Tbf, I knew posting about the Medicaid shit on FB would cause *someone* to react. I just wish I'd been wrong. 🤷‍♀️ Or maybe that they'd had the courage to say it publicly, rather than in DMs. Taking the night to think about my response so I don't lead with a snotty Les Mis reference...

Last call of the day: Tech from the local company that installed a manual hydrant with my new well cap last year stopped on his way home to figure out why it wasn't drawing water. Took him 15-20m, and he also gave me an estimate ro replace the (indoor) water tank (already on the list). No charge.

They're not talking about kicking people off Medicaid who are fraudulently getting it. They're talking about kicking people off Medicaid who would be actually eligible for it but can't manage to keep up with paperwork to prove it. And that's the desired outcome. That people suffer needlessly.

FWIW, I did do what I view as cognitive retraining, though it was self-driven. BUT. You cannot outsmart cellular dysfunction. It took treatment, extreme rest, pharmaceuticals, etc., to even get to the point of reintroducing my system to activities in a way I could manage and track. And...

Another day, another endless call with KitchenAid about the order they still have not shipped, a week after it was supposed to have arrived. It is boxed, but...waiting? Next up: the Frigidaire recall replacement that did not fix the problem, though it took them 2mos to accomplish the repair.

Sry. Can't #terriertuesday rn. Diggin'.

Five small-town libraries are set to close their doors permanently this summer. As of July 20, branches in Hantsport, Kentville, Lawrencetown, Port Williams and Middleton will no longer be in operation. But the 2 million for billionaire’s sailing around our harbour for just 2 days, not cuts there.

TFW you find out your grandma didn't take her brownie recipe to the grave—your aunt has been sitting on it for almost 30 years. I forgot how fucking amazing these taste, even though I had to substitute for a kind of baking chocolate you can't even buy anymore.

“I think Long Covid is a serious national and global problem that demands attention from governments and international bodies” Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly June 1, 2026 www.wbur.org/news/2026/06...

Can this dog be the next DNC head?

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Do not be the shadow of time , Be the light of morning sun

A new RCT of ~2,000 household contacts published today in NEJM found the oral antiviral ensitrelvir (Xocova) reduced symptomatic Covid after household exposure by ~67% compared to placebo (2.9% vs 9.0%) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

COVID damages the frontal lobes, which are responsible for risk assessment, empathy, impulse control, etc. So it may not be much of a stretch to suggest it’s helping to make people more irritable & perhaps aggressive, more confrontational, etc.

This is fucking wild as hell. Bad enough California is in the pockets of the car and highway lobby but at least they pretended to care about emissions. This guy is like fuck all that noise. Remember when we needed those big highway smog signs like in LA Story? Those were the good times

Sorry when I called this guy Newsom 2 as a bust I had no idea I was, somehow, disrespecting Newsom

when we californians tell you that none of us can stand Newsom just believe us

ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall

America was never great and the dissolution of that notion is the collective psychic break you're feeling. But some of us have always known and always seen the lies and reality.

"Freedom" 250 is gonna wind up DJed by some local high school kid who will do it for "exposure" and still play Milli Vanilli and Vanilla Ice Milli Vanilli Ice, if you will.

imagine being president of the united states and getting snubbed by a group popular 40 years ago and best known for lip syncing and also one of them is dead

ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an ‘alarming’ rate, an AP investigation finds apnews.com/article/ice-...

PUPS, IT IS TOO EARLY FOR #TERRIERTUESDAY zzzZZZzzZz

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Putting together my second indestructible XL twin bed and wondering why indestructible doesn't coincide with easily constructible 😡

I like this site and I think people who have a really hard time here are kind of babies. Sometimes I get yelled at on here and some of those times people don’t have a point, but who cares? If anything, I should evangelize for this site more as the last place on the internet I still learn stuff.

Conclusive Landmark Study Added To Growing Pile Of Covid Research We Will Not Read

In chemistry, a supersaturated solution is one where you've kept adding a solute to a liquid beyond where the liquid can dissolve everything. All it takes is a nucleation site / seed crystal for the solution to rapidly (sometimes violently) crystalize. Unrelatedly, the US has more guns than people.

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Colbert may be gone but the jokes will be forever

...or the rest of your body, tbh

Outstanding

France is already moving on from Zoom and Microsoft Teams in favor of homegrown alternatives. Other countries are quickly following suit. www.wired.com/story/the-eu...

Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

There’s an Ebola outbreak in Congo that WHO just declared a “public health emergency.” USAID would normally help. But It’s been killed. CDC would help too, but it’s been cut Don’t worry though. The admin is engaged in Congo. It just deported immigrants there. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/w...

Ohhhhhh, I feel called out.

Ah, therapy in Vermont...where even oblique mentions of folks who aggravate you at your job can make it clear with whom, exactly, you have caught beef. "Caught beef" means something different here, though. 🙃

Marx dreamed of a world where you wouldn't be pigeonholed by your job. As he put it, a man could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and critique ideas at dinner without ever being a hunter, fisherman, or critic.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... “This study provides evidence that SARS-CoV-2 infection may strongly induce autoimmunity.” Don’t think mild or no symptoms. Think what could happen after any Covid infection. We have no health warnings on this.

Call to Activism -Joe Gallina 🚨WOW! Mayor Zohran Mamdani just MOCKED Ronald Reagan’s famous quote. “I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’” “I worked all day and can’t feed my family.” BOOM.

This is Natty. He's the first official team dog for the Washington Nationals. He makes his big-league debut on Friday and will learn basic skills and socialization with the team before he goes on to formal service dog training with Canine Companions. 13/10

great piece. please read if you have a moment: presswatchers.org/2026/05/its-...

To paraphrase Samuel Johnson: “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for freedom among the men who demand submission from their wives and obedience from their children?”

There isn’t much left to say except that your children will be less well-rounded than you. Less well-read than you. Less intelligent than you. Less able to problem solve than you. Leas worldly than you. Less empathetic. Less equipped. And more helpless. For the first time in living history.

I was raised to use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. Our beds were hand-me-downs from Pepere's farm. Two of our living room chairs came from the fire dept auction. When we put in a pool, it was with pieces from my mom's client's pool—we bought a liner and built from there.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

You can become disabled in an instant. People think those of us who are sick did “something” to deserve it. We didn’t. The just world fallacy is a lie. It just takes one illness, accident or stroke of bad luck to forever change your life. Disability is not a moral failing.