clara hawley

ride the wave

[clara hawley @chawlzz]

my body is fueled by barbecue chips

[death angel @angel_0f_deathx]

if you’re repulsed by women’s natural body hair, how we look without makeup, and by our bodies when they’re not carefully posed and airbrushed, i’m here to inform you that you’re probably just not into women

[halli ⸆⸉ 𓆙❤️‍🔥 @inthevault_]

Greatest country in the world?? Why is every woman I know crying on the way to work today???

[trout mask (original) @BranPuffin]

If you thought climate protesters blocking roads or throwing soup at art behind bullet proof glass was ‘too disruptive’ you’re gonna hate this next part

[elle @postcardsbyelle]

in honor of it ends with us becoming a movie, here is a thread of the worst lines from colleen hoover's books in hopes that trees will stop dying for her terrible writing:

[Mark Thompson @Son_of_a_Thomp]

Walz wants your daughter to have access to tampons at her school if she needs them. Vance wants to know your daughter’s menstrual cycle to see if she was up to any aborting. Let’s check the weird meter…

[F ౨ৎ @minyardsneil]

I never said the book is good. I said I loved it. Those two are VERY different things

[Josh Ellis @jzellis]

A few years ago, I had a cool idea: what if I used Amazon wishlists to get homeless people in Vegas what they needed? I could create lists of things they needed and my followers on social media could buy it and it'd get shipped to my house so I could hand it out.

[Titi Jess @TheMindOfJessie]

…….. That’s literally his job.. Did you think God himself was supposed to drop a Covid guidebook from the sky? What is wrong with yall?

[Michael Good @michaelgooood]

every adult woman I know is reading like they're trying to qualify for a pizza party and every guy I know owes DraftKings $5000

[𝓛𝓾𝓱𝓪𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷 @luhaenten]

Women yearn to return to the cave

[Gay and Tired 🥥 🌴 🇵🇸 @GayChemist]

So you agree, inflation is just a made up thing for companies to increase profits without doing any actual work.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

A lot of people are dragging this person. The knee jerk reaction of “92% coverage?! That’s amazing! Why are you complaining. Leave the country.” This shows how low the bar has been set for health insurance coverage in the US. Let’s put on our empathy hats for a moment.

Imagine paying a ~$1k per month premium for the privilege of having health insurance. It was $750 last year, but the company you work for had a lot of employees use their health insurance in 2023, so Blue Cross decided to hike up the premiums to defray the cost of actually paying for their customer’s healthcare. You’re annoyed but fortunately, are still able to pay the monthly premium.

Over the course of the year, you seek preventative medical care like you’re supposed to, paying a $20 co pay for every visit. Maybe you have a few extra visits to your PCP or the emergency room. These bills go entirely to your deductible, which means you pay for 100%. The high deductible plan was all you could afford due to the rising premiums. Again, you’re annoyed but you can manage.

Finally you reach your deductible, thinking “great, I won’t have to pay anything the rest of the year.” At least that’s what it sounded like from the intro pamphlet you received from HR at the beginning of the year. It was all pretty confusing.

With your deductible met, you finally schedule that procedure your doctor has been nagging you to get that will prevent further health care issues down the road. However, you didn’t realize co-insurance charges still apply until you reach your out of pocket maximum (~$12,000 for the plan you chose. Again, the only plan you could afford). You are frustrated, but fortunately still able to cover the estimated cost.

Then, while recovering from major surgery, you receive a bill for $4,457 that you can’t pay. This is more than you were quoted by your doctor’s medical office. Turns out Blue Cross thought some of the medication you received during the procedure was unneccesary, so they refused to pay for it.

You’re angry. You have done everything right. You paid your premiums, you did everything your doctors suggested to keep yourself as healthy as possible, and yet, you still end up with a bill that will take months, if not years, to pay off. If you don’t, you will be sent to collections, wrecking your credit, and making life an even harder uphill climb. Does all of this apply to the OP here? Maybe, maybe not. But it does apply to millions of other people in the US every year.

Does this person not have a right to be angry? Should we just be ok with a health care system that is death by a thousand cuts? Or should we strive for a system in which a person can access health care without risk of financial distress? Unfortunately, many people can’t understand this point of view until they are on the receiving end of those medical bills. Health insurance companies don’t care about you. They are evil. Don’t settle for slightly less evil.

[Sam Stryker @sbstryker]

Thank you Julius Caesar for inventing the Chicken Caesar Wrap

[Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]

At the Supreme Court, lawyers debate how many organs a woman has to lose before she can be allowed an abortion to save her life. At the New York court of appeals, lawyers declare that if a man raped too many women some of them have to shut up about it, out of fairness to him.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

You can't have it both ways. You can't outlaw homeless people from sleeping in public space and then cut services to help them get off the streets. They aren't going to magically disappear and being poor isn't a crime no matter how much the privileged would like to make it so.

[🟢dev DECKER ™️ ✊🏾 @dev_decker]

70% of Americans oppose what Congress is doing but somehow they’re still doing it. Tell me again how this is a democracy????