Aubrey Gordon

Every channel, every ad break! My kingdom for an 800-588-2300 Empire!!!

If I have to hear Rebel Wilson tell me one more time about microdosing GLP-1s on noom I stg!!!!!

In my own life, I also observe fewer people willing to stand up for fat people, and more people willing to defend or explain away anti-fatness.

Like, solidarity with people who are fatter than oneself really feels like it has evaporated in a way that's both heartbreaking and frightening.

Another exhausting aspect: pervasive superthinness has everybody so activated that folks have really regressed in the ways they defend themselves.

There's much more "I'm not THAT fat" and "my bloodwork is perfect!" with no consideration for people who are fatter, chronically ill, etc.

Like can I get a night off?????

I hear you. It was still very bad when it was primarily targeting/aimed at fat people.

Like, I just would love one day without this shit inserting itself into my life in the most judgmental, derailing ways.

I don't care what decisions others make about their looks. But I would like a day off, where I'm not forcibly reminded that so many people are sprinting away from looking like me.

I recently saw a new doctor who, before saying anything else, asked if I'd considered a GLP-1. "It might help take care of this," she said, and reached over and patted my belly.

It was behavior I hadn't experienced in years--the last huge wave being during the popularization of weight loss surgery.

It's in the tabloids, with hand-wringing about the sudden thinness of some celebrities. It's in the news, with a refreshed and emboldened judgment aimed at people who aren't shrinking. It's in podcasts & thinkpieces, where we use other people's bodies as props to make our own points about shrinking.

It's everywhere on TV: cooking shows are hosted by chefs that get thinner by the day. Awards shows that have ALWAYS centered thinness now showcase emaciation. Reality TV stars make plotlines of massive weight loss, or attribute their sudden 100+ pound weight loss to lifestyle changes.

One of the more depressing aspects of the GLP-1 stuff right now is how utterly inescapable it is. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, there are people shrinking at alarming rates, and endless discussion of said shrinking. There's seemingly no place to just *rest.*

Cis people never show the slightest love to effeminate men or butch women, except when someone wants to transition, and then suddenly they just love them.

A hardcover book with a blue cover and white text titled “Bottom Line’s Speed Healing: More Than 2,000 Quick Cures and Fast Fixes to Ease Everything From Arthritis to Wrinkles.” The author is Bill Gottlieb. The cover art is a photo of an analog stopwatch. Above the stopwatch is a silhouette of a person with arms outstretched, turning their palms and face to the sky.

May the little free library smile upon you as it has smiled upon me

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

Sam Smith absolutely terrorizing this man by just being 6'2" and in the vicinity

Honestly it feels like we've been in varying shades of "emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting" for the better part of the last decade

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

Possibly! I recorded my most recent episode yesterday, and am sorting through a little list of possible next episodes. Salt is one of them!

Absolutely horrifying.

This is part of what sparked my interest! I know a number of older folks who, in the absence of any related health issues, have for YEARS been salt-free/low sodium/afraid of salt. And that attitude seems to have dropped off pretty abruptly in people who are middle aged & younger.

Pals! What are the health claims you hear most frequently when it comes to salt intake?

I suspect these are Walter Huss headlines, but it is very funny to me to imagine that the ORP chair in question is Kevin Mannix

Strictly bourgeois beans!!

The hidatsas are DELICIOUS. I'm currently going hard on tarbais/cassoulet, buckeye, and chiapas black beans.

The wait list is long, but my god, it's so fun and good. For me, it was 100% worth the wait.

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A photo of a brown cardboard box with red text. One flap of the box reads “beans are a roof over your stomach—John Steinbeck.” The other reads “The first rule of bean club is you never shut up about bean club.”

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Just got my bean club delivery yesterday! 🎉

Screenshot reads "SPECIAL SECTION: Proceeding of the 2009 Cereals & Europe Meeting: Whole Grain Global Summit"

Spending my Friday night like any other life-of-the-party type

(1) Casey Means is a dreadful nominee and should not be confirmed.
(2) I don't have any desire to defend for-profit advertising of any kind.
(3) "Obesity is a national crisis" as a message both relies on and perpetuates bias against fat people.