I was expecting that my Listerine mouthwash’s active ingredient was going to just be fluoride, but it’s much weirder and more interesting than that. its active ingredients are:

• eucalyptol, a flavoring from eucalyptus. used in a lot of cough drops and drug-free decongestants
• menthol, a flavoring from mint. also used in a lot of cough drops and basically anything with a minty taste or a cooling sensation
• methyl salicylate, used to flavor root beer (apparently Listerine is the only brand of mouthwash to use this)
• thymol, a flavoring from thyme

apparently all of these aren’t just flavorings - they also do kill bacteria if they’re in large enough concentrations (which they definitely are here because they burn lol. the instructions say to swish for 30 seconds but I can’t swish for more than maybe 10 seconds before the burning gets too intense for me)

I wonder if this means that an intense cough drop with eucalyptol, menthol, and xylitol instead of sugar would be good for one’s teeth in (more-or-less) the same way as Listerine mouthwash

The thing about neurodivergence representation is that if the character isn't a stereotype, people just sort of forget they are representation even though the show just went right out and said it.

Like, every so often I'm reminded of the fact that Rainbow Dash straight up has a learning disability, that isn't a headcannon or projection, the show has straight up said as much.

Back in 2019 when we put down fake grass carpet in our office meeting room, I suggested we write messages to the future on the floorboards. Now we’re moving to a new office the fake grass has been pulled up, revealing this message I wrote when I was struggling through the early stages of my transition.

Hey Past Kate,
It really did.
— your future self

ARGs might have the biggest ratio of people willing to watch a video about the story vs people willing to engage with the story in its original format.

THIS.
I gonna save this to just post it every time one of those entitled FOSS-bros crosses my path.

If the only way for people to use a computer is to either become a developer yourself or suffer through exploitation by big corporations it isn't an individual failure of those people, it's an absolute failure of the FOSS / Linux community to build good software.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
#Linux #Accessibility

it’s not the - binary, but the - binary, is the enby in the - system

GUI libraries be like, choose three:

• cross-platform
• not a huge resource waste
• has accessibility features
• not an overcomplicated clusterfuck nightmare

for example Qt is cross-platform and accessible to screen-readers, and it wastes resources a bit but not too badly. but it’s an overcomplicated clusterfuck nightmare to actually use it for anything

Electron is cross-platform, accessible to screen readers, it doesn’t seem too overcomplicated unless you start installing 12,000 Node frameworks. but it eats RAM and CPU for breakfast

Tkinter is cross-platform and lightweight, it’s reasonably easy to use (despite the terrible documentation), but it doesn’t work with screen-readers

native desktop client

electron

This quote resonates... especially now.

Sometimes it feels like I'm existing in my own little silo for self-preservation.

#quote

Most transfems we know, seem to be some flavor of plural, and we are curious to see how common it is.

Feel free to boost, especially if you are a singlet, so it hopefully doesnt just stay in a bubble.

breaking news: bluesky invents integrations
https://bsky.social/about/blog/01-26-2026-whats-next-at-bluesky

An underrated genre of YTP/plunderphonics is the Break-in record. That is basically the OG style, predating modern YTP with almost half a century. Basically, it was a type of novelty record with an audio skit on it that used samples of popular music and other audio for comedic effect.

"The Flying Saucer" is prolly the best known example, but I was thinking about this because I saw this NASA parody (https://archive.org/details/Apollo13Parody/Apollo13Parody.mp3) making the rounds and people where fascinated because it pretty much have the exact same editing style and sense of humor as a modern youtube poop, though it predates the genre with some margin.

ugh okay I give up on Starcraft 2. the storytelling is really good but it was not made for someone like me. it gives me a lot of anxiety to play the later missions and it gets really really hard

the absolute worst thing in an automation game is when you have to unbuild and rebuild your factory just a few tiles to the side

this happens to me a lot in modded Minecraft and it was one of my biggest pain points in Factorio