4th of July Meme Thread: the Resistance Edition

#nokings

mit "Absperrrad"!
Das wurde in der Minute vor der Anfahrt erst fertig. ;-)
#Freakbike #weirdbikemastodon #CriticalMass

I think this is week 3 with this box? They love it. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy

People, get off of Facebook. Seriously.

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll

@BrodieOnLinux wait until they hear about xf86-video-modesetting... which uses DRM...

They actually exist, people who think DRM, means that DRM

This is a repost from LinkedIn. The author is Rebecca Love, RN, MSN, FIEL.

This is how being Uninsured Kills. This is my Uncle Tommy…we lost him in the last 48 hours.

I hear elected officials say that not having insurance, doesn’t kill people – I want to explain to you exactly how NOT having health insurance kills people every day in this Country.

My uncle has worked two jobs nearly his entire life, one at the local grocery store, and the other as a painter in an Idaho Ski town, minimum wage in Idaho is $7.25 an hour. His employers didn’t offer health insurance for his role and he couldn’t afford the premiums of private insurance being in his early 60s.

He is what you define as the working poor – making too much to qualify for Medicaid; but not making enough to be able to afford a $500+ month health insurance premium on the health exchange.

You see in Idaho, to qualify for #Medicaid you can’t make more than 138% of the federal poverty level, the federal poverty level is $15,650; so 138% = $21,597. My uncle on a good year made somewhere between $40,000-$45,000 a year.

So when he was feeling unwell with a cough the past couple of weeks, he didn’t go to the local urgent care to see a doctor and get the antibiotics he needed, because a visit like that would have cost him $300-$500, extra money he just didn’t have.

So as he got worse, he just kept pushing through, until he couldn’t.

Friday, he couldn’t ignore the growing chest pain so his girlfriend of 30 years, took him to his local small critical access hospital in rural Idaho, where he was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia and sepsis.

Too critical to be treated there, he was air flighted to the nearest hospital over 80 miles away. On the way, he had a major heart attack; was intubated, but didn’t make it.

He died from a completely preventable illness, one that if he had insurance, could have gone to a local urgent care to get the antibiotics that would prevented the pneumonia, sepsis and saved his life. But because he didn’t have health insurance and couldn’t afford the out of pocket expenses of urgent care without it, he didn’t seek care in time.

I do not understand how we keep failing millions of Americans, who every day work hard to try to get ahead, work multiple jobs, and still can’t afford health insurance. So they scrape by, hoping not to get sick, but when they do – it’s often too late.

I saw it time and time again as a nurse, and now personally.

And what is shocking, is the Big Beautiful Bill, will make 16 million Americans ineligible for Medicaid. Leaving them uninsured. Adding to the 26 million uninsured Americans in the US today - all with little talk over the repercussions of what this means to actual American lives. But god - we have to do better as a nation.

Because this matters. Every single day to the lives of loved ones, who being uninsured costs them their lives.

RIP Uncle Tommy. I hope you catch that big fish in the sky. You will be missed.

#insurance #healthinsurance #publichealth

Link to the original: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rebeccalovenursing_uninsured-medicaid-idaho-activity-7345077338927210496-Mx0W

They are starting to get it ...

Remember when Internet Explorer warned us from going to an https website?

Gajim 2.3 has been released 🥳

A fresh new look for Gajim arrived! 😎
With this release Gajim introduces Adwaita, a library providing styles, nicely designed user interface elements, animations and more. Many dialogs, including Preferences and Plugin management have been redesigned.

This release is available on Windows again - finally!

Thank you for all your contributions! ❤️

Support Gajim's development: https://liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

https://gajim.org/posts/2025-06-29-gajim-2.3.0-released/

Looks like the Jabber/XMPP community will have a booth at @FrOSCon this year.

August 16th and 17th. Save the date. See you there.

I promise we will bring stickers!

https://froscon.org/

#XMPP #Jabber #Conversations_im