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And again, mo' treatos. Being a weird couple of days tbh, but these silly things make my heart really happy.

Bonus: (Do I think that Michael would actually use the term polycule? No. Do I think that Michael would actually use the term polycule after somebody told him it's slang for 'buddy'? 100%)

#I AM SCREMAING AT AOLL FISDJAGHJFDGDFSGJDF THEYRE ALL SO FUNNY IM LOSING MY SHIT #SpanNard Nation #FUCK GHDFJGDFGSBUDBUGEDTG

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Ugh that post has gotten me thinking about fat acceptance in a way I haven’t in years. I’ve read more studies about weight and health than probably any other topic I’ve ever researched. And every time I see someone wail about health I am just like

Did you know that in post-mortem examinations there is zero correlation between weight and levels of arteriosclerosis and related diseases found?

Did you know that people with an overweight BMI have the longest life expectancy, that those with an “ideal” and an “obese” have about the same life expectancy, and that being “underweight” raises mortality rates more than being “morbidly obese”?

Did you know that losing weight and then gaining it back is worse for your heart than remaining at the weight you started consistently?

Did you know that 95% of people who lose weight do gain it back, and there has never been a single documented weight loss program that has been demonstrated to keep the weight off for five years or more in the majority or even a significant minority of people? Like, telling people to lose weight isn’t much use if we don’t know HOW to make that happen.

Like I have read The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos and Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata and Big Fat Lies by Glenn A Gaesser (Ph.D!) And Fat!So? and several other books that I don’t own and so don’t remember all of their names I spent like four years reading every single study coming out and looking at the methodology and noting which ones had huge holes or terrible methods and which didn’t (the holes were almost always in the pro-weight-loss studies) and like

Big Fat Lies has 27 pages of bibliography. 27 pages worth of scientific citation. The book content itself is only 197 pages. That’s a page of references for every 7 pages of book. Reading the book is just reference after reference and study after study. Most of these doctors (like Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size) started out the same way. They wanted to use the scientific method to find a real weight loss program or health solution that worked and could be proven to work, and so studied everything they could about weight and fitness only to find out that we didn’t need weight loss in the first place. That all the studies calling for it were lacking or nonexistent. That weight and underlying metabolic health have very little relation. That the history of our relationship with health and obesity has little basis in fact and a LOT of basis in capitalism, politics, and fashion. No, really, the association between weight and health was first proposed by insurance companies looking for ways to charge people more by claiming risk. They also charged tall and short people more. And people with different skin colors. When they got in trouble for charging people for things they had no control over and had no bearing on their health, they set out to prove that weight was controllable and that fat was unhealthy to make money. 

These are also a lot of the same people who went on to invent the President’s fitness program, so if you went to public school you probably already hate them. 

Anyway, if you want a place to start reading about the issue, this article is a pretty good launching pad. 

#oh fun to learn that theres actually less correlation of weight and those diseases than i thought #its actually not just “very low” it is in fact “zero” #fatphobia #anyway the everyman who talks abt fatness being dangerous to health knows fuck all and this post made me happy

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newbie fic authors, shooting themselves in the foot: This fic is bad haha I suck at writing lol I am being mean to myself in the hopes that you will be nice to me but actually am dissuading anyone from even clicking on my fic because all I have done to advertise it is tell you why you shouldn't read it

me: I am King Big Dick of Fanfic Mountain and I have arrived in your fandom with the Express Intention of writing my Very Favorite Fics, which I will generously allow you to read. You're welcome.

#the best part is if u start doing it as a joke give iut a year and u start meaning it #and now i do truly mean it and believe it ur fuckign WELCOME i write AND draw the Best shit

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every new post i see of this man im convinced that he was playing himself in the 2014 movie stretch

Chris Pine attends the Los Angeles premiere of "Poolman" celebrating Chris Pine's directorial debut at Vista Theatre on April 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

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house: u bought that tie bc u want to look PRETTY at work

THE FACT U PICKED THE WORD PRETTY!!!! HOMOSEXUAL!!!!!!!!!!! i lovr them

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Are you an advocate for censorship?

is this because i said not to use the r slur

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i know you guys are all super into reclaiming slurs and stuff, but you can’t just go around calling random people faggots.

#slurs are not just cute little words u can collect and use as u wish bc ur part of the group affected by them #its not like a Fun Club and u Have to b careful how u “”“reclaim”“” them #bc using slurs as they were intended in a way thats indistinguishable from people who mean harm is just more harm #if the only way u “reclaim” a slur is to insult people [yes even as a joke] then ur not reclaiming shit #ur just Using Slurs

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oooooh it grinds my fucking gears how ppl are told "fat makes u a piece of shit" and just goes "yeah ok" like????????????????????????

and they argue "noooo i just care about HEALTH" ok then ur even more fucking stupid bc health and body fat may have some correlations when taken massive sample size into consideration but person to person u cant make that fuckign call?!?!?!

the whole fucking world tells us fat people are lesser and ppl just accept that and are cunts with it like babes just keel over if thats ur attitude i stg

i know MANY healthy fat people and SWATHS of unhealthy thin people, u cannot even in a million years know who is healthier based on the fucking amount of body fat they have AND even if that WAS the point IT LITERALLY DOES NOT MATTER ITS NOT UR BODY FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! stop policing peoples lives because u think ur being righteous when all ur doing is being a bigoted cunt!!!!!!!!

anyway fat people are beautiful and incredible and i fucking love fat people, iv got a dad bod, complete with jiggly belly and i fucking love every goddamn inch of it and no amount of ppl pretending to care about health or just straight up hating fat ppl is gonna change that

if ur worth is tied so muhc to how thin u are and u get mad that a fat person dares to exist in their fat body u need therapy and to stay the fuck away from me and any other fat person eat shit ur ugly inside and out and being thin wont fix that

man: doing parkour and weight training 5 days a week man: happens to be slightly fat clowns on youtube: THIS GUYS DYING EARLY!!!!!! THIS GUY JUST NEEDS TO GET BACK TO IT AND LOSE SOME WEIGHT!!!!! HE WILL BE FINE HE COULD STAND TO LOSE A LITTLE BUT HES FINE DONT WORRY GUYS SOON HE WILL LOSE WEIGHT AND THEN WONT DIE EARLY!!!!! ITS SO SAD THAT HE GOT INJURED AND NOW IS FAT BUT SOON HE WILL NOT BE FAT SO IT WILL BE OK!!!

ur all literally LITERALLY so stupid so brainwashed so fuckign clueless it would be funny if it wasnt a painful indication of just The Entire World's attitude

#the second someone says some shit abt fat ppl theyre gone #i chew them out and move the fuck on i cant stand that shit #go be a bottom feeding maggot somewhere else and stop stealing my oxygen

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man: doing parkour and weight training 5 days a week man: happens to be slightly fat clowns on youtube: THIS GUYS DYING EARLY!!!!!! THIS GUY JUST NEEDS TO GET BACK TO IT AND LOSE SOME WEIGHT!!!!! HE WILL BE FINE HE COULD STAND TO LOSE A LITTLE BUT HES FINE DONT WORRY GUYS SOON HE WILL LOSE WEIGHT AND THEN WONT DIE EARLY!!!!! ITS SO SAD THAT HE GOT INJURED AND NOW IS FAT BUT SOON HE WILL NOT BE FAT SO IT WILL BE OK!!!

ur all literally LITERALLY so stupid so brainwashed so fuckign clueless it would be funny if it wasnt a painful indication of just The Entire World's attitude

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Tried to have a writing session but brain's all 'no story only dialog', so had to circumvent. More treats before grumbling slumber.

Bonuses:

#SORRY CURRENTLY DYING OVER THE ROTTEN WORK CHRIST ALIVE AND FUCK IM TRYING ONES IM SCREAMING #THEYRE SO PERFECT

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#im so mad bc u just go days bouncing between all of these and none of them NONE OF THEM feel good #nonnnneeee of themmmmmmm feel good

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oopsie! You got a bit too manic about a creative project too close to bedtime and now your brain is too awake to sleep. One million dead 10 morbillion injured

#oh ME

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UK petition: Sandyford Clinic [Scotland] to immediately continue to prescribe trans kids hormone blockers

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Following the Cass Review, trans kids are no longer able to receive puberty blocker prescriptions from Sandyford, Scotland's only gender identity clinic for under 18s. This is devastating news for trans kids who will now see their bodies change in ways that will trigger dysphoria. It will ultimately cost lives as trans kids are driven to suicide. All this will happen because of some despicable, manufactured "trans debate", where trans kids, and adults, are being used as a scapegoat for society's problems. Trans charities and advocate groups are condemning the awful Cass Review all over the country. The only groups celebrating this dreadful document are anti-trans ones. Hormone blockers have been used for decades safely, and the vast majority of trans kids that go on to transition are happy. A common argument against blockers is that trans kids are not old enough to make such decisions. This is exactly what puberty blockers are for; to hit the pause button on any irreversible changes; to give trans kids time to make these decisions. We urge Sandyford clinic to immediately resume providing trans kids with their life-saving puberty blockers.

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#this clinic is so very Not Good a lot of the time lmao its tragic

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hey anybody wanna uhhhh stand 2 inches in front of me while i viscerally scream at like maybe a b-flat directly into their face for a sustained like 3 hrs?

#adhd is understimulated i am in sensroy hell

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this man came back into my mentions and really pulled a "So u hate waffles?" on me????

im honestly so?????????????? my guy just pulled somethign out his ass and then continued to "thats so funny but sad" my guy u are arguing with ur imagination right now are u GOOD!?!??!?!?!

therapy isnt cheaper or easier than coming at random ppl on the internet speaking out ur mouth sideways but i highly recommend it bc u could benefit

youtube commenters engage in conversation WITHOUT weirdly combative tones challenge, difficulty level: impossible

me: i was telling my friend i didnt rly like the finale episode it was boring some fucking guy: WOW INCREDIBLE HOW U CANT CITED SOURCES TO BACK UP UR CLAIM!!!!!!!!!!!!

did my opinion on a tv show offend u orrr???? like r we good????? like i just said i thought it was boring and full of plot contrivances and didnt quote specifics bc the video didn't either and i didnt wanna spoil plot points but sure yeah im just lying abt not enjoying something???? what is wrong with u genuinely?!?!

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anyway i love A Man

#was skimming looking for something he said and GOD it struck me just how gorgeous he is AGAIN #andy

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youtube commenters engage in conversation WITHOUT weirdly combative tones challenge, difficulty level: impossible

me: i was telling my friend i didnt rly like the finale episode it was boring some fucking guy: WOW INCREDIBLE HOW U CANT CITED SOURCES TO BACK UP UR CLAIM!!!!!!!!!!!!

did my opinion on a tv show offend u orrr???? like r we good????? like i just said i thought it was boring and full of plot contrivances and didnt quote specifics bc the video didn't either and i didnt wanna spoil plot points but sure yeah im just lying abt not enjoying something???? what is wrong with u genuinely?!?!