Majestic Aspirations

[my-dailydreams]

[globeshaped]

Brian Eno and photoshop (1995)

[odekiisu]

Call me whatever names you wish, but I think this is a much better (and healthier) attitude than “anyone under 18 should never be allowed to see any sexual imagery ever”

(For reference: this was at the Tom of Finland exhibition, containing actual, queer, kinky af pornography. There were definitely some young people there, perhaps in their late teens. There was even a parent with their baby who was probably too young to understand anything at all. And guess what, all those people are probably going to be fine.)

[ID: a sign saying “Please note: there is no age limit, but the exhibition is not recommended for children due to the explicit sexual imagery it contains. Parental or guardian discretion is advised.”]

[shootingstars-or-airplanes]

Hey this is a pretty cool approach maybe we should take that to the Internet instead of trying to invade the privacy of millions of adults because some parents can't parent their kids

[fatsexybitch]

🔪 knife stop 🔪

Take a knife or two to complete any tasks you need to finish soon. Reblog to give your mutuals a knife for any group projects you may be working on

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[lets-steal-an-archive]

[wordfather]

cant wait to go home so i can go be horizontal. all this vertical stuff sucks

[appalachiananarchist]

The "if they'd just obeyed they'd still be alive" fools are out in full force. No, we should not have to blindly obey every command from cops and ICE to avoid them playing judge, jury, and executioner. If you talk like this, at least have the guts to admit you don't actually support liberty and you sure as hell don't support "small government."

[zoesupreme]

never use doordash or uber eats or any of that shit

[warcotuj]

I'm posting this from a library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA. I don't care anymore. I put in my two weeks yesterday and honestly, I hope they sue me. I've been sitting on this for about eight months, just watching the code getting pushed to production, and I can't sleep at night knowing I helped build this machine.

You guys always suspect the algorithms are rigged against you, but the reality is actually so much more depressing than the conspiracy theories. I'm a backend engineer. I sit in the weekly sprint planning meetings where Product Managers (PMs) discuss how to squeeze another 0.4% margin out of "human assets" (that's literally what they call drivers in the database schemas). They talk about these people like they are resource nodes in a video game, not fathers and mothers trying to pay rent.

First off, the "Priority Delivery" is a total scam. It was pitched to us as a "psychological value add." Like I said in the title, when you pay that extra $2.99, it changes a boolean flag in the order JSON, but the dispatch logic literally ignores it. It does nothing to speed you up.

We actually ran an A/B test last year where we didn't speed up the priority orders, we just purposefully delayed non-priority orders by 5 to 10 minutes to make the Priority ones "feel" faster by comparison. Management loved the results. We generated millions in pure profit just by making the standard service worse, not by making the premium service better.

But the thing that actually makes me sick-and the main reason I'm quitting-is the "Desperation Score." We have a hidden metric for drivers that tracks how desperate they are for cash based on their acceptance behavior.

If a driver usually logs on at 10 PM and accepts every garbage $3 order instantly without hesitation, the algo tags them as "High Desperation." Once they are tagged, the system then deliberately stops showing them high-paying orders. The logic is: "Why pay this guy $15 for a run when we know he's desperate enough to do it for $6?" We save the good tips for the "casual" drivers to hook them in and gamify their experience, while the full-timers get grinded into dust.

Then there is the "Benefit Fee." You've probably seen that $1.50 "Regulatory Response Fee" or "Driver Benefits Fee" that appeared on your bill after the recent labor laws passed. The wording is designed to make you feel like you're helping the worker.

In reality, that money goes straight to a corporate slush fund used to lobby against driver unions. We have a specific internal cost center for "Policy Defense," and that fee feeds directly into it. You are literally paying for the high-end lawyers that are fighting to keep your delivery guy homeless.

And regarding tips, we're essentially doing Tip Theft 2.0. We don't "steal" them legally anymore because we got sued for that. Instead, we use predictive modeling to dynamically lower the base pay.

If the algo predicts you are a "high tipper" and you'll likely drop $10, it offers the driver a measly $2 base pay. If you tip $0, it offers them $8 base pay just to get the food moved. The result is that your generosity isn't rewarding the driver; it's subsidizing us. You're paying their wage so we don't have to.

I'm drunk and I'm angry. Ask me anything before this gets taken down.

[mushroominaforest]

Shout out to the doctor who responded with complete sincerity when I (on anesthesia) uttered the phrase “chat are we cooked” in her medical professional vicinity. You’re such a real one for that fr fr

[mostlysignssomeportents]

20 years ago, it was a scandal that Google started to track which links you clicked on the search-results page,

[sabertoothwalrus]

this is like finding a journal written by someone before the zombie apocalypse happened

[eszlelesihezag]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[zzzilan]

[demonprincex]

and there are people on the internet who are so trapped in their mentality of being victimized that they do not want to see that they have their own role to play in shaping their own future life, and they will lash out angrily at people who tell them that they have agency. some of this is because they are at a stage of trauma recovery (or potential recovery, if they ever decide to move forward) where what feels most important to them is validating that they genuinely have suffered, and they may not have the energy for planning for the future or taking proactive action at this time. that's actually fine. sometimes you do need to wallow. that can be a way of really confronting just how bad what happened was, and of saving up energy for bold action in the future. but it gets to a point where you do have to actually take some kind of action. it doesn't have to be done alone. one of the first actions a person can take is to ask for help. but it does have to be done. and some people who can be acccused of "tar pitting" here on this website are so married to the idea of their life as hopeless and not their responsibility to shape (as if their life belongs to anybody else!) that they become angry if you tell them they actually have a lot more power over their life than their trauma brain would ever tell them that they have.

[bedupolker]

i dont have an angel and devil on my shoulder there's just a protestant telling me to work harder and a white buddhist who probably misunderstood buddhism telling me to stop wanting anything

[wizardarchetypes]

getting my labs done today i was thinking about years ago when i went to the doctor and i was like 'i've been to another doctor already but he wouldn't listen to me. something's wrong. i've never been this tired in all my life. i know i'm in college and i know i have depression but this is different. please you have to try something.'

so the doctor (back then) ordered labs and it turned out my vitamin d level was like 5 or 7 and i've never seen a doctor so elated about lab results in my entire life. she said, 'it's never. vitamin d. but it is this time. we can fix this. you're going to feel better.'

she was literally like

[jupitersmusings]

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

[overlord-fire-bubble]

THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

[tiny-kt]

this for real fucking works

[scroll-of-thought]

Apparently this one fuckin works, and who am I to argue with the collective agreement of tumblr. Will report back if good things happen.

[scorpionlafemme]

[theambitiouswoman]

We’re taught to chase chemistry like it’s fate

Movies, media, society, romance culture they all sell this idea that if the spark is strong, the person must be right however most of what we call chemistry is actually our nervous system reacting, not destiny

It’s cortisol, adrenaline, old attachment wounds and familiar chaos. It’s your body recognizing a pattern you’ve lived before not necessarily what’s good for you

Real chemistry, healthy, aligned chemistry feels completely different. It’s steady, it feels SAFE, peaceful, you don’t have to guess or chase or decode. It’s not lustful. It’s not anxiety pretending to be passion. It’s not that addictive rush your body learned from past wounds. Your body relaxes around them instead of bracing. You feel more like yourself, not less. You don’t lose your center, you expand and become your best self

No amount of chemistry can ever make up for the anxiety that comes from being with someone who is emotionally inconsistent, unkind, or misaligned with your core values

That “spark” that makes you obsessed is literally your nervous system trying to resolve an old wound

Your body knows the difference

Your peace knows the difference

Your soul definitely knows the difference