Bethany Brookshire

And even MORE questions about those drainage basins.

I just realized I have a lot of questions about the water sources for the Emerald City.

Americans Don’t Take Climate Change Seriously. Might I Suggest One Simple Fix? It's time to retire the old catchphrase.

Things I did not have on my 2025 Bingo Card: A Canadian arguing for us to talk about climate change in Fahrenheit. 😂

It's legit tho. by @roxannek.bsky.social slate.com/technology/2...

Even IF they thought there's one tide a month...that's count both the spring and neap tides as ONE tide?!

Like that's 6 months honestly, if you count spring and neap.

I feel you all should know I just went on a mental and mathematical tide odyssey in this poor writer's comments trying to figure out exactly how much time that is.

they are actually referring to the CAUSE of the tides, aka the moon, and the phases of the moon and the whole thing is being literary in which case maybe they mean a year?

UNLESS

maybe tides just work tideliously on Oz? And Oz is a different plant with a different moon at a different spot?

Tides - NASA Science The Moon's gravitational pull plays a huge role in the formation of tides. Tides are a cycle of small changes in the distribution of Earth's oceans.

UNLESS

they are referring to the tide on a GLOBAL scale which is just one per lunar day, as it like goes around the world, in which case you're looking at slightly less than 12 days.

UNLESS

science.nasa.gov/moon/tides/

In which case
Low-high
high-low
low-high
high-low

four changes of the tides per day, so three days. Ish.

Wait...

um... hey wait.

So like we get on average two high and two low tides per lunar day (which is like 1 hour longer ish than a normal solar day), and the tide turns from high to low or from low to high each of those times right?

Also we NEED a taste test of the beef bar. Obviously. For science.

HE GOT THE SWAG BAG.

@maxkozlov.bsky.social please let me know if the mouth tape is like...just athletic tape? Or something else?

Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.

The final paragraph of this speaks for itself. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"At the end of the summit, attendees received MAHA-branded tote bags containing items from sponsors. Among them were as a biography of Kennedy; creatine supplements...and potato crisps cooked in beef tallow"

Strut strut strut your shit!

We can all but dream

I dreamed a dream....

And please know that every time you reply with a snarky "It's behind a paywall"

Every cell in my body is fighting not to reply "so's your mom."

This is my periodic reminder that I am a freelancer.

I do not always have access to the pieces that I write. If I do I'll give it to you.

It's not me. It's late stage capitalism.

....the way my jaw just hit the floor.

It can be yes! It's under the umbrella of "disordered eating" and is a specific diagnosis.

I have posted before about how my GLP-1 pretty much saved my life after covid, but I also strongly believe that people taking them should have access to mental health support, because these medications & discussion around them & how folks treat you would make it so very very easy to hurt yourself.

Thank you for sharing this. And I'm so, so sorry for what you've been through.

We all deserve to be treated like HUMANS and treated for what's ACTUALLY WRONG WITH US, not seen as just body sizes.

Sending you all the hugs, your story is so important.

The reason people don't know that the numbers we use are Arabic is because school, IME, rarely teaches that fact explicitly.

We sure do learn that we use the Roman alphabet though.

People's negative reaction to the "test" of Arabic numbers being taught in school is Islamphobia though.

🛎️ Ding ding ding

Keep an eye on yourself.

Keep an eye on your friends.

Our culture hates larger bodies (I think even more now that GLP-1s exist), and that can lead to people harming themselves, with endless diets, injuries, and more.

Restrictive eating disorders in higher weight persons: A systematic review of atypical anorexia nervosa prevalence and consecutive admission literature Currently, there is debate in the eating disorders field regarding how to define atypical anorexia (AAN), how prevalent it is in community and clinical settings, and how AAN rates compare with low-weight AN. This systematic review assesses AAN ...

Some estimates are around 0.2% to 4.9% lifetime prevalence for AAN: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Others estimate UP TO 13.6% of women. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33711788/

Because constant dieting, deep desire to lose weight? Severe body dissatisfaction? Sounds like AAN, and also like SOCIETY

It's really difficult to get a handle on the prevalence of AAN because...well for people in larger bodies, doctors praise any weight loss to the skies.

No matter how it's achieved.

No matter how much it might harm their health otherwise.

Atypical Anorexia Nervosa (AAN) is....intense fear of gaining weight, restricted diet (or binge/purge type), refusal to maintain body weight.

...and a BMI ABOVE 17.

Spot the difference?

So yes, the only difference is that people with AAN can be of "normal" weight. OR in larger bodies!

Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is intense fear of gaining weight, restricted diet (or binge/purge type), refusal to maintain body weight. And a BMI of less than 17.

It is the only eating disorder that INCLUDES a BMI. Which is...a choice. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519...

Doctors are worried about prescribing GLP-1s to certain patients With one in eight adults taking drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro, emerging evidence shows that the medication has potential to both help and harm people with eating disorders.

One of the things I want people to take away from this is (CN: EDs): Anorexia doesn't look like you think.

Sometimes, yes, it does.

But a LOT of times it does not. 🧵

www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...

I will say in the house it also depends on how LARGE the spider is...and whether my partner is likely to see it.

The spider and I form a truce. Remain unseen by my partner, otherwise you will be relocated.