Good Things Friday (331) and Link Love
July 6, 2025
Apparently the site went down on Thursday, and I didn’t realize it til now (Sunday). Annoying! It took several rounds of reading esoteric (to my brain) documentation and a very unhelpful person at the hosting server a few rounds of clarifying what on earth they were talking about for me to fix the thing.
1. I sat mending a pair of SmolAc’s pants until my butt went numb. It was satisfying! As I stuck myself for the seventh time with the curved needle, I was thinking about how I never mended JB’s pants at this age. Or, possibly, any age. I’m pretty sure it never happened because they grew so fast they’d outgrow the pants before I got to a free hour on a weekend to mend them. Guess there are benefits to having a slow growing kid.
Challenges this week: There is something properly unsettling about an Independence Day in America where we have a president wanting to have the power of communist China’s President, or dubbing himself a king.
I didn’t have any time to read up on what was happening when this ruling came down, I could only see the dismay across LawSky. This seems to sum it up and I don’t know what to do with this: The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is a 5-Alarm Catastrophe
I wasn’t going to bother to link to the article but this headline made me snort: Rich Americans are increasingly unaware they’re classed as wealthy, say analysts—and Bain say a rise in ‘luxury shame’ means they may try to hide it. But I linked in the interest of having a more thorough reason to roll my eyes at rich people: “Many people are wealthy but they perceive themselves as somehow being disadvantaged because they’re not living the best life of a social media influencer.”
Likewise this headline: “Zohran Mamdani doesn’t think there should be billionaires but would work with them as NYC mayor and denies being a communist.” Seems like it’s meant to be clickbait. I also think there shouldn’t be billionaires, you don’t have to be a communist to believe that, and of course he would have to work with them if he were elected mayor.
Ticks already horrified me before I read this article on the effects of their bites: ‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis