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Tade Thompson
@tadethompson.bsky.social
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I deserve to read this tonight.
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❄️Winter Magic❄️ 🐀Rat Verified🐀@wmrina.bsky.social |
62 followers 24 following 110 posts
I'm here mostly for spite, but while I'm here I'll also take a good helping of video games, cats, & tea. Nothing I say, post, create or share can be used in AI generation or learning for any reason. I block AI, crypto & anything else that annoys me.
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Tade Thompson
@tadethompson.bsky.social
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I deserve to read this tonight.
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degenerate triangle
@perpetualco.de
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It powers on! Now to just locate a 5.25" floppy to boot...
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Heartspark
@heartspark.bsky.social
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One of my pieces in a trade with the very kind @/peachydinocat 🌸
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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀
@danirabaiotti.bsky.social
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So I want to talk about this from the perspective of someone who does professional fact checking as part of my work. For some years now I have been paid to check TV and written content themed around animals to make sure it is factually accurate. Chat GPT & AI has made that job so much harder.
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Video Game Advisor
@vgadvisor.bsky.social
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scott linnen
@scottlinnen.bsky.social
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2019: “They’re just fear-mongering about the Supreme Court!” 2020: “They're just fear-mongering about a coup!” 2022: “They’re just fear-mongering about abortion bans!” 2024: “They’re just fear-mongering about Project 2025!”
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J.R.
@jrbolt.bsky.social
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One of my favourite Art Deco pieces, over the door of the Fulton County Dept. of Health and Wellness. Swole spirit of medicine fights off the grim spectre of death, reminding you that medicine is Cool
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❄️Winter Magic❄️ 🐀Rat Verified🐀
@wmrina.bsky.social
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The ACA saved my parents from financial ruin after my mother had a bad infection following an operation, including 5 days on a ventilator in the ICU. The ACA saves lives. While I want single payer health care to replace it ASAP, we can never go back to the horror that existed before it.
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Teresa R.
@teresarobinson.bsky.social
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The ACA saved my boy’s life. Diagnosed with MS at 21. He’s 33 now. His medication costs $49,000 a dose. He meets his deductible 3 months into the year,
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Peter Ryan 🇨🇦
@peterryanbc.bsky.social
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Warren Terra
@warrenterra.bsky.social
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"Rescission" affected mostly individual policies, not employer-based (they'd be cancelling the entire contract with that employer), but was INCREDIBLY frequent for individual policies - I remember seeing 5% per year. If an individual policyholder needed expensive care, their insurance could vanish.
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Warren Terra
@warrenterra.bsky.social
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Also, not mentioned in the thread: "rescission". Prior to the ACA ending the practice, an insurer could just use "rescission" to cancel any policy that became inconvenient - for example, if the policyholder was using too much care, making too many claims.
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AGuyinNJ
@aguyinnj.bsky.social
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Does Project 2025 also return us to the era of Recission, aka 'well WE think you had this as a pre existing condition so we're not covering this, not insuring you anymore, keeping all the premiums you paid in, and billing you for all these things we now call part of this new preexisting condition!'?
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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The ACA is never secure when a Republican is in the White House. But repealing it is a direct attack on … on SO MUCH, to be honest. But one noteworthy population are babies who did nothing more than be born w conditions over which they had zero control.
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Pre-existing conditions bans: insurers reserved right to limit a person’s insurability if they had certain illnesses prior to getting insured. You know what completely innocent NICU babies are? Giant clusters of pre-existing conditions. The most vulnerable, the most innocent, the most uninsurable.
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Lifetime caps: some insurers would say that once a person had run up a (lifetime) bill of $2M or so, they were no longer insurable, kicked forever to Medicaid and Medicare. NICU nurses told me abt pre-ACA kids who would hit their lifetime cap before their first breath of fresh air.
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Ah, FB memories serving up some winners. This is what an itemized $1,330,000 NICU hospital bill looks like (only 96 days to get there). The apple is there for scale. Here’s why I share it. Too many ppl don’t know abt lifetime caps and pre-existing bans. Bc the STILL-VULNERABLE ACA banned them.
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r
@recombobulating.bsky.social
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The US government made a conscious decision after WW2 that communism was a threat and fascism wasn't. It amazes me the degree to which that gets ignored in order to act like the problem is new.
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Baby Boy Monaghan
@babyboymonaghan.bsky.social
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I sometimes see people discuss the American left as being intrinsically self-sabotaging, and it feels like any discussion that doesn't factor in the extent to which the mainstream reflexively shuts out and frequently actively crushes leftist activism is wilfully naive.
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Jordan!
@jordanjamboree.bsky.social
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yes great argument, but i have a tiny orange kitty curled up on me, so im sorry but i win. what? yes she’s purring idiot
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Tofu
@tofupixel.bsky.social
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more #artfight #pixelart stuff
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Erik Burnham
@erikburnham.bsky.social
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Don’t worry, I’m just as boring there.
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Preeti Chhibber
@runwithskizzers.bsky.social
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i feel like ppl need to remember that a person's public facing social media is, like, just a small piece of their life?? there is so much happening on the other side of the screen that you will never, ever see.
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Bodega Cats
@bodegacats.bsky.social
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💫🍺𝐜𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐚 |🔞 𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐰🍺💫
@cocicka.bsky.social
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Wedding ring
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pikaole
@pikaole.bsky.social
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Want to sleep early but
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The New York Times
@nytimes.com
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The FTC criticized pharmacy benefit managers in a a scathing 71-page report on Tuesday, a turnaround from its longstanding tolerance of their practices. The report signals a significant rise in scrutiny of the companies under the agency’s chair, Lina Khan.
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Amalas
@amalasrosa.bsky.social
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If you are against ai in art you have to be patience with artists! You have to give beginner artists time and not judge their mistakes! Let them work at their own pace and experiment. You have to encourage artist, especially beginner artists! And support indie artists!
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Khamisu @ Artfight Team Stardust!
@khamisu.bsky.social
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AF attack on @nalidraws.bsky.social! This character is so lovely, I just had to go all-out and experiment!
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Daily Union Elections
@unionelections.bsky.social
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NEW: 84 therapists and healthcare specialists in San Jose are forming a union and joining IFPTE.
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Daily Union Elections
@unionelections.bsky.social
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BREAKING: 17 workers at Peete's Coffee are forming a union and seeking to join IWW.
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Hipster Sasquatch
@hipstersasquatch.bsky.social
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FUCKING FINALLY
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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.0
@tammi.bsky.social
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The New York Times
@nytimes.com
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A $1 billion gift from Michael Bloomberg to Johns Hopkins University, announced on Monday, will allow most students at the university’s medical school to attend free of cost and will also increase financial aid for other students.
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❄️Winter Magic❄️ 🐀Rat Verified🐀
@wmrina.bsky.social
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We have cat food bowls, and on principle I don’t mind eating out of them. The problem is the cats recognize the unique sound of those bowls so if we so much as grab one out of the cabinet, the cats come running for what they expect to be cat food.
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Müs
@cadmiumtea.bsky.social
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I can’t believe I still have these! 400$ each if you’re fast, this half hour only
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Bethany, Warrior of Mojitos
@maegis42.bsky.social
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Poor dears aren’t a silent majority. I hope they cope with this realization by eating each other
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The Matriculated Brick
@beeb33.bsky.social
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folks, the news out of france is an unalloyed good and I'm begging you to remember what it feels like to experience the kind of joy that drives you forward even if it doesn't end all the suffering.
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Hens Breet
@monospace.com
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Yes, but that was by no means a given. Vigilance, awareness, activism, and organization saved the day.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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I really don’t think most people realize just how hard the boot will come down if Trump and the Republicans win the election. Most people have never experienced the totalitarian surveillance state with the power to reach into their homes and minds at will they are telling us is their plan.
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The Washington Post
@washingtonpost.com
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Most Americans don’t think about measles because vaccination had largely eliminated the scourge from the U.S. in 2000. But many Americans who survived measles as children never forgot how sick they were. These are some of their stories.
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Talia Lavin
@swordsjew.bsky.social
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lord i see what youve done for other peoples
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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my FB feed at the moment
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Mark
@turbohotdog.bsky.social
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This is why voting matters. Don't believe the chuds telling you otherwise.
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NPR
@npr.org
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BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.
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betsy cooley
@betsycooley.bsky.social
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Yesterday, California poppies along shoreline of San Francisco Bay. 📷 🌱 🌿 #Nature, #Landscape, #Photography, #nature, #Landscape+Nature Photos, #Nature Photo Feed
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Corvi
@corviforms.bsky.social
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⭐️FELLOW NEOPIANS! ⭐️Please vote for my handsome Leonuard in the BC 🦚www.neopets.com/beauty/details.phtml?pet=Leonuard
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Julie
@rendevok.bsky.social
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Act II ~ The Challenge
Another tapestry for chapter 2 of “Let No One Sleep” by @azalawa_scroggs on ao3
#narumitsu (alt text cont’d in thread)
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s. e. smith
@sesmith.bsky.social
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Remember the hole in the ozone layer?
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Ollo 🐉
@ollosaurus.bsky.social
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Im on ArtFight by the way! 👀
artfight.net/~Ollosaurus
Trying to defend everything I get and attack some more interesting characters!
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