Just a little (link) love: revenge edition
September 17, 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, $1,763.51; Rural libraries, $321.62.
I didn’t know there were so many kinds of possible plastic eating fungi! Or that I could be so excited about it because I need SOME kind of light in this hellscape world.
Publishers are suing the Internet Archive
History repeating itself with the pandemic and the realization that overly hot radiators were an intentional design. Who knew? “It turns out that the prodigious output of steam-heated buildings is the direct result of theories of infection control that were enlisted in the battle against the great global pandemic of 1918 and 1919.”
Burnout: Running on Fumes. This is a good reminder, particularly at this time, that running on fumes isn’t any kind of a heroic move. It’s not good for us at all.
Ladies! Here’s how to unmask that “anonymous” Twitter creep!
This Ask A Manager is a doozy. I can’t stand the thought of healthcare professionals actively spreading harmful nonsense about COVID.
Mel from brokeGirlrich: My COVID Unemployment Story in the Decimated Arts Industry
Done by Forty on Equality or Equity? Companies really need to be handling this better at a work management level, not just giving some people (sorely needed) time off and then dumping their work on other people.
Which is my own take, very much. Or to paraphrase a story from another tradition:
STUDENT: Master, what happens when we die?
MASTER: I don’t know.
STUDENT: But… but… I thought you were a Zen master!!
MASTER: Yes, but not a dead one.
— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) September 13, 2020
REVENGE
