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honestly i dont need therapy i need a machine to go into my body and manually stretch all my muscles and crack all my joints and then i need the machine to go into my brain and deep clean it with soapy hot water

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"For 60 years, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or even saved, millions of lives. The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolism—a body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.

The second big lesson the medical establishment has learned and rejected over and over again is that weight and health are not perfect synonyms. Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages: Studies have found that anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol. Meanwhile, about a quarter of non-overweight people are what epidemiologists call “the lean unhealthy.” A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people."

A surprising article to find on the Huffington post. I think, especially towards the end, there's still a saturation of healthism and diet talk (just of the "clean eating" variety), but the information about weight discrimination is absolutely on point, especially within the medical field ignoring decades of research.

Not only do we know that weight loss isn't sustainable or possible, we also know that weight discrimination kills, in a myriad of ways. If you actually care about "health" then start unlearning your weight bias NOW and realize that fat people are just people who are a different shape.

And this article doesn't even touch on "the obesity paradox"(the fact that fat people survive heart attacks and injuries BETTER THAN thin people) or the fact that dieting, especially "yo-yo dieting," is a better predictor for heart disease than weight, and that many of the fat people who have cardiovascular diseases have a long history of dieting that (understandably) didn't work.

encouraged to rb but fatphobes will just be blocked.

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Moth to a Flame Pendant Light // Neile

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As an adult I think me and all my friends should all have matching schedules and work like 20 hours a week and also everyone lives within 15 minutes of each other why is that so much to ask

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This week only for Arcanart! I'm selling Beanie Baby adoptables and a limited-time-exclusive skin for F Auraboa - winged chronicler. Check out my arcanart shop for details!

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Yellow-belly Three-toed Skink (Saiphos equalis), family Scincidae, found in eastern Australia

The only species in this genus.

Coastal populations reproduce by laying eggs (oviparity), and mountain populations reproduce through live birth (viviparity).

photograph by Rebecca Pyles

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thanks, Arcanist

Here are the children who he thought had died in the frigid vacuum of space, as frightened and alone in death as he had been at birth.

He wishes that he could apologize to their ancestors. I'm sorry. You couldn't help your flaws, because I was the one who gave them to you. I owed you a better solution.

How many nights had he spent tracking their ship across the sky? How many tear-stained charts had he furiously thrown across the Observatory floor, hoping that he'd find them half-eaten in the morning? Forgive me, forgive me…

But there's nothing that he can do about that now, so he forces himself to focus on the present instead. His first children's descendants are fresh, bright, unburdened by worldly cares. They happily show off their colony's marvels to him- the hydroponic terraces, the asteroid mining equipment, the runic arrays- in a language that still carries traces of their ancestors' old tongue. It's a miracle that any of them survived, let alone thrived in their accidental exile.

The bigger miracle, he thinks, is that any of them choose to love him.

First-father, they call him. First-father, were you the one who sent us to the stars?

I was.

He waits for their judgement, to be asked if their mission had been a punishment, if they resented him for banishing their ancestors from the planet.

But their wrath never comes. Thank you! they cheer, tiny hearts brimming with delight. Thank you for everything!

Against all odds, luck has given him the chance to see his first-made once more. He vows not to take that for granted, not for them, and not for the rest of his brood either.

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The UX of LEGO Interface Panels by George Cave

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i don’t know what i’m doing on tumblr anymore, but i guess i’m still here

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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More deities! (And also Ort again because I fixed his textures).

From top left to lower right...

Ineyale Phor, the Yuenhüuian God of of the moon Baza

Mgachyt', the Outsider God of Stars & Astronomy

Mglw'nochyt', the Outsider God of Infinity

Baghánn, the Nuríian God of Jesters & Trickery

Ort, the Nuríian God of Woodlands, Forests, & the Lost

Oqdaz', the Lakrakian God of Lightning, Storms, & Strength

Zhia Tyali, the Náian God of Nature, Plants, & Wood Elves

Aðrrakroo, the Drylvuian God of Fish & Lakes

Ing', the Weg'olw'chyen God of Ponds, Rivers, & Frogs

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hey don’t cry. spiro the bald eagle failing at catching a crab, okay?

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assorted ornamental birds! (2021)