Sam Luks

Holy crap, HHS cancelled VRBPAC.

(For non-public health people: This is the US contribution to the WHO-led identification and selection of flu strains for the next flu shot. There are other countries contributing. But US labs and expertise have always been a huge factor in the final agreement.)

I’m not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake up one day and discover that they can no longer write or think. You need to make your own art. You need to keep your brain working. You need to stay human.

Great minds.

Photo of the storefront of Christopher's Books in San Francisco, and the book Solar Storms purchased there

Friendly reminder that if you need to buy books for school, your local bookstore can order those for you

Still didn't feel it, even though it was so close

Reading all of this has inspired me to make sure my kid knows how to make 5 nourishing meals suitable for having leftovers before he heads to college in a year.

I’m so sorry, Kirin. That’s just awful. Thinking of you

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

repost with a cool song that's under two minutes: Elastica, "Annie" www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5FD...

We could do worse

Modern technology tells me exactly how much prepping for Thanksgiving stresses me out

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

Wave your arms a lot