Good Things Friday (314) and Link Love
February 28, 2025
1. I restarted reading the Kate Daniels books from the library again for comfort reading.
2. I baked a cornbread! Two – since I had juuuuust enough ingredients to double the recipe and froze one against the day I need cornbread but have no energy to bake one.
3. What a WEEK.
Nixon Ends Convertibility of U.S. Dollars to Gold and Announces Wage/Price Controls
What Felt Impossible Became Possible: I’ve spent many hours since the election reading about the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. It started the day after election day when I had hours to kill in the lobby of a Hampton Inn, waiting for a room to open up. I loaded a library archive page up on my phone, and read newspapers from a hundred years ago about the KKK and how powerful they were in the ’20s.
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Hattip to Kate Elliott for this: The Trailblazing Black Woman Chemist Who Discovered a Treatment for Leprosy. After Alice Ball’s death in 1916 at age 24, a white man took credit for her research. (I only want to know his name so I can remember it with “fuck that guy”). The Wikipedia entry with the efforts of people then and now to credit her with her own accomplishments.
Another goodie from Kate Elliott: Fix the News is a weekly newsletter that reminds us of how many important positive developments (tech, ecology, social, political, etc) are going on globally. There’s a free version, and a paid option. Recommended. And it’s on Ghost.
Wait – what’s Ghost?? I fear yet another new thing. (I looked around – I don’t think it applies to me, whew)
I can’t remember who recommended Lavender House by A.C. Rosen but it’s the first in a series (#4 comes out this fall) – it’s noir detective work in 1950s San Francisco with a gay ex-cop protagonist. Number 1 was good but 2 and 3 kept me pushing through to finish. Highly recommend!