Idle Curiosity

it/its or they/them pronouns. agender librarian

[notaplaceofhonour]

will never not be mad about gig economy apps making a 4 star rating mean “unacceptable quality”

[notaplaceofhonour]

Doordash will suspend you below 4.2 stars.

Uber drivers can be suspended at 4.6 stars.

Lyft drivers risk suspension under 4.8 stars.

Even for apps where they don’t have a publicly stated minimum, their algorithms will bury you.

4 stars does not mean 4 stars. It means 1.4 stars.

If you give a person a 4 star rating, to these companies, you are not saying “I was mostly satisfied with the service, but there’s always room for improvement”—which is what 4 stars should mean—you are voting for them to be fired.

[notaplaceofhonour]

Genuinely, do not ever give people 4 star ratings on gig service apps for any reason that is not a safety issue where their continuation on the app could seriously hurt people.

If someone gives you “just OK” service where you don’t want to give them 5 stars, but you don’t actively hate their existence and hope they die, just don’t rate them.

[rainia]

this speaking as a cis person. Nothing brings me more joy seeing people find gender euphoria in becoming a mediocre representation of humanity. And I mean that so genuinely. Local boy finds joy and fulfillment wearing a cargo shorts and t-shirt combo. Local girl has transitioned to look like someone's disheveled aunt, has never been happier. Local person experiences gender euphoria rocking the world's worst bowl-cut. Without a scap of irony, this shit makes me see the wonder and whimsy in just, being a human. An average, person going through their day-to-day, is a wondrous thing? That's amazing. And heteronormativity has stripped these experiences of their joy. Like you're right, wearing a basic girlypop skirt should make my heart sing. Why not? Why are these expressions lesser because they're normal? All this to say. Shoutout to all the basic bitches out there. Yes that polo shirt does make you look like a divorced golfer dad. Yes, that too is kind of a slay, now that I think of it.

[paranormal-taters]

"i feel besquintled", said no one ever. because that's not a word.

[paranormal-taters]

okay nevermind it IS a word now and this is exactly what it means.

[paranormal-taters]

EVERYONE SHUT UP AND LOOK AT THIS NEW AND BETTER WORD

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[kimiko24]

I fucking love this video

[theodysseyofhomer]

there's a trojan war suburban au that only exists in my and izzie @wizardjail's heads where agamemnon owns a greek restaurant chain that keeps buying up other restaurants and priam has a family-owned turkish restaurant, and also all their kids go to the same schools. paris comes home from college and has an affair with helen, and in revenge the atreides try to destroy priam's business. they get odysseus involved because he's their only friend with a real business degree. odysseus files a disability claim to get out of contract but palamedes pushes telemachus' stroller into traffic, forcing odysseus to sprint after it to rescue him. agamemnon 'ruins iphigenia's future' by taking the minivan when she was supposed to be at an archery tournament, thus missing her chances of getting scouted; after which agamemnon and clytemnestra get divorced, but keep having more kids, because odysseus is anonymously suicide-baiting agamemnon and unintentionally driving him back to his ex-wife's arms. the pta is in shambles.

[theodysseyofhomer]

priam and hecuba have an open marriage. hektor is master chef; paris went to, like, juilliard but has no interest in cooking, which is his family's standard of masculinity for some reason. troilus is hecuba's son with local pharmaceutical company owner apollo. one time at the town's yearly all-ages charity soccer game, achilles got way too into it and illegally body-checked a 12-year-old troilus and broke his arm. apollo was in the bleachers and now has beef with this high schooler. he releases 1,000 mice into agamemnon's restaurants so they fail their health inspection. despite being, like, 17, achilles is too fucking good at his restaurant job so they keep giving him just way more responsibility than he should be trusted with. he's a branch manager. when he gets promoted patroclus solemnly dons his gyro mascot uniform

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

Ridge City dash simulator

⛅ apollosglowinggoldencrotchhair Follow

Imagine you spend weeks planning a hold up of an office building with a big burly meta and everything and you get taken down by this guy

#cyber geek #AHC #new hero debut! #(i'm just joking I love you donald)

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🌞 apollo-official Follow

Thanks for dropping in nonny, love to meet the fans! Funny you should mention That Giant Moth Guy, the bristles from his legs actually make the perfect comb for keeping the curls light and bouncy! But if you can't get hold of That Giant Moth Guy's bristles you can substitute with about two dozen regular sized moths.

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💀 is-fornax-still-dead Follow

yeah

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🐙 malfucinors-slimy-tendrils Follow

me when the AHC's newest recruit saves me from a street mugging

📺 the-multerion-collector Follow

Fuck you, this shit is absolutely not funny at all

Medley isn't a fun character, or your newest blorbo, he is a human being who has undergone a horrific transformation against his will. My grandfather was involved in a factory accident that partially transformed him with frog-like features, and it took years of trauma counselling and support for him to come to terms with what happened to him, and to this day he still doesn't feel comfortable leaving the house.

It is unspeakably callous and insensitive to be thirsting over what is probably the most traumatic experience of this man's life. Fuck all of you.

⚫ gapingfornaxpussy Follow

multerion what's your grandad's number

🐙 malfucinors-slimy-tendrils Follow

answer the question multerion what's the number

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🐀 ridgecityratrace Follow

Can someone please rob the bank I work at I need a day off

#I prommy I won't call the capes #we're so submissive and robbable please

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💫 days-since-last-lodestar-sighting Follow

2496 days since last lodestar sighting

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🕷 malruvianspiderking Follow

help the girlies are shipping Lodestar with dead mass murderers now

⚫ gapingfornaxpussy Follow

okay but I know this fic and the screenshot is not doing it justice

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🥜 ahc-deez-nuts Follow

went to a nightclub to blow off some steam and fucking NEXUS dropped a bunch of INTERDIMENSIONAL MONSTERS in the middle of the fucking dance fIoor can't have shit in Ridge City

⛅ apollosglowinggoldencrotchhair Follow

At least you had capes on the scene, when my workplace was crashed by flaming skeletal dinosaurs resurrected by a dark wizard it took two hours to get a cape response. Like, the AHC is thirty minutes away where the fuck were they did they stop for coffee??

⏰ imissthetimeloop Follow

Certainly not at my coffee shop which was trapped in a time loop for the better part of a week

👼 yaoi-ti-cas Follow

hey quick question what the FUCK is going on in Ridge City

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🐀 ridgecityratrace Follow

Do y'all ever wonder what Professor Quantum is up to these days

🍆 pqs-bulging-frontal-lobe Follow

Lab tech here! He's had his lab coat stuck under a piece of equipment for the last two hours and is too embarrassed to ask for help, he doesn't realise we can hear him begging the coat to come out

🧠 the-noble-pursuit-of-science Follow

I cannot believe how rude and disrespectful you are to a man as accomplished as Professor Quantum. Are you so embarrassed that you will never achieve even a thousandth of his accolades that you have to try pathetically to besmirch his good name? It doesn't even make sense for him to be stuck, his abilities give him enhanced physical attributes as well as a mind acute enough to solve his way out of any conundrum. You should be ashamed of yourself.

🍆 pqs-bulging-frontal-lobe Follow

Lab tech again, Dick is right he is no longer stuck. He's now going out on the town trying to flirt while hiding his stained and rumpled lab coat, but he has a twig stuck in his hair from when he walked into a tree earlier and everyone is talking about it.

🧠 the-noble-pursuit-of-science Follow

This is the most disgusting display of slander I have ever witnessed. First of all, everyone knows that Professor Quantum is working on Vomesa, furthering his research into the great mysteries of our world. He's certainly not wasting his precious time or genius "flirting" with lesser minds.

Professor Quantum is the greatest mind of any generation, and responsible for shaping the world as we know it. He is too intelligent to walk into trees or get stuck under machines, and even suggesting it is so impossibly insulting it should classify as a crime.

I hope you've enjoyed this moment of mirth before the tide of history inevitably washes over you and forgets you forever, you miserable pissant.

🐀 ridgecityratrace Follow

I looked at this guy's blog and

Bestie he is not gonna fuck you

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🌞 apollo-official Follow

they hot tho?

⛅ apollosglowinggoldencrotchhair Follow

well at least apollo-official isn't infantalising donald, unlike a bunch of fucking COWARDS I know

#cyber geek #I can't be the only one who thinks he's hot af #didn't he used to work in IT? #cause I'd let him wire my mainframe any day

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🚽 cautiously-optimistic Follow

Hey y'all, can you get meta abilities by sticking your foot just right in the toilet seat and getting stuck there for like, twenty minutes? Asking for a friend.

#metas #cape name pending #flush rush jr? #is that copyright infringement?

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🥜 ahc-deez-nuts Follow

What do you mean theres a guild of villains operating out of the centre of ridge city and nobody said or did anything about it????

🥜 ahc-deez-nuts Follow

WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S A REGISTERED CHARITY

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🐙 malfucinors-slimy-tendrils Follow

my whole family is kind of freaking out about the whole 'theres a secret guild of villains in a ten minutes drive from our house' thing and let me tell you they did NOT think me asking if they would be interested in hooking up was appropriate

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🎭 capes-and-cowls Follow

"ooOOooh, RPF is disrespectful, why would you ship someone with their nemesis, what's wrong with you-" stfu. Fornax is dead and Lodestar's been missing for years I can do what I want

🎭 capes-and-cowls Follow

Oh fuck oh no what the fuck what the fuck

#HES SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD #STOP REBLOGGING THIS WHAT IF HE SEES

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💀 is-fornax-still-dead Follow

hey what the fuck

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⚫ gapingfornaxpussy Follow

#what do I do??? #do I change my url???? #change my name and flee the country??? #is fornax even on tumblr???????? #I mean he's not in the ground so who fucking knows

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💫 days-since-last-lodestar-sighting Follow

ZERO DAYS SINCE THE LAST LODESTAR SIGHTING

#We're so fucking back!!! #posting from the emergency bunker rn #I think our apartment was totalled by fornax

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⏰ imissthetimeloop Follow

Hey quick question has anyone ever actually fucking died ever asking for my grandfather

#fornax #doctor mechaniacal #morgana la fey #seriously has any villain ever actually died or was all of it a lie

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Big day for Apollo haters everywhere

#how we feeling y'all

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🔴 apollos-trecherous-dodgeball Follow

shit do you think I need to change my blog name?

#i swear I had this url before we knew #it wasn't even about the hero

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🐀 ridgecityratrace Follow

They didn't even blow up my fucking bank

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[shap3shifter-witch]

THIS. THIS IS IT. THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

[teaboot]

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

[teaboot]

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

[teaboot]

At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever

[swan2swan]

The important thing to realize about Avatar powerscaling and "who would win" is that Korra would wrap up all of Aang's enemies in about five minutes and Aang would wrap up all of Korra's seasons in an episode.

[depsidase]

[foxglovedforest]

MORE 👏 PERIODS 👏 IN 👏 FANTASY 👏

[unreformedcarrots]

[dubiousculturalartifact]

sometimes i think about the progression of Tortall heroines' power levels and am super amused

Alanna: I have an incredibly powerful Gift of magic, a magic sword granted to me by the Old Ones, and the blessing of the Goddess herself

Daine: oh yeah? Well I have Wild Magic that allows me to sense and communicate with mortal and Immortal animals, heal them, and transform into any animal I choose. I am also a Demigod myself, the daughter of Weiryn, God of the Hunt, was once granted additional powers by the Graveyard Hag, and am under the protection of the Badger God. Keladry: ...i have autism

[forthegothicheroine]

Behold: Calvin's dad's villain origin story

[crustacean-warlock]

Reminder:

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges