Good Things Friday (355) and Link Love
December 19, 2025
1. I’ve finally cleared up the growing mountain of cardboard boxes in the garage, making it feel nearly roomy and spacious by comparison. That felt like a low effort fix. I need to make some decisions about where to store other supplies that are currently very cluttery where they landed during unpacking.
2. A treat: two free books from Ilona Andrews.
3. PiC built on my progress in the garage clearing out more stuff to hand down to friend’s kids and it looks so much better! Between this and my semi-obsessive organization efforts inside the house, there’s almost some order to be chaos.
Helping folks:
A small, disabled family navigating long term unemployment.
On internet freedoms and social media for kids:
Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.
Recommended by Rahaeli: Relationship between online social support and adolescents’ mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Also Rahaeli (copied and pasted because I don’t want to lose her words if/when Bsky goes away): You can also verify the claim by reading the papers *cited* by the US Surgeon General’s report that purported to find that social media is “bad” for kids: about 3/4ths of the papers are egregiously misrepresented and a good half are cited to support the exact opposite conclusion than they found.
This is funny every time I read it: Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir (also I wonder how to pronounce Ea-nāsir).
Who hurt you, Mr Grinch shared by Diane Duane from Tumblr
People and heartworm meds (funny)
The heartworm meds crack me up. 😆 Family friends have a tale of when she had a horrible migraine, so he helpfully filled a glass of water and popped her heavy-duty narcotic pill out its packaging… and then was standing there with a pill in one hand and a glass in the other, so he automatically swallowed it… and then had to embarrassedly call a friend to go pick up her prescription refill because A) that was the very last pill from that bottle, and B) he was already getting WaY tOoO lOoPy to drive safely!
HAH! When muscle memory does you dirty 😀