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Miscelena 🌳🧬
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Anita M
Family & social history, stitching, plants, design, cats.
Y'all means all.
MD -> CA (via PA)
Not-entirely-neurotypical woman of a certain age.

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Why do you think most people aren't paying that? Shown is the LEAST amount my husband and I will pay on ACA. We don't have the option of an employer plan. We will opt for an *even higher* monthly cost plan because we WILL exceed that shown deductible - and we're relatively healthy!
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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"Most" = 54.5% (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...)
"Most nonelderly people in the United States who have health insurance receive it as a benefit from their employer. Most everyone reading this article will have employer-based health insurance and will assume that all employers offer health insurance. Yet, only slightly more than 50% of the US population (54.5%) has employer-based health insurance. 12 Moreover, most employers do not provide health insurance.13 A survey in 2022 by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that in the United States, less than half of private sector businesses (48%) offer health insurance to employees. It is important to note that the ACA does not require small businesses (fewer than 50 full time employees) to offer it. In addition, the "gig" economy that has flourished in recent years has created a drop in employer-based health insurance for many people. 14 In other words, in a system built on employer-based health insurance, people who have jobs are considered to be the ones who have access to care, but in fact many of them have very limited access to health care."
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Our 2026 monthly bill for the 2-person Covered California plan that is likely to cost us the least overall (because we do actually need & use it, despite being relatively healthy) will be more than our monthly rent. But hey, we qualify for a discount. 🫤
"By using Covered California, you'll save $2.00/mo on your health plan. Your estimated yearly cost includes these savings."
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Ornaments - WIP. Playing with mixing clays today.
Ornaments cut out of speckled buff and b-mix clays in the diaper shape of trees, pompom hats, sweaters, stockings, and mittens.
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Likely entirely unrelated, but I found this, and had to share. www.westchestercc.net/documents/20...
A screenshot of the PDF linked. It reads in part: "In 1910, the Club purchased its first modern mower, called a motor roller. The gas-powered riding mower could travel up to 7 miles per hour."
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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"This legend eventually found print form as a humorous piece of historical fiction with anti-Communist overtones that appeared in a 1965 issue of Esquire magazine. This clearly fictitious account somehow found its way into recent academic studies of Trotsky and his time in New York City. In this story, he had vegetarian leanings and took most of his meals in dairy restaurants - his favorite being the Triangle Dairy Restaurant (see page 411) on Wilkins Avenue in the East Bronx near his family's rented apartment. There's no evidence of Trotsky having vegetarian leanings. During his last years in Mexico, he kept rabbits and chickens as pets that eventually found their way to a plate on his dining room table. Had Trotsky spent as much time in restaurants, incidentally stiffing waiters, as these "eyewitnesses" accounts suggest, he would have had little time for the research and journalism that he was actually engaged in during his time in New York City."
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Society, per this 1962 article.
"...family was usually social in its generation The next generation, if the family held up, was what passed for our American aristocracy. "Today people are just trying to go from celebrity to aristocrat in one generation." Women have ruined society, he charges. "They should never be allowed to run things. They are no good at it." Along with society's death, he mourns the passing of stein Boston-type grandfathers who ran private clubs and somehow did a good job of holding up aristocracy. "Women sway with the wind." GOING UP "Women are at the bottom of this publicity age, too," he complains. "In the old days you got on the lowest rung by getting your name in the paper, and the highest by keeping it out "Nowadays the woman charts her course from column mention to column mention until she's at the top chairman of the benefit ball " Needless to say, Amory has not won friends among the haut monde with his forthright tongue and pen "If they liked what I wrote, I'd know I hadn't done a good job" But the big-boned, studiously..."
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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The post to which I was replying:
DiscordianStooge @discordia... 6h I assume you're pulling ICE agents off of arrestees? Most of us are a little too scared to help people who need it right now.
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Imagine thinking that's a "killer quote." 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️
"Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.b... 1h A working class Catholic Trump supporters lays bare the empty rhetoric of the Democrats with a killer quote: "Working with Democrats is like going to a strip-club: You get a hard-on, but you don't get laid." Via @ranaforoohar.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/e0a2... The ascension of America's Catholic right Catholics and labour groups are re-emerging as a powerful force in the... Interaction limited"
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Also, it's not mentioned here but covered in earlier articles: Larry Burkart is a former cop that ended up working for DOC, which may have been like the opposite of a promotion. He might have been a target for a while? There's more story here, in any case. (theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...)
"Born and raised in West Tennessee, Bushart worked as a police officer and sheriff's deputy for 24 years, then spent another nine with the Tennessee Department of Correction before retiring from law enforcement last year. His politics made him an outlier among his neighbors. Like many..."
October 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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From the mutual aid handbook from Flatbush that's going around - worth remembering as we go forward:
“People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spiders' webs. It's not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles and the grit of cobblestone in her hair. And she just spat out a tooth as she got back up and went for another go." Rt Rev Kym Lucas quoting Matt Crow
October 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.
Billy Joel - Storm Front
October 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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It says it was delivered, and presumably Poshmark has proof via Uber, but the app still shows me that it's pending acknowledgement from the seller. It's looked like this since August.
"My Consignment Bags Delivered to Partner Hang tight! Your Closet Partner will receive your bag soon. Listing Complete Earnings: $169.66 33...." Three photos of items appear below, a bandana, a belt and a scarf.
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Gotta admit, this made me look up who owns Wired. I had missed or forgotten the timeline of the WashPo's abandonment of the phrase... and thought maybe they were now related. No. Whew.
WIRED SUBSCRIBE POLITICS All Hail the Technocracy Tech went all in on Trump this year. It's just the beginning. THE POLITICS ISSUE [This next line is circled in pink] DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS LETTER FROM THE EDITOR It's been almost one year since Donald Trump took back the White House. Much has changed. The Rose Garden has been
October 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Even the games are checking in on us these days. 😂
A Words with Friends screenshot showing a tile rack with the letters Y, O, U, O, K, A, and Y.
October 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Do it while it's easy, and be clear:
The cancellation screen for Spotify, which currently requires only a couple of clicks and no verification. Text in image, starts with reasons for cancelling: "I cannot find the music or podcasts that I like I have had technical problems related to using my Spotify subscription I had issues with plan verification I cannot afford a Spotify subscription I have found another audio or music service I like better I had issues with payment and billing I don't use my Spotify subscription enough Other (please specify below) Let us know more about why you are canceling: [My typed entry:]You are running ads for ICE despite artist payback. How likely are you to subscribe to Spotify again in the near future? Extremely likely Likely Neutral Unlikely Extremely unlikely [this box is ticked] Skip Submit
October 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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We have a phrase for this: respectability politics.

It failed.

When the suffragists wore fancy dress, when Civil Rights activists wore suits... the response has been to vilify people in short skirts and hoodies.

Fuck that.
October 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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We are well aware that certain insecure NTs have always hated us:
Mary Alice Welch @maryali... 32m the students always raising hands in class ...
October 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I suck at selfies, but here's a pic:
A white woman with salt and pepper hair and glasses has taken a selfie in a light purple shirt that reads - in a giant black serif font with scroll-y details - "Support Your Local Makers".
October 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Look! I made more things out of clay & I'm delighted by them!

Maybe they're objectively crap, I dunno, but to me they're like these wild experiments that - because I know almost nothing and have almost no experience - seemed to have an equal chance of disappointing me, and they do not! Yay!
Two buff clay pendants with buff clay roses on them. One has a random rough-edged background and the other is rectangular. The roses are glazed red and pink, and the backgrounds are varying shades of green glaze. The are seen from above. Two buff clay pendants with buff clay roses on them. One has a random rough-edged background and the other is rectangular. The roses are glazed red and pink, and the backgrounds are varying shades of green glaze. They are seen from the edge, so the height of them is clearer. Two buff clay pottery pieces: a tiny vase that's about two inches high by 3/4 in wide, and a small plate that's roughly 3.5-4" across. The tiny vase has a pinecone texture and is holding a tiny pinecone and a rosehip. The small plate has the texture of a tree slice: it has a border similar to bark and a lot of mostly concentric circles carved into the center. It is slightly concave. The same tiny vase and plate seen from a different angle.
October 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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It was more of an ongoing collaboration - Germans and Americans met and worked on eugenic concepts together under Davenport as the Eugenics Records Office (ERO) in Cold Spring Harbor. Both were very much funded by Americans, though, there is that. www.cshl.edu/archives/exp...
"The links between Saller and CSHL were much deeper than that, however. The connections between the ERO and the Nazi “racial hygiene" movement were extensive and well-known. The ERO's newsletter, Eugenical News, was one of the principal conduits through which German racial ideas reached an American audience in the 1920s and 1930s. Influence moved in the other direction as well. German eugenicists in the early 1900s paid close attention to American eugenics legislation, and leading eugenicists from both sides of the Atlantic held conferences and supported the exchange of information and scholarly materials. In the 1920s, for example...."
October 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Actual ad that just showed up in my feed: thanks to AI you never actually have to watch the birds again!

Wait, what?
"From Backyard Hobbyist To Citizen Scientist -Without Lifting A Finger. This Al-powered sensor listens 24/7, identifies birds by sound, and logs data into a global databank. Just set it up once and let nature do the talking."
October 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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I saw a whole bunch of ducks last Thursday:
A greenish pond spotted with ducks - there is dry scrub brush in the foreground and Mt Tamalpais in the background.
September 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I thought I'd see what images Google Lens had that might be similar... and the auto-AI made me laugh:
"Al Overview The image appears to show a blurred black rhinoceros, possibly captured at night or with a long exposure, giving it a ghost-like appearance. The blurred effect suggests movement, and the dark background contrasts with the animal's form..."
September 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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They really should have known... Here's another, earlier, example:
A graph of Target's stock price, down 35.96% year to date as of closing tonight.
September 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM