August 14, 2026

Good Things Friday (389) and Link Love

I learned how to use the library 3-D printer and successfully printed 2 train track parts! That was very satisfying, after several false starts. I even got to change out the cartridge to use the yellow filament that the kids requested for this first test run.

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August 7, 2026

Good Things Friday (388) and Link Love

1. I’m a UBI girl and this kind of community-care income club is a really neat idea in the absence of a government-wide set up.

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July 31, 2026

Good Things Friday (387) and Link Love

When I was chastising myself for getting out of practice with parallel parking, it didn’t occur to me there’d be a Guinness Book of World Records record for parallel parking.

Best buddies 😍

This is cool: Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

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July 24, 2026

Good Things Friday (386) and Link Love

Oh this is so cool: Jo Nagai, How a 10-Year-Old Boy’s Butterfly Experiment Silently Rewrote What We Know About Memory

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July 17, 2026

Good Things Friday (385) and Link Love

This is good, though it’s a shame none of the photos show the scale of hundreds of people:

Photos: Hundreds protest at Open AI, Anthropic offices in San Francisco

Also good: These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

BTW if you’re a fan of amazing awesome librarians you really need to read Kit Rocha’s Mercenary Librarians series. Please read and buy them. I very much need the next books and that can’t happen until their third book earns out. I’m planning to pester Tor about making a worthwhile offer to Kit Rocha so they can write Books four and five, dammit.

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July 10, 2026

Good Things Friday (384) and Link Love

Ursula Vernon’s grandmother was fascinating. 

Oh, have I not told this one here?

Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.

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— Kingfisher & Wombat (@tkingfisher.com) July 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM

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