Month: May 2018

Click here to support Help Tammy Post-fire organized by Tammy Lynn Garrison

deducecanoe:

deducecanoe:

Hey everyone. I know everyone is hard up right now, but I’m in a bit of a bind. I’m OK after the fire, but I need to find a new place to live ASAP. I think I have enough funds from the Red Cross for another night or two in a motel, but after that I’m kind of on my own. 

I found a place, but I need first month/deposit, and it doesn’t come with a fridge or stove, which are kind of important. Also, the electricity is not on, and I will have to pay for that too. I know I’m asking a lot, but any help you could give would be amazing. 

https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/crime/edwin-st-fire-reportedly-reveals-meth-making-operation/article_6d5661ae-4b3d-11e8-9c33-37cf7f255d22.html

Here’s an article about the fire. 

Click here to support Help Tammy Post-fire organized by Tammy Lynn Garrison

theymightbegiantsquids:

motherhenna:

motherhenna:

motherhenna:

Ok so I was looking for historical slang terms for penis (gotta be era-accurate when writing vintage dick jokes) and I came across….something

image

some linguist compiled a literal timeline of genitalia slang–a cock compendium, if you will–that dates back all the way to the fucking 13th CENTURY. This motherfucker tracked the evolution of erection etymology through 800+ years, because if he doesn’t do it, who else will? Thank you for your service, Johnathon Green.

Some of my favorites include:

  • Shaft of Delight (1700s)
  • Womb Sweeper (1980s)
  • Master John Goodfellow (1890s)
  • Nimble-Wimble (1650s)
  • Corporal Love (1930s)
  • Staff of Life (1880s)
  • Spindle (1530s)
  • As good as ever twanged (1670s)
  • Gaying Instrument (1810s)
  • Beef Torpedo (1980s)

and last but not least, the first recorded use of the word Schlong, which was in 1865 CE. Tag yourself, I’m Nimble Wimble 

And are the lovely ladies feeling left out? not to worry! Johnathon’s got you covered, gals, because he also made one for vaginas. Highlights:

  • Mrs. Fubb’s Parlor (1820s)
  • Poontang (1950s)
  • Spunk Box (1720s)
  • Ringerangroo (1930s)
  • Ineffable (1890s)
  • Itching Jenny (1890s)
  • Carnal Mantrap (1890s – a busy decade apparently)
  • Bookbinder’s Wife (1760s)
  • Rough Malkin (1530s)
  • Socket (1460s)

and a personal favorite, crinkum-crankum, circa approximately 1670.

@antique-symbolism

chavisory:

sisterhandgrenadeofforgiveness:

lethal-cuddles:

sindri42:

lethal-cuddles:

trilllizard666:

dothepropaganda:

wow, what a gorgeous month to remember autism isn’t a disease and there’s no “cure for autism” and there shouldn’t have to be one just because allistic people can’t get the hell over themselves and realise other people experience the world differently and have different needs and require different accommodations. terrific.

autism is literally a neurological and development condition but ok sure yeah keep with the feel good platitudes, you absolute tit

There’s a strong difference between a “disease” and a “condition”, you absolute tit

Think of it this way. 83% of computers (laptop and desktop) use Windows. 13% use Mac. The vast majority of software is developed for windows, with another significant fraction developed for or adapted to mac, because that’s what most people use and it’s all most people understand.

Now imaging you’re one of the 1.4% of computers are running Linux. This doesn’t mean you’ve got a windows machine with a virus, it doesn’t mean your computer is broken, it doesn’t mean it needs to get replaced with a more common operating system. It’s not quite as good at some things most people take for granted, but it’s significantly better at a bunch of other things. But if you have a problem with your computer, the vast majority of people won’t have any idea what you’re talking about. They’ll give advice for how to deal with a similar issue on their own computer, and it will be worthless. The only people with any idea what you’re going through are going to be on linux forums. And you can mostly muddle through all the things everybody else can do with improvisation and lots of WINE, but it sure would be nice if the devs of that video game you were looking forward to would like, acknowledge the existence of your demographic.

Now imagine that on top of all that, the primary linux support system had been taken over by a bunch of assholes who’ve never so much as looked at a command prompt in their lives. but who have declared themselves the Voice of Linux Users and keep spending millions of dollars on campaigns “educating” everybody about how using linux makes you a fundamentally bad and stupid person so your laptop needs to be burned immediately to force you to get a correct computer.

i love that analogy so fucking much

As an IT person who uses linux and as a mother of one, possibly two autistic kids:

This is an excellent analogy.

It is and also, I love how trilllizard666 answered the OP with an objection that in no way counters what the OP said.

Autism is literally a neurodevelopmental condition.

Which is not a disease and for which there is no cure but which can require a different approach to life in the world.

Both of those things are true.

a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:

a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:

Sometimes I forget that people who were never poor are pretty much from a completely different dimension than me.

Like, my friend Aaron bought me a new pair of boots as a gift, which is wild to begin with because what kinda hot shot can spend $150 for no reason, but then the next day, I found a decent pair at Goodwill for five bucks. And so I was talking to him, and I said, “Aw, man. I feel bad that you spent money on me and then I ended up finding a new pair the next day! Do you want to return the ones you bought me? I haven’t worn them yet.”

And he looked at me a little horrified, like I asked him if he was planning on needing both kidneys in the future, and said, “Dude, those boots you found are fucking hot glued together in places. That is not the same as new shoes. You needed new boots.”

And I was just legitimately sitting there kinda confused for a minute because… Sure, they’re nasty and hot glued together now, but I can properly glue them together and clean them later and then they’re basically brand new, idiot. I found the necklace I’m wearing tangled around the rearview mirror of a totaled Lasabre at the junkyard, man. Don’t test me.

The thing is, he didn’t even get them for me because I asked for them or mentioned needing new ones. He was just sick and tired of looking at the beat up Docs I’ve been wearing since high school and took matters into his own hands. My old boots were fine. They were just ugly, and he didn’t understand why it didn’t bother me that they were ugly. If I felt like I needed new boots, I’d have gotten new boots when it was convenient.

I’m heaps better off than we were as kids, no doubt, but I guess I just never unlearned my poor kid instincts, and so people have to physically drag me kicking and screaming to buy new clothes and shoes because I say stuff like, “It isn’t dirty. It’s just got woodstain on it. Don’t be a baby.”

That time when Spain didn’t exist

afluffypuff:

blue-raspberry-micronation:

languagestudyblr:

languageoclock:

alroundnoob:

edwardspoonhands:

stahrmie:

1001-percent:

myworldoflanguages:

useless-spain-facts:

This is a milestone of the Internet

port o rico

spania

But like English is a language but it’s not a nationality like they speak English in Australia and Can a’ da and stuff but it’s not like theres a place caled Englia full of English *people*

But like German is a language but it’s not a nationality like they speak German in Austria and Switz ‘r land and stuff but it’s not like theres a place called Germania full of German *people*

But like Dutch is a language but it’s not a nationality like they speak Dutch in the Netherlands and Belg i’ um and stuff but it’s not like there’s a place called Dutchia full of Dutch *people*

But like Danish is a language but it’s not a nationality like they speak Danish in Greenland and Far o’ e Islands and stuff but it’s not like there’s a place called Dania full of Danish *people*

But like French is a language but it’s not a nationality like they speak French in Haiti and Mon a’ co  and stuff but it’s not like there’s a place called Frenchia full of French *people*

But like Chinese is a language but it’s not a nationality like they speak Chinese in Hong Kong and Sing a’ pore and stuff but it’s not like there’s a place called Chineseia full of Chinese *people*

Hi, first off, thank you for this blog! I wanted to ask, do you have any science that explains why some people don’t lose weight even while starving? I get confused over this especially when trying to argue against fatphobia, so gaining a better understanding would help me. Because isn’t fat stored in the body to help in times of starvation? But then how come some people don’t lose weight/stay fat even while starving? I don’t doubt it happens, I know it does, I just don’t really understand why.

bigfatscience:

bigfatscience:

bigfatscience:

sad–ghost–kid:

bigfatscience:

This is a good blog post on The Eating Disorder Institute (formerly Your Eatopia) about the topic: “

Gaining Weight Despite Calorie Restriction

” The author includes many scientific sources.

In general, though, your confusion comes from the over-simplified myths about weight that permeate our culture.

First, fat is not only an energy storage device, it is also an important endocrine organ. This means that the fat organ regulates hormones, and thus, helps to regulate the functioning of many other organ systems in the body. So the fat organ can grow in response to non-food-related factors, like chronic stress or sleep deprivation, as part of the body’s adaptive response to those factors. (And guess what is stressful? Dieting and weight loss.)

Second, when people do not consume enough energy to meet their needs, two biological processes are triggered. The first is catabolism, which is the process of breaking down the body’s cells to release the energy and nutrients stored in those cells. That energy is then used to fuel the body. This is what people usually think happens when people restrict their food intake to lose weight: the body breaks down fat for energy. Of course, when catabolism does happen, fat calls are not the only cells that are broken down: the body also breaks down muscles, organs, bones, and ligaments to access necessary nutrients and energy. (Yikes.)

But the second process that is triggered by an energy deficit is metabolic suppression: The body slows down all the basic, life sustaining processes of the body to conserve energy. 

Losing approximately 10% of your body weight initially slows these life sustaining processes by approximately 15%. And people continue to restrict their energy intake, over time, these life sustaining processes can slow by as much as 30%. Metabolic suppression can also become more reactive over time and repeated bouts of starvation (aka “dieting”). So someone who has dieted in the past will have a metabolism that slows more quickly and more dramatically in response to food restriction compared to someone who has never dieted.

So a person can gain weight while restrictive dieting because an energy deficit causes the body to slow all the life sustaining processes of the body in favour of growing the fat organ, which helps the body to survive in times of stress.

This is some serious shit, people, and it’s a big part of the reason that intentional weight loss through restrictive dieting is so unhealthy.

so if the metabolism is slowed, how does that impact the energy deficit? does it mean less calories are “needed”? because that could work out, stating probably too simply, that if less energy is being used then there is more excess to store as fat.

and if fat growth is happening despite restriction, is catabolization happening?

(sorry if you cant answer these)

“so if the metabolism is slowed, how does that impact the energy deficit? does it mean less calories are “needed”? 

Weight loss is often framed that way: Oh, your metabolism is slowed, so you don’t *need* as many calories as other people need! Just keep eating less and you will maintain your smaller body! 

But maintaining your body in a state of suppressed matabolism is not a good thing. It literally means that your body has instituted emergency measures to survive. Any non-essential physiological processes – like the  reproductive system – are dramatically slowed and can be stopped completely. And even essential bodily processes like the transmission of fluids into and out of cells (the most basic biological function), to the regeneration of cells, to the functioning of the immune system, to the re-myelenation of nerves (essential for their function) are all slowed down. 

This is literally what it means when the sources I linked above say that the basal metabolic rate is slowed by weight loss: The body is slowing down all of its essential, life-sustaining physiological processes in order to survive. That is not a good thing. It is not a state that any organism can or should sustain in the longterm. 

PS: And yes, when those basic processes are slowed, it can “free up” energy to grow the fat organ.

Reblogging for the person who was asking what happens when you eat less than your body requires to thrive. Basically, you destroy your body. Don’t do it. 

This is how the body defends its own, unique, set point weight.

thebibliosphere:

curiousitykilledthe-crow:

toloveviceforitself:

peanutworm:

thewildonion:

chiefmilesobrien:

peanutworm:

You, an intellectual: 9+7=16

Me, with ADHD: if you take 1 from 9 and give it to 7 thats 8+8 and 8×2 is 16

Someone, usually a Teacher: NOT LIKE THAT YOU HEATHEN

This is literally how I would have done it

9 is a hungry bitch and takes one from 7, making it 10+6=16

VALID

This is why, on my IQ tests as a teenager, during the arithmetic processing portions, the test administrator asked me to walk her through how I was getting the answers.

Because I was coming up with the answers pretty quickly, but it was clear from other portions of the test that my raw processing speed is actually pretty slow. So when she asked, I told her I was very quickly making little easily-crunched shortcuts like these.

Which is all well and good for as long as it works, but the problem is that you can frequently use these shortcuts to fake being good at raw processing tasks right up until someone gives you a task that can’t be shortcutted, and expects you to do it quickly because you seem to process like a normal person.

And then they probably accuse you of being suddenly lazy or stupid.

I didn’t know this was adhd

I do this all the time. Always have.

Huh…

…Wait. What.