27. Astrophysicist, writer, artist. Michigan. Business inquiries: kaijunobiz@gmail.com
hey guys, just a quick PSA message to let you all know… tumblr has released a new feature called “community labels” where you can label your posts as mature so that people can voluntarily filter or blur posts that contain certain subjects… however while your first encounter with it will likely be while posting, it’s also Already affecting your settings. if you go into your dashboard settings you’ll see a new section that looks like this…
THESE ARE ALL SET TO “HIDE” BY DEFAULT.
tumblr is currently hiding all flagged mature content from you unless you manually turn it on lmao. just thought i’d let you all know!
Avoid sci-hub too👀
If you want to read an academic article that's behind a paywall just email the author and ask politely if they will send you the article. Most academics will be thrilled that you want to read their work and will gladly send it to you.
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hey guys psa regarding hospital bills
don’t just pay it. do not automatically pay the hospital bill when you receive it. call your health insurance provider and POLITELY say, “excuse me, i just received a bill for $1200 for my hospital visit/ER visit/etc., is that the correct amount i’m supposed to pay?” because hospitals bill you before your health insurance and they will take your money no matter how the amount due may change based on your health insurance looking at it. 90% of the time, if your health insurance is in any way involved in the payment of that bill, you do not have to pay as much as the hospital is billing you for. call your health insurance provider first, and POLITELY request clarification, always remember that the person you are talking to is human and this is just their job, and then you will very likely find out you actually only owe $500.
don’t shout at anyone about it, don’t get mad, just understand that this is The Way Things Are right now and call your health insurance provider before paying the bill your hospital just sent you. there’s a chance the hospital bill might be correct, true, but call your health insurance provider.
THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT. after my car accident last year the hospital billed me ~$8000. They sent me letters asking me to pay, and I called them back saying my insurance was processing the claim. This is also what I told the collection agency when they kept calling me about the $1000 emergency room fee (billed separately from the hospital fee, mind you). Once everything got straightened out, all I was actually liable for was my $200 emergency copay.
!!!!!!! things my ass didn’t know !!!!!!!!
Yes this is a life lesson my adulting ass didn’t know I needed and I’m out 80 bucks for an anti-nausea pill. 😒😒😒😒😒
Also if you do pay before insurance goes through or you can’t reach insurance or whatever, insurance will usually reimburse you the correct amount. They might “forget” for a long time because insurance sucks and is usually slow, but even if you have to pay more than you should upfront, you should be able to get a check from insurance if you keep on them about it.
Also, 90% of the time you can get them to schedule you on a payment plan. They know people can’t pay, and rather than just not getting money, they will take $25 - $50 per month instead.
Admin J
[While cheerful piano music plays in the background]
Narrator: [in the kind of voice you’d hear in a PSA from the 1950′s] But first, let’s discuss the misconceptions of friendship.
Narrator: Friendship…is a myth.
[Gun fires]
White people with dreadlocks who scream “the Celts had locks” every time you get called out. Stop. Just stop.
I’m mixed race and a Celt so here I am to tell you that Celtic people do not traditionally wear locks. Any Celt in the Isles today could tell you that. Most Celts living in North America could tell you that. Most Creole people who are Celtic could tell you that.
Observe.
See this? This is called plaiting. It’s a type of braiding. THIS is the Celtic and Nordic style that ancient Romans mistook for dreadlocks because they were Colonial Imperialists who didn’t see or care about the differences between the cultures they were “conquering.”
If you are Celtic, Nordic or trying to emulate Celtic culture (which is a discussion for another day) and you have dreadlocks all that says to me is that you don’t care about or respect those differences either.
I apologize on behalf of Celts with locks and random white people with locks who try to make this excuse. I can only hope correcting them might make a bit of a difference.
PSA: Dating a country boy does not make you country. I repeat, dating a country boy DOES NOT make you country
📢 yes beckie tell us ! 📢
Stop her name is literally beckie!?
second grade fire safety psa voice: now firefighters may look scary. firefighters look like the devil. when you see a firefighter, you might think, “aaah, this is a cyclops, like the one that killed my dad, and now it’s here to kill me too”, and you might want to kill the firefighter,
reblogging for the sheer Halloween ambiance of these pics
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Kind of an unsolicited side note/psa- for those of you who drive, and live in an area where you rake leaves into the street, PLEASE be careful this fall and not drive through the leaves next to the curb. Like you see here, Kitties like these leaf piles and will bury themselves because they can be hella warm, and you won’t be able to see them, especially not from a car. Please and thank you :)
