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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

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Seven Seas Entertainment @sevenseasentertainment.com · 4d

New #danmei cover reveal! ✨ CASE FILE COMPENDIUM: BING AN BEN (NOVEL) Vol. 7 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou—cover + interior art by Wil! #SevenSeasDanmei #CaseFileCompendium #BingAnBen #BAB

Out in English print/digital January 2026—pre-order now:
sevenseasentertainment.com/books/case-f...

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Reverend H. Entity @reverendentity.bsky.social · 2d

🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
AOC assures trans kids they’re not to blame for anything: “You are fine just the way you are”
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/aoc-...

AOC assures trans kids they're not to blame for anything: "You are fine just the way you are" - LGBTQ Nation

She acknowledged that it feels like both parties are blaming trans people for everything.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 3d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Doki Rosi 🌷🌷🌷 @dokirosi.bsky.social · 2d

Naruto e Sasuke 🍥🍅 pra sempre #fanart #naruto

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Chibi Yuuto @chibiyuuto.com · 6d

🍀CLOVER (CLAMP PREMIUM COLLECTION) vol. 2 cover

YOU READ IT RIGHT! WE GOT BOTH COVERS AT ONCE‼️

#CLAMP
#CLOVER

CLOVER (CLAMP PREMIUM COLLECTION) vol. 2 cover

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 6d

The MMR shot is safe and effective, and there is no credible evidence otherwise.

Breaking MMR into three shots means 3x more copays at the doctor’s office, 3x more hours of missed work, 3x more bummed out kiddos, and probably more than 3x as many kids who aren’t fully vaccinated.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 6d

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women

The panel voted to undo an action by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. which removed the vaccine from the immunization schedule for pregnant women.

www.politico.com

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 9d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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psiten @psiten.bsky.social · 10d

#political

For the sake of saying things out loud, and repeating them so we don't forget...

When Stephen Miller or anyone else now says 'we need to deploy troops in [city] to maintain the laws'...

We don't. And it is against the law to use the military as law enforcement against citizens.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10d

Columbia canceled my class on race and media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.

Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!

We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

www.resistancesummerschool.com

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Clever Mia @readvesna.com · 11d

greta ily what an outfit

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 12d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 12d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Lazy Vampire Enthusiast (Keffy) @keffy.bsky.social · 12d

Idk who needs to hear this, but I made a vaccine appointment online to get Flu and COVID shots at CVS and they did not ask any additional prying questions regarding my preexisting conditions before giving me my vaccine.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 12d

this is as open an admission that an entire agency is engaging in routine constitutional violations that I can imagine

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 12d

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 12d

I'll just say for anyone who is starting off, and I am a small potato but still, I have never paid to appear at a book club or on a panel or at a festival where I was an invited guest.
I've had two book launches at local bookstores, I haven't paid to throw those.
beware of ppl asking you for cash.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12d

The new writer scam hotness is the email that purports to be from a book club that meets on Zoom, who invites you to discuss [title of yours plucked from an AI database], and who needs you to pay a "small reservation fee" to participate. Gotten three just today. Fuck that noise, plonk it into spam.

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psiten @psiten.bsky.social · 12d

That's what Phoenix Wright said.

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psiten @psiten.bsky.social · 16d

For more information on the zine, check out mxtxfoodzine.carrd.co

It's a fantastic project every year, totally free, just fans sharing fic, art, and tons of food!

Spice, a MXTX foodzine

Carrd for the free MXTX foodzine, Spice

mxtxfoodzine.carrd.co

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psiten @psiten.bsky.social · 16d

I keep meaning to post my MDZS preview for @mxtx-foodzine.bsky.social !! Well, here is said preview, right under the wire. I'll be submitting a fic about Wei Wuxian-brand food crimes *to educate the youth*, "Let's Learn with Wei-xiansheng!" along with a recipe for Atomic Fireball Fa Gao.

An excerpt from a fanfic over a background with an illustration of purple lotuses. At the top, the title reads, "Let's Learn with Wei-xiansheng!"

The description reads: "A fanfic AU for Modao Zushi for the MXTX Food Zine: Spice! This time, the spice is literal, and the food crimes will be broadcast."

Meta information at the bottom reads:
Fic: psiten
Zine details: https://mxtxfoodzine.carrd.co

Red text in a handwriting font in the background reads: "Never make this recipe. LWJ."

The fanfic excerpt is:
He'd already triple-checked all the ingredients in his carrying case for tomorrow, gotten confirmation from Wen Ning that video equipment tests went smoothly, and he had somehow managed to convince A-Jie, Jiang Cheng, Lan Xichen, and even Lan Qiren to each loan him a blender. This was happening.

Well, filming for the vlog happened every other week, but it never stopped being crazy that these days when he wanted to do some bullshit piece of "science" fun, all he had to do was say "It's for the vlog, so I can show the kiddos how (insert educational excuse here) works," and not only did he not get arrested or assigned detention…

Lan Qiren himself would enable him.

Life: Hacked.

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psiten @psiten.bsky.social · 18d

I have to assume that either that was a special quirk of my install, or nobody else who uses this browser ever needs to go to the previous page. Still. This browser has been through iterations. Password store imports I can understand being cranky, but back button technology should be stable.

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psiten @psiten.bsky.social · 18d

The back button wouldn't work and most pages with any complicated content loaded a warning that the browser wasn't "fully featured" so not everything would work. And, you know. 50/50 on whether it's scripting or tracking that won't work for most sites. But the *back button* didn't work.

Fail.

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psiten @psiten.bsky.social · 18d

Good to know. I've clearly got my work cut out for me with finding a browser replacement. It looks like Epic isn't even developed for Linux, so everyone is like "You have to run it with Wine" and that's not a solution. I tried Falkon because it promised "basic but no trackers," but it was TOo basic.

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psiten @psiten.bsky.social · 18d

In most cases, I was going back to try to figure out how to *turn off the dang link preview pop-ups* that kept appearing for *everything* because I hadn't found it yet, so clearly there had to be something else *somewhere*.

Sleep-deprived, frustrated, and annoyed Me wanted them GONE. I still do.