Um… how the fuck is there a lure on an unreachable pokestop? Like, I’m watching this thing, and there are no boats near it. Why is there a stop even out there?
I mean, I have a kayak at home. I could go get it and paddle out there just to see what the deal is. Is it worth it?
I AM FUCKING DOING THIS.
I am literally sitting here in a kayak catching pokemon, and I still can’t figure out how someone got a lure on this pokestop. It’s just me out here, no other boats, like what the hell. People on the shore are staring at me. I can feel them judging me for actually paddling out to this pokestop. GOTTA CATCH EM ALL.
When I got back to the shore, a guy asked me if he could borrow my kayak to get the pokestop, and now I’m charging people $10 a pop to use it.
Pokemon is amazing this is like those moments when you would play the games and you gotta use “Surf” to see what item’s on the sandbar across the way
My first instinct was to dismiss this as a fabrication but then i remembered that summer 2016 was just like that
The RNC sent me a notice of official census material that was actually a fundraiser for the republican candidates running in the midterms. The paperwork was presented as being an official document required to be filled out by law, but it was patently false. This is corruption. This is meant to deceive people into giving data and money to a political party under the guise of nonpartisan census data. This undermines trust in the census, local government, and the democratic process. This is beyond disgusting, and I’m mailing back the form to tell the RNC how I really feel about their bullshit.
The remains of domesticated crop plants at an archaeological site in southwest Amazonia supports the idea that this was an important region in the early history of crop cultivation, according to a study published July 25, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jennifer Watling from the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil and colleagues.
Genetic analysis of plant species has long pointed to the lowlands of southwest Amazonia as a key region in the early history of plant domestication in the Americas, but systematic archaeological evidence to support this has been rare. The new evidence comes from recently-exposed layers of the Teotonio archaeological site, which has been described by researchers as a “microcosm of human occupation of the Upper Madeira [River]” because it preserves a nearly continuous record of human cultures going back approximately 9,000 years. Read more.
My boyfriend’s mom is on a diet (Weight Watchers) because her doctor told her that she needed to lose weight because of her health.
My boyfriend’s mom? Is skinny.
If I had to guess her size, I’d say she’s a 6 in US women’s.
How could she possibly need to lose weight??
She eats healthy. She exercises. She takes good care of herself. What possible health conditions could she have that means she needs to lose weight?
-Mod Bella
My guess is BMI lying more than usual but still being treated as a worthwhile metric.
Mainly because I’m in a similar situation, thankfully with a doctor’s office who accepts I’m fine with my setpoint range. But their office software still highlights my weight as something they should be concerned about because my BMI lies high (literally lies – BMI had previously claimed I was healthy when I was almost dangerously underweight and there are documented inherited reasons for this). I’m not skinny anymore clothing-wise, but I was miserable when I was that small and felt better when I widened out a bit.
I’m not kidding, I’ve seen the screen. BMI alone gets me the ‘look, there’s a statistic of concern, unhealthy patient alert’ orange highlighting.
I’ve done the back calculations from BMI standards. If my smart scale is even slightly accurate about body composition, for me to barely enter the software’s idea of ‘normal’ ‘healthy’ weight I’d have to drop into proven-to-be-unhealthy body fat percentage territory.
This is from me walking places casually reasonably often in everyday life. If I was an active athlete, it would be completely impossible. Every pound of lean weight I gain by being active is a pound of fat the software doesn’t want me to keep, and training for competition in anything would quite likely mean no longer being allowed to possess *breasts* without ‘talk to this patient about her weight’ visual alerts (to put things incredibly bluntly).
So I’m lucky. They listen. And my health insurance hasn’t decided to make an issue of it either.
But if they ever give in to pressure and talk to every patient who gets their weight highlighted by the software, I’ll likely be urged to diet until I start dropping cup sizes. And even ‘succeeding’ at that may not be enough weight loss to shut it off.
(After all, the last time I had a ‘normal’ BMI was at least one age-related hormonal shift ago, and even back then that was skinny enough to make me sick and perpetually cold. When I say I’m cool with my current setpoint, I mean it healthwise as well as appearance-wise)
When I was starving so badly my bones were poking into things no matter what position I was in and I was visibly emaciated, my BMI said I was healthy, I think. Now I’m just fat (and unhealthy, but only related tangentially) and I have to get crap like “Why do you need a feeding tube?” Because my fucking stomach is paralyzed, asshole, and believe it or not you can lose a shockingly dangerous amount of weight and die from it before being thin. But also you can need a feeding tube for all kinds of reasons and be any weight at all. Feeding tubes are not just for visibly emaciated skinny people, they’re for anyone who needs to bypass the usual eating system for any of a huge number of reasons. (In my case, my stomach is not quite a dead-end street but might as well be. It needs one tube to drain so stomach fluid doesn’t build up and go into my lungs, and another tube to bypass it entirely and go straight to my intestines so I can get food at all.) And not all those reasons make you skinny. And even if they make you lose dangerous amounts of weight you still might not be skinny. (I lost 75 pounds too rapidly to be remotely safe but I was still fat.)
The following post was angrily dumped in my notes a few months ago, authored by an 18-year-old who is absolutely convinced that they know how the American economy works better than I do, and wanted to shout at me about it. I began to respond to it a few times, but I felt that it wasn’t kind or productive to burn the poor kid down when I have a platform, and they clearly had a lot on their minds, and as the responsible adult in the situation I should really offer them gentle kindness and guidance instead. But it was so funny. And they came to my house to shout at me.
So I’ve posted their post below, divorced of context (so they can divorce themselves from the post, as they almost certainly would like to do in the cold light of day) because I thought the comic I produced in response had a certain Absurd Fascination.
(LISTEN if we all had multiple adults in every household CAN YOU IMAGINE how we could SPREAD THE PENSION RISK)
Just a friendly reminder that eye contact can literally cause pain for us. Like the pain centres in the brain light up if we’re in a brain scan.
So if you’re autistic, don’t feel bad for not making eye contact. If you know autistic people, don’t make a big deal of the lack of eye contact.
This this this this.
Some of us can maintain eye contact if we’re in a good place mentally but we may break eye contact under stress or when anxious. Or we may simply never make eye contact at all.
I fall under the former. And yes, it does hurt. It’s a crushing burning feeling and it feels… just awful. Please never demand an autistic person to maintain eye contact with you. It is literally torture.
And even if it doesn’t physically hurt us… cos everybody’s different…
it can feel unnatural, overwhelming and/or not let us concentrate on anything else.
If you have to choose one, do you want a person to be paying attention to what’s going on, OR only looking like they are paying attention?
One of two fake abortion clinics on the same street as the REAL center, the EMW’s Women Center here in downtown Louisville. This one is right next door to the actual clinic and this place is seriously a nightmarish hell-hole for any unsuspecting women tricked by the anti’s. They assure you this this the abortion clinic, they get you inside, and then offer you food and drink—which of course, means that once you realize your mistake, you can’t run next door and catch your actual appointment, since you need to fast.
Women have come out of this building crying, and on a few rare occasions, without their pants. They take you to a back room for an ultrasound, have you remove your pants, and then begin lecturing you on the sins of aborting. They do not give you back your pants until you have listened, and a few women tricked this far refused to listen and stormed out furious, ashamed, and in their underwear.
This is the anti-choice agenda—lying, tricking, shaming, and embarrassing women to the brink of hysterics in hopes that she carry the pregnancy to term. Forcing her, through lies and manipulation, to do with her body what THEY want, not what is best for her.
There is no “choice” at the Louisville “Women’s Choice” clinics. Just abuse, shame, and bigots who would rather undress a woman to make her feel vulnerable and then explain how awful of a person she is than let her make HER. CHOICE.
I reblogged this at first without checking if it was legit but it turns out it is legit and people need to be warned. A simple google search is all the evidence you need.
And as a general rule: if the place says “crisis pregnancy center” or anything similar, IT IS A TRICK. Real women’s health clinics are typically called “women’s health clinics”. They do not specialize in ONLY pregnancy, because a woman has more health concerns than just that uterus. Even if you get past the name, Planned Parenthood’s full description is as a health clinic, because they screen or refer to physicians who screen for cancers and diseases, as well as educate about pregnancy (yes, they can and do explain what to expect throughout pregnancy to new mothers who want their pregnancies. My mother found her Lamaze class through a PP.)
Crisis pregnancy centers cannot call themselves “clinics” because they do not actually offer licensed medical care. If they try to use “clinic”, remember that ethical doctors would never use “crisis” in their practice’s name; a crisis is a difficult choice or situation, often with moral implications (i.e.: “crisis of faith”, “financial crisis”, “mid-life crisis”, etc.) It has nothing to do with receiving medical treatment. No one with a broken leg is having a crisis; they’re having a medical emergency. Words matter.
HOLY FUCK! I have one of those Crisis Pregnancy Centers nearby!! Signal Boost. Thanks for the info!
It disgusts me that these places are actually legal to operate.
flipping fucking what?? This shit is legal?? holding your pants hostage must fall under some penalty CMON *FOAMS AT THE MOUTH*
i saw this shit on VICE. they really paint themselves as abortion clinics just to traumatize women.
Excuse me? How is this a real thing????
Ugh I live south in Lexington ky and this disgusts me…..why would someone do this?
Just a friendly reminder that eye contact can literally cause pain for us. Like the pain centres in the brain light up if we’re in a brain scan.
So if you’re autistic, don’t feel bad for not making eye contact. If you know autistic people, don’t make a big deal of the lack of eye contact.
This this this this.
Some of us can maintain eye contact if we’re in a good place mentally but we may break eye contact under stress or when anxious. Or we may simply never make eye contact at all.
I fall under the former. And yes, it does hurt. It’s a crushing burning feeling and it feels… just awful. Please never demand an autistic person to maintain eye contact with you. It is literally torture.
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