The bolded, I see this as a teacher quite frequently. Student’s, who lack a general understanding of nutrition and how calories, exercise and weight gain actually works, still generally believe that they must do certain things to avoid becoming fat or make themselves skinny. 

As a teacher, it baffles me the misconceptions students have about food. Some will look at their snacks, see that there are calories involved and ask me if it’s bad for them. It could have 5 calories but the presence of the word “calories” is enough to convince them that it is bad for them.

 Unhealthy and irresponsible weight loss discussions are so pervasive in our country that young children internalize them before they develop the ability to think through them. 

This is how these harmful beliefs are perpetuated and thrive. We learn weigh loss language while we are still learning phonics. It’s an invisible curriculum that sets the foundation of our body image years and decades later.

And I wonder why it takes it takes so long to unlearn messed up relationships with fitness, food and eating.

…I don’t use Apple Music – as with much else, our present broadband’s parameters won’t allow it – but if you do, you may want to read this. Unnerving.

This is such bullshit. Sharing to warn others.

I’d say read it if you can regardless whether you use Apple products. It’s kind of important and has ramifications beyond just Apple. 

Here’s the bulk of the piece:

What Amber explained was exactly what I’d feared: through the Apple Music subscription, which I had, Apple now deletes files from its users’ computers. When I signed up for Apple Music, iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple’s database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted. If Apple Music saw a file it didn’t recognize—which came up often, since I’m a freelance composer and have many music files that I created myself—it would then download it to Apple’s database, delete it from my hard drive, and serve it back to me when I wanted to listen, just like it would with my other music files it had deleted.

This led to four immediate problems:

1. If Apple serves me my music, that means that when I don’t have wifi access, I can’t listen to it. When I say “my music,” I don’t just mean the music that, over twenty years (since before iTunes existed), I painstakingly imported from thousands of CDs and saved to my computer’s internal hard drive. I also mean original music that I recorded and saved to my computer. Apple and wifi access now decide if I can hear it, and where, and when.

2. What Apple considers a “match” often isn’t. That rare, early version of Fountains of Wayne’s “I’ll Do The Driving,” labeled as such? Still had its same label, but was instead replaced by the later-released, more widely available version of the song. The piano demo of “Sister Jack” that I downloaded directly from Spoon’s website ten years ago? Replaced with the alternate, more common demo version of the song. What this means, then, is that Apple is engineering a future in which rare, or varying, mixes and versions of songs won’t exist unless Apple decides they do. Said alternate versions will be replaced by the most mainstream version, despite their original, at-one-time correct, titles, labels, and file contents.

3. Although I could click the little cloud icon next to each song title and “get it back” from Apple, their servers aren’t fast enough to make it an easy task. It would take around thirty hours to get my music back. And even then…

4. Should I choose to reclaim my songs via download, the files I would get back would not necessarily be the same as my original files. As a freelance composer, I save WAV files of my own compositions rather than Mp3s. WAV files have about ten times the number of samples, so they just sound better. Since Apple Music does not support WAV files, as they stole my compositions and stored them in their servers, they also converted them to Mp3s or AACs. So not only do I need to keep paying Apple Music just to access my own files, but I have to hear an inferior version of each recording instead of the one I created.

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz made this disgusting ‘joke’ at a recent conservative political conference.

What makes this worse is that he voted AGAINST the ‘violence against women act’. please don’t let this man run America.

Dude at first i thought the whole Zodiac Killer thing was a meme but this guy is bat shit crazy

Like. Okay. So I’m terrified about what’s happening. How this is okay for such a large portion of our voting public.

Sure fine it’ll /probably/ be B-San or H-Mama in office next, but eventually it’ll be one of these crazies in office again. Like. These people are making me really really miss W. I’m so frightened. In a very real way I am so frightened.

check your candy!

>do NOT have unwrapped goodies (ex. An apple, a gumball) >do NOT have goodies distributed in a container that does not have the corresponding logo on it (ex. jellybeans in a metal tin, Fruit Rollups in a plastic baggie >do NOT have goodies whose wrappers/bags/boxes are easily opened and closed again (ex. Tootsie Rolls, Smarties/Rockets, Starbursts, Rolos) >do NOT drink ANY liquid substances >do NOT have goodies while you are still out trick-or-treating—ALWAYS have an adult check first

BE SAFE!!!!

who the FUCK DOES THIS

when i was 12, i got home after trick or treating and i found a needle in a mars bar, please check your candy and be safe

Check to make sure all normally wrapped stuff is still wrapped safely!

Also if you can, cut up all candy first to make sure there’s nothing in it!

Squeeze your candies in their wrappers (lightly) before unwrapping them. If the package deflates, then the wrapper has a hole in it and likely has been tampered with.

I think you can still take any kid’s halloween candy to like the hospital(or is it the police station or fire station???) and they’ll send it through a metal detector/check it for free! Check in your area, they still do it here!

Signal boost! Be safe for Halloween!

Did I tell you guys about that time I photoshopped axels face onto roxas? Because that’s a thing. I put roxas’ face on axels too but I’ve deemed that image to terrifying for the public.

hakuna clitada

This is why sex ed is so important

Did you know that you actually can never forget a face? Every single face you’ve ever seen during your life gets stored into your memories, and gets used up later. For example, in dreams your brain can’t just make up a face. Every single face you’ve seen in your dream, you’ve seen somewhere once in your life.

And those strange nightmares you’ve had of those terrible demon like creatures ?

You’ve seen them around too, you just cant remember. You don’t want to remember.

this post started off as a John Green novel and ended as a Stephen King.

Widespread, systematic and institutionalised abuse of Palestinian minors detained by Israeli security forces in the West Bank, including night-time arrests and long periods of solitary confinement CONTINUES UNABATED. ISRAEL FURIOUS AT UN REPORT DETAILING TORTURE OF PALESTINIAN CHILDREN (21 Jun 2013) Israel’s security forces have been accused by a United Nations monitoring group of torturing and tormenting Palestinian children. “[Palestinian children are] systematically subject to physical and verbal violence, humiliation, painful restraints, hooding of the head and face in a sack, threatened with death, physical violence, and sexual assault against themselves or members of their family, restricted access to toilet, food and water. “These crimes are perpetrated from the time of arrest, during transfer and interrogation, to obtain a confession but also on an arbitrary basis as testified by several Israeli soldiers as well as during pretrial detention.”

Yes, I’m sure they’re furious. I’m sure I would also be furious if someone went and publicly explained about how I was systematically torturing children.

hey if youve recently bought a blue bell ice cream tub, it’s best you trash it immediately (or send it back to the company for a full refund), due to a recall (that has killed 3 people)

Attention: The British TV Network ‘Channel 4’ is planning on creating a COMEDY series based on the Irish famine.

Genocide, famine, and suffering are never funny, I urge all of my followers, no matter where you are in the world to speak out against the decision by signing this petition: http://tinyurl.com/p3ajexv

Thank you.

If you see this I know it might be long, but please read it. I’m reblogging this again because people need to know that during the Irish famine there was no food shortage. The Irish famine was not a real ‘famine’, it was a genocide. Ireland did not run out of food. We couldn’t eat the potatoes sure, but it’s always portrayed as if the potato was the only thing ever grown here at that time. It wasn’t. Wealthy British landowners, as their name suggests, owned all of the land at the time. All of it. The British forcibly took the land off of the Irish people and then forced the Irish to work the land for them, often for close to nothing in return. They grew crops, kept livestock, food was plentiful here. But only if you were British. Any and all food grown here in Ireland, by Irish workers, on Irish land, was immediately shipped back to mainland Britain to be sold for profit. Profits kept by who? The British of course. Grain yields each year were more than enough to feed the Irish population, but grain was a ‘cash crop’ and not a ‘food crop’. While a nation of 8 million starved to death, the British government and its people grew fat off of the spoils of Irish labour. The British forcibly took their houses from them, and then charged extortionate rents for the Irish people to live in them. During the famine evictions were commonplace, with the staple crop failing and nothing to sell people had no means of earning a living and so had to go and live, work and eventually die in workhouses.

Workhouses were the closest thing a Famine-era Irish person came to hell on Earth.

Families who had been evicted walked to these workhouses along the ‘Cosan na Marbh’, the Road of Death. Many died on the side of the road and were left to rot where they fell as coffins and grave sites were too expensive for the majority of the population. So feared were these workhouses that it was common for families to resort to eating grass before they would look for food in a workhouse. Those that did make it there were segregated immediately; men and women were punished if they were caught communicating. They were worked to death, fed animal grade food, given a hole in the floor as a communal toilet and owned nothing except the shirt on their back (which, if you died, was given to the next occupant of your bunk, unwashed, even if you had died of disease). By the time the famine had ended here, a nation of 8 million people had been decimated to under 4 million in the space of about 7-8 years due to death and emigration. This brief overview is the backdrop of the show that the British-run Channel 4 hope to turn into a comedy. Just fucking consider that for a minute and then sign that petition please.

SIGNAL BOOST NOW.

Just to say, the British ‘people’ didn’t grow fat, the British ruling class made a profit. Fuck Channel 4.

fucking rot in hell britain

Guild Wars 2 is a story about the age of awakening for dragons that want to destroy the world.

Dragon Age is a story about a bunch of factions constantly on the brink of war with one another.

>:|

Great. Now I have a totally new thing to worry about.

How even the what what

is ur music ever so loud u feel like ur suffocating

update: i was having an asthma attack

who let this weird horse into the club room