Got some gum soreness. Usually I’d dab hydrogen peroxide on it, but it’s strangely difficult to get here (in Portugal every supermarket sells it).
So instead I got chlorhexidine. Went and did a bit of Googling for scientific papers, which resulted in finding out that, and I quote, “chlorhexidine is more effective than povidone iodine and hydrogen peroxide for treating diseased or inflamed gums, but less effective than sodium hypochlorite”
SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?
Talk about using a sledgehammer to crack a nut!
I have no plans to use sodium hypochlorite as a mouthwash.
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Anyone near Cambridge UK wanting old, possibly non working, 80s computer shit and able to collect in the next week?
I think I have a C64, Amiga 1200, maybe a ZX81
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Just had a motorbike burning something in front. Caused the worst asthma attack I’d had in years. One of those “ventolin just saved my life” ones.
Apparently I went an interesting colour.
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Apropos of another conversation, if progressive/left wing people got our ideal world, we would be happy.
if the hard right got their ideal world, they'd be miserable as fuck, because their worldview is centred around constant outrage at the state of the world and having an "out group" to rant about.
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I don’t think the majority of them would be miserable in a sensible socialist ideal world, as the goal isn’t to make one group miserable but rather make everyone happy.
That’s the difference for me, anyone who needs to make others miserable to feel joy are terrible people who shouldn’t be in charge of anything anywhere.
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So, big SUP session on the Stort two days ago. And now, I’m, er, “detoxing”.
As it were.
Oops
Practice, practice, practice, get wet, practice...
And the pivot turn starts to look almost competent!
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A few years ago, Cambridge City Council became the first of many local authorities in the UK to start dismantling its trans equality policy. Here, today, they are flying the progress pride flag from their offices.
Hypocritical bullshitters. We see you.
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@Paul100 Thing is, discriminating against someone based on who they are: not acceptable.
Discriminating against someone for behaving like an arsehole: completely acceptable.
I am a business owner as it happens, and if someone is transphobic to me, they will be told to take their custom elsewhere.
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Yes. An amazing amount of night-closures these days. When it's seven, eight-ish, I'm egging myself on as I pass the cone lorries.
There's some terrible places for endless diversions through back lanes -- round Rutland is the worst.
Me: “The Tailscale net access thingy is a front end to masquerading.”
@Zoë O'Connell ”Masquerade! Paper faces on parade!”
Me: “That is a shit musical.”
Zoe, offended: “Why?”
Me: “It has two good songs and no story.”
Zoe: “Hang on, which musical is it?”
Me: “Phantom”
Zoe: “Oh, yes, you’re right. It is a shit musical.”
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@Veronica🏳️⚧️ :inanna: There is a rubber gland where the propeller shaft goes through the hull. It’s lubricated by sea water, but needs a millilitre of grease inserting once a year to keep it watertight. This can only be done when the boat is dry docked.
The seal between the gland and the shaft is very narrow, so a plastic drinking straw, which can slip between the two, and then squeeze the grease in, is the ideal way to get it in. If you try with paper, the straw explodes from the pressure.
I’ve heard it can be done with a hypodermic needle too.
If you're at all being triggered by external events, then its going to come in waves.
The question is, do you feel that you were being fraudulently mopey, or that the feeling not so bad is a fraud? Hint: it's neither.
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@Sion [main] External events are a factor but my reaction to them is way over the top or even exists at all because of the depression. I think the feeling is that I was somehow exaggerating how bad it felt (I wasn’t) to get attention, and now one of guilt for having alarmed or alerted friends now that 48 hours later I’m a bit ok again. And also a sort of fear that everyone will go away again.
Similar feeling regarding my therapist. She’s offered an emergency appointment rather than waiting until September but it doesn’t feel like an emergency today. Saturday evening it definitely did.
Having been there: just because it's stopped being an emergency now, doesn't mean it's not going to be again before the next time you can see your therapist. Or that next time it's going to go away so quickly. There's no such thing as a false alarm in this sphere, just that sometimes it takes a *lot* of work to figure out what the root cause is.
Have long post brewing about feeling guilty about alarming friends and family, particularly those who understand. Just do it. Some of us are going to be in a place to listen, some aren't, and if we're all honest and transparent about this then those that aren't should just be able to back away from the moment without anyone's guilt, and be there another time.
Oh, I see. It's two-way from mastodon is it? The friendica post content is presented to me here as a link. But unlike RSS, if I comment on mastodon, the replies are federated to friendica?
I was confused, expecting either the content and replies to both be embedded within my mastodon client or else neither.
I just want all TERFs who hate read me to know that earlier this week, I used a communal changing room. I was naked. There were other women in there. Nobody gave a shit.
Please do feel free to seethe, though.
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Since Brexit, the lack of a proper trade agreement means I will have to pay import VAT on my little sailboat when I take her to France.
I asked on a UK boating forum for some recommendations for a tax advisor to assist with the process. The overwhelming answer was, “just do tax evasion. You probably won’t get caught”.
This may provide an insight into the mindset of British exceptionalism.
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@wrack Except a few months ago there was a story in the local press where they impounded and boat and fined the owner for exactly this sort of pissing about with shell companies.
Please, I’m begging you, read the room.
I wonder whether the Pavilion B Common Room at DAMTP is buzzing with talk of all this! mastodon.social/@Dtl/110858637…
Interesting! Newtonian Gravity seems to break down at very very low accelerations - perhaps the end of dark matter models for the universe?phys.org/news/2023-08-smoking-…
Smoking-gun evidence for modified gravity at low acceleration from Gaia observations of wide binary stars
A new study reports conclusive evidence for the breakdown of standard gravity in the low acceleration limit from a verifiable analysis of the orbital motions of long-period, widely separated, binary stars, usually referred to as wide binaries in astr…Science X (Phys.org)
Internet forums do my head in sometimes.
“Hi, I want to do A. I will need help with this. Does anyone have recommendations for someone who can provide these professional services?”
“Don’t do A. Do B instead”
“Thanks, but B does not interest me. I’m looking for someone to help me do A”
“You could do C”
“It’s my understanding that C will get me arrested for tax evasion, which is why I need someone to help me do A”
“Ok, have you tried B?”
ARGH!
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The polycule iMessage group. @Sylvia Knight asks if we want anything from the shops.
Me, typing in teensy keyboard on Apple Watch: milk
Eggs
Bleach
@Zoe O'Connell, next to me: “you can actually type stuff on your watch?”
Me: “almost”
Zoe: “huh?”
Me: “look at your phone…”
Phone: new message from Sarah: “Earl Greg”
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Stopped at an M&S food place on the way back from working on the boat yesterday. Very knackered and verging on hypoglycaemic, and the only fizzy drinks they had in were sugar feee ones.
And I’m like, cut the moralising, you pricks. Sometimes you really fucking need sugar.
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“Federation tomorrow, not today”.
#Zuckerberg and #Dorsey are just serial bullshitters. #Threads #Bluesky
OK That made me giggle out loud.
Actually I need a new mattress... But unlike those grifting .....s I will buy my own.
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TERFs and bedbugs: One is very fond of mattresses and sucks the life out of their victims, living a life of obligate parasitism.
The other is an insect.
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By the way, I know you're reading this because you can't help yourself, so I have a message just for you, Ms H, and I know you're reading it from my profile, so the formatting will be preserved. I have a message for you:
SOME
GRASS
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Interesting question just came up re driving in the UK on Reddit. Someone wants to go from the M11 to the A3 and asks which way round the M25 they should go. These roads are pretty much equidistant regardless of whether you go clockwise or anti-clockwise round London.
That’s the route we take to Scarlet, so I have opinions on this. Go clockwise from the M11 and you encounter the Dartford crossing. This is a toll crossing, and is often very congested.
Go anti-clockwise and you pass the Heathrow section.
For me, there is no contest. Pay the damn toll. It may be annoying to have to put up with the Dartford crossing, but the Heathrow section of the M25 is the very arsehole of hell and to be avoided at all costs.
Interestingly, most commentators felt the same.
This post is addressing a specific TERF. I’m pretty sure she hate-reads me, and I think it’s important to note that, and I want to be very clear on this:
I still think you’re akin to a bedbug or a pubic louse.
You come at the queen or her friends, you better not miss, asshole.
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Eve (?), she/her (?), secret spooky romulan (?)
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •@ajlanes Regolithobraking, even!
One of my favourite euphemisms, up there with "engine-rich exhaust"
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Am I remembering correctly that Russia (as opposed to the Soviet Union) has yet to stick an off-world landing? And that even hitting the target body counts as a major step forward?
(Fingers crossed for third time lucky for India.)
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