Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

Bought two pair of scissors for paper craft and mail art. Happy New Shears!

The fact that someone can work for nearly three decades without missing a day at a multi-billion dollar corporation and only be able to afford a home thanks to donations from strangers is not the heartwarming story People magazine thinks it is

Belgorod Russia under fire from Russian air defenses!
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️ #Russia #belgorod

I'm almost 49 now so it's only a few more years until I start shrinking & become almost hobbit in size. I remember joking with folks in my mid 20s that I was ripped off my 2nd growth spurt(waited til age 39 for it - never got it!). I am going to be 3' tall by age 65 because of the shrinking factor in older years 🤣

I want my old person wizard cape. I lived long enough to earn one, on Earth. I will be short & small enough to sneak into concerts 😄

Please don’t circle back.

OTD in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese war, the Russian garrison at Port Arthur, China, surrendered https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/tokyo-harajuku/cenotaph-of-the-submariners.html?s=mb #travel #Japan #history

Despite Its Pledge, Israel (Again) Resorts to Using White Phosphorus Weapons https://www.thedefensepost.com/2024/01/02/israel-white-phosphorus/

Russia is a terrorist state!
#ArmUkraineNow
#ArmUkraineASAP

There’s so much Covid in my state that something like 1 in 25 ppl are estimated to be currently infected. We’ve ran out of paxlovid at my pharmacy, ran out of tests…some places still have them but there’s no guarantee

Oh lord, eugenics brought to you by the same folks pushing AI. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/28/1038172/conception-eggs-reproduction-vitro-gametogenesis/?truid=*%7CLINKID%7C*

Roky Erickson's "Starry Eyes" is the best Buddy Holly song not by Buddy Holly

Summer and I went outside on the deck to watch the sunset, and it took about three minutes to convince us that wasn't the place to be.
We jetted for the door right before the wind driven sideways rain came for us.
I got one quick photo before our mad dash. The little bit of sun shining through the distant break in the clouds was too bright for my phone, but it's all we got.
Summer and I are sharing a blanket on the sofa, hoping all our Mastodon friends are warm and dry.

Prior to the Hardtmuth company chose to create a high quality type of pencil and to enhance its beauty and perfection most pencils were natural of green.

The company decided to use a golden yellow, a regal and transparent colour. The new product was called Koh-I-Noor, like the famous diamond and the success was so great that it became the new name of the company.

Hence the association between high-target pencils and the color yellow.

via Brian Roemmele from Twitter

https://www.europesays.com/983008/ End of an era as Bord na Móna ceases burning peat at its Offaly power station | Independent.ie #ireland

"‘A preview to hell’: The year Brazil woke up to the climate crisis
In 2023, the rivers of the Amazon dried up like never before, the temperatures in Rio reached 140 degrees and torrential rains left dozens dead in the south of the country."
https://english.elpais.com/climate/2023-12-31/a-preview-to-hell-the-year-brazil-woke-up-to-the-climate-crisis.html

Donor activism has always been problematic, but never moreso than now when the oligarchs have cornered the market on... everything.

Kennedy cousin whose murder conviction was overturned sues former cop, Conn. town https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/02/kennedy-cousin-murder-conviction-connecticut-00133561?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon