Notices by TayFoNay🍿🇺🇦 (tayfonay@beige.party), page 2

Seems like a great fuckin day for a propofol nap

So should they enact mandatory prayer in U.S. schools, I’ve been teaching my kids to pray really loudly, go off script and talk about random shit like communist penguins. Pray for the morons who instituted mandatory prayer. If they get detentions, I’ll tell the school I’ll totally talk to them, then take them for ice cream.

May Tim Walz give us 4 years of trolling

If you don’t already know and love @dgar you might be missing out on some of the best dad jokes and memes on the Fediverse. Give them a follow on this 16th day of #FANuary

Guys. I think I’m aging wrong. They say you’re supposed to get more conservative and prefer warmer weather as you get older, and I’m on the opposite path. Is there a pill I should be taking? Preferably with a weird name and catchy advertising jingle.

Long shot but can anyone identify this bug? They get stuck in the surf on beaches in Kauai, perhaps other Hawaiian islands IDK. This was taken on Hanakapiai beach back in November. I naturalist is like 🤷♀️ might be a vespoid wasp. It’s about an inch long.

#bugs #insects #hawaii #kauai

@dalias Oh I agree with you but they’re doing it without author knowledge after the submission.

@dalias On who? I was referring to Elsevier now using AI in the editing process.

I mean call me the asshole but it’s coming up on 2 years since I left Northwestern and people I entrusted with finishing a small research project still haven’t submitted the paper. The last email was on October 30th where the lead author was going to “review the author guidelines” of the journal we’ve selected. So I sent a cunty email this morning saying I was going to take over and submit it. This is despite my best efforts to keep my boundaries since, you know, I don’t fucking work there any more. But the project was funded by a charity organization and we have a responsibility to finish the work. The good news is now AI will likely be involved in the publication process 🙄

Day 5 of #FANuary

@VeroniqueB99 ‘s timeline is a treasure trove of memes and other various silliness. Whenever I see her on my home feed I immediately hop over to her account and scroll the goodness.

Heard today is #WorldIntrovertDay so figured I’d boost this https://beige.party/@tayfonay/110707612006342729

Me: I’d like to live in Norway one day

People: but it’s dark all winter!

“Dark all winter” in Lofoten:

One thing I’d love to get included in the insurance discussion is the mental toll these denials take. Not to pathologize people, but normalize how humans instinctively respond to constant threat to life and well-being. I was retained as an expert witness in Chris’ case against UHC to discuss 2 things: if I thought the stress from them denying his treatment could exacerbate his autoimmune disease (it did IMO) and how the denial impacted his mental health. Catastrophic medical illness already can lead some people to develop post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, and insurance denials just compound this. I’m not sure how people are just supposed to be ok with all of this shit. But medical trauma is real and needs to be brought into the conversation.

Word on the curb is ABC News is going to air a 1-hour special on US healthcare next week, and they’re going to include Chris’ story that ProPublica broke 2 years ago that revealed incredibly heinous practices at UHC.

Now, he and others went to the MSM with the story back when it came out and were met with “meh” at the time, which was incredibly disheartening. One local news outlet in Minneapolis did a piece, that’s pretty much it. It kinda speaks to how messed up this country is that it necessitated someone getting assassinated for this Machiavellian insurance system to get widespread attention. But hey, better late than never? I am curious how they’re gonna spin it.

Look I’m not saying but I’m just here to report anecdotal coincidences of heath insurance companies approving coverage like it’s their job (oh wait it is) in the wake of last week’s events.

Most of the claims for my mental health practice that UHC was taking their sweet time paying all of a sudden got paid. Some were a few months old, just sitting there for no discernible reason. About $10,000 worth.

My Anthem blue cross plan approved the prior authorization for my iron infusion after 3 weeks. I really thought it was on its way to denial and would require an appeal. Usually this is the case when a PA takes more than a few days, in my experience.

I’m sure this won’t last and we’ll resume our regularly scheduled programming soon. But this is nice.

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TIL about the "CEO Dark Personality"

Like medicine, psychology is broken up into sub-disciplines. In the corporate world, "industrial organizational" theory is the prevailing thing. This is different than my world, clinical psychology, which focuses on diagnosing and treating mental illness. My field has a lot of fucking problems to say the least. But what are we doing over in I/O?

In I/O, they don't diagnose people with things, and they rely on different testing to get various "personality" profiles to help people with their professional development and improve workplace...stuff. I went poking around in the I/O literature and came across the term "CEO Dark Personality" which consists of a collection of traits like psychopathy/sociopathy, narcissism, and machiavellianism, sadism, and hubris. It's not a clinical diagnosis because I/O isn't in the business to diagnose.

Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of the research is paywalled and I no longer have my academic library card. I'm not sure what to think that there are enough studies on this to warrant systematic reviews. Like hey, we've identified this trend of these certain shitty human qualities that are more prevalent amongst these upper management types. That's great. But how do we get this research to translate into any meaningful change when they're all in charge of...everything?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886922004561

@Kierkegaanks yeah, moving away from diagnostic labels. But it's the same story.

The man on the calls was hard core MAGA. I know this because on a zoom call Chris had with the guy his background was a wallpaper of AR-15s with little red hats on them. I’d say hand to god, but I’m an atheist. Hand to Yoda?