Good Things Friday (356) and Link Love
December 26, 2025

1. Our local burger place does all compostable everything and their answer for straws is pasta straws and they work beautifully. They don’t disintegrate while you’re using them, hold their form, and they’re compostable.

Uninhabited Caribbean islet blossoms into love nest for critically endangered iguana
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Trans youth almost never ‘detransition’ in the first several years after a social transition.
Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It
If at any point I start to lose my sense of disgust with this world, I quickly regain it. Everything about how healthcare providers treat victims of SA is sickening: Rape survivors getting billed for medical services
Crows are helpers! Here’s the reason crows are tearing up Washington lawns
Betty Reid Soskin. Sadly Ranger Betty has passed away.
This is creepy, what DOES kill it?? This Microbe ‘Plays Dead’ in NASA Clean Rooms, and We May Have Sent It to Mars
Budget Cuts Threaten Oregon Program for Helping People Get Jobs After Prison