marxistbarbie:

the queen could literally intervene and stop british children from being so malnourished that there has been a widespread return of rickets in the country but she won’t. kate and baldy could do something about this instead of going to various ex-colonies of britain and lecturing locals about the dangers of having too many children whilst they are expecting their third inbred freeloader but they won’t. megan markle and ginger are going on a £120,000 honeymoon. whilst children forced into poverty by the tories fill their pockets with food at school just to get through the weekend. the lifestyle and entitlement of the royal family remains absolutely and completely morally indefensible.

bigfatscience:

heavyweightheart:

bigfatscience:

It is absolutely the norm for weight scientists to conclude every single publication, no matter the topic, no matter the results, with a firm assertion that fat people should lose weight. It is infuriating.

This is a hall of fame ask lmao

It’s SO standard for scientific and journalistic articles to do this that I’ve developed a kind of game where I’m like “okay boys what’s the kicker??” and try to figure out how/when in the article (usually the conclusion) they will say “we’re shocked & baffled by this data which clearly showed that you can [weigh what you weigh, eat a thing] and be healthy. So what you should really take from this is our Scientific advice to lose weight and restrict your diet!” Like are these authors okay??

When I am feeling charitable, I remind myself of the gauntlet of judgement that researchers must pass through to publish. And how most high profile weight scientists are funded by the weight loss industry, and as editors and reviewers, they will *insist* that researchers include these kinds of statements in their papers if they want to get published. I know a few researchers who have faced this pressure, which puts them in an awful bind. THEY know they have important results that need to be published if the dominant, unscientific attitudes about weight and health are ever going to be over-turned. But the price of publication is high: you have to sell a little bit of your integrity.

But yanno, those ones are by far the minority. The rest just cannot see the contradiction. Anti-fat bias is so ingrained in our culture, it easily goes unexamined.

And that is why it is naive to claim that science is objective, unbiased, pure. It is no. such. damn. thing.

meowren:

corseque:

feynites:

The hilarious thing about watching people talk about their experiences with pokemon go is that I just keep remembering all the edgy ‘realistic’ pokemon reinterpretations that used to go around, and how ‘no the pokemon world would be SO DARK you guys’.

And now there are people going around IRL catching pokemon and they’re just like ‘I WENT OUT AND MADE TWENTY NEW FRIENDS AND FOUND AN EEVEE AND EEVEE IS ALSO MY FRIEND!!!’

So it seems the pokemon setting actually was pretty damn accurate.

I was just at a park by a lake with crowds of people as thick as if there was a fair, all playing Pokemon Go. People rode by on bikes, trying to hatch eggs (one was playing the bicycle theme song on a speaker). The only thing people talked about was Pokemon.

It looked and sounded exactly like I was actually walking down a Route in a Pokemon game. The whole thing was completely surreal.

Pokémon Go, the summer of 2016, was the last pure moment in the world & I miss it

makingqueerhistory:

First, thank you for coming to us, you didn’t come off as rude at all. 

Well, we don’t have a tag or masterpost, but I can create a list of articles we have up at this point (May 14, 2018) that focuses on queer subjects from before Stonewall.

Sappho, the Poetess
Kristina, King of Sweden
Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, and Occam’s Razor
Josephine Baker, a Woman with Eclectic Talents
Queer Women and AFAB People During the Holocaust
Magnus Hirschfeld, the Founder
Institute of Sexology, a Place of Learning
San Domino, Gay Island
The Bitten Peach and the Cut Sleeve
The End of the World War 2 Series
Vita Sackville-West: Creating a Legacy
Langston Hughes: the Poet
The Marriage of Jane and Paul Bowles
Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the Advocate
Osh-Tisch, the Warrior
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Sir Ewan Forbes, the Doctor
Frida Kahlo: Lover of Self and Others
Albert D.J. Cashier
The Golden Orchid
Queen Christina, Queer Codes and Queer Coding (Part 2)
Queen Christina, Queer Codes and Queer Coding(Part 1)
Different from the Others, the Beginning
The Story of the Ladies of Llangollen
Wilfred Owen: Dating Your Heroes (And Writing Through Hard Times)
Virginia Woolf: Struggling (And Never Being Perfect)
Tamara de Lempicka’s Legacy
Tamara de Lempicka’s Life
Federico Garcia Lorca: Words that Scared a Country
Bricktop, and the Happy Ending
Bricktop, the Fabulous
Frank Kameny
Sophia Parnok, Russia’s Sappho
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Alan L. Hart, Part 2
Alan L. Hart, Part 1
Defining Identities in North America, Part 2
Defining Identities in North America, Part 1
Alan Turing
Hatshepsut
Hamish Henderson
Elagabalus, the Empress
Billy Tipton and the Question of Gender
Takatāpui
Yukio Mishima
Kitty Genovese
Catherine Bernard: A question in studying asexual history
György Faludy
Edward Carpenter
Dawn Langley Hall
Zimri-Lim, King of Mari
Coccinelle
Lesbia Harford
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Frieda Belinfante Part 2 
Frieda Belinfante Part 1
Eleanor Rykener
Redefining the Dandy: The Asexual Man of Fashion

I hope this helps!