Time for Easter Beatings!

While sleeping in her bed, the estranged wife of Kern County Sheriff is mauled by a police dog whom the cops turned loose inside her home with an order to engage.

…This is the same police department that beat David Silva to death last week.

(Source: thinksquad)

sleepydumpling:

thisisthinprivilege:

I’m not sure how to phrase this in terms of thin privilege, but I just have some important information I feel like I need to share.

Before I became a freelance writer, I worked in a hospital.  I was a clinical coder.  What that means, is that whenever anyone checked out of the hospital, we read their notes, and then assigned numerical codes to designate what their diagnosis was, and what treatments they received.  These codes are then reported to the World Health Organization for statistical purposes.

While I was working there (circa 2006) when the “obesity epidemic” panic started, they changed our co-morbidity list.  That is, the list of other things - usually chronic disorders - that we mark on the forms (if there’s room) that are wrong with the patient, such as asthma or diabetes or heart disease that may or may not be related to the actual reason they are in the hospital.  If an asthmatic breaks their leg, asthma is listed as a co-morbidity, even though it has nothing to do with their broken leg.

They changed the co-morbidity priority list and put obesity near the top.  Like, if we only had room for a few co-morbidities, we had to work the list from the top down, and put the top ones first.  So if someone came in with a broken leg and they had high blood pressure, a severe mental illness, and an enlarged prostate, and they also happened to be fat, if there was only room for one code on the form, we had to list obesity instead of any of the other problems and if there was room for more than one, obesity had to be listed first.

This is why there is a recent sudden “rise” in obesity related illnesses.  There are not more fat people or more diseases related to being fat.  It’s just that the people who collect the statistics are now required to report fatness as a priority over actual diseases.

(This was in the UK and the change in the co-morbidity list was a nation-wide change in operating procedure.  It is also probably true in the US, though coding there is different and less accurate due to health insurance playing a part in what is coded.)

(emphasis mine-FA)

crackerhell:

genderbitch:

mattachinereview:

TW: suicide, outing

 

A couple of days ago, a woman game developer attempted suicide on a live video stream following internet harassment related to an Indiegogo campaign for her game. While she lay in the hospital, Destructoid writer Allistair Pinsof, in the interest of clarifying her Indiegogo “scam,” outed her as a transgender woman on his Twitter account.
 

[…]

1.  

Destructoid announced today that they’re docking Pinsof’s pay and putting him on a temporary leave of absence. But not firing him. I couldn’t help but remember when, less than a year ago, Destructoid writer Ryan Perez was fired for comparing you to a “booth babe.”
 
[…] 
 
Pinsof put this woman’s life in danger in a real way - as she (according to his tweets) lay in a hospital bed following a suicide attempt. He still has a job. The man who called you a booth babe lost his.

you know what to do, tumblr

 

reblog, signal boost

I doubt she’ll actually help but boosting anyway

is this the fucking shit that will happen every time queer people try to fucking do ANYTHING????

the same shit

the same fucking shit

“this is a scam, let’s try to *~out it~*”

slkfjakldsfjlds

fucking fuck fuck fuck fuck

i hope every person involved in this bullshit fucking burns in hell