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Erika 🦛
@ladyoftallness.bsky.social
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Teaching general education humanities courses in the south. Yes, you’ll use these skills again in your “real job.”
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I used to run with a pretty tough gang when I was younger.

The gang:
Four girls sit in an 80s bedroom and discuss starting a babysitting club.
June 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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There’s no opposition party. They’ve ceded the terms of everything to the right in fear of being accused of “bias.” Meanwhile, the right threw out any pretense that there were rules to uphold in their pursuit of power.
May 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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One of the greatest hours of television. It’s perfect.
Eliot and Quinton, characters from The Magicians, sit on the grass, surrounding by tiles.
May 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Rocinante does a flip and burn.
May 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Fleecing of Florida residents while the governor and legislature make it harder to sue insurance companies.
Secret study found Florida insurers sent billions to affiliates while crying poor By Lawrence Mower Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau February 22, 2025. While Florida insurers claimed to be losing money in the wake of hurricanes Irma and Michael, their parent companies and affiliates were making billions of dollars, according to a study obtained by the Herald/Times. The start of the state's insurance market meltdown came on the heels of those two storms between 2017 and 2019, as companies justified big rate increases to cover their losses. But those financial hardships don't tell the full story, according to the 2022 study that has never been made public and was released to the Herald/Times after a two-year wait for public records. The report, the most in-depth dive into the byzantine finances of Florida's homeowners insurance market, reveals that as the insurance market was ailing and companies were losing money, executives distributed $680 million in dividends to shareholders while diverting billions more to affiliate companies. Executives with most Florida-based insurers were removing so much money from their companies that they violated state regulations, the study's author concluded. The result left some insurers financially weaker - and potentially unable to pay claims — heading into the depths of the state's insurance crisis. State lawmakers never saw the report. The state's then-insurance commissioner and Gov. Ron DeSantis focused on legal reforms making it harder to sue insurers. And regulators have not repeated the study since, despite a recommendation from the report's author. The findings are a "smoking gun" that confirms what has long been suspected in Florida's market, said Doug Quinn, executive director of the watchdog American Policyholder Association. "These companies are crying poverty in order to raise premiums or justify insolvency: 'It's litigation, it's fraud, '" Quinn said. "This is money shifting from their left pocket to the right, and crying poverty while their right pocket bulges.'"
February 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM