Good Things Friday (171) and Link Love
June 3, 2022
1. Given the state of the world, it almost feels wrong to find things to be glad of but I know that we need to. So! I’m very grateful for having help this week. in COVID times, I get to feel human and patient twice a year, when we have this kind of help. This reminder from Mary Oliver’s writing is very apt.
2. A dear friend sent me a handful of sewing supplies and it’s amazing.
3. I’m afraid to get my hopes up but there was a suggestion that we might have under-5 vaccines by the end of June? Maybe?
I need to decide where to donate. This latest string of mass murders has me feeling stymied, like there is just no hope left. There must be, I am just having trouble finding it.
I first ran across this in a Twitter thread that thoroughly creeped me out but the photographer deserves to be credited properly: The Ameriguns by Gabriele Galimba
This article scares me as someone who still isn’t competent in the water and has kids. JB is learning to swim but we’re nowhere near their being reasonably water safe yet. And even when / if we are, I’ll still worry about accidents: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
AFT Local 500, “Report on the Case of Dr. Lee Lorch” (May 1950)
This is a very bad ruling: Innocence Project Statement From Executive Director Christina Swarns on Shinn v. Ramirez and Jones
The Carpet, BY NNEDI OKORAFOR
When the music makes you have to end your phone call 📲 #pianolife pic.twitter.com/mFKEJQWmuZ
— King Kamar (@Karim_Kamar) May 31, 2022
imagine you were buried after an earthquake but still alive, then a rat *with a backpack* arrives, looks at you, flicks a switch, AND THEN FUCKING LEAVES BECAUSE IT’S ‘TASTY TREAT TIME’ https://t.co/6lM0T3Im4a
— Luiseach Ní Nia (@Luiseach) May 27, 2022
Plane delayed for hard to understand reasons pic.twitter.com/uoP1J8rAuh
— Daniel P. Aldrich (@DanielPAldrich) May 31, 2022
I think of you with every article about vaccines for youngsters! (I was tracking for a relative as well but they got Covid instead.) fingers crossed!
Love some of those twitter links, and thanks for the refresher on what drowning looks like.
Thank you so much. We’re super duper crossing our fingers for vaccines to be approved and available by June 20.
Really hope your relative recovers fully.
Re: drowning. I had no idea that the colors of swimsuits made such a difference in visibility under water.
Maybe this is it! Fingers crossed for vaccines!!!!
Yes, as someone who has definitely had scares in the ocean (I’m cautious but currents can be surprisingly strong) I am painfully aware of what struggling actually feels like and how unable I am to signal.
So much crossing!!
Yikes! I have never had the nerve to get myself out far enough to have trouble because I’m not at all a strong swimmer.
I hadn’t seen that snippet about Lee Lorch; sheesh. By the time I knew him, he was like a little elf who showed up at math meetings. But when he walked into a room, you knew it from everyone else’s reactions, because he was so deeply, deeply admired for his advocacy for people of all backgrounds. Here’s a bit about him, with listings of many of the honors he got. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Lorch
It doesn’t even list the recognition he got from the Association for Women in Math, which I remember being in the audience for.
Oh what a lovely reason to be remembered and regarded. thanks for sharing!