Good Things Friday (336) and Link Love
August 8, 2025
I cleaned a fourth of my office and it’s SO SATISFYING.
A fourth sounds so little but that was a four hour task and cleared a good chunk! I’m focusing on that specific win and not on the rest of the office or the other rooms in the house where I did not effect this near miracle. YET. I have a day off coming to me next month, maybe I could get through the rest of the office then?
Also I started making a new pillow for Smol Acrobat because the second he saw mine, he asked IS THAT FOR ME? Clearly they would also enjoy a new Hello Kitty fabric pillow. This one’s oddly proportioned and I have to cannabilize another pillow to stuff it but it’ll work.
What brought you joy this week?
In the Department of That’s Not How Anything Works, a book scam breakdown by Ursula Vernon.
In local, not to me, news: Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters’ wurst nightmare
GOOD: All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory
All news outlets should be saying this: He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity
Oh. This seems ominous. Also I’m torn between “you know what, we don’t have time for this” and “may I direct you to specific locations and people”: Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface
De-ICEing your town: A local organizer explains how to get involved and protect immigrants near you.
This sort of made me laugh because companies pushing RTO are, to my mind, foolish. It’s really not as necessary as they all make it out to be for many industries. (also, really? Millennials? Or everyone who’s realized that we don’t need face time all the time to be productive?): Millennials lead the ‘coffee badging’ revolt to protest return to office as businesses push to fill empty seats