Fat b-words are s*x offenders I see them and I’m sexually offended Making lingerie for fat b-words is like giving knives to little kids They gone hurt somebody If you find yourself in a fat b-word kitty just remember it’s because you’re broke

— ye (@kanyewest) February 7, 2025

!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.

!coomers !hornyposters

So, I'm short. 5'2". My girlfriend is tall, probably 5'10 or 6'. We're "a short and a tall," as Big Mouth would put it. We love to dress to the nines and go out. Dresses, jewelry, cocktails, laughter. I'm not gonna lie, we're a hot couple.

🚨#BREAKING: The Guardian has just released an article where they sent a reporter to Western North Carolina and then SCOLDED Hurricane Helene victims for:

a) not understanding climate change
b) voting for President Trump
c) believing in God

This is absolutely disgusting... pic.twitter.com/nonWQzrYqv

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) February 16, 2025

Wonder what they think about the fricking palisade fire

From foxymation

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

Trump shared on Truth Social an article about Putin cheering on his tariffs and expressing satisfaction that they divide America and its European allies. pic.twitter.com/OxMn3bogFh

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) February 10, 2025

from foxymation, a youtuber

this is from foxymation, a youtuber

Reports from Gaza that civilians have been killed by a failed Hamas rocket launch from central Gaza. Awaiting confirmation. I’m sure their names will be on the next Ministry of Health lists of those “killed by Israeli aggression”. pic.twitter.com/WCKWfYiXpM

— Andrew Fox (@Mr_Andrew_Fox) February 13, 2025

this is from a youtuber Foxymations

Air Force One just did a flyover over the Daytona 500. That is pretty freaking epic. pic.twitter.com/xfrfAJTcoF

— Jaimee Michell (@thegaywhostrayd) February 16, 2025

No way… The Beast is doing laps at Daytona 🤣🔥 pic.twitter.com/TiFzYJuh7Y

— Jaimee Michell (@thegaywhostrayd) February 16, 2025

!burgers

The bombings were supposed to happen at 9 AM. When medics and police would centralize around the bombed buses, there were suicide teams ready to explode in other parts of major cities. Then Palestinians from Judea and Samaria would storm the fences for an October 7th 2.0.

One woman saw the suspicious package on the bus and alerted the driver to get everyone off the bus. It exploded after everyone got off. Then the call went out to the other buses and two more exploded without anyone on them. Three other buses were found with bombs on them and those were removed and detonated as well.

No buses in Israel have been bombed since the last intifada because the bomb makers had been in prison. Many of those bomb makers were released recently in an exchange for the hostages. It's a strong coincidence that shortly after they were released that bombs appeared on Israeli buses again.

!jidf

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1igqnoh/new_bill_to_effectively_kill_anime_other_piracy/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1igqo6h/new_bill_to_effectively_kill_anime_other_piracy/

https://old.reddit.com/r/animenews/comments/1igd8x6/new_bill_to_effectively_kill_piracy_in_the_us/

https://old.reddit.com/r/animepiracy/comments/1ignpv7/anime_other_piracy_in_the_us_gets_backing_by/

New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sonyhttps://t.co/DPQvaZTyt3

— Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) February 3, 2025

Let's be honest, it went to shit like two years ago.

!oldstrags did you know Metafilter still exists? It does!

Did you know it's a giant circlejerk even more insular than reddit? Of course you did.

(For those who don't know, MeFi is an ancient internet forum that costs $5 to join. It's like SomethingAwful if it were never funny, or rdrama if you losers had jobs and could afford 5 dollars to keep out the thirdies)

Anyway, in 2014 they had a struggle session about thinking the unspeakable wrongs.

Wendy Carlos is a transwoman. Seriously, I mentioned this once and it got instadeleted because WTF? apparently some longstanding flame war of which I wasn't even aware.

I don't know who Wendy Carlos is, but I know that trans women are women . There's no such thing as a "transwoman".

Anyway, after few thousand comments the thread devolves into people getting their fee-fees hurt and demanding apologies

If you want a personal apology for a comment that was not directed at you then you might as well just come out and say so instead of continuing to harp on it despite the fact that sweetkid has explained her reasoning and sincerely apologized to the actual people involved.

Then later on, down the end there's a big argument about whether it's okay to dox a 27 year old dude who really really likes a 17 y/o

This comment does not look to me like an apology or an expression of misunderstanding. It looks to me like an admission he googled the information and intentionally doxxed someone he was characterizing as a "libertarian" and "sexual predator."

So folks are free to read the actual MeTa I am recalling and decide for themselves whether or not I am wildly misremembering anything or mischaracterizing it.

Y'all can't behave!

Painful. Might be time to close the thread?

This subreddit used to be nice, now it's just constant sneeding at nitpicks about anything slightly republican (like the recent soying over the CEO of Proton being a chud).

MISINFORMATION!

ENCRYPTION FIXES THIS!

Literally any company can do this, that's why we need DIVERSITY (the good one) in emergency options. Redditors want to stay as cavemen because a chud made something nice. Currently satellite connectivity (provided by globalstar) requires a special chip + proper positioning + has limited data + is expensive to transfer over. Starlink will allow for LTE speeds anywhere in the world on any device without needing to point your phone towards the sky like an r-slur.

LOL

We finally get ONE rational redditor!

Elon is out to r*pe you. Hide NOW.

What the frick was rockstar smoking? 30 minutes in and I'm ready to uninstall it entirely. I pirated this and still feel ripped off. I've downloaded a save from the real start of the game in the hopes of actual game play, but at this point I don't think the game can recover from this.

And god knows GTA 6 is going to be the exact same sort of clusterfrick

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