This is one of the scariest *winter* forecasts I've ever seen. 3.5 in hailstones?? If you're in Chicagoland, northern Indiana, western/southern MI, leave your phones on and nearby tonight, and listen for warning sirens. Know your shelter place before then.
Honestly, it's the language they speak. I used it in my appeal because I'm not under any illusions that they actually care on a human level.
(Yes, I use humor to deal with super grim things. I'm well-adjusted like that.)
Homer Simpson standing on a stack of beer barrels holding a glass of beer saying: "To alcohol! The cause of and solution to, all of life's problems."
Adventures in autoimmune treatment: when one of the insurance company approved drugs that is supposed to help prevent cancer from your disease also has a black box warning that it causes cancer.
I maintain that the answer is a 4-6 hour workday, not choosing savings vs standard time. we all should get daylight before and after work or school.
Palestinian journalist Amal Hamad Al-Shamali, 46, a correspondent for Qatar Radio, was murdered in an Israeli strike on tents in Nuseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip.
Anyway, this time change has me up early thinking about Medicare For All and how much sense @abdulelsayed.bsky.social proposed policies make. Michiganders please join me in supporting someone who actually gives a damn about us. Things could actually be better for all of us.
It couldn’t be that health insurance (even a “non profit” company) is a scam, right? You wouldn’t just be making myopic, life altering medical decisions based on your bottom line. That would be psychopathic, and frankly, fiscally imprudent given that treatment now prevents future complex illness.
Hey @bcbsm.bsky.social how come we, the premium payers, don’t get to see or talk to the people who deem our healthcare “medically unnecessary”? Your esteemed clinical practitioners should feel good and confident that they are acting ethically, right?
Boy, do I fucking hate these completely unnecessary time shifts.
Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. now have their own directory for the first time ever, launched by the nonprofit National Association of Black Bookstores www.nab2.org
Don't Let Me Be Lonely: “I don't usually talk to strangers...” Play Audio By Claudia Rankine I don't usually talk to strangers, but it is four o'clock and I can't get a cab. I need a cab because I have packages, but it's four o'clock and all the cabs are off duty. They are making a shift change. At the bus stop I say, It's hard to get a cab now. The woman standing next to me glances over without turning her head. She faces the street where cab after cab drives by with its light off. She says, as if to anyone, It's hard to live now. I don't respond. Hers is an Operation Iraqi Freedom answer. The war is on and the Department of Homeland Security has decided we have an elevated national-threat level, a code-orange alert. I could say something, but my packages are getting heavier by the minute and besides, what is there to say since rhetorically it's not about our oil under their sand but about freeing Iraqis from Iraqis and Osama is Saddam and Saddam is “that man who tried to kill my father” and the weapons of mass destruction are, well, invisible and Afghanistan is Iraq and Iraq is Syria and we see ourselves only through our own eyes and the British, but not the French, and Germany won't and Turkey won't join us but the coalition is inside Baghdad where the future is the threat the Americans feel they can escape though there is no escaping the Americans because war, this war, is about peace: “The war in Iraq is really about peace. Trying to make the world more peaceful. This victory in Iraq, when it happens, will make the world more peaceful.”
"I don't usually talk to strangers", by Claudia Rankine
I did NOT enjoy calling clinics and specialists to ensure my high-med-needs kid can be seen before the cutoff. As if we don't pay enough for @bcbsm.bsky.social and work hard enough for @umich.edu. They are both rolling in money and scheming how to get more while we're out here scrambling.
If you're a UM employee with the BCN plan, this proposed change will not impact your care. But it will significantly impact the care of those around you, and the volume of care transferred to other hospitals and providers. www.michiganmedicine.org/news-release...
@bcbsm.bsky.social should be ashamed of itself for panicking members with this "negotiating tactic". We're people who unfortunately have to depend on insurance instead of universal healthcare like every other sane country. Figure it out, BCBSM! Disgusting. www.bcbsm.com/updates/memb...
Over 700 Iranians killed already according to AJE
If Mercury retrograde has got you down, and you're looking for a heartfelt short series podcast, may I suggest Skyline Drive. Host Mangesh Hattikudur introduces us to people navigating life by astrology; scientists, parents, a BTS fan, love-seekers, the Reagans. Try not to cry during episode 5.
I didn’t know Microslop was a thing until I saw headlines about Microsoft trying to ban Microslop on its Discord. Now I shall say Microslop a lot. That’s how it works.
It’s good when Microsoft, a company that likes genocide and environmental destruction, doesn’t like things.
every time AO3 goes down I see people saying they lost their writing. never write on AO3 itself- that writing can be lost at any time. there are free word processors out there. USE A WORD PROCESSOR and save to your own device(s). I use an ancient version of OpenOffice. it does everything I need.
I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.
Citing your CIA involvement is not a flex, especially when we are talking about Iran, its history with the US government & CIA from the 1950s to present. Slotkin can barely denounce this aggression because she would have voted for it were it up to Congress.
Idk I just feel like in a better world “we used Claude for target identification” would be a massive scandal
Massacring children without Congressional approval: bad, reckless, will lead to a broader regional conflict, worst of all may raise gas prices
Massacring children with congressional approval: good, righteous, necessary to bring democracy to the region, for the good of women and children, moral
But, we know this isn’t about the Iranian government, and this will not result in anything better for the Iranian people, so why pretend that’s what’s happening? Slotkin clearly learned nothing from Iraq.
Hey, fuck you. Delete this whole thread, sit in a corner, and think about your missing soul.
An Al Jazeera live online update which reads. Five killed in Israeli attack on elementary school in Iran Iran's state-run IRNA news agency has reported that an Israeli strike hit an elementary girls' school in Minab, a city in the Hor-mozgan province of southern Iran. It added that five students were killed.
BREAKING: A US-Israeli missile strike has hit a girls school in Iran.
Multiple fatalities reported.
(SOURCE: Al Jazeera)
No war on Iran
Well, the horn is finally off, but the scoreboard is out. They’re going to play without it. Mercury in retrograde!
