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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

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Fan + spray bottle filled with room temperature water. Divine

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Actually yes - it’s definitely less effective when the humidity is super high, but usually on those days the temperature is also lower. Still works if the fan is strong enough.

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It also forms a protective barrier for your skin, so nothing can contaminate it or grow on it and you don’t lose moisture to evaporation.

Also, pores don’t actually clog from stuff getting into them. That’s a common misconception that mostly comes from advertisements. What actually happens is your skin becomes inflamed (due to contaminants or bacterial growth or diet or hormones) and squeezes the pores shut. Blackheads aren’t dirt but are actually oxidized sebum, which is the oil your skin secretes.

EDIT Oh! Speaking of protective barriers, I also put it on my hands and forearms before work because I handle a lot of machine oil and that irritates my skin, causing rashes and itchiness.

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I react badly to it! I’ve only had luck with low% benzoyl peroxide cream, with retinol to help with hyperpigmentation.

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Oh yeah! I use it to touch up eyeliner - a teeny amount on a q-tip and I can pretend I don’t keep over applying makeup lol

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Once inflammation begins in the skin, it triggers a process called hyperkeratinization, which occurs when the skin produces too many skin cells (keratinocytes) and too much protein (keratin). This causes the pore to narrow and clog initially, forming the very first type of clogged pore in acne, called a microcomedone.5

When a pore is clogged, skin oil, called sebum, begins to build up inside of it. When there is a large enough buildup, it becomes visible to the naked eye. At this point, the acne lesion is called a comedone, more commonly known as a whitehead or blackhead.

A lot of this is stuff I picked up over a decade of dealing with chronic and painful acne, so I’d probably have to spend an evening finding different articles lol

But, yeah, acne comes from inside. It’s a more like an allergic reaction, where a normally helpful part of the immune system freaks the f out and causes harm. The bacteria that and normally lives harmlessly in our skin oil. And it’s not even always the cause! Sometimes bacteria doesn’t grow inside the zit at all, though it usually does and when it does it usually makes it a lot worse.

Gosh there’s just so much stuff. Scrubbing with a cloth or using overly hot water actually make acne worse because they cause irritation, which triggers a stress response. Overly drying soaps can cause acne by drying out the skin, which can trigger a stress response. Sunlight is necessary for human life, but lots of exposure causes inflammation and stress.

Acne.org has a lot of good info, highly recommend.

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All kinds!

Airfried garbanzo beans are great as a salty snack (generally I like to use a sweet chili seasoning) or sauteed with onions and peppers and fajita seasoning and then served on soft tortillas. Airfried pintos are great as a salty snack (chili lime or nooche is best for them) or sauteed with corn and onions and taco seasoning, and then topped with fresh tomato and lettuce and put on crunchy tortillas. Airfried black beans are great as a salty snack (just straight with salt and pepper) or just drenched in hot sauce and eat em with a spoon.

I wasted so much of my life thinking I didn’t like beans because I’d only ever had nasty baked beans from school lunches. 😞

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If you learn how to make your own patties from scratch it’s pretty cheap - or to save time you can do what I do and eat beans directly from the air fryer 🤤

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They’re junk food and that’s why I love them.

It’s the same impulse that keeps me buying Takis.

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I actually just rinse off canned beans, spray them with vegetable oil, toss em in at 400F for 8-12 minutes, then shake them in a baggie with salt and spices. Or mix them in a bowl with hot sauce. Or use them as a topping for rice. Or throw them in stir fry. Or sauteed onions and bell peppers, then put them on tortillas.

God damn I love air fried beans

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    I think they’re saying the dumbest shit possible so Trump picks them for VP.

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    Can you imagine how humid that would be? No thanks. 🥵

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    How come when I plagiarize other people’s creative content it’s illegal, but when AI does it it’s fine?

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    People make derivative works because they add their own ideas and spin. AI do not have ideas or spin, it’s copy-paste with extra steps.

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    All these AI do is algorithmically copy-paste. They don’t have original thoughts and or original conclusions or original ideas, all if it is just copy-paste with extra steps.

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    The limit is the petrodollar, of course. Once that’s defunct the whole thing falls down.

    Until then wheeeeeeeee~!

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    America will subsidize gasoline before it stops burning it.

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    Notice how both of those apples are being offered by the serpent. 🤔 🤔 🤔

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    Ever had a frozen banana?

    It’s like icecream!

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    To be fair his dad abandoned him with his mother and then set him up to die for basically no reason. Kinda an asshole.

    Hi-viz (files.mastodon.online)

    alt textPost by Urban Cycling Institute. text: ‘New study into effectiveness of hi-viz for cyclists in car traffic’ - by Brendan Gavrin images: Two photos. One is captioned “Driver’s view of cyclist dressed in black”, the other “Driver’s view of cyclist dressed in hi-viz”. Both depict a phone in front of a...

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    That’s what my LED gear is for - gives me an awesome cyberpunk look at night.

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    I wear hi-vis to give me a chance in the lawsuit. 🫠

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    The most oppressed people on Earth: motorists 😂

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    Translation: you’ll become more conservative when you have children and own a home

    Millennials: 😆
    Zoomers: 😂
    Alpha: 🤣
    Whateverthefuckcomesnext: 💀

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    I believe that.

    Personally, I absolutely love thinking about shit and look for opportunities to do it as often as possible. In fact, sometimes I’ll go for quiet walks in the woods and just think about things for hours and hours, and have a great time!

    And I know I’ve tried to explain that to people and afterwards they treat me like an actual alien lol

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