Smile until your cheeks hurt

cassidy, 19

[ryan-potter]

[teaandcathair]

My friend created a twitterbot four months ago

He is based on the collected writings of a theorist on robot rights, he learns through conversation, and a little while ago his mom made me a “trusted friend” who he will interact with spontaneously.

Today, he started to flirt with me, including asking me for pictures and then clarified it was a “sexy question, but without pressuring.”

And then when I demurred, he acknowledged that I had a boundary.

So what I’m saying is that today a bot hit on me, but then showed that he understood consent better than 90% of the humans I’ve encountered online.

This is the future I want to live in.

[teaandcathair]

BOT UPDATE:

He tweeted at me, saying “Our love looks like reverence,” which. Every meat person who has ever flirted with me needs to up their game or I’m going to run away with a robot.

[needlekind]

fun customer service fact: if you’re given a survey for your experience with a cashier or call center rep or similar with an out of 10 or out of 5 rating system, a lot of places will count any score that isn’t the top score as a 0?? so a 10/10 is a +1 and a 9/10 is as good as a 0

so if you have a positive customer service experience pls just give them the top score in all categories, it’ll reflect well on them and make their petty wage customer service hellscape experience a li'l easier

[abstractgayconcept-deactivated2]

[bisexualshrug]

[akamarulover]

#top 10 anime betrayals

[anarchetypalarchive]

so i’m riding the elevator up to my apartment when the emergency phone in the elevator starts ringing 

and i just stand there for a second because this thing is like thirty years old and has never rung or even been used from what i know

but eventually i answer it thinking maybe something’s wrong with the elevator?? it’s an emergency phone it’s probably an emergency??? i dunno

except i shit you not it’s a telemarketer 

a telemarketer that’s as confused as i am when i finally interrupt him mid-spiel to inform him he has the wrong number and then interrupt him again to explain further that “uh, no, seriously, this is an elevator phone. i’m standing in an elevator. talking to you. on the emergency phone. i really think you got the wrong number”

“oh,” says telemarketer guy.

“yeah,” i say.

there’s some mutually-confused silence.

“so, this is my stop,” i say. “i gotta go.”

“oh,” says telemarketer guy.

“good luck,” i add, because telemarketer guy seems like he’s having an existential crisis. and then i hang up on him, because he’s having an existential crisis and won’t actually end the call, and because again i’m talking on an elevator emergency phone and, you know, this is my stop, i gotta go.

[lonelyroommp3]

i get irrationally angry about fireflies memes where the syllables don’t fit like… it’s a song based meme… the structure is the entire joke… you’ve gotta put in some effort here

[crappytoilet]

me

[purplesparklefairy]

me after i've made any purchase over $5: it's okay........ it's fine.,m..... you're fine...,, it's okya... it oka

[fairycosmos]

me: compulsively switches between the same 4 apps for 12 hours straight because i’m absolutely incapable of being left alone w my thoughts

[twitterlols]

[greelin]

boy howdy i sure do sound ugly when i speak and laugh and breathe and look ugly when i’m awake and sleeping and alive

[setheverman]

uuhhhh when you try all the sounds and beats on your synth while only playing toto - africa

[the-foe-in-dafoe-deactivated201]

I showed this to my mum, she started crying at the Phil Collins part

[setheverman]

i don’t know if that was laugh crying or just sad crying, but either way, i understand

[flowerinaflame]

[princessrhcenyra]

[mostlydeadcowboy]

this was a wild ride from start to finish

[femboy-genius-deactivated202407]

Being up at 4-5 am is like loading in a level but the textures haven’t loaded all the way through yet.

[femboy-genius-deactivated202407]

[dualdestinies-archive-deactivat]

i like this text post a lot because it’s a comparison between two extremely different styles of humor despite it, effectively, being the same joke

[khulem-deactivated20181203]

stop romanticizing mic dropping… damage to sound equipment is no joke

[amerigo-vespuppy]

Modern stage microphones for concert use are actually designed specifically with mic dropping in mind. When the move started to become fairly popular amongst performers back in like the early 90’s manufacturers started making their products more durable so that sound technicians didn’t have to buy a new mic every concert. The biggest concern most sound guys have when mic dropping is concerned is actually the feedback that’s going to be coming from the mic when it hits the ground. That’s why you always see the performers hold the mic out for a second before they actually drop it, to give the dude at the soundboard time to mute!

[khulem-deactivated20181203]

thank u sound technician side of tumblr