{across the fatosphere} January 23

Here’s what’s interesting me this week in body liberation and more:

» Find your fat-positive fertility community where you’ll get personalised support, exclusive content, and connect with other fat folks navigating their fertility journeys together.*

» Coming up: Beyond Body Positivity: An Introduction to Body Liberation as Collective Healing (see)

» Coming up: Intro to Lyra for Plus Size Bodies, Seattle (see)

» Coming up: Supersize Your Life Expo, Chicago & Atlanta (see)

» Here are a collection of end of year digital housekeeping tasks you can do to improve your privacy and security for entering 2024 on a good footing. (read)

» Other than deleting the app completely, there’s very little you can do to stop Instagram from tracking your behavior on its platform, but there are things you can do to limit some of the data that’s collected and the types of ads you see online. (read)

» While you’re at it, make your Venmo transaction history private. Keep your business to yourself and all that. (read)

» I’ve curated a list of 7 positive climate stories from 2024, one from each of the world’s 7 continents. (read)

» for any interested fellow artists and musicians out there, youtube has put out an update that allows for your videos to be sold to third parties to train generative ai models (read)

» How to turn off Google AI overviews (instructions)

» Btw artists if you want to help combat AI slop sneaking into your research I am begging you to STOP relying on Pinterest for reference gathering. Familiarise yourself with the free online collections of museums of which there are several and how to search them effectively (read)

» New evidence shows AI’s thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link) (read)

» It might feel silly, but you can do a lot of good as a person monomaniacally focused on a bite-sized problem, rather than be another in the crowd of people puzzling over larger, more existential issues. (read)

» How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades. (content notes: rape, sexual assault, gross, probably other things) (read)

» It was your eyes that saw the colour, your brain that interpreted it, your heart that felt its beauty. You didn’t love it because they’re the Blue Artist, but because you were always a person who could love the sky. (read)

» Due Process Is Needed For Sexual Harassment Accusations — But For Whom? (read)

» Ozempic and Me (read)

» But this post’s use of the term “declared war” stuck with me throughout the day. “I declared war on my belly fat.” I kept wondering about how commonplace this idea—if not the language itself—is in how we relate with parts of ourselves. (read)

🦄 Unicorn chaser: A moment of zen – Golden Sea Flapjacks cruising around the waters of the Galápagos Islands. (watch)

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Lindley Ashline

Hi there! I'm Lindley. I create artwork that celebrates the unique beauty of bodies that fall outside conventional "beauty" standards at Body Liberation Photography. I'm also the creator of Body Liberation Stock and the Body Love Shop, a curated central resource for body-friendly artwork and products. Find all my work here at bodyliberationphotos.com.

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