Shotgunning a beer with your team down nine while your fiancé sits by mortified is the most Cleveland thing I’ve ever seen
She used to be afraid to leave her husband — who suffers from dementia and other disabilities — alone at their home.
That changed once they got Robbie, pictured here.
“I can go ahead and go to that mahjong game or whatever. Robbie’s gonna take care of him."
Why some of us are paying $1,000 extra for groceries each year so people can relax in the Chase lounge at airports. From @spettypi.bsky.social:
For the 2026 time capsule:
Amid an emerging national home care crisis, researchers in Hew Hampshire have developed a robot — it looks like iPad attached to a Roomba — to provide companion care for people with intellectual and physical disabilities.
New Medicaid rules may force doctors to do something they were never trained to do: determine which patients with HIV, cancer and other conditions are too sick to work. Doctors told me this will be especially hard bc the energy/mobility of the chronically ill fluctuates day-to-day.
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A Harvard study estimates that people who pay with cash and debit cards are subsidizing $30 billion a year in points and rewards for credit card users.
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The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The Jetsons’ humanoid maid Rosie —- is still mostly a pipe dream, but some develo...
Of the policies discussed here, there's one that's been covered very little:
In 2027, the Trump admin will eliminate coverage for transition care, or what they call "sex rejection treatments," for federal employees and postal service employees — with no exceptions.
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Conservatives have long argued they want to end transition care for minors, but federal policies have increasingly limited adult access. More restrictions are on the way.
the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt
Maybe I shouldn’t have started my summer off this way.
A great book so far. Enraging. But enlightening.
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Here's how the Trump administration is chipping away at transgender health care access for adults
With more than 30 interviews with trans adults, treatment providers, conservative activists and trans rights activists over the last two months.
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Conservatives have long argued they want to end transition care for minors, but federal policies have increasingly limited adult access. More restrictions are on the way.
