you have almost nothing to gain from spending money on self-help or body optimization books and courses. most supplements and health topics are bogus. but universal healthcare would meaningfully extend your probable lifespan.

Thin people feeling insulted isn't what's wrong with the BMI. The problem with the BMI is that it's designed around white men's bodies. The problem with the BMI is that it ISN'T A CLINICAL TOOL, it's a statistical one. The problem with the BMI is its use to exclude fat people from health care.

Just a reminder that Epic still pays the creators for "free" games Even claiming it because it's free gives money to the transphobia machine. Don't claim it, don't play it

kinkshaming dracula. not for the blood stuff but for that fuck ass cape.

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the little ice cream treat i ordered myself with my groceries is out of stock 😭 this is basically a non-problem but i'm still sad about it

it's embarrassing how excited i am to be wearing my first post-op tshirt (bigger tshirt was easier to put on and i still asked my partner for help getting it over my head lmao)

so many people’s conceptions of genre fiction are so stunted and wrong. my conceptions are fine obviously

I’m a fat asshole who loves lasagna, too. What makes Garfield so special

stores have no idea how much shoplifting takes place, they only know when stock doesn't match records. how much is due to human error, incorrect shipments, breakage, and theft is a guess. literally cannot know if shoplifting is on the rise. this was a radicalizing discovery for me.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted 2.5% poison resistance

Artist Gillian Levine recently wrote and illustrated a comic sharing reasons to continue masking in 2026. She kindly gave us permission to republish it. 😷 Read the full comic at The Sick Times: bit.ly/4rVqQdp

it seems to me that gen AI boosters devalue their knowledge and deskill themselves, in every field. you shouldn’t let tech enthusiasts lie to you

During a reactionary war a revolutionary class cannot but desire the defeat of its government.

Btw

I'm a simple guy. I just need Bloodborne to not run like a bear hit with a tranquilizer dart on the PS5. aftermath.site/bloodborne-rem...

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I wish people would come to understand transphobia as systemic, structural, and pervasive so we could stop treating transphobia as explicitly limited to people saying "I hate trans people" and accept the way our society conditions us all to dismiss, diminish, and dehumanize trans people.

"A year-long analysis of BBC coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza reveals a pattern of bias, double standards & silencing of Palestinian voices. Israeli fatalities received 33 times more coverage per death. The word ‘massacre(d)’ was used 18 times more frequently for Israeli than Palestinian victims".

Bluesky is bad because everyone thinks identically (tells me I stink) instead of featuring a diversity of thought (telling me I'm a smart handsome boy)

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Getting banned from the SCP wiki for changing "cognitohazard" to "jimmies-rustler" in every article.

hot take: if you're an American, this is not a nuanced issue. you do not need to "listen to Iranian voices" here. you need to tell your leaders to stop bombing a country and killing people. that's literally it.

started sewing with my friend's sewing machine, realised i need a zipper foot, realised her machine doesn't seem to have one in the little storage thingy, realise i don't know where my machine currently is

Colman Domingo at the #naacpimageawards

The americans will make rubble and call it liberation

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime. You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

I think the thing that offends me most about this regime is how obvious they are about how unimportant our consent to government is to anything they do

I am convinced that for the past ten years, all streaming services have functioned as money laundering for the ultra-wealthy. That's why they cancel successful shows, shitcan already-made movies for tax incentives, produce garbage they know will fail, and went all-in on AI slop being the future.

it's 2026 and the cool S is still not in unicode

Sometimes I feel like shit but then I read a few of @bransonreese.bsky.social ‘s transcendent Swan Boy panels and it helps.

i didn't put my earrings back in fast enough after my top surgery and now one of my ears has gone from 6mm to 2mm 😭😭

my friend made me some trousers!! i need to alter the waist a bit, they're a little loose, but i LOVE them

Evergreen:

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

This session cost us almost $100 and obviously, it was completely worth it, but both of us going to acupuncture is over $160 a week before the cab fee to get there. We could really use your help affording this. Paypal.me/thelionmachine

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery! I'm in a lot of debt from my extended illness and I've not found a job yet, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much! ko-fi.com/fooneturing

Labor leaking some austerity budget messaging now they've cleaned up the Coalition's mess and spent a windfall or two on election-focused policies with very little impact on anything other than social media metrics among people who were voting for them already. Oh well!

ah yes, the rise of the populist right marks the perfect time to make services worse, and families poorer archive.is/M1LCu