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[goodoldbandit]

Ride Smoother, Ride Smarter: Identifying and Fixing Suspension Problems.

Good Old Bandit Good Old Bandit. gob.stayingalive.in Smooth your ride and sharpen your skills by identifying and fixing suspension problems like a pro. The Unsung Hero Beneath You
 Why Suspension Deserves More Respect Than It Gets Let’s kick this off with a truth bomb: your suspension isn’t just there for comfort—it’s the difference between control and chaos. Between a bike that sticks to…

[rudimentaryflair]

Brb going to send Sho your location

[notbecauseofvictories]

Have you ever played the video game Where the Water Tastes Like Wine? I just started replaying it and it reminds me a lot of A Cornstalk Fiddle!

You've guessed my tastes extremely well!

I'm really not a video games person (really not.) but Kentucky Route Zero and Where the Water Tastes Like Wine are two of my favorites---specifically because of their settings and the way it seeps through the narrative. I've been in and through so many verging-on-nowhere, USA, places that I'm weak for that vibe, the strange and marginal magic of it.

[kkkkkkkitty]

[merakiui]

🐙 Azul's tentacle anon

Oughhh i read ur fem riddle fic and OUGHGHGH ITS SO DELICIOUS now i have some brainrots about party animal floyd shhssh

Party Animal Floyd who starts developing his obsession the moment your romantic love for him starts fading away. You're already becoming distant from him, and once he noticed this, his entire personality starts doing a 360 spin.

Jade's so gentle and caring always holding you close to his chest whilst the old Floyd just leaves you around for anybody to take, not giving a single damn to the point you start wondering if you had dated the wrong twin, Floyd will fix that. He stops his partying antics and had the entire apartment go from a messy waste-filled ruin to a sparkling white mansion devoid of any stains. He's doing all the chores for you, he starts cooking breakfast early and he starts joining you in the morning shower, trying his hardest to replicate his brother's gentlemanly mannerisms.

Riddle's so serious about relationships and expressed to be loyal forever to her partner, unlike the old Floyd who sticks his dick into one girl to another, leaving you to rot in his room tears streaming down your cheeks and tuining your beautiful mascara. He will fix that, no matter what. He gets a job at a close friend's now successful cafe, ditches all of his side chicks and ghosts his delinquent pimp friends, where the only pussy he would stick his dick inside from now on is yours.

If you leave him, he'd just end up spiralling into a deep dark place, depraved of your sweet loving attention

OMG YES AAAAAAAA,,,,, your thoughts are so good!!!! Floyd absolutely puts in the work once he's made up his mind to be a better boyfriend. It's like he's an entirely new person. Suddenly, you're no longer transparent in his eyes. Suddenly, you're all he wants to see. Now you're his entire world. <3 sure, he may have borrowed some of Jade's rizz techniques in doing so, but he's quite the upstanding eel now (still just as crass, though. He will forever be foul-mouthed and unruly and untamed; that's just how he is hehe).

What if the café job Floyd picks up is at the same place Riddle works? :0 maybe it's a branch of Mostro Lounge or something else entirely and the only reason he's able to get in with his spotty resume is because Azul owns the place and he can pull all kinds of strings. Floyd's genuinely determined to turn things around, so Azul does him a favor (which he will pay back in due time, of course) and now Floyd's donning an apron to work in the kitchen as sous-chef. Riddle nearly walks back out the door the day she sees him standing behind the counter. T_T she's certain the world is against her. What sin must she atone for? Is this how hell punishes its sinners now, by sending stupid, annoying, ugly eels to her workplace and conveniently disguising them as coworkers? If it isn't obvious, she is Floyd's biggest hater LOL.

I like to think that Floyd, though he pesters Riddle and annoys the life out of her, would vaguely and briefly confide in her and ask what sorts of things girls like. Riddle puts two and two together and figures out rather fast that he's trying to make it up to you. Obviously she can't let that happen. She just started wedging herself between you and Floyd, making you question your feelings for him, and now he's trying to be better? He had four years to do that! She's so annoyed. >:(

Now you have an obsessed boyfriend and an obsessed friend who wants to take the place of boyfriend vying for your attention. Meanwhile, you're mourning to your bestie Jade about Floyd and his disloyal behavior like, "Why is he so sex-brained? Why doesn't he just like me for me? What's so good about parties and sex with strangers anyway?" and Jade is a persistence predator, so of course he's taking full advantage of your emotional vulnerability and weaknesses to slip in between the cracks in your heart, slowly but surely getting even closer to you. :)

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Gloria Oladipo at The Guardian:

Mass layoffs have begun at several US agencies as Donald Trump and Elon Musk launch an unprecedented, large-scale plan to slash the federal workforce with the stated goal of cutting costs and boosting efficiency. Termination notices were sent to employees at the Department of Education, the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and the General Services Administration (GSA), Reuters first reported on Thursday. “The Agency finds that you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the current needs, and your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment with the Agency,” according to letters sent to at least 45 probationary employees at the SBA. Similar notices were sent to about 100 recent hires at the GSA on Wednesday and 160 employees at the education department, Reuters reported. The latest round of layoffs came as Musk said on Thursday that the US should “delete entire agencies” from the federal government as a part of his extraordinary strategy under the Trump administration. Musk made the latest suggestion on a video call to the World Governments Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in response to a question about what changes he planned to execute under Donald Trump’s direction. “I think we do need to delete entire agencies, as opposed to leave part of them behind,” said Musk, adding: “If you don’t remove the roots of the weed, then it’s easy for the weed to grow back. But if you remove the roots of the weed, it doesn’t stop weeds from ever going back, but it makes it harder.” Musk’s appearance at the summit comes as his so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has implemented widespread cuts across the federal government, firing people and demanding resignations and layoffs. Since 20 January, when Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president, Musk and the controversial agency have swiftly gutted several US agencies, including the US Agency for International Development (USAid). The agency has carried out humanitarian and development projects abroad to save lives and also to exert “soft power”, since the agency was created by the Kennedy administration.

The Trump-Musk layoffs at several US agencies are cancerous to the wellbeing of America.

[rhonissancee]

I Actually need Dan Heng to be real because there's no way I can survive without a person who can stop me from entering the wrong damn car.

[peaches2217]

“You’ve barred us both from the Kingdom of Heaven” is officially the most ominous thing I’ve ever been told at work, and given I’ve been in customer service for nine years, that’s saying something. It was so poetic and unexpected, absolute flawless delivery, too. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Why are meds worse then the mental illnesses they're trying to treat

[summer-oil]

cant go on tumblr while writing bc i will get . distracted instantly and deeply

[mycenaae]

when i say i have a lot of tomatoes what i mean is that i have two 9x9 baking dishes full of tomatoes (and red bell peppers) and there are only more to come, so please god if any of you have any tomato recipes i would be so thankful

[windowsandfeelings]

My favorite restaurant in the world and also New York closed during the pandemic and it's the only thing I want to eat

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Judd Legum at Popular Information:

Anyone who has read reports in the Associated Press, the New York Times, CBS News, CNN, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, or Axios would be under the impression that the Trump administration has offered 2 million federal workers a "buyout" offer — eight months of pay in return for a voluntary resignation. People who rely on television news were also told that federal workers were offered a buyout. This is also the preferred narrative of the White House. In a statement, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that, under the policy, federal employees who "don’t want to work in the office and contribute to making America great again… are free to choose a different line of work, and the Trump Administration will provide a very generous payout of 8 months." The problem with this narrative — and the media coverage — is that it is false. A "buyout" is when an employer agrees to pay an employee a lump sum, often equivalent to the employee's salary for a particular length of time, in exchange for their voluntary resignation. After agreeing to the buyout offer, the employee receives the money, and their obligations to the employer end. The Trump administration is proposing something very different. Under the terms of the agreement, which is posted to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website, employees agree to resign effective September 30, 2025. Until that date, they remain employees of the federal government but are "exempted from all applicable in-person work requirements." This, of course, is only a valuable concession if an employee is still working. The agreement is called a "deferred resignation," not a "buyout."

The agreement states that, after accepting the deferred resignation offer, "my employing agency will likely make adjustments in response to my resignation including moving, eliminating, consolidating, reassigning my position and tasks, reducing my official duties, and/or placing me on paid administrative leave until my resignation date." Administrative leave allows an employee to collect their salary while not working. But, as the agreement makes clear, that is not guaranteed. There will "likely" be changes to an employee’s official duties, according to the agreement. But they are still an employee of the federal government and are obligated to continue to fulfill whatever responsibilities are assigned to them. An OPM memo, dated January 28, 2025, states that employees who accept the deferred resignation agreement "should promptly have their duties reassigned or eliminated and be placed on paid administrative leave."

[...] The policy appears to be written by allies of Trump, including Elon Musk, who have little to no experience in the federal government. The subject line of the email, "A fork in the road," was the same subject line Musk used when he encouraged Twitter employees to resign. After mass resignations, Musk realized that a bunch of the people who left were performing essential functions and tried to rehire them. "There's no question that some of the people who were let go probably shouldn't have been let go," Musk said. On X, Musk falsely described the deferred resignation agreement as a "severance offer."

[...] Yesterday, the deferred resignation offer went out to 2 million federal employees, many of whom have decades of experience and are performing tasks that are essential to the functioning of their agencies. It was not targeted at individuals the Trump administration — or anyone else — believes are performing unnecessary or duplicative work. Federal employees who accept this deal do not get a buyout. They are simply gambling that their bosses place them on administrative leave. But there are no guarantees. Federal employees could find that they agreed to resign in exchange for eight more months of working from home. Even that may not be a real benefit since many federal employees are members of unions that have contractual rights to work from home.

What the OPM under Trump offered to 2M+ federal workers was NOT “buyouts”, but a deferred resignation. It is also a tool to weaken civil service.

[awkward-teabag]

Definitely not them. While the AI and crypto bullshit is mentioned, they don't mention the CEO of Brave was CEO of Mozilla (Firefox's parent company) for less than two weeks and in that time multiple people stepped down or resigned out of protest because of his financial contributions opposing same-sex marriage.

Among other issues with Brave:

They were caught injecting affiliate codes into URLS to get money.

Scraped and sold people's data and copyrighted material to train AI and went out of their way to hide this.

Installed a program on people's computers without their consent.

Injected sponsored ads into people's browsers to make money.

They've also run ad campaigns multiple times shitting on Firefox and Firefox users.

I would not touch them whatsoever given the history, how shady they are, and how much of a chud the CEO is. Crypto and AI are the least of the issues with them, imo.

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[hallowed-somnolence]

lovee not being able to do anything without my body enacting Consequences. ohh you wanted 5 minutes of fresh air? you want to do a little doodle of the Character? you will not be able to get out of bed for a month. :)