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thebanneredmareinn
queen-of-crows

Not trying to victim blame or anything but you’d think with all the times necromancers have tried/succeeded in raising undead armies the people of Tamriel would’ve stopped burying their dead fully armed and equipped for battle.

Like, I know your great grandpa’s sword was A Part Of Him and all but maybe you could bury SuperDeathblade somewhere not right next to SuperDeathbladeMan. Just in case.

Pinned Post lmao fr skyrim
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ebtcard

it’s also fucked up that fat people literally fear going to the doctor for anything because they know the first thing out of their dr’s mouth no matter what their ailment is, is gonna be “lose weight lol” broken leg? lose weight. rash? lose weight. whooping cough? lose weight binch!!!!! like we get it. but can you just write my prescription you bitch so i can go eat a salad and not call you again until im about to die of the plague????

sourcedumal

I would not be surprised if someone did a study and found an increase in misdiagnosis of fat patients due to doctors focusing solely on weight loss as a panacea and ignoring other vital issues

underlilithswings

You mean like this article from the NY Times (from September of 2016) talking about how doctors refuse to consider non weight related issues until they absolutely have to?

Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don’t See Past the Fat


Or this study showing that even though the bias is often unintentional it greatly changes patient care?

Impact of weight bias and stigma on quality of care and outcomes for patients with obesity


Or this study that showed that maternity providers have a bias towards obese women and often provide subpar care or push elective procedures?

Weight stigma in maternity care: women’s experiences and care providers’ attitudes

slightmayhem

Fat Shaming Tied to Increased Risk of Metabolic Problems
this one that says that obese people who are made to feel bad about their weight are 41% more likely to have medical complications as a result of the internalized stress (high cholesterol, high sugars, high blood pressure- or need meds to treat those conditions), versus people who don’t feel stigmatized. 

‘People First’ – Ending Weight Bias in Diabetes Care
“ Evidence also indicates that doctors may spend less time in appointments, provide less health education, build less rapport, have lower expectations for medication adherence, and have less desire to help patients with obesity compared with thinner patients. “

animatedamerican

I think about this every time I see something saying that obesity is a high risk factor for any other illness.

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softichill

Hey so your girlfriend got put into a fandom and um, they kinda. Yeah they made her the Mean Lesbian Friend. Yeah it's entirely because she's the only girl who's not overtly caring or kind. Sorry. Also they-- yeah she's characterized entirely as a wingman for the popular gay ship. Sorry again

softichill

"This is so me lol" "I do this" this is a complaint post. This is a post complaining about when this happens. This post is about the constant 1-dimensional characterization that happens to women characters in fandom when they are not cute or nice. The last part especially is complaining about how once these women are made Mean Lesbians they are characterized entirely though their "endearingly rude" support of a relationship between two men.

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sillyfxmme

I think I have a controversial thing to say: I love and recommend (have recommended) Stone Butch Blues as much as the next person, but there's other books from and about butches that get slept on because people only know Stone Butch Blues

sillyfxmme

Here's a couple that I recommend all the time:

Butch is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman

Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote

No, but like Ivan Coyote for example has so many books and I have some of those here

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trans-axolotl

saw a post the other day that said that psych survivors were overexaggerating and fearmongering for saying that people should be aware that having diagnoses on your record can be a danger + impede your life. and the more i think about it the more annoyed i am. because i think people need to know that there are exceptions to health privacy laws that can make having psych diagnoses and psych hospitalization history on your record risky depending on your circumstances. diagnoses follow you through your health interactions-you do not have to consent to have your information shared between providers. judicial proceedings are also an exception to the HIPAA privacy rule, so for things like custody battles, guardianship, getting orders of protection--the court can petition for medical records. there's so many other situations where even if they can't legally access your information without your authorization, people will require you to disclose diagnoses, records, previous hospitalizations and refuse to give you services/hire you/whatever unless you share that information with them. for example in many states anyone (a provider, a cop, friends and family) can disclose that you have certain psych diagnoses like bipolar to the DMV which then might require that you undergo drivers license review as frequently as every 3 months. my university is actively trying to kick me out right now because i had to disclose my medical record, psych diagnoses, and hospitalization history to them as a requirement to stay enrolled.

and i don't want to scare people or make people think that having a diagnosis on their records is automatically going to mean that it is weaponized against us. because i do know plenty of people who have never faced issues with their records. but i do expect that the community supports the people speaking out about the ways that we have been harmed by diagnoses creating barriers to accessing necessary parts of our life. instead of attacking us or saying that we're lying about things we are currently experiencing.

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docprofsmith

When will people finally understand that Jurassic Park is not a horror story about fucking with the natural order and bring dinosaurs back, but a horror story about capitalism fucking with science for profits.

quill-of-thoth

Exhibit A: the park was made with ZERO research into what would be safe and appropriate environments for the dinosaurs, or Ellie’s trike wouldn’t have been so sick with berries. They apparently just turned the unsocialized, unstudied herbivores loose in the tropical wilderness.

Exhibit B: Based on the fact that Grant and Ellie are apparently the first actual paleontologists they brought in, and that Hammond apparently has plans to open the park immediately after he’s won them over, it’s pretty clear that we’re seeing the first generation of successful dinosaur cloning. Disregarding the fact that they have mammoth dinosaurs who should have grown that big over decades, because there’s no way Hammond’s been at this for longer than his granddaughter Lexie has been alive.

Exhibit B: So you know how he could have gotten his dinosaurs to near adult size so fast? Growth hormones. Leaving aside all the HGH/BGH (Human or Bovine growth hormone, respectively,) controversy, growth hormones were available in the 80s and 90′s. Unfortunately, there’s a 0% chance they were using Dinosaur growth hormone, because apparently they were clued out enough to use frog DNA. Even if they had, accelerating growth is not going to lead to healthy dinosaurs.

Exhibit C: We don’t see any juveniles. Hammond appears to have assumed that dinosaurs are reptiles, which are R selected (high infant mortality but lots of offspring) rather than birds, which are K selected (lower number of offspring, much smaller infant mortality,) and is hatching new dinosaurs like crazy so the park should be KNEE DEEP IN ADOLESCENT HADROSAURS. 

The fact that we’re not seeing any growth stages besides infant and reproductively mature means one of two things:

1) They cloned the first batch, shut down while waiting for the dinosaurs to finish accelerated growth to full size, and let the survivors loose in their enclosures before prepping a new batch.

2) The majority of their hatchlings and subadults are dying. Probably from their inappropriate habitat or complications of their cloning or growth acceleration. The first successful mammalian clone was Dolly the Sheep, born 1996 (three years after the first Jurassic Park movie came out,) so it’s unlikely that InGen had significantly better technology in 1996, especially considering that they don’t seem to employ any veterinarians or zookeepers. 

Jurassic Park is an animal welfare nightmare.

Exhibit D: The actual embryo theft plot. Hammond could have slowed down the inexorable progress of industrial espionage in a world before a widespread internet by not hiring any credible animal welfare or dinosaur experts (which he did, the jackass) but getting together all of the technology for his cloning lab and building an entire theme park off the coast of Costa Rica would have been pretty easy for his rivals to track. Especially when he’s ordering miles of electric fence while making his own personal version of Disney World… anyhow, the whole idea that dinosaur cloning should be kept a trade secret rather than peer reviewed or subject to any national or international law, not to mention an ethics committee, is the entire reason that the original Jurassic Park is both doomed and a cautionary tale about letting corporations drive scientific advancements for profit.

… you know, the point I started this rant on.

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disabledmachineherald

always hate how stomach issues are like, both not taken seriously and considered funny to abled people

like it's not just a "ate something bad/too much" regular people stomach pain. it can be so bad you can't walk or leave the house at all. your vision could literally go black or you could pass out from pain. it's all there is. it's everything

one time i was laying in bed feeling like i was literally on a surgery table. i was in and out of unconsciousness and delirious. that's just one example of how bad it can get

and if a person with stomach problems (or allergies) tells you they can't eat something, they fucking mean they can't eat it. no matter what

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neurodivergent-butterfly

dear people who use labels because it makes them feel like they're part of a community, i love you

dear people who don't use labels because they don't want to be put in a box, i love you

dear people who reclaim slurs and use them proudly, i love you

dear people (especially our LGBTQIA+ elders) for whom slurs still hold a lot of negative experiences and don't want to be called by them, i love you

dear people who use neopronouns and xenogenders, i love you

dear people who have always known who they loved or who they were, i love you

dear people who are only figuring out now who they love or who they are, i love you

dear lesbians and wlw people, (including trans lesbians and non-binary lesbians) i love you

dear bisexuals, i love you

dear aces, i love you

dear LGBTQIA+ POC friends, i love you

dear LGBTQIA+ muslims, i love you and so does Allah

dear fat LGBTQIA+ people, i love you

dear trans people, i love you

dear people who live in countries where loving who they love or being who they are is dangerous, i love you and you are so strong

dear LGBTQIA+ religious people whose families told them being who they were is a sin, i love you

dear everyone who is part of Pride, i love you

zwergenmaedchen

dear gay men and mlm people, i love you