LET ME B UR PEPPERMINT

party like a severed head

look like a severed head

smoke like a severed head

fuck like a severed head

stop talking about the USA. I have heard enough about that wretched place

hey op i understand where youre coming from and your perspective is valuable. but like. could you validate me🥺🫶

37 people were illegally detained in Bellingham, Washington for the ‘crime’ of speaking Spanish. This is so fucking inhumane and cruel

⬆️ racial unity now is matching funds for the detainees and their families. please help if you can.

it's shameful how long i had to look to find an article covering this story that gives more information besides saying "37 undocumented workers were arrested wednesday." cascadia news and the AP were the only sources i found that include any journalism whatsoever beyond the police report.

Hey, this is local for me. It would mean a lot if you could help out even a little bit.

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This is the best tag I've ever received on a post, I think

There are no words to write to you...We have been dying of hunger, oppression and burning in front of your eyes for a year and six months. We are being exterminated, we are being exterminated

A core feature of anti-fatness is the "you did this to yourself"-view. People are very invested in the idea that size is within everyone's control. It's soothing to believe that all fat people are a small series of good choices away from becoming thin and staying that way, and that thin people are success stories by virtue of existing.

Any time we speak up about discrimination and fatphobia, someone inevitably plays that card. Trolls will say "eat a salad, pig" and well-meaning health nuts will gently explain what calories are. In either case, we're met with a "you know, you can stop this at any time." Why, if nobody was fat, thin people wouldn't need to examine their biases! It sure would be an easier time for everyone if we weren't so Around and Bulliable!

I want to try not to be fatphobic, but as someone who's dietary struggles lie solidly in "did I remember to eat enough food" I definitely struggle to even comprehend how unwanted weight gain happens. Isn't what we eat, and how much, an active choice we make every day? Isn't the default state an unmoving and dying worm, and every deviation from this state only possible due to our volition?

I know other people have responded to you, so I'll be brief in terms of answering your actual question: For most people, the factor contributing the least to their weight is what they eat and how they exercise - this is true for fat and thin people alike. The factor contributing the most is genetics, but following this, many other things contribute including: epigenetics, metabolism (look up set-point theory), socioeconomic status, trauma, stress, weight stigma, health conditions, medications, age, gender, race, the place they're from and maybe above all in a diet-culture obsessed society: dieting.

The number one long-term side effect of intentional weight loss is weight gain. Your body cannot tell the difference between dieting and starvation. Starving yourself slows your metabolism permanently. The reason it does this is because your body does not want to lose weight. Your body, no matter what size you are, will respond to weight loss as though it is threatening your life. It will try to prevent weight loss, and it will adjust your metabolism to further prevent weight loss in the future.

But this isn't the main reason I'm responding to you. The reason I'm responding to you is to tell you that whether or not every single person in the world's weight is completely in their control, and whether or not every single one of them on earth could lose weight if the wanted to, and whether or not every single one of them is entirely at fault for being fat, it is irrelevant.

Being fat does not need to be involuntary for you to support fat people.

There is no "trying not to be fatphobic, but -" But nothing. Support fat people regardless.

Artist: Dierdre Sokolowska @unwashedace

The gag t-shirts got too personal

Shadow “finds out” he’s “a gay”: the comic

(There is no finding out, I lied )

He’ll figure it out eventually, once he decides to stop being difficult xD

Next up, shadow tries on a cutesy dress :>

Bread clip animals

[ID: A series of catlike animals with heads modeled after bread clips. From top-left, going clockwise: a purple clipcat with yellow flower patterns landing from a jump; a green clipcat with pink star patterns sitting; a blue clipcat with orange stripes standing and looking up; a yellow clipcat scratching itself with its leg. /end ID]