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agracefulfall Ā· 3 months ago
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shy-girl04 Ā· 8 months ago
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le-fils-de-lhomme Ā· 10 months ago
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square-braxket Ā· 1 year ago
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deleted snapchat so all my ramblings are now text posts
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blues run the game by jackson c frank???? crying. amazing.
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reasonsforhope Ā· 7 months ago
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Federal regulators on Tuesday [April 23, 2024] enacted a nationwide ban on new noncompete agreements, which keep millions of Americans ā€” from minimum-wage earners to CEOs ā€” from switching jobs within their industries.
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday afternoon voted 3-to-2 to approve the new rule, which will ban noncompetes for all workers when the regulations take effect in 120 days [So, the ban starts in early September, 2024!]. For senior executives, existing noncompetes can remain in force. For all other employees, existing noncompetes are not enforceable.
[That's right: if you're currently under a noncompete agreement, it's completely invalid as of September 2024! You're free!!]
The antitrust and consumer protection agency heard from thousands of people who said they had been harmed by noncompetes, illustrating how the agreements are "robbing people of their economic liberty," FTC Chair Lina Khan said.Ā 
The FTC commissioners voted along party lines, with its two Republicans arguing the agency lacked the jurisdiction to enact the rule and that such moves should be made in Congress...
Why it matters
The new rule could impact tens of millions of workers, said Heidi Shierholz, a labor economist and president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.Ā 
"For nonunion workers, the only leverage they have is their ability to quit their job," Shierholz told CBS MoneyWatch. "Noncompetes don't just stop you from taking a job ā€” they stop you from starting your own business."
SinceĀ proposing the new rule, the FTC has received more than 26,000 public comments on the regulations. The final rule adopted "would generally prevent most employers from using noncompete clauses," the FTC said in a statement.
The agency's action comes more than two years after President Biden directed the agency to "curtail the unfair use" of noncompetes, under which employees effectively sign away future work opportunities in their industry as a condition of keeping their current job. The president's executive order urged the FTC to target such labor restrictions and others that improperly constrain employees from seeking work.
"The freedom to change jobs is core to economic liberty and to a competitive, thriving economy," Khan said in a statement making the case for axing noncompetes. "Noncompetes block workers from freely switching jobs, depriving them of higher wages and better working conditions, and depriving businesses of a talent pool that they need to build and expand."
Real-life consequences
In laying out its rationale for banishing noncompetes from the labor landscape, the FTC offered real-life examples of how the agreements can hurt workers.
In one case, a single father earned about $11 an hour as a security guard for a Florida firm, but resigned a few weeks after taking the job when his child care fell through. Months later, he took a job as a security guard at a bank, making nearly $15 an hour. But the bank terminated his employment after receiving a letter from the man's prior employer stating he had signed a two-year noncompete.
In another example, a factory manager at a textile company saw his paycheck dry up after the 2008 financial crisis. A rival textile company offered him a better job and a big raise, but his noncompete blocked him from taking it, according to the FTC. A subsequent legal battle took three years, wiping out his savings.Ā 
-via CBS Moneywatch, April 24, 2024
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A lot of people think that noncompete agreements are only a white-collar issue, but they absolutely affect blue-collar workers too, as you can see from the security guard anecdote.
In fact, one in six food and service workers are bound by noncompete agreements. That's right - one in six food workers can't leave Burger King to work for Wendy's [hypothetical example], in the name of "trade secrets." (x, x, x)
Noncompete agreements also restrict workers in industries from tech and video games to neighborhood yoga studios. "The White House estimates that tens of millions of workers are subject to noncompete agreements, even in states like California where they're banned." (x, x, x)
The FTC estimates that the ban will lead to "the creation of 8,500 new businesses annually, an average annual pay increase of $524 for workers, lower health care costs, and as many as 29,000 more patents each year for the next decade." (x)
Clearer explanation of noncompete agreements below the cut.
Noncompete agreements can restrict workers from leaving for a better job or starting their own business.
Noncompetes often effectively coerce workers into staying in jobs they want to leave, and even force them to leave a profession or relocate.
Noncompetes can prevent workers from accepting higher-paying jobs, and even curtail the pay of workers not subject to them directly.
Of the more than 26,000 comments received by the FTC, more than 25,000 supported banning noncompetes.Ā 
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quotesengage Ā· 2 years ago
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Livin' is a gamble baby, lovin's much the same
Wherever I have played
Whenever I've thrown them dice
Wherever I have played the blues have run the game
from lyrics: Blues Run the Game, Jackson Frank
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ghost-bxrd Ā· 10 months ago
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Prompt:
Itā€™s not that Jason forgot, per se.
But between smuggling a toddler out of the League of Assassins, trekking halfway across the world, and finding a suitable hiding place thatā€™s also child friendlyā€¦ well, it kind of slipped his mind that heā€™s supposed to beā€¦ dead.
Something that comes back to bite him in the ass when he takes Dami out for some ice cream and just so happens to run into non other than Brucie-fucking-Wayne
#look Iā€™ve found a new fave trope and itā€™s Brucie Wayne having to keep up his act while internally LOSING HIS SHIT#Jason isnā€™t very into the whole revenge thing here#his mind is 85 parts ā€˜keep Dami safeā€™ 5 parts ā€˜kill joker asapā€™ and 10 parts ā€˜avoid bats at any costā€™#Jason doesnā€™t know who Damianā€™s father is#dealerā€™s choice if Jason establishes himself as Damiā€™s dad or older brother#his build certainly makes him look old enough#if you donā€™t look at his baby face lol#Jason runs into Brucie and goes straight into survival mode#Damian who is very observant for a toddler immediately clocks Brucie as THREAT based on Jasonā€™s reaction#Brucie blue screens and desperately tries not to lose Jason in the crowd#jason is absolutely trying to lose Brucie in the crowd#while clutching Damian like his life depends on it#for all he knows it does#the visceral terror that your pseudo dad will take away your little brother/baby#Bruce who just wants to know if heā€™s hallucinating again: W A I T#jason who is terrified of being put in Arkham for killing people: no FUCKING WAY#hm maybe Jason plays the ā€˜Iā€™m not Jasonā€™ game again#itā€™s not gonna hold for long#but Bruce absolutely thinks that Damian is Jasonā€™s bio child for a while and heā€™s on the WARPATH#Jason was sixteen when he died and never showed any interest in dating so literally every red flag is waving in brucieā€™s mind simultaneousl#or maybe Jason manages to get away and all Brucie is left with is the memory of his supposedly dead son#running away from him#and clutching a tiny kid#prompts#jason todd#batfamily#Damian wayne#batdad#brucie wayne
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doctorsiren Ā· 5 months ago
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I think he would play baseball in high school šŸ˜
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fallofthecelestial Ā· 1 year ago
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quinn-pop Ā· 2 months ago
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woah semi future au magolor and sailor designs???
(slightly more in the future but still the same timeline???)
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uh yeah. Magolor finally forms a bond with the lor and becomes its captain for realsies this time
he spends his time exploring and studying magic/dark matter/gem apples and if their power can be safely harnessed
he also just goes on side quests a lot. he may be reformed but he will still do a lot for a quick buck lol
heā€™s mastered his dimensional magic as well, which is why his cape looks like that :>
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on the other hand, sailor is the new captain of the halberd and leader of the meta-knights. most of their job is taking down monsters but there is the occasional rogue wizard to stop from destroying the world or unleashing dark matter (huh, sounds familiarā€¦)
they are usually very busy with work but make an effort to visit dreamland frequently in order to stay close to everyone. sheā€™s always been a little distant from the rest of her family but i think she opens up a bit more after she, Bandee, and Kirby all start taking leadership positions. gives them something to bond over
by this point meta has retired from fighting completely but heā€™ll still give sailor advice when they need it. she appreciates having someone around who knows just how tiring a job it can be, and heā€™s very proud of her
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oh, and one more thing
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yea i let them get married. what are you gonna do about it? /silly
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they donā€™t get to see each other much because of their jobs but theyā€™re a thing
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m00nb04rd5 Ā· 4 months ago
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Shadow Milk Cookie (Cookie Run)
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rosejigglypuff76 Ā· 3 months ago
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Man, Angry Birds looks a lot different than I remembered šŸ¦šŸŽ€
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le-fils-de-lhomme Ā· 1 month ago
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vaguely-concerned Ā· 1 month ago
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I've been picking mostly only the essential flirt options with lucanis in the romance so far (I've personally found the dynamic much more natural and mutual when you do that, more like forming a solid friendship slowly and inevitably becoming something else and less like you keep pushing on him and getting little back b/c he seemingly just gets overwhelmed and goes into freeze instead), and I think rye is a pretty hard person to read at the best of times even though he's been Down Real Bad from pretty early on and their chemistry as people is naturally really good. so the way the almost-kiss plays out in this playthrough feels a lot like it has the added layer of lucanis realizing that no but for sure rook is flirting and not just being kind or a good friend* it IS actually happening it's not just wishful/fearful thinking!!! and then uh. maybe going a bit too hard a bit too fast in all the excitement at that revelation haha
*in lucanis' defense he has seemingly literally never had a friend who wasn't his cousin-brother before, under those circumstances I suppose some confusion is extremely natural if not outright expected lmao
#meanwhile rook is kicking himself for being unprofessional b/c he WAS getting something important from spite there#and also lucanis had like. just woken up was that cool of me. should I have told him. should I have slowed that down???#watcher's duty crashing into watcher's longing blues ensues#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#lucanis dellamorte#oc: Ellaryen Ingellvar#rook x lucanis#rookanis#I think I might have done something hilarious and a little wonderful to the lucanis romance#by making a rook who's even slower to romance than he is fhskjfhsa#even here I was straight up like 'oh this is a little early for this don't you think' on rye's behalf (it's not we have to be mid-game)#imagine how he'd fare in some of the other romances you'd just bowl him over. davrin might kill him#(and also they would kill each other for unrelated reasons during it but that's another matter (affectionate I love my lads))#lucanis has been squinting at rook in stolen moments ever since the cafƩ scene like '...did I imagine that vibe. surely not right.#i'm pretty sure. but am I. I do know he likes me. but DOES he like like me or is that just what I want it to be. this is very embarrassing#for everyone involved' (it is)#davrin has had both their numbers the entire time tho. and been extremely annoyed but professional about it#he knew from the moment these two chucklefucks showed up in his recruitment mission. and has been an adult about it. mostly#even when they've made it real hard ('so I'm gonna go ahead and assume you're not letting the abomination serial killer run around#just because you're transparently excruciatingly sweet on him. right. RIGHT??')#I have accidentally given lucanis a pattern of falling for people who keep covered neck to toe at all times#but like not to be a metaphor for their emotional intimacy issues or anything haha. imagine.#I'm making my own heart so tender by imagining lucanis struggling to get rye out of his (many-layered) robes during the romance scene#and both of them laughing right from the soul in relief and delight at each other b/c like 'how could I kill a god only to be bested#by nevarran fashion. also how in the maker's name do you get dressed so quickly in the mornings this is intense'#'same way one does anything else lots of practice and a can-do attitude'/'well I'll just have to put in the practice then'#and they just hug for a while. *head in my hands* yeah okay I can be normal. I can be normal about this.
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robo-dino-puppy Ā· 8 months ago
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night in the royal maizelands
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toxintouch Ā· 2 months ago
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Kinktober speedrun time! Used the Mirror prompt on this list. Thank you for the inspo! Further details below the cut so that the above the cut stays safe for anyone who is just scrolling through!
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18+ Content MDNI || Dom!Reader x Leander
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PROMPT/KINK(S): Dom!Reader, Mirror Use. Edging/Orgasm Denial + Light Degradation & Name calling (Leander being referred to as a dog but heā€™s really into it, promise) + Power Exchange & Sub/Dom Dynamics
OTHER INFO: Leander has a dick, anatomy of Reader/POV Character remains unspecified; "they" pronouns used.
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Leander has the straight backed posture of a man who was given etiquette lessons.Ā  His mannerisms speak of wealth and class, yet they canā€™t help but observe that he looks completely comfortable while down on his knees.
His back muscles flex as he works himself, sweat slipping down his spine, pooling in the dimples just above his ass.Ā  Heā€™s strung tight, the veins in his arms straining as he strokes a quick, even rhythm.Ā  His dick is flushed a painful red, copious amounts of pre-cum dripping down his wrist and splattering onto his thick thighs, some of it even dirtying the floor below when his strokes become too enthusiastic.
(They wonder how best to make him clean it laterā€“he does so love to be ordered to lick up his own messā€“but this floor is probably just as filthy as anywhere else in the Wick, despite appearancesā€“and they donā€™t think they can find it in themself to make use of his mouth again after watching that.)
The full length mirror hanging in front of Leander is a new addition to the room. Something theyā€™d wheedled out of him with nothing but an easy promise, whispered into his ear down at the bar.Ā  It was theirs not a full day later: a polished brass antique with a priceless clear finish.
His back is to them, but they can see everything they need to by gazing at his reflection.
His strokes stutter, faltering, and they watch as his abdominals jump rapidly. His hand makes a few more shaky attempts before he stops himself with a shudder, breathing hard and squeezing his cock at the base to cut off his own orgasm. They give a little hum of approval, waiting.
ā€œCount.ā€Ā  They prompt, when he fails to remember on his own.Ā Ā 
They watch his throat bob with effort as he swallows, his jaw trembling around his answer.Ā  ā€œFive.ā€
ā€œGood boy,ā€ they say, their voice flat and unrewarding.Ā  Dismissive. "Guess that Hightown education really paid off for you, huh?" He whines at that, his palms slicking along his thighs, awaiting their instruction.Ā  He glances at them in the mirror, eyes hopeful. ā€œAgain,ā€ they prompt, ā€œand keep your eyes on yourself until I tell you.Ā  During, too. You were closing them a lot. It's just you and the mirror until you've earned otherwise.ā€
Bites his lip, beginning to stroke himself again.
The next edge comes more quickly.
His eyebrows draw up, mouth falling open, back arching.Ā  His cock jumps and this time he falls back onto his hands to keep from giving into temptation.Ā  His eyes travel the length of the mirror, his neck taught with tension as he pants.Ā  They notice his gaze darting along their form for a moment, greedily stealing along their silhouette in the looking glass. A quick glance of the place where their legs are splayed open as they lounge on the bed behind him, toying with themself idly.
Heā€™s back to form so seamlessly, he probably thinks they didnā€™t even notice. The next number falls out of his mouth without prompting, as if to cover for his earlier sleight.
"..."
ā€œBaby,ā€ he whines, fidgeting without further instruction. His fingers return to his dick when they don't reply, ghosting over his wet, swollen cockhead.Ā  He knows they hate the way that epithet sounds in his voice, the condescending lilt he manages to wrap around the syllables. ā€œSweetheart. Please, may Iā€“ā€
ā€œBad dog,ā€ they admonish.Ā  They don't elaborateā€“let him figure out for himself which breach of protocol they're scolding him for.
ā€œAgain. And if you canā€™t behave, Iā€™ll have to put you outside.ā€
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18+ Master List | SFW Master List āœ¦Kinktober Speedrun on Ao3
Consider: this type of power play with yandere!Leander...you watching him when he's usually the one watching you...
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