I blog about injustice because I want to learn from it. I think it's important that this be a public experience, not only to help others learn the same, but to remain accountable for my actions and statements.
If I have said or done something problematic, please let me know.
honestly in my brain Bill Nye is still the #1 authority on science. Bill Nye could tell me that the government of every country in the world is composed entirely of reptiles and I would be like “Oh wow……. I think we should trust Bill on this one”
Reminder: Don’t let your brain bully you, sometimes our minds are cruel to us. You deserve to live, you deserve to eat, you deserve to express your feelings. People do like you! You’re doing a pretty good job, and you are worth more than you give yourself credit for.
Like, most human bodies have adapted in such a way that it’s easy to gain fat and muscle and harder to lose them. Especially fat. It’s easy to gain fat bc your body needs it and we live in a calorie-rich time. Fat =/= bad, and I’m so so so tired of our entire society acting like it does.
I just now found before reading this that a longtime family friend has passed away from complications following an elective weight loss surgery.
They were young, they were kind, they were loved, and now they’re gone.
There is nothing wrong with being fat.
There is everything wrong with how we treat fat people.
They are being abused. Nothing less.
being a billionaire retroactively strips your humanity from you. you were never a baby. you were never a child. you were only a monster from your billions onward.
this is a fucking incredible piece of art. THEYRE HOARDING IT. THATS WHAT THEYRE DOING WITH IT LMAO. FUUUCK DO YALL READ BEFORE YOU POST?
You cannot hoard billions of dollars without actively and willfully exploiting the poor. Billionaires cannot exist unless extreme poverty also exists. You cannot be a billionaire and be a decent human being at the same time… the two concepts are literally counterintuitive. If you are a billionaire, you automatically have your boot on the throats of millions of poor people, and you know it even if you pretend not to. You cannot be anything other than evil if you are a billionaire. It’s simply not possible.
Please help raise awareness about a serious illness that hides in plain sight
My name is Ang. If you’ve been following my story then I’m sure you’ve heard about this, but I’ve come down with a chronic illness. I have severe-spectrum MECFS. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, or cruelly called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which downplays how much of a devastating, horribly disabling and terrifying disease this is.
It is an illness that affects millions, leaving a good portion of us housebound or bedbound, some so sick they are paralyzed and need to be tubefed and others die from the illness or complications.
I’ve been bedbound almost 3 months now since my illness has been progressing (which is nothing compared to how quickly it can become years), so sick some days I cant lift a spoon to feed myself, talk, or tolerate light and sound. I can’t draw anymore which was my passion in life as an artist, let alone take care of myself. I can’t even tolerate watching TV or play games most days to distract myself from the trauma caused by being confined to a bed in this sort of agony.
I got ill like this after getting the flu in January, and it’s been downhill from there as I started having bizarre neurological symptoms and collapsing episodes where I was unable to move, the energy draining from my body as the days went on until I needed a cane to walk, then a walker, then I was housebound with a wheelchair, and now I am bedbound and the severity steadily worsens with no let up so far despite doing everything I can to stop or slow the progression.
It is a level of sickness that is overwhelming me and my life is uncertain, but it’s looking grim from this point. I’m in severe pain constantly, on top of having horrible dysfunction in every other part of my body. I’ve only been steadily declining.
I lost my entire life right as it felt like it was starting. I was an artist working my dream job at Cartoon Network, and now I may never be able to return to the animation industry or live out my dreams of telling the stories I wanted.
The worst part is this illness could have been treatable by now! But it’s not, due to a deliberate choice of abuse and neglect by medical institutions. Most doctors aren’t trained to treat or diagnose M.E. and it gets practically no funding. Most sufferers are told it’s all in our heads (wrongfully diagnosed with conversion disorder or functional neurological disorder) even with evidence coming out that it’s a physical neurological disease and the only treatment we are given is get told to take anti-depressants, see a therapist, and exercise (despite exertion intolerance being the hallmark symptom and dangerous).
So the only way people like me have any hope of getting better is if we get a surge in awareness and understanding, and hope it leads to more funding and research. With decades of neglect and lives lost, this can’t go on.
At first I asked for donations when I was trying to figure out what was happening to my body as I threw money at doctors appointments begging for help only to get turned away and given no help, dwindling away my savings from when I used to work. And while donations were loved and helped significantly in my financial situation, it will not give me access to effective treatments if they don’t exist.
That is why I am asking you to help spread awareness. Please educate yourselves and donate if you can to organizations that research M.E.
People like me are suffering with a monster illness as debilitating as late-stage AIDS or cancer, hopelessly sick and dying with little help and living in severe medical neglect. I can’t even get a caregiver which I need now because my family can’t care for me longterm, all because my illness isn’t taken seriously by health insurance companies!
We need help. People with M.E. need help so bad because a lot of us are even too sick to advocate for ourselves.
If you want to know more there’s a wonderful documentary on Netflix made by M.E. sufferer, Jennifer Brea called Unrest (2017). Please give it a watch.
Please share this. I am one of the #millionsmissing and while I have not been suffering with M.E. for very long compared to others, the trauma and destruction this illness brings is great and no one should have to go through this. I would not wish this suffering upon even my enemies.
We need awareness. We need advocacy. We need understanding. We need funding. We need diagnostic markers. We need research. We need effective treatments and hopefully one day a cure.
I may never have my old life back, and I don’t want anyone else to keep suffering the way I have since I’ve gotten sick. The pain is indescribable. I want one day for someone to get sick like I and others have, only to learn they can be diagnosed and effectively treated or cured.
Please help bring our stories to light. Please help save our lives.
Anti-Semitic fliers were found distributed across the US city of Newton, Massachusetts, on Sunday.
The fliers, which referenced the Daily Stormer Book Club, included a caricature of a man with horns, a long nose and a beard [Alexis’s note: and pointy ears, a forked tongue, and sharp, pointed teeth…you might call it “reptilian” -_-], and read “Why do Jews push pornography and degeneracy on our children,” according to images of the fliers published by local news outlets.
According to the ADL, the Daily Stormer Book Club chapters, or SBCs, are “small crews of young white men who follow and support Andrew Anglin and his neo-Nazi website, the Daily Stormer.”
One Jewish resident found a flier posted inside a book swap box, WHDH reported. Newton police called the placement of the fliers random.
The police said it is the first such incident in the city in a decade.
Different anti-Semitic fliers referencing the Daily Stormer Book Club were found in several states across the United States in October 2018, at the time of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“Trans women don’t like it when I say they should put up w being sexually assaulted and attacked? Well, maybe they should just solve all patriarchy for everyone then!”
What’s fucked is that’s exactly what’s been happening since forever
Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.
So let me get this straight ,vegans should stop eating the food of the Mexcian long-nosed bats, because the bats need it, and instead vegans should instead eat honey, the food of bees, that their larvae need, even though the bee populations are facing ecological issues as it stands.
10/10 post, dude.
Did you forget the whole part where only excess is taken and all their needs are met and then some orrrr?
Like, did you read it orrrrr?
Anyway, BUY HONEY SAVE BEES
It is a 10/10 post. Because OP is right.
Bees do not suffer when beekeepers take their honey, because experienced beekeepers do not take all of their honey, in fact, they leave plenty of honey left for the bees to consume over the winter. If we do not collect their honey, 1 of two things will happen.
1. they will leave for a bigger home. Which at first seems fine until you remember that bees are dying very quickly out in the wild.
or
2. They will start using the areas that they reserve for their young as a place to make more honey. This is bad because if no more young are being produced, then the hive will start to die out because no new workers are coming into the world, and the average live only 150 days, so it would also mean the loss of more bees.
So yeah, eating honey isn’t inhumane at all. In fact, you’re helping the bees by eating what they produce and giving money to the bee keepers who are the ones making sure that the hive will keep being healthy.
Eating honey doesn’t help bees because honeybees are European and displace native bee populations and spread disease. Neither honey nor agave are necessary foods either so like…. What is the point of this post
“As the shutdown drags into its fourth week, causing cascading impacts around the country, The Post reports that pressure is now likely to intensify on the Senate majority leader to allow votes on measures reopening the government. Three Senate Republicans have already called for a reopening, and as one GOP strategist puts it, a few more coming out “changes the calculus” for McConnell. Meanwhile, thanks to new reporting over the weekend, the basic question of whether Trump has at pivotal moments acted in Russia’s interests, to the detriment of U.S. interests — is being thrust to the forefront with new urgency. This should cause us to revisit the role that McConnell played during the campaign in preventing members of Congress from showing a united public front against Russian sabotage of the election.”
There is a long history of acceptance for queer people in the Philippines, dating all the way back to pre-Spanish colonization and conversion to Catholicism. In Filipino mythology, there was always a queer presence.
Prior to colonization, the Philippines was a polytheistic nation. Deities differed between tribes and regions, and the myths included here were handed down generation after generation through oral tradition. (Read full article)
On the subject of Jughead again: It’s really weird when they say stuff like “they made him ace to avoid homophobic backlash.” Like, not only has Archie Comics been making it clear since Kevin was introduced that they don’t want bigots in their audience in the first place, but there WAS a backlash!
The Straights were very upset about asexual Jughead. In fact, the backlash was the first thing I saw about ace Jughead, and was one of the main reasons I went out of my way to read it (my local comic shop did not carry the title). The Straights accused Archie Comics of injecting their gay agenda, and a lot of them dropped the book immediately.
REGs have literally no idea how straight people see asexuals. They are constantly talking out their ass despite being demonstrably wrong.
Here is a post with a screenshot of some of the comments in question. Going back through articles published in the wake of the original reveal, the overall response from Straight people seemed to have been “this comic is being ruined by political correctness!!!11″
