Sewickley Chippy

I live in Pennsylvania, my neighbor said he could not possibly vote for Harris because of the price of groceries. #FAFO

There are way too many syllables in those names for him to get even one of them right, maybe Albania will get called out again since he can (sometimes) say that correctly.

There are more than 100 horror stories shared on this post in the 30 minutes that it has been up, and these are just the people that happen to be on Bluesky late afternoon on a Monday. There are going to be a lot of really hard conversations coming up as all the exchanges open up.

It is hard to know the exact impact until the exchanges open on November 1st, but from what I saw on the filings of my insurance carrier to the state of Pennsylvania with their 2026 rate proposals, my plan is going to go up by 20%. I am most likely going to have to downgrade my plan level for 2026.

Is this issue finally over?

And to be fair, I want the Democrats to explain this as well. What are we supposed to do?
Hold off on enrolling until the last minute?
Enroll now and hope they can get the rates and subsidies set back with the required new state approvals before enrollment closes?

It is amazing how stupid the Republicans appear to be on how the ACA exchanges work. Some of them are open now, most open on November 1st. The states had to approve the new rates. How in the world do they think that there is going to be an agreement to resolve the subsidies at this point?

I am guessing he is not going to get his security deposit back at the end of this four-year lease.

Well, this is one way to avoid having Melania decorate it for Christmas.

e-Bikes, e-Scooters, and now motorized shoes, it is amazing the lengths we go to avoid getting any type of actual exercise that might also help us avoid needing the sky-high insurance premiums to come.

The optimistic view of this news is that Rubio had a spine and stood up to Lavrov choosing to work for the best interests of Ukraine, but I am just a silly chipmunk, what do I know.

It is amazing that in barely 10 months this ball room monstrosity has gone from fever dream, to design, permitting, and now construction begins. But in those same 10 months Trump has not done anything meaningful to help Ukraine.

Trump priorities do not mirror that of the American citizens.

Trump is a disgrace. Europe needs to cut the cord and assume that the U.S. is lost for the next three years. It is a sad day for American ideals.

Can we start a go fund me to by Zelensky a blue suit, white shirt, and a red tie? Trump will be so enamored that he is being emulated that he might just give Ukraine what they need.

Ancestry DNA just updated my origins results and it now shows that I am 2% Ukranian so now my neighbors can shut up about me flying the Ukranian flag in support of Ukraine during the Russian invasion.

We must now be living in the upside down where MTG is reasonable and Fetterman has basically become a Republican.

Families on the Dawes Rolls would like to have a word.

He could not possibly be so stupid to do it before the midterms, but then again….

If Melania is such a champion of Ukrainian children she should be showing all of these horrific stories to Donald on a daily basis and get him to grow a spine to finally stand up to Putin. These senseless tragedies need to stop.

War torn Portland supporting an actual war torn country, Ukraine. 🇺🇦

I like BlueSky and their generous link policy, but I am annoyed by links out to paywalled sites, especially when the site is actively generating ad revenue.

Pick a lane: Ad revenue or Paywall

P.S. I am unlikely to pay so....

Squirrels are evil so this is not surprising. Chipmunks on the other hand are adorable and should be revered by all.

Hero’s helping hero’s, this is how it is done.

Thats the front of the hat, on the back it continues "if you live in an alternate reality."

OMG, what time is the rapture? Can we get that started already? This lunatic is embarrassing, enough already, let's get this rapturing over with, please.

To quote SATC Season 4 Charlotte "Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda".

Hindsight is 20/20, but we all say this coming directly at us and did not have to wait to look at it in the rear-view mirror.

You can amuse a cat by playing bird videos for them, lately I have found that you can amuse me by opening the Flightradar24 app and I will scroll around for hours looking at active flights and trying to guess the type of plane based on the plane icon size (I am not very accurate).

Placement of punctuation is irrelevant to Trump, 22,787 Dreamliners is vastly different then 22 - 787 Dreamliners

There are probably lots of places in the world that don’t take “Tylenol”, but I bet they take acetaminophen by some other brand names. Are we blaming Tylenol (the brand) or acetaminophen (the drug) for Autism?

After listening to Trumps rambling about Autism, Tylenol, and vaccines, I have to ask, who exactly do I need to give my address to so that I can be raptured in the first wave tomorrow?