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[destkelamedia]

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[seat-safety-switch]

"Aren't you worried about your brand?" asks Josh, the prototypical hominid who was formed in a vat this very morning. Even though scientists have conclusively proven they don't have souls, it is still not okay to commit violence upon their unpersons.

Back on my first cycle, society actually used real humans as internet marketing experts. It was cruel, for sure, but we had no other options. Initial experiments in training dogs to do it had raised the ire of every animal-rights group from here to Baltimore (inclusive,) but you can always find someone desperate enough to work a dirty, demeaning job. A job like search-engine optimization.

"Can you hop on a call to discuss your content strategy?" begs Josh, possibly out of fear. Judging from the look of his skin, he is probably at most six hours old, and nobody has told him what is going on. Sure, maybe he heard from a couple of the older clones in the back of the U-Haul® on their way to my neighbourhood. Just rumour and innuendo, like a schoolyard gossip mill. If I agreed, he wouldn't know how to hop on a call, or even what one was.

Believe me, I've tried talking to them before. Although annoying, I genuinely am confident that the protos are a lifeform that deserves respect. Same reason I try to help earthworms back onto the lawn after a rainstorm. All life is valuable, and unlike previous generations, none of these synthetic non-people asked to go into such a horrific industry.

Josh can tell that he is losing me. He has never experienced failure before, not since he came out of the basic education creche in the factory. He begins to weep, which is honestly pretty brave of him because I hadn't thought they worked out the bugs with that whole system yet. I am nothing if not sympathetic, so I offer him a way out.

"Do you want to go to the junkyard with me? You can hold the flashlight," I ask. He responds with a tearful look of pure glee. It's always easy getting these suckers to do what you want. Tonight, I'll let Josh sleep in the backyard, but not out in the open. Don't want the neighbours thinking that I'm starting up some kind of e-commerce scam.

[cerastes]

I was wondering, are there any characters in Arknights that on the surface are jokesters, but anre actually immensely deep and powerful? I know about characters like Jaye and Nothing, but they aren’t particularly funny and casual. What I’m looking for is someone like Sans, basically.

"Nothing isn't particularly funny" oh we're just fundamentally different people then because I smile like a babe listening to jingling keys every time he's in the scene.

In the exact same regard as Sans, 1:1? Not really. Similar enough in some regards or in essence that they warrant mention? Yeah, I'd say so.

Aak is a good case, I'd say. Aak is a very casual guy, perhaps excessively so, referring to Doctor as "my dude" and in general having a very whimsical whistle to his steps, not to mention his seemingly jovial soul. Then you dig a bit deeper and you realize, well, despite the way he behaves, he takes what he does extremely seriously and is one of the most ruthless characters in the cast as a whole, in addition to being a medical sciences prodigy the likes of which Terra has seldom seen, and being infamous in the criminal underworld as a vigilante and executioner that has no qualms disposing of a mother fucker, if said fornicator of moms is a criminal and adversely affects others. See, the thing with Aak is that he, for the longest time, hated being so good at the medical sciences, because as he saw with his own twisted father, a brutal underworld doctor and criminal, curing illnesses doesn't begin to truly rid the common man of their suffering: There are always oppressors, abusers, those who selfishly make lives difficult for others for their own gain. Aak believes that to be a truly good "doctor", he needs to eliminate the root cause of the people's suffering: Criminals that will hurt them. Since his cooperation with Rhodes Island, his views have shifted a bit for the better (understanding people better, finding a good friend that shares his latent curiosity and love for the medical sciences and research in Warfarin), but it's still evident that Aak remains an unstable vat of fluoroantimonic acid waiting to bubble over, if the right trigger is present. He's not particularly powerful, with all his evaluations being "Normal" and "Standard", but his ruthlessness, his knowledge of the underworld, and his deep knowledge of medical sciences do make him quite dangerous despite "my dude"ing you.

Ceobe is the other one that comes to mind. Ceobe basically replicates the experience of having a big dumb loving dog, not just with Doctor, but with others as well, such as her canonical friends Vulcan and Sesa (Sesa being someone that also qualifies imo), and is in general a fun goober that livens up every scene she's in on virtue of, well, being a big dumb loving dog with all that entails: She WILL break into the kitchen even though she knows it's forbidden for her to do this, she WILL steal food, she WILL whimper and apologize, she WILL grow immensely defensive over her loved ones over things like "a loud vacuum cleaner" and WILL act over any perceived threat with maximum power; the entirety of Integrated Strategies 1, Ceobe's Fungimist, comes about because Ceobe gets high on hallucinogenic mushrooms she found in the jungle, and goes apeshit because she imagines this whole scenario where Villains have kidnapped Doctor and only she and whatever friends she can recruit on the way can save them, resulting in her beating the absolute shit out of numerous warrior tribes Dynasty Warriors style. Let's talk about that last part! She beat the absolute shit out of numerous warrior tribes Dynasty Warriors style while high as fuck on shrooms. She can do that! Because Ceobe is actually fucking shredded. Despite being a Funny Dog, Ceobe is a legitimately Arts genius, having no formal training and yet being able to use Arts with no problem, almost instinctively, as well as simply being able to harness pretty much any weapon she touches and empower them further with her Arts. Part of this is definitely because she's VERY Infected, but not even that explains just the sheer magnitude and expertise with which Ceobe seems to use her Arts. And speaking of? She dragged herself, across much of Terra, while incredibly Infected and with no care at all.

Ceobe, by all rights, should be dead. Not even the Medic Operator that wrote her medical file has a lot of faith, and her Oripathy is explicitly very grave and only getting worse. And even in this state, she dragged herself and the small arsenal strapped to her back across the world.

Her Physiological Endurance rank of Outstanding is no joke. Keep in mind, this is a rank equivalent to the toughest and most resilient characters we know of, such as Specter and Hoshiguma.

This is all stuff you'll only ever realize about Ceobe if you pay attention, because she's almost exclusively used for comedic relief, but the funny dog is actually a natural archmage and weaponmaster that just won't fucking die, if we were to use more fantasy adjacent terms for her.

There's more (like Sesa) but those two are the ones that jumped to mind.

[sourcreammachine]

GREEN PARTY MANIFESTO 2024 SUMMARY

tldr: there's a feeling of tension in this manifesto, between youthful zennial climatic ecosocialism and old-guard hippy-liberal environmentalism. this year the greens may well go from 1 MP to the dizzying heights of 2 (there's whispers on the wind that they may even get 3...), and the green council delegation is at 800-odd now, so this could easily be a changing-of-the-guard moment

with the great Berry and the ok Denyer in parliament the party could have more momentum in battling the starmerite government, and with that, it has the ability, the possibility to pick up more momentum. this is a big opportunity in the party's history - over the next five years it can and could be pushed into a holistic ecosocialist movement by the centrally influential mass party membership, and remove the last dregs of its tunnel vision to provide a lefty movement for everyone, green and pink, a Newfoundland coalition. with votes at 16 on the cards and this potential evolution of the party, 2029 could be a big moment for this country's left. whether or not the greens play the role of keystone is up to them

it is also the only manifesto to use the term 'neurodivergent'

💷ECONOMY

wealth tax of 1% on individuals with assets over §10m and 2% for assets over §1b (an extremely humble proposal), reform capital gains and investment dividend taxation to be at the same rates as income taxation, remove the income-based bands on national insurance contributions, ie raising total income taxation by 8% at §50k/a, – altogether raising government revenues by upwards of §70b/a

stratify VAT to reduce it for consumer stuff and hike it for stuff like financial services

permanent windfall tax on banks for whenever they get windfalls

perform a holistic land survey to get the data needed for a new, effective Land Tax

abolish the tax relief on existing freeports and SEZs

heavy carbon tax to raise a boatload of billions, rising progressively over a decade to allow industrial adaptation, for a ~§80b state windfall for five years that'll be for green investment as this windfall starts to recede

renationalise water and energy

§15 minimum wage, 10:1 pay ratio for all organisations public and private (ie §150 sort-of maximum wage, ~§300k/a), mandatory equal pay audits, 'support' lower hours and four-day weeks [clarification needed]

unambiguously define gig workers as workers with contract rights from day one, repeat offenders of gig-slavery will be banned from operating in the country

every City bank required to produce a strategy with a clear pathway to divestment of all fossil fuels "as soon as possible and at least by 2030", every City non-banking organisation simply to be banned from having fossil fuel in their portfolios, credit to be banned for repeat City climate offenders, mandate the BoE to fulfil the funding of the climate transition and climate leadership of the City, FCA to develop measures to ban fossil fuel share trading in the City and immediately prohibit all new shares in fossil fuels

"we will explore legal ways for companies to be transformed into mutual organisations"😈

develop regional cooperative banks to invest in regional SMEs, coops and community enterprises

diversify crop growth, promote local agricultural cooperatives and peripheral urban horticultural farms, give farmers a sort of collective bargain against grocers

aim towards a circular economy: require ten-year warranties on white goods, rollout of right-to-repair

tighten monopoly laws on media with a hard cap preventing >20% of a media market being owned by one individual or company and implement Leveson 2

🏥PUBLIC SERVICES

abolish tuition fees and cancel standing debt

surge nhs funding by §30B, triple labour's spending plans for everything, the entire budget, the entire state, everything

free personal care, with occupational therapy being part of this

35h/w free child care (eg seven hours over five days, or seven days of five hours)

renationalise many academies under local authorities, abolish the "charity" status of private schools and charge VAT

surge funding for smoking-cessation, addiction support and sexual health service

surge funding for public dentistry with free care for children and low-earners

free school breakfasts in primary school and free school lunches for all schools

one-month guarantee of access to mental health therapies

online access to PrEP

let school playing fields be used in the evenings by local sports clubs

greater funding for civic sports facilities and pools

🏠HOUSING

unambiguously-under-the-law nationalise the crown estate for an absolute fuckton of land and assets for housing and for green energy and rewilding for FREE

rent control for local authorities, ban no-fault evictions and introduce long-term leases, create private tenancy boards of tenants

local authorities to have right of first refusal on the purchase of certain properties at aggressive rates, such as unoccupied or uninsulated buildings

all new homes to be Passivhaus standard with mandatory solar panels and heat pumps

§30B across five years to insulate homes, §12B of which is for social homes, and §9B more for heat pumps, and §7B more for summer cooling

planning law reform: council planning mechanisms to priorities little developments all over the place rather than sprawling blobs, demolitions to require as thorough a planning application as erections, new developments required to not be car dependent

planning laws to require large-scale developments feature access to key community infrastructures such as transport, health and education, often mandating the construction of new key infrastructures, support nightlife and local culture in planning regulations

exempt pubs and local cultural events from VAT

building materials to be reusable, builders' waste rates to be surged to encourage use of reuse

750k new social homes in five years

🚄TRANSPORT

'a bus service to every village', restore local authority control and/or ownership of their busses

renationalise rail via franchise-concession lapsing, slowly assume ownership of the rolling stock (currently leased, and would continue to be so under labour's implementation of renationalisation) by buying a new train when the stock needs to be replaced

electrification agenda across the rail network, strategic approach to rail line and station reopenings

bring forward (sorta, the tories suspended it but labour says they'll reinstate it) the new petrol car ban from 2030 to 2027, existing petrol cars targeted to be off the road by 2034, investigate road-price charges as a replacement for petrol tax, hike road tax proportionally to vehicle weight, drop urban speed limits from 50kph to 30kph (or from 30mph to 20mph if you only speak Wrong), mass funding for freightrail and support logistics firms transitioning away from lorries

§2.5b/a for footpaths and cycleways, target of 50% of urban journeys to be extravehicular by 2030

frequent-flyer levy, ban on domestic flights within three-hour rail distance, remove the exemption of airline fuel from fuel tax, prioritise training of airline workers into other transportational jobs

👮FORCE

abolish the home office, transfer its police/security portfolio to the justice ministry and its citizenship/migration portfolio to a new migration ministry separate from the criminal justice system

abolish the kill the bill bill and restore the right to protest

recognise palestine, push for immediate ceasefire and prosecution of war crimes, back the south africa case, "[support] an urgent international effort to end the illegal occupation of palestinian land"

grant asylum-seekers the right to work before their application is granted

end the hostile environment

abolish Prevent

end routine stop-and-search and facial recognition

commission to reform 'counterproductive' drug regime, decriminalise personal possession

amend the Online Safety Act to "[protect] political debate from being manipulated by falsehoods, fakes and half-truths", ie actually protecting 'fReE sPeEcH' and not everything that rightists imply by that phrase

decriminalise sex work

reform laws to give artists IP protections against ai

cancel trident and disarm

push for nato reforms (in its and our interest, they're not russophiles, they're not galloway, it's ok): get it to adopt a no-first-use nuclear policy, get it to prioritise diplomatic action first rather than military reaction, get it to adopt a stronger line on only acting for the defence of its member states

right to roam🚶‍♂️

🌱CLIMATE

zero-carbon by 2040, rather than the ephemeral ostensible government target of 2050

stop all new oil/gas licenses, end all subsidy for oil/gas industries, regulate biofuels to end greenwashing, end subsidies for biomass

decarbonise energy by 2030, minimum threshold of energy infrastructures to be community owned, "end the de facto ban on onshore wind" with planning reform

massively expand the connections between the insular grid and the UCTE continental grid to increase electricity import and export and prevent the need for energy autarky

more targeted bans on single-use plastics

"give nature a legal personhood" ok grandma let’s get you to bed

§2b/a to local authorities for local small-business decarbonisation

"cease development of new nuclear power stations, as nuclear energy is much more expensive and slower to develop than renewables. we are clear that nuclear is a distraction from developing renewable energy and the risk to nuclear power stations from extreme climate events is rising fast. nuclear power stations carry an unacceptable risk for the communities living close to facilities and create unmanageable quantities of radioactive waste. they are also inextricably linked with the production of nuclear weapons. green MPs will campaign to phase out existing nuclear power stations." because some people just can't let go of the seventies. nuclear is good. nuclear is our friend

invest in r&d to find solutions to decarbonise 'residual' carbon in the economy, such as HGVs or mobile machinery

increase unharvested woodland by 50% (no time frame given), grants to farmers for scrub rewilding, rewet Pete Boggs, make 30% of the EEZ protected waters and ban bottom trawling

§4b/a in skills training to stop gas communities getting Thatchered, prioritising shifting these workers into offshore wind

a.. licensing scheme for all pet animals? you guys sure about that one

regulate animal farming with a goal of banning factory farms, ban mass routine antibiotics, ban cages/close confinement and animal mutilation

ban all hunting including coursing and "game", ban snaring, ban hunt-landscaping such as grouse moors, end the badger cull, mandate licensing of all animal workers with lifetime striking off for cruelty convictions, compulsory hedgehog holes in new fencing, 'push' for 'ending' horse and dog racing [clarification needed], new criminal offences for stealing and harming pets, 'work towards' banning animal testing

🗳️DEMOCRACY

proportional representation for parliament and all councils

abolish voter ID

votes at sixteen

votes for all visa'd migrants

restore the electoral commission's prosecutory powers and remove the cap on fines it can impose on parties

increase Short Money, especially for smaller parties

create a manifest legal category of organisation for think tanks, to allow better enforcement of lobbying and funding restrictions

consider fun new measures for political accessibility such as MP jobsharing and allowing public provision of offices for all parliamentary candidates

🎲OTHER STUFF

Self-ID including nonbinary recognition, including with an X passport marker

"work towards rejoining the eu as soon as the domestic political situation is favourable", join the eea now (with restored free movement)

let local authorities invest shares in sports teams, including professional ones, dividends ringfenced for public sports facilities and coaching

right to die

[thetreasuregoblin]

Some random thoughts on previous eras in Numenera

First world: that's us! The cyberpunk future happens here. The end of this era brings some off-world habitation but mostly for research and mining purposes. Corporations and nations compete for stakes. Influences: Blade Runner, cyberpunk novels/movies, Infest the Rats Nest

Second World: grimy pre-FTL sci-fi. Colonies on Mars and the moons of Jupiter. Mining on Venus and the asteroid belt. Limited extra-solar travel, generation ships and cryogenics. Planetary identities start to form. Influences: The Expanse, Firefly, RimWorld.

Third World: shiny 50s-70s sci-fi. FTL invented, but it's still pretty slow. Human culture is tied heavily to planet/moon/ship of birth. Limited contact with extraterrestrials, expansive off-world colonization. Influences: Lost in Space and it's ilk, some early Star Trek, Flash Gordon

Fourth world: Alien empire invades Earth. A couple sci-fi genres happening at once. Humanity fractured between the enslaved solar system, recent Terran colonies cut off from their home system, and old Second World colonies starting to make contact with the greater universe. Influences: XCOM 2, Star Control 2, Homeworld and various other sci-fi strategy games

Fifth World: New Earth Federation. Terran colonies, with aid from alien allies and Earth rebels, overthrow the Aliens ruling Earth and establish a new federation with help from salvaged imperial tech their alien allies. FTL travel is streamlined and in frequent use. Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and gene-modification see their advent here. Influences: XCOM: Chimera Squad, Mass Effect, Battlefield Earth, some other stuff probably

Sixth World: Post-Human Revolution. Humanity exists in myraid forms, alongside numerous other sapient beings such as androids, designer vat-grown life, uplifted animals, mutants and aliens. Many of these peoples are afforded lesser rights than "pure" humans, and tensions worsen until they explode. Alien factions take sides, Earth is devastated and sparsely-populated on the surface. A new civilization forms, lead by AI and psionic beings. Influences: Eclipse Phase, a little 40k, any "AI Revolution" media.

Seventh World: Earth Reconstruction. Feeling either a sense of responsibility or ownership, various off-world factions collaborate to restore Earth's ecosystem. The current ruling classes of Earth splinter due to ideological differences. The surface is rendered habitable again thanks to advanced nanotechnology. This era is the source of the Iron Wind, and likely the era in which the sun was stabilized. Earth is "jointly administrated" by a coalition of sapient beings. Earth becomes a sort of trade hub but is functionally a colony. Influences: Dying Earth, Disco Elysium, some other stuff I'm sure

Eighth World: don't have a very functional idea of what this era looked like, other than "humans rule the world again and get mostly cut off from the rest of the universe." Maybe this is when the datasphere is created and a bunch of them fuck off into the Internet dimension.

[greenerteacups]

dear, dear GTC 🩷 i was reflecting on the imagery of your last chapter. when Hermione returned from detention, and when they figured the scars could not be healed by magic. everyone with Muggle exposure scrambled to put together a first aid game plan. i know it crushed Draco to do next to nothing, to watch others assist "his Hermione, his girl." but i was thinking about how you highlighted the way he held her hand, never let it go, all throughout. it got me thinking that this (or their's) is the best kind of friendship. sure, we can't always have a solution or contribute to one, but if we can commit to holding a best friend's hand, to being their scene partner and mirror, to being actively present for the present and unseen future– it's the best kind of friendship, the best 'i will be here, i will love you,' we can ever give. congrats on another new chapter, can't wait to watch this magic unfold 🩷

This is a lovely comment, and I'm so pleased with it. The mechanics of wounds and injuries in the Harry Potter universe are a really fun sandbox, because on the one hand you've got all this magical healing that seems capable of reversing major (normal) injures (broken bones, gashes, wounds) really effectively, but you also have: scars! Harry's extremely visible and inconveniently iconic scar, which no one ever suggests fixing, implying that they can't. Ostensibly because it was created by magic, but still. Same with I cannot tell lies, Ron's scars from the brain vat in the DOM, and Hermione's "mudblood" scar on her arm. It's also much cooler on a subtextual level if magic can heal but not prevent scarring — like, you can recover from almost any wound, but you will never be as you were before it touched you. Sick.

Anyway, the scene in the common room is a chance for Harry to show off the skills he brings to the quartet, apart from being the rallying-point and de facto leader: his upbringing as what is effectively a house servant to the Dursleys means he has a suite of domestic skills that the others don't, e.g. cooking, cleaning, mending, basic first aid. I like this idea a lot as a reversal of the (supposedly) masculine suites of skills that protagonists often bring to the party, e.g. combat, strategy, decisiveness, etc. And it's also, crucially, a moment when magic doesn't help, and there's this sense that for once, being muggle-born/muggle-raised is a significant tactical advantage in the battle they're waging.

And then you have Draco, who is trying to figure out what his place is in all of this, and so far has come up with nothing better than: "by Hermione's side," which is, of course, a very good step, but still isn't a terribly stable foundation to build your identity on. He needs a purpose. After the end of Book 4, he's searching for someone to be that isn't the Draco Malfoy he at one point seemed destined to become, and doing so in the midst of this shocking violence leaves him scared and adrift. Holding her hand creates a lifeline for both of them: for her, a source of comfort and security as she undergoes a deeply harrowing experience, and for him, a source of purpose in an otherwise chaotic scene. They ground each other. I tend to see that as one of the core facets of their dynamic, and it comes especially to the fore in moments of danger/tension, like this one.

[recuperationdisliker]

i have a principle that arguments that i disagree with can't be on this blog with the username still attached. part of it is the fact that fascists argue with people in order to get access to their platform. you sharing their arguments is part of the strategy. (but not everyone whose argument i refuse to reblog is a fascist.)

the other part of it is that i don't want any part in a harassment campaign. unfortunately some people can't help themselves but to send harassment when they see an argument they disagree with.

the aggregate result of this process is something that i don't find particularly helpful for the kind of society i want to live in.

that said, the "vat is zis orange fuck" post has affected me deeply.

[anon-e-miss]

Sizeable 2

What being fragged by a giant Jazz had not ruined, carrying his giant bitlet had finished. Due to how far Prowl’s forge had extended during the carrying, it did not retract all the way flat after giving emergence. The extra mass his frame had take on in his carrying had stuck around on his belly and hips. His wells remained obscenely large but he was still nursing his femmeling, perhaps they would shrink some after she weaned but with his luck, they would deflate like popped balls. Even his face had gained a new softness and Prowl hardly recognized himself in the mirror. The trim enforcer he had been was long gone. A plump originator was in his place.

“Oh eee!” Strongarms squealed with glee as Prowl came to retrieve her from her crib.

He pressed a button to drop the gate so he would not need to try and reach in. She was a roly poly bitlet, perfectly sweet and round. Ratchet had worried that Prowl’s frame would not be able to support a bitlet twice the size of the average Praxian newling but his wells had never come close to running dry. Prowl released a vent, she was getting very heavy, and carried her over to the rocking chair. Reaching behind his neck, Prowl untied his apron and let it drop. Strongarm needed no help to find her way to his nozzle and she latched quickly. She kneaded his other well as she drank from the first. Prowl could already feel his energon drawing down. It remained uncomfortable for Prowl to wear armour, even stellar-cycles after emergence. Until he returned to active service, he largely went without, wearing an apron to keep some sense of decency.

Strongarm knew nothing else. She had no concept of armour and propriety yet. She knew her progenitor’s garb was firmer than her originator’s and that was plenty at her age. Jazz was already teaching her to be gentle with her originator because she was so big and strong. Prowl flushed a little at the thought of Jazz. At some point he had stopped shifting back down to the size he had always been before. It may have been before Prowl had even given emergence. Where once Jazz’s helm only reached Prowl’s chin, now Prowl’s helm only reached his waist. Strongarm showed no signs of shifting her mass. It was possible she would just be a giantess by Praxian standards. She was healthy and that was all that mattered to her originator. Prowl was just so small compared to her progenitor and it always made his belly tense to think of it.

He knelt on the floor and played with Strongarm after she was done nursing. Prowl shifted awkwardly as he tried to find a comfortable position as they stacked blocks. He was wearing a plug in his sheath, trying to convince his spike to remain retracted but his spike was another thing that had been broken either by fragging Jazz or carrying for him, it would not remain retracted. It could not just hang out once he returned to wearing armour and so Prowl was committed to retraining this errand piece of equipment. Either it would learn to stay retracted or Prowl would get used to wearing a plug.

A consequence of Jazz keeping a giant’s size was that he had a giant’s appetite and Prowl made huge vats of soups and stews and other fuels every orn to keep him in good health. He would need to cook even more once Strongarm was a sparkling. In fairness, Jazz did cook some but he was still in active service and sometimes he was gone for orns. It only made sense for Prowl to keep the home to the greater extent. Immediately after emergence, Prowl had kept to his berth on Jazz’s orders but Prowl had recovered from the ordeal and Jazz had returned to work. It was a war and soldiers had to serve. Even now, Prowl did what he could, processing intelligence and formulating strategies as he kept up the home and kept up with his active little giantess.

“This here’s the prettiest pair I ever saw,” Jazz declared as he came home from an orn long mission.

“Gee gee!” Strongarm squealed and she toddled over to her progenitor. Jazz lifted her up with perfect ease and swung her about, something Prowl did not dare do.

“Were ya good for Ori?” Jazz asked.

“Ooh oh,” Strongarm giggled. Jazz set her down and scooped Prowl up, kissing him to the point of breathlessness.

“Oh Jazz,” Prowl gasped, faceplates flushing.

“Hello, gorgeous,” Jazz purred. “Lookin’ beautiful as always.”

“Thank you,” Prowl replied. Jazz always said that, or things like that. He always lusted over Prowl’s plump frame. “Your timing was good. I was just finishing dinner.”

“Lemme get the Princess ‘n myself cleaned up, ‘n I’ll set the table,” Jazz declared.

He was a good progenitor. The moment he came in the door, whatever horror he had committed in the Primce’s service or whatever horror he had witness by Decepticon servos, he was always sweetness and joy with Strong arm. After dinner, he played with their creation and then took on the task of bathing her. Prowl sorted out the kitchen as Jazz wrangled their creation. It was certainly easier to get on top of messes when Jazz was around to chase after Strongarm. Prowl put the leftovers away and wiped down the counters and tables. He put the blocks away and for a moment appreciated that the habsuite was not a total disaster. Putting Strongarm to berth was a team effort. She would not settle without nursing first but after she had drunk her fill, she was happy to be read to and sung to by her progenitor and then tucked into her crib. As she snuggled in for a long recharge, Jazz scooped up her originator. Prowl squeaked.

“I have plans for ya, Prowler,” Jazz said.

“Oof!” Prowl gasped as Jazz laid him across the table and dove between his legs. He covered his mouth to keep from squealing and waking up his creation. Jazz’s glossa was long and wide, his helm was wide as an average mech’s waist. Prowl’s legs were spread wide by his shoulders as Jazz sank his glossa into Prowl’s valve. He did not stop even as Prowl’s hips bucked as he overloaded. Jazz fragged him with his digits as he sucked Prowl’s mode. By the time he was through, Prowl was utterly limp. His optics brightened and his mouth fell open as Jazz lined the tip of his spike up with Prowl’s shimmering folds.

“Been too long,” Jazz groaned as he speared Prowl with his ruinous spike.

It had been a while, largely because Jazz had been on the other side of the planet or Prowl had been exhausted with their creation. Prowl watched the outline of Jazz’s spike in his belly as Jazz broke into his gestational forge. How could he think when a spike thicker than his leg was carving its way through his internals? All Prowl could do was cover his mouth so as not to disturb Strongarm. His optics rolled back in his helm as Jazz’s spike sawed in and out of his valve. It never stopped feeling too big, too long and too thick. Just as it never stopped triggering all of his internal biolights and nodes, making him overload time and again.

“Aie... Aie!” Prowl squealed behind his servo when Jazz pushed his spike into his forge. The plug in his sheath popped out and his lip spike extended and laid flat on his belly. No transfluids oozed out. His reservoirs had not produced them in a long time. His optics were wide and glowing white. Jazz had fragged him so deep since that time in the training room. If his spike went any deeper it would come out Prowl’s mouth.

“Y’re so pretty takin’ my spike,” Jazz purred to him. He towered over Prowl as he fragged his womb. Prowl watched in a lustful fog as Jazz pulled out and thrust straight back in and his processor broke. The next thing he knew he was laying across the counter and Jazz was fragging him from behind. The giant Amaglus leaned over him and purred into his audio. “Next time yer baking cookies for Strongarm yer gonna get wet rememberin’ this is where ya conceived her brothers.”

[nordholm]

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[madisonellie1]

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[mixing0]

Ideas for a potential (and ideal for my tastes) Kirby Party game!!

This'll be long, obviously, so I'm leaving everything under the cut.

At its core, the game is a literal copy-and-paste of classic Mario Party. Everyone moves around the board, gathering more of a select item than their competitors to win, with minigames sprinkled throughout. No differences there. The difference comes from what the objects are, in this case.

On the topic of stars:

Here, stars are replaced with food items, given out by Kawasaki who replaces Toad. Whenever Kawasaki is moved, through any means, he prepares a new, unique food item.

When you get to Kawasaki, you can spend 20 point-stars (the Kirby equivalent of coins) for whatever he offers. Or you could spend 25 point-stars to get a different food selected at random.

Why does this matter? Because you can eat these food items for special bonuses, offering a nice helping of strategy to the established norm. Eating them means you lose a point, however, so it should be used very carefully to be effective.

Outside of those, at least one food is offered that has no stat effects and is just your bog standard.

On the topic of items:

Originally, I had planned for most of the items to come straight from Mario Party 2, but after looking more closely into the item system of Parties 5-7 (mainly 6 because it serves as another big influence on the project), I fell in love with the nuance and strategy that could be employed.

With that in mind, I was thinking about revamping the item system and number of items to better fall in line with this style. However, I'll still share the old item lineup, just for personal reference:

Wheelies act as mushrooms, letting you roll two dice blocks, while Rex Wheelies let you roll three.

Warp Stars act as, well, Warp Blocks, letting you swap places with a random player.

The Dimension Mirror allows you to move backward along a board when used. (And this will be more costly, so as not to be absolutely broken like the Reverse Mushroom was.)

The Vat-luck moves Kawasaki to a different space.

The Noddy Network calls Nightmare upon a player of your choosing.

The Enticing Cheese calls Daroach, while the Stinky Cheese prevents Daroach from stealing from you.

The Dinner Bell warps you straight to Kawasaki.

The Invisibility Stone lets you walk through alternate pathways.

The Nebula Chest steals a random item.

The Dueler's Sword... is self-explanatory.

On the topic of boards:

I conceptualized 12 main boards for the game. At the moment, they are:

Augmented Area (Technology-themed.)

Foody Feilds (Grassland, Food-centric theming.)

Corruption Cavern (Mining cave theme.)

Dusky Drawings (Spooky Mansion + Art theme)

Basalt Boulevard (Fire/Lava theme)

Royalty Ring (Castle theme)

Headstrong Honky-tonk (A casino in Merry Magoland.)

Galvanized Garden

Sanguine Sands (Western theme)

Mauve Mountain

Impeccable Iceberg

Nightmare's Nexus (Space Theme)

I may end up removing some of these, adding more, or changing a few of these ideas around.

On the topic of characters:

The roster includes:

Kirby

King Dedede

Meta Knight

Bandana Dee

Marx

Gooey

Adeleine

Ribbon

Magolor

Taranza

Susie

Elfilin

With the following making an appearance as non-playable characters:

Kawasaki (as the host.)

Nightmare (filling Bowser's role.)

Escargoon (who owns the bank.)

Daroach (filling in for Boo.)

Mr. Shine and Mr. Bright (who operate the day/night cycle.)

and other well-known enemies (who serve the other roles as needed.)

Each playable character will have a unique outfit for every board except for two. No one will have a unique outfit on Basalt Boulevard, and everyone will have a unique outfit on Nightmare's Nexus.

The character that does not have a unique outfit on the given board plays an integral role at the end if they lose, triggering a boss fight that acts as a final minigame (sort of similar to the boss minigames in Mario Party 9).

And that's everything I had! I hope you guys like my ideas!

Oh, and be sure to look out for the art I'll be making for this in the future. I've already made a few things for it, but they're all so old now that I feel like revamping them.

[ask-a-bot]

Uhh… nein. Ve don’t get sick anymore, not really. I… I believe ve mentioned at one point zat we vere… we vere experimented on by Shockwave?

I vill not go into detail about any of vat happened, both Downpour und Ich still get night terrors because of it. But essentially ze experiments mutated our immune systemz.

DP und Ich both had preexisting conditions zat prevented uz from fighting on ze front line, so ve vere picked for… chemical varfare I zuppose. Our Immune Systems were designed to handle Plagues, so vhile ve vouldn’t be affected ourselves, ve could still carry ze pathogens.

It vas a Trojan Horse type of Strategy (if you’ve heard of zat human tale). Us Plague Carriers vould be captured, and ze plague ve vere carrying vould infect our captors and spread among ze enemy ranks.

Jou can see vhy these experiments gave me emetophobia right?

Thankfully zis was a strategy that never got implemented, und other uses vere found for our veird immune systems, like recon in strange vorlds or handling toxins.

So ja. Ve don’t get sick anymore, so ve tend to be a bit more careless vith our health. Ve can afford to be.

I remember that project. Soundwave told me about it and I immediately forbade it. Ksssschhhh! Kshoosch! Snf. I pointed out a number of reasons why it was a bad idea, the main one being that the Autobots had the better medical facilities and would likely be able to cure any pathogen we released faster and with fewer casualties than we could.

I thought... I had no idea that he even started that project. What is wrong with him?

[pilawturkey]

Taxation in Turkey for Foreigners

Taxation in Turkey for foreigners presents a popular topic for people living, working and|or planning to work and to live in Turkey within the context of a digital nomad visa. Ever increasing number of remote work opportunities, understanding and absorbing the taxation of remote workers in Turkey is very crucial.

Taxation in Turkey for foreigners represents one of the most important fields for particularly foreigners living and working in Turkey and doing business in Turkey. The Turkish tax system imposes core obligations on Turkish and foreign nationals including income TAX and VAT.  That requires a full-fledged consultation and legal assistance by field experts including tax lawyers in Turkey. This article will highlight how the Turkey digital nomad tax impacts the business for foreign nationals residing or working remotely in Turkey. This article examines the taxation of remote workers in Turkey. It is clear that working remotely in Turkey may be a very rewarding experience, but also may cause serious challenges. The complexity may arise from the fact that nationality of employees, employers and even corporate headquarters might be different. For instance, a Chinese company based in Europe may employ French remote workers living in Turkey.

What are tax laws for taxation in Turkey for foreigners?

In a nutshell, pursuant to Article 66 and 73 of Turkish Constitution, the obligation to pay taxes based on financial resources is required as political responsibilities for all Turkish citizens. Concerning tax regulations, there are three cornerstone legal texts particularly dedicated to tax-oriented issues in Turkey:

firstly, Income Tax Code (Numbered 193),

secondly, Corporate Tax Code (Numbered 5520),

thirdly, Value Added Tax Code (Numbered 3065).

What is more, communiqués play a substantial role in the formulation of specific tax obligations for taxpayers.

For more information, take a look at our practice areas titled Tax Guide

What is the meaning of taxation in Turkey for foreigners?

Understanding taxation rules for foreigners may play an outstanding role upon working and investing in Turkey. Foreign nationals, including digital nomads and freelancers, are subject to tax norms. The Turkish taxes for foreign nationals in Turkey can contain income tax, corporate tax and value added tax based on an individual’s residence status and the source of income.

For digital nomads, the Turkey digital nomad tax framework outlines the obligations and principles for remote workers who earn income from abroad while residing and or working in Turkey. Taxation in Turkey for foreigners  and freelancers must be aware of Turkey taxes for freelancer regulations containing how to meet obligations for invoicing and declaring income.

Can I Be a Digital Nomad in Turkey and is there any taxation in Turkey for foreigners ?

You can work as a foreign freelancer or as a worker for a foreign company.  In the second case, the employer company is situated outside of the country. There seems to be no restrictions in working remotely for any nationality in Turkey. It is particularly noteworthy that being a digital nomad does not require a specific visa for the beginning. Nevertheless, at the end of a touristic visa term, foreign remote workers should provide a legal stay in Turkey through the acquisition of Turkish citizenship or residence permit or work permit.

Conclusion

As a consequence, if you wish to work remotely, please follow up a “better safe than sorry” strategy. On-the-ground, legal consultation may play a vital role in understanding and carrying out relevant legal commitments dedicated to remote working.  Otherwise, you may face serious challenges because of potential legal disputes on the way forward. Criminal or administrative investigations, taxation examinations or even follow-up legal actions may be very disturbing results of working remotely.

For more information about this topic https://www.pilc.law/taxation-of-remote-workers-in-turkey/

[madmaryholiday]

My current looting strategy in fallout 4 is thus: 1) pick up literally every item I can & take everything from dead enemies so I know if I've been in a room before. 2) when I get overencumbered, I first give my companion any useful or valuable items. 3) when the companion can't carry any more stuff or i don't have anything good to give them, I start dumping the useless stuff in the nearest container, preferably near a door in case I want to come back for anything. 4) every time I encounter a crafting station, I scrap or make whatever I can in order to reduce weight. (My current favorite item to make is poisoned caltrops, as they take 5 steel and weigh half as much as 5 steel by itself, and you can exp- AND gold-farm by making and selling them.)

It slows me down, sure, but it helps me keep track of what I've already explored and ensures that I don't miss important quest items. And I never run out of junk to build with, which is nice. Or cooked food to eat. Or random shit to sell when I need caps.

Also I'm like level 56 and I just got the second quest item you have to pluck from some guy's head, so fighting enemies isn't too overwhelming for me right now. Which is great because I'm still REALLY bad at combat.

(I swear the laser weapons always fire slightly to the left of where you aim them, too??? Even when I mod them for best hip-fire accuracy, I miss enemies within bashing distance. Maybe I finally need to use VATS for the point-blank shots?)

[sourcreammachine]

LIBERAL MANIFESTO 2024 SUMMARY

tldr: tinkering reforms to existing structures and services without bothering to fix the overall problems or their causes. literally less ambitions than their previous manifestos. their whole campaign is mostly just getting u to like ed davey by making him look silly

their five basic points:

small business aid

public service investment

deal with the shitwater

as much bilateral eurointegration as possible

democratic reform

💷ECONOMY

reverse tax cuts on the banks and raise business tax to the international standard, raise the tax on digital businesses

balanced budget pledge, but when possible, cut income tax for the poor via raising the personal allowance

expand the british business bank and reestablish the ‘industrial strategy council’ quango (a policy shared by labour)

abolish the two-child benefits cap, bedroom tax and WASPI discrepancy

consumer-side investment for green energy and climate projects, ten-year plan to insulate and heatpump low-income houses, minimum price guarantee for selling home solar to the grid

windfall tax on oil and gas

increase parliamentary oversight of the department of trade

establish a workers’ protection enforcement authority

“independent review” into a living wage — less of a pledge than seen in labour’s policy programme

keep zerohour contracts, right to request a contact after twelve months (not a full right to a contract), employment strategy ‘fit for the age of the gig economy’ (ie embracing it)

expand the soft drinks levy to sugary juice and milkshakes

🏥PUBLIC SERVICES

8000 more GPs

reform dental contracts to prevent practises going private

remove the medical requirement for gender recognition and recognise nonbinary identities

free school meals — only for families in poverty

free personal care for everyone under a national care agency regulator, increased and expanded carers' allowance with paid respite leave

five more hours of free childcare — only for disadvantaged families

'guarantee' gp access within 24 hours, nhs dental access for urgent care, and access to talking therapy — though not fully enumerating this target

toothbrushing lessons in schools

eliminate the prescription charge for mental health prescriptions and 'review the entire schedule of exemptions' for the charge — not abolishing this indefensible illness tax

refom the mental health act to expand rights, self-determination and patient choice

free sign language lessons for parents of deaf children

free ‘acces to’ period products 'for anyone who needs it' [clarification needed]

various provisions for a focus on cancer care

rejoin erasmus+

freevote on the right to die

🏠HOUSING

local authorities can end right to buy in their area

abolish leaseholding — but cap ground rents not abolishing long leases

ten new "garden cities", the failed nothing plan that helped nothing

abolish the land compensation act, letting local governments buy land at current value rather than speculated potential value

use-it-or-lose-it planning permission laws for 'developers who refuse to build'

local authorities can hike council tax by 500% on second homes and surcharge stamp duty (homebuying tax) on overseas buyers

community asset laws to "protect pubs... and other vital infrastructure" [actual quote]

🚄TRANSPORT

reinstate 2030 ban on new petrol cars, build more chargers (including on-street points)

create a railway agency to manage rail systems rather than nationalising the international humiliation that is the private franchise system

build northern powerhouse rail, review the cancellation of HS2-north, ten-year plan for electrifications, open HS1 to new operators to increase international rail

strategy to expand freightrail as much as possible with keen targets to move freight from road to rail

transport ministry scheme to build local authority lightrail, trams and tramtrains

subject private and business-class flights to VAT and supertax private jets, ban domestic flights under 150 minutes (weird, because that's basically all of them, aberdeen to london included)

👮FORCE

expand the national crime agency and its remit

surge funding for armed forces

don't establish the Rwanda concentration scheme

firewall between all public agencies and the home office to prevent the HO gobbling up personal data

'end the hostile environment' [clarification needed]

end loopholes that allow kleptocratic money laundering, seize frozen russian assets and give the money to ukraine

animal welfare bill, ban foie gras and "crack down on puppy and kitten smuggling"

continue to be the american empire's prettiest bitch

🌱CLIMATE

land use framework to restore biodiversity and prevent environmental waste, 'wild belt' to protect environments

sewage tax on water companies, prevent dumping in protected waters... by 2030

legal requirement for landlords to increase energy efficiency of their lorded properties

fully reinstate ban on fracking, ban new coal mines, eliminate fossil fuel subsidies

deposit return scheme for bottles and food containers

seed more seagrass meadows

🗳️DEMOCRACY

SINGLE TRANSFERABLE VOTE for parliament and for all councils

abolish the lords

make parliament elect the prime minister rather than buckingham palace, repeal the reinstatement of the prime minister's indefensible dictatorial ability to dissolve parliament at will

votes at 16 and abolish voter ID

constitutional convention to draft a new Federal Constitution

let european citizens vote, just like citizens of the so-called commonwealth can

cap donations to parties

make the ministerial code a legalised thing that can be enforced with actual consequences, mandate all ministers' instant messages about government business be archived

abolish police commissioners and end new combined authorities, give such powers directly to existing authorities

regulate tv debates under ofcom

an overseas constituency for overseas voters

🎲OTHER STUFF

recognise Palestine and demand immediate ceasefire, proscribe the IRG

disengage many partnerships with china

ban single use vapes

junk food telly adverts banned pre-watershed

make carer status and care leaver status protected characteristics under the equality act

post offices become community government and banking hubs, if u can still trust them

raise subtitle mandate to 80% of telly

levy gambling companies to 'fund research', rather than actually do anything about the international humiliation that is this country's ultra-lax gambling laws and gambling addiction epidemic

rewrite wedding laws, though not necessarily marriage laws