this is important and it's not as pessimistic as the thumbnail implies youtu.be/JLubu0orxPw?...

thinking about the times I said silence of the lambs was transmisogynistic And I got absolutely furious responses accusing me of picking fights and lying for clout and honestly other horrible accusations just for noticing what was blatant in the script

Ted Levine, you hero! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

thinking about the opposition to prescribing trans women progesterone when it treats anxiety pretty effectively

hold on www.ign.com/articles/leg...

I'm sorry but what youtu.be/VIxA9hPv27k?...

palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.

It's not for everyone, but progesterone greatly helps my anxiety. Also? More neurodivergent and/or traumatised people need to know about agomelatine. It shuts down the (seemingly autism-related) rumination loop behind some types of anxiety and depression. It also decreases nightmares from cPTSD.

I'm sorry but what youtu.be/VIxA9hPv27k?...

orally it hits like valium.

thinking about the opposition to prescribing trans women progesterone when it treats anxiety pretty effectively

Neil Gaiman hired a crisis management firm and I feel like this is exactly what one should expect from such a maneuver

I guess I haven't done a full update so first thing I primarily use a different account now. second my illness continues to progress and I continue to get worse third I moved to New Jersey where I have friends who can help me and make up the balance of support that Colorado lacked

UK anti-trans journalism is the twisted baby of UK anti-vax journalism and UK anti-gay journalism, with a sprinkling of tactics from UK anti-immigrant and UK anti-traveller journalism

I guess I haven't done a full update so first thing I primarily use a different account now. second my illness continues to progress and I continue to get worse third I moved to New Jersey where I have friends who can help me and make up the balance of support that Colorado lacked

please help Joy and Charlotte with their nice and Joy's dental expenses

hey so Erin is family to a close friend and I'm posting this on her behalf as she doesn't use social media much. please boost this and circulate it as your can. Erin really needs help to remain housed and feed. thank you #transcrowdfund 💕💸🏳️‍⚧️ www.gofundme.com/f/please-hel...

this is the video that got unfairly demonetized youtu.be/GAJf2F1BbRA?...

I think this is an important video. Patrick had his video about the Epstein files and the utter lack of transparency in the way they were censored demonetized for a bad reason youtu.be/AJP6K2_rr90?...

I think this is an important video. Patrick had his video about the Epstein files and the utter lack of transparency in the way they were censored demonetized for a bad reason youtu.be/AJP6K2_rr90?...

Reading this as a former Uber Eats driver: Doesn't suprise me at all honestly. I remember one of the biggest advice in those subreddits is to reject every 5 dollar and under orders not only because they suck but the algo will just give you more of that. And uber was really one of the worst ones-

This explains the cases where when I delivered for [MAJOR FOOD DELIVERY APP] why my pays started getting fucked up. They were about the same comparatively with distance + time, tips only being the ranging factor. Then a $2 base pay with a $15 tip and a $10 pay with a $2 tip for the same distance.

Andrew Ross, 2008: "Post-industrial capitalism thrives on actively disorganizing employment and socioeconomic life in general, so that it can profit from vulnerability, instability and desperation." fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fa... scispace.com/pdf/the-new-...

Any delivery driver could tell you this. We aren't stupid we can see it happening to us too. When I work more hours per week the orders get progressively worse until I'm getting $2 orders that take 45 minutes with no ability to refuse them bc I've refused too many exactly like it in the past hour

I know several people who do full time delivery services like this. Holy shit. Holy SHIT. This is so much worse than I could have imagined. “Human assets.” They use those of us who tip well to subsidize low wages. “Desperation score.” What the fuck

I did these for a few years both during the pandemic, and the year i was having a hard time finding work between jobs. This is absolutely vile.

This is all true and all of us drivers know it. They will also purposely use your bigger tip to, for example, dispatch your order to a Wendy's 8 miles from you, and then punish the driver for declining that order that was bad for all parties involved.

i'm so glad someone blew the whistle on this. i get suggested to do doordash as an income stream and while it is money, the more i did it the more diminishing i found my returns to be. the fees you get barely cover gas and they don't tell you your tips for like almost a week after the delivery.

#cyberpunk is real. #cyberpunk is now.

Everyone who has ever driven for a food delivery and paid any attention at all is, frankly, reading this and going "Yeah, we know" lol

on a related note, did you know that scheduling a ride on a rideshare app is fake? we scheduled one for an early morning flight one time and the driver told us the app doesn't actually schedule anything ahead of time. it just puts out a ride request to current drivers and overcharges the user lol

People in the reposts are saying to tip in cash instead of online. While nice, as a driver, if I see an order with no/insufficient pay, I don't accept it. Mainly cause the people who don't tip online also won't tip in cash, and I can't bank my paycheck on the hope that *maybe* this person will tip

Screencapped and filed under "Eat The Rich"

@pipsish.bsky.social did you see this? The reddit thread also mentions driver's apps.

"capitalism breeds innovation!!" The innovation:

I thought we all knew that if it says “fee” that means “added profit for the company,” but this is a good chance to share AB 578 which just took effect in California, requiring food delivery platform fee transparency & prohibiting platforms from retaining any portion of tips.

Really dislike the way these companies operate. Glad Mario’s doesn’t use them, because tips can be my lifeblood.

Big data! Innovation! (It's just boneless labor and fraud laws again)

Capitalism is bad

everything about this is completely infuriating.

lowkey return to pizza being the main/only thing you can order for delivery

Thinking about when I was working at a fast food restaurant during a major snow storm. We stopped offering delivery because boss didnt want to be liable for an accident, but skip & uber were very popular. Now I know those deliveries were also dangerous and probably tanked their desperation rating.

Holy fuck. Shocked but not surprised. I’ve worked in private sector tech in a company when they just started using dynamic pricing. I haven’t had good experiences with it as a UX specialist designing with it or as a consumer.

Oh yeah this a thing with most of the apps. 😭 It’s why I just don’t bother with memberships anymore or doing tipping on the app and rather do direct tip in cash or cashapp cause th companies profiting heavy and price gouging stuff too!

This honestly explains a lot why the service on these apps have been going down the shitter, they're just not paid enough for it. Lately I've been ordering from restaurants that have their own online platform and drivers and it's a notable difference in quality because they actually pay the drivers.

From my time doing instacart and other delivery apps, I've long suspected the "desperation score" but it's nice to get confirmation

“…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.” #food #delivery