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magnetothemagnificent

So tired of the American culture around oral hygiene. You see it most in toothpaste or other similar dental products commercials. It's not "buy our toothpaste because it prevents painful infections", it's "be dentist ready" and ads showing people doing the "tissue test" to see how white their teeth are, as if the only reason you should practice good oral hygiene is because you're worried about the approval of others.

It's just...so harmful.

Oral hygiene is important, not because your teeth have to be perfectly white or because your dentist will judge you (they most likely won't), but because your mouth is part of your body and your health is important. The state of your mouth can impact the rest of your body, oral infections can become life-threating or impact your ability to properly eat or speak without pain. That's why you should care about oral hygiene- because it's your body and you deserve to live with as minimal pain and discomfort as possible- not because of some shallow beauty ideals.

I'm just so tired of the mainstream message of oral hygiene as being purely aesthetic. It's not. It's healthcare.

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sodomit

The concept of "screen time" for youth is bonkers.

How about "friends you don't have to pretend around" time.

"Uncensored access to information" time.

"Equal opportunity for respect" time.

"Being able to walk away from people who are trying to harass you" time.

Is that why adults are so insistent on limiting it? Because they don't want youth to have these things?

sp4cekadet

I agree to an extent. The issue comes from parents who don't give their children alternative outlets, don't allow them to socialize in person, and don't teachthem basic internet safety or create an environment where a child feels like they can be honest about something that scares them online, be it a person/video/story, whatever.

Unrestricted internet access can be healthy for older kids who have trusted adults and know how to protect themselves, but it can just as easily get a kid groomed or worse. Sometimes you have to limit what your kid can access until they understand how dangerous it can be, like matches and knives.

sodomit

I feel like this just creates a catch 22. If you don't have supportive parents and anyone to help you irl, you're also not allowed to seek refuge online. While it should be the other way around.

transcyberism

I think part of the "screen time" thing is less to do with the internet and more to do with the "iPad baby" type situation i.e. very young children tend to be preoccupied with screens/devices because they are very stimulating, but would benefit more from physical games and toys that help them develop motor coordination and spatial reasoning skills and/or playdates with peers for face-to-face socialization (i.e. verbal skills, body language/nonverbal communication, etc) because those are things that must develop before a certain age or else it may result in long-term delay/impairment. While I'm sure there are benefits to literacy for children who have early access to the internet (i.e., they are incentivized to learn to read), children who haven't yet become competent readers do not get much socially out of it the way older children do since most online communication is via text.

sixth-light

Yeah, this is conflating two very different issues. Teenagers socialising online (not necessarily via text these days, in fact increasingly not) and toddlers/preschoolers not developing basic skills because they aren’t being offered age-appropriate toys and social interaction both involve screens, but one is not the other and the appropriate responses are different.

Balancing the rights and needs of teenagers to learn to engage socially the same way adults do with safety is genuinely tricky. Wholesale bans are not a good answer. Plus, we increasingly require them to use screens for all their schoolwork! So it’s not about ‘screen time’ per se.

On the other hand it is developmentally damaging for young kids to spend multiple hours every day watching visual content on screens and limiting ‘screen time’ as a blanket rule is a reasonable tool for managing this. Trust me - parents of young kids are probably far more tempted to allow it than not!

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mackenziejariyahpaige

Janelle Monae

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offonaherosjourney

This scene from Unseen Academicals is why I fully believe that the student body of the Unseen University has to be like 90% Not Straight™.

I mean... 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

discworld-heritage-posts

Discworld Heritage Post

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geopsych

Pictures from this morning and a passage from Terry Pratchett’s Carpe Jugulum that I was thinking about as I walked.

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crimsonclad

I saw a bumper sticker and thought “is that seductive Daffy Duck” and then when I looked closer I realized it was actually a fishing bumper sticker but also. also it is still very much seductive Daffy Duck???? somehow????????

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dumbpuppyfag

UNGRATEFUL tech companies are saying things like "turn off your ad blocker" and "we need your photo id" instead of "thank you so much for not just pirating our shit, youre so handsome"

dumbpuppyfag

The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!

piracy dog'll treat you better than those bald nerds in $3,000 t-shirts ever could <3

Bi culture TikTok

id: first thing is a tiktok video. The guy in the video says, with maybe a slight texan/southern accent: “I love when people just assume that I’m straight. Like today, at Taco Bell. I was sitting across from this attractive couple, and I’m copping looks because I think they’re cute, but he catches me, and starts giving me dirty looks ‘cause I’m lookin at his girl, so I hit him with the ol’ [raises his eyebrows, then looks up and down the viewer, and gives a slight smile]. I’ve never seen a man so confused in my life. I’m sittin’ over here laughin’ like ah-hah-HAH bitch! Nobody’s safe!”

The next two pictures are from what appears to be from a stand up show, with a young white comedian, who says, “I’m bisexual which means you’re all at risk,” They point to an audience member, “We’ll start with you and work around.” end id]

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miyamiwu

Pros of reblogging:

You get to keep a copy of that post FOREVER. Tumblr is not like Twitter in that if OP deletes the original post, all the shared versions of the post will be deleted as well. This is how Tumblr still has posts from 100000 years ago circulating around.

You get to classify posts with your own tagging system. It makes finding things easier. Searching a blog using tags is also more reliable than searching with keywords.

You get to leave comments in the tags of the reblog! It’s handy when you wanna react to the post but are too shy to talk to OP and/or others in the reblog chain.

You get an archive/scrapbook of all the things you like, which you can then showcase with pretty custom themes.

You get to identify as part of a community. Among fandom blogs, fellow fans will know you’re one of them if you actually reblog things. Any outsider can leave a like, but it takes a fan or someone really interested in something to dare to reblog.

You get to make friends! People follow other people based on what their blog is like. If your blog is empty, then what’s the point of following you?

You give the impression that you care about what other people say, and it will make others look at you more nicely (empty blogs can be suspicious).

You are less likely to be blocked by artists/writers. (I’ve seen some posts from artists/writers saying that they’ll block spam likers.)

You are less likely to be mistaken as a bot or a creep (again, empty blogs are sus).

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bob-artist

This is how I HONK

Er, how I make webcomics. These pages are part of the @screentonescast How I Create My Webcomic zine, which debuted this month for Nib & Ink Fest 2026!

NIF runs through the end of May. Since there's only a few days left, I'm sharing my section for all to honk at! Zine proceeds go toward the podcast's production expenses so we can keep sharing webcomic-making tips with everyone for free!

You can buy the zine here!

(oh, and also you can read my webcomics Into the Smoke and Demon of the Underground)

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poorly-drawn-mdzs

Memory, as Metamorphosis.

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musings-of-a-rambling-man

You SHOULD have a tiny crush on a Tumblr mutual. It's good for the environment.

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cugzarui

as a chemist i would like to say BWAHAHAHAHAHA

alexseanchai

image description at explainXKCD:

explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.

flareonfloof

its a bit easier for astronomers

nerdynonnativenarnian

NO! Where’s the non-metals and metaloids?!

flareonfloof

are they hydrogen or helium

nerdynonnativenarnian

oxygen, carbon, sulfur, xenon, iodine, neon, etc etc.

flareonfloof

ooo okay i see the confusion. you're listing off a bunch of metals there

nerdynonnativenarnian

…. You’re breaking my chemistry nerd brain. Hhhuuuhhhh???

flareonfloof

im an astrophysicist

nerdynonnativenarnian

but but, science is science?!

flareonfloof

and different fields of science have different conventions and definitions for their unique contexts

katzeregi

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kaaaaaaarf

is there anything worse than accidentally putting on the non-explicit version of an album? where is my beloved wife fuck and my beautiful daughter cunt?

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pervocracy

How to hack any hospital computer

-Use the password taped to the monitor

How to hack any hospital computer (L337 version for advanced security systems)

-Use the password taped to the back of the monitor

dysgraphicprogrammer

As a computer guy: This is what happens when you have too much security. It reaches a tipping point and then suddenly you have none. Security at the cost of convenience comes at the cost of security.

pervocracy

This is true of so many things in healthcare. Example: our software is designed to automatically alert the doctor if a patient’s vital signs are critically out of range. If someone has a blood pressure of 200/130, the doc gets a pop-up box that they have to acknowledge before doing anything else. It makes sense, in our setting.

But then some mega-genius upstairs realized something: the system was only alerting for critical vital signs, but not for all vital signs that could possibly be bad. Like, yeah, 200/130 is potentially life-threatening, but 130/90 is above ideal and can have negative effects on health. Should the doctors be allowed to just ignore something that could negatively affect a patient’s health? Heavens no!

So now the system generates a pop-up for any vital signs that are even slightly abnormal. A pressure of 120/80 (once considered textbook normal, now considered slightly high) will create the pop-up. We have increased our vigilance!

Well, no, what we’ve actually done is train doctors to click through a constant bombardment of pop-ups without looking. We’ve destroyed their vigilance and made it much easier for them to accidentally skim past life-threatening vital signs.

But you can’t tell that to management, because you’d have to confess that you are a flawed human with limited attention resources. They’d tell you “well, all the other doctors take every abnormal vital sign seriously, it sounds like you’re being negligent.” And if you’re smart, you back down before you start telling the big boss all about your habit of ignoring critical safety alerts.

The end result is exactly the same as if we had no alerts at all, except with more annoying clicking.

niiwa-angel

The other issue is that most computer security is designed by people who will never work the jobs if those using their security systems.

No nurse has the mental bandwidth to remember 15 different passwords to 15 different computers. They have to remember which patients need what, who’s getting what medication when, who’s allergic to penicillin, and a million other things. Of course the passwords are going to be written on a piece of paper by the computers, they need to move fast.

My college apartment building made their fire alarms super sensitive, with the idea being that it would stop people from smoking in the units. What it actually did was set the damn things off all the time while people were cooking. So most people in the building just put cling film over their smoke alarms to stop them from reacting to regular cooking and would just take it off for an inspection.

notexactlywonderland

The fire alarm story makes a really good point because, this isn’t just a problem with computer security, it’s a much bigger problem of, corporate workers thinking they know better than the people who actually do the job.

I deal with this a lot, as a truck driver. Trucks are being built with a lot of new, fancy safety features that sound really nice to the corporate people who buy the trucks and the insurance companies that offer discounts for having them on the truck. The problem? All of those devices are designed, and tested, under perfectly ideal conditions and those are the only conditions they work under.

My favorite example is the system my current truck has that automatically steers the truck, if it thinks I’m too close to a line. Within the first month of having that, I nearly killed someone riding a bike because, when I merged, to go around them, the truck saw the line and tried to steer back into the lane.

The reality of these new systems is that trucks now have a lot of alarms that frequently set off when there’s not actually anything wrong. Most drivers are now constantly monitoring the ones that can be turned off, which is taking their attention away from the road. The ones that can’t be turned off, are so loud, and annoying, that we’re now seeing a major increase in drivers having anger issues (that’s not something you want a truck driver to have BTW). Meanwhile, a lot of people, in some office, are patting themselves on the back for the system they designed that works great, on a closed road, in California, in perfect weather