By: Revanche

Just a little (link) love: quarantine stunts edition

April 30, 2020

If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020? Current total: Lakota, $659.86; Rural libraries, $321.62.

Just a little link love

I was very peeved to hear that, among other large companies, Shake Shack and Ruth’s Chris nabbed money from the PPP when I know tons of small business owners hadn’t even had their applications considered. I’m glad to see they may be returning the funds.

Also good to see that Caltrans and BART are able to use this time to do maintenance that’s difficult to schedule or manage during normal commuting times.

Paula Pant describes her experience with COVID-19 as a healthy young person with no preexisting conditions.

Homemade banh mi recipe. I wanted to share this after making it but I looked at the ingredients and noped on out of there.

Too muchness indeed, Emily.

How Can We Stop Feeling Useless Right Now?

Ally Kirkpatrick of Old Town Books has been really active in finding creative ways to keep her bookstore afloat. We ordered from them a month ago when things started shutting down. I’m sad to see that our one local independent bookstore hasn’t done a whit of communication about how we can support them. I’d hate for them to go away but they don’t seem to have any updated social media presence in lieu of showing up at the (closed) store.

Nannies working during the coronavirus. This article leads me to conclude that most rich people are monsters. Good grief.