Fatphobia's especially pervasive this time of year with family gatherings centered around food, so to those that struggle with eating and body image, or just happen to be fat in any way, I wish you safety from scrutiny, and guilt-free enjoyment of what you want to eat.
As a 19-year-old sophomore at Stanford, Elizabeth Holmes decided to transform diagnostic medicine so she dropped out of college and used her tuition money to start her own company, Theranos. Ten years later, Holmes, pictured here holding a micro-vial, is on the cutting edge of medical technology — her new blood testing method allows hundreds of tests to be run using only a few drops of blood. And, Holmes’ methods are cheaper, faster, more accurate, and less invasive than conventional methods which often require a separate vial of blood for every test. As Holmes told Wired.com earlier this year, “I started this company because I wanted to spend my life changing our health care system. When someone you love gets really sick, most of the time when you find out, it’s too late to be able to do something about it. It’s heartbreaking… We wanted to make actionable health information accessible to people everywhere at the time it matters most. That means two things: being able to detect conditions in time to do something about them and providing access to information that can empower people to improve their lives.”
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Reasons you should adore Elizabeth Holmes:
i need people to know that warlock girl went on to win that season of America’s Next Top Model by like a significant margin
Cannot overstate how much you do not have to ever hand it to Nintendo's copyright lawyers.
i think the difference between a good artist and a bad artist is the confidence to say "this is mine and it's good"
you can draw pregnant minecraft steve kissing a my little pony oc in a KFC and i may not like it but if you say "this is great and I made it" then brother who am I to say otherwise? you're right it is great.
Gordon Ramsay under the eiffel tower giving a water birth holding winston overwatch's hand while Inuyasha cries? if you made it and you say its good then i really can't stop you.
I love rat snakes they’re so cute and cuddly. Unfortunately, they want to get in your house and cuddle.
They love to live on your porch and deal with pests and be really chill and then sneak in when you least expect it. They’re trying so hard to be domesticated. Sorry bud, you’re so shiny and dark and beautiful but you’re an outside friend.
ratsnake perfec t for domestication put rat snake in House good friend to human very Companion and Friend have good time with ratsnake in house. Put Ratsnake In House. No problems ever ratsnake in house because ratsnake perfect size give Help and Support to human. A ratsnake perfect pet for human can trust ratsnake to be good companion to Human. friend ratsnake.
very compelling argument
The first feminist gesture is to say: “Ok. They’re looking at me. But I’m looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me, but by how I see them.” -Agnès Varda
Imagine being named Bobby McDonald or some shit and then living so long that both “Bobby” and “McDonald” enter the public lexicon as naughty words until you are essentially named “Penis Homosexual” and kids are afraid to write it down
And it could happen to any of us next
the christian veneration of the lamb has always been terrifying to me in ways i can’t explain
here’s this figure that is vulnerable and easily abused and what’s admirable about it is that it doesn’t fight back and it doesn’t try to defend itself and it’s suffering is noble because it just sits there and takes it. pain is beautiful when you surrender to pain, suffering is godly when you don’t question or try to protect yourself and survival is ugly… like it is just me or is anybody else’s fucking skin crawling rn!!
'Jack is Nightlight' style AU but it's more in the way of Rose Quartz and Steven.
Everyone expecting you to embody this wonderful amazing soul they put on a higher and higher pedestal than you can ever reach. Because you have to be like them, how else would it explain how you do the same things and say the same words and have that same innate empathy you carry?
How else would you not be them if you have their gem face? Soul? Memories? How much are you really 'Jack', and how much is 'Nightlight' through you?
How else would you know things you weren't around for? Ages before you were even alive, with people and friends no longer alive or in their current state? How else would you know the touch of celestials when you've never even left the atmosphere of the Earth you love?
Do you have any writing experience (as in, previous books or even fanfic) or did you one day decide to write the Sir Cameron book and suddenly became an author?
(What I'm trying to say is, has your writing talent been lying dormant this whole time or was it just your first *professionally published* book?)
oh boy!
so when I was a kid, my favourite author was Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. she wrote her first professional novel at 14, and my thinking was, I needed to do that, because if my fourteenth birthday passed and I hadn't published a book, I'd be an irredeemable failure.
anyway. many years later, after many horrible unfinished novels, and many horrible short stories, and shelves full of books like YOUR FIRST DRAFT and 50 FIRST PAGES, I finally finished a manuscript. and managed to sell it!
I get how from an outside perspective it looks like I just wrote a book on a whim, but in actuality I am standing on a mountain of my own failures. it's just that the heap finally got tall enough for me to actually get anywhere
