#Weekly Reporting

[hauntedfuryz]

US Federal Employees Face New Reporting Directive Amidst Policy Controversy

In a move that has left many federal employees perplexed, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent out a second email late Friday night, instructing government workers to submit five bullet points detailing their accomplishments from the previous week. Employees were directed to reply by Monday at 11:59 PM ET, ensuring their managers were included in the correspondence.

This directive, initiated by Elon Musk, a senior advisor to President Donald Trump, has raised concerns among the workforce. The timing and content of the emails have led to confusion, with different agencies providing varying guidance on whether employees should respond. Some agencies have advised staff to disregard the request, while others have labeled it voluntary.

Complicating matters further, President Trump has proposed significant budget cuts and layoffs, adding to the uncertainty federal workers are facing. The combination of these policy changes has led to widespread dissatisfaction, with some employees contemplating resignation or early retirement.

The situation has sparked discussions about the balance of power within the administration, with some questioning the influence of unelected officials like Musk over federal operations. Critics argue that such directives undermine traditional chains of command and contribute to a sense of instability within federal agencies.

As the deadline approaches, federal employees find themselves navigating a complex and evolving landscape, uncertain about the implications of their compliance and the future of their roles within the government.

[homoquartz]

in case you were curious, dead boys did achieve charting again! and i do indeed find it very funny.

[dreamyblanket]

https://www.tumblr.com/dreamyblanket/774993854186356736/humble-art-requestreader-hugging-caramel-arrow?source=share

Tbh I don't mind if you talk about her for that long because you drew her so well i hunger for more art of her so *throws another Caramel arrow x reader request at you* nyeh!

Aww thank you, have a flustered cara and rambling in the tags in return!

[tokkimins]

oh they got his face down pat this season

[bringthesauerkraut]

Stewbert is forever 💕

[mrsriddles-blog]

Reads of the Week: Mar 10-Mar 16 | PART ONE

*indicates smut

green font represents multiple characters (poly, rh, etc.)

A/N: Soooo, this is part one for this weeks reads 😂 😅 I didn’t know you were limited to 50 mentions per post, so the second part I’m going to start out with fics I’ve read for the Sturniolo Triplets. Also, if the link is wrong on one or the mentions, please let me know! I try to go in and check them, but there was a lot this time! Thank you!

Cruel Summer by @thatdammchickennugget

The real thing by @zriasstuff

Babysitting by @rainyreading

Weren’t Supposed to Let Me Go by @anawritez-posts

oh heart, and then it falls by @cupidddd-d

Eclipsed Hearts by @anawritez-posts

Warring Hearts by @allurearia

hide by @bettymylove

Hidden rings by @allurearia

Filthy Cheater, We Go Again by @allurearia

Way too close by @zriasstuff

Lessons In Love by @obsessedwithceleste

His Favorite* by @angelfrombeneth

get him back! by @lizthewriter

Lonely by @evergone

You know better*by @hpimagines

daddy issues by @bettymylove

Not so innocent* by @hpimagines

hot chocolate fluff by @finalgirllx

First Impressions PT 1 by @zriasstuff

Second Chances PT 2 by @zriasstuff

Sharing a bed PT 1 by @papercorgiworld

Sharing a bed PT 2* by @papercorgiworld

let me fuck you* by @slytherinslut0

dreams come true* by @jayybugg

the tension* by @mxqdii

Cuddly by @maraudersmyloves

confess by @kelstey

Blinding Ire by @darklinsblog

A Cold Comfort by @ana-reblogsposts

Fake Stalker Prequel by @anawritez-posts

Fake Stalker by @anawritez-posts

Voicemail by @anawritez-posts

Confundus* by @mrsdarkandyandere7

Since Forever by @suugarbabe

mine by @sapphicwhxre

personas by @sapphicwhxre

tell me we weren’t just friends by @lizthewriter

Restraints* by @slytherins-journalist

The Study* by @etfrin

[sakamoto-days]

Nagumo Yoichi for PASH MAGAZINE!

[staying-elive]

Oohh... look who took over #2 again?

Yes, Tbolts had a little more over the weekend. Yes, it's only 66k but I DON'T CARE.

Edit: Tbolts Monday to Monday weekly average has dropped to 3.6 million a day.

Will take approximately 12 days without further drops to reach 200M domestic.

[binah-beloved]

busy. Binah laying on top of and compressing you until all of your stress is gone, okay?

[hiruko-shizuhara]

update thanks to @shsl-tsumugi: higher quality drawing hiruko! drawn by the mangaka for goblin slayer, not komatsuzaki as i originally guessed lmao

[jmdbjk]

Bangtan weekly report.

Hello everyone.

A sign of Yoongi! Literally! his signature on a wall at the grand opening of actor Ma Dong Seok's (or Don Lee) boxing gym. Is Yoongi doing boxing workouts now?

Even Chef Baek and Psy attended this grand opening. Yoongi's signature had its own separate panel on the wall...

Kookie finally came home to Weverse:

"ARMY, are you doing well? I'm good I'm working out a lot And I'm doing lots of cleaning too, just really cleaning it all, from floor to ceiling I'm making rice well too It's already mid-March I will come again I miss you a lot" (Trans cr; Aditi @ bts-trans)

I know they take aptitude tests etc. to discern what military specialty/occupation/job they would match better. It is fitting he's ended up in a job that keeps him indoors in a very methodical environment doing something he's already shown an interest in.

There's a chance those who work in the kitchen have to wake up a little earlier than the others to begin preparing the food.

And it tickles me to think there are probably many who surround him who address him as hyung.

AND! I know when he sees Jimin enter the cafeteria, he gets the hugest brightest smile on his face. If he has any say-so in the kitchen, he is making sure someone makes and serves the biggest pancake, best pork cutlet and gives Jimin a huge serving of pork and kimchi stew.

Taehyung sighting at a Compose Coffee in Chuncheon:

Looks like he's found his military version of wooga squad...

I think the organization of "promotions" for Fri(end)s was excellent. I am 100% sure Tae came up with the idea of having people he knows react to the MV. The fan meet that happened yesterday, scheduled Stationhead listening parties and the WKorea thing is pretty brilliant too where it appears he'll sing the song in a prerecorded clip to be posted soon.

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I wasn't sure if we would be able to get the song to #1 on the iTunes Top Songs list but we did it! There were some big releases yesterday.

And Hobi posted this on his IG stories:

This Wednesday will be the 100 day mark for Jimin and Jungkook (Tuesday for Tae and Namjoon). I wonder if all soldiers reaching that mark immediately take their 3 days off (or however many days it is) or can they choose when they want to take it?

I'd like to think Jungkook would be able to squeeze in a little bit of time enjoying one of those $1000 bottles of whisky that we spied in his fridge. I would assume he'll also swing by the house construction to pick out colors and flooring and such. I hope they get to eat some really good food and see all the people they want to see.

I learned they've been conducting readiness training and drills this past week with the U.S. forces stationed in South Korea. The report I read said they've doubled the scale of their drills this go round. (big worried sigh).

If you are in the northern hemisphere, I hope your allergies are not bothering you too much.

[bringthesauerkraut]

Welcome to The Late Night Archive! (UPDATED FOR 2025)

Hi! My name is Victoria, I’m a huge Jon Stewart fan (understatement of the century) & I am the owner of The Late Night Archive.

What is The Late Night Archive?

Its a big fuck you to Paramount basically. It's an archive of basically everything that Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Craig Ferguson, Conan O'Brien, Trevor Noah (& as many other TDS correspondents as I can) have ever done.

After the online archive was wiped, there is now no longer an easy way for anyone to watch any of our beloved Late Night Hosts back catalogue. So, I took it upon myself to create a way for this to happen simply because I believe Paramount made a stupid fucking decision & thanks to my health, I have the time required to do it.

It's still a work in progress but I'm making really good headway on it & it will actually be finished at some point, but I am only one person so don't expect it to be done tomorrow.

*EDIT* I have actually had to split up the archive as due to new developments, there is simply too much for one archive now. 

I will link it when it is complete.

This blog will basically be used to post updates & clips of TDS/TCR/Stewbert etc that either do not exist on this site or have been removed because of the archive wipe. FUCK PARAMOUNT.

The other use is Jon Stewart thirst posts as I have been willingly doing his bidding since I first saw him late at night on BBC2 in 1997. Yes, I am indeed old lol. & British. Sorry 😆

So if there is anything specific people would like to see or just want to shout into the void about Jon Stewart, ask away! 😊

Use the tag The Late Night Archive to find all my videos/posts or use the ones below to find specific posts. (Reorganising - be finished by end of week)

POST TAGS

(some crossover between tags)

Jon Specific

Jon Stewart Thirst Posts (videos/text posts & dumb thirsty 4am episode commentary)

Jon Related But Not TDS (Jon Stewart Show/ The Problem/Misc)

General Collections

Random Daily Show Segments

Random Colbert Report Segments

Featuring John Oliver

Stephen Colbert Performing

TLNA Stewbert posts

Jon vs Fox News

Seasonal TDS Posts (Thanksgiving/Black Friday & Christmas)

Specific Collections

2010 Vacation Goatee Week

Jon's Lindsey Graham Impression (Aside from the two full segment ones, the rest are NOT listed in the Random Daily Show Segments tag - only here)

A Colbert Christmas Advent Calendar (These are NOT listed in the Random Colbert Report Segments tag - only here)

Colbert Super Pac Saga (in progress)

Anthony Weiner Saga 2011 -2013 (in progress)

The Glenn Beck Performance Pieces (in progress)

Gitmo the cuddliest prison detainee! (in progress)

Stephen & Jimmy BFFS for six months (coming soon)

Requests & Asks

Late Night Archive Requests

Full Episodes

Full Episode Links

(EDIT: Paramount came for ALL the episodes, sorry. There are google drive links under the pictures so you can watch them there. Because of this, no more full episodes will be uploaded here)

[just-a-mild-juke]

2025 week 11

Average week 10 weight: 91kg/200.6lbs Average week 11 weight: 90.1kg/198.6lbs (even my weekly average is now in Onederland! Yay!) Change: -0.9kg/2lbs Streak of weeks with >100k steps: 6 Streak of days with >10k steps: 45

RHR is a mystery and I'm gonna stop paying attention to it on a weekly basis I think because wut? In the long run it is still going down and that is all that matters.

Sleep, on the other hand, is back to normal after last week's weird anomaly.

Not the most productive week, tbh, I did bare minimums for a lot of stuff. The good thing is that my minimums are nothing to scoff at and I am moving along perfectly well, tyvm.

[thesecondsanctuary]

I’m always thinking about the implications here. What did martlet end up doing. First of all, she puts in her two weeks very soon after this. She can’t really continue to take advantage of her connection to alphys if she’s severed it. That’s a speedy investigation. Second, did she like, straight up just try to break into the true lab again, like she did when she took the DT? Or did she actually try to question alphys about it directly? What came out of all this?

[louroth]

last name reveal for IDREN//IDA + their moodboard character sheet

[blysse-and-blunder]

in lieu of a spring storm

may 4, 2025 ~ 9pm

bonsoir, tout le monde! (spoken like a drunken bon vivant coming in from the rain)

i haven't done one of these since february? before february? which might as well be another lifetime at this point, and it's been on my to-do list specifically, being rolled over to the following week, for at least a month now. but i cleaned a bit earlier and i'm leaning into the whole springtime fresh start thing lately, so let's begin.

reading i find that i like having one long-term project read going which i can chip away at while alternating with lighter/faster/escapism/fantasy romps etc. i had two or three different candidates for 'project book' this spring and part of the problem has been that they're all libby holds, so i keep only getting so far with one before it's gone again (!) but i've made decent progress on this one: after getting started with the audio book of a different translation, my hold on the new katz translation of the brothers karamazov (many thanks to @witcheryen for the rec!) finally came in. loving the footnotes! i'm fifty-three-ish percent through and The Thing Just Happened which i will not describe because it is, notably, not described in the text (and also i managed to get this far in life without knowing What Happens, i guess i hadn't read a blurb or summary even a little? and i'm glad of it actually, it added to the sense of mounting suspense), but now we have a lot of book left to get through and i am Concerned about what happens next. i'm not at all sure what to make of the various personalities, including the titular family, but i want good things to happen for alyosha.

Now for the fun stuff. the opposite of a project read is something i dash through almost too quickly, excited to see what happens next at the expense of sometimes savoring every detail. for better or for worse, that's what happened with becky chambers' a psalm for the wildbuilt, which i got as an audiobook and devoured this weekend-- i started listening as i left the house to run errands, and then walked around my city neighborhood in an increasing daze of pleased wonder, buying cat food with only half my attention as i thought about listening for crickets, and making tea for anyone who might need an hour's break, and why having a Good Life can still leave you feeling tired when you wake up in the morning. once again, i didn't really know what to expect from this book-- i went into it thinking it was going to be one thing (i'd had the premise of the robots in the wild explained to me) but Sibling Dex and their character, storyline, and indeed the human society aspects of the world building were a total surprise. and a total gift. i had not expected...optimistic scifi. if anything, i had expected melancholy, or vaguely instructive scifi, based on what i thought i'd heard about it. i didn't expect, but it turns out i desperately needed, to meet splendid speckled mosscap.

watching along with the rest of the world, conclave, i guess. caught up on conclave a few weeks ago, again with @witcheryen (!), and then turned around and immediately watched it again with my housemate to watch him watch it. great flick, not what i was expecting at all based on the first five-ten minutes at least. spoilers for conclave i guess: it's not a murder mystery! the mystery of how the previous pope died isn't a mystery that needs to be solved. apparently. it also went by much faster, i thought they'd be in there for weeks, i thought we were in for a looong haul. big fan of what it actually is and what it actually said, though. i also am constitutionally unable to join in with everyone on here having wild conclave fandom fun, but i'm glad you are all having a nice time, carry on and god bless. check out this rad alternative poster i found by @mrtheodorepeng.

listening this is the category where i got stuck when drafting this post, because i feel like i've been cycling through several good things lately but without truly wanting to analyze / talk about any of them in quite the depth i ordinarily would here. woke up a few days ago already humming eliza rickman's cover of 'riches and wonders', which is a mountain goats track originally but which i have been enamoured by in this new guise. noteworthy: the strings richly chugging along with this very satisfying edge, her voice soaring in the third phrase of each verse, and the lines:

I am healthy, I am whole, but I have poor impulse control. and I want to go home. but I am home.

regularly return to angie mcmachon's 'serotonin' for all the obvious reasons. noteworthy: the subtle drums + bass in the background, leading to this gorgeous slow build, and the lines 'lost my sense of being an ocean' and 'to find my sistine chapel ceiling,' which both caught me off guard and hooked me to listen to this song again. and again. apparently it's in heartstopper??

oh yeah and i saw lucy dacus live last weekend with @cerebralsilhouettes ! pictures to follow

playing @spoonierbard and partner sat me down and coaxed / lightly coached / patiently enjoyed me playing through the first half-ish of undertale, more than a full decade after my cousin first bought it for me on steam. having been on tumblr for most of that time, i have picked up a thing or two, but it's funny to me the things that i didn't know or that the cultural osmosis didn't prepare me for at all! enjoyed this guy:

making started some seeds. they're all from at least 2020, and i'm not taking especially good care of them, so we'll see if anything results. the garden bed-bed (raised bed cobbled together during lockdown out of the assorted scraps of an ikea bed frame abandoned by a former roommate) needs some tlc before anything can be planted in it, e.g. there's a tree growing up through the middle of it that i'll need to dissuade, but at least i'll be mostly around this summer and able to do more active gardening than i did last year, hopefully.

working on realized today how behind i am on grading, and therefore on moving from grading back to the writing i was going to pick back up 'at the beginning of may' after taking the end of april to just knock out these last few quizzes (narrator voice: there are at least 30 remaining quizzes as we speak), and got briefly overwhelmed. started a new sport (?) this week, and am therefore going to bed early tonight so that i can be at my best for Swords tomorrow night, and also for making the most of tomorrow after my meeting with my welsh professor. also! my translation project of the welsh plays is going well! we did the cold read with a rough draft, i have shared it with the prof who's going to direct and also collaborate on putting some poetry back into the translation, and we have our performance dates >:)