You’re very welcome!

Good luck! If the SHINE route is unsuccessful, and if there was any ambiguity as to what she was told vs received for benefits coverage when (re)enrolling in her plan, consider a Medicare complaint. A validated CTM may result in a SEP to allow her to change plans. www.medicare.gov/my/medicare-...

They shouldn’t have to choose. I will note that as a senior with Medicaid, she may be eligible to change to a different plan that covers the implants, without waiting for open enrollment. A SHINE counselor can help explore options: www.mass.gov/info-details...

Add the marinara, simmer ~10 minutes. Add crumpled fresh basil, simmer 3–4 minutes.

If needed, stir a splash or two of reserved pasta water into the sauce to loosen/thin. Finish with roughly torn fresh basil and serve over your prepared pasta.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ /fin

Reduce to medium-low. Add minced garlic, toast 30–60 seconds. Add a pinch or two of red pepper flakes, then a squeeze of tomato paste and cook down a minute or so until jammy-ish. Deglaze with a healthy splash of red wine, scraping up bits, and reduce. /6

Increase heat to medium-high and brown 93% lean ground beef, roughly breaking it up as it cooks to nearly done (still light pink on the inside), about 6-8 minutes. Note: if using less lean beef, drain off the fat before the next steps. /5

Separately, heat a large, heavy-bottomed pan on medium heat, foam a chunk of butter and sauté diced sweet onions (Vidalia, if you have them) until translucent. If the onions turn golden, that’s a happy accident, not a mistake! /4

Start your pasta water over high heat and cook the pasta according to directions; reserve 1/2-1 cup of pasta water before draining. /3

For a soffritto-ish variation to make it closer to scratch, add one carrot — grated (abt. 1/3 cup) or shredded (abt. 3/4 cup) — and one finely diced bell pepper (red, orange, or yellow) to the onion sauté step. /2

A generic marinara is my go-to base when I don’t have time to let a scratch sauce simmer for hours. This takes 5-10 min to prep and 25-30 min to cook. /1

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Anteater

Oh that’s so disappointing :(

Oooh that grape flavor is on my shopping list

The Red List of Endangered Crafts Endangered crafts Crafts classified as 'endangered' are those which currently have sufficient craftspeople to transmit the craft skills to the next generation, but for which there are serious concerns about their ongoing viability. This may include crafts with a shrinking market share, an ageing demographic or crafts with a declining number of practitioners. Armour and helmet making MORE ENDANGERED Bagpipe making (smallpipes) Bee skep making Bicycle frame making Block printing Boat building (traditional wooden) Brass instrument making Brick making Brilliant cutting Brush making Canal art and boat painting Clock making Coach building Coach trimming Composition picture frame making Coopering (beer) Coracle making Corn dolly making Cornish hedging. Cricket bat making Fairground art Falconry furniture making Fender making Flax, hemp and nettle processing NEW Flintwork (building) Folding knife making Free reed instrument making Gauged brickwork Globe making Hand engraving Hand grinding Harp making Hat making Hazel basketmaking LESS ENDANGERED Hewing Horn, antler and bone working Hurdle making Illumination Keyboard instrument making Kilt making Lace making (bobbin lace) MORE ENDANGERED Lacquerwork (lacquer, japanning and coromandel) Ladder making Letterpress printing Lithography Lorinery Lute making NEW Marbling Marionette making Mechanical organ making Nalbinding Neon making Oar, mast, spar and flagpole making Organ building MORE ENDANGERED Orkney chair making Pargeting, stucco and scagliola Passementerie Percussion instrument making Petrakivka NEW Pewter working (trade and manufacturing) NEW Pigment making Pysanky NEW Reverse glass sign making Rigging NEW Rope making Rush matting Sail making Scientific glassworking Sgian dubh and dirk making Shetland lace knitting Shinty caman making Shoe and boot last and tree making Shoe and boot making Silk weaving Silver allied trades NEW Skeined willow working Slate working + Spar making Spectacle …

a bit more simple:

everyone claim your new trade so we can assemble into our 19th century commune when shit hits the fan

Critically endangered crafts Crafts classified as 'critically endangered' are those at serious risk of no longer being practised. They m include crafts with a shrinking base of craftspeople, crafts with limited training opportunities, crafts wit financial viability, or crafts where there is no mechanism to pass on the skills and knowledge. Arrowsmithing Basketwork furniture making Bell founding Besom broom making MORE ENDANGERED Bow making (musical) Bowed-felt hat making Chain making Clay pipe making Clog making Coiled straw basket making Coppersmithing (objects) Copper wheel engraving Currach making Cut crystal glass making NEW Devon stave basket making Diamond cutting Encaustic tile making Engine turned engraving Fabric pleating Fair Isle chair making Fan making Figurehead carving NEW Flower making (trade and manufacturing) NEW Flute making (concert) Fore-edge painting Frame knitting Glass eye making Glove making MORE ENDANGERED Hat block making Hat plaiting Horse collar making Horsehair weaving Linen beetling NEW Linen damask weaving Maille making Matte painting (filmmaking) NEW Metal thread making Millwrighting Northern Isles basket making Orrery making Paper making (trade and manufacturing) Parchment and vellum making Piano making Pietra dura NEW Plane making Plume making Pointe shoe making Pottery (trade and manufacturing) Quilting (frame NEW | Rake making MORE ENDANGERED Rattan furniture making NEW Saw making Scientific and optical instrument making Scissor making Sieve and riddle making Silk ribbon weaving Silver spinning Spade making Spinning wheel making Straw hat making Sussex trug making Swill basket making Tanning (oak bark) Thatching (Irish vernacular) NEW Thatching (Scottish vernacular) Thatching (Welsh vernacular) NEW + Tinsmithing Wainwrighting Watch face enamelling Watch making Whip making Wooden fishing net making 84.7

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

Artemis knocked us into a whole new universe ❤️🌓

Yes! This.

also, not wanting your sexual abuser to have the HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE STATE is, y'know, A REAL STRONG MOTIVATION

also fyi fyi fyi fyi reactions like this are WHY PEOPLE DON'T COME FORWARD.

If you've never had to do it you have NO IDEA how awful people are when you come forward!!!!!

“Why did they wait till now”

Why was a married man sexually assaulting interns?????

Fancy me: Asiago Peppercorn Yankee
Real me: Ranch Librul

Placed our shovels closer towards, not into, end-of-season storage as I shan’t tempt Mother Nature and her late spring surprises.

All winter, the shovels have stood ready whilst atop the boot scraper out front.

They’re currently under the back deck, nearer the garage where storage pegs await.

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

John, this bill has good intentions, but is ham fisted in its method & is more draconian than any other passed in the nation. Amongst other elements, I have great concerns re: we’ll be required to give social media companies our government IDs to use their platform. In what way is that acceptable?

I still do not understand why Democrats in Congress did not pick an enormous fight over this.

very cool that Massachusetts lawmakers, who spend all day every day talking about how they're protecting us from Trump, just passed the "upload your ID to the Palantir database in order to access social media" law while saying they're "protecting the kids"

Thank you to @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social and @electerika.bsky.social for being the only #mapoli Dems to vote against a bill that will require YOU... YES YOU... NOT A KID to give biometric, age verification information to big tech corporations to access Bluesky and other apps.