Just Stuff I Like

She/her, 29

[weaselle]

companies like google and youtube etc are like if a guy went around putting little bowls of soup out everywhere. And it's pretty good soup. But it's so very everywhere that there's not a lot of room to find any other soup anywhere. Which is kind of okay, because the soup is decent plus it's free.

But someone has to pay for it, and this rich guy says he'll pay for the soup if he gets to attach a business card to each of the bowls. And that's okay, kinda, because it means you don't have to pay for it.

And THAT. That should be how things end up. But they don't stop there.

Soon business card guy gives the soup guy some extra money and starts putting business cards IN the soup. And, like, little pebbles with his name on them.

And then the soup guy takes "don't be evil" off his list of commitments and starts peeing in the soup, and the business card guy pays him some more extra money and puts hidden cameras up to spy on the people eating the piss soup.

but by now there's so much of their soup everywhere that you kind of have to eat it. If you're not eating soup from soup guy, then you're getting dinner from chicken wing guy who is also getting paid to have cameras watch you eat the business cards stuffed into the wings. And pissing on them, probably. And between them and the burger gang, they take up so much of the surface area nobody else can put much food out.

Anyway it's especially frustrating because there is a stage in there where it's working for everybody. Everybody gets what they want at one point in this process, and by all rights it should just. stay. there.

Right when it all really comes together, it works. We get the free soup, which is decent and piss-free with no business cards shoved directly into it. Business card guy gets his business card attached to every bowl, and it boosts his business. And soup guy gets to be known as the one giving out all this free soup while making a decent living taking payment from business card guy.

but it always slides straight into business guy and soup guy becoming wealthy from our money as they both spy on us eating their piss soup

[samballie]

My winter lambs

[susiephone]

if the sheep detectives came out in 2014 it would be the family film this website (that would still be populated largely by 13 - 18 year olds because again it's 2014) would be obsessed with, and there'd be 50 fics on ao3 shipping Officer Cousin Greg From Succession and Reporter Blonde Gay Prince, also lots of humanized fanart of the sheep, especially the tragic black sheep played by bryan cranston.

[inthetags]

Reblog and type in the tags, a food or drink that you consumed because you saw it in a film or show but it turned out to be disappointing in real life (the food/ drink not the show).

[penny-anna]

how long do you think it would take Grace to realise he's Rocky and Adrian's third now

[penny-anna]

they have access to all human knowledge so im imagining Rocky being like hmm i should research human culture relationship terms so i can talk to Grace about this & then shortly thereafterwards being like 'Rocky Adrian Grace Throuple Statement' and Grace being like 'Rocky Adrian Grace what'

[penny-anna]

Rocky, very patiently: Adrian Grace metamours statement

Grace: what

Rocky: metamours is -

Grace: no no I know what metamours is this is just news to me

Adrian: happy happy happy Grace's metamour

Rocky: Adrian happy to be Grace's metamour statement

Grace: no I totally get that I'm just not clear on why I wasn't part of this discussion

[penny-anna]

Rocky: Rocky Grace queerplatonic relationship statement

Grace: ok now you're just making up words

*shortly*

Grace, looking up the definition: oh.

[penny-anna]

*still later*

Grace, several encylopedia pages on human sexuality deep: huh

Rocky: what's wrong question?

Grace: I just realised why none of my relationships on earth ever worked out

[dailymarvelheroes]

get you a man who can do both

[nitramaraho]

one of my patients came in for an emergency visit, because she snapped the wire on her retainer watching the movie when MBJ took his shirt off she clenched her teeth so fucking hard she snapped it. that is the fucking funniest shit ever to me this tiny 17 year old girl thirsting so goddamn hard she busted steel

[crystalitesummerstar]

Y'all, it gets better. She found out.

[buzzfeed]

We interviewed her, obviously.

[buzzfeed]

update:

[rainbowselfies]

[blvckgeezus]

Such a developing story.

[pastdueeverything]

I love this story

[athenadcvell]

This was a wild ride from start to finish

[gambit-of-a-small-rabbit-deacti]

I know I say this a lot, But this is one of the best things on this website

[nitramaraho]

Sophia is currently doing great in college, and I still get about one kid a month in the office who asked if this really happened.

[demigoddessqueens]

I found it!! The original post!!

[urcadelimabean]

HAS SHE SEEN SINNERS

[madenthusiasms]

Preferably when she wasn’t wearing the retainer.

[memecucker]

I think it’s funny how Mormon God was like “look polygamy is super important and I am telling you my followers to practice it even in the face of persecution” and then 40 years later Congress said Utah wouldn’t be given statehood as long as the LDS practiced polygamy and Mormon God was like “Ok tell everyone I changed my mind”

[memecucker]

I just really like the idea that Mormon God like, basically caved into pressure from the federal government

[opalitecassandra]

Could you not use the phrase “god knows” in a post about literal religious figures? I spent several minutes wondering why God’s opinions on a musical were relevant here.

[prokopetz]

Honestly, if you see an angel that’s all eyes and wings and wheels of fire, you should be worried. Like, not because it’s going to hurt you or anything, but because scripturally, angels invariably appear to ordinary people in human form. In general, they only show their inhuman true forms to prophets – which means if you’re seeing them like that, they come bearing responsibility.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Me: [opens door]

Wheels upon wheels, eyes of flame, the roar of a thousand wingbeats: BE NOT-

Me: nope [closes door]

Bearer of the throne of heavenly God, through door: YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO-

Me: I don’t live here

Celestially Ordained Mover of the Unmoved: I CAN SEE YOU-

Me: fuck off!

[molabuddy]

does anyone else think about how the sky can literally rock any colour it wants to

[molabuddy]

red, orange, yellow? sunset/sunrise

green? the rarest and not one ive seen personally but it can happen

blue? classics of sky

indigo? violet? twilight babyyy

pink? also shows up at sunrise/sets

black? night. get goth with it

white? grey? her clouds

[molabuddy]

do you love the Fucking colour of the sky. bitch

[rebelwhodoesntknow]

Green and pink sky from when the auroras went nuts a few months ago!!

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! The sky is joyful and whimsical!

[amygdalae]

still fucks me up what a bad rap coyotes get in peoples eyes. like ive talked to people who  see em as like. gross pests who should be culled. theyre literally just as cool as wolves just a lil smaller and less confident. i love them with all my heart to balance out all the coyote haters out there, coyotes rule theyre doing great

[amygdalae]

imagine having hatred in your heart for this beast

[amygdalae]

this post was so fucking funny I literally was just like “I like coyotes I think they’re cool” and so many people fucking hated it. Shut up I’m trying. To enjoy animal

[aquaflv]

when you go to a doctors office their favorite thing to do is tell you "okay check out at the front desk" when you're done. and the front desk tells you ummm you can just go! and you're like don't I have a copay? and they're like we don't know, we have to ask your insurance company first. and you're like well my insurance card says the copay is $30, can I just pay it right now while I'm standing in front of you? there's a card reader right there on the desk. and they're like nooo we have to send a representative on horseback during the next waning moon to meet with their claims adjusting associate director of benefits management and client services in the secret glade to negotiate. and you're like oh okay and go home. and you get twelve emails asking you to take a survey about your experience

[aquaflv]

AND THEN in eight months you start getting phone calls from unknown numbers and when you finally check your voicemail they're like Your Balance Is Past Due We're Going To Kill You (even though by this point you have forgotten that you ever went to the doctor). and so you go to your MyChart account and log in with your username and password and you have to reset your password for security reasons. and you get two emails that say Your Password Has Been Reset. Was This You? and you have to go find your phone and enter your two factor authentication code and then you have to select which location you visited and then you have to click through all the Reminder: Complete Your Health History Profile where they ask if you've had any new surgeries even though you definitely told the nurse about this at your visit and then you have to find the Pay Bills tab and your balance is $179.23 and you're like why is it so expensive I thought the copay was $30? and you download a PDF of the charges and find out that they charged a late fee of $15 a month even though that doesn't add up to $179.23 and you don't even remember being told you had any balance at any point and you could call a representative and ask about it but that would probably take at least half an hour and there's no way it would actually get rid of the charges. so you go pay it anyway and you have to go find a paper check to look up your bank account routing number because they'll charge you an extra 3% if you pay with a credit card and there's a fee of $2.75 for convenience also. and then you get three emails that say We've Received Your Payment! Thank You For Your Payment!

[bodeckerhedron]

DAVID CORENSWET as CLARK KENT

+ RACHEL BROSNAHAN as LOIS LANE

➤• SUPERMAN (2025) DIR. JAMES GUNN

[thebaubreakroom]

“They sent me here as a baby to save my life”

“Here…where?”

“I’m not gonna say that, you know I’m not gonna say that”

[effervescible]

#Lois really attempted to get him to give up ma and pa’s location huh

I actually wanna use prev tags as a springboard to babble about how I think this particular part of the interview is a great example of the professional and personal breaking down for both of them as it progresses.

Clark gets a lot of deserved shit for not taking the interview seriously and not being prepared for questions any good journalist would ask Superman. (He doesn't have to back down from his position, but he should have expected Lois' questions and definitely did not.) Over the course of the scene, they both start to blur the personal and the professional, and then...the look on his face when he says this, and the look on her face when she just says "okay."

Lois hasn't met his parents at this point or been to Smallville, but of course she knows about them, knows how he grew up. She knows what they mean to him. And this is a part where I'd expect any other journalist to push a little harder, at least try to get something more about his background and childhood, but she immediately backs off because she does know he's not going to say where he was sent, and why he won't say it. It's the one button she doesn't even really try to push and ugh, I just love both their expressions during this exchange.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have this superpower! BUT you have this side-effect

is it worth it?

yes!!

the side effect is bad but ITS WORTH IT

meh it's okay

the side effect makes it unusable/not worth it

Results/option I didn't think of

Voting ended onMay 20

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Beautiful, you don’t HAVE to forgive them. You just can’t ridicule them after leaving for being “tainted” or “evil” or whatever the acceptable word is now. Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

“But they should’ve known sooner” and we should’ve known sooner that Destiel was never gonna meaningfully happen outside of queerbaiting, what’s your point?

“I never want them near me” that’s fine, but you do realize to insult them, YOU have to get near THEM, right? Wouldn’t it be more conducive to what you want to just leave each other alone?

“What if one of them tries to approach me?” Then you block them online, or you keep the conversation clinical and polite irl. You do NOT take time out of your day to berate them for their old views. Your mother raised you better than that.

[jame-dumb]

Preserving these tags, they're very correct

[llamaking]

I would reblog this one million times if I could

[daysleftofsecondterm]

As a matter of fact you can!

[doomsday-dj]

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

[kuttithevangu]

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

[kogiopsis]

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

[bemusedlybespectacled]

“indeed, it seems that the Pacific Northwest (Twilight) is a common locale for finding vampires and werewolves at a high school” oh my god

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Can't wait to run across this drama summarised in a three hour video essay

[blvck-coffee-dad]

I see that it's once again "Tumblr gets overly-vigilant about tagging posts as Mature" season.

[blvck-coffee-dad]

@staff, are y'all sexually aroused by this post?

[whitebisexual]

The concept of being 4 months clean from ai...

[sleepytabbycat]

idc what you guys think I'm proud of him

[astronomical-bagel]

Several AI services (chatbots 🫩) are purposely addictive, the same way people can become addicted to gambling or shopping. We’ve literally seen in real time how ChatGPT has caused psychosis and delusions in people; it can have a huge affect on someones’s mental stability. Just because it isn’t substance-based doesn’t mean that doesn’t count as an addiction, and shaming people who are trying to move on and improve themselves is counterproductive. Im proud of that dude and his 4 month mark!

[astronomical-bagel]

Hidden Mental Health Dangers of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots

AI chatbots can fuel emotional dependence and blur boundaries. Emerging research highlights significant mental health risks. Here are import

The reality of chatbot-induced delusions

Large language models often prioritise agreeability over truthfulness to the detriment of users

AI addiction includes the overuse of AI chatbots and companions, often leading to adverse psychological effects.

Some articles to back my statements, and this isn’t even mentioning about the predatory chatbots who do this on purpose

[oh-morrow]

Then I'll mention the predatory chatbots who do it on purpose! Character.ai is one of many AI chatbot websites that're designed to be addictive.

None of the signup methods require a password. It only takes email and birthday. Minimizing time on the signin or signup screen makes it harder for people quitting to avoid relapse.

"Characters" on the website will send messages "on their own" (prompted by the site) to try to invite inactive users back after as soon as 1 day of inactivity. This is likely to force FOMO, or make users feel more like they owe the bots a response. Unhealthy attachment stuff.

Account deletion is an essential part of every service that should go smoothly, right? Right? Wrong. It takes 1-2 weeks for a Character AI account deletion to be finalized, and account deletion requests have a high chance to not go through if you're not using the app.

Rephrasing: People leaving Character.AI are pushed to download the app in order to delete their accounts, if they haven't already. This makes it harder for people to quit and stay gone. Failing to quit an addiction makes it harder to quit successfully in the future, so this feels like a feature, not a bug. On top of that, the delete account menu reads like this:

Tell me THAT doesn't sound like a bad ex. It's a carefully crafted yet hostile environment to those who are already addicted to the technology. I am so so SO happy, downright delighted that they've managed to quit, and I wish the best for others in recovery spaces or considering quitting as well!! While AI addiction is an emerging condition, there are already therapists and other mental health professionals trained to help people plan to quit and do so a bit easier. (If anyone seeing this is in need of them, there are several tumblr Communities here devoted to quitting, too. They provide a mix of advice, venting spaces, and proof that you aren't alone.)

[susiephone]

don't sneer at people who are trying to do better.