August 28, 2026
Good Things Friday (391) and Link Love
1. Yes, we don’t love Amazon but if we must have it (as we do for charitable giving and direct aid): Magic & Mystery original series!
August 14, 2026
Good Things Friday (389) and Link Love
I learned how to use the library 3-D printer and successfully printed 2 train track parts! That was very satisfying, after several false starts. I even got to change out the cartridge to use the yellow filament that the kids requested for this first test run.
August 7, 2026
Good Things Friday (388) and Link Love
1. I’m a UBI girl and this kind of community-care income club is a really neat idea in the absence of a government-wide set up.
July 31, 2026
Good Things Friday (387) and Link Love
When I was chastising myself for getting out of practice with parallel parking, it didn’t occur to me there’d be a Guinness Book of World Records record for parallel parking.
This is cool: Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
July 24, 2026
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Oh this is so cool: Jo Nagai, How a 10-Year-Old Boy’s Butterfly Experiment Silently Rewrote What We Know About Memory
July 17, 2026
Good Things Friday (385) and Link Love
This is good, though it’s a shame none of the photos show the scale of hundreds of people:
Photos: Hundreds protest at Open AI, Anthropic offices in San Francisco
Also good: These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
BTW if you’re a fan of amazing awesome librarians you really need to read Kit Rocha’s Mercenary Librarians series. Please read and buy them. I very much need the next books and that can’t happen until their third book earns out. I’m planning to pester Tor about making a worthwhile offer to Kit Rocha so they can write Books four and five, dammit.
July 10, 2026
Good Things Friday (384) and Link Love
Ursula Vernon’s grandmother was fascinating.
Oh, have I not told this one here?
Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.
— Kingfisher & Wombat (@tkingfisher.com) July 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM