Good Things Friday (197) and Link Love
December 2, 2022
I’m all about direct aid and mutual aid:
1. Saddle Up and Read is a 501(c)(3) non-profit literacy program that encourages children to read using equine related activities run by Gooch, @theblackcowgirl. Gooch is opening a free bookstore for kids on the farm and their fundraising goal is $8,000 to pay off the renovations. If you can support this awesome initiative: https://www.paypal.com/US/fundraiser/charity/3706821.
2. Child and Family Relief Round 2: @jelenawoehr‘s story about the first campaign.
3. We sneak-shopped for Penny’s students. So many of them are hungry and it’s not right. Our last shipment of snacks was really brightening the days of a lot of students so with the holidays coming up, I thought maybe they’d need something to take home or even just a big last day snack binge. I took up a lightning quick collection among friends and I sent the order off.
Challenges this week: Smol is still sick, JB has come down with a Thing, and I have too. Booo.
Donna’s Black Friday Serendipity
Note to self, find a way to donate to this store: Facing surge in homeless students, teachers in Queens open a store offering free food and items
Tor.com reprinted Catherynne M. Valente’s The Difference Between Love and Time and it’s just a lovely read.
I’m hyper-anticipating the second season of Ms. Marvel.
Read the First Two Chapters of The Keeper’s Six by Kate Elliott
Absolutely nothing good can come of this: SF police ‘killer robots’ motion passes. “The San Francisco Police Department said it does not have pre-armed robots and has no plans to arm robots with guns. But the department could deploy robots equipped with explosive charges “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspect” when lives are at stake, SFPD spokesperson Allison Maxie said in a prepared statement.”
SFPD is HORRIBLY racist and out of control already and now you’re gonna give them robots that can attack people? We’re supposed to trust that these racist to the core cops can be trusted to only use these robots judiciously?? No. Nope. Nope. Nope.
