Living 400lbs
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A very personal blog documenting what it's like to weigh ~400lbs. Blog topics cover anti-fat bigotry, anti-obesity programs, childhood obesity, co-opting fat acceptance, dieting, exercise, yoga, fat panic, size-positive art, and statistics.
Living 400lbs
5d ago
In which I'm thinking about how Marx defined the employers vs employees, and "rethinking" BMI again ..read more
Living 400lbs
2w ago
Do you remember The twenty-first night of September? Love was changing the minds of pretenders While chasing the clouds away ..read more
Living 400lbs
3w ago
The “How to Win” podcast did a special 4-part series on the Project 2025 Republican plan for a second Trump presidency. I just listened to the episode on climate, but there are also episodes on abortion, education, and LGBT+ rights. Each has a rough transcript along with audio. Overall I don’t want what Trump and ..read more
Living 400lbs
3w ago
As you are probably aware, I just read and posted responses to all 20 chapters of the book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder. Snyder is is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C ..read more
Living 400lbs
3w ago
I called both my US Senators to urge them to support censoring Senator Vance for trying to incite violence on his own constituents in Springfield, Ohio. If you are also able, please consider calling your senators. I called local in-state offices and got people, not just voicemail. (If you like voicemail call on the weekend ..read more
Living 400lbs
3w ago
If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny. (From On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.) Yes, that’s chapter 20 in full ..read more
Living 400lbs
3w ago
Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it. Something tells me that some of the people at the US Democratic National Convention has read this book. (I’m imagining “Be the patriotism you want to see in the world!” signs.) The chapter proper starts with what isn’t ..read more
Living 400lbs
3w ago
For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions. Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management ..read more
Living 400lbs
1M ago
Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. – From On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder When politicians use terms like vermin or illegals to refer to people they don’t like, it shows who ..read more