Please let it be November so I can stop getting Talarico fundraising ads!
Denys Beecher
@dbeecher.bsky.social
16 years in US Social Security law, primarily disability claim representation
Well @kathryntewson.bsky.social says her grandmother was born in 1916, so this can't actually be Kathryn, but...
Actual names@actualnames.bsky.social · yesterdaySlutty Byrd United States, Census, 1910
You’ll all be shocked to learn that the most comprehensive contemporary history of the 2nd Seminole War, written by a US Army veteran in 1848, tells a very similar story. An initial treaty was signed in 1832 by senior tribal leaders, with conditional requirements. 1/
Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d agoAfter they were amended, they took the redlined versions back and found some people who could probably claim tribal affiliation who were then induced to sign the amended treaties and attest that they were doing so on behalf of this tribe or that band This is my understanding but yyyyeahhhhh
A possible archaeological site in the Wahoo Swamp. I met an old hunter a couple of decades ago who pointed me to a spot on a USGS quadrangle map. One day I need to go look.
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 5d agoWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
Nice try, but you won’t find me funding General Derricote.
Dear Prime Healthcare: Welcome to the Streisand Effect. www.youtube.com/shorts/ha7Te...
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This is why I have occasionally had to counsel prospective clients that it's better to work until they die from terminal cancer, because they'd be dead before they got access to Medicare, and at least they're able to maintain their employer health insurance for the cancer care.
Stacie Dusetzina@dusetzinas.bsky.social · 2w agoGood reminder of how hard it is to access health insurance for people who are disabled by their conditions but in the waiting period for coverage for SSDI/Medicare. The mortality during the wait period for people with cancer (neoplasms) is nearly 40%. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/epdf/10....
Simply shocked, shocked to discover that Graham clearly spends way too much time thinking about sexual violence.
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Good reminder of how hard it is to access health insurance for people who are disabled by their conditions but in the waiting period for coverage for SSDI/Medicare. The mortality during the wait period for people with cancer (neoplasms) is nearly 40%. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/epdf/10....
I see conservatives on Facebook have suddenly decided that cakes aren’t a First Amendment issue after all, and this professor deserves to be fired for her speech.
"I'm mad, make sure to put in the lawsuit I'm mad."
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Alex Kaplan@alkapdc.bsky.social · last wk.Whites-only community Return to the Land's founders filed a defamation lawsuit against Sky News, claiming it "produced a hit piece" that caused "government investigations against [them], causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, severe reputational harm, & ongoing emotional distress."
Kids these days! Back when *I* was cheating on my high school Latin essay I took the time to make sure that the copy of the Encylopedia Britannica I was copying from wasn't available on the internet first, and I typed it all out myself.
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · last wk.Crazy story: professor embeds invisible prompt into a midterm to include a nonsensical reference to Madagascar in a paper about the Industrial Revolution. 32 of 35 turned in papers with phrases like "Madagascar purple bicycle whispers to the ceiling." They didn't even read what they submitted!
Surely Akiva Cohen lacks an understanding of how seriously one should take a comparison to Nazis…
Fenced some teenagers last night. Was still able to beat all of them. Today I am reminded by my knees that *I* am not a teenager.
Somewhere there's a dictionary with a photo of Will Stancil under the entry for strawman arguments. People aren't disputing that it's insulting. The dispute is over characterizing the insults as "vicious."
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w agoIt’s really weird that a bunch of people are now trying to pretend it isnt??
Really leaning hard on the Henry Drummond quotes lately. I should do a rewatch.
Denys Beecher@dbeecher.bsky.social · 2w agoAllowed by whom, Will? What court rules on when insults become vicious in the aggregate? Is this something you've also derived a formula to calculate? Is there an arbitrary latitude of right and a longitude of wrong—in exact minutes, seconds, and degrees?
"Cloistered," "low-nuance," and "thoughtlessly reductive" are apparently now vicious insults as an opening salvo, while starting off calling people "idiot masses" who make "moronic choices" is a temperate choice. I can see why Will spends so much time ultimately arguing about word definitions
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w agoKathryn the very first interaction we have ever had, to my knowledge, was this absolutely vicious insult you threw at me for the anodyne observation, not targeting anyone in particular, that 50,000 does not represent any kind of world-shaking wealth for most people
I, for one, love the idea of the new Smithsonian signage. Can’t imagine a better way to get people to engage with the material than putting up “dangerous content inside” warnings.
"Government wasting money abroad" and "we'll give you Medicare for all while also putting money back in your pocket" are just populist demagoguery. Spending overseas is both morally good AND provides benefits to the US. You can't have Medicare 4 All without raising taxes.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 2w agoCall 1-844-ABDUL-4-U (1-844-223-8548) to hear more about my platform! Seriously, call it, it's a real number.
My hypo for Will. You have $80,000. You can gamble for another $80,000. 50% chance that you get the extra cash. 49.7% chance nothing changes. 0.3% chance that you lose the original $80,000 AND your medical coverage, without which there’s a plausible chance you die. What’s rational, gamble or stay?
Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 2w agoFun thought experiment! Let's say you are given a choice between the following two options: 1. You receive $50,000 right now, cash on the barrelhead. 2. I flip a coin. If it's heads, you get $2,000,000. If it's tails, you give me $1,000,000. Which choice do you take? Which choice is rational?
Just got around to episode 235 of @apocalypseplayers.bsky.social and now I want nothing more than a loop of Dom Allen reading pi like a madman to fall asleep to.
Dude that shit was so incredibly out of touch I fucking choked Some people go too far with the Stancil hate, but holy shit my dude, if you don’t want to be called Bloodless Quant maybe don’t leave us all wondering how it’s possibly for you to keep doing analysis whilst clearly exsanguinated
Will is wrong about large numbers here. A million dollars isn't particularly inconceivable to an average person. We can walk by suburban houses that cost a million. It's very easy to visualize what $1 million would buy.
A lot of people out there for whom $66,500 would pay down debt and create an emergency fund, relieving them of a lot of the stress of living in a country with a poor social safety net. Stress that is quite literally shortening their lives. I guess certain people can't see that as "life changing."
From the guy who likes to brag about how few people he blocks...
