I come from the land of Eating Disorders starting at age 6. This is such great advice. It is what I do when I am checking brain weasels vs actual concerns. No one is owed information about our lives or bodies and the shame our society foists on disabled people including diabetics is wild.
The entire friend dynamic as described seems influenced. Humor to deflect the vulnerability of needing such a medication for the rest of your life. Not sharing how and why.
A friend of mine has been losing weight like that not from Ozempic like drugs but because they got their alcohol addiction under control via therapy and anxiety medication. They're losing weight and building strength and I celebrate this.
I come at this from a modeling background where I used to be the ideal as far as I knew before my disabilities my bonafide white supremacist parents hid from me to maintain the illusion that their genetics were not really awful hit.
I am now very fat because if I move I will dislocate my spine. Breathing counts. The pain is awful. I am also happier than I was when the ideal because I know that it's not a thing I can control so I focus on what I can.
Many advice blogs wouldn't lay out such therapy style lists. You should be proud
On the bride? Similar feelings. Usually the bride would be told to grit their teeth and not risk that friendship but if it's a friend worth having? They'll have to accept the reality. I didn't go to my best friend's wedding (we brought it up at the same time) because my disability is so intense the wedding was becoming about my needs not their day and I wasn't okay with that and they wanted to be the focus of their wedding. He was scared he would lose me by asking but because he is someone I love and I understand the challenges of accommodating my body? I was okay with it. I still cried with happiness over the wedding photos and did a gift. I love my friend and his wife.
A lot of medications besides GLP-1 agonists have weight loss as a "side effect." I'm now on topiramate for migraine prevention, and it's often got an unexpected side effect of weight loss. (I won't say no if that happens to me.)
A person may be taking a med for a separate condition that also causes weight loss as a side affect. Or the condition itself might. I'm pretty blunt about my "depression diet" but not everyone is. (My filter's a bit broken and I get annoyed at people congratulating me on my weight loss when it was a case of "I hated myself so much over the last 18months that I couldn't even eat")
Another song by our Genevieve. Wonder Boys was filmed in Pittsburgh. Bob Dylan made the music video at the same diner the movie used. The diner is real. How do I know? there many times. We ate there many times. Sadly we didn't see any of the film stars or Dylan.
Tax evasion? Eh, just put it on his tab with the other felonies.
Daily Beast:
Court documents claim the Trump Organization indicated that a $50 million mystery debt—that Trump said he owed one of his own companies—never existed. If true, experts say, it could indicate tax evasion.
Conspiracy theorists working for and within the US government are perpetuating myths about UFOs that millions of taxpayer dollars are then spent looking into, a “self-licking ice cream cone”, according to the Pentagon’s former chief investigator of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).
Sean Kirkpatrick made the claim in a podcast this week after stepping down last month as the first director of the defense department’s all-domain anomaly resolution office (Aaro). It was set up in 2022 to collate military reports of UAP sightings and to be more transparent about what the government knows.
Scott Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence, plays a video of unidentified aerial phenomena during a House intelligence committee hearing in May 2022.
Aaro’s first comprehensive historical record report, which has been submitted to Congress and is set for publication later this year, contains no evidence of the existence of alien life, or any government cover-up, Kirkpatrick says.
I bailed from the movie when they started to perform a cesarean in a moving truck with a knife.
If the weather reports are accurate, it’s about 39 below now, and it’s about to topple off the edge. It’s feeling like it’s come down to now just a matter of continuing to pour heat into this bubble to keep the cold away.
One of the cats seems stressed right now. She’s been hanging very tight with me all day and then she paces for a while. I have absolutely got this.
She’s warm enough. It’s around 70° in the house. At least downstairs around the stove. She may be picking up a low-level pervasive watchfulness on my part. Or maybe I’m picking it up on hers. I had the door open earlier today when I was bringing in firewood, and none of them tried to go outside, as they customarily do.
“It's Absurd!” Bill O’Reilly Fumes As Florida School District Pulls His Books Under New Law. Interestingly, O’Reilly was one of the top voices that helped with passing the law in question.
I was sitting in a bar (surprise) by the SF Ferry Building back in 2013 after having an interview for my first US tech job.
There were two very loud and mouthy FOX loving women, me, and some dude sitting next to me in a suit. It's about 3pm.
The two women are ragging on people who signed up for mortgages they couldn't afford and a bunch of tea party shit, and suit boy says "so you don't agree that there is deception in the market?"
This sets them off. "Do you think you could win an argument will Bill O'Reilly?" they ask suit man. "I did" he says. They ask him where he went to University and it was Harvard Law. I'm laughing so they ask me, and of course I'm Oxford.
Then suit man, and I love him for this, tells the story about getting into a fucking fist fight with Bill-O in Penn Station in New York, and Bill ended up running away like a scared fool.
I dunno if that story is true about the fight, but I want it to be. It sure shut up these women.
I had a front row seat to the mtg. debacle as I was in the industry for 2 decades by 2007. When the banks first started pushing "stated income" I thought that was nuts. The potential for catastrophe clear. We actually had an UNDERWRITTER from Wells Fargo come in and tell us we only get one bite at the apple. i.e. make sure to exaggerate income sufficiently at application because if the loan is declined due to debt to income you can't go back and guess again.
I come from the land of Eating Disorders starting at age 6. This is such great advice. It is what I do when I am checking brain weasels vs actual concerns. No one is owed information about our lives or bodies and the shame our society foists on disabled people including diabetics is wild.
The entire friend dynamic as described seems influenced. Humor to deflect the vulnerability of needing such a medication for the rest of your life. Not sharing how and why.
A friend of mine has been losing weight like that not from Ozempic like drugs but because they got their alcohol addiction under control via therapy and anxiety medication. They're losing weight and building strength and I celebrate this.
I come at this from a modeling background where I used to be the ideal as far as I knew before my disabilities my bonafide white supremacist parents hid from me to maintain the illusion that their genetics were not really awful hit.
I am now very fat because if I move I will dislocate my spine. Breathing counts. The pain is awful. I am also happier than I was when the ideal because I know that it's not a thing I can control so I focus on what I can.
Many advice blogs wouldn't lay out such therapy style lists. You should be proud
On the bride? Similar feelings. Usually the bride would be told to grit their teeth and not risk that friendship but if it's a friend worth having? They'll have to accept the reality. I didn't go to my best friend's wedding (we brought it up at the same time) because my disability is so intense the wedding was becoming about my needs not their day and I wasn't okay with that and they wanted to be the focus of their wedding. He was scared he would lose me by asking but because he is someone I love and I understand the challenges of accommodating my body? I was okay with it. I still cried with happiness over the wedding photos and did a gift. I love my friend and his wife.
A lot of medications besides GLP-1 agonists have weight loss as a "side effect." I'm now on topiramate for migraine prevention, and it's often got an unexpected side effect of weight loss. (I won't say no if that happens to me.)
A person may be taking a med for a separate condition that also causes weight loss as a side affect. Or the condition itself might. I'm pretty blunt about my "depression diet" but not everyone is. (My filter's a bit broken and I get annoyed at people congratulating me on my weight loss when it was a case of "I hated myself so much over the last 18months that I couldn't even eat")
This reminds me of my little sister after her firstborn. People would ask how she "lost her baby weight so quickly." She said it was the have-your
husband-have-emergency-open-heart
surgery-at-30 diet.
How're they doing?
In hindsight, I should have uninvited my now ex-husband to our wedding. Would've saved a lot of effort.
Been there. The trade off is no delicious enchiladas and cheesecake for me so... Almost worth it
Gee, it sorta looks like Substack, the world's most perfect commenting platform, may have nuked a few hundred posts from this thread last night.
Or did we have to call in the cleanup crew?
🤣🤣🤣
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/26/rep-nancy-mace-primary-challenge-chief-staff
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Another song by our Genevieve. Wonder Boys was filmed in Pittsburgh. Bob Dylan made the music video at the same diner the movie used. The diner is real. How do I know? there many times. We ate there many times. Sadly we didn't see any of the film stars or Dylan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9EKqQWPjyo&list=RDL9EKqQWPjyo&start_radio=1
The movie is over if you'd like to join us there for OT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFaLgCLwg6g
Colonel Bogey's March (Bridge Over The River Kwai Theme)
Comet, will make your teeth turn green, Comet, it tastes like kerosene, Comet will make you vomit, so eat some Comet and vomit today.
Hadn't seen those lyrics before. I do know "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball".
Ft. Riley, 1979.
Also 1960s DC.
This song took on its own life with Barbie, but Genevieve and I think this song gives us the strength to carry on our life after the accident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgwM1Ky228&list=RDHUgwM1Ky228&start_radio=1&rv=WJsWWTpagUQ
Superb. Love those gals. Great video also, too.
My next favorite from them is the next in the song list:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KELOhOMyHHA
With video Galileo
(((((((((((((❤️HOLLY❤️))))))))))))
Tax evasion? Eh, just put it on his tab with the other felonies.
Daily Beast:
Court documents claim the Trump Organization indicated that a $50 million mystery debt—that Trump said he owed one of his own companies—never existed. If true, experts say, it could indicate tax evasion.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dollar50-million-mystery-debt-looks-like-tax-evasion?utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&via=twitter_page
AVOISION! - it's a crime, look it up ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpEaFmK3lrY
AAAAAAAAHHHH HAHA HAHAHA HA HA HA!
Once the man starts digging through your shit all bets are off.
I'm willing to bet this is just the first of many.
No matter what, DA's in NYC are going to be dragging this guy into court until he's dead.
He's a fraud wrapped in money laundering, surrounded by tax evasion, layered in security violations, daubed in treason, marinating in fascism.
That’s where that smell comes from!
"could" elicits a guffaw.
Sounds like the aliens have gotten to him.
𝗣𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘅-𝗨𝗙𝗢 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴
Conspiracy theorists working for and within the US government are perpetuating myths about UFOs that millions of taxpayer dollars are then spent looking into, a “self-licking ice cream cone”, according to the Pentagon’s former chief investigator of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).
Sean Kirkpatrick made the claim in a podcast this week after stepping down last month as the first director of the defense department’s all-domain anomaly resolution office (Aaro). It was set up in 2022 to collate military reports of UAP sightings and to be more transparent about what the government knows.
Scott Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence, plays a video of unidentified aerial phenomena during a House intelligence committee hearing in May 2022.
Aaro’s first comprehensive historical record report, which has been submitted to Congress and is set for publication later this year, contains no evidence of the existence of alien life, or any government cover-up, Kirkpatrick says.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/27/sean-kirkpatrick-pentagon-ufo-conspiracy-theory-myths
I need one of these lucrative UFO goose chase contracts! The truth is out there, or something.
good grief
Nut jobs. Nut jobs everywhere.
Skepti can't find a specific news thread on her new Win 10 PC. I am wondering if it was only working on her Win 7 PC and 10 no longer supports it?
If the browser/adblockers were not configured the same maybe but rather unlikely. I've never seen such a thing happen though.
Now we are all suspicious of you paul.
I've always said there are too many Pauls here for coincidence.
If that's your real name.
Only now?
But true. Haha
LOL mean
I bailed from the movie when they started to perform a cesarean in a moving truck with a knife.
If the weather reports are accurate, it’s about 39 below now, and it’s about to topple off the edge. It’s feeling like it’s come down to now just a matter of continuing to pour heat into this bubble to keep the cold away.
One of the cats seems stressed right now. She’s been hanging very tight with me all day and then she paces for a while. I have absolutely got this.
Get a king size electric blanket. You and the cats will be toasty warm.
She wants your warmth.
She’s warm enough. It’s around 70° in the house. At least downstairs around the stove. She may be picking up a low-level pervasive watchfulness on my part. Or maybe I’m picking it up on hers. I had the door open earlier today when I was bringing in firewood, and none of them tried to go outside, as they customarily do.
“It's Absurd!” Bill O’Reilly Fumes As Florida School District Pulls His Books Under New Law. Interestingly, O’Reilly was one of the top voices that helped with passing the law in question.
Fuck you Billdo.
Says founding member of the face eating leopard party.
Never mind people reading your stuff in book form, Billo
We could do them as audiobooks.
Billo, “No way! Fuck it we’ll do it live!”
Lying, splotchy bully.
I was sitting in a bar (surprise) by the SF Ferry Building back in 2013 after having an interview for my first US tech job.
There were two very loud and mouthy FOX loving women, me, and some dude sitting next to me in a suit. It's about 3pm.
The two women are ragging on people who signed up for mortgages they couldn't afford and a bunch of tea party shit, and suit boy says "so you don't agree that there is deception in the market?"
This sets them off. "Do you think you could win an argument will Bill O'Reilly?" they ask suit man. "I did" he says. They ask him where he went to University and it was Harvard Law. I'm laughing so they ask me, and of course I'm Oxford.
Then suit man, and I love him for this, tells the story about getting into a fucking fist fight with Bill-O in Penn Station in New York, and Bill ended up running away like a scared fool.
I dunno if that story is true about the fight, but I want it to be. It sure shut up these women.
Alcohol fueled storytelling is the best kind. If it gets out of control, it can be dowsed with water without flare up and spreading.
I remember when the Ferry Building still had ferry boats!
I had a front row seat to the mtg. debacle as I was in the industry for 2 decades by 2007. When the banks first started pushing "stated income" I thought that was nuts. The potential for catastrophe clear. We actually had an UNDERWRITTER from Wells Fargo come in and tell us we only get one bite at the apple. i.e. make sure to exaggerate income sufficiently at application because if the loan is declined due to debt to income you can't go back and guess again.
Yeah, there was a little deception.
This requires a Leopard Eating Faces meme, but I don't have one.,
Ditto. I thought about the leopard eating his own face but couldn't make it work.
https://substack.com/@fukuisanyesota/note/c-45436919?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knplb
I thought Bill O' died. Damn.
Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart in the news. This is getting bad.
He died inside long ago.
Yes, it is absurd and it is your doing. Eat that Bill.