Because I’m in a state that still doesn’t have Medicaid expansion (NC), I still don’t qualify for any income-based subsidies. Cheapest plan I could find was $250/month.

This was much more positive than I’d feared it would be.

And the wild thing is, looking sharp is all those uniforms were good for: they were terrible for any purpose other than looking nice/intimidating.

Thanks! And, yes, YT tutorials are my plan. That, and shadowing the guy they’ve still got doing maintenance/repairs now, for the two weeks he’s remaining.

I know there are dozens of different types of hot dogs:

Last week I applied for a job doing Sewing Machine Maintenance & Repair at a fabric/sewing shoppe, and got an interview a few days later.

(Under a state law passed in 2015, local governments are not allowed to remove Confederate monuments without permission from the legislature. These protesters were having none of that.)

The (old) main library at NCSU (D.H. Hill) would be perfect for this, it’s a great brick-and-concrete hulk that looks like something from a 1980s Soviet detention center. Lots of windowless basement space, too. The new main library (Hunt) is all open air, lots of glass walls, “flow” space for people to move around,…

Wait, they used Chernobog, an actual Slavic deity, and not some made-up Lovecraftian entity? Weird.

The third supervisor I’d had at my old library job used to work there; it had been her first job right out of high school. She had nothing but praise for the place, in part b/c of the excellent & necessary services they provided (before them, the only place you could get condoms was the local pharmacy, and in small…

White House/Journalist interaction, or Sopranos audition tape?

… and I, for one, welcome our new cephalopod overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted tumblr blogger I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their coastal crab and shrimp farms…

Relevant: Why I don’t get offended at white people jokes even though I’m white 

Oof, that is bad timing on Batman. Unless the studio’s puling it b/c they’re planning a huge nation-wide theatrical re-release...

The branch of medicine dealing with the prosthetic rehabilitation of an absent, disfigured or malformed anatomically critical location of the face or body is called Anaplastology (Gk. ana-again, anew, upon plastos-something made, formed, molded logy-the study of).

That, or the sequel to Van-Pires.

I heard something on NPR a few weeks ago about how Trump’s frequent visits to Mar-A-Largo are ruining some businesses there. Since he’s PotUS now, every time he flies in they put restrictions up on the airspace, which means flight schools, sky writers, and any other sort of commercial aviation gets grounded.

Don’t mess with archivists, or you’ll get an archi-FIST!

So pedophilia – not misogyny, racism, or transphobia – is where Threshold Books/Editions draws the line?