Good Things Friday (343) and Link Love
September 26, 2025
1. TIL that chocolate is fermented. WHAT.
2. I’ve learned more about football from Chris Kluwe on Bsky than anyone else. I really like that he’s politically active, and vocally fighting back against fascism in his local community of Huntington Beach, CA. Now, he’s running for Assembly and we can support him!
Helping folks: This GFM for an old friend of jewelry artist Wings needs some traction.
To absolutely no one’s surprise but it needs to be said loudly and clearly: AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities
The Forgotten History of the World’s First Trans Clinic: The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology
ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights:
At least one of the flights dumped people in a prison camp in Ghana, a country where they had no ties
Plastics found inside vegetable tissues for the first time, raising new food safety concerns
(McSweeney’s) The Friendly Nazis Next Door by Kashana Cauley
Want to stop political violence? Start by addressing hostile sexism.
Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case: “This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of providing material support to terrorists.
Filed under this was so unbelievably stupid and unnecessarily wasteful: Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE
A fascinating read on endometriosis and the science around it. I’ve known the perniciousness of this disease for 25 years, dear friends suffered greatly from it, and it’s appalling what little support it’s had by way of research funding: Probing the pain
Could you imagine there being a clinical use for menstrual blood so that the pain and general yuck of living with a uterus that sloughs roughly monthly serves an actual purpose not just misery?? (And my cycles aren’t even that bad in and of themselves, it’s that they trigger fibro flares that make them untenable): The untapped potential of stem cells in menstrual blood:
Long overlooked, menstrual stem cells could have important medical applications, including diagnosing endometriosis.