0.08 milligrams of fluoride per litre of drinking water protects against cavities by remineralizing enamel on our teeth. some of the fluoride finds its way to our bones, the rest coats our teeth via our saliva. fluoride occurs naturally in soil, air, and in some water (yes, naturally), which is

juno Rylee Schultz@junoryleejournalism.com · 22h ago

Can someone smart explain to me the benefits of fluoride in water? Like that’s a good thing im sure, but it sounds bad , so I’d just love someone smart to explain it to me so I can understand

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

Ugh, nope. Tapping out on streaming for one more week. Brain feels like sand. 😵‍💫

Michael Whelan’s work is in my imagination’s double helix, so SO important to me when I was a young would-be writer. Love this thread

Michael Whelan@michaelwhelan.bsky.social · yesterday

DELIRIUM’S MISTRESS (1985) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” x 22” Tanith Lee was such a visual writer of fantasy. She gave the artist an inspiring painting concept on nearly every page, offering an inexhaustible supply of fascinating ideas. #bookssky #art 🪐📚

Thread. My running theory is that most men never learn how to separate sex and power. To them, it’s the same thing. So hating women and having sex with them is no different from conquering them. That sex can be anything mutually pleasurable is alien to them, like asking a fish about the desert.

Hillary Monahan@hillarymonahan.bsky.social · yesterday

I think the one thing that has been abundantly clear this week is exactly how many men hate women and I have to wonder why they don't just buy a fleshlight and hang out with their best friends and stop attempting to cohabitate with us if we're so repugnant.

Alright, I slept awful last night, so idk if I’ll go live today. The new meds are still giving me occasional rounds of nausea, which also doesn’t make me very entertaining to watch. I’m gonna give it another hour and see how I feel. 😩

How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.

i just can't get over the absolute histrionic absurdity involved in saying that someone committed "literary sex crimes" because you don't like their portrayal of your fictional vampire boyfriend

I’m glad that we are finally being defended by our community, because I’ve had it with the way we are treated as trans men and transmasc identifying trans men.

˗ˏˋ･ﾟ 𝔶𝔢𝔢𝔫𝔦𝔢 [𝔱𝔢𝔞𝔪 𝔯𝔲𝔟] ˚｡⋆ˎˊ˗@yeeniebeans.art · 3d ago

🧵 shouldn't have to be said, but: 1. binary trans men are men. 2. don't call them "trans masc"/"sapphic" if they say not to. 3. don't force them into conversations about lived experiences as women. 4. don't hijack their posts. it's transphobia—and idgaf if you're trans, you're also transphobic.

Ok but…does it also glow. 😹

fredesque@fredtaming.bsky.social · 3d ago

emergency hotdog that heats up when you crack it like a glow stick

was talking to friends about an apocalyptic lake with a pH as high as ammonia, temperatures as high as 140°F, where animals are mummified into haunting crystalline statues, & ALSO, is the only place where lots of flamingos breed we all thought I might be reciting an AI hallucination BUT GUESS WHAT

What's great about this is - Yes. Germany was in fact a source of great scientific knowledge in the end of the 19th century. If you wanted to do science, you learned German. And then the Nazis destroyed the German scientific establishment. Because that's what Nazis do.

Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻@rvbdrm.com · 3d ago

If invoking the Rothschilds wasn’t enough of a red flag, here’s more:

pirate walks into a bar with a ship’s steering wheel stuffed down his pants. bartender asks him what the deal is, and the pirate says “arr it’s driving me nuts!”

­­　­　­　the­　­­　­　­ ghostes@rem.bsjky.team · 3d ago

whats your favorite bad joke. not bad like offensive but bad like "oh youre getting a haircut? which one?"

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

Nick Pettigrew@nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Awww yiss, the Halloween decorations are finally up outside. (They’ve been up indoors since September) The crows Did Not Approve This and wouldn’t come near the feeder until I put peanuts far away from everything. 😹😅

*record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… (reposted with alt text because this is an absolute treasure. Photo credit: Kevin Lohman @kevinlohman.bsky.social)

DocDeezWhat@docdeezwhat.bsky.social · 3d ago

To Valhalla

The big national grocery chains need to be seized by the workers, converted into employee-owned coops, nationalized and turned over to municipalities, or in any other way, shape, or form destroyed.

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

The first-ever I believe contingent of "FTM” folks marching in the 1994 Pride (anywhere?) in San Francisco included Loren Rex Cameron and a few of his buddies … and by a few of their tellings he stayed up all night making this banner, in this now-iconic image. That’s of course him there shirtless.

Jacob Geller is no longer a part of MinnMax. He won't be on content moving forward and we won't be publicly airing this week's episode of The MinnMax Show. We're in shock and deeply hurt. Thank you for your patience during this sensitive time.

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

Your daily affirmation: It's ok to feel out of place. It's ok to get some rest. It's ok to become the haunted horror at the center of a haunted world.

"Why don't people come forward if the assault really happened?" This. This is why. Because they have to relive the trauma endlessly. Professionals pick holes in their story. They have to be perfect in every way to be credible. For a lot of survivors, the burden of proof is too heavy to carry.

This is also the time of year every coffee shop makes 'scary' lattes by putting charcoal in them. If you take birth control by mouth, that shit will not work when there's charcoal in your stomach.

Trigger warning SA the "promising young men" who never faced consequences, justice or charges are now in charge of the world. Judges, deans, officers, politicians are to blame but so is everyone who turned a blind eye, who didnt believe victims, who blamed victims.

What the fucking fuck?! I hope they catch who did it, but I doubt they will. Fucking mpd is useless.

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 5d ago

Yeah so we all just got tear gassed on the way out of Rocky Horror, be careful downtown

LRP, in high school my friend took too much Tylenol and the ER gave her activated charcoal to sip. That's what they give to you to get medication out of your system/absorb it. If you drink/eat something that is black in color this spooky season, it likely has activated charcoal which nullifies meds.