My wife left me home alone with the kids to go out drinking with her friends. A lesser man might whine and complain, but instead I'm just playing Chumbawamba's 1997 hit "Tubthumping" over and over and over. On the jukebox at their bar. Using the TouchTunes app.

@BethSkw I would cheer you on if your meets were within biking distance of me, for sure!

@BethSkw yeah, I could probably be better in this regard. I'm anywhere between 2-5 hours fasted when I work out. it's only a problem on high rep compound lifts

but, as my existential tiredness wasn't so much at the gym as just walking/biking around most of the day, I don't blame that?

@BethSkw I'm gonna cheer on friends at a meet this weekend! I have been to a few. they are great when the attendees aren't too alt white.

@BethSkw make no real effort to track carbs, just protein, but haven't changed my diet too much besides pounding extra protein shakes or chicken patties at night if I'm still below my protein and calories

and because it's apparently the apocalypse I'm more stressed now if anything

@BethSkw I know they would and my coach really wants me to enter but I don't think this sort of competition is good for me, somehow? I kinda just want to ghost race myself until I'm a literal ghost?

@BethSkw wild that at the bottom range of what is apparently my maintenance my gut wouldn't budge and my muscles wouldn't enswole and I'd be tired all the time, but at the top range my gut wouldn't budge and my muscles barely enswole and I wouldn't be tired all the time

@BethSkw I don't even know what gender to lift with, let alone what weight class 😭

@BethSkw I don’t bike THAT much- my daily average for the past year is only 6.6 miles!

and I only lift three times a week; seems like you’re at it every day!

@BethSkw I figured I was at a SLIGHT deficit before because my weight wasn't dropping and my tummy is still painfully apparent and T should be making my gainz supercharged, but my weight (and gut) have stayed pretty stable since increasing calories

who knows, bodies are weird

@BethSkw how is your recovery with working out as much as you do and that many calories?

I was going for 140G protein and 2400 calories a day and my arms and legs were CONSTANTLY tired. my trainer had me up calories to 2500-2700 calories (and I upped protein to 150+G) and it fixed me up!

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the next time I start coming down with a cold i’m gonna have a week+ long panic attack

and worrying about this now probably means i’m about due for a cold

it occurs to me that incidents like this occurring before the age of common cameras and such may be the source of many cryptid legends

wweek.com/news/2020/02/2…

the billionaire ego is so incredible. Bloomberg could've spent his twilight years doing rich guy shit and some light philanthropy but he couldn't resist grubbing for more power and now he's going to die a famously racist sex pest

when men say female it feels like a slur

"wah wah there's nothing worse than being friendzoned" have you ever been fuckzoned. you ever find out your friends are just waiting for you to stop talking so they can try to touch you on the boob

jake gyllenhaal typing "I'm a furry for Bernie/furries for bernie" has launched me into another dimension twitter.com/SarahxAnwer/st…

same energy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Was…

TMI powerlifting mood:

increase your protein intake

increase your protein intake so much your guts stop working

take fiber supplements

oh no, your guts work TOO MUCH

consider a supplement to fix sulfur death farts

For the pre-transitioners suffering from doubt:

If you were on a secret island, with every need met, save that nobody you know would ever find you - but you’ve got a button that will change your gender permanently.

Do you press it?

If so, your doubts are social. Not internal.

man it’s really nice seeing these clips of warren ripping bloomberg’s spine out with her bare hands on national television but i don’t understand why people are saying that is what she’d do to trump? we saw what that would be and it was the dna test

mormons officially banned trans people from their temples in their latest guidelines

not only that but they made it clear so much as asking to use pronouns will result in punishment

this is actively going to isolate and kill trans youth, but that's the point

@BethSkw also IT, but because talking faucets spewing blood

ate two 2 inch square brownies as a treat

tried to add two servings of "Brownie, 2 inch square" to @MyFitnessPal, and it updated to one serving of "Brownie, 4 inch square"

computers are supposed to be better at math

camera falls from airplane

Dudes, MY GOD, you were slogging around in piss soaked jeans over MeToo for months & yet you're still creepin' on chicks in their DMs, obsessively replying to them, making unsolicited comments about their appearance at every chance, you have the learning curve of a lobster

Also, just to be clear: yes, libertarians have the correct position on drugs, and a few other social issues. They aren't correct about much else though, including their overall ideology.

What they actually need more than MDMA is a historical materialist analysis.

During my research I interviewed a guy who said he was a libertarian until he did MDMA and realized that other people have feelings, and that was pretty much the best summary of libertarianism I've ever heard

Supporting Bloomberg in the primary is an easy way to let people know that if Trump had just called himself a Dem you'd be wearing a MAGA hat right now.

Well, I guess you’re the authority, but Neuromancer is by no stretch of the imagination a book of short stories. twitter.com/bookauthority/…

Oh you like Bernie but you don’t like his fans? That’s how I feel about a dude named *turning a chair around and sitting on it backwards*

Jesus Christ

roses are blue
violets are blue
sugar is a good
and i is the time twitter.com/BethSkw/status…

👇👇👇 this

I’m a nonbinary man. lots of us nonbinary people feel close to the male gender & get absolutely dysphoric by your “women & enbies” crap. stop erasing us by grouping us with women. twitter.com/ckayfabe/statu…

every day is a chance to stand for trans rights
every day is a chance to stand for bi rights
every day is a chance to stand for gay rights
every day is a chance to stand for lesbian rights
every day is a chance to stand for ace rights
so excited there are more days ahead buckaroo

I brought it to the donation place like a good comrade 👍

@BrianEnigma i’ve read enough manga to assume yes

@Solgaard_co hey, do y’all ever plan on making the InterLock available again?

@stuffedskullcat I use this for my seat, rear wheel, and frame; and then a heftier lock for the front wheel and frame. that and the locking skewers make my bike more trouble than it’s worth, probably
kickstarter.com/projects/solga…

@stuffedskullcat I had to replace my quick release skewers with locking skewers because when my commuter’s frame and wheels were locked someone stole the skewers

@stuffedskullcat on the other hand, I only have one butt and don’t really want to have more bikes than butts. (so the old mountain bike needs to go, either way)

@stuffedskullcat thinking about it!

I like my commuter bike a lot but would also like it more if it wasn’t step through and if it had disk brakes.

also i’d like to go touring/bikepacking.

@stuffedskullcat was planning on biking it over here b4hpdx.org/donate but the problem is mostly me being both impatient and lazy

if I put a “free” sign on it it’s not encouraging bike theft, right?

not sure why I feel more conflicted about this than I did about putting free furniture out on the sidewalk but I do!

want to donate my old mountain bike but i’m feeling lazy about riding it down to the donation place and walking home so i’m considering just leaving it out unlocked on the sidewalk 😂

A funny thing about suit jackets is that my constant, low levels of muscle growth per year mean that no suit jacket will last for longer than a year or two tops before it needs to be resized

pet peeve:

people posting before/after pictures but putting the after on the left/first

In retrospect, it seems impossible to overstate the cultural damage done by SOUTH PARK, the show that portrayed earnestness as the only sin and taught that mockery is the ultimate inoculation against all criticism

Your pronoun Valentine, upgraded:

The seventh annual international Gender Census 2020 is now open until 12th March!

smartsurvey.co.uk/s/gendercensus…

It's for anyone whose genders (or lack thereof) aren't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and the results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

it's kinda neat how in mythology garlic and silver kill monsters, but how in science they kill microbes

how our myths were ways to remember life lessons, and how we all remember the myths but don't need the lessons anymore

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1059497…

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Name a Michael Bloomberg policy.

(Other than stop and frisk.)

I bought a new bath towel and had it for like fifteen minutes before my cat clawed the shit out of it 😤

@wshandtwitch

Ok but my man’s workout plan is WORKING, you know twitter.com/buffdominosman…

started listening to Low Roar again and feeling nostalgic about Death Stranding...
youtube.com/watch?v=tUqzJE…

“Puberty blockers” (actually hormone blockers) are indeed linked to “thousands of cancer deaths”. That’s because they’re used to buy prostate cancer patients a few more years.

The blockers delay death from terminal cancers. They die on them having lived longer BECAUSE of them.

Finally, yes. Antifa is simply short for antifascism.

For one to declare their opposition to antifascism in some or all of its forms is simply a roundabout way of self-describing as a fascist.

Just gonna break it down barney style for everyone

Antifascism is good
Fascism is bad

Antifascists are not fascists because they hold no governmental or state authority nor do they seek to

Principles of antifascism are INCLUSIVE, not a single organization or ideology

every other okcupid rando would “compliment” me on the Ramona Flowers/Girl With the Dragon Tattoo thing I was “going for” twitter.com/BreakfastClair…

@MichaelSLaufer @BethSkw i’m game

@MichaelSLaufer @BethSkw I keep trying to like whiskey but i’m not there yet

@BethSkw I try, and it feels good to be seen by the algorithm

A second great reason to not eat uranium twitter.com/PavelASamsonov…

that’s more fuckin like it twitter.com/ChappellTracke…

Interesting cultural difference.

British and American academics:
Let's have this workshop in the weekend, because during the week we have other work to do.

European Academics:
Let's have this workshop during the week, because during the weekend we have better things to do.

When I have hard days it makes it nearly impossible to acknowledge the progress I’ve made.

It feels like I am broken and always will be, and despite saying I’m trying and the work I’m doing, I am just as faulty as I ever was.

That’s not true for me, and it isn’t for you.

@BethSkw 2/2

@BethSkw my instagram ads, meanwhile, have me pegged as the bro I am 1/2