I am pro fat liberation as in "I want to dismantle the systemic biases against fat people and the diet culture and medical industrial complex that feeds into the very real systemic oppression that fat people face"

It was put together by a collective of indigenous Americans and is a fantastic guide to talking about the subject with less politically-active members of your family and social circles.

YES YOU

Do you wanna know about

MUSHROOMS?

Well do I have the post for you

These are

Jelly Tooth Fungi

(Jelly Tooth Fingi)

The scientific name for this fungi is Pseudohydnum gelatinosum

AND HES EDIBLE

That's right folks

You can NOM this shroom

Although it's bland when cooked, they can be candied and produce a

CHEWY LITTLE GUMMY

Look at this guy

Look how cute he is

They also feel REALLY COOL

You can smack him and he jiggles

They're tiny little guys

They decompose decaying wood!

Found all across North America

Be them bland as they may, they add a lovely texture in soup!!

You can marinate them and put them in salads!

It can be kind of hard to find them since they're sparse and usually, there aren't very many in any given area.

They're also called

Cat Tongue Fungi

(Cat tongue fungi)

Which I think is significantly less fun and less appealing

But like

LOOK AT THEM

The babies

There's this bizarre idea that people really have, my child can become anything I want if I just parent them good enough, and have these lofty ideas of how that would work, and then it doesn't. Different people are naturally prone to different things, and you can't just wrangle them into the desired shape and expect them to thrive the same way as the people who were allowed to do something that they're naturally prone for.

If you wanted your child do become a doctor or a lawyer, but they become a successful tattoo artist instead, and you lament your disappointment about how you failed as a parent, you're right but not for the reasons you thought. Children aren't extensions of their parents, and their goals and dreams that aren't the same as their parents' goals and dreams are not undesired, invasive weeds to be plucked out.

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

Using both Glaze and Nightshade would corrupt the generation of pictures mimicking artist AND mess with the AI's recognition of what everything is. Like it would generate a dog when you ask for a cat.