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Info- So is that all he got you for Christmas or was that just a side secret Santa thing? (43)

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INFO: Was the candle the only gift he got you? (27)

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Good on you! NOT an over reaction at all. I'm a pretty low key kinda girl. I know I'm a bit hard to buy for. But my husband does try and today I got some very nice things from him. But if he'd done that? I'd be incredibly hurt. Really upset. Just shows no concern or love for you at all. He did not even try a little bit. That's just awful.So sorry you are having a shit day now. And nope. I wouldn't want to be hosting any darn dinner for anyone. Block the whole lot of them after sending them all a text telling them to frick off and leave you alone. And after only 3 years of marriage? Your husband is like this? That's very bad sign, Frankly? I'd review my marriage to that man. YOu are too young to already be stuck in a marriage where your husband treats you like shit. I've been married 30 years and we have had our ups and downs. But he has never treated me that disrespectfully and with such lack of kindness or decency. Think hard whether you stay with that man. Truly. (1)

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NTA for being upset about getting a thoughtless present from your husband. Been there. It hurts. But ABSOLUTELY YTA for cancelling dinner for EVERYONE??!! Wtf? Grow up! You ruined Christmas and you need to get out there and apologize to an entire family. If you're gonna be petty, you should've opened that candle in front of his family and started tearing up and excuse yourself until someone came to check on you.  You should've waited for someone to b-word at your husband FOR you. That wouldve made him the petty selfish one, not you.  (2)

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Why would the box with 'The Warlords' gift be under the tree?ETA: For everyone who keeps explaining why they keep non-family presents under the tree, none of you are explaining why a present for an online friend would be kept under the tree instead of posted to them directly. (7962)

That's not the only thing too. A blown up phone with everyone in his entire family telling her she's selfish and just being completely obsessed with her as if they don't have anything better to spend their time on. At Christmas Eve at all times. Secret Santa with names on the tags so it's not anonymous. Plus a $100 requirement "Hosting Christmas dinner every year for his family" even though they've only been married for 3 years.Last but not least is glazing a ham all day. What in the goddarn frick, nobody does that to a ham all day long. OP needs writing lessons. And someone to tell them to never, ever do any kind of elaborate crime. They will be caught within minutes with all the holes and arrogant stupidity throughout their obvious fake story. (545)

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#BREAKING: The U.S. Marshals just deputized all of Elon Musk’s private security, giving them “federal law enforcement protections.”

— Insider Wire (@InsiderWire) February 21, 2025

Das bist du 🫡 pic.twitter.com/HmqhCkw6yI

— vanessa k. (@VANKRAUT) February 14, 2025

!Meowr !chads

🚨 #BREAKING: ABC must pay Trump $15 million, settles out of defamation lawsuit and will publicly apologize to Trump - Fox

Top anchor George Stephanopoulos had claimed Trump was "liable for r*aping" E. Jean Carroll, prompting Trump to bring the lawsuit. That statement was false.… pic.twitter.com/YlyGH4aQkA

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 14, 2024

!chuds I would have settled for a blowjob live on ABC by Cortez (build for BWC) and twice as much cash only, but Daddy is the business man so idk.

Blue sky seethe

'No reason for any further delay': Judge orders Trump to to be deposed in ABC lawsuitwww.alternet.org/judge-orders...

— Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) 2024-12-13T23:28:16.761Z

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered Donald Trump to sit for four-hour depositions next week in his defamation lawsuit against ABC and George StephanopoulosTrump sued ABC in March after Stephanopoulos said on air that Trump “was found liable for r*pe.”

— Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) 2024-12-14T02:19:20.823Z

Reddit seethe

/r/politics

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1hec0kx/george_stephanopoulos_and_abc_apologize_to_trump/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1hebuds/george_stephanopoulos_and_abc_apologize_to_trump/

/r/destiny

https://old.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1hecmid/trump_and_abc_reach_settlement_over_defamation/

/r/law

https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1heckkm/abc_news_agrees_to_pay_15_million_to_trumps/

/r/television

https://old.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1hecj5x/abc_news_to_apologize_and_pay_15m_to_settle/

/r/antitrumpalliance (???)

https://old.reddit.com/r/AntiTrumpAlliance/comments/1hecd7d/abc_agrees_to_give_15_million_to_donald_trumps/

Reddit isn't taking it well as expected

A classical Greek tragedy about hard work, big egos, and French culture.

His fanatical attention to detail, frenetic work ethic, and discerning palate, propelled him to the top of his profession, and earned him a knowledgeable and loyal, but unforgiving and demanding clientele.

In the late 1990s, a new form of Asian-inspired "fusion cuisine" swept France, catering to an international corporate class and pleasing trend-driven "foodies" (a neologism of the movement), which Loiseau resisted.

Loiseau was downgraded from 19/20 to 17/20 in the Gault et Millau guide and received a strong negative media review from the gastronomic critic François Simon in the newspaper Le Figaro, but he still had his three stars in the Michelin Guide. Criticism continued to pour in and the media speculated about a possible future loss of a Michelin star.

But on February 24, 2003, the chef finished his lunchtime service, rolled up his apron and drove home. Telling his ten-year old son – one of three children – to go and play outside, he went upstairs, locked the bedroom door and shot himself in the head with a hunting rifle, a present from his wife.

After his death, three-star chef Jacques Lameloise said Loiseau had once confided, "If I lose a star, I'll kill myself".

Derek Brown, Michelin director at the time, said: "The idea of telling him about the concerns we had about some of his cooking was in order to give him an opportunity to consider whether he wanted to do something about it, which he did, as it turned out."

All in all, a messy story sparking many debates about whether reviewers should really be brutally honest, and if they are unfairly harsh. Perhaps it inspired Ratatouille (2007)?

https://bsky.app/profile/karaswisher.bsky.social

DOGE recommended firing workers at:-FDA, which oversees Neuralink-FAA, which oversees SpaceX-USAID, which probed Starlink-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X."Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2025-02-19T20:15:07.904281Z

Look I know you don’t want to believe that Trump won the popular vote but there’s no evidence that Elon rigged the voting machines. Get out of here with that shit.

— Nick (derogatory) ✨ (@slothropsmap.bsky.social) 2025-02-18T23:48:16.663Z

In the fight between Captain America and the Red Skull, be like Cap.

— (@akatzel.bsky.social) 2025-01-21T22:41:22.499Z

I will use the power of irony to defeat villains!

“Oh you call yourself “The Joker”, then why can’t you tell a joke! How ironic …” pic.twitter.com/6HZ1sLkBAj

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2024

Dear conservatives: That whole thing where progressives pretended to hate white people for 5 years? That was an ACT. It was fake! Progressives LOVE white people. They mostly hang out with white people and marry white people. The whole thing was performative bullshit for Facebook. https://t.co/R5RtTgrPWu

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 28, 2024

Nearly every interaction I have with academics in my life is littered with conversations punctuated by "white people suck". The fact that you're even pointing out that this was observable implies that this is a problem. What are you even saying? "Haha jk about hating you!"

Yes it did suck and it was stupid. It was also fake.

We didn't realize this could come back to bite us in the butt, so it was all just a silly goof. Let's play nice again?

Also "the past 5 years" lmao the explicit anti-mayo messaging has been going on for at least 15.

… in a subreddit for listing available federal job positions.

Many are upset about this and start arguing in the comments.

There's a literal fricking hiring freeze, what do you want from us?

To follow the rules and not try to start some uprising here?

What federal hiring process? No one is getting hired right now, and also, who would even want to join the government at this point? You'd have to be desperate or stupid to hop on a sinking ship…

People are still getting hired. Jobs are still being posted on USAJobs. So go on, delete your comment or edit it to admit you didn't think before commenting.

I did think before commenting and stand by my comment that anyone thinking of joining the federal government in this moment is either stupid or desperate.

Even if you do get hired, everyone received the mass "please resign!" emails and I doubt that trend will end any time soon. And if you get hired, you're likely probationary which is an awful spot to be in. No one's job is special or safe or can't be done by a Musk crony according to this administration.

I mean, if you're already trapped in fed gov, do you. But now seems like an especially bad time to hop around because what boss is going to bat for a new employee?

Plenty of people want to join. There are still posts on this very subreddit of people looking for advice, showing their TJO and FJO. You want to call them stupid or desperate? Fine, but don't try to subvert the reason for the subreddit existing. So both your points, that no one is getting hired and no one wants to work for the administration are rendered null by the facts.

Yeah, good luck to them 👍 I truly hope it works out.

Amen. My heart goes out to you mods, I can't even imagine how busy you guys have been sifting through the extra 100K new bots and their nonsense.

If anyone wants to really visualize why this is necessary then everyone's history is accessible.

ALL (no exceptions as of 43 comments) who want non-stop rage bait politics here have never before set foot in this sub prior to the EOs.

ALL who don't like off-topic nonsense and support the mods, hammered with downmarseys, are top contributors who've been helping the sub for months/years.

We are being brigaded by trolls and bots, the only people who can possibly abide are the trolls and bots.

Do remember there are a lot of feds who have created burner accounts in order to participate without issue. Does make it much harder to tell who has been here before and who is a bot or troll.

New accounts would support that possibility, but none of them are new - all long term /r/politics users never here before.

Plus burner or not wouldn't change the fact that it is off-topic on this sub.

Did Elon post this?

Removing posts about what is going on only serves the interests of the new administration. Reddit should be a safe space for people to converse about their reality as a fed, or anyone affected by these EOs. We should be kept aware as the general public so we know how to help and join the conversation. Silencing the voices of people who are worried or unaware of the situation is how we got here and how we make it worse—not better. The teaching and nursing subreddits almost never ban ANYTHING. Why? Because everything is relevant in their public facing jobs, everything reaches them one way or another, the feds are no different. Shutting down the conversation is wrong and leads to/is fascism. Stop upholding arbitrary "rules" that support it.

Post them to /r/fednews where they belong.

It doesn't even belong there, but rprz and the other mods are terminally chronically online reddit jannies who are ignoring rule #5 of their subreddit.

Rule 5 there states no politics, but you can discuss current policies. So discussion of the Fork in The Road, the other HR(at)opm.gov emails, the RTO memos, and notices to probationary employees should all be valid.

Given that our work has been politicized to a higher degree than at any point in the past, I don't think the Mods are violating their rules.

Rule 5 there states no politics, but you can discuss current policies. So discussion of the Fork in The Road, the other HR(at)opm.gov emails, the RTO memos, and notices to probationary employees should all be valid.

If that's what were happening I'd agree with you. However the 100,000x fold YoY increase in the usage of the words "Nazi", "Fascist", and "regime" to describe our democratically elected government suggest to me that reasoned discussion of government policies is not primarily what's going on. When subredditors describe what they're doing as "doomscrolling" that word seems to have a negative connotation, in my mind. When "Solidarity from Moldova" type posts are upmarseyd to the top of the subreddit, that doesn't feel like a well-considered policy analysis by an informed stakeholder.

Enjoy a dead Reddit for a while, then.

Amazingly we existed just fine from the dawn of Reddit until a couple weeks ago when the bots invaded. We chugged along even without an off-topic chicken little post every 5 minutes.

That's funny, you're going to chug along with what job postings?

Yeah, thanks.

That's part of the problem. This can't exist in a vacuum. Everything that impacts hiring needs to discussed.

Feel free to post anything pertaining to the federal application process (e.g. questions, concerns, suggestions, tips, experiences, etc.).

The day one purpose and rule 1 of this sub.

What about the application process has changed due to the EOs? Go ahead, I'll wait.

Nothing? Correct.

Fednews (and THOUSANDS of others) exists, until an EO fundamentally changes the application process it doesn't belong here.

You're extremely pressed.

Uh, no. I think—like many of us—he's just getting tired of the 24/7 complain fest that this sub has devolved into. Go complain to your family and friends. Some of us come here for useful information—not to read people's diaries.

Not much federal hiring practice activity going on right now…

checks usajobs, sees plenty of jobs posted

Gaslamping doesn't work when people have reality right in front of them...

They're not "gaslamping"

They said "not much" is going on right now which is very true. Just because there is some still happening doesn't mean that the majority of possible positions are under a hiring freeze

Thank you. The person accusing gaslamping is literally gaslamping lol

An example of the comics in question

its got that twee millenial comic style you all know and love.

The tumblr post announcing the depooning

https://mantimecomic.tumblr.com/post/772596812377980928/hello-all

I'll preface this post by saying that it's not a political statement. I have no agenda here other than telling my own story, and I have no ill-will towards anyone in this community.

I'm detransitioning. I have many reasons – Some related to my medical health, some to my mental and emotional health, and some to changing feelings about my identity. I won't go into too much detail here, as I like to keep my private life private.

I will share that the medical issues testosterone caused me had to do with reproductive system health, blood pressure and cholesterol, undiagnosed polycythemia, and mental health issues. I'm not a doctor, so I'm not in a position to make any medical statements.

However I feel that I have the obligation and the right to share my story about how testosterone was harmful to me. Because of these side effects, and the psychological trauma I experienced due to them, I began to reconsider how I feel about my identity and my body.

I came to the conclusion that I'm simply a masculine lesbian woman. Transition wasn't the right path for me. So I've reversed course and am becoming the person I feel I was meant to be all along. My feelings of gender dysphoria have been resolved. Through detransition, my medical and mental health issues have also for the most part resolved, and I'm feeling much happier and more optimistic for the future!

That's my truth. Your truth may be different, and I respect that. Please take a moment to think before you send hate messages. I'm not putting any hate out here and I'd appreciate it if you all would meet me with the same respect. And no, my account has not been hacked. I stopped posting new work here because of what I've been going through, and because it started to feel disingenuous when my mindset about my identity shifted.

My intentions with this post are to share my story and to reach out so that followers who are going through similar things know that they're not alone and there is support. If you're struggling, feel free to reach out in my DMs. I can connect you to support groups and try to help you find any resources you may need.

Thank you all for supporting my comic and for the years of good vibes! I'll make an update if I decide to start sharing work on a new account.

Signing off 🫡

Tumblrinas in shambles

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some tumblr sneed

musculargarbageman said: great. just pls don't become a transphobic grifter who does misinformation interviews for right-wing newspapers about how The Evil Trans Agenda or sth pressured you into HRT and how nobody told you that T has side-effects. have a good cisgender life queen 👍

learningtofindmybrightside said: As long as you still stand beside trans people, then you should be able to do whatever you want with your body

They sound very happy for her.

What do commenters on 4tran4 have to say about it?

https://old.reddit.com/r/4tran4/comments/1ibdbax/jesus_frick_ok_this_might_be_my_13th_reason/

For context, it's this artist. One of my biggest inspirations for trans guy art in general, if even they aren't actually a man, who is? Will everyone else detransition? Why do I keep seeing this happen??

>if even they aren't actually a man, who is?

brb kms I'm gonna have to rep forever if even this guy can't make it

so close

What the heck

god fricking darn it can ftms stop fricking detransitioning PLEASE

They're ruining it for the rest of us 😡

Do eff tee ems detransition more than em tee effs?

Anecdotally, a metric shit ton more of ftms detransition. I couldn't name one mtf that has personally

they noootice

Terf in 3...2...1...

this is pretty much why i rep. what's the point of transitioning when so many of ftms end up inevitably detransitioning anyways. iwnbarm and all that

The point is to become a stealth ftChad who will never de

Much more sneed in the 4train thread anyway. Stay strong pooners!

PATCHNOTES https://www.nomanssky.com/worlds-part-ii-update/

Worlds Part II 🪐

🪐Gas Giants
🌋New Terrain
🌞Lighting Overhaul
🧑‍💻Inventory Sorting
✨New Solar Systems
🪸Deep Oceans
🌴New Biomes
🥶Weather Hazards
🛸Starship Archiving
👻Abandoned Mode
🦑Deep Sea Creatures
🌊Dynamic Water
🧑‍🍳Improved Cooking
📖Evolving story
🤖Titan Expedition pic.twitter.com/ar8M3ejtGa

— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) January 29, 2025

Sean did another little behind the scenes video

!nms

Highlights:

Jungles

Mountains miles high

Oceans miles deep

Local environmental hazards

+18 ship storage

MOON WATER IS BACK 🥹

Krakens and other deep sea megafauna

Sea atmospheric pressure

Supermassive planets with heck gravity

Gas giants

New stellar class

Water worlds

Enhanced variety for existing planets

New ocean flora and fauna

New surface fauna

+18 MT slots

Cooking overhaul

Auto eat options

Exocraft flamethrowers

Customizable fishing rods

The usual massive modernization of graphics and lighting

THEY GAVE THE FISHING BOAT A GRILL

9 YEAR OLD INDIE GAME CONTINUES TO LOOK BETTER AND PLAY BETTER THAN AAA RELEASES IN CURRENT YEAR

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1ir8idw/comment/md6j97q/?context=8

Canadians, trust me, nobody outside of extremely online people have any idea you are boycotting us lmao

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https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/g-s1-31042/elon-musk-kamala-harris-facebook (13)

That's different than OP's statement about television commercials. (-6)

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You almost had it. They need centrists. Moving away from the center is what's destroyed their party. Move away from corporations yes, centrists no. (14)

Nah we don't need ratchet effect nonsense. If they want their conservatism they can have it, I won't be complicit in "centrist" nonsense. You can't cater to "centrists" without catering to corporations. Capitalistic plutocrat lovers can screech about corporatism all they want, its their system in action. Playing their game isn't gonna take the money out of politics, it's gonna blow the door off the hinges allowing them in (see Elon musk) (-3)

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I think there is a significant underestimation of Biden's arming Israel as a HUGE factor. His hug of Netanyahu made me shudder. Sometimes the best way to support a country isn't to cheer and arm them into a devastating war. (btw I am not Jewish, but my father is. I was raised Catholic and am not at all religious, given how awful that religion is). I have never been a supporter of Israel's behavior toward Palestinians and I think blind support for Israel was a massive (and is a massive) error. Muslims voted (leopards eat my face!) for Trump or stayed home. Young people likely as well. I support the International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Netanyahu. I DO NOT support Hamas either. This is a war of evil people versus peace-loving people on both sides. We mistake supporting the evil war-loving people for supporting Israel. Biden made a huge mistake. (-6)

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The Republicans spent 4 decades building a (dis)information infrastructure that they finely tuned over the years. They have a tremendous advantage in their ability to spread their selected narrative across multiple sources, and they have essentially perfected the recipe for making low information voters feel angry and afraid. (These narratives are often false - Kamala and Joe had no more to do with inflation than Trump did, and immigrants are less violent than citizens and don't actually eat pets). These tactics work very well against an incumbent, when it's easy to blame them (fairly or not) for everything that makes low information voters anxious and mad. Their story of high prices, immigrant crime waves, and trans people grooming your kids was shown to have penetrated deeply and influenced voting. Some of these NYT panelists back that up. The democrats need to learn to use propaganda better and chip away at the disinformation disadvantage. Being unwilling to lie and alway... (0)

But what details about high prices, crime, out of control illegal immigration, and exposing children to issues of sexuality and gender are untrue? To me, the Democratic Party was dismissive of people who are concerned about these topics.Not trying to be difficult, but:Inflation and the resulting high prices has been causing a lot of pain. The Democrat answer to it seemed to range from "grocery stores are price gouging" to "inflation is happening everywhere."Petty crime in my city increased a lot over the past 4 years and now has tapered a little bit, but Democrats in my city will tout the fact that crime it is a bit down, but still much higher than it has been in a long time. Democrats act like crime is not an issue.My city has struggled with an influx of migrants who are very visible on street corners (window washers) and social services here have been strained. Democrats tell us that the border is secure. Oh, and Democrats constantly try to blur the line between legal and ill... (1)

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I think Ta nehisi Coates was right in 2017 when he made his argument that bigotry motivated a lot of Americans to vote for Trump.After his win we heard all of this. It even became a meme "Economic anxiety". The pod save America boys who are as dem establishment as you can get--literally worked for Obama, put out a series called the wilderness all about the democratic party's history and what they could learn from the loss in 2016. They arrived at much of the same conclusions people are reheating to serve again to the public.Harris spoke to peoples fears about immigration by spending time highlighting the fact that the Biden administration had been continuing to deport people and offered a border security bill Republicans would love. They voted against it.Harris literally offered tax breaks for the middle class and working class including money to put on the down-payment of a home, money to start a business, and more money for child care and Medicare. She offered to set up a task for... (0)

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They are inundated by misogynists on the right and misandrists on the left. How is it any surprise that young boys would chose to listen to the men telling them that the women berating them for the original sin of being born with a peepee are crazy and that it's ok to be men.Live by idpol, die by idpol. If you want to gain gen Z and A's support in the future, a shift in how the left treats half their population is in order. They've seen how self flagelating us millenials were and refused to join in that shitshow. Honestly i can't blame them, especially with the response from the left after this defeat. Doubling down? Really? It's like the left wants to disapear. (1)

And why do you think that happens? It's because every time you open your phone all you read about is how awful men are. They r*pe, they are violent. Bears are safer to be around ffs. I think the left needs to have some darn accountability before they start blaming Jordan Peterson and Rogan and all the rest. Those are the people that are trying to be positive towards men. Democrats won't even listen to a word those people say and then they denounce them as all sorts of terrible things. My younger brother grew up without a dad. He loves Rogan(as do I). He heard about David Goggins and Jocko Willink on that show. Every day now he's busting his butt trying to be as mentally tough and physically fit as those navy seals ge looks up to. And you know what? They are pretty good dudes overall. I can't tell you how pissed off I get when I hear people saying awful shit about Rogan. That show has had such a positive impact on my brothers life and all democrats want to do is make fun of him for it... (1)

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