It's the chaos of the Epagomenal Days! The Days Between Days where time does not exist! Yesterday's birthday was Wesir (Osiris) and my host, them and their partner all had an incredible day of devotion. We made candles for Him with white fir oil, white crystal, onyx and peridot. We gave him offerings of gingerbread, green jasmine tea and lemonade. He seemed so satisfied with His offerings and our devotion because when we woke up this morning, we found a bloom on my host's prayer plant! We didn't even know it could bloom! Dua Wesir, King of the Akhu!

On a different note, KO has gotten BIG news that's kind of thrown everything up into the air with uncertainty. It's made us quite anxious. Change and uncertainty has never been greatly coped with on our end, but Father made sure to let us know that He was there with a sign that was unmistakable. Along with Nefertem as the new God Over the Year, I know that we are safe and taken care of and that, somehow, everything is going to be alright.

Well, this would be interesting...

This will be amazing, though!

Just think about it:

We are in the era after it caused SO MUCH, and caused so many sites to put in blocks and other restrictions to stop it from scraping everything

If they are forced to wipe their entire dataset then they won't be able to get even a fraction of it back!

Truth Behind Fat: References

[Original post found here. All content following is authored by the maker of Big Liberty, the source blog.]

DISCLAIMER: This links list is always in the works, and is not comprehensive or complete. If evidence is not listed, it doesn’t mean it does not exist. If you have any links to add, please insert them in relevant comments and they will be reviewed.

For a general resource on debunking the junk science behind obesity, please see:

• Linda Bacon’s resources and blog
• Sandy Szwarc’s blog, Junkfood Science
• Michelle’s blog, The Fat Nutritionist
• ASDAH’s article repository

Debunking Fat Hate and Misconceptions

Doesn’t Obesity Kill?

• Obesity does not kill 400,000 Americans a year (in fact, it ‘contributes’ to fewer than 30,000).
• Fit Over 60s Live Longer Regardless of Body Fat
• No tenable link between obesity and breast cancer type
• No tenable link between diet and weight control and remission of type II diabetes
• The J-curve relationship between BMI and mortality
• Mortality risk for overweight and obese is no greater than for ‘normal’ when hypertension and diabetes are controlled for, (Anthony Jerant, Peter Franks. “Body Mass Index, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Short-Term Mortality: A Population-Based Observational Study, 2000–2006″ J Am Board Fam Med July-August 2012 vol. 25 no. 4 422-431)
• Low-Calorie Diet Doesn’t Prolong Life (New York Times, August 29, 2012)

Shouldn’t Fat People Should Simply Eat Less and Move More?

• In controlled settings people lose 10% of their weight on a diet, but one third to two thirds of the weight is regained within 1 year, and almost all is regained within 5 years. (“Methods for voluntary weight loss and control. NIH Technology Assessment Conference Panel.” Ann Intern Med. 1992 Jun 1;116(11):942-9.)
• The preponderance of evidence shows that diets don’t work
• No weight loss intervention shown generally effective post 5 years
• Fat people as a whole metabolically the same as lean people, except that they’re bigger
• Eating and weight gain not necessarily linked, study shows
• Evidence for a bodyweight setpoint (energy homeostasis)
• Medicare’s search for effective obesity treatments: Diets are not the answer. (Mann, Traci; Tomiyama, A. Janet; Westling, Erika; Lew, Ann-Marie; Samuels, Barbra; Chatman, Jason. American Psychologist, Vol 62(3), Apr 2007, 220-233. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.62.3.220 ) (PDF)

Isn’t There An Obesity Epidemic?

• Americans have only gained an average of 14 lbs (women) and 16 lbs (men) since 1990 (Gallup)
• Obesity: An Overblown Epidemic
• The 1998 BMI definition changes made 30 million Americans overweight or obese OVERNIGHT
• The Myth of the Obesity “Tsunami”
• One-third of American Adults are Obese, but Rate Slows

Isn’t Weight a Lifestyle Choice?

• Obesity largely determined by genetics, says study
• Obesity is 77% heritable
• Thin parents pass on skinny genes to children (October 4, 2011, The Independent, UK)
• Insulin resistance. A multifaceted syndrome responsible for NIDDM, obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. DeFronzo RA, Ferrannini E. Diabetes Care. 1991 Mar;14(3):173-94.

But Doesn’t the Idea that People are Different Sizes Though Consuming/Exercising the Same Violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

• In fact, in principle, the suggestion that a “calorie is a calorie” — all human metabolisms are the same Bunsen Burner — violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Isn’t there a Study that Disproves the Claim that You Can Be Fit and Fat?

• That study is junk science. The preponderance of evidence shows that in fact, one can be fat and fit.

Is there Discrimination Against Fat People?

• Brownell Obesity Discrimination Study (2001)
• Health Professionals Specializing in Obesity Aren’t Immune from Weight-Bias
• The surprising reason why being overweight isn’t healthy
• Obesity bias based on disgust, study says (2010)

Isn’t Fat Unhealthy?

• Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift (Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor, Nutrition Journal 2011, 10:9, 24 January 2011)
• Higher BMI can lower risk for Alzheimer’s
• Metabolic syndrome associated with decelerated cognitive decline in the very elderly
• The case against the Type II diabetes “epidemic” in kids
• You can’t eat your way to diabetes
• ‘Obese’ BMI does not harm current health of young adults, study says
• Obesity not always tied to higher heart risk (Reuters, May 24, 2012)

Shouldn’t Fat People Try to Diet Anyway?

• Although long-term follow-up data are meager, the data that do exist suggest almost complete relapse after 3-5 yr. (Miller, W. C. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1999 Aug;31(8):1129-34.)
• In fact, size acceptance and health at every size may be a better approach to health than chronic dieting. (Bacon L, Stern JS, Van Loan MD, Keim NL. J Am Diet Assoc. 2005 Jun;105(6):929-36.)
• Except that dieting can kill you, even when you’re fat and dieting down to a ‘normal’ weight.
• And there are suggestions that frequent (intentional) weight loss diets reflect susceptibility to weight gain, rendering dieters prone to future weight gain. (August 9, 2011, K H Pietiläinen, S E Saarni, J Kaprio and A Rissanen. “Does dieting make you fat? A twin study” International Journal of Obesity | doi:10.1038/ijo.2011.160)
• Healthy lifestyle habits are associated with a significant decrease in mortality regardless of baseline body mass index.  (Eric M. Matheson, MS, MD, Dana E. King, MS, MD and Charles J. Everett, PhD. J Am Board Fam Med January-February 2012 vol. 25 no. 1 9-15)
• And adolescents who engage in unhealthy weight-control behaviors such as dieting and binge eating are three times more likely five years later to be overweight than adolescents who did not engage in those behaviors.
• There are even further suggestions suggest that for many adolescents, dieting to control weight is not only ineffective, it may actually promote weight gain. (Alison E. Field, ScD, S. B. Austin, ScD, C. B. Taylor, MD, Susan Malspeis, SM, Bernard Rosner, PhD, Helaine R. Rockett, RD, Matthew W. Gillman, MD, Graham A. Colditz, MD. “Relation Between Dieting and Weight Change Among Preadolescents and Adolescents” PEDIATRICS Vol. 112 No. 4 October 1, 2003 pp. 900 -906)
• Weight Regain Following Sustained Weight Reduction is Predicted by Relative Insulin Sensitivity, Trudy J. Yost, Dalan R. Jensen, Dr. Robert H. Eckel*, Obesity Research, Volume 3, Issue 6, pages 583–587, November 1995

General Sites Debunking the Junk Science About Obesity

• Big Fat Lies

General Science

• The Problem With Peer Review
• When the population approach to prevention puts the health of individuals at risk

Food Science

• Canned foods are as nutritious as fresh foods

Evidence for the Moral Panic

ADOPTION AND FERTILITY

• Australian woman told she was too fat to adopt (January 2003, The Age, Australia)
  
• In the UK, fat women can’t adopt (June 2006)
• Kylie Lannigan told she was ‘too fat to adopt’ (June 2007, Australia)
• Gary Stocklaufer denied adoption request because he was fat (July 2007, United States)
• New Zealand bans fat woman from entering the country (November 2007, Big Fat Blog, NZ)
• Obese women not allowed to get IVF treatments (December 2008, BBC News, UK)
• Charlotte and Damien Hall denied for adoption because of their BMI (January 2009, The Guardian, UK)

CHILD ABUSE

• Couple accused of starving baby so she doesn’t get fat (January 28, 2010, Fox News, USA)
• Grandad arrested over Grand Canyon hike (September 2, 2011, The Age, Australia)
• Parents allegedly starved baby because of obesity concerns (November 8, 2011, ABC News, USA)
• Grandmother to face capital charges in granddaughter’s death (March 1, 2012, CBS News, USA)

MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE

• Doctors’ ultimatum to kidney transplant wife: Lose 42lb in nine months or watch your husband die (March 2009, Daily Mail, UK – h/t richie79)

TAXATION AND PUBLIC POLICY

• Fat people should have their food taxed to ‘pay for healthcare’
• Don’t operate on smokers and the obese, says NHS Health Secretary (February 2007, Daily Mail, UK)
• City government promotes lie to motivate weight loss via fear; anti-obesity agenda is to blame
• The 1998 BMI definition changes made 30 million Americans overweight or obese OVERNIGHT
• Obesity bias based on disgust, study says (2010)
• Global governments must get ‘tough on obesity,’ in which the commentariat helpfully suggests plus-size clothing be ‘prescription-only,’ amongst other astoundingly panicked and bigoted replies (August 25, 2011, BBC Health, UK)

TRANSPORTATION

• Southwest, Sizism, and Institutionalized Oppression (Athia, YouTube, August 2011)
• On Kevin Smith and Flying Fat (BigLiberty, February 15, 2010)

WORK AND EMPLOYMENT

• Obesity can mean less pay

Libertarian/Anarcho-capitalist Arguments Against the Obesity Moral Panic

• The freedom to be fat
• The new obesity pandemic, as same as the old obesity pandemic
• The assault on food
• Public health and the tyranny of the common good
• Are food trucks really like child molesters?
• Is Your Flab Imposing a Burden on Society? (May 1, 2012)

BOOM. Everything you ever needed to know to argue with your fat phobic friends and family.

quick little watercolor I did to offer for Inpw's feast day :) I depicted him as a black coyote bc coyotes are local to me and always remind me of him

Lost followers after reblogging that whole thing about JKR being radicalized over the years, and that disturbs me.

Like if you think saying that people can be radicalized and manipulated into hate is somehow justifying it, yikes. And if you think that people are somehow just good or evil and that you are not at risk of buying into propaganda, have I got some very red flag news about that!

Idk if its because I am an older Millennial maybe (most who unfollowed were younger) but I watched a ton of that generation slide from one of the most progressive to the far right before my every eyes. Hell, my dad fought alongside his black friends in the Detroit race riots and now he watches Fox News 24/7 and talks about the border wall. Yet still claims he could never be racist because of how he used to be. He doesn’t even realize what he has become.

JKR isn’t a deluded old woman or innately evil, but in fact THE prime example of how well-meaning ignorance and privilege can be weaponized and encouraged down a pipeline, until it turns into a force of hate, and should be a cautionary tale about why educating and being open about these issues are necessary. Because there are those out there who will use those divisions and ignorance to their own ends. And just digging in our heels and saying “that could never be me!” is the very thing that puts you more at risk. I’ve lost so many loved ones down that pipeline and it is more slippery than most realize.

Stay alert, stay compassionate, stay humble, and make sure you move through life guided by reason rather than reaction. I love y’all and don’t want to see your passion twisted to get used against the world.

tags from @galwednesday​

01/08/2023

Another quick and dirty service today (got home way later than I expected), but Dad got His meat pie and I got the most wonderful view of His healed eye in the moon, so. I have a feeling that’s what really mattered to Him.

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Canadian commercial actors say American actors are crossing the border and the picket line in the middle of a major US entertainment industry strike and filling the jobs of Canadian actors who have been locked out for over a year.

Thousands of unionized commercial actors in Canada have been locked out since April 2022 while The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) has been negotiating with commercial agencies to try and get a fair deal.

Now, as a result of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA actors and WGA writers strikes that have shut down TV and film productions in the United States, some Hollywood actors have travelled north of the border in search of non-union commercial work in Canada.

“Over the last year there’s been a lot of American commercials shooting up in Canada doing everything non union because they can walk around it,” one ACTRA member who requested to be anonymous told PressProgress. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

if you want to support ACTRA members who have been locked out for 16 months you can donate to the AFC here

ACTRA has also called for a boycott of Canadian Tire, Home Hardware, Rogers, Wendy's, Sleep Country, and H&R Block

At least one of the actors involved in crossing the picket line is Drew Barrymore:

As someone who is actively working in the Canadian film industry - trust when I say the whole fucking thing needs to be burnt to the fucking ground and rebuilt entirely.

Both here AND south of the border.

A friend of mine who was producing a national commercial spot in Toronto legitimately tried to work with ACTRA to use their talent. ACTRA reps directly talked her out of shooting union and made it impossible for her to work with them, so she was literally forced to shoot non-union. It was like ACTRA didn't want their members to work.

ACTRA (unlike SAG-AFTRA) is also rather draconic about union actors not taking any non-union work whatsoever and they will actively punish performers that do. Rather than, you know, just letting actors take good paying work that supports them and showcases their skills as a performer even if it's not a union gig.

And it doesn't help that the majority of what shoots here in Canada are American shows (aka "service productions") where Canadian actors get maybe day player or small recurring character shows at best. Canadian actors are rarely if ever offered the opportunity to even audition for the bigger US shows that shoot in Canada, and a lot of Canadian folks have to go to NY or LA to be considered for these larger roles and projects.

Other actor friends of mine are 3, 5+ or more years out and still only working as a permittee (ie not a full ACTRA member yet) because they haven't had more than three union gigs in that length of time. And, again, this is because of gatekeeping, nepotism, and favoritism within the union.

And ACTRA BC made a deal with AMPTP so there is scabbing happening both ways.

Now is the time to seek out, support, and fund independent work being made by ethical and forward-thinking indie producers instead of trying to fix a broken system. Trust me on this.

The wildfires in Maui aren't natural disasters, they are colonial disasters and a direct result of both the fossil fuel industry and the military industrial complex.

Realtors preying on property in Lahaina- while Kānaka Maoli who resided there for generations are now houseless- is a result of greed and disaster capitalism.

Citizen journalists on the ground are reporting on the devastating cost these fires have on their communities and the untold stories in the media about the tourists still actively extracting land and from already limited resources.

pics by slowfactory on ig

HAPA Hawaii support link

Stop Maui land grabs petition

This probably sounds obvious, but I learned today that prisoners aren't protected by OSHA regulations, and that this is another reason why employers are so eager to utilize this modern slavery. It's only a couple cents an hour, less transportation costs than the overseas sweatshops, and if you want people to work with hazardous materials without proper training? That's fine too! Prison labor is the ultimate free market solution!

If you want to really change the world, prisoner rights and prison reform is the way to go. Removing the ability of the ruling class to effectively punish the population frees everyone to challenge them in meaningful ways. Arbitrary violence and incarceration is how they keep people scared and divided. There is no crime in our society that isn't generated by our society. Even the worst ones you can think of.

Prisoner rights are human rights. Prison abolition is mass freedom.