John

An onc rn. Trapped in the suburbs outside Denver.

John boosted:
2025-06-06

This is why we should never debate the worth of another person

We all have value just for being ourselves

It’s not tied to our job, or health status or our economic contribution

Saying that someone must prove they “matter” to get Medicaid is blatant eugenics

Disabled people aren’t expendable!

thedailybeast.com/dr-oz-says-p

#uspol #hhs #medicaid #disability #ableism #eugenics #DrOz

John boosted:
2025-06-05

Tools of Capitalism

Cat: If I had a hammer /
I'd monetize the hammer /
I'd monetize the hammer - all over this land /
I'd rent to to the people who can't afford to buy a hammer /
And if they damaged the hammer - I would charge them several times the retail value of the hammer /
Then I would buy up all the hammers - and everyone would have to rent from me /
Then I would sell my hammer business to private equity - who would pay themselves huge salaries to take the hammers apart /
And sell the hammer heads to a smelter - and all the hammer handles to a company making children's salad servers /
And then there wouldn't be ANY hammers /
Which will really tank my new Smart-NailTM subscription service /
(Cat considers his hammer) /
Cat: Time to repossess some nails!
John boosted:
Micro SF/F by O. WestinMicroSFF@mastodon.art
2025-06-03

"If they have to do it, they should do it in private."

"Yeah!"

"It's not right, doing it in the open where kids can see."

"Yeah! It's not like they have to, it's something they choose to do."

"True. Hate is a lifestyle choice."

"Absol- Hate?"

"Yeah. What did you think we were talking about?"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #VSS

John boosted:

#healthcare #US

"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee.

State and local health departments responsible for invisible but critical work such as inspecting restaurants, monitoring wastewater for new and harmful germs, responding to outbreaks before they get too big — and a host of other tasks to protect both individuals and communities — are being hollowed out.

'Nobody wants to go swim in a community pool and come out of it with a rash or a disease from it. Nobody wants to walk out their door and take a fresh breath of air and start wheezing,' said Lori Tremmel Freeman, executive director of the National Association of County and City Health Officials.

But local health officials say they now have no choice but to do a lot less of it. The Trump administration is cutting health spending on an unprecedented scale, experts say, including pulling $11 billion of direct federal support because the pandemic is over and eliminating 20,000 jobs at national health agencies that in part assist and support local public health work. It’s proposing billions more be slashed."

apnews.com/article/public-heal

2025-06-03

@andyw350 I don’t care about the article. I just love this image.

John boosted:
Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk
2025-05-27
THE @ LONDON ECONOMIC Gyll King 

Thatcher sold the North Sea oil fields and in return we got a broken Britain and 171 billionaires. 
Norway kept their much smaller oil fields and today have the biggest sovereign wealth fund in the world $1.4 trillion. 
But yeah, it's socialists that run out of other people’s money.
John boosted:
2025-05-19

Remember vaccines? Those were cool… #publichealth

John boosted:
Saethelred the UnsteadySethRudy@c18.masto.host
2025-05-07

“If you want to be able to afford more than two dolls for your daughter, then sell your daughter to my daughter, who can afford to buy all your daughters to be dolls for her daughter.”

John boosted:
2025-05-05

People think they miss manufacturing jobs. They don’t. They miss social benefits guaranteed by a union.

40 hour work week? Union won.
Worker’s comp insurance? Union won.
Overtime pay? Union won.

2025-05-05

@BenjaminHCCarr that’s nice for them. I’m a nurse. Been doing work, in person with my hands, and a commute. I only feel resentful towards the work from home class.

John boosted:
The Colorado Sun ☀️coloradosun@mstdn.social
2025-05-02

Report claiming environmental policies steal billions from Colorado’s economy based on bad math, advocates say

coloradosun.com/2025/05/02/com

2025-05-02

@coloradosun facts hard to come by. Just have these that we cooked up

2025-05-01

It would be cool if tesla got someone who cared about making cars. And could be nice to their kids. Is there people like that? Being nice is hard.

John boosted:
Carolyn Barber, MDcbarbermd@med-mastodon.com
2025-04-29

Cool! A clinical trial run by the NCI confirms that a single dose of the HPV vaccine used to prevent infection with the papilloma virus is just as effective as 2 — & also helps to prevent cancer. The shots prevent cervical cancer & anal, penile, and some head-&-neck cancers.

“I think we can all agree that one dose & two doses of … these fantastic vaccines work really well,” said Kreimer, the NCI investigator.
statnews.com/2025/04/28/hpv-va

#press #cancer

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt
2025-04-29
Meme from South Park. It reads "it's a great day for Canada and therefore the world" and has images of Canadian ceremonial drummers and Canadian royalty
John boosted:

"Your call is so important to us, we have fired all the humans and replaced them with a terrible automated system that cannot understand you.

Please hold while we pay our executives another bonus for some reason.

Did you know you can use the Internet to discover our website can't answer your question?"

John boosted:
2025-04-27

Honestly I can get behind this. #nbpy

A photo of a slide at a talk. It reads: DO NOT WANT: work on ads, work on weapons, abet genocides, make the world worse, use Microsoft Teams
2025-04-24

@georgetakei thanks Hyundai

2025-04-23

@majorlinux the US got the spoils. Won the peace for sure.

John boosted:
2025-04-22

Biden painstakingly managed the economic recovery to hand off a strong and sound economy to Trump just to have it not only pulled apart and tanked.

Now somebody’s going to want a Democrat to fix it when they had one they could have voted for.

Have Trump tariffs pushed us into recession? Here are warning signs:
azcentral.com/story/money/busi

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