preschool teachers, hotel clerks, personal care and home health aides, and grocery store cashiers, will live comfortably” type of way. In a “the sick and elderly will be cared for” type of way. In a “no child should work” type of way.
Every time I see another ibuprofen post on this site I’m like STOP
STOP
Stop.
Take that after a meal. Take it with a big glass of water. Don’t take it on an empty stomach EVER. Don’t take it with alcohol. You will destroy your stomach. You will end up with an ulcer. You will vomit blood. I’m not exaggerating.
Love, an adult person over 35 who can’t take NSAIDs anymore
That goes for Alleve (Naproxen Sodium) too! Aleve is worse on your stomach than Ibuprofen is.
Acetaminophen, not a NSAID, even more so that NSAIDS, should not be taken when drinking. No seriously, it causes liver and stomach damage (and it’s particularly hard on the liver to start with).
Painkillers are great! But the common ones are still nasty on your stomach and liver and eventually they won’t be an option for you. If you take them with care, you can extend how long you can keep using them.
I ignored all the warning signs and ended up in the hospital after vomiting blood to find out I had an ulcer half the size of my stomach. I had been prescribed Indomethacin, an NSAID, to take as needed for my TBI-related chronic headache. Before that, it was 800mg of ibuprofen and it didn’t work.
My primary care physician was pissed that they’d prescribed it to me in the first place considering just how chronic my pain is and how it’s notorious for causing ulcers. Like—Google says it has a higher potential cause of ulcers than the other NSAIDs.
do y’all remember usernames??? from back when every fuckin website didn’t need your email phone number home address social security number just to join/sign up for something?? when you could make website-specific accounts that weren’t linked to literally anything else??? they tried to boil us like a frog slowly switching to “username/email” and then just asking for your email. but I remember. I remember usernames.
I gave my soapbox speech about how weight loss is mostly bullshit to two different patients in a row yesterday and so help me I’m pretty sure one of these days someone is going to say “but SURELY you agree I’d be HEALTHIER if I lost weight!” bc you can see the disbelief in their eyes. And like. Sure, maybe! You might see some improvement in biomarkers like LDL and A1c, and your knees would probably feel better. But you would be amazed at how much more good you can do for yourself by focusing on things you can actually meaningfully change without resorting to making yourself miserable. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables—it’s hard bc they’re more difficult to prepare and more expensive per calorie and go bad faster than other foods, but they’re what we evolved eating the most of so they’re what our bodies need the most of. And walk around more; sure, cardio is great for you, but if it sucks so bad you don’t do it, it isn’t doing shit for you. And we evolved to walk very very long distances, a little bit at a time, so our bodies respond actually very well to adding walks into our schedules, which is vastly easier than adding workouts that are frankly designed to be punishing when the definition of punishing is “makes you less likely to do it again in the future.”
You get one life. It is shorter than you can begin to imagine. Don’t waste it hating yourself because somebody is going to make money off that self-hatred. You deserve better than to be a cash cow for billionaires who pay aestheticians and dermatologists to make them (or at least their trophy wives) look thin and beautiful no matter what they actually do.
And ONE MORE THING—listen. We are NOT evolved to lose weight, we are evolved to hoard it. We came about in a world of famines. Not only does your brain have MULTIPLE failsafes built in SPECIFICALLY TO PREVENT WEIGHT LOSS, but there are epigenetic factors—factors that are not DNA but travel with it and affect how it is expressed. So if your parents or grandparents lived through a famine, like, oh, say, the Great Depression, YOU are more likely to gain weight and more likely to have difficulty losing it. AND! We live in a world highly affected by industrial pollution—there is no corner of the world free from it, micro plastics and industrial chemical pollution have been found literally everywhere ever studied—and many of those pollutants affect our endocrine systems. Looking at records of lab animals going back to the 1960s, where we have excellent records of what genetically essentially identical animals ate, we know that LAB ANIMALS FED THE SAME AMOUNT OF THE SAME CHOW WEIGH MORE NOW THAN THEY DID THE IN SIXTIES. So no. You’re not fat because your willpower is somehow busted. (Willpower, fun fact, can be depleted! By DEPLETING BLOOD SUGAR! Baumeister’s work in the 2000s demonstrated that.) You’re fat because your body wants you to live, and because the ultra rich have knowingly poured poison into the world because they don’t care if you die.
So YOU need to care if you live. And how you live. Please love yourself, because the billionaires will never give a shit about you. Weight Watchers has a 96-99% failure rate. Weight loss is a scam that makes billions of dollars every year. Love yourself too much to fall for that. Don’t wait until you’re thin to love yourself or to start living, because a) that day may never come and b) it’s okay if that day never comes. You are worthwhile and enough right now. I promise you that.
Did I mention that all studies on the subject are very clear–like, we do not need more studies on this, which is a bananas thing for a scientist to say–exercise does not lead to weight loss. It just doesn’t. Anyone who tells you it does is wrong. It’s good for you because it’s good for you, not because it makes you thin. It improves your blood vessel health; it improves your heart health; it improves your body’s ability to manage blood sugar; it improves your muscular health. It does not make you thin.
Reducing calories can reduce weight, but your body, as previously mentioned, is trying REAL HARD not to lose weight. I see a lot of recommendations for 1200 calorie a day diets. Google “starvation study” and look at how much the men in that study were given. It was over 1500 calories a day, and they were miserable. They became skeletal. They felt awful, depressed, foggy–because your brain is the single biggest user of calories in your body. It is so metabolically active that your brain uses around 30% of all the calories your body uses. Guess what happens when you starve your brain? You feel like shit. You feel stupid and depressed. Don’t starve yourself. It doesn’t work and it makes you feel awful and you will get rebound weight gain above whatever you lost, guaranteed, and then you’ll blame yourself for “letting yourself go” because our society is built on lies.
We also cannot and should not ever suggest that anyone can lose more than 5-10% of their body weight and keep that off. It’s just not possible. Bariatric surgery is a WHOLE other can of worms, I don’t have the energy to explain why I almost never recommend it to my patients, but just know that if anyone has ever suggested you lose more than 10% of your body weight through behavioral changes, they are bullshitting you.
Getting a lot of notes on this post! Many of them are people going “oh thank God” and then there are people going “but SURELY you agree I’d be healthier if I lost weight!” and people going “well I lost weight so it IS possible!” and like. Buddy. That’s like two people out of the 10,000 notes on that. You are that rare statistical exception. Feel morally superior if you want to. (Right up until you hit that health problem that leads you to gain weight and suddenly realize, with great shock, that it WASN’T immorality that led you to be sick and fat.)
Lotta people asking me medical questions! No! Ask your doctor. Real professionals need a lot more details than you’re going to send me in an ask. Giving you medical advice without knowing your chart and being your doctor puts me at actual legal risk.
Also people going “cite your sources!” No! I spent 10 years working in research before I went back to med school. You know how I find papers on stuff? Google! Learn to fucking Google! If you can find research that convincingly demonstrates that exercise leads to weight loss, shoot it my way, because on my way in to work last week I was listening to a national conference board prep lecture and the speaker very specifically told thousands of family physicians, out loud in words, “Exercise does not lead to weight loss,” so you can either assume you know more than me and go prove it, or shut the fuck up.
Also people saying, “Wait, I thought I could lose weight, and now you’re telling me I can’t?” No. I’m telling you that weight is not the benchmark for how healthy you are, and if you let your eating disorder tell you that thinness is the only thing that makes you valuable as a person, that is a very different disorder–that you can recover from–than being fat.
Also people with just no reading comprehension going “you’re saying there are ZERO benefits to weight loss?” to which I say go re-read the first two paragraphs of my first post.
I am literally an expert–on the brain, on bodily health–and if what I’m saying is unsettling, you need to think real hard about why. Examine your attitudes towards fatness. Ask yourself whether you’d still like yourself if you were fat. Ask yourself what you have to offer the world besides thinness. Why do fat people being happy threaten you? Why would you be happier in a world where fat people deserved the things fatphobia does to them? How much of your self-esteem is based on being thinner than someone else?
Okay, I am ADDING THE BARIATRIC SURGERY POST HERE. You can STOP ASKING ME FOR IT.
And let’s address the only two meaningful criticism of my original post series:
The Baumeister research on willpower as a depletable resource is probably BS. People have tried to replicate it and they can’t. In my defense, I didn’t know that because I finished my master’s in 2010 and that conference where I watched his presentation was in like 2009, so I’m out of the loop. However, this criticism is valid. And kind of a bummer? I liked feeling like I was accomplishing something with a little treat. Ah, well.
The men in the Minnesota starvation study were given over 1500 calories a day in a setting where they were burning substantially more than that. Yeah! Grown men do! I have a patient who literally walked into my clinic room and was like “I don’t know WHY I’m so tired” and it turns out he’s working and also working out while on an 800 calorie a day diet, so it’s worth talking about how much grown men should be eating, because they deserve to feel like human beings too–but if you want to get into whether 1500 calories a day is a reasonable amount for a human woman to eat, it’s fucking not! ALSO, calorie science is a load of horseshit in the first place. Bomb calorimeters are still, as far as I know, the standard, and the question of “how much energy does this put out when literally burned” has VIRTUALLY NOTHING to do with “is this good for me to eat.”
So, now no one can complain I didn’t address those issues. I am actually grateful to the people who pointed out the Baumeister thing. I’m just annoyed at people going “he was BARELY hungry enough that he CUT HIS OWN FINGERS OFF AND DIDN’T KNOW WHY” as if that is, you know, in any way a defense for why we continually hear advice to go on a 1200 calorie a day diet.
To address two extremely common complaints on this post:
“If you won’t add sources, how do we know you’re telling the truth??” YOU DO NOT. GO LOOK IT UP!!!! I HAVE TOLD YOU REPEATEDLY THAT THESE ARE ALL AVAILABLE VIA GOOGLE WITH SIMPLE KEYWORD SEARCHES. TRY “microplastics deep ocean” or “fat lab animals.” THEY ARE RIGHT! FUCKING! THERE! Do not just trust somebody on the Internet. LEARN TO READ THINGS. Learn what makes a good source vs a shitty one. I quite literally once had a non-medical friend from research degree grad school send me a medical “paper” (it was not peer reviewed) about how vaccines cause autism. It had approximately 50,000 references and looked very official. She was worried it might be legit. I started LOOKING UP THE REFERENCES and I’ll be damned! None of them said what they were being represented as saying. NONE of them. Learn how to evaluate sources or you are doomed to be lied to with abandon.
“Oh great, I was already depressed about being fat and you made it worse!” The FUCK I did! I told you the truth! Society made you depressed about being fat. I’m showing you where all that cognitive dissonance is coming from. If truth makes you depressed, you need to figure out how to live with that truth and then grab the world that made it this way and throttle it into submission. I devoted my entire fucking life to medicine because I was so mad about homophobia and biphobia and transphobia. Get yourself an ACTUAL LIFE with MEANINGFUL GOALS. Being thin doesn’t count! Sure, your life is easier if you’re thin, but you have very little control over that. You DO have control over who you choose to become. Be someone you can respect. You don’t need to LOVE yourself, you need to RESPECT yourself.
RESPECT YOURSELF ENOUGH TO LEARN TO GODDAMN READ SCIENCE! I taught many MUCH less motivated undergrads than you to do it, I KNOW you can.
THIS. READ THIS. ALL OF IT.
I did get a comment questioning the validity of the multigenerational epigenetic transmission, but from a real douche, so I blocked them. However, I think they probably have a valid point about the weakness of the original study—it doesn’t propose a clear mechanism and you can argue there could be significant confounds. So you can decide that’s low quality evidence. Doesn’t invalidate the preponderance of evidence, however—the vast bulk of studies agree that we aren’t built to lose weight, and we cause real harm to ourselves in trying. Exercise is good for us because it’s good for us, not because it makes us thin, and same for eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.
