Good Things Friday (167) and Link Love
May 6, 2022
1. I packed up 35 lbs of baby gear and clothes, mostly clothes, for donation! I have a third box waiting to be packed but I have to emotionally prep first to remove Smol’s recently outgrown clothes from hangers. It always makes me a bit sad!
2. I perused a local wholesale bakery website, curious whether they had a storefront like some of the other wholesalers in the area, but they did. I mused aloud, “well darn. Now I want pastries.” PiC muttered “hm, trying something here… ” as he took an exit off the freeway. Five minutes later we pulled up to a 24 hour donut shop! Whee!
3. I’ve been doling out toys from friend’s box one every few days and there are a couple that Smol keeps coming back to repeatedly, they really enjoy dropping things down a spiral chute and stacking rings.
The loss of Roe v Wade is just the beginning, I’m sure. Support these folks fighting for reproductive rights and providing reproductive care:
National Council of Jewish Women, @NCJW, also they’re organizing a rally that I can’t attend so I will donate to support instead.
Yellowhammer Fund, @YellowFund
Black Feminists Fighting Abortion Bans and Advancing Reproductive Justice
Give directly to more than 80 abortion funds (link from NNAF)
Attendee #3 is a jerk: Norwescon 44 Post-Con COVID Report 1
Disney stiffs writer: Disney’s treatment of creators is utterly appalling.
Go Curry Cracker 2021 Taxes: my eyes keep crossing halfway through this post.
Given the leak about SCOTUS potentially/ probably overturning Roe v Wade on Monday, Rabbi Ruttenberg’s The Torah of Reproductive Freedom is particularly compelling.
Can Republicans Stop Patients From Leaving the State for an Abortion? Some Are Willing to Try.
A bit of good: She sold her home for nearly half its $1 million value. The ‘pay it forward’ deal is a new tactic in the Bay Area’s housing crisis
Another bit of good: YAY PENNY!: I’m 36 and We’re Mortgage Free!
‘A five-day wait for $5,000’: the man who queues for the uber-rich
This was a truly depressing read before it’s juxtaposed with the wealthy in the article above. ‘Where do they expect us to go?’ Life at one Bay Area encampment before eviction. I wish we could do more to push policies that would actually help the housing problem for the benefit of people actually in need and not for the benefit of the people who don’t want to see the unhoused.
One good thing about housing in Massachusetts: the state government is requiring towns have denser zoning around public transit (there are a lot of smaller towns with commuter rail stops). This will help in making more lots available for high density housing. Definitely will take years to build out, and a lot of towns are fighting the measure (because, NIMBY), but overall is a great step in the right direction.
Oh that sounds really good! I hope it stands and they actually follow through on it.
…. now I want pastries too. Darn it.
And now we’ve eaten them all and want more pastries. This is a troubling cycle!