A Number of Cold Reptiles

suppress appetite

slow down digestion (physical)

increase insulin secretion

decrease sugar release into blood from digestion

in diabetes patients, the main thing here is helping to stabilize the bloodsugar, so since they're generally already reliant on externally supplied insulin, point 4 is the most important.

for weight loss, they're all important.

by decreasing how much you want to eat and encouraging your body to metabolize faster and making what you ate take longer to turn into bloodsugar, you create a bloodstream with no spare sugar in it, and thus very little for your body to bundle up into big lipid molecules for storage.

carefully dosed, in moderation, this might even be good for a patient's health--like, i can see someone whose metabolism insists on giving them nothing to work with and putting everything in storage having an easier time reconditioning on these things and getting a boost out of the fatigue spiral, with the right oversight and frequent small meals. although I'd want to see a lot of long-term studies on the metabolic aftermath before i considered it for myself.

but handed out willy-nilly as a replacement for crash dieting, this is definitely not good for you.

the concept of using glp1s to shed weight is, essentially, that you trick your tissues into self-cannibalizing as though you're starving to death, because you have created the internal conditions of starving to death, without having to actually suffer the sensation of hunger.

so, uh. it's an anorexia drug. drug that gives you anorexia. quick and easy anorexia. medically induced anorexia.

I want that for us. I so want that for us. I want to be the generation that has seen fucking everything and is like a MRSA bug and unfazed and when that Cheeto finally dies, I want us to. Plant the gardens and clean the seas because we can and we want to and we remember some joy, some time of trust even when it got broken and we can say to the 20 somethings "let us show you what we can build, how it can feel."

So we tried to make sure someone called her every day, so she would have some kind of interaction, and one time my spouse asked how she was doing, and her attitude was basically, “Yeah, this happens sometimes.”

Because that was her life. She did live through the depression, she did lose three siblings to the last pandemic. She did live through WWII, and sent a son off to Vietnam, and made a family and a household and a career while knowing one slip of a button might wipe out all life on earth. And she lived through it; she survived.

And so 2020 wasn’t the end of the world, for her. It was just another thing. Because life is made up of sunshine and rainbows and puppy dogs, AND ALSO fascists and violence and rancid millionaires living high while people starve. And when you are in the middle of the shit times, you acknowledge that they’re shit, and also that they are not exclusively shit, because they still include spring days and new flowers and people taking care of each other.

Being supportive of binary people is relatively simple, they have decided to sort themselves into one of the boxes that we have lots of experience interacting with. Being supportive of nonbinary people can be comparatively tricky, because you have to resist the urge to create box C and drop them all there. That's how we end up with various prejudices like "woman lite". Humans really, really like to categorize things. It helps us think. Unfortunately, sometimes it helps us think wrong.

It was flagged as "Eksplicit", shadowbanned, and every reblog turned invisible. The flagging is also unappealable (unless that is an error, thanks tumblr)

Happy Trans Day of Invisibility from your tumblr mods!

Only found out because I tried to reblog with an update from your local trans unicorn siblings!

I cannot even LINK to my old comic without every new post getting deleted.

The original post was pardoned, but the shadowban still persisted and every reblog was hidden from the dash and flagged explicit. I'm not sure if it recovered by now, or if it's always going to be at risk of banning.

So whatever staff reviewed my complaint agreed that it wasn't explicit. So thank you for that, moderator. This highlights that the problem starts with bad actors reporting anything they don't like, and that it's a tossup if your appeal is seen by a bot, a normal human, or a bigot.

I'm grateful I can still touch people and spread positivity. Many of my queer siblings, brothers, and sisters - especially trans sisters - can't say the same.

But no matter what happens, we will always have each other. Every letter in our alphabet is a pillar holding up a beautiful world that only stands if we're all in it together. The rest of society may call you a monster, but it calls me one too. Maybe you won't hear it from the rest of them, but listen and you will hear it from me.

I love you.