Good Things Friday (342) and Link Love
September 19, 2025
How this week flew by in a week of Mondays and ended .. oh right. It’s been Very Busy and I have been Very Slow and we’ve had work going on around the exterior all week which has been pretty disruptive. It’s necessary weatherproofing but I’ll be so grateful when the last of this is done.
A friend is being moved to hospice and I’ve scheduled a visit after they’re settled in. I’m not ready to lose them. Stupid sentiment I suppose, is anybody ever? I’m so tired of this relentless grieving of one loss after another, we all deserve an extended period of joy. Well, not the fascists. They can lose all their hate-fueled joy, that’d be ok.
Wins: I sorted TWO big bags of Smol Acrobat hand me downs and put half away for future use and half into the donation bin to share with friends with younger ones than ours. We’re going to have them over one night with all their kiddies, feed them dinner, and have them pick through the bins for whatever they’d like to take away. Win win for everyone!
PiC has to finish his endless painting project first and then we have to find a date before the rush of Fall and holidays and all that overtakes us. Cross your fingers for us that we don’t lose another 3 months before we manage to organize something.
Bestie turned 40 this week ❣️ I’m so proud of her in so many ways. She’s awesome.
Oh this is terrible: Toxic Fumes Are Leaking Into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers
COVID is surging again: What you need to know about the new vaccine
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Chanting “More states more states!” California, West Coast states break with CDC on COVID vaccine guidance: Because health insurers typically only cover vaccines that are recommended by ACIP and the CDC, this raised the question of whether insurers would cover COVID vaccines for everyone now that the federal government no longer recommends it for everyone.
A separate California action, also announced by Newsom on Wednesday, seeks to address this. The governor signed AB 144, legislation that gives the California Department of Public Health more say in vaccine recommendations – and thus more say in which vaccines insurers in California must cover. The legislation authorizes California “to base future immunization guidance on credible, independent medical organizations rather than the CDC’s increasingly politicized Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices,” the West Coast alliance said in a joint statement.
How South Korea’s Pro-Democracy Movement Fought to Ban “Murderous Tear Gas”
A Letter to a Young Plagiarist
Senate Republicans are garbage: Senate confirms 48 of Trump’s nominees at once after changing the chamber’s rules
I’m very pleased with the West coast health alliance. I’ve been sharing on social media that I wear a seatbelt, look both ways before I cross the street and get vaccinated – all common sense!
EXACTLY.