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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:adamshostack@infosec.exchange
Dec 24, 2025, 10:37 PM
@brad I was going to say everything is lickable, but not every lick is survivable, but then I checked the handy reference chart and I would now like to change my answer to "How do you lick a gas?"
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Lethelethe@digitalcourage.social
Dec 24, 2025, 10:53 PM
@adamshostack @brad Everything is lickable, some things are just lickable only once.
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Aaronhosford42@techhub.social
Dec 24, 2025, 11:26 PM
@lethe
IDK, some things you might not be able to get close enough to lick before "ya dead"
@adamshostack @brad
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Andreas Kyacc143@mastodon.social
Dec 25, 2025, 12:39 AM
@lethe @adamshostack @brad It depends upon the dose.
And I seem to remember that chlorine gas was used at some time as a chemical weapon, and depending upon concentration, it's lethal, so I wouldn't take the colors on the chart too seriously (400ppm: within 30m, 1000ppm within minutes). But onset of severe symptoms can take up to 36 hours, which makes it even harder to gauge.
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Clara 🏳️‍⚧️rallias@hax.social
Dec 25, 2025, 12:53 AM
@lethe @adamshostack @brad I suspect a few of those fall under you die before getting close enough to lick.
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Jürgen Trinkaus :nonazis:NeOigasho@hessen.social
Dec 25, 2025, 10:55 AM
@adamshostack @brad Exacly my point, that group is more than theoretical, but the idea is nice - even when it’s not really practical.
Merry christmas to everyone.
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WooShellWooShell@chaosfurs.social
Dec 25, 2025, 12:01 PM
@adamshostack @brad You blow some of it across your tongue? I'd say that qualifies as "licking".
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Deborah Pickettfutzle@old.mermaid.town
Dec 24, 2025, 10:42 PM
@brad Glad to see you got the corrected version after they discovered the problem with arsenic.
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Kit BashirUnixbigot@aus.social
Dec 24, 2025, 10:59 PM
@futzle @brad but not Radium…?
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Deborah Pickettfutzle@old.mermaid.town
Dec 24, 2025, 11:04 PM
@Unixbigot @brad Radium’s fine! Here, look at my glow-in-the-dark smile!
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Bradbrad
Dec 24, 2025, 11:15 PM
@futzle @Unixbigot I feel there are some parameters that might need to cleared up, ay. Presumably 25C and 1 atm? How many times are we expecting to lick these things?
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Jeffovereducatedredneck@bitbang.social
Dec 25, 2025, 2:09 AM
@futzle @Unixbigot @brad There's a lot of problems with the radioactive elements. Many of them should be yellow. Polonium is probably the only one to really hit the bar of 'ya dead'.
There's a missing category for the bottom row: "good luck trying". A lot of the elements starting around Fermium just aren't produced in lickable amounts, and as you get heavier, a large number of those don't have chemical properties, because we've only produced a few atoms at a time.
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Kit BashirUnixbigot@aus.social
Dec 25, 2025, 2:50 AM
@overeducatedredneck @futzle @brad “in order to have an opportunity to lick this extremely short-lived isotope you would have to put your head in a proton beam; this has been done¹ and is not recommended”.
¹ https://www.iflscience.com/a-physicist-once-survived-a-proton-beam-through-the-head-this-is-how-80594
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Anna Spanner 👩‍🏫🇪🇺🧪Annaspanner@bookstodon.com
Dec 25, 2025, 7:51 AM
@futzle @brad but calcium still remains “lickable”. Gahh
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PhoibiPhoibi@chaos.social
Dec 25, 2025, 9:27 AM
@crenquis @brad Not so forbidden in ancient times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate
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Robin Beeminterpunct@gamemaking.social
Dec 24, 2025, 10:47 PM
@brad I find the licking of gases more problematic than they give it credit for
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René Moser (resmo) レネresmo@mstdn.social
Dec 24, 2025, 10:52 PM
@brad can vs should?
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JPeckboscoandpeck@universeodon.com
Dec 24, 2025, 10:55 PM
@brad funny and practical!
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Stephen Borrillsborrill@justfollow.me.uk
Dec 24, 2025, 11:05 PM
@brad This mainly seems like a ruse to kill off the red-green colour-blind of us
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∴ esoterik ∴d6@merveilles.town
Dec 24, 2025, 11:06 PM
@brad deeply skeptical of the claim that Francium is lickable
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glasspshrglasspusher@beige.party
Dec 28, 2025, 12:09 AM
@d6 @brad or that licking fluorine won’t kill you
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vampirdaddyvampirdaddy@chaos.social
Dec 24, 2025, 11:10 PM
@brad
If you get the gases into a „lickable“ state (i.e. solid or at least fluid), they at least fall into the „problem“ category, but usually straight to „no“.
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jexner 🏳️‍🌈 ("Josh")jexner@tooting.ch
Dec 24, 2025, 11:19 PM
@brad read your toot, understood the shirt, immediately clicked the "Lick" button.
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Jérémy Pagèsjpages@mastodon.online
Dec 24, 2025, 11:26 PM
@brad I would not lick Radium.
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meadxmoonmeadxmoon@infosec.exchange
Dec 24, 2025, 11:37 PM
@brad such a missed opportunity to make a ATCQ reference with a ‘yes ya can’
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☢️ Waschbär ☢️Kmachel@muenchen.social
Dec 24, 2025, 11:52 PM
@brad
Ummm... Maybe that is just a one off but well licking Actinium [Ac] (Z=89) is really a very bad idea.
There are no stable isotopes of this element so best case you lick an alpha emitter with about 22 years of half-life so killing you more/less slowly or else...
You will die pretty soon from the other isotopes emitting multiple particles and especially alphas.
But yeah maybe that is just one wrong one, rest will be fine, pretty sure 😅👍
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kolyakolya@social.cologne
Dec 25, 2025, 12:02 AM
@brad :wtf: Wait, why does the green square say "No problem."? Why doesn't it say "Yes, you can!"? I thought we were all in on an awesome hip hop reference to an alternative rap group from Queens that hit it big in the 1990s, but not so big to ever become uncool. But now I realise you're all just a bunch of nerds!
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thedoctorthedoctor@polymaths.social
Dec 25, 2025, 1:40 AM
@OpenSauce @brad Same for a bunch of stuff like fluorine or beryllium.
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groff 🇺🇦geoffl@mastodon.me.uk
Dec 25, 2025, 12:17 AM
@malware_traffic
Calcium - No problem?
Problem.
Via Wikipedia: Because calcium reacts exothermically with water and acids, calcium metal coming into contact with bodily moisture results in severe corrosive irritation.
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Misja van Laatummisjavanlaatum@mastodon.gamedev.place
Dec 25, 2025, 12:22 AM
@brad yeah, not too sure about calcium (Ca) being ok to lick...
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ImpertinenzijaImpertinenzija@mastodon.social
Dec 25, 2025, 12:31 AM
@brad What about licking the shirt while you're in? I can't find that information on there. xD
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cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️cafuego@misanthrope.social
Dec 25, 2025, 12:34 AM
@brad I would submit though that by the time H or He are in a lickable state, you might not want to 🥶
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𝚉𝚎𝚗 𝚉𝚎𝚛𝚘 ☯️ ◯xvf17@sfba.social
Dec 25, 2025, 12:40 AM
@brad @SRDas I want to see you lick oxygen.
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David Cohendavidbcohen@twit.social
Dec 25, 2025, 10:06 AM
@xvf17 @brad @SRDas Done. Merry Christmas!
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@BillMcGuire@mastodon.socialBillMcGuire@mastodon.social
Dec 25, 2025, 12:47 AM
@brad
wonder where similar minded folks could lay their hands on a shirt like that, Brad?
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GeoWendGeoWend@kosmos.social
Dec 25, 2025, 1:34 AM
@brad There needs to be one made for stones and minerals…specifically ones that should not be licked OR inserted in orifices.
“Selenite is not one to be inserted, by the by…and no, we do not have a homeopathic remedy for that.”
Words we never wanted to have to utter, ever.
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Toni M.mad@freiburg.social
Dec 25, 2025, 3:37 AM
@brad
😂
This definitely is going to save my life.
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Ko Simon toku ingoa :tinoflag:SimonCHulse@mastodon.nz
Dec 25, 2025, 3:55 AM
@brad technically you can lick all of them, once.
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nicol :HonkGoose:daiversity@kind.social
Dec 25, 2025, 5:05 AM
@brad there goes my plan to replace eating bananas with licking pure potasium
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Chrischrisvest@mastodon.social
Dec 25, 2025, 5:50 AM
@brad I guess francium is fine because one couldn’t possibly get enough in one place for it to be a dangerous amount.
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Catcatmisgivings@stranger.social
Dec 25, 2025, 6:23 AM
@brad P is for phosphorus, but they got Mg right
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@martlund 🌲🐶🇸🇪🇨🇱🌈martlund@mastodon.online
Dec 25, 2025, 6:54 AM
@brad You can also eat any mushroom. But some, just once
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Holger Krupp_holger@mastodon.social
Dec 25, 2025, 7:30 AM
@brad nice. With my color vision disorder I can’t see the difference between no problem and problem. I guess I have to find out.
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Lee 🌏MrLee@aus.social
Dec 25, 2025, 8:11 AM
@_holger @brad 👍
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Holger Krupp_holger@mastodon.social
Dec 25, 2025, 8:29 AM
@MrLee @brad thanks.
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Christerchristerk@mastodon.social
Dec 25, 2025, 7:47 AM
@brad
Hydrogen, argon, molybdenum, and nickel are, respectively, the chemical elements of H Ar Mo Ni.
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Lee 🌏MrLee@aus.social
Dec 25, 2025, 8:05 AM
@brad
You can lick...
but will you like?
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Peter Kospeterkos@iosdev.space
Dec 25, 2025, 8:06 AM
@brad _squints in colorblind_ i got this
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Frosch Bb_age@troet.cafe
Dec 25, 2025, 8:35 AM
@brad well, some, like the noble gases, are technically difficult to lick, but at least not a health hazard 😋
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Atkelaratkelar@meow.social
Dec 25, 2025, 8:41 AM
@brad given that something has to be at least a liquid to be lick-able, I wouldn't try my luck with the gasses either... just sayin 😁
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langeweilelangeweile@social.bau-ha.us
Dec 25, 2025, 9:35 AM
@brad Just because nobody has any Francium doesn’t mean you can lick it!
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Sid GreenfieldLordOfTheGeeks@mastodon.social
Dec 25, 2025, 9:53 AM
@brad snap!
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Bastianbas_spr@digitalcourage.social
Dec 25, 2025, 10:36 AM
@brad I like how Na and Cl are red but together they'd be green
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AusderPampaAusderPampa@dresden.network
Dec 25, 2025, 10:41 AM
@brad That would have been the perfect gift for a friend of mine who's a chemistry teacher. 😍
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Richard WebbFasgadh@mastodon.scot
Dec 25, 2025, 2:43 PM
@AusderPampa @brad
It’s done the rounds with us.
I have a similar one with elements that I have worked with. Includes plutonium
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Dr. Christopher Kunzchristopherkunz@chaos.social
Dec 25, 2025, 10:53 AM
@brad Wait, "Li" is not shorthand for "Lickium"?
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