This has been a woot-blog.

!nooticers

https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ipluyt/im_think_lay_offs_are_here_at_the_irs/

https://old.reddit.com/r/IRS/comments/1ippxle/us_irs_prepares_to_lay_off_thousands_of_workers/

WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS will lay off thousands of probationary workers in the middle of tax season, according to two sources familiar with the agency's plans, and cuts could happen as soon as next week.

This comes as the Trump administration intensified sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce, by ordering agencies to lay off nearly all probationary employees who had not yet gained civil service protection.

It's unclear how many IRS workers will be affected.

Previously, the administration announced a plan to offer buyouts to almost all federal employees through a "deferred resignation program" to quickly reduce the government workforce. The program deadline was Feb. 6, and administration officials said employees who accept will be able to stop working while still collecting a paycheck until Sept. 30.

However, IRS employees involved in the 2025 tax season were told they will not be allowed to accept a buyout offer from the Trump administration until after the taxpayer filing deadline, according to a letter sent recently to IRS employees.

It is unclear how many workers will be impacted by the layoff announcement plan. Representatives from the U.S. Treasury and IRS did not respond to Associated Press requests for comment.

Jan. 27 was the official start date of the 2025 tax season, and the IRS expects more than 140 million tax returns to be filed by the April 15 deadline. The Biden administration invested heavily in the IRS through an $80 billion infusion of funds in Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act, which included plans to hire tens of thousands of new employees to help with customer service and enforcement as well as new technology to update the tax collection agency.

Republicans have been successful at clawing back that money, and billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have called for the U.S. to "delete entire agencies" from the federal government as part of his to radically cut spending and restructure its priorities.

Elected officials are trying to fight against DOGE plans. Attorneys general from 14 states challenged the authority of to access sensitive government data and exercise "virtually unchecked power" in a lawsuit filed Thursday.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, says the actions taken by Musk at the helm of DOGE can only be taken by a nominated and Senate-confirmed official. It cites constitutional provisions that delineate the powers of Congress and the president.

4chan: The internet's unwashed basement where anonymity breeds brilliance and degeneracy in equal measure. It's like a digital Lord of the Flies, but with more memes and fewer conch shells. Genius ideas drowned in a sea of edgelords—congrats on inventing half the internet's culture while staying a cesspool.

BlueSky: Twitter's awkward cousin who showed up late to the party with a "decentralized" buzzword and a dream. It's like someone saw Mastodon and thought, "Let's make it shinier and still somehow less relevant." Enjoy your echo chamber with better branding, I guess.

Groomercord: A g*mer's paradise turned into a labyrinth of crypto scams, furry roleplay, and "community" servers where the mods rule like petty dictators. It's Skype meets Lord of the Rings chatrooms, minus the charm and plus a billion notifications you'll never read.

Facebook: The boomer mothership where your aunt shares Minion memes and anti-vax conspiracies between FarmVille updates. It's a digital retirement home that somehow still knows what you shopped for last week. Zuck's watching, always.

Gab: Twitter for people who got banned from Twitter for being too Twitter. A libertarian fever dream where free speech means "say the quiet part loud" and the algorithm's just a megaphone for the fringes. Enjoy your edge, edgelords.

iFunny: A meme app for people who think Reddit's too intellectual. It's like a time capsule of 2012 humor—edgy enough to feel rebellious, tame enough to not scare the middle schoolers who still use it. Scroll, cringe, repeat.

Instagram: Where influencers sell you a lifestyle you can't afford, filtered through 17 layers of Photoshop and existential despair. It's a beauty pageant for avocado toast and gym selfies, judged by bots and thirsty simps. #Blessed.

Kick: Twitch's scrappy rival that's like, "We'll let you say slightly more slurs!" It's the Wild West of streaming, except the cowboys are 19-year-olds raging at Fortnite and begging for subs. Bold strategy, let's see if it pays off.

KiwiFarms: The internet's gossip rag meets stalker diary. It's a site dedicated to "documenting" weirdos with the subtlety of a sledgehammer and the moral compass of a broken GPS. Drama so niche it's practically a PhD thesis in petty.

Lemmy: Mastodon's even nerdier sibling that's all about "federation" and "open-source." It's like Reddit for people who own too many Linux T-shirts and think upmarseying is a sacred duty. Decentralized boredom at its finest.

Mastodon: The hipster Twitter where everyone's smug about escaping the bird app, but it's just fractured echo chambers with worse UI. Toot your horn all you want; no one's listening outside your 12-person instance.

rDrama.net: A site so self-aware it's basically a parody of itself. It's Reddit's chaotic little brother, obsessed with stirring the pot and laughing at the mess. Drama for drama's sake—honestly, kinda respect the hustle.

Reddit: The hive mind where groupthink reigns supreme and every opinion's an upmarsey away from gospel. It's a cesspit of memes, mansplaining, and subreddits so niche you'll find 14 people arguing over vintage toaster coils. Karma's a heck of a drug.

Rumble: YouTube for people who think YouTube's too woke. It's a video platform where conspiracy theorists and "censored" talking heads thrive, all while pretending they're the underdog. Spoiler: You're still not Alex Jones famous.

scored.co: A right-wing Reddit clone that's so obsessed with "owning the libs" it forgot to build a personality. It's like Gab and X had a baby, but it only inherited the angry uncle vibes. Points for effort, I guess.

soyjak.party: A meme factory so deep in irony it's practically performance art. It's 4chan's weird nephew, churning out soyface edits for an audience of three people and a bot. Niche doesn't even begin to cover it.

Threads: Zuck's Twitter knockoff that's as exciting as a beige wall. It's Instagram's text-based midlife crisis, trying to capitalize on Elon's mess-ups but forgetting to bring any soul. Scroll, yawn, uninstall.

TikTok: Brain rot in 15-second bursts. It's a slot machine of dance trends, lip-syncs, and "hacks" that'll have you wondering how humanity survived this long. China's greatest export since gunpowder, and twice as addictive.

Tumblr: The pastel graveyard of 2010s fandoms, now a ghost town of aesthetic blogs and lingering SJWs. It's like walking through a digital thrift store—quirky, dated, and faintly sad. Still waiting for the Superwholock resurgence.

Twitch: Where charisma goes to scream at video games for 12 hours while chat spams "Poggers." It's a cult of personality meets digital busking, with hot tub streams and ban hammers keeping things spicy. Just don't ask about the ad revenue split.

watchpeopledie.tv: The internet's darkest corner, where curiosity meets morbidity in a way that'd make even 4chan blush. It's a grim reminder that some people's "entertainment" is others' nightmares. Proceed with caution, or better yet, don't.

X: Elon's playground, where free speech means chaos, bots, and blue-check clout chasers. It's a dumpster fire you can't look away from—half genius, half trainwreck. Still better than Threads, somehow.

YouTube: The video behemoth where cat clips, tutorials, and unhinged rants coexist under an algorithm that hates creators. It's the internet's TV, complete with ads you can't skip and comments you shouldn't read. Demonetized dreams live here.

Honestly, I kneel to papa musk, never thought that Grok 3 would be that impressive. . Did I miss any social media sites?

Unseen Footages of 2020 India China clashes....
3 🇮🇳 vs 100+ 🇨🇳
(1/n) pic.twitter.com/5MTFs4Cjq1

— War & Gore (@Goreunit) February 19, 2025

My precious bbs

!animalposters !cats

This is the person who was being very evil pic.twitter.com/KQLg7aEXz6

— MaryShelleyStepOnMe (@_MSSOM_) February 17, 2025

on the one hand dasha weighed in and i want to frick dasha so im inclined to agree

She must be very unhappy, I'm sorry she is lashing out at you

— dasha (@dash_eats) February 17, 2025

but on the other hand the person who made the reddit post is called lana and lana is a hot name too

what is the correct take here

The #Groomer is trying to turn our children into freaks. https://t.co/o92QlF8E1o pic.twitter.com/sitBzuEVfi

— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) April 23, 2022

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/darrin-bell-freelancer

anyway lets look at the works of his that won the pulitzer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrin_Bell

as we all are aware, the prophecies clearly state that this is the last pope, ergo this sickness is a harbinger of doom

https://rdrama.net/h/dioceseofrdrama/post/321468/the-prophecymarseyfortunetellerof-st-malachy-pope-francis

!superheroes

pic.twitter.com/JivikzDa3v

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2025

Jared Kushner is reportedly behind Trump’s proposal to occupy and develop Gaza.

Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/C7KR3IBJsT

— AF Post (@AFpost) February 6, 2025

pic.twitter.com/sl8xfeNjGk

— Stonetoss Comics (@stone_toss) February 6, 2025

Yesterday, Netanyahu gave Trump a gold plated pager and a regular pager as a “gift.”

Is that supposed to be a death threat? pic.twitter.com/Ddht34EMdZ

— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) February 5, 2025

Explain it to me like a Redditor plz:

_ pic.twitter.com/ZPfAigfNyR

— Kaguya’s Top Gal (@hayasaka_aryan) February 6, 2025

Edit lol Trump flanked Lady G:

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham floats more reasonable Gaza proposal than Trump.

“I would suggest we go back to what we’ve been trying to do: Destroy Hamas and find a way for the Arab world to take over Gaza and the West Bank in a fashion that would lead to a Palestinian state… pic.twitter.com/Fh4mFN793B

— AF Post (@AFpost) February 6, 2025

Update:
The man burning the Quran has been charged with a religiously aggravated public order offence and remains in custody.

Moussa Kadri, 59, from Kensington and Chelsea, has been charged with causing actual bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon for attacking the… https://t.co/hpPrj1TVig

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 15, 2025

!chuds !nooticers lol

I mean it really is his fault. She clearly refused the sacred holy sacrament of the government religion Redditors praise. It's an unforgivable sin and there is no atonement.

This meme goes deep pic.twitter.com/pTTvW7fbpU

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2025

Problem: the face of the modern day train movement is a failure in both messaging and substance. Most people can't relate to trains at all and their political platform makes no sense to them. Their most prominent figures are inscrutable, to say the least.

However, even those of us with slight chud leanings are aware there are trains who just want to lead their lives without being a nuisance to the general public, who won't put you in a headlock for misgendering them, and are currently the victims of political crossfire.

Plan of action: trains need an engaging, non sexual, NON POLITICAL tv series where they're interacting with normal people much like the makeover show Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, which—along with the sitcom Will & Grace—was a groundbreaking show for its time. Homosexual men have intuitively understood what kind of media presence would gain them mainstream acceptance: be nonpolitical, be attractive, be non threatening, be funny.

Why haven't transpeople pursued the same?

Trains need a popular normie show where they don't browbeat people about gender ideology. Where they don't bring up the issues of bathrooms, sports, or children. Where they don't cry about transphobia. And OF VITAL IMPORTANCE: where they cast only non threatening, charismatic, and attractive trains.

Just pulling these examples from the top of transtimelines, they need to cast trains that look like this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/transtimelines/comments/1ida40i/1821_11_mo_to_33_mo/

Or this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/transtimelines/comments/19cm73x/i_still_have_the_jumpsuit/

Or this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/transtimelines/comments/1elh10m/i_started_hrt_at_18_and_ffs_at_19_and_im_so_happy/

Gather attractive and entertaining trains, preferably with a good sense of humor, and make a show where they help regular men and women with different struggles. Put their competence, helpfulness, and amicability on display. It's important to show them displaying skills and helping people normies can identify with.

What sort of struggles could trains help with specifically? Not quite sure, but It might be something like helping normies blend into an unfamiliar situation or territory. Here's a transman giving other transmen advice on how to fit into a male dominated workplace…such advice could easily be given to a struggling spergy or effeminate man as well:

https://tiktok.com/@thegravelbro/video/7319501409366314286

Remember, the vital thing is to remove all politics and sexuality from such a show. Most people associate transpeople as being gratingly political (or perverted) because this is the essence of their main, and probably only interactions with trains online.

It's so beautiful

Also skaven are now s

It sucks to be a jew

https://old.reddit.com/r/h3h3productions/comments/1ikrkky/ethan_responds_to_snark_saying_the_girl_that/

https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1ilhf6w/gen_z_voters_are_5_times_more_likely_than_older/

https://old.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/1iky1hn/hamas_makes_gaunt_israeli_hostages_thank_captors/

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1ilc6yx/ministers_call_to_destroy_hamas_after_hostages/

https://old.reddit.com/r/moderatepolitics/comments/1iktici/frailty_of_israeli_hostages_freed_by_hamas_sparks/

https://old.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/1iky962/released_hostage_eli_sharabi_said_i_am_so_happy/

https://old.reddit.com/r/berlinsocialclub/comments/1ilceoi/is_anyone_else_feeling_increasingly_unsafe_in/

https://old.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/1iky962/released_hostage_eli_sharabi_said_i_am_so_happy/

Canada sucks

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskCanada/comments/1iksglo/a_brutal_view_of_trumps_america_do_you_agree/

The point of Trump's policies is to cause a famine

according to redditards

https://old.reddit.com/r/illinois/comments/1il4woi/the_soybean_innovation_lab_at_uiuc_is_closing/

https://old.reddit.com/r/farming/comments/1il50e8/were_these_people_really_helping_growers_in/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Shitstatistssay/comments/1il5the/my_research_was_so_valuable_that_people_only_paid/

Redditards are The dumbest people on earth

https://old.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/1ildkct/independent_media_in_russia_and_ukraine_lose/

One more for the road

https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1ikz74c/the_usa_is_committing_genocide_against_the/

Thought this shit only happens in movies and shit man. My landladys son and DIL are really going at it. She just threatened to break his face and specs if he said anything about her relatives again. Hes keeping his voice down but seems to drop bombs every now and then from how his wife gets shrill. I have food coming for delivery and they have their door open from when she was screaming at him to get out I really don't want them to see I'm awake but idk how to avoid that. So uncomfortable.

OH MY GOD????? pic.twitter.com/RJIHiHcan2

— 𝐁𝐈𝐆 𝐁𝐑𝐈. (@SEXYLIKESELENUR) February 3, 2025

Drugs or Lyme?

Also, on his IG page, he wrote that ppl had suggested he looked like he was "on meth" but "they failed to realize he’s been diagnosed with Lyme disease, not only that but had a serious case of chronic mono as well as diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Could just be sick.

— HollyPop 🫶🏼 (@msholly_baby) February 5, 2025

Also these:

HOLD ON NIEEE!?- pic.twitter.com/eyPymrb0wd

— Ichigo Neighborsake (@SomaKazima) February 3, 2025

Olivia Rodrigo is the new Selina Gomez:

olivia rodrigo pic.twitter.com/1Q9JuuGagt

— kiara (@oliviamysavior) February 3, 2025

FLEXIN:

!tmz

!fashion

@jesus

!kino Ne Zha 2 might actually make over 2 billion dollars and be a strong contender against Avatar 3 later this year.

https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1iqwxwa/in_china_ne_zha_2_grossed_an_incredible/