i just want people to know that engaging in disordered eating patterns is harmful and difficult regardless of whether it never morphs into a clinically diagnosable eating disorder, and if you are dealing with any of this you have my utmost sympathy and care. i am so tired of diet culture treating these behaviors as though they’re completely fine as long as they’re not “bad enough.”

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

— James Baldwin

fursonar:

birlinterrupted:

I just learned yesterday abt this existing and it’s so baffling to me that healthcare determinations wrt CA state law are able to be sent by a state govt agency to a private corporation in VA

Just a little of what they’ve been up to in the UK:

ATOS, Maximus and Capita questioned on ‘gruelling’ medical assessments (“The Work and Pensions Committee questions Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) contractors Atos, Capita and Maximus, who carry out the medical assessments for disability benefits PIP and ESA, putting the disturbing evidence it has heard so far to them. The Committee also publishes the contractors’ written evidence ahead of their oral testimony.”)

Maximus make “jaw-dropping” profits from DWP assessments

Some context: British government systematically violating the rights of the disabled, UN inquiry warns

From today: Spending cuts breach UK’s human rights obligations, says report (“Alston said the UK was in breach of four UN human rights agreements relating to women, children, disabled people, and economic and social rights.” )

cutecatpics:

It’s all little too much for Bruce

argumate:

The story of William Barak and the Wurundjeri people in Victoria is instructive. Adopting British language, customs, religion, and becoming successful farmers got them precisely nothing: the Victorian state punished them for their success by withholding the fruits of their labour, giving their farmland to white farmers and forcibly relocating them to poor land much further away from Melbourne.

chemicalkin:

I’m not over this review of a self groomer for a three legged cat. Look at him. He hasn’t been able scratch his left side by himself since he lost his leg but now he can and he is living life the fullest. That is the face of a cat who has finally scratched an itch.

The White House Christmas decorations are the laughingstock of the internet

wetwareproblem:

thewightknight:

Some of the highlights:

istg, there’s a generation of up-and-coming cartoon creators who are gonna draw all their inspiration from White House Xmas decorations anytime they need a supervillain lair.

The White House Christmas decorations are the laughingstock of the internet

best-of-turnblr:

voldemortcanyounot:

thebabbagepatch:

fearofpop:

A guy is taking his girlfriend to prom. He waits in the ticket line for a really long time but gets them. He goes to rent a limo. The rental line is really long but he eventually does it. He goes to buy her flowers. The line at the florist is really long but eventually he gets the flowers. At prom, she asks him to go get punch. He goes to the refreshment table and there’s no punchline.

you’ve got to be kidding me

I am in physical pain

todaysbird:

todays bird is: this chicken!