Mastodawn

Thopas Dec 9, 2024

petersuber Dec 9, 2024

Americans: The next time your #HealthInsurance company denies one of your claims, use the #ProPublica (@ProPublica) tool to demand a written explanation, including "internal correspondence, recordings of phone calls, case notes, medical records and other relevant information."
https://projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Claim File Helper

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file from your health insurance company.

ProPublica

Thopas Dec 3, 2024

Heidi Li Feldman Dec 3, 2024

As we enter December and head toward the Trump regime, I feel like I’m never going to be relaxed again. I can distract myself, but all the while, not too far in the back of mind, is an awareness of the terrible harms to come. 1/

Thopas Nov 6, 2024

Kim Scheinberg Nov 6, 2024

I think it's probably a coin toss now. But at this point, no matter who takes office in January, I will never feel the same way about this country.

Never mind Dobbs. Never mind the insurrection and the racism and that he's an adjudicated rapist and the million other things that reaffirm that this country REALLY REALLY REALLY FUCKING HATES WOMEN.

Setting aside all that, I can't believe he's not now nor will he ever be in jail for this.

May every billionaire get what they deserve...

Thopas Oct 16, 2024

Dgar Oct 16, 2024

How to write good.
1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)
4. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
5. One should never generalize.
6. Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Sentence fragments? Eliminate.
9. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
10. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
11. Who needs rhetorical questions?

Thopas Aug 16, 2024

I don't produce much on social media. I simply don't have the time. But I am grateful to fediverse folk for the variety and insight that I have encountered here.

Thopas Jul 23, 2024

Laffy Jul 23, 2024

Nothing to see here.

“Sunday was the hottest day in recorded history, according to preliminary data from a climate tracking agency monitoring temperatures since the mid-1900s.”
#ClimateCrisis

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/climate/hottest-day-global-record/index.html?cid=ios_app

The planet saw its hottest day on record

The record is all but certainly the warmest temperature the planet has seen in at least 100,000 years.

CNN

Thopas Jul 4, 2024

Sean Casten Jul 2, 2024

“The President, who exercises a limited power, may err without causing great mischief in the State. Congress may decide amiss without destroying the Union, because the electoral body in which Congress originates may cause it to retract its decision by changing its members. But if the Supreme Court is ever composed of imprudent men or bad citizens, the Union may be plunged into anarchy or civil war.” - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1831

Thopas Jun 8, 2024

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf Jun 7, 2024

One of the most ominous risks for Europe is that of a major change in Atlantic ocean currents. Recent science suggests it has been greatly underestimated in the past -including by me, having worked on it for over 30 years. Here my half-hour presentation in Vilnius last week!

https://youtu.be/ZHNNW8c_FaA?si=zegi6D3bk6Stf35U

Tipping risk of the Atlantic Ocean's overturning circulation, AMOC. Keynote by Prof. Rahmstorf

YouTube

Thopas May 31, 2024

Sin of empathy 🕷️🧂🌈🫙⚖️May 30, 2024

Just to recap, the guy who can’t shut up about how the 2020 election he lost was rigged just was convicted of rigging the 2016 election he won.

Thopas Feb 8, 2024

Dwight (DB) 🇨🇦 🍁Feb 7, 2024

As I've moved further along in life, my voting choices, even daily life choices, have become more about others who will be most affected by them.
Social equity, environmental stewardship, embracing diversity and investing in our people are also good economic choices.