Good Things Friday (230) and Link Love
July 21, 2023
1. My cough won’t budge but my pain has been lower than usual. I’ll take the win.
Helping folks: A dear friend who has helped me through therapy, mental health struggles, and more is in a really tough situation right now. She escaped an abusive parent / caretaking situation with a lot of help 2 years ago (old GFM here for reference). She was able to start over with a clean slate, but of course since then, her job has been steadily cutting her pay and her hours. She’s been actively job hunting, I’ve been helping, but things are rough out there and she’s not been able to find a safe landing pad. She didn’t want to ask for help, she didn’t actually ask me for help, but I know she needs it and I’ve been in that exact situation where I wasn’t sure it was worth continuing to fight, and been unwilling to ask for help myself. I won’t leave a friend like that.
Her current critical need is that her car needs work, estimated to cost $2000+, which she can’t afford with the steady drop in income. I’ve set aside a large chunk of cash for it, and am hoping friends will be able to help pitch in to help us get the rest of the way. You know I’d never ask for myself, but I will ask for a friend. We have $600 right now, so we’re almost halfway there. If you can, every bit would help so much.
Venmo: @RK-Tillman
PayPal: ruthtillman [at sign] gmail.com
Cashapp: $ruthkt
This AAM post and comments are simply amazing: the magic mushrooms, the underwear scavenger hunt, and other awful workplace ice-breakers
Charisma as Natural as Gravity
Sorry, you won’t be able to read the docs that Kathryn highlights in this screenshot but as long as the tweet thread exists you can see them here. For preservation of a very cool win shared by legal Twitter I’ve taken screenshots.
Quick summary: they sued a person for targeting a Bungie employee with racist harassment and threats. They won the case and got judicial recognition that real harm results from escalating harassment, that if a person is harassed for the work they do, the employer is also harmed, doxxing is an unfair trade practice, Washington employers have a duty to protect their employees, even remote ones, from reasonably forseeable harm. I can’t claim to understand torts at all so I won’t summarize that but this all sounds like huge steps in the right direction.
