#local insurance

[victusinveritas]

Daily Beast article on the Internet's reaction to a pre-existing condition making treatment not possible according to the algorithmic model.

Reminder to corporations and governments the world over: If you push people long enough, they'll respond however they see fit.

In America, that's usually done with lead and cordite but that is by no means set in stone. Rocks, by the way, are always a great tool to slay Goliaths of all sorts. If you get caught on camera just make sure you are ridiculously good-looking.

[onlytiktoks]

[intriga-hounds]

deeply embittered by america’s aversion to microvans

[fluent-in-lesbianism]

nobody told me being a social worker was 90% collecting and hoarding resource pamphlets from every community agency i visit like a little pamphlet goblin bc god forbid i have a client who needs to know how to regulate their b12 level and my dumb ass didn't grab those free How to Regulate Your B12 Level pamphlets i saw at that clinic two fucking years ago

[lassie-farce]

How can Carlos or Owen afford such nice homes given they share their insurance policies with TK?

[itmeblog]

If you're in the US and underinsured or uninsured and need to get that COVID vaccine without breaking the bank (god this is ridiculous), the Bridge Access Program is giving them out for "free" (using taxes, but like. it's free).

[juniepops]

also i HATE having to put my legal name on forms especially ones that give me an option to put my chosen name on there. why do you even need my legal name then. i don't think you're even going to do anything that would require it

[fangwhoria]

being an adult is so exhausting no one ever told me how exhausting it would be (everyone told me)

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

every day there are finances.

[creepyscritches]

Love my job, love my company. I only work ACA, and it is so nice that our megaphone to thousands of employees is "The patients are the point. The people are the purpose!!! If we do our job with purpose, things get better for tens of thousands of people!!!!"

I don't share my employer for a few reasons, but it is very reassuring to know we are not unusual in ACA spaces. I highly encourage you to scrutinize your options as heavily as you see fit. Good options are made to withstand your investigation bc good options want you to have agency in your care and confidence in your health literacy! Marketplace options change state to state, year to year - - check what your options are this year!

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

helping

[dreamingofneji]

I know I've promised to share the Naruto meta analyzing key aspects of the series through several academic lenses that I've been writing, and I have shared the rough draft of the introduction. I'm posting this to let anyone who's been waiting for it know that I'm going to have to take an indefinite hiatus. I need to focus on my health, which has rapidly been declining, with no answers. All of the tests and specialists I've been through; MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, bloodwork (a LOT of bloodwork), urine testing, everything. I've been to a rheumatologist, a neurologist, a gastro surgeon; hell, the emergency room several times. I was fired from a job I really liked because I was missing too many days due to health issues. I had to withdraw from college due to my health. Everything is coming back normal, but my health worsening is NOT normal. I can barely even get out of bed without throwing up or needing to almost immediately lay back down because my heart feels like it's going to explode, so naturally, writing has not been my highest priority; hopefully you can understand.

[who-is-page]

Life is hard! Consider buying my stuff!

My life isn't quite falling apart, but things have gotten really tricky lately. One housemate (and their super destructive, permanent houseguest) is refusing to pay their share of rent or utilities for the next three months, and another is refusing to pay their full share of rent for that same amount of time and is making us cover around $75 every month, and I'm having to double-up my hours at work while still being a full-time student (and also one of my professors, who we're 99% sure is using ChatGPT to generate her citations because none of them exist and we pointed this out, hates my guts and has been grading me really harshly and forcing me to go full-sail on every assignment to ridiculous degrees in order to pass this required class).

My spouse is working on getting full-time at their job, but it looks like they won't be able to until December, and we also have no idea how much rent is going to increase this year-- my guess is it's going to go up another $500, same as last year, to a total of $3,000, so things are gonna get really fucking bumpy until around January, probably.

So basically, if you like the work I've done, consider throwing me a tip on Ko-Fi or buying my stuff on Itch.io:

(Also I promise we have more stuff lined up that we want to polish and publish, life has just been super-duper fucking busy! There is so much more going on right now than what I've mentioned here, especially in terms of surprise medical bills and other horrible surprises. And we haven't forgotten about Inky Paws issue 2, either, which we're still hoping to have done by December and which will STILL always be entirely 100% free to download, no matter what our living or money situation looks like. That will never ever change, so please don't worry!)

[13eyond13]

the funniest thing about having to report fraud on my credit card today was the girl on the phone listing all my transactions to me to see if i recognized them and literally 100% of them were all media purchases liiiiike wow I really have 1 hobby and 1 hobby only don't I

[iwillstealyourpotatoes]

HEARTBREAKING: local transmasc ate too many gummy worms and now suffers from tooth sensitivity

[theinfinitedivides]

you took us 😔😔😔 and you broke us 😔😔😔