Good Things Friday (323) and Link Love
May 9, 2025
1. I really like this Friday Afternoon tea shop. I don’t really drink tea. I wish I could get into it but it’s rare for any tea to make it on my drink again list, I just like them as a business. I bought a barrel (hyperbole) of tea from them to gift a good friend and it’ll last them a year, so I can’t support them by continuing to buy, but I’m glad they brought on a tipping option that we could use now and again to support a small business: Our “State of Tea Union” for April 2025
Helping folks:
Amadi Lovelace needs a mobility van.
My friend Q lives on social security which, as we all know, is especially precarious these days on top of the very small amounts they’re willing to pay for disability income. She’s hoping to go to school to be able to take on work and needs help to fund school.
Leah Reich’s The Great Validation Pact talks about how friendship most commonly works through the lens of tech and honestly her big revelation is one that I’ve been slowly coming to myself, and trying to teach JB. Most people have acquaintances with most people they know. Many of those people are not necessarily friends who will show up for them during bad times and hear them out when they’re feeling hurt or any of that deep stuff. I’ve floundered in that area myself, plenty! Hell, y’all were around when one friendship I thought was a friendship blew up in my face because the other person was keeping score and I came up short. Maybe Leah is right and those tech bros understand friendship or maybe those tech bros create products that mimic their own worst impulses which brings out the worst impulses of the vast majority of people. I don’t know, I was never willing to use Facebook. But there were some really good connected days on Twitter that gave birth to some real friendships we still enjoy now.
American tech bros and VC are a blight on society and I judge Biden’s administration harshly for not removing ISDS from existing agreements when they had the chance: A Lawsuit From Backers of a ‘Startup City’ Could Bankrupt Honduras
Well that’s a new nightmare. I’m guessing that it’s down to politics but why wouldn’t anyone want to eradicate these permanently??: We once rid the US of this nasty parasite. Now it could be coming back
Celeste Pewter trusts this person implicitly on the subject of air travel safety so it’s worth a read: Newark Airport is a Mess. Has it Become Less Safe to Fly in the U.S.?
ACTION, CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSPEOPLE: Urge Congress: Save Public Media
Salt Lake City and Boise adopt official pride flags to skirt Republican bans
