Nathaniel Downes
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Physician Lauren Hughes was driving when another car T-boned her Subaru, totaling it and breaking her ankle.
Then the bills came: $63,976.35 in total because her insurance deemed her hospital stay not medically necessary.
Then the bills came: $63,976.35 in total because her insurance deemed her hospital stay not medically necessary.
A car accident sent her to the hospital — and $64,000 into debt
This doctor broke her ankle in a car accident. The hospital kept her overnight, but her insurer stopped paying after she left the emergency room.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Physician Lauren Hughes was driving when another car T-boned her Subaru, totaling it and breaking her ankle.
Then the bills came: $63,976.35 in total because her insurance deemed her hospital stay not medically necessary.
Then the bills came: $63,976.35 in total because her insurance deemed her hospital stay not medically necessary.
So, I trained an AI model using my own writing, and use it to help overcome the post-covid brain fog to fix my writing. This seems like an okay use of AI to me, but what do you all think?
June 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
So, I trained an AI model using my own writing, and use it to help overcome the post-covid brain fog to fix my writing. This seems like an okay use of AI to me, but what do you all think?
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Gay Bar
Gay, MI
Gay, MI
June 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Gay Bar
Gay, MI
Gay, MI
So, the president has apparently just surrendered to Iran. That was not on my 2025 Bingo card.
June 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
So, the president has apparently just surrendered to Iran. That was not on my 2025 Bingo card.
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Staff who are being terminated from the National Endowment for the Humanities this coming week received their last full paycheck this weekend.
A reminder that appropriations for full staff salaries were made through September 30, 2025. Terminating us now was never necessary, just cruel. #NEH
A reminder that appropriations for full staff salaries were made through September 30, 2025. Terminating us now was never necessary, just cruel. #NEH
June 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Staff who are being terminated from the National Endowment for the Humanities this coming week received their last full paycheck this weekend.
A reminder that appropriations for full staff salaries were made through September 30, 2025. Terminating us now was never necessary, just cruel. #NEH
A reminder that appropriations for full staff salaries were made through September 30, 2025. Terminating us now was never necessary, just cruel. #NEH
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If we're just figuring this out about a disease that we have long considered ubiquitous and have had around as long as we can remember, that most people can only get once, why is everyone so eager to go out and get COVID as often as possible?
Bloomberg: 'The Silent Virus Behind Mono Is Now a Prime Suspect in Major Diseases'
'Epstein-Barr virus, which causes glandular fever, was once dismissed as a rite of passage. Scientists now link it to cancer and multiple sclerosis'
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
'Epstein-Barr virus, which causes glandular fever, was once dismissed as a rite of passage. Scientists now link it to cancer and multiple sclerosis'
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Silent Virus Behind Mono Is Now a Prime Suspect in Major Diseases
Epstein-Barr virus, which causes glandular fever, was once dismissed as a rite of passage. Scientists now link it to cancer and multiple sclerosis.
www.bloomberg.com
June 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
If we're just figuring this out about a disease that we have long considered ubiquitous and have had around as long as we can remember, that most people can only get once, why is everyone so eager to go out and get COVID as often as possible?
June 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
June 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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“Inscribe my book with something weird and random”
I was born for this challenge
I was born for this challenge
June 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Inscribe my book with something weird and random”
I was born for this challenge
I was born for this challenge
The new subvariant has mutations on the spike protein. This means that several vaccines may not be effective against it, especially older ones. Something we will need to keep an eye on.
Mask up everyone.
Mask up everyone.
June 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The new subvariant has mutations on the spike protein. This means that several vaccines may not be effective against it, especially older ones. Something we will need to keep an eye on.
Mask up everyone.
Mask up everyone.
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“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs man who spent $250M getting the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party elected.
My reaction:
My reaction:
June 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs man who spent $250M getting the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party elected.
My reaction:
My reaction:
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Everything he touches goes bankrupt.
May 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Everything he touches goes bankrupt.
Okay, so Trump may win the birthright citizenship case before the SCOTUS.
Trump's attorneys did not argue for or against the actual EO but are arguing for not allowing lower courts to apply such rulings broadly, and can only apply them in individual cases.
Trump's attorneys did not argue for or against the actual EO but are arguing for not allowing lower courts to apply such rulings broadly, and can only apply them in individual cases.
May 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Okay, so Trump may win the birthright citizenship case before the SCOTUS.
Trump's attorneys did not argue for or against the actual EO but are arguing for not allowing lower courts to apply such rulings broadly, and can only apply them in individual cases.
Trump's attorneys did not argue for or against the actual EO but are arguing for not allowing lower courts to apply such rulings broadly, and can only apply them in individual cases.
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This is not an idle threat, either.
Most publications will not only fire you, they will blacklist you for using AI. Some of our fields are small, and we talk, mostly because we tend to run in the same circles. You will be found out.
Most publications will not only fire you, they will blacklist you for using AI. Some of our fields are small, and we talk, mostly because we tend to run in the same circles. You will be found out.
Caught another writer using AI & they were promptly let go.
I can not stress this enough: Any editor worth anything can AND WILL catch you if you're using AI to write. It's not slick, it's not subtle, & so many behavioral patterns beyond the writing are dead giveaways.
Do the work or get out.
I can not stress this enough: Any editor worth anything can AND WILL catch you if you're using AI to write. It's not slick, it's not subtle, & so many behavioral patterns beyond the writing are dead giveaways.
Do the work or get out.
May 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This is not an idle threat, either.
Most publications will not only fire you, they will blacklist you for using AI. Some of our fields are small, and we talk, mostly because we tend to run in the same circles. You will be found out.
Most publications will not only fire you, they will blacklist you for using AI. Some of our fields are small, and we talk, mostly because we tend to run in the same circles. You will be found out.
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So will all the Irish media that gave blanket coverage of this stitch up on vulnerable trans children report on it and hold Irish clinicians to account? Will they fuck!!
NEW: The Cass Review into UK trans healthcare is 'deeply flawed', containing biased research, outdated data, and manipulated evidence, an international team of experts has said
Read more on this story: www.thenational.scot/news/2516682...
Read more on this story: www.thenational.scot/news/2516682...
May 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
So will all the Irish media that gave blanket coverage of this stitch up on vulnerable trans children report on it and hold Irish clinicians to account? Will they fuck!!
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The Quakers are probably the only US religious group shooting over 90% from the field on being on the right side of history.
A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the administration.
May 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The Quakers are probably the only US religious group shooting over 90% from the field on being on the right side of history.
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So when DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin tweeted last month that Abrego Garcia had been found with “rolls of cash” the reality is that he was wearing a sweatshirt that had rolls of cash depicted on it? Like cartoonish images of $100 bills? Is that really what happened here?
May 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
So when DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin tweeted last month that Abrego Garcia had been found with “rolls of cash” the reality is that he was wearing a sweatshirt that had rolls of cash depicted on it? Like cartoonish images of $100 bills? Is that really what happened here?
So, the US Treasury bond market has a maturation wall issue. This will push up rates, as more supply hits. Combine this with foreign debt holders selling off their bonds, further increasing their supplies, and foreign sovereign funds cancelling bond purchases, and we are in for a whole lot of pain.
May 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
So, the US Treasury bond market has a maturation wall issue. This will push up rates, as more supply hits. Combine this with foreign debt holders selling off their bonds, further increasing their supplies, and foreign sovereign funds cancelling bond purchases, and we are in for a whole lot of pain.
Zuck: The average American has three friends.
May 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Zuck: The average American has three friends.
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Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.
May 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.
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VICTORY, THEY FUCKING PROVED THE COVID/MAST CELL LINK IS THE SPIKE PROTEIN
I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW
I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW
May 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
VICTORY, THEY FUCKING PROVED THE COVID/MAST CELL LINK IS THE SPIKE PROTEIN
I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW
I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW
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'Aborted Fetus Debris' Is NOT RFK Jr.'s New Metal Band
www.wonkette.com/p/aborted-fe...
www.wonkette.com/p/aborted-fe...
'Aborted Fetus Debris' Is NOT RFK Jr.'s New Metal Band
It's also not in the vaccines.
www.wonkette.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
'Aborted Fetus Debris' Is NOT RFK Jr.'s New Metal Band
www.wonkette.com/p/aborted-fe...
www.wonkette.com/p/aborted-fe...
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Very exciting thorium reactor news today, people. If your favorite nerds seem distracted or excitable, you gotta give the a little space.
May 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Very exciting thorium reactor news today, people. If your favorite nerds seem distracted or excitable, you gotta give the a little space.