Malaise Muffin
@drdawndpt.bsky.social
Pelvic & ortho physical therapist, fan of lifting heavy things, baker and maker. Mom to two human girls, two feline ones, and a feline chaos monkey. Midwest transplant to PNW.
Ask any provider who takes insurance and they will tell you that Evicore is the bane of their existence.
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
(Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)
(Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)
Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Ask any provider who takes insurance and they will tell you that Evicore is the bane of their existence.
8 on Seattle hockey teams: “The Kraken have the better name but I like the Torrent better because it’s the women’s team”
December 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
8 on Seattle hockey teams: “The Kraken have the better name but I like the Torrent better because it’s the women’s team”
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I get the joke here, but it is important to stress to folks that we're taught a lot of stuff that most of us will never use, because:
1. learning it makes you better prepared for whatever path your career eventually takes, and
2. learning abstract math trains one's brain to *think*, in general
1. learning it makes you better prepared for whatever path your career eventually takes, and
2. learning abstract math trains one's brain to *think*, in general
December 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I get the joke here, but it is important to stress to folks that we're taught a lot of stuff that most of us will never use, because:
1. learning it makes you better prepared for whatever path your career eventually takes, and
2. learning abstract math trains one's brain to *think*, in general
1. learning it makes you better prepared for whatever path your career eventually takes, and
2. learning abstract math trains one's brain to *think*, in general
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1)- Thomas Jefferson raped his 14 year old slave, Sally Hemings.
2)- Nothing saying we didn’t have other presidents who did the same.
2)- Nothing saying we didn’t have other presidents who did the same.
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
1)- Thomas Jefferson raped his 14 year old slave, Sally Hemings.
2)- Nothing saying we didn’t have other presidents who did the same.
2)- Nothing saying we didn’t have other presidents who did the same.
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this is why i have said multiple time that streaming financially benefits artists as much as piracy does. because unless millions of people stream one song it won't even pay rent. meanwhile it takes a couple thousand bandcamp or itunes or qobuz song purchases to pay for rent. hundreds for an album
December 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
this is why i have said multiple time that streaming financially benefits artists as much as piracy does. because unless millions of people stream one song it won't even pay rent. meanwhile it takes a couple thousand bandcamp or itunes or qobuz song purchases to pay for rent. hundreds for an album
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yes, buying someone's project on bandcamp will benefit them more than you streaming it casually throughout the remainder of your life can. yes, artist payouts are really that bad. yes, that's why concert ticket and merch prices have ballooned so much these past 15 years
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
yes, buying someone's project on bandcamp will benefit them more than you streaming it casually throughout the remainder of your life can. yes, artist payouts are really that bad. yes, that's why concert ticket and merch prices have ballooned so much these past 15 years
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one of the things being a romance reader has taught me is that purity culture (all sex is bad) and porn culture (all sex is salacious/emotionally hollow) are just two sides of the same coin, and it's really not worth fighting with either group of people.
December 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
one of the things being a romance reader has taught me is that purity culture (all sex is bad) and porn culture (all sex is salacious/emotionally hollow) are just two sides of the same coin, and it's really not worth fighting with either group of people.
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And a Finnish phrase about nothing being so bad that it won’t pass is kaikkeen tottuu paitsi jääpuikkoon perseessä ja sekin sulaa pois. It means “you can get used to anything but an ice stick in your ass, and even that will eventually melt away.”
December 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
And a Finnish phrase about nothing being so bad that it won’t pass is kaikkeen tottuu paitsi jääpuikkoon perseessä ja sekin sulaa pois. It means “you can get used to anything but an ice stick in your ass, and even that will eventually melt away.”
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like damn, I WISH a high profile player smooching his boyfriend on the ice after a Stanley Cup victory would for real magically fix the 100+ years of entrenched toxic masculinity in hockey! But that's not how real life works. Sorry.
December 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
like damn, I WISH a high profile player smooching his boyfriend on the ice after a Stanley Cup victory would for real magically fix the 100+ years of entrenched toxic masculinity in hockey! But that's not how real life works. Sorry.
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Just read this whole-ass thread please, folks. Y'all know I love Heated Rivalry. I've also spent a lot of time embedded in IRL men's hockey culture and just 10000% everything Alex is saying. Heated Rivalry is ROMANCE GENRE FICTION, I.E. FANTASY.
Again, I truly *loved* this week’s episode of Heated Rivalry, but IT IS A WISH FULFILLMENT ROMANCE. The success of a gay hockey romance TV show, largely watched by people who are neither hockey players nor hockey fans, is not “proof that the world is ready and all we would do is love you”
December 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Just read this whole-ass thread please, folks. Y'all know I love Heated Rivalry. I've also spent a lot of time embedded in IRL men's hockey culture and just 10000% everything Alex is saying. Heated Rivalry is ROMANCE GENRE FICTION, I.E. FANTASY.
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Human attention, expertise and judgment can rarely be automated; the labor of attention, expertise and judgment merely gets shifted without corresponding compensation.
Generative AI is also causing me more work as a college professor, in teaching, research, and admin work.
So far AI is causing me more work.
One of my main responsibilities is to use a database to find certain things. This database used to have humans look at the webpage of a thing and then write a description.
Bad AI descriptions have led to an increase in false positives I need to sift through.
One of my main responsibilities is to use a database to find certain things. This database used to have humans look at the webpage of a thing and then write a description.
Bad AI descriptions have led to an increase in false positives I need to sift through.
December 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Human attention, expertise and judgment can rarely be automated; the labor of attention, expertise and judgment merely gets shifted without corresponding compensation.
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You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
😱😱😱
“AI used as much water as the water industry this year” is fucking wild
December 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
😱😱😱
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Somebody said the U.S. has big “dying mall” energy right now and I can’t stop thinking about his accurate that feels
December 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Somebody said the U.S. has big “dying mall” energy right now and I can’t stop thinking about his accurate that feels
And 24 hours later we are heading home! Tonsils successfully yeeted, kiddo is just as talkative as usual.
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
And 24 hours later we are heading home! Tonsils successfully yeeted, kiddo is just as talkative as usual.
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I see people hoping HBO or a US company takes over Heated Rivalry next season so it has a bigger budget & is Emmy-eligible, so I’d like to emphasize Jacob Tierney’s answer re: what would have happened if it had been made by a US company, based on what was said to him when he was pitching it.
December 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I see people hoping HBO or a US company takes over Heated Rivalry next season so it has a bigger budget & is Emmy-eligible, so I’d like to emphasize Jacob Tierney’s answer re: what would have happened if it had been made by a US company, based on what was said to him when he was pitching it.
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archive.ph/fnhcS François Arnaud is an out bisexual actor and I don't think I'm out of line to say that this interviewer comes off as like... challenging his credentials as a queer somehow. François handles it beautifully and doesn't give it any quarter bc the premise of these questions is bullshit
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December 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
archive.ph/fnhcS François Arnaud is an out bisexual actor and I don't think I'm out of line to say that this interviewer comes off as like... challenging his credentials as a queer somehow. François handles it beautifully and doesn't give it any quarter bc the premise of these questions is bullshit
"The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go."
a man with a beard and mustache is screaming with his mouth open .
Alt: a man with a beard and mustache is screaming with his mouth open .
media.tenor.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go."
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"you're a man"
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"you're a man"
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
Checked in and waiting to go yeet some tonsils
December 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Checked in and waiting to go yeet some tonsils
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My friend asked what the best time to visit Chicago is and like... anytime, babe. It's a great city and there's always a million things to do and see. April through November has the best weather but even in wintertime you can do things because we know how to deal with snow?
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My friend asked what the best time to visit Chicago is and like... anytime, babe. It's a great city and there's always a million things to do and see. April through November has the best weather but even in wintertime you can do things because we know how to deal with snow?
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Alcohol is a disinhibitor — people say what they really think. This young man has great values and I will offer him a glass of water and maybe a bucket anytime
December 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Alcohol is a disinhibitor — people say what they really think. This young man has great values and I will offer him a glass of water and maybe a bucket anytime
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timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning
September 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning
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Why is this too perfect after episode 5 of Heated Rivalry?? 🩷😭🥰
SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. DO YOU HAVE SOMEONE YOU CAN TALK TO?
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Why is this too perfect after episode 5 of Heated Rivalry?? 🩷😭🥰