space ace

Is there a theme here? Probably not. Do I get on kicks related to pseudo-80s synth rock, video games, art, and astronomy? Absolutely. 32, she/her, ace.

[castledevil]

FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS (2010) // FALLOUT (2024- )

[kingkishou]

I'm only saying this for your sake, but objectively, it's not a smart idea to bring politics into normal hobbies. You might lose supporters of your blog just because of your political stance, and that would be terrible since you're so amazing!! It's only a suggestion, but I really reccomend not bringing politics into anything.

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

ICE agents forced to flee Minnesota neighborhood due to car alarm alert system

Frustrated Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers fled a Minnesota neighborhood after residents alerted each other by triggering car a

Basically, people are using their key fobs to set off their car alarms when they see ICE.

This is effective for several reasons:

Obviously, it alerts everyone that something is wrong. Given ICE has been terrorizing Minnesota, people are likely to immediately know it is ICE. This gives people time to flee or barricade themselves in their homes.

ICE loses the element of surprise.

If one person hears a car alarm go off, they can trigger their own alarm, alerting even more people, but also making it really annoying for ICE. Annoying sounds petty, but it can be effective. Have you ever been in a building when a super loud fire alarm went off? It's very hard to concentrate. You can't hear much else. You just want to leave. ICE experiences this when a whole street if car alarms go off. Which means they make mistakes.

[ohevoyev]

ICE shot another civilian in minneapolis this morning

[ohevoyev]

state officials confirm the individual has died ... ICE executed another person in broad daylight. and they've begun escalating against protesters in the area.

[sprinkledsalt]

Some women will never want children in their life in any meaningful capacity. They don't want to give birth. They don't want to adopt. They don't want to be the fun auntie. They don't want to be a godmother. They don't want to work in a field with children. They will never change a child's diaper and don't believe their lack of childcare skills is a problem that needs fixing, because childcare is not a crucial part of the human experience, with billions of people on the planet. They go about their day while only seeing kids out at the grocery store or at the park, and nothing is missing from their lives.

The refusal to accept this is driving a global right-wing backlash movement.

[retrospeccd]

Shooting my shot here just for giggles, does anyone have some bird-based shinies in Pokemon Home able to be transferred to Scarlet/Violet that they want to trade/get rid of? Doesn't matter the actual type, just avian-esque. My primary party is birds of all sorts 😁

[retrospeccd]

The Omen came on and it reminded me of one of the most (truly unintentionally) hilarious things I've ever done at my job

Which was assigning a Chromebook with the asset tag of #666 to a kid named Damien

[disterbia]

[only-tiktoks]

[redead-red]

[retrospeccd]

I would like to introduce all LaDS folks to my favorite band STARSET, because several of their songs suit the boys and MC so well, though primarily Caleb, Xavier, and Sylus. Go forth and listen!

Caleb:

Halo

Gravity of You

Ricochet

Stratosphere

Manifest

Frequency

Xavier:

Starlight

Telescope

Satellite

The Future Is Now

Sylus:

Dark Things

Everglow

Zayne:

Symbiotic

Rafayel:

Echo

All:

Otherworldly

Dark on Me

[radiofreederry]

Reblog with your animal. It’s toucans for me

[corvux]

Vulpes Inculta

[mousenemy]

LIKE TO CHARGE REBLOG TO CAST LET'S GET THIS FUCKER EXPLODEDED

[keithmosher2]

Can't Have Nice Things

The Ketamine King Musk has shutdown the IRS's Free Tax Filing system.

Of all the things a government could off, a way to Freely calculate and file your taxes seems like a good one. But the richest man in the world thinks we shouldn't have that.

Musk Says He’s ‘Deleted’ Popular Free IRS Tax Filing Program

The online tax filing option on the IRS website had a strong bipartisan 76% approval rating from registered voters.

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

President Trump’s “special government employee,” Elon Musk, announced on Monday that he had dissolved the Internal Revenue Service’s free file program—suggesting that he effectively fired the staff who worked on the popular program.

The billionaire revealed that he “deleted” the group of individuals who oversaw the system that allows Americans to easily file their taxes for free on the IRS website. The IRS-run free and simplified tax filing option had 76% approval from registered voters based on a 2023 poll by Navigator. [...]

[elfwreck]

If you have the time to burn, and a bit of financial cushion -

File your taxes by hand. Fill out the forms with a pen. Overpay by about $50. (You will eventually get that back. It is likely to take several months.)

It will take longer to get any refund you're due. But I promise you the entire federal bureaucracy has been cutting as many corners as they can for as many years as they can, and the current set is going to cut even more corners, and...

they don't have the staff on hand to process a huge number of paper claims anymore. They expect everything that came in digitally last year, to continue to be filed digitally. And they expect more digital filings every year. They've planned for that. They've staffed for that.

One of the only acts of protest we have available is "comply, but slowly."

File on paper if you can.

If you have the software to file digitally because doing the math & forms is such a nightmare for you?

If you're up for it: Print the final form, and then fill out a new blank form by hand. With your lousy handwriting. Send it in the post, by mail.

Does that stop them? No, but every bit of sand we can throw in the gears slows them down and pulls resources away from the other horrific rights violations they're trying to codify into law.

[katjohnadams]

[transcyberism]

You likely still do not have to pay an accountant even if the IRS's Direct File service goes down because Free File will still work.

While Direct File is an IRS-hosted program, there is also Free File, which is government-subsidized and hosted by third parties:

You need to use THESE SPECIFIC LINKS in order to access the Free File programs, fyi - they are hosted by tax preparers who also often order paid services which may have deceptive names like "TurboTax Free" that make them sound like they don't cost anything, so be sure to only use the IRS links. Don't just Google them, you will not find what you're looking for.

Here's an archive link in case they take down the Free File page. (You may have to manually cut out the web.archive.org part of the URL to use the links.)

It is not possible for Elon Musk to access these programs directly because they are not hosted on government servers. You are eligible for Free File for your federal taxes if you make less than $84k, as well as for your state taxes if you make less than $48k, as well as some other situations such as if you are active-duty military or if you live in certain states (for your state return).

If you want to throw sand into the works and file these as paper forms instead of e-filing, you absolutely can do that by printing them out after completing the program, but PLEASE do not pay a tax preparer if you are eligible for Free File!!! It's a ripoff!!!!!!!!

Direct File is a great program that saves the government money (they do not have to pay third parties if they keep the program in-house) and helps protect taxpayer data security, but you DO NOT need to pay an accountant or risk filling out your return incorrectly just because it goes down.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

didn't know people were this stupid. "I don't want the government filing my taxes" who do you think is taxing you, moron? is it really this easy to get conservatives on board with wasting their money for turbotax? lmfao

[innerchildabortionclinic]

type of guy that exists in the US of A: guy who is totally fine having his tax money collected and spent by the government however it pleases, but draws the "government overreach" line at...the government filing taxes instead of you personally spending more money to do it for the exact same results

[plshoney]

btw yall directfile has NOT been removed and is still fully available through the IRS site. please use it and probably best advised to file early this year -

https://directfile.irs.gov/

[thememedaddy]

[american-auror-story]

[robbiesaysrelaxxx]