Welcome To My Garden

advertising lemonade is pointless. the human body already knows it needs it

every morning i wake up and make the worst possible time management decisions anyone has ever made

so called "free thinkers" when there's a bug on the ceiling

severely deficient in whatever vitamin makes u a person

Ok*reduces you to a simmer* go rest for a while

#this is the star trek i wanna see#like when somebody asked gene roddenberry why piccard was bald#because wouldn’t they have found a cure for male pattern baldness by then?#and he was like ‘no by the 24th century no one will care’#i wanna see that attitude with disability and neurodiversity#it’s not that we’ll have a magic cure for everything#there’ll always be something new#but disabilities and neurodiversity will be celebrated and seen as part of the norm#it will be accomodated#so blind people can serve in star fleet#and so can people in wheelchairs and autistic people and people with prosthetics and people with chronic illnesses (via @hunterinabrowncoat)

This episode ends with Geordi saving the planet by using something derived from the technology found in his visor (an adaptive device that lets him sense things around him). So a disabled man literally saved the lives of an entire culture that wouldn’t have considered his life worth living, using technology they would have never deemed necessary without the presence of his unique needs.

I don’t watch Star Trek, but I can’t stress enough how important this message is

weight is a sensitive topic for many so read on with consideration but it’s not appropriate to call GLP-1s medically induced anorexia. while there are people (countless celebrities) using them to further eating disorders or body dysmorphia they likely had prior, they are a legitimate medication for type 2 diabetics and it’s kind of crazy to call a medication that helps them a medically induced eating disorder. it’s also fucking fine if fat people want to lose weight just like it’s fine if fat people don’t want to lose weight—it’s all fine. weight loss can be a complex medical challenge for people and these medications can help work past metabolic issues, psychological behaviours like a lot of compulsive behaviours, and allow for lifestyle change. you can discuss celebrities misusing GLP-1s without creating shame and stigma around the medication as a whole

GLP-1s are not largely being used by skinny people to get skinnier—they are being used by type 2 diabetics and people who have a medical barrier to weight loss. it is really irresponsible and unfair to stigmatize a drug that is effective and often administered responsibly just because some wealthy elites have access to the option of abusing it.