Doug Hand Turkey
@dougmakingstuff.com
Full-stack developer living in Portland. Avid reader, coffee drinker, Pikmin wrangler. I watch a lot of MST3K and Columbo
My mom is currently guiding clients for Medicare supplement plans and ACA renewals. Many plans are cutting benefits, a bunch of them are no longer offered. Massive price spikes.
Retirees don't have extra $$$ lying around for this. We're back to the pre-ACA days, which I suppose is the GOP goal.
Retirees don't have extra $$$ lying around for this. We're back to the pre-ACA days, which I suppose is the GOP goal.
I've been reposting everyone replying to this post with their own ACA (and sometimes employer!) price hikes. Feel free to add yours. There is some comfort in knowing you aren't alone and knowing we'll all be voting on this issue in a year.
Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck
Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
My mom is currently guiding clients for Medicare supplement plans and ACA renewals. Many plans are cutting benefits, a bunch of them are no longer offered. Massive price spikes.
Retirees don't have extra $$$ lying around for this. We're back to the pre-ACA days, which I suppose is the GOP goal.
Retirees don't have extra $$$ lying around for this. We're back to the pre-ACA days, which I suppose is the GOP goal.
The one-two punch of Shax finally living his seasons-long dream of ejecting the warp core, followed directly by Mariner bringing in every single California-class ship to defend the Cerritos?
"The Stars at Night" gets me every time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufVS...
"The Stars at Night" gets me every time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufVS...
Star Trek: Lower Decks | The California Class (S3, E10) | Paramount+
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November 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The one-two punch of Shax finally living his seasons-long dream of ejecting the warp core, followed directly by Mariner bringing in every single California-class ship to defend the Cerritos?
"The Stars at Night" gets me every time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufVS...
"The Stars at Night" gets me every time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufVS...
Still in my Lower Decks rewatch, and Peanut Hamper is just the WORST.
Still think it's a great name, but that is one selfish exocomp!
Still think it's a great name, but that is one selfish exocomp!
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Still in my Lower Decks rewatch, and Peanut Hamper is just the WORST.
Still think it's a great name, but that is one selfish exocomp!
Still think it's a great name, but that is one selfish exocomp!
Busy day. Paid the property taxes, mailed off a package, yelled at my Senators, picked up heavy things and put them back down again.
Oregon’s Senate delegation is mostly good but they need to advocate for better leadership. Not getting it done, as my friend Busta used to say.
Oregon’s Senate delegation is mostly good but they need to advocate for better leadership. Not getting it done, as my friend Busta used to say.
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Busy day. Paid the property taxes, mailed off a package, yelled at my Senators, picked up heavy things and put them back down again.
Oregon’s Senate delegation is mostly good but they need to advocate for better leadership. Not getting it done, as my friend Busta used to say.
Oregon’s Senate delegation is mostly good but they need to advocate for better leadership. Not getting it done, as my friend Busta used to say.
The only thing that can turn my mood around this evening is a little #MST3K. Tonight on the Forever-a-Thon: MIGHTY JACK!
"Wait a minute! Button... button... I'VE got the button!"
"Wait a minute! Button... button... I'VE got the button!"
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The only thing that can turn my mood around this evening is a little #MST3K. Tonight on the Forever-a-Thon: MIGHTY JACK!
"Wait a minute! Button... button... I'VE got the button!"
"Wait a minute! Button... button... I'VE got the button!"
I'm not even smiling.
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I'm not even smiling.
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Flexible Spending Accounts are hot garbage and anyone who suggests them as a solution to anything should be slapped immediately.
"Guess how much care you need! Hope you got it right! The insurance company everything left at the end of the year!" Just raking in profit, as if they needed more.
"Guess how much care you need! Hope you got it right! The insurance company everything left at the end of the year!" Just raking in profit, as if they needed more.
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Flexible Spending Accounts are hot garbage and anyone who suggests them as a solution to anything should be slapped immediately.
"Guess how much care you need! Hope you got it right! The insurance company everything left at the end of the year!" Just raking in profit, as if they needed more.
"Guess how much care you need! Hope you got it right! The insurance company everything left at the end of the year!" Just raking in profit, as if they needed more.
Dear @schumer.senate.gov, this is who you're surrendering to. NOBODY likes him. Stop this capitulation now.
Trump and Hegseth booed mercilessly for 2 minutes straight tonight by Washington Commanders fans.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Dear @schumer.senate.gov, this is who you're surrendering to. NOBODY likes him. Stop this capitulation now.
I will always wonder, "What if..." with the pilot of GLOBAL FREQUENCY that @johnrogers.bsky.social helmed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_...
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I will always wonder, "What if..." with the pilot of GLOBAL FREQUENCY that @johnrogers.bsky.social helmed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_...
Love to spend part of my weekend frantically calling my Senators to get them to stop their leaders from doing stupid shit.
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Love to spend part of my weekend frantically calling my Senators to get them to stop their leaders from doing stupid shit.
I worked at a university library during the W administration. Let me tell you: Few professions take user safety and security with the seriousness and discipline that librarians do.
Also fostered a lifelong hatred of Elsevier, as every year they'd jack up prices and we'd have to decide what to cut.
Also fostered a lifelong hatred of Elsevier, as every year they'd jack up prices and we'd have to decide what to cut.
Now I’m picturing a government made up entirely of librarians and I very much wish someone would write that book.
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I worked at a university library during the W administration. Let me tell you: Few professions take user safety and security with the seriousness and discipline that librarians do.
Also fostered a lifelong hatred of Elsevier, as every year they'd jack up prices and we'd have to decide what to cut.
Also fostered a lifelong hatred of Elsevier, as every year they'd jack up prices and we'd have to decide what to cut.
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
You're correct, this is handy!
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
You're correct, this is handy!
“President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings.”
photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
“President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings.”
Bat guano!!
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Bat guano!!
Took me a minute to remember why #MassEffect was trending, and then I remembered that it's #N7Day.
One of my favorite Renegade actions in this first one. A Hanar is preaching word of the Enkindlers on the Citadel, and Shepard gives it a piece of his mind.
youtu.be/vqfPZcDpJ9E?...
One of my favorite Renegade actions in this first one. A Hanar is preaching word of the Enkindlers on the Citadel, and Shepard gives it a piece of his mind.
youtu.be/vqfPZcDpJ9E?...
Mass Effect - A Big Stupid Jellyfish [HD]
YouTube video by David Foster
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November 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Took me a minute to remember why #MassEffect was trending, and then I remembered that it's #N7Day.
One of my favorite Renegade actions in this first one. A Hanar is preaching word of the Enkindlers on the Citadel, and Shepard gives it a piece of his mind.
youtu.be/vqfPZcDpJ9E?...
One of my favorite Renegade actions in this first one. A Hanar is preaching word of the Enkindlers on the Citadel, and Shepard gives it a piece of his mind.
youtu.be/vqfPZcDpJ9E?...
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Rewatching Lower Decks and I'm almost at the end of season 2.
The episode "Kayshon, His Eyes Opened" is great. We meet the new Temarian chief of security, they cram dozens of easter eggs into a 22-minute episode, and more of Captain Riker and the Titan!
"I got into Starfleet to study moss!"
The episode "Kayshon, His Eyes Opened" is great. We meet the new Temarian chief of security, they cram dozens of easter eggs into a 22-minute episode, and more of Captain Riker and the Titan!
"I got into Starfleet to study moss!"
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Rewatching Lower Decks and I'm almost at the end of season 2.
The episode "Kayshon, His Eyes Opened" is great. We meet the new Temarian chief of security, they cram dozens of easter eggs into a 22-minute episode, and more of Captain Riker and the Titan!
"I got into Starfleet to study moss!"
The episode "Kayshon, His Eyes Opened" is great. We meet the new Temarian chief of security, they cram dozens of easter eggs into a 22-minute episode, and more of Captain Riker and the Titan!
"I got into Starfleet to study moss!"
I would want 54 as the number on this, even if soccer jersey numbers typically don't go that high. 😍
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I would want 54 as the number on this, even if soccer jersey numbers typically don't go that high. 😍
The way he just stands up and checks out when something happens that doesn't involve him.
I've seen seen more light behind the eyes in a labubu than he has here. But hey, do you remember when Biden was OLD?
I've seen seen more light behind the eyes in a labubu than he has here. But hey, do you remember when Biden was OLD?
This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.
100% serious here.
100% serious here.
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The way he just stands up and checks out when something happens that doesn't involve him.
I've seen seen more light behind the eyes in a labubu than he has here. But hey, do you remember when Biden was OLD?
I've seen seen more light behind the eyes in a labubu than he has here. But hey, do you remember when Biden was OLD?
Real Alliance of Magicians energy here
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Real Alliance of Magicians energy here
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i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
The US Army—with the logistical power to have a fully-functional McDonald's up and running anywhere in the world in 24 hours—can't feed soldiers overseas?
Hegseth doing some shitty pushups at the problem should help with that.
Hegseth doing some shitty pushups at the problem should help with that.
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The US Army—with the logistical power to have a fully-functional McDonald's up and running anywhere in the world in 24 hours—can't feed soldiers overseas?
Hegseth doing some shitty pushups at the problem should help with that.
Hegseth doing some shitty pushups at the problem should help with that.