Good Things Friday (221) and Link Love
May 19, 2023
1. Do you, too, love otters? The Monterey Bay otter live cam is a really soothing way to start or end your day. So are the moon jelly and jelly cams.
2. I love the feel of freshly vacuumed floors underfoot. Eternal thanks to robot vacuum for making that happen with little effort from me.
3. Our local taqueria has pozole, how did I never notice before now?! It’s delicious. It was worth deviating from my currently normal order of taco salad.
Helping folks:
This powwow is at the end of the month and the organizer will have to bear the costs personally if funds aren’t raised in time: Help fund the 3rd Annual Odenong Powwow. More info on it from @NDNSilver
An activism: @mbrockenbrough tweeted: “For fun, I filed a complaint against the fascist book banning organization Moms for Liberty with the IRS. The form is here, if you’d like to join me: https://irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f13909.pdf
This should not be a tax-exempt organization promoting social welfare. Hate is not social welfare. Teachers promote social welfare. They pay taxes. Librarians, too. They pay taxes. Children’s authors pay taxes. Defamatory wannabe fascists shouldn’t get a free ride.”
When Strangers Destroyed Our Korean Lunch
The Youngest Son Misses His Boat to the Crusades fiction by Premee Mohamed
Cook County has been giving felony records to people who should not have them. This is absolutely horrifying.
My daughter’s murder wasn’t enough. This is heartbreaking all over again. It is every time there’s another school shooting and also deeply infuriating that it’ll never matter to the people who fight against gun control. Our kids and our lives are less important than their ability to murder at will.
This is thoroughly depressing since there’s nothing any single individual can do to move the needle on something this massively wrong: Oceans have been absorbing the world’s extra heat. But there’s a huge payback
Q&A with Daniel José Older: The STAR WARS: HIGH REPUBLIC Author on Learning to Write by Living on parental support: “First of all, they found a healthy balance between encouraging all our weird, out-there ideas/interests and still being real about things, offering helpful critique, talking through process etc. I took it for granted some at the time, because it was my norm, but as an adult, I realized how special and rare that is, to know how to walk that tightrope and to even bother trying.” (This is a thing I notice I’m bad at in parenting and need to do a lot better at just connecting and not life lessoning.)
Abortion laws triggered dozens of health complications, new report says (WaPo article gift link from Twitter)
https://epgn.com/2023/05/08/moms-for-libertys-non-profit-status-under-scrutiny/ has more information on how they are not behaving as a 501(c)(4) (h/t commenter in the tweet you linked to).
Thank you for the additional link!