Notices by Sean Kleefeld (skleefeld@mastodon.social)

Parents apparently have a "fundamental right" to prevent other people's kids from reading any books they don't approve of.
https://graphicpolicy.com/2025/01/24/u-s-department-of-educations-office-of-civil-rights-ends-its-book-ban-investigations/

@multiverseofbadness I've known actual rodeo clowns. Corporate bosses are maddening in many, many ways but rodeo clowns are just batshit insane. Like, seriously, that's just not some snide commentary on their profession of choice -- they really are crazy!

@multiverseofbadness The one that pissed me off the most was a shirt she got me a few years ago. She had specifically about styles and sizes. For dress shirts, I said, "solid colors, button down collar, 100% cotton." She got me a striped shirt in rayon with a flared collar because "it looks like you."

Took me a week to realize/remember I had almost the exact same shirt in high school 25 years earlier!🤦♂️

Setting aside that I never mentioned being nostalgic for it, it was 25 years out style!

@multiverseofbadness I wish my mother would listen to me about that. I keep saying I don't have any desire to save crap just because I had it as a kid and she goes out and buys more stuff that's related but I never even had in the first place!

@multiverseofbadness Man, the last time I visited my brother, I had to spend hours cleaning off their computer. It was so bad that it was borderline unusable. I can't even fathom how much crap they must have clicked on!

@multiverseofbadness "Soft goods" in the toy industry basically means cloth. So regardless of the Armes head's material, it's still got cloth pants and a sweater. The Mego figures qualify as dolls because they've got cloth costumes, not because their heads are rubbery.

@multiverseofbadness JJ Armes doll, I think you mean 😉

Random "Hot Take": Any action figure that uses 'soft goods' is not an action figure but a doll. The old 8" Mego figures? Dolls. Any figure from Kenner's Super Powers line with a cape? Dolls. Super Powers figures with no capes? Action figures. The original Kenner Yoda figure? Doll. The Kenner Darth Vader figure with a VINYL cape? Action figure.

@multiverseofbadness What pisses me off is that I used to know how to sleep. My head would hit the pillow and the next thing I knew, it was morning. I can't recall the last time that happened! How did I forget how to sleep?!?

Why did no one tell me that the reason people nap more as they get older is because you're apparently not allowed to sleep as well at night?

Don't you dare suggest this gaslighting "devote yourself to work" bullshit to me, LinkedIn!

Have you had a chance to check out my Eisner-nominated book on #Webcomics
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/webcomics-9781350028173/

I'm kind of surprised DJT hasn't made his inauguration a pay-per-view event. I have to believe that it's only because of some legal requirement he hasn't figured out a quick way to circumvent and not because he hasn't thought of that grift.

How many people who are closely following the daily updates on Luigi Mangione have completely forgotten -- if they ever even knew of -- the school shooting in Wisconsin a week and a half ago? Do you think they've even heard the name Natalie Rupnow?

"In the 10 years after a Walmart Supercenter opened in a given community, the average household in that community experienced a 6 percent decline in yearly income—equivalent to about $5,000 a year in 2024 dollars—compared with households that didn’t have a Walmart open near them."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/walmart-prices-poverty-economy/681122/

Sadly, there is absolutely nothing that is in the least bit surprising in this article talking about all the grift surrounding *just* the 2025 inauguration.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/finance/news/trump-economy-begins-5-money-113105647.html

A co-worker who is off all week jumped into our Teams chat to share a kitschy towel he received as a gift in the mail today. I'm definitely glad he received a gift he's excited about & pleased he's comfortable sharing moments of his personal life with co-workers, but I don't get the need to share with work people like that. Sure, we can talk about non-work stuff but logging in the middle of your week off to share a gift you got? I don't like any of my co-workers that much.

That a generational difference? Dude is a almost 15 years younger than me. I'd suggest maybe an age thing, but I know I didn't share with co-workers like that when I was his age. Maybe when I was in my early 20s, but not after having been in corporate America for nearly two decades. I've learned many times over what happens when co-workers who are friends get laid off because corporate America doesn't give a rat's ass about your friendships.

"US consumer confidence unexpectedly sank in December..."

Unexpected by whom?! DJT has spent the past two months throwing literally every sector he turns his eye towards into chaos -- who the hell would expect consumer confidence to NOT sink?
https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/738793

Frankly, I'm surprised the US has a credit rating at all with these kind of shenanigans happening regularly.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/21/biden-signs-funding-bill-into-law-averting-us-government-shutdown