Good Things Friday (257) and Link Love
January 26, 2024
1. The WordPress app occasionally has trouble with uploading posts when I’m on WiFi. I’ve learned to toggle it off when I’m ready to post and back on again. This weekend it decided to quit uploading anything entirely, regardless of my connection, which was quite the fitting cap to this awful week. Thankfully after an hour of fruitless troubleshooting, uninstalling and reinstalling the app did the trick. Could have been worse.
2. I couldn’t make my Monday therapy make up appointment between illness and stunningly bad news but thank goodness for my Saturday appointment because, well, awful week.
It’s been a hard week.
Is this a surprise to anybody?: Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds. Thinktank report says ‘resounding evidence’ shows companies continue to keep prices high even as their inflationary costs drop.
“Costs have come down substantially, and while corporations were quick to pass on their increased costs to consumers, they are surprisingly less quick to pass on their savings to consumers,” Liz Pancotti, a Groundwork strategic advisor and paper co-author, told the Guardian.”
That second “surprisingly” had better be sarcastic!
An old article: The crane who fell in love with a human
I hope this gets distributed widely: Will Ferrell’s Road Trip Movie With His Trans Best Friend Will Save Lives
A friend of a friend of a friend wrote this and it might be helpful if you have weird symptoms of the histamine variety:
Mast cell activation syndrome 101
I hope this is the start of more information on what causes Long COVID and what causes related similar things like ME/CFS: New Study Finds Potential Cause of Long COVID Symptoms—Experts Explain
GOOD. Without permission or consent, these “AI” thieves are ghouls: George Carlin Estate Files Lawsuit Against Group Behind AI-Generated Stand-Up Special: ‘A Casual Theft of a Great American Artist’s Work’
Oh, thank you so much for that MCAS link. I have a dear friend whose partner may be going through this – it’s helpful for me to get my head around what they’re facing, and I’ll share this with my friend in case they haven’t seen it. I had no idea how awful mast cells could be!
Oh that’s great! I know it was all news to me when I started seeing info on it on Bluesky. Rahaeli (the one who wrote it) is really glad that it’s helpful too 🙂