#tax allowances

[veritablenonsense]

sctir is such a good story if you're obsessed with worldbuilding Implications because yoojin is also Constantly thinking about that stuff. He's just a (previously) regular guy who has to live in this weird urban portal fantasy world so he cares about stuff like tax brackets and zoning laws and fair contract-writing and alternative uses of everyone's crazy supernatural powers. I can't count the number of times I started thinking "wait, couldn't you-" only to have it answered the next sentence. When his internal monologue mentioned dungeon resets being used for public waste disposal i practically cheered

[peepee-magee]

Lucifer: Mc, this must stop.

Mc: I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Lucifer: I know you’re the one giving Cerberus pieces of cheese every time it’s your turn to cook. It must stop. None of us can cook a meal without him begging, and with how often Beel eats he’s getting rounder by the day.

Mc: I love you very much, Lucifer, but I won’t commit tax fraud for you.

Lucifer: Enough! There is no such thing as a cheese tax in the Devildom!

Mc: Well maybe there should be!

[seabeck]

Just found out I live within the shadow (very far shadow, not at risk really but I shouldn’t eat dirt) for one of the first EPA superfund sites. No one told me about this, I found out because I was checking the parcel map to see who owned a property

[basket-of-radiants]

And before you ask, no, spren do not qualify as dependents.

[jon-sedai]

TIL that once the Northern lords find out that Jon is Rhaegar’s son, they will detest him to the point of immediately slitting their wrists instead of accepting him as a fair and worthy leader…

….nevermind that 1) the Northern lords have thus far shown NO hostility towards Rhaegar, 2) Jon is also LYANNA STARK’s son who has thus far been romanticized to some degree, 3) Jon was raised and directly acknowledged as NED STARK’s son, the very same Ned who the mountain clans are willing to die in a raging winter for, the very same Ned whose fathering of Jon compells Alys Karstark and other minor lords to go to the Wall in search for the Lord Commander….

…none of that will ever matter. Because our headcannons dictate that Rhaegar sucks so Jon sucks ass as well, cannon be damned 🙂

[gentil-minou]

"This is more about your ego and pride than Palestine" No its about putting pressure on a party that is supporting genocide

It's about logic

Biden and the DNC would rather cause dissent and dissatisfaction within their own party rather than call for a ceasefire

They know they can get away with it because they're a better option than Trump, because they know they could murder babies in front of you and you'll still vote for them.

So why would they call for a ceasefire when they don't need to?

That's why putting the pressure on them, saying they won't get our vote or saying we are looking for other options is so important.

Because that's the only way they will change.

By saying "Vote Blue No Matter Who", you give him and the DNC permission to permit genocide despite the vast majority of public opinion. You say they can do whatever they want because you will vote for them anyways.

You tell them they don't need to do anything else. That in fact they can do whatever they want. You've shown them you are so terrified of your own government that you would rather lie down and let it walk all over you than put any pressure on them at all

They have a year to make a change. Biden could end this all tomorrow, but why would he when he has you doing his dirty work?

[barksbog]

i might drag meat creatures into november again

[kingkatsuki]

Men that make every ounce of feminism leave your body.

[jordangrandprix]

Josef Newgarden and Scott Dixon on the 2025 Daytona 500 pre-race show.

[cosmicsproutcake]

There's no way any anti who throws the "go file your taxes" insult is actually an adult, right? 'Cause an adult would know you literally only file your taxes once a year and only at a like really specific time of year usually :/

[skyloftian-nutcase]

I feel like I should apologize to my lovelies who do like Hero of Power and the Imprisoning War AU because I keep emphasizing so much that I try not to post about it so much because most lovelies don’t care 😂😅 I know you guys are out there, and my gosh am I happy you love it too ❤️ idk why I get so insecure about one of my favorite AUs but when I see the attention other things get compared to it I try not to overemphasize it.

BUT ALSO this is my blog and I do what I want SO MWUAH KISS ON THE FOREHEAD TO ALL MY LOVELIES WHO LOVE IMPRISONING WAR

[sugas6thtooth]

Are you an American Citizen?

Are you going to be negatively affected by this year's election but you don't want to vote because both of our candidates support genocide?

Your feelings are valid. However, let's take this opportunity to capitalize on the fact that one of the candidates absolutely needs our vote.

Call Kamala and demand for her to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Demand her to stop allowing our taxes to fund the genocide in Gaza. Follow the instructions in the video, use what OP said as a template for your call. If you don't feel comfortable calling, email.

Palestinians human rights matter just as much as ours, i hope you're willing to fight for both.

[teeth--king]

One month of T and no bad side effects so far, that was one of the reasons why I was so hesitant to jump into it at first as I am prone to experiencing negative effects when taking medication. Attempting to be proud of myself today 👍

[frogeyedape]

I am so unbelievably pissed off. FUCK HOAs

Oh, my trash/recycling bin can't be visible except on pickup day? Ok whatever fine I hate you but I can deal with this

Weekly inspections?????? FU FU FU FU FU

SECOND NOTICE ALSO WE'RE CHARGING YOU MONEY TO SEND YOU CERTIFIED MAIL OF THIS TOTALLY LEGIT TOTALLY SECOND NOTICE OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY A VIOLATION cue me: checks notes. Hmm. My recycling bin was. on the curb. on recycling pickup day. You know. The day it has to be out. The day it is motherfucking ALLOWED TO BE FUCKING OUT AND VISIBLE.

so. 1) not a violation

I have sent them the trash AND recycling pickup schedules, which are DIFFERENT, btw

I have disputed the fact of the violation

I have disputed the linking of this "violation" to a previous violation MONTHS AGO--their "first notice" in this case was a "Courtesy Notice" LITERALLY 5 MONTHS AGO and they've done so many inspections since then and my bin CLEARLY WASN'T OUT IN THOSE INTERVENING MONTHS so WTMFH

So I am posting like a crazy person here instead of sending the absolutely deranged email I almost sent (I did send a slightly less deranged version with the disputes, and requesting a hearing)

OMG. It has been. Less than one hour since I learned this fun fun news. My bin was out YESTERDAY, y'all. YESTERDAY. I am going to blow a gasket

[delphiniumjoy]

I do not want to get married. I acknowledge that equal marriage rights are incredibly valuable for a multitude of reasons and that the fight for marriage equality is nowhere near over (disabled people being unable to get married at risk of losing their benefits comes to mind). But I do not want to get married.

I am however deeply frustrated by the complete lack of legal rights that exist outside of marriage. My next of kin will forever be my parents and siblings, no matter how much of my life has been devoted to a chosen family. They will have first rights in legal, medical, and even funerary decisions. And don't get me wrong, I am close with my blood family, but I ache at the thought that some of the most important people in my life will never "count" by these metrics. If I'm hospitalized, they won't even be allowed in the room.

Legal care of kinship only applies to children with insufficient guardianship (this is where a godparent or friend or neighbor can serve as a substitute guardian, basically). I as an adult can't get my friends to legally adopt me (also that would be a little weird). At best, I can list them as an emergency contact and hope. Why am I not allowed to sign a piece of paper saying these people are loved and trusted and should be recognized as such.

[mlobsters]

via AOC on tiktok; ig / bluesky

transcript:

Last year when they brought this ban up for a vote, number one, they said it was a national security issue. It's a national security issue. I said "Okay. That's serious. Let's see the case. Let's see the intelligence, let's see what's going on." I can tell you that what was presented to all of the members voting on this thing was not very compelling. There was no real information that was given that was a smoking gun, that was anything specific. It was very vague, not convincing and frankly it was not convincing to many other members as well. In fact, very high ranking members on the House Foreign Affairs Committee came to me after the briefing and they were very shocked and pretty surprised at the lack of substantive information in the briefing. They were genuinely expecting there to be some real or compelling intelligence shared that would substantiate the argument. And there just wasn't. And they were surprised at the lack of information presented at it.

And also, additionally, this bill, which is very large and substantive, like in terms of its impact, came to the Energy and Commerce Committee, it was marked up and it was brought to the floor like in a matter of I don't know, one or two weeks. I'm trying to remember, it was just a few weeks; which is very, very fast. Very.

Additionally, the degree to which corporations surveil the American people without genuine consent and without a real mechanisms for opting out, should be illegal. Point blank period. And so many of us naturally said, the answer is not just playing endless whack-a-mole with apps, the answer is that we should have real privacy legislation in the United States, and we should help people own their information and have greater agency over their personal information so that they're not being spied on all the time, whether it's a domestic company or a foreign company. So we need to actually have privacy laws in the United States—to which, of course, Big Tech is going to fight against. And their lobbies are going to fight against. So they just target an app instead of targeting the problem.

And then lastly, when this thing was passed, all these legislators were like—though who supported it—were like, "Oh, it's not a ban, it's not a ban; it's just a forced sale." Which, to be fair, forced sales have happened in the past. Grindr was a forced sale. And they'll say, "It's not a ban, it'll be a forced sale, it'll be fine." Well, first of all, they provided very little time for that to happen. For an app that big, who is going to buy TikTok? Hello? Like, it's very large.

But, besides that, after leaving no time for a forced sale, now here we are. And I would say that the lack of forethought and the rushed nature of this bill is now evidenced by the fact that both the Biden and Trump administrations are looking to see if there's any way to reverse or stall it. And if they're looking at that now, why didn't they look at it then?

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jonathan m. katz on bluesky (1, 2)