Fun bit of #medicine #trivia on how trans health care and Neglected Diseases(tm) can intersect in curious ways:

there's a medicine, eflornithine, that suppresses growth of facial hair, and is thus useful for hirsute women, including some trans women and PCOS sufferers.

It happens to also kill a certain parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, which is carried by tsetse flies and causes the African sleeping sickness, if treatment begins early enough.

Fun bit of #medicine #trivia on how trans health care and Neglected Diseases(tm) can intersect in curious ways:

there's a medicine, eflornithine, that suppresses growth of facial hair, and is thus useful for hirsute women, including some trans women and PCOS sufferers.

It happens to also kill a certain parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, which is carried by tsetse flies and causes the African sleeping sickness, if treatment begins early enough.

🆕 blog! “Get the location of the ISS using DNS”

I love DNS esoterica. Weird little things that you can shove in the global directory to be distributed around the world instantly(ish).

Domain names, like www.example.com usually resolve to servers. As much as we think of "the cloud" as being some intangible morass of ethereal Turing-machines floating in probability space,…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/get-the-location-of-the-iss-using-dns/
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#dns #internet #trivia

🆕 blog! “Get the location of the ISS using DNS”

I love DNS esoterica. Weird little things that you can shove in the global directory to be distributed around the world instantly(ish).

Domain names, like www.example.com usually resolve to servers. As much as we think of "the cloud" as being some intangible morass of ethereal Turing-machines floating in probability space,…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/get-the-location-of-the-iss-using-dns/
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#dns #internet #trivia

Subject: Apple Pop-Tarts #consumer#trivia

There have been a number of variations of Apple Pop-Tarts. One variation is back on the market. See the attached illustration. However, by and large, apple variations have been discontinued due to the fact that consumers allegedly prefer stronger flavors.

I see that there are other Pop-Tarts that didn't make the cut. Wild Watermelon, Frosted Grape, Guava Mango, etc. For a possibly interesting Pop-Tarts article, visit the link below:

https://www.mashed.com/198761/pop-tart-flavors-youll-sadly-never-get-to-try-again/

Subject: Apple Pop-Tarts #consumer#trivia

There have been a number of variations of Apple Pop-Tarts. One variation is back on the market. See the attached illustration. However, by and large, apple variations have been discontinued due to the fact that consumers allegedly prefer stronger flavors.

I see that there are other Pop-Tarts that didn't make the cut. Wild Watermelon, Frosted Grape, Guava Mango, etc. For a possibly interesting Pop-Tarts article, visit the link below:

https://www.mashed.com/198761/pop-tart-flavors-youll-sadly-never-get-to-try-again/