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Hospitals, pharma, doctors, medical devices, health insurers, PBMs — the entire health care industry has crushed working households through higher prices and out-of-pocket spending, to the point that health care is a bigger expense than a mortgage. bsky.app/profile/lydi...

Imagine being so afraid of science that you need to block it.

It's really dystopian to see how digitizing everything, which was supposed to keep records safe, is instead being used to quickly purge information. We should have known I guess, but cripes.

one of the smartest things i ever read was a post from an old engineer on the airstream forum:

he said "there are no such things as accidents."

that there is always a multi-factorial, multi-step process that creates the opportunity for something bad to happen.

*Sees "Stargate" trending*
Oh wow, maybe they're rebooting the series?
*Clicks on the trend*
Oh fuck this.

A poem by Langston Hughes titled "Tired". It reads as the following: "I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two -- And see what worms are eating At the rind."

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

#books #reading #booksky #poetry

"There are federal agencies no one has ever heard of"
Okay but like most people cannot name the valves in their heart or their functions I probably wouldn't recommend pulling them the fuck out

It's becoming more and more obvious that George Orwell lacked imagination.

“What was the first major BlueSky sporting event?”

“We watched an elderly Mike Tyson fight a YouTube influencer on a busted stream.”

retro video game punch out with mike tyson in the ring

i appreciate how netflix paid homage to this image quality

Hot off the presses. Official statement by ACP about the current state of affairs. #MedSky
www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom...

Figured it couldn't hurt to drop some basic #sleep facts as people join up & get to know each other. I'll start with a personal pet peeve: REM sleep is NOT a deep stage of sleep & in fact brain activity looks strikingly similar to wake. If you see a product promising "deep REM sleep" it is 🗑️

Most of RFK Jr.’s claims aren’t controversial at all. There are no serious controversies about them because they are patently moronic.

Finally got a daylist that doesn’t straight up insult me

Carmy from The Bear yelling while stirring a pot over a stove

Bluesky team right now