Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

FWIW I closed my substack account, where I was paying for a few subscriptions. I’m also muting the word substack so I don’t have to keep reading about it here.

Day after Christmas.

8 year old: I'm bored.

Me: you just got all these gifts! Play with them.

5 year old: I'm bored too.

Me: play with each other.

8 YO: No.

5 YO: *cries*

8 YO: I want to just play with you, dad.

5 YO: No *I* want to just play with you, dad.

Me: Well let's give each of you a solo activity while I spend time with each of you individually.

8 YO: No.

5 YO: No.

Me: Then let's all play something together.

5 YO: No.

8 YO: No.

Parenting is hard some days.

CMS Issues Revised Guidance Implementing Medicare Inflation Rebates Under the Inflation Reduction Act https://www.natlawreview.com/article/cms-issues-revised-guidance-implementing-medicare-inflation-rebates-under-inflation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

/me checks on Threads

Yep, still 90% is about the platform itself (today it's long press).

Mastodon is at least down to like 20% of my feed about Mastodon and Twitter now.

3 IDF soldiers killed as Israel intensifies fighting in Gaza https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/12/26/3-soldiers-die-fighting-Gaza/5261703616617/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #worldnews #upi

#Trump to #ElonMusk: "Rot in Hell"

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-electric-car-supporters-rot-hell-christmas-truth-social-2023-12

Dear @msnbc
So your website headline beseeches Republicans to impeach Joe Biden.

As sure as I am that you're attempting to inject shock and panic into your reader's decisions as to what to click on and read...

My feelings about it are this:

I'm not clicking on your bullshit headline, and in fact, I closed your bullshit website and will leave it that way today.

#Politics

Strong holiday spending online and in stores is welcome news for 3 of our stocks https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/26/strong-holiday-spending-is-great-news-for-3-of-our-stocks.html

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a grassroots human rights activist movement and Twitter hashtag that began in July 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the fatal shooting of African American teenager Trayvon Martin.

The movement gained momentum in 2014 following the killings of Michael Brown, John Crawford III, and Eric Garner. BLM leaders have met with prominent leaders such as the "Kenyan Marxist" and have staged many protests in the aftermath of those killings, notably the mass protests in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland.

BLM has encountered harsh opposition from conservative groups in the United States and other run-of-the-mill racists. This usually takes the form of loaded questions such as "Why not 'All Lives Matter'?", a move that reveals a profound ignorance of the central message of BLM: when it comes to the police, black lives don't always matter while white lives generally do.

#RationalWiki #BLM #blacklivesmatter #humanrights
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter

https://youtube.com/watch?v=F-PPk99Hd7I&si=YN-myK5R0yDd2uC2
⚡️🇦🇿AFU destroy Russian Su-34 and Su-30 fighter-bombers with Patriot missiles (Kanal 13 - Azeri News in English VIDEO) #Ukraine #Azerbaijan #SlavaUkraineSlavaEU #EuropeanUnion #Press #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk #AxisOfEvil
#NoUSRepublicans2024

Remains of thousands of Native Americans returned to tribes this year https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/122623_remains_return/remains-thousands-native-americans-returned-tribes-this-year/
American museums and universities repatriated more ancestral remains and sacred objects to tribal nations this year than at any point in the past three decades, and more are forthcoming, but about 180 museums that have reported holding ancestral remains have not begun repatriating at all.
#Tucson #Arizona

I see skepticism on the faces of these Israeli soldiers. Could they be losing trust on Netanyahoo???
HE NEEDS TO PRIOTORISE THE HOSTAGES, not his floundering policial career!

#Slackware just released a suprise kernel update for version 15.

http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2023&m=slackware-security.649908

OK, actual peeve, not a pet one:

Hanukkah's been over for ten days. It's past. When you wish me "Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah" today, you're just saying "I think Hanukkah is Jewish Christmas and can't be bothered to know when it is."

I really much prefer a generic "happy holidays" or a specific "merry Christmas" to a specific-but-wrong inclusion of a holiday that's already past.

‘Time to Leave Her Mark on History’: Melania Feeling More Sure of Herself After Rosalynn Carter Funeral and Ready to Be First Lady Again https://www.politicalflare.com/2023/12/time-to-leave-her-mark-on-history-melania-feeling-more-sure-of-herself-after-rosalynn-carter-funeral-and-ready-to-be-first-lady-again/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Ucraina Russia, le notizie sulla guerra di oggi | Attacco ucraino in Crimea: «Colpita una nave da guerra russa nel porto di Feodosia»

Scopri di più! 👇
https://www.corriere.it/esteri/diretta-live/23_dicembre_26/ucraina-russia-news-guerra-1a5abaf2-a359-11ee-bc2b-0318380df5f4.shtml

#Esteri

#Ukraine claims to have destroyed Russian ship in #Crimea attack #Russia https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/26/ukraine-claims-to-have-destroyed-russian-ship-in-crimea-attack?traffic_source=rss

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GUfyLYv2sws&si=rxW4B7SyWH7MMik2
⚡️🇦🇿AFU will attack Russian ships in Black Sea with Mamai water drones (Kanal 13 - Azeri News in English VIDEO) #Ukraine #Azerbaijan #SlavaUkraineSlavaEU #EuropeanUnion #Press #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk #AxisOfEvil
#NoUSRepublicans2024

current funk rock levels are 79%

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#writerscoffeeclub What positive things do people say when you tell them you're a writer?

A] You assume I tell people

B] You assume people reply positively.

When I have said about it, popular responses are:

"I've always thought I should write a novel. When I get the time."

"Translations? I think I'd want to go with an original idea."

Or this stunner from my wife: "I'd read it, but you don't write things I like."