Good Things Friday (325) and Link Love
May 23, 2025
Helping folks: Lily Meade could really use some help. Her situation is so hard. I hate that healthcare in this country is so tied to income and employment.
DP FICTION #123B: “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by Effie Seiberg
Man I really hope Jenny (The Bloggess) has the laziest of two-mers or that they just disappear without ever bothering her again. CW: disease.
This is sick: Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers
While I have my quibbles with the CDC from the last time that clown was in office, this is Not Good: Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn’t warning the public like it was months ago
This is cute
Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, a 2022 study reveals.
Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD
— Science Magazine (@science.org) May 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I don’t know how Warren didn’t just explode with frustration in these two clips
HOW are you going to enforce the law if you refuse to admit you know what the effin law IS!?
WARREN: Can POTUS legally tell the IRS to change someone’s nonprofit status?
BILLY LONG: I’m not able to answerWARREN: You can’t read these words and tell me what those words say?!
LONG: I can read the statute and I did
WARREN: Then tell me what they mean!
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
