Happy sun dog. #DogsOfMastodon

Does anyone know how these plates would have been used? Presumably for some kind of printing process or maybe a stamp of some kind? They were in these envelopes (for a long time, you can see the envelope marks on one). About the size of a business card. My great grandparents were Swedenborgian ministers, so they probably did a fair amount of printing.

And since I'm here, anyone recognize the font? (That I can look up later)

Amazon removes section on LGBTQ+ rights from its policy page - LGBTQ Nation https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/amazon-removes-section-on-lgbtq-rights-from-its-policy-page/

It all makes sense now.

@Rycaut Yeah. Last year I gathered data from our health insurance expenses and used that to adjust our plan. Looks like this year I'll do the same for dental. We didn't have a plan last year because we were spending a few months in Mexico and that was far cheaper than anything we could do here.

Washington State peeps.

Do any of the non-DeltaDental ACA plans cover crowns?
I didn't spend a lot of time comparing, because no matter where I've lived or worked, DeltaDental was the standard insurance.
But it turns out the plan they offer doesn't cover crowns at all. And even if they did, the maximum they will pay for a year is $1000, which kes less than a new crown.

wahealthcarefinder.org would let me search for this, but only if I'm picking a new plan. There's no way to compare once you've picked a plan. (Why why why? I'm tempted to set up a dummy account just to find out. )

@grrrr_shark @paul_ipv6 @wendynather William Tenn's short story "My Mother Was a Witch" has some wonderful examples of Yiddish curses in it.
https://bookscafe.net/read/tenn_william-my_mother_was_a_witch-197485.html#p2

@wendynather @grrrr_shark Yiddish insults.

I have moved my news reading habits back to the old web model, which is much less disruptive. Any time I see a site I'm interested in reading I add it to my RSS reader. Which I never open.