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[SallyM]

Strategies for Survival

This is small, and more maintenance than crisis management, but; rinse your mouth with water after eating. Really swish the water and pull it hard between your teeth with 2 or 3 mouthfulls. My dental hygienist recommended doing this because it not only removes food particles, it helps to quickly de-acidify the mouth, and cuts down on tartar and plaque formation, which helps prevent cavities. I’ve found that cleanings are much less painful since I’ve been doing it, and I’ve had no new cavities.

[SallyM]

Follow up news

I want musk’s and Donny’s version of the US to not survive this. The imperialistic, patriarchal, hetero-fascist, xenophobic, white supremacist side that the US has always had needs to die. I hope the version Emma Lazarus wrote about on that great big metal lady in NYC can come through though. It really does feel like the uneasy coexistence of both halves can no longer abide.

[SallyM]

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C'mon Guys (Toxic Masculinity)

I plan to use that everywhere as my new swear word.

[SallyM]

C'mon Guys (Toxic Masculinity)

Yeah, that’s the problem. I believe most men are decent and safe, and some are very obviously unsafe, but the really bad ones are indistinguishable from the decent ones. (See also: Neil Gaiman.)

[SallyM]

Systems of education and its discontents

But more seriously, they’re trying to eliminate all action against discrimination, and (because fascists live in backwards land) they’re doing it saying that anti-discrimination efforts are discriminatory. And by “eliminate”, I mean not just to stop doing it, but to scrub all information about it, all research, all documentation, all history. They’re working on not just undoing but unexisting the Disability Rights movement, the LGBTQI+ rights movement, the Civil Rights movement, and the Women’s …

[SallyM]

Space Exploration

Your article included a line that surprised me: Years ago I saw someone at Caltech give a presentation about risks to earth from asteroid impacts and the guy said that, counterintuitively, an ocean impact would actually tend to be more deadly than an impact on land because it would cause a tsunami that could travel huge distances, and a large fraction of earth’s population lives near coastlines. But maybe this one just isn’t big enough to cause a major tsunami? That author wrote a book about …

[MerelyGifted]

Elon Musk Destroys Everything

Honestly, I still kinda want a “to the pain” solution for the Orange One. Lock him in a room with a TV he can’t turn off or change channels, and it plays 24/7. Show him his name taken off every building he owned, every one of his “accomplishments” destroyed, people testifying how horrible he is, all kinds of mockery and ridicule. Show that clip of Obama thoroughly roasting him at least once a day. Make him live with humiliation and disgrace for whatever time he has left. As far as anyone else i…

[MagicFox]

Found Randomly on the 'Net

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[MerelyGifted]

Found Randomly on the 'Net

[1000031340] Just squint at it!

[Millie_Fink]

[MerelyGifted]

Banana Sisters! Just look at us!

[Millie_Fink]

[SallyM]

Healthcare PSAs and BSAs

More on measles, related to adults getting revaccinated: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5304458/measles-vaccine-booster-health “If you have been vaccinated with two doses of vaccine as per routine, you have a 95-plus percent chance of being completely protected throughout your life,” Schaffner says. But public health experts say there are some adults who should consider getting revaccinated. That includes older adults who were born after 1957 and were vaccina…

[SallyM]

Site Bugs?

This happens everywhere and I used to call it the “academics vs reality” fight. Before everyone settled on Ansible or saltstack (or terraform) for config management/IaC, there was a holy war between configs system that were prescriptive- (that is, you write how things should be, the tool makes reality match your definition, full stop), vs tools that can examine how the world is and then convert that into a definition. Many of those tools that came from large university networks or early superc…

[SallyM]

Enshittification

I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location before showing me the search results. I don’t want to include a Teams link on the calendar invite. I don’t want to pay 50 different monthly subscription fees for all my software. I don’t want to upgrade to TurboTax …

[MerelyGifted]

About Languages

The only parts of speech they believe needs to be absolutely exact every single time is pronouns.

[Dogbutler]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 1)

Real life is too much like the Onion these days.

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 1)

A metaphor is also supposed to, you know, represent something in a way that humans can understand. I feel like a lot of right wing types think it means “something that isn’t true but you don’t want called a lie”.

[Murgatroyd]

Healthcare PSAs and BSAs

Roald Dahl on Measles (in 1986): "Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working…

[Millie_Fink]