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For profit insurance is immoral. Full stop. An insurers' job isn't to "protect from unnecessary care"; it is to pay for customers care. Every dollar of profit earned is a dollar that didn't provide care to the sick/injured. It is an evil industry captained by the soulless for the sake of the greedy.

submitted 78 days ago • 27 comments

Stop worrying that the pages aren't good enough. If they aren't good enough, you'll make them good enough when you edit. Sometimes, you have to see a thing on the page before you know exactly what it is supposed to be. The rights words often only come after the wrong ones.

submitted 78 days ago • 81 comments

One thing I will never understand about “we need the profit motive for Big Pharma to make new and exciting drugs” is that by and large the people who are making new and exciting drugs just get paid normal salaries.

submitted 79 days ago • 49 comments

It's that time for recommending Books of the Year. I seemed to spend a heck of a lot of my time reviewing this year, so I have quite a few to choose from. In no particular order...

submitted 79 days ago • 6 comments

Merry Christmas everyone. We have found Santa's dead body.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

I yield to no one in my contempt for the current construct of for-profit health care. But if you are rushing into my feed today to champion or rationalize the assassination of a man as a means of making this society's problems better, not worse? Blocked. @rosecityvillain.bsky.social‬, adieu.

submitted 85 days ago • 7 comments

I genuinely believe everyone should attempt to read Moby Dick at least once. Yes it's long. But I'm telling you it is such a fascinating source of period whaling practices mixed with a genuinely interesting narrative about the brutality of working on a 19th century whaling ship

submitted 87 days ago • 138 comments

NEWS: Canada is the #1 country most people want to move to in the world. 🇨🇦 Thanks, Trudeau! 🇨🇦 www.travelandleisure.com/canada-named...

submitted 87 days ago • 6 comments

“There’s something wrong about Suburban Star Wars, the way there’s something wrong about the garbled, inaccuracy-laden “writing” and mutant-handed “art” patched together from stolen work by AI.”

submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

Happy 24-Hour-versary of me joining Bluesky, to those who observe and so forth.

submitted 93 days ago • 35 comments

If you're a writer, you're going to want to follow me (if you aren't already) because we've got a 12 Days of Christmas giveaway starting 1st Dec, which includes free books, free critiques, free query edits, and much more! #writing #writers ONLY ON BLUESKY \o/

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

Just remembered how my dad used to tell cold callers to his tiny catering company that he was putting them through to ‘marketing’. Then it was just him again, with the same Italian accent, telling them to get lost.

submitted 95 days ago • 10 comments

The Shakespeare & Company Bookstore in Paris (France) allows you to sleep in the store for free, in exchange for 2 hours of work in the bookstore and a one-page biography of your life. www.shakespeareandcompany.com

submitted 95 days ago • 22 comments

The Philosopher had another great Monday talk! Today, Josh Cohen on anger: "Once one person feels licensed to talk in extreme register, it spreads easily...social media is a symptom of collapse of shared narratives and forms of solidarity." www.thephilosopher1923.org/events

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

This is a stunning crossover album by Jon Batiste. Absolutely stunning. #jazz #classical

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Echo chamber? I don't know what they're talking about. I'm experiencing books and music and shows created by people with life experiences vastly different from mine. Voices not like mine are beautiful. It's the echoes of the hateful voices I have no desire to hear.

submitted 97 days ago • 9 comments

I read a paper edition of the Financial Times today, cover to cover. Encountered all kinds of topics that algorithms would never show me.

submitted 98 days ago • 108 comments

submitted 98 days ago • 229 comments

The real secret to the "Mediterranean diet" is eating equal qualities of pasta and antipasto so that they annihilate one another

submitted 99 days ago • 340 comments

Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (19th century): one who pays great attention to trivial matters as a way of avoiding the important ones.

submitted 99 days ago • 485 comments

Tired of dumb smart people.

submitted 99 days ago • 5 comments

Almost a full week without Twitter and I do not miss it one bit

submitted 98 days ago • 23 comments

Hi Everyone, I’ve come over from that other place that seems to have wasted away Finding my feet here. I’m not here for numbers, if someone follows I will follow fellow book lovers back My reviews are on insta www.instagram.com/zoebeesbooks...

submitted 99 days ago • 12 comments

Leaf blowers are my enemy. Loud, ecologically disastrous, wasteful, sanitizing monsters. We already have a leaf blower, and it’s the wind. And she is beautiful. You want to mimic the wind? You want to tell her how to do her job?? You prick.

submitted 100 days ago • 55 comments

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Right now Russia is meddling in our politics and elections with impunity. Don't you think there ought to be a price to be paid for them doing so?

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submitted 101 days ago • 80 comments

When real Twitter was still alive, I appreciated being verified. None of that matters any more. Now I appreciate simply starting over with decent humans. Thank you, friends, for proving that there is still some good left in this world.

submitted 102 days ago • 87 comments

36,000 followers ain't gonna cut it, people. That's smaller than the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement denomination of the Sabbatarian movement formed from a schism in the European Seventh Day Adventist Church based on conflicting views over Sabbath observance, and they suck ass.

submitted 101 days ago • 61 comments

The Humiliation of Joe and Mika, and The Failure of Corporate Journalism. My take. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-humili...

submitted 101 days ago • 108 comments

Earth did not survive a collision with another planet, hundreds of asteroid and comet impacts, hundreds of millions of years of deadly radiation from space, five mass extinctions, and literally freezing solid for you to give up on her now.

submitted 102 days ago • 59 comments

Very very thrilled to have a feature story in the December issue of Rolling Stone! Link coming later this week.

submitted 102 days ago • 16 comments

Everyone should follow @procartoonists.bsky.social cos they support cartoonists while filling your timeline with funny stuff :)

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

LeBron James Denies Son Receiving Preferential Treatment When Being Lifted Up To Dunk

submitted 103 days ago • 246 comments

Little Feat's live album is playing in this, my kickass echo chamber. Got the stylus lined up for Exile on Main Street next. You all are welcome to crack a beer and soak it in with me, but if you post up with Nugent or Kid Rock or whoever, fuck it. My party and I block if I wanna.

submitted 102 days ago • 13 comments

What a week. Having 1.75 light beers and am grateful. Thank you for supporting big dumb ideas. Thank you for supporting The Onion.

submitted 104 days ago • 308 comments

@joycecaroloates.bsky.social Welcome!

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Right wing disinformation was a top 3 factor in this election. Those who don't mention it or refuse to see it and instead harp on "identity politics" need to be ignored moving forward.

submitted 105 days ago • 162 comments

German soccer club St. Pauli quits X, calls platform a "hate machine" "Racism and conspiracy theories are allowed to spread unchecked and even curated," St. Pauli said in statement. The club urged supporters to follow its updates on Bluesky. @fcstpauli.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/german-...

submitted 105 days ago • 42 comments

This concludes a second day on this platform without having to assure a troll their mom has been the source of relentless, often idiosyncratic pleasure. I fear certain rhetorical skills, time-tested on Baltimore corners and honed further through exhaustive employ on other digital venues, may erode.

submitted 105 days ago • 31 comments

It's like they're trying to kill us before mother earth does in order to disprove global warming.

submitted 106 days ago • 3 comments

I suppose I could post this photo in closer proximity to where it's apparently desperately needed, but I fucking refuse.

submitted 106 days ago • 5 comments

Totally anecdotal but...I've been closely watching mentions of Bluesky on Twitter over the last couple days it has morphed from, "What's Bluesky?" or, "Why would I want to do that?" every 30 seconds, to, "What's your handle on Bluesky?" or, "Everyone is leaving for Bluesky," every second. #Exodus

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

The best thing I've done for my mental health in years has been to start spending two hours a day working from my local library. Those places have healing energy.

submitted 107 days ago • 201 comments

I had so many takes bubbling up in me I had to go on someone else’s podcast to get them out. www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

submitted 106 days ago • 51 comments

Tulsi Gabbard is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

submitted 106 days ago • 74 comments