Notices by captain typ0 (inkslinger@coales.co), page 20

@Canageek Great thread! I personally hate the "funny" ones because, in addition to often being very sexist, they're sometimes very unclear about which washroom I'm supposed to be using.

I got a notification on Instagram that "Your support request from March 11 was just updated."

Not remembering what request I submitted, I clicked for details.

Apparently, I'd reported an account and they had officially banned the account in question. I kind of lol'ed at the fact that it took 9 months for this action to be taken...until I noticed that I'd originally submitted the request on March 11, 2017! It took nearly three years for someone to review the abuse report?!

@erinbee @Quixote171 LOL

What is the context for these images?!

@applecandy That's wonderful news!

@adasauce That's good to know. I imagine mine would be the same, since the invoice from the therapist just says "therapy" for the line items, as is appropriate for privacy reasons. It's really absurd that I need a doctor's note, IMO, but I'll get one if that's what I need (just got to confirm they'll actually cover the services even with a note, since he is a Certified Counsellor and not a Registered Psychologist, and not all plans cover that, as I'm learned).

I can afford to pay out of pocket, but only if I see him far less frequently than I have been doing.

I'm lucky in that sense, but this is still upsetting and has reminded me just how much of a travesty it is that our public healthcare system mostly doesn't cover mental health supports.

So I've been seeing a therapist for a while. He's expensive, but I have benefits and really need this.

Turns out, my benefits don't cover services from people with his particular professional designation. My wife's plan apparently requires a doctor's note (how tf is my medical doctor going to determine that I need therapy for deep-seated emotion issues and help undoing toxic masculinity?!), so...that's cool. I have a health spending account, but it's small and then after that, I dunno.

It boggles the mind that universal healthcare, free at the point of service, is still unfathomable to a large portion of the American political class. I mean, I know they've been bought by the medical/insurance industry, but it's still hard to believe, given that most of the rest of the world has some form of public option.

@adasauce I haven't seen it in years, but I remember liking it. My mom hates it, for some reason, so we didn't watch it often growing up and I always seem to miss it on TV.

Some co-workers arranged a pizza and xmas movie thing for our lunch break today. There were a few movie options. I voted the the Disney version of A Christmas Carol, thinking I was voting for Mickey's Christmas Carol. Nope. It's an uncanny valley nightmare version, feature Jim Carrey as the voice of Scrooge. I hate it.

@swift I'm so curious where you work! (Don't dox yourself, of course, but I'm very interested in what kind of workplace would have a sign like that!)

@cypnk Agreed. I've stayed at cabins that use a loft space and climbing a ladder to go to sleep is always a pain (and dangerous, since it's often the guest space and the reason those guests are spending the night often involves them being too intoxicated to drive home). If I have my kid with me, it's always a worry that they'll fall down the ladder, which is almost always at a very steep, near 90-degree angle.

@lucianlutrae Unfortunately, yeah. I *think* #Twidere might be able to do this, but I've also heard some people report that it has not being working properly with Mastodon accounts recently. It's been quite a long time since I used it, but it could be worth checking out.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/mincemeat-tart-recipe-photo-mix-up

"And, because Spruce 'stands by everything we do,' Handelsman said the office was going to bake the tart with the ground beef 'and all try it.'"

But, they did (or whoever they commissioned to do the photos did). Maybe they didn't actually eat it, but someone *did* bake a so-called mincemeat pie that used ground beef instead of mincemeat.

Lastly, in a frankly hilarious turn of events I did not see coming, Dem candidate Pete Buttigieg's campaign has had to announce he had no role in the Canadian bread price-fixing scandal (bc he had Loblaws as a client while working for McKinsey).

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/pete-buttigieg-mckinsey-canadian-bread-price-fixing

Every Canadian journo working in the US is basically like, MY TIME TO SHINE.