Good Things Friday (299) and Link Love
November 15, 2024
Actions we can take: there are so many ways to support our community, offline and online. I’m better at the online stuff, this saves my limited physical resources for the most critical stuff only I can do.
I’ve long supported Larime’s GFM and recently commissioned a stunning pet portrait from him as a memorial piece for a loved one.
This struck me as a particularly important program. This country incarcerates so many people of color and that can completely derail a life. Therapy helps rebuild lives, people are not disposable: Darkness RISING’s REBUILD program connects formerly incarcerated and justice-impacted people of color with culturally competent therapists of color. We carefully vet therapists, arrange appointments, and fund up to 10 therapy sessions. REBUILD fosters healing, empowerment, and supports successful reintegration into society.
Celeste Pewter on Bsky (click to her post to see the script): 1. Here is the call script to ask our Dem Senators to appoint judges.
2. And a second script *specifically* for New Yorkers to use for Schumer.
From Scalzi: Making Money in the Next Four Years, and Why You Need to Plan Now to Support Your Favorite Creators: If you want your favorite creative people to make it through a second Trump administration, whoever they are and whatever they do, then you should make a commitment now to help keep them afloat. Buy their work when it comes out, and follow them online so you know when that new thing is coming. If they have a Patreon or some other sort of subscription, sign up for that — those represent the closest thing most creative folks have to a stable income in this world, and having that reliable income gives them one less thing to freak out about. Talk them up to other folks who are looking for new books/music/art/whatever to try, and point them to where they can find that stuff.
Steps For Transgender People Preparing For Federal Crackdowns Under Trump
That didn’t take them long at all: An Idaho health department isn’t allowed to give Covid-19 vaccines anymore. Experts say it’s a first
20 years later, Fond du Lac woman reflects on being 1st to survive rabies without vaccine
‘Millions of women are suffering who don’t have to’: why it’s time to end the misery of UTIs
This is interesting, I do wonder what the protectiveness the OTHER way around is since people won’t flipping mask when they’re sick. I’m not sure this knowledge does us maskers any good? I hope that it’s similarly protective: N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD Study Shows. Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective
Fiction that I hope serves as a guide for our respective community-building: Naomi Kritzer’s The Year Without Sunshine
This is the explainer that I wanted but isn’t know existed about losing Chevron v NRDC: What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more / By overturning Chevron, the Supreme Court has declared war on an administrative state that touches everything from net neutrality to climate change.
I do wonder if we’re on the road to this in America: Russian Court Denies Appeal of U.S. Citizen Sentenced to 12 Years for Donating $51 to Pro-Ukraine Charity
