what are you into right now?

yea i just heard that, it's the best floss too

It's all over the news for the last couple of days; it's got teflon in it basically i guess? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/09/oral-b-glide-floss-toxic-pfas-chemicals-study/2530661002/

Shit, that's the floss I use.

The Reach/Listerine woven floss is amazing. I buy it three at a time because sometimes I can't find it. If your teeth are very tight together it might not be good for you though.

Why can't any of these articles give us a list of the non-cancer flosses?

everything gives you cancer, is the thing

it's not worth worrying about what will or won't give you cancer for anything less oncogenic than smoking, asbestos, and recreational exposure to X-rays

and like the sun

and BRCA mutations.

I've already breathed in enough asbestos fibres to kill me ten times thanks to a faked removal report on a school I worked on 10 years ago. That's why I don't worry about what gives you cancer!

I still worry about that thermometer I broke when I was 5 and swiped at all the mercury with my hand.

I rang up an Asbestos helpline and they told me I might be ok and some ppl work with it for years without developing mesothelioma. And then I read that Malcolm McClaren obit where it was purported that one dose of it when he was renovating his Kings Rd shop in the 70's was probably what killed him.

but I've got to say asbestos is something I'm really into to rn. I'm going on a tour of African asbestos mines this summer, love to have snowball fights with the stuff and not forgetting old asbestos pipe lagging make ideal winter arm-warmers. Might see if I can weave some into dental floss, that'd be sick.

I've heard of those tours. There are two companies that do them: You Bet Your Asbestos, and Asbestivus For the Restofus.

I once went on a site where an asbestos awareness course was mandatory and whilst they were showing all the different bad types to avoid (which most already been exposed to) and which ones you can chill and say it'll be reet cause they're only marginally carcinogenic, one of the group was saying how he'd probably smashed close to a thousand asbestos panels whilst doing bathroom demos as an apprentice in the 80's and some idiot quips: lend us your lungs, mate.

Pure bantz really, but it made laugh a lot at the time I'm ashamed to say.

Planning an itinerary for a visit to Japan in a few months time.

Graphic novels - there's something about the format I really love above all other art forms.

Instagram - I really love updates from the fashion/art people I follow.

Walking in London - I really love walking in London, and in fact have considered publishing something online about the ecstatic spots i have discovered.

Cute skinny guys - i seem to have repressed my gayness for the last decade or so, and it's come back with a vengeance.

Planning an itinerary for a visit to Japan in a few months time.

Graphic novels - there's something about the format I really love above all other art forms.

Instagram - I really love updates from the fashion/art people I follow.

Walking in London - I really love walking in London, and in fact have considered publishing something online about the ecstatic spots i have discovered.

Cute skinny guys - i seem to have repressed my gayness for the last decade or so, and it's come back with a vengeance.

oops - sorry

spinoza, that book the courtier and the heretic about him & leibniz is so good

oh cool, thanks marcos, i've been looking for a spinoza recommendation.

a pretty intense workout regimen including eating for my goals and good basic supplementation. i feel amazing, not worn out, like i need it every day.

tattoo ideas. 2019 might just be the year i get some.

acknowledging that in some (many) ways i'm totally basic and being ok with that.

the completely immolating beauty of where i live and getting outside every day.

I love walking in London too. It's probably one of my favorite cities to walk. I've walked from Hoxton to Sloane before.

I am into flossing too!
But not with floss. my new hygeinist suggested these “advanced soft picks” things. NOT the godforsaken interdental brushes, those things are horrifying. these are kind of like a ridged, rubbery toothpick.

i hated flossing bc my teeth are smushed close together & i could never get them flossed without hurting my gums & my technique was bad so i hardly ever did it.

i’ve been using these for a month or two now & flossing twice a day almost every day :D

also they look (to me) kinda like the fishbone sewing needle used to make a magic fish net in a Joan Aiken fairy tale i once read.

<3 map

acknowledging that in some (many) ways i'm totally basic and being ok with that.

this is a good feeling to have ime, we are all basic

It's all over the news for the last couple of days; it's got teflon in it basically i guess? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/09/oral-b-glide-floss-toxic-pfas-chemicals-study/2530661002/

― Dan I.

oh, ok, thanks, i actively avoid the news because i find most of the stuff there is more directed towards generating a strong emotional response than actually telling me stuff i might conceivably find useful (and yes, i _do_ own a tv, i use it to play pokemon). i guess i will try these "advanced soft picks" vegemitegrrl is talking about? i have terrible trouble with my gums.

assam tea
solitude

luna what are some graphic novels you are enjoying

Walking in London - I really love walking in London, and in fact have considered publishing something online about the ecstatic spots i have discovered.

― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 11 January 2019 23:18 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Love an early morning walk exploring London whenever I'm down. I can recommend this book which meanders and digs into various trails in the 90s.

i am into the "hang in there" cat poster. i want to buy one to hang up behind my desk at work to let everyone know that i am not like all those other administrative assistants who don't want them to hang in there.

https://i.imgur.com/eFwsH5O.jpg

relatedly, i'm into learning about the history of the hang in there cat poster. the one above is the one i remember from the 80s, but there are several different versions, and it actually goes back to a 1971 "hang in there, baby" poster:

https://i.imgur.com/FGVrMPs.jpg
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hang-in-there-baby

omg

please tell me you're thinking of getting a garfield mug or maybe even a cathy calendar

it would almost be worth it to try for an admin assistant position just to get all of that plus little carved wooden letters that spell out my daughter's name etc.

haha, those are great ideas

i am probably going to seem like a weirdo because somehow no one else in the office has heard of this cat poster. i thought it was ubiquitous at one point, but tbh i think that memory is there because it was hanging in a prominent hallway in my elementary school, so i saw it for 5 straight years during my formative years.

it's the "hang in there kitten !!! an inspirational icon

i am into all the same old things tbh
i guess i have a slightly above average interest in hanging out with people irl honestly

i am probably going to seem like a weirdo because somehow no one else in the office has heard of this cat poster. i thought it was ubiquitous at one point, but tbh i think that memory is there because it was hanging in a prominent hallway in my elementary school, so i saw it for 5 straight years during my formative years.

― Karl Malone

oh god i'm always referencing things that i figured were common cultural touchstones but nobody else has ever heard of, yesterday i derailed a meeting by using the phrase "bob's your uncle", which i guess might as well be "23 skidoo" or "what a shocking bad hat" or something

lol, i know "bob's your uncle" but i now have no idea what it means. sounds like a great derail, though!

fwiw i'm running a quick twitter poll and 11 of 12 so far have heard of this cat poster

i don't think anybody actually knows what it means, as tends to be the way with those sort of sayings. asking the question around me tends to be dangerous as i have an unfortunate barely repressed tendency to go off on long rambling monologues at the drop of a hat, ending up talking about the importance of the corn laws or some shit. i can't imagine anybody actually caring but people tend to look at me as if i'm saying some genuinely fascinating shit, which i can't quite work my head around.

i sometimes regret not becoming a teacher. i didn't become a teacher because i hate kids and i somehow didn't realize this was the actual motivation of many teachers.

you don't have to teach kids to be a teacher! adults need teaching too. it helps to like them though ime/o

In uk everyone knows “bobs your uncle”

It means jobs a goodun

I get sad when I see the hang in there poster because it just makes me jealous of the kitten that really does not have any responsibilities at all. Easy for you to say, Snowball. And mind your own business.

my boyfriend
learning networking and studying for my CCNA certification
still vegetarian cooking
Talk Talk's "The Colour of Spring", WOWZA!!!
this Raspberry Pi 3 I built out as an emulation box, and all of the fun games I'm playing for the first time, incl but not limited to:

oops

the Spyro series (finished 1, about to start 2)
Final Fantasy VII
Donkey Kong Country 2
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (it is HARD!!!)

I am about to start:
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Clock Tower (the OG Super Famicom one)

if anyone has recommendations for obscure/sleeper games for literally any console up to and including PS1 let me know

reading more in 2019, trying to finish 1 book a month

good list of games! i have never (or just very sparingly and i can't remember) played DKC2 despite the first one being one of my favourite games

early REM (pre-Green)
cooking something new for dinner every night - last night a not particularly exciting, but fairly satisfying attempt at mujadra
super mario world
iranian history
walking

man Super Mario World, I wonder what it would be like replaying that? It was one of the first games I ever got and I feel like despite not picking it up in 20 years I probably know every level inside and out

i hadn't played it for a similar amount of time and it was the first SNES game i ever played. my friend charles got a ton of money for his first communion (i got about a 1/4 the money he did :( ) and bought a SNES and a bunch of games. luckily charles was very bad at video games and he would usually let me play to get past levels.

ive really enjoyed replaying it and i love the way it looks but i don't think it's quite as good as super mario 3, which i replayed a year or so ago and has more interesting levels imo

hey stevie you might like echo night on ps1, it's a first person puzzle game developed by From Software (of later dark souls fame). its pretty fun and bizarre. i've never really heard it talked about, i think its relatively unknown. i'm only aware of it because the person who gave me my ps1 gave me this game with it

Donkey Kong Country was so good and looked better than anything else on a SNES, surely it couldn't have been any better. I've got a Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 for my kid's birthday, and haven't had a good play on a games console since about 2001. If he doesn't like it - it won't go to waste.

I've got a raspberry pi set up this way and it rules. But Donkey Kong Country - which looked great 20 years ago on a 20" CRT TV - looks terrible on a 55" HD flatscreen. The best part are some references in the game to how AMAZING the graphics look and how every other (contemporary) game looks like shit in comparison. The super flat colors NES marios 1-3 and SNES super mario world hold up much better.

Gotta get Tropical Freeze on switch!

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