Dimestorehalo @Dimestorehalo@qoto.org
Teacher, parent to 4-pawed children, and know just enough to be dangerous. Litigation disaster tourist--just along for the ride.
Navy spouse in the mountains of AZ.
#rorygallagher is the most underrated, unknown guitar god of all time.
The name is how I always understood the line from #T-Rex #bangagong instead of the actual "diamond star halo."
Joined Nov 2022
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#3Dprinting for frogs.
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RT @Brieyonce
Allow me to introduce you to the most ridiculous yet amazing thing you will see this week.
https://twitter.com/Brieyonce/status/1630051041524760576
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hay, blind Twitter hive mind. Do we know anyone doing accessibility at Tompson Reuters, specifically working with Westlaw? There's a very, very frustrating bug in Westlaw search which is impeding legal research by blind lawyers and accademics, and TR support doesn't care.
@freemo Look at the overall cost. How much did the appointment to get the prescription cost you? I just had to pay $25 for a medication that used to cost $5 and that was on top of a $25 dr visit co-pay and the $350 per month I have to pay for my health insurance (My employer pays the other $350 per month). It essentially cost me $400 for a generic, been-on-the-market-forever low-cost medication.
It sounds like the Israeli system treats melatonin as a compounded drug, which most US insurance won't cover either.
My husband had to have a compounded medicated lotion for diabetic neuropathy. $80 US per tube and it took a week to compound. It wasn't covered by Medicare nor his veteran's benefits. Conservatives in the US consider both these programs as "socialist medicine" and have been floating trial balloons about sunset-ing these programs. With all the chronic health problems he has, we'd be bankrupt in months.
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The Dilbert guy hasn't exactly kept his white nationalism a secret, but he finally came out and called for the resegregation of the U.S., and in response *hundreds* of newspapers cancelled his garbage comic strip this weekend. He believes that zero newspapers will carry his strip by Monday. I hope he's right. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/02/25/scott-adams-dilbert-canceled/
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@JonKramer @freemo I'm going to have to investigate the Singapore system!
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Dutch people are so cool. The National Anthem of Ukraine is playing in front of the Russian Embassy in The Hague from a traditional barrel organ.
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“AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON!” which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
@MeidasTouch @marcelias It's being reported all over AZ that former #attorneygeneral Mark #brnovich didn't release a report that debunked election fraud claims.
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[Edward St. John Gorey, born Feb. 22, 1925, in Chicago, London of the West, favors marriage equality. One of his "Happy Endings" in National Lampoon, March 1973.[
@freemo Thank you for all the stats and it just may be my state and my semi-rural area but all specialists require a referral from someone and it has to be faxed, even though my private insurance allows me to see anyone within my network. And then there's the issue with hospital requires a referral, the insurance doesn't, and won't pay for the doctor visit to get the referral.
Telehealth is a great idea and I've used it, except for the faxing black hole, I have even brought telehealth orders into a facility and they weren't accepted because they had no way to get them into the system.
Even my GP, thru a telehealth visit last week, says that when the specialists finally receive the referral, it will be sometime in the summer before I'll be able to see anyone. 4-6 months seems to be the average wait time, even with going down to the largest city in the state (150 miles).
I know this is anecdotal evidence (and I know of others with similar experiences), but I'm an experienced consumer of the healthcare system and I see the US system getting worse and worse.
@freemo I don't know what you consider "abusive wait times," but as someone dealing with the American health system, I've been trying to get to a couple of different specialists for nearly 6 months and just to see a GP is a 6 week wait. Urgent Care and the ER have become primary care physicians again.
I would welcome a centralized system for medical records, including specialist doctor referrals. It seems that the US healthcare system still depends on faxing, and in my experience, the faxes never are received. Even within our local healthcare system (1 hospital, 1 outpatient location), they fax in-house, and I've recently learned that they use a 3rd party fax provider so even staff calls it the black hole. They have no idea if the request was even sent, much less received.
I totally agree that neither system works and the stresses that COVID put on our healthcare providers has made it even worse.
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Chainsaw artist Simon O’Rourke had a better idea for the tallest #tree in #Wales damaged by a storm. Slated to be cut down, Simon created this striking work of art to memorialize the struggle for life. #ThinkTrunkTuesday
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Appalling outbreak in the USA: contaminated bone grafts made by #Aziyo Biologics using cells from an 80-year-old man with apparent undiagnosed tuberculosis infected at least 87 patients, at least three of whom later died of TB. 
Regenerative medicine has vast promise, but also potential dangers.
Another gem from the back of my music collection. #BobbyCaldwell on drums #underrated #rock #Music #1970s #CaptainBeyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iUbry_HkFQ&ab_channel=MusicHowYouWant
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@noodlejetski I have noticed adding alt-text is a habit that’s both hard to get in to, coming from the Other Place, but so useful to cultivate both obviously to others and the community but also to self, in unexpected ways, because the small friction it introduces, I find to be very beneficial to my life. 
I strongly encourage everyone to try, and I know it feels a little daunting to write a description, but think of the communication skills you are developing and the people you are helping.
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I've been struggling with this myself, so I thought I'd repeat it for other people that might be dealing with the same thing:
Not every hobby needs to be a project. Not everything needs to be a whole *thing* with a goal and an endpoint. It's okay to not finish something. It's okay to pick up something for a bit, explore it, start making something, and then drop it without making any "progress".
Productivity is capitalist bullshit that doesn't need to infect your free time too. Have some fun
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Seattle waterfront as seen from a Washington State ferry in Puget Sound:
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I've donated one of the VERY rare Made Just For Me Easton Press leather edition of CORALINE for The Books for Syria & Turkiye auction by @BooksTurkSyr. I'll sign and personalise it to the winner.
All funds are for earthquake relief efforts. Bid here: https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/105964/auctions/138929/auction_items/4339235
#books4turkiyesyria
Just ran across this in the back of my music collection. I hadn't listened to Mother's Finest in years, and now I wonder why. One of the finest unknown singers. Amazing live videos on you-tube too. #1977 #mothersfinest #funk #soul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC7_LAklaHo&t=25s&ab_channel=pstholm
Mother's Finest - Baby LoveYouTube
Teacher, parent to 4-pawed children, and know just enough to be dangerous. Litigation disaster tourist--just along for the ride.
Navy spouse in the mountains of AZ.
#rorygallagher is the most underrated, unknown guitar god of all time.
The name is how I always understood the line from #T-Rex #bangagong instead of the actual "diamond star halo."
Joined Nov 2022
