Inktober 2022 Day 5: Flame #Inktober#Drawtober#MastoArt [CW cartoon person on cartoon fire, non-graphic, non-violent, i'm just being on the safe side here]
if i understand right, ozempic "works" (in its off-brand anti-fatness use) by reducing appetite? so if we had any news media that was not captive to the interests of the upper class dinner party circuit, we might instead see headlines such as "Amid catastrophic UK poverty crisis, Labour paid by pharmaceutical company to administer their hunger-suppressing drugs to jobless and disabled" instead of "wowza! miracle drug"
(two unprecedented UN investigations several years apart find that the UK is committing "grave and systemic" violations of disabled people's human rights under international law) Labour: we are going to eliminate hunger by injecting the plebs with anti-appetite drugs
"announcing our new strategy to help poor unemployed and disabled people - we will be giving them more money. this project will cost less than our previous pharmaceutical interventions and is expected to directly raise standards of living across the country etc etc
me: ohhhhh i am so hungry sir keir starmer KC: not to worry! (injects me with the medicine that makes you not hungry, which costs around 20x the price of a single very high quality meal) me: wow! now i am not hungry any more! thank you sir keir starmer KC! diabetic person: can i have my medicine back please sir keir starmer KC: fuck off!!!!!!
would really appreciate it if UK journos accurately called ozempic "hunger suppressant" rather than "weight loss". it would make headlines read a bit more starkly ("hunger suppressant medication for unemployed" etc)
#fediblock norwoodzero.net one of those standard nazi instances of soggy teenage boys aging into fox news grandpas before their time, embarrassing really
Trains. The long vehicle. Did you know that the train driver might be at the front of the train even if you're in one of the carriages? That's how long trains are. Wow! For more train facts visit wikipedia.
After extensive testing it was determined that trains are even faster than a horse, unless the horse is on the train, in which case the horse is the same speed as the train, unless the horse is running on the train in which case it is faster than the train unless the horse is running towards the rear of the train in which case it is slower than the train "TrainFacts
UN report released on the UK government's violations of its human rights obligations towards disabled people. this is a follow up to the recent UN inquiry that the UK government was summoned to give evidence at. report finds the UK has made *no progress at all* after prior investigation a few years ago that found "grave and systematic" violation of disabled people's human rights by UK.
[CW for article text: abuse of disabled people, benefits system, suicides mention]
artist, scotland, he/him, 30s, white cis guy, leftist.disabled with #mecfs, disabled comrades hmu!chronically online because chronically ill.i mute/block a lot of people onhere, it's not a big deal.not interested in your irony bit! sorry! i'm sure it's very funny though.