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i thought the moon was made of cheese until i was twelve...

i saw wallace slice up the moon and eat it as cheese on a cracker as a kid and i just haven’t known true satisfaction since

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Kneecap

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Poor Kneecap being forced to sit through a Take That performance....

Not the BAFTAS being too scared to bring Kneecap up on stage 😭 glad the movie got a win in the best new director category though - well deserved

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The editorial in this morning's Guardian is on point.

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where is my favorite painting i need to find my favorite painting

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“When the handle has snapped off the basket that held all your eggs…” gone girl tier monologue

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had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header “the forcefeminization of victor frankenstein”

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These men just stole the personal information of everyone in America AND control the Treasury. Link to article.

Akash Bobba

Edward Coristine

Luke Farritor

Gautier Cole Killian

Gavin Kliger

Ethan Shaotran

Spread their names!

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“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.

works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.

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I work for a private health insurance company in their Medicare advantage department. Here’s a fun fact:

We are not allowed to ever tell somebody to call 1-800-Medicare. We always tell them if they need to update their Medicare info, they need to contact their local social security office? Why? Two reasons: 1.) it’s true, if you need to make any updates to Medicare; eg name change, got accidentally termed, etc, social security actually handles all that. But 2.) Because it directly counts against us.

See, Medicare has this really stupid practice. If a Medicare member contacts 1-800-Medicare and gives their insurance company’s name, it automatically is a ding against them. The member could be praising us about how fantastic we were and it wouldn’t matter, if we are mentioned, we are penalized. And those penalties can affect our Star rating. That Star rating is important because that determines how much money Medicare pays us, and if we can even offer MA plans at all. If a plan has 5 stars, then people can enroll in that plan at any point in the year, Medicare will send potential members our way, and they pay us more. But if we get 3 stars, then Medicare starts sending out paperwork to all of our members telling them our plan sucks balls and they should consider finding new coverage. And if we get 1 star, Medicare revokes our right to sell Medicare Advantage products.

See, for profit insurance companies really only care about making money and one of the biggest money streams is what comes in from the federal government. So if enough people called 1-800-MEDICARE and complained about a certain health insurance company, the people could tank their star rating and actually lose them a massive revenue stream.

Let me be clear, it has to be the SPECIFIC subsidy, not just BlueCrossBlueShield, you need to pick the subsidiary, but, if you call about all of the subsidiaries BCBS owns, then you can knock out pretty much their entire MA market.

You know, food for thought.

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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This gives - incredibly stylish yet dying from tetanus - vibes

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Elon is a Nazi. He will never offend Nazis.

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So… I got a notification from the State Department at like 8 PM Pacific that my passport was approved, and I was quietly thankful and stunned bc my legal gender in Oregon is listed as X, or undeclared, and that's what's on my passport. I'm pretty sure someone(s) worked late to get the X passports done today.

I was already really grateful to whoever in the Seattle Passport Office worked late to get these things processed on the last Friday before That Man gets back into office... and then I got a notification that my passport shipped at fucking midnight Pacific and whoever got that shit out the door so it couldn't be picked up on Monday and like, denied and shredded?

They're my fucking hero.