a giveaway to tax cheats

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last yr.

BREAKING: The IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce, AP sources say.

To be clear, I believe that the US should be thanking Zelenskyy and Ukraine for standing up and defending freedom. They’re the ones bearing this burden in lives and disruption. It’s only the small and insecure who think they should be thanking us.

In general I'm opposed to the contrived acronym school of naming bills, but in this case I'll make an exception.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: Rep. Mark Pocan has introduced the ELON MUSK act which would ban "special" government employees like Musk from having federal contracts. The full title of the bill is the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act.

Happy Tintin is in the public domain Day, to those who celebrate.

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

Shout out to all the neurodivergents, heading into a week of over stimulation, no routine, sky high expectations, and non optional socialising. I see you.

The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring

a man driving a car with the words easy peasy right netflix on the bottom

Alt: Sean Astin as Bob Newby in Stranger Things saying "easy peasy right?"

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Genevieve Williams - Shakespeare Adjacent out now@rimrunner.bsky.social · 2y ago

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring

Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Trips theonion.com/clarence-tho...

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

a party without friends OR a cat or dog? what dystopian vision IS this www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

2024 PitchingNinja Award for Most Painful Double Kill Curveball. 😫🏆 Winner: Charlie Morton

Ceremony to welcome new users to Bluesky.

a pixel art drawing of a man sitting in front of a painting

Alt: Beginning of the trial scene from Chrono Trigger.

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CrazyMyra@outonthemoors.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ceremony to welcome new users to Bluesky.

You’re telling me that we get 40 Ubisoft games every year but no one can make a new version of this

The release of a new Cure album has triggered lots of "Cure albums ranked" articles. Folks, Pornography is not a great album. Faith and Seventeen Seconds are way better. Thank you for listening to my 40 year old hot take. (Everyone knows, correctly, that Disintegration is #1.)

Here's my attempt at alt text'ing it!

Stating the obvious here but if this report cleared Gaetz’s name, they’d eagerly release it in the name of “transparency”

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y ago

Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson plans to object to the release of a damaging House report on the conduct of Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general.

Guy Fawkes came to me big guy strong guy he came to me tears streaming down his face he said remember remember the fifth of November nobody had ever seen so much gunpowder the most gunpowder in terms of barrels they’d ever seen

"decimate" pedants, rejoice!

If no one dies of dysentery in the Oregon Trail movie then we strike!!! reactormag.com/time-to-get-...

Time to Get Typhoid! Classic Oregon Trail Video Game to Get Movie Treatment - Reactor

You have died of dysentery.

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How did you pick your username? I'm still using the same randomly generated ID I was assigned at birth.

Kwisatz Haterade@lowbeyonder.bsky.social · 2y ago

How did you pick your user name? I had just finished reading A Fire Upon the Deep when I followed some friends from usenet to LiveJournal.

Again.. If purchasing doesn't give you ownership... then piracy isn't theft.

Steam makes a valuable change to how it sells games, and the whole world will benefit

Getting ahead of the State of California making it happen anyway, you're now told exactly what it is you're buying.

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if you can't vote for the lesser evil if you can't vote for your own survival if you can't vote for the second Black and first female President if you can't vote for the candidate who will objectively harm people in Gaza the least vote for Elon Musk to suffer

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2y ago

I didn’t think I could want it more.

We’ve all become desensitized, but it’s amazing how at this point the Trump campaign rests entirely on denouncing things that aren’t happening — a imaginary bad economy, imaginary runaway crime and now an imaginary failure of Biden and Harris to respond to natural disaster