If anyone has taken their eyes off what’s happening to federal workers in the US right now, here’s some highlights that we’re hearing from our comrades across the government who have not yet been fired:
In one building (hosting multiple agencies), the locks on the bathroom were changed so employees no longer have any access to a bathroom during the workday. People are peeing in trash cans.
Elsewhere, multiple agencies have reported that hand soap is no longer being supplied in the bathrooms.
Toilet paper supplies have not been adjusted to meet the needs of a vastly increased number of in-office employees.
Employee-owned coffee and coffee makers have been stolen or thrown away without notice (it was already illegal for taxpayer dollars to be spent on supplying federal employees with amenities like coffee, so many offices have coffee supplied by pooled employee funds).
Meanwhile, many offices don’t even have potable drinking water (recurrent legionella outbreaks), so employees have to bring their own water from home.
Despite an explosion in the number of workers in offices, cleaning budgets have been slashed and many offices are not being cleaned regularly enough to remain sanitary. Pests like roaches and rats are a problem.
The firings continue, legal and illegal. Entire programs are being cut. Managers have no idea when they might lose staff. Employees are getting fired at 6pm on a weekend or finding out when they’re unable to log into their computer or when they receive a shipping label in the mail to return their equipment.
Through all of this, the DOGE employees in federal workplaces are enjoying incredible and expensive luxury: AI-powered sleep pods, entire dormitories so they can live in federal buildings, nurseries for their children on site, free food and beverages, laundry services, and who knows what else. They have special security to restrict access to their areas of the buildings, including armed guards.
And I’m not just saying this to lament how bad it is for federal workers. I’m saying this because, as workers are reporting this to one another, the response is, inevitably: “This is illegal.” “Yes, but who would I report it to? OPM? They’re a DOGE puppet. OSHA? They’ve cut OSHA. The Inspectors General? Cut. The NLRB? Cut. My union? No longer recognized.”
There is no one left to enforce these laws, so taking away access to basic sanitation is now effectively legal. They are doing this to federal workers, who historically have been some of the best-protected workers in the country. They are doing this specifically because it demonstrates to the public sector that it is now legal to do these things to their own workers.
Listen man, you need to read the news. Actually seek it out and read it. Preferably local or state news if you have it.
My congressman and Senators are the most boring moderate white guys to ever moderate white guy.
And they are out there every single fucking day raising hell like I haven’t seen in ten years.
They’re boycotting the joint address. Trying to block every piece of legislation and every nominee. They’re trying to get into federal buildings to see what DOGE is doing. They’re holding town halls every week. They’re holding job fairs for laid off feds and connecting them to resources.
These boring white guys are getting up in republicans faces during hearings and screaming at them red faced with righteous fury.
My guys ALONE are doing a fuck ton.
Do you even know who yours are? What they’re doing? Or do you just want to be angry?
well personally i like it when there’s incest and necrophilia and murder and cannibalism and abuse and torture and gore and mutilation and body horror and sexual depravity and death.
Im sorry but it is so funny how people outside of tumblr view us. Like why are the tiktokers treating tumblr like some professional ass website you need to do extensive prep before you begin posting on. And the follower farming advice is so fucking funny to me when this is the website where people actively hate getting new followers
Tumblr is the website where you ramble to yourself like a madman until someone decides they like you and put you into their pocket like a shiny rock. That’s how you get followers
where’s that masterpost of quotes that have no right going as hard as they do. I’d like to submit “Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane”
Every time I consider making a sandwich I think of this fucking tweet.
The stupid thing is that it puts me in the mindset of being an NPC looking forward to a balanced, delicious, good-looking sandwich, instead of some vegemite half-heartedly smeared between a couple of bits of bread. So now I’m like “well if my goal is Sandwich, it should be a good sandwich”. I mean it’s gotta look good in the thought bubble right? Some guy wandering around in a computer game would be imagining a picture of a ham and cheese toastie AT MINIMUM, probably with tomato and some greens in there. Possibly he’d imagine a full on sub sandwich.
I have started putting actual effort into making tastier, prettier sandwiches. Because of this fucking tweet.
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