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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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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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Gen X-Wing

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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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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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.”

@Zoë O'Connell
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@sparrowsion @pseudomonas Timers are great: I need to get another for our kitchen. At the moment I look at the kitchen clock and do maths, which is often disastrous, especially when there's multiple things to time.

Defrosting I'm more sceptical about. I have a metal stick which I prod ours with, and if it goes in crunchy, put it in for a bit more. Results seem variable enough that I'm not sure I'd dare delegate. But it would simplify things a bit if it's reliable.

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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.

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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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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”

#EarlGreg

#EarlGreg @Zoe O'Connell @Sylvia Knight

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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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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.

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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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Me: Why they pointing a gun at him? They don’t need to point a gun at him! He’s in the bin!

@Sylvia Knight: It’s America!

Me: Good point. Pointing a gun at people is just how they say “hello” there.

bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-can…

Burglar lands in bin in botched escape attempt

A robbery suspect in Ohio is arrested after falling from a bank's roof into a bin in front of police officers.
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Roy Greenhilt

I see your smirky sailor, and raise you a smirky stageworker / theater lighting tech.

It's definitely one of those skills when you see someone doing it wrong it's a hard fight not to fling yourself across the room and tackle them "NO NO NO NO NO! WRONG WRONG WRONG! GIMME THAT"

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