I am one of those obese people, and it seems so achingly unfair.

I am an active person. I eat similar foods and quantities as my peers, with drastically different results. I drink water, not soda or juice. I basically stopped drinking coffee, but when I did, it was always plain black. The only weight loss success I’ve had was spending a year on a keto diet, which my doctor swears was slowly killing me (salt, sulfites, etc). My doctor says I have mild hypothyroidism, but not bad enough to call for treatment.

I have been overweight my entire life, living in a world that fundamentally believes that this is entirely my fault. I don’t know how to convey the hopelessness that people like me have to live with, and the resolve that it requires to keep making healthy choices in spite of it, and never seeing beneficial results.

I don’t know how to get off this ride. All I ask is for other people to not believe I am a lazy shameless grotesque person for being forced to ride it.

I’ve been following this series. Queer culture varies from region to region, so it was really tricky to watch the show without projecting the concept of a western trans identity onto the main character.

It took the full length of the first season before Makoto articulates his identity (genderqueer from what I can surmise - a man with he/him pronouns who prefers feminine presentation… mostly), with the option floated to him of being able to live “as a woman,” but with no specifics given to the cultural context of that phrase.

It would be really cool to get commentary on this show from Japanese queer folks who can speak to the language choices and cultural context behind this show.

I’m waaaay more interested in that than a movie.

No love for Bananya Around the World?

I live in the residential area within the limits of a large US city.

To the nearest convenience store: 0.9 km
To the nearest chain supermarket: 2.6 km
To the bus stop: 0.3 km
To the nearest park: 0.8 km
To the nearest big supermarket: 3.1 km
To the nearest library: 2.7 km
To the nearest train station: 2.9 km

And I’d argue that these numbers are remarkably good for people in my situation as well.

Ugh, list-icles. Also, this must be some strange new definition of “cult classic” that I’m not aware of.

• The Fall (2006)
• Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)
• The People’s Joker (2022)
• Ginger Snaps (2000)
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
• Mulholland Drive (2001)
• Ghost World (2001)
• Session 9 (2001)
• Super Troopers (2001)
• Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
• Paid in Full (2002)
• Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
• Skinamarink (2022)
• Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
• Oldboy (2003)
• Tiptoes (2003)
• Beau is Afraid (2023)
• American Splendor (2003)
• The Room (2003)
• Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
• Sisu (2022)
• Birth (2004)
• Maqbool (2004)
• Madame Web (2024)
• Brick (2005)
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
• Lords of Dogtown (2005)
• Black Snake Moan (2006)
• The Wicker Man (2006)
• Sunshine (2007)
• Timecrimes (2007)
• Mr. Nobody (2009)
• Jennifer’s Body (2009)
• Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
• We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021)
• Stranger by the Lake (2013)
• Under the Silver Lake (2018)
• The House of the Devil (2009)
• Antichrist (2009)
• Black Dynamite (2009)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
• Pariah (2011)
• Chillerama (2011)
• Take Shelter (2011)
• Attack the Block (2011)
• John Dies at the End (2012)
• Only God Forgives (2013)
• Blue Ruin (2013)
• Under the Skin (2013)
• Locke (2013)
• Coherence (2013)
• Tangerine (2015)
• Krisha (2015)
• Swiss Army Man (2016)
• Slack Bay (2016)
• Popstar: Never Stop Stopping (2016)
• God’s Own Country (2017)
• Cats (2019)
• The Vast of Night (2019)
• Mandibles (2020)
• Malignant (2021)
• Mandy (2018)

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I spotted a documentary that addresses the language issue at a tangential level that I put in the trailers community earlier last week…

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16657105

It is utterly atrocious that McSweenys had to assemble this list before any actual news outlet.

I choose to interpret this as even prominent Republicans are now willing to admit that trans people are hottt.

When he’s the one paying for it.

“I hadn’t met him before. I’m saying, ‘What’s it gonna be like?’ because he was also a producer of the show, big fan of the original, working on it for 10 years."

So many better sequel titles available here.

• Kill 'em Too
• Kill the Rest
• Kill them Also
• Kill 'em as Well

Bong Joon Ho bringing back that weird-ass Okja energy.

Or dropping the first “r” and being blinded by ska porn.

🎺🎺🕴️

I’m going to keep pointing this out until it becomes a part of the narrative.

The strategy of prominent Republicans flipping to vote for Harris is specifically designed to help Republicans win Congress.

If Republican voters are demoralized by the prospect of Trump, a lot are going to just stay home and not vote at all. That would lead to a Democratic electoral sweep.

Cheney, George Will and other Republican ghouls’ best option to avoid this is to give permission to their voting base to toss their Presidential vote to Harris, but also get them into the polls so they can be reliable Republican voters down the ticket and try to keep the House and take the Senate.

FFS, quit giving the enemy oxygen.

I genuinely expected this to be a metaphor for foreign drug prices or agricultural rights. But nope, just angry farmers all the way down.

This is going to absolutely wreck Temu, SHEIN, aliexpress and an a gaggle of Amazon sellers.

This sounds fascinating! But I’ve had my hopes up for so many other “in development” projects in the past. (RIP the Patrick McHale interpretation of Redwall)

I’ve seen it. Can confirm.

I am absolutely in the tank for this one.