TepidLatte ♿
@tepidlatte.bsky.social
Lukewarm denizen of a ramshackle planet run by clowns and grifters. Certified curmudgeon and licensed misanthrope.
Woke up feeling refreshed, only for my watch to tell me I slept like crap and should feel like shit. Ain't technology great?!
October 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Woke up feeling refreshed, only for my watch to tell me I slept like crap and should feel like shit. Ain't technology great?!
Great turnout today for No Kings!
Now, about those Epstein files...
Now, about those Epstein files...
October 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Great turnout today for No Kings!
Now, about those Epstein files...
Now, about those Epstein files...
PSA: If you're worried about voting for Dems in '26, remember you can vote them out a few years later. If you vote GOP, you may never get the chance to vote the out ever again.
October 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
PSA: If you're worried about voting for Dems in '26, remember you can vote them out a few years later. If you vote GOP, you may never get the chance to vote the out ever again.
Adventures in American Healthcare (1/3)
1. Doc prescribes new wheelchair.
2. Insurer requires in-network vendor.
3. Multi-month approval process ensues.
4. Insurer approves chair, but vendor no longer in-network. Huge out-of-pocket cost threatened.
5. New in-network vendor chosen.
1. Doc prescribes new wheelchair.
2. Insurer requires in-network vendor.
3. Multi-month approval process ensues.
4. Insurer approves chair, but vendor no longer in-network. Huge out-of-pocket cost threatened.
5. New in-network vendor chosen.
October 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Adventures in American Healthcare (1/3)
1. Doc prescribes new wheelchair.
2. Insurer requires in-network vendor.
3. Multi-month approval process ensues.
4. Insurer approves chair, but vendor no longer in-network. Huge out-of-pocket cost threatened.
5. New in-network vendor chosen.
1. Doc prescribes new wheelchair.
2. Insurer requires in-network vendor.
3. Multi-month approval process ensues.
4. Insurer approves chair, but vendor no longer in-network. Huge out-of-pocket cost threatened.
5. New in-network vendor chosen.
Tonight on "Murder, She Wrought:"
"Mrs. Fletcher, I've been a homicide detective for 38 years and I'd be surprised if I've worked 10% as many murders as you've stumbled across in your ten years as a mystery writer. Care to explain?"
"Mrs. Fletcher, I've been a homicide detective for 38 years and I'd be surprised if I've worked 10% as many murders as you've stumbled across in your ten years as a mystery writer. Care to explain?"
September 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Tonight on "Murder, She Wrought:"
"Mrs. Fletcher, I've been a homicide detective for 38 years and I'd be surprised if I've worked 10% as many murders as you've stumbled across in your ten years as a mystery writer. Care to explain?"
"Mrs. Fletcher, I've been a homicide detective for 38 years and I'd be surprised if I've worked 10% as many murders as you've stumbled across in your ten years as a mystery writer. Care to explain?"
Who has "Bo Duke writes the modern Horst Wessel Lied" on their 2025 bingo card?
September 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Who has "Bo Duke writes the modern Horst Wessel Lied" on their 2025 bingo card?
They've got their Horst Wessel now. Who'll write the song?
September 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
They've got their Horst Wessel now. Who'll write the song?
More health insurance company shenanigans: if your healthcare provider takes "too long" billing you, your insurer will reject the claim and leave you on the hook for the whole amount. Ask me how I know.
August 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
More health insurance company shenanigans: if your healthcare provider takes "too long" billing you, your insurer will reject the claim and leave you on the hook for the whole amount. Ask me how I know.
A whole story on how the tariffs are "generating billions," and not a peep about who's really paying for them. Goebbles would be proud.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/...
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/...
New tariffs are generating billions of dollars in revenue, but Bessent says that will go toward paying national debt | CNN Business
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday threw cold water on the idea that Americans could soon receive tariff rebate checks.
amp.cnn.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A whole story on how the tariffs are "generating billions," and not a peep about who's really paying for them. Goebbles would be proud.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/...
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/...
So how did Trump's performance review go? Did Putin make him employee of the month?
August 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
So how did Trump's performance review go? Did Putin make him employee of the month?
Hey, Death? Nice one with Hulk Hogan, but you've wandered off topic a bit.
July 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Hey, Death? Nice one with Hulk Hogan, but you've wandered off topic a bit.
That sound you just heard was the last vestiges of American democracy dying.
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
That sound you just heard was the last vestiges of American democracy dying.
So they've passed their Enabling Act. Watch things get real bad real fast.
July 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
So they've passed their Enabling Act. Watch things get real bad real fast.
Wheelchair-accessible cab driver just told me my muscular dystrophy was caused by the vaccines I got as a kid.
What a loss it was to scuence when he decided to become a taxi driver.
What a loss it was to scuence when he decided to become a taxi driver.
June 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Wheelchair-accessible cab driver just told me my muscular dystrophy was caused by the vaccines I got as a kid.
What a loss it was to scuence when he decided to become a taxi driver.
What a loss it was to scuence when he decided to become a taxi driver.
After decades of being authorities on the Bible, despite never having read it, the American right feels entitled to apply the same level of expertise to the Constitution.
June 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
After decades of being authorities on the Bible, despite never having read it, the American right feels entitled to apply the same level of expertise to the Constitution.
Total hospital bill for five days, when I had COVID and pneumonia: $129,431.64.
The whole indigestible lump is "pending," meaning the insurance company is thinking about what they feel like paying and how much they want to bankrupt me.
The whole indigestible lump is "pending," meaning the insurance company is thinking about what they feel like paying and how much they want to bankrupt me.
June 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Total hospital bill for five days, when I had COVID and pneumonia: $129,431.64.
The whole indigestible lump is "pending," meaning the insurance company is thinking about what they feel like paying and how much they want to bankrupt me.
The whole indigestible lump is "pending," meaning the insurance company is thinking about what they feel like paying and how much they want to bankrupt me.
The purge of opposition parties comes in many forms. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
www.theguardian.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The purge of opposition parties comes in many forms. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Looks like they've identified the Minnesota shooter. The immediate media spin is that he was a Gov Walz appointee back in 2019. So it's the Dem's fault, apparently.
June 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Looks like they've identified the Minnesota shooter. The immediate media spin is that he was a Gov Walz appointee back in 2019. So it's the Dem's fault, apparently.
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Pride Month Matters 🏳️🌈
June 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Pride Month Matters 🏳️🌈
Watching "Teen Wolf" on SYFY, and they just bleeped out the word "gay." Not a slur, just one character asking another if he was coming out to him.
Happy Pride in Trump's America.
Happy Pride in Trump's America.
June 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Watching "Teen Wolf" on SYFY, and they just bleeped out the word "gay." Not a slur, just one character asking another if he was coming out to him.
Happy Pride in Trump's America.
Happy Pride in Trump's America.
A golden dome to protect his golden toilet. We are truly great again.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Trump announces $25bn in funding for Golden Dome missile defense project – US politics live
Funding for Trump’s missile defense shield idea to protect the US from long-range strikes included in tax bill facing opposition from some Republicans
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A golden dome to protect his golden toilet. We are truly great again.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
I sat next to George on a transatlantic flight about 20 years ago. He was a very nice, funny, and down-to-earth guy. He'll be missed.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
George Wendt, best known for playing Norm on Cheers, dies aged 76
Emmy-nominated comedian and actor, best known for role in long-running sitcom, was also in Family Guy and Frasier
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I sat next to George on a transatlantic flight about 20 years ago. He was a very nice, funny, and down-to-earth guy. He'll be missed.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
PSA: just because your "health" insurer's website says a medical practice is "in network," doesn't mean that it is. Practices get dropped regularly, but it can take years for the site to be updated, if it ever is. Always call to be sure.
Another little swindle aimed at emptying your pocket.
Another little swindle aimed at emptying your pocket.
May 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
PSA: just because your "health" insurer's website says a medical practice is "in network," doesn't mean that it is. Practices get dropped regularly, but it can take years for the site to be updated, if it ever is. Always call to be sure.
Another little swindle aimed at emptying your pocket.
Another little swindle aimed at emptying your pocket.
You'd think naming apps "MyThis" or "MyThat" would have been retired, but no.
When searching an alphabetical list, we shouldn't need to look under "m," too. Just call your app what it is.
Even worse are names that bear no relation to the product. Looking at you Anthem Blue Cross's "Sydney."
When searching an alphabetical list, we shouldn't need to look under "m," too. Just call your app what it is.
Even worse are names that bear no relation to the product. Looking at you Anthem Blue Cross's "Sydney."
May 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
You'd think naming apps "MyThis" or "MyThat" would have been retired, but no.
When searching an alphabetical list, we shouldn't need to look under "m," too. Just call your app what it is.
Even worse are names that bear no relation to the product. Looking at you Anthem Blue Cross's "Sydney."
When searching an alphabetical list, we shouldn't need to look under "m," too. Just call your app what it is.
Even worse are names that bear no relation to the product. Looking at you Anthem Blue Cross's "Sydney."