Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@qoto.org

#America is in the midst of a #MentalHealthCrisis.

But finding a therapist who takes #insurance can feel impossible.

Insurers say that’s because there aren’t enough therapists.

That’s not entirely true. [or at all]

>500 other psychologists, psychiatrists & therapists…shared their experiences….

…one after another, [said] they confronted a system set up to squeeze them out.

#law #HealthCare #treatment #MentalHealth #wellness #MedicalCosts #discrimination #care #law
https://projects.propublica.org/why-i-left-the-network/

All for free speech – but not on THAT topic.

Research shows that large majorities of Americans passionately uphold free speech as a cornerstone of democracy, but fewer of them are supportive of free speech when asked about specific controversial speakers or topics. That has been the pattern for decades.

https://theconversation.com/americans-love-free-speech-survey-finds-until-they-realize-everyone-else-has-it-too-234884
#FreeSpeech #USPolitics #Election #research

TikTok is approaching peak JD Vance mockery pic.twitter.com/ZycbYcrekk

— Jackie Singh 🥥🌴 (@HackingButLegal) August 25, 2024

JD Vance is so weird, everyone seems to be mocking him, but these TikTok’s are stellar. I particularly like the walking in the park one.

(Hat tip: Scissorhead D-Cap)

https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/08/26/well-done/

I'm curious if these air quality alerts change ANYONE's behavior in Arizona. (my guess is: NO. Tragedy of the commons kind of thing). #random

https://ein.az.gov/emergency-information/emergency-bulletin/arizona-department-environmental-quality-has-issued-48

The U.S. National Archives doesn’t have access to most new tech and has a difficult time ingesting new formats, usually from presidential administrations, which tend to use the most current technologies.

https://www.archives.gov/files/about/plans-reports/performance-budget/2024-nara-congressional-justification.pdf

An amateur radio callsign from Uruguay (CX1th) reads as "cx wunth" with my speech synthesizer. Yeah, wunth, for when first just isn't good enough, and twond makes you cry for seconds.

The Rotterdam studio of the sweet & talented musician Janine (Vampire Boyfriend, broeder Dieleman, etc) and her fellow musicians has been broken into.

Over €11,000 worth of instruments and equipment has been stolen.

If you can, please donate to this GoFundMe to compensate them a little.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/inbraak-in-de-muziekstudio

That said, she understands her limitations really well, seeming eager to surround herself with vibrant people who when given the option make terrific choices.
I do wonder if that's an indication of how she will govern as President. Obama was also a bright and optimistic campaigner but was a very mainstream president, surrounding himself with traditional corporate and trigger-happy democrat advisors.

Just travelled with “Transavia”, which I found out afterwards is basically KLM/Air France (which is an airline I try to avoid) trying to do a Ryanair impression, and getting pretty much nothing right.

never understand the myriad stories i hear about people ending their years-long vegetarianism because they accidentally ate a speck of meat. you know there’s no governing body that will disqualify you and take away your vegetarian badge, right? you can just make mistakes and that’s ok

Texas Secretary of State removes 1.1 million people from states voter rolls.

Check your voter registration Texans

#Texas

@Whimsywithstyle Welcome!

One nifty thing here is that you can 'follow' hashtags. That's one way to keep seeing people posting about something that interests you, then you can check their profiles and follow more people. The hashtag for tips is #FediTips.

When I started I put some effort into finding a couple hundred people to follow, and that gave me a full enough feed, and I keep following new people as well.

These lists are a bit old, but hopefully still useful. https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

🛰️🌑 L'atterrisseur lunaire Blue Ghost de Firefly, assemblé avec ses 10 instruments, est arrivé au Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) de la NASA pour des tests environnementaux avant que l'atterrisseur ne soit expédié à Cap Canaveral pour un lancement au quatrième trimestre 2024.

Organized crime linked to illegal lobster fishing 'terrorizing the community,' N.S. minister claims

Nova Scotia’s fisheries minister says the federal failure to stop what he calls illegal out-of-season fishing in some of the most lucrative lobster grounds in the country has fuelled organized crime that is 'terrorizing the community' along a stretch of the province’s southwest.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/minister-says-organized-crime-linked-to-illegal-lobster-fishing-1.7304887?cmp=rss
#News #Canada #NovaScotia

⚠️🇺🇦Russian Air Attack Kills 1 In Dnipro (VIDEO and more) http://www.rferl.org/a/33093244.html #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

#Gaza #Palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes

Egypt on Monday denounced Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for a call to build a synagogue inside Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, saying his statement is heightening tension in the occupied Palestinian territories.

In a statement, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Israel is legally responsible for adhering to the status quo at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and preserving Islamic and Christian sanctities.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/egypt-slams-israeli-minister-for-call-to-build-synagogue-inside-al-aqsa-mosque/3313683

✡️ 🇵🇸 ☮️

RIP Sven , the first foreign manager of England.

https://apnews.com/article/svengoran-eriksson-obituary-sweden-england-manager-5cd5b69de425fd0129cf21428b8dde1b

#football #england #svengoraneriksson

Experiment sets new record in search for dark matter https://phys.org/news/2024-08-dark.html

🔗 The Changing Composition of Disability among America’s Workers https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2024/aug/changing-composition-of-disability-among-workers?s=09

> Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, employment among people with a disability has increased. In particular, the employment-population ratio (E-P ratio) among individuals with a disability ages 16 to 64 increased by 6.2 percentage points between 2019 and 2024.

> The population reporting only a cognitive disability has grown substantially, by roughly 1 million, or 43%, since 2019. The growth of this category is quite significant considering the average annual growth from 2014 through 2019 was just 28,000.