Month: April 2015

Ok you guys, we all know that Tumblr runs primarily in English

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seagreeneyes:

seagreeneyes:

BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT A SIGNIFICANT PART OF TUMBLR USERS ARE NOT NATIVE SPEAKERS

Here’s the deal: my first language is Italian. I know plenty of people on this website whose first language is Italian. Nevertheless, when we’re interacting with each other on Tumblr, we speak English.

I am not objecting to this system, it’s actually good practice for some people, to be able to speak a second language extensively.

BUT I HAVE A PROPOSITION FOR YOU.

Why not have a “Speak Your Own Language Day” where all of us exclusively speak in our native language?

(No but apart from the small rebellion from the US-centric and generally Anglophone-centric environment we got here, think about trying to speak to people from other countries via excessive use of Google Translate it’ll be a blast)

Ok, since this post has finally reached 100 notes I think it’s a good time to give a date, and since no one else has advanced suggestions I’m gonna do it

I’m proposing Wednesday 7th May, so the post has a chance to do a couple more laps and more people get a chance to participate (French Friday sounded hilarious, but I don’t wanna wait until next friday and this friday seems a bit too soon).

How it’ll work:

  • If you’re native language is something other than English, speak that!
  • If you have multiple languages you can pick from the choice is yous friend, speak all, speak one, whatever’s best for you
  • You’ll blog in your language all day: text posts, replies, tags (except triggers and organizational tags), the whole nine yards. Regardless of what language people choose to speak to you, you answer in your own.
  • Midnight to midnight according to your own time zone
  • English native speakers, if you wanna participate maybe you could practice a second language you’re learning
  • If anyone makes fun of anyone else for their language (and I’m including English native speakers that might choose to speak a second language on the day) I’m gonna come for you (◕‿◕✿)
  • The tag is gonna be #Speak Your Language Day if you wanna tag your posts with that!

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#language #oh hey are we doing this again this year? #neat #I think that qualifies it for the tag #Tumblr traditions

The ongoing saga of Harker and the stapler

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kaijutegu:

kaijutegu:

My ball python, Harker, is really scared of this one stapler.

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Every time he sees it, he balls up.

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I was grading today and sure enough, the stapler was still scary.

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However, for the first time, I introduced a second stapler!

He was nervous at first… 

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But it didn’t take him long to warm up to it.

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Pretty soon it became his best friend!

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There was nothing the new stapler couldn’t do!

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Including protecting him from the other stapler.

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The moral of the story?

My snake is a weirdo.

Update: Today I took Harker to my office, where he met another stapler.

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He was fairly apathetic at first, but eventually they got on pretty well!

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This stapler was smaller than either of the others, but one thing was sure: this stapler was definitely not scary!

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Am I any closer to understanding my snake’s strange relationship with staplers?

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Absolutely not.

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#snake

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little-brisk asked: “heartbroken one dimension fans”

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eponymous-rose:

I’ll admit I was only ever a fan of them back when they were Three Dimensions because they seemed so well-rounded. Even when they were only Two Dimensions they got a little flat at times. But I just can’t stand by them now that we’re down to One Dimension. I don’t see the point.

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#One Direction #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #puns

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Fuck you, spell check, “smartphone” is totally a word.

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#and when you’re writing a thing about natural language processing it’s a pretty *important* word #adventures in University Land #oh look an original post #(don’t worry I finished the thing *before* going on Tumblr to make a post about it)

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comparativelysuperlative:

I just saw a capital “C” and thought “what is a centaur doing in the title of my document” and I HAVEN’T EVEN BEEN PLAYING NETHACK LATELY.

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#Nethack #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #I’m not sure any of my followers who haven’t already seen this will get it #(slepaulica would but they haven’t been on Tumblr in ages) #but I promised I would reblog things that made me laugh and I am damn well going to

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ozymandias271:

itsbenedict:

joyceanfartboner:

realtalk make a pact w/ me if i ever am like “yo im caught in a time loop” please believe me i promise i wont ever use it as a prank either like ive been watching a lot of tv shows and movies w/ fucking time loop plotpoints where one character knows it and if i ever become that person i want to not have to constantly prove it to them. just take it on honest that a magic or something happened.

aight so here’s my policy on this for anyone in this situation: i’ve come up with a passphrase ahead of time that you can tell me to indicate that you’re in a time loop. on the first time around, you’re going to have to actually prove you’re timelooping to me, but as soon as you do so, i give you the passphrase, and you can use that to cut to the chase on subsequent loops. 

your passphrase can also be used to easily identify versions of yourself from the future!

#everyone should have a passphrase #a simple step to prepare for a wide variety of SFnal plotlines

*nod* I have a passphrase, good back to about age fourteen. Also an (unrelated) Standard Thought for use on people claiming they can read my mind, to make sure I can think of something other than the obvious, easily guessable stuff like “I hope they can’t read my mind; that would be pretty privacy-invading if they could do that”. (I suppose I could use the first passphrase as the second (not the other way ‘round), but that’s not how it’s worked out.)

I also have a “your memory’s been erased” signal that past selves can leave for me to find. Several, in fact, to cover a range of time and materials needed.

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#maybe it’s the Girl Guide in me #(or the Girl Scout) #(I’ve been both)

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queen-of-troy:

May: Has anyone seen Coulson? I can’t find him anywhere.

Skye: Hang on.

Skye: *clears throat*

Skye: CAPTAIN AMERICA IS THE WORST MOST BORING AVENGER

*pounding feet*

*door explodes open*

Coulson: WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY

Skye: Found him

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#MCU #Agents of SHIELD #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #I’m not actually part of this fandom #but I’ve picked up enough to get this joke