Month: May 2015

PSA: Please Redirect Your Old URLs

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thetransintransgenic:

ilzolende:

taymonbeal:

Hello, Tumblr friends! If you’ve recently changed your Tumblr URL or are planning to, please take a moment to read this.

You know how sometimes, when you click through a link on the Web, you get a 404 or other such error because whatever was on the other side isn’t there anymore? That’s called link rot, and it’s a real problem for the health of the Web; it’s particularly bad for Tumblr posts. As Tim Berners-Lee warned us back in 1998, cool URLs don’t change; if someone reblogs your post or shares a link to it, you want that link to still work in the future, even if you’ve changed the URL of your blog.

So what can you do? The right way to fix it would be with server-side redirects, but Tumblr doesn’t currently support those. Please complain loudly until they do. In the meantime, here’s an alternate solution; please use this if you’ve changed your URL.

Keep reading

Not that I’m changing my URL, but can you do this by having your old URL as a sideblog or do you need to make a new account?

Just by having your old account as a sideblog works fine.

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#Tumblr: a User’s Guide

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ilzolende:

season0yamiyuugis:

“your trans??  so have you had…..the surgery yet”  ”haha nah the wingspan i want costs more than expected so im still saving up “

“no, i’m still not sure that anyone does finger magnet implants with proper anesthesia in a real hospital or clinic yet”

“oh wait you referenced other trans, nope no surgery don’t even own a binder yet”

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#gender #transhumanism #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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sex-and-metaphors:

flatluigi:

sitojaxa:

gaynxiety:

fictionalfix:

while checking for the umpteenth time whether Quiz Show is available online, I discovered that Netflix has something called Example Show

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it consists of a Netflix employee doing stuff outside HQ like

  • cartwheels
  • moonwalking while using his laptop
  • reciting passages from Julius Caesar
  • juggling

it has two seasons with two episodes each, all of which consist of the same eleven-minute video

if you have closed captions on, the entire video is captioned “there’s no crying in baseball!”

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You can also change the audio to English with commentary by A. Director, which is a man repeatedly saying “this is director’s commentary. this is directory’s commentary. this is director’s commentary”

there’s also a Spanish audio track that appears to be looped, but is much longer than one sentence. (I think it might be more Julius Caesar.)

there are three subtitle tracks; the “english” one just says “There’s no crying in baseball!” the entire time, the “spanish” one has actual subtitles in english, and the “portuguese” one has actual subtitles in french. this is so good

this is one hell of a fucking aesthetic

netflix gothic

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #gothic meme #(tagging it that because the last person to add to the reblog chain has a point)

Procrastinating on Wikipedia and found this…

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thousandmaths:

So there’s a pretty long tradition in math of people coming up with problems they can’t solve, and talking to their friends, and realizing that nobody they know can solve them either, and then announcing to the world that you would get some sort of prize if someone could solve them. 

Usually the prize is a small amount of money.

Sometimes, if someone is really cocky, or the problem is known to be really hard, it’s a lot of money. 

And sometimes there’s Stanisław Mazur, who offered a live goose as a prize for finding a particularly pathological object (a Banach space for which some compact operator is not the limit of finite-rank operators). 

And then, Per Enflo did manage to find such an object. Today, there is photographic evidence that he did, in fact, receive his prize. Go look at that picture, and tell me that Enflo is not 100% pumped about his goose. The older Mazur, on the other hand, looks mostly like “WTF, this fool actually called my bluff”.

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#math #oh my god that picture

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felixdawkins:

for science, if u could reblog this and put in the tags

  • where you live
  • your first/primary language
  • what you call these:
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#meme #(close enough) #I technically live in Ontario but I learned my word for these in New Jersey #English #scrunchies

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ilzolende:

ilzolende:

If I am a fictional character I exist in about 20 incomplete first drafts. Stuff keeps happening that pattern-matches to “plot hook” but for any of these

Gah, how did this get published in the middle of a sentence I clicked save as draft.

…for any of these to actually turn into a coherent plot at this point would require a massively oversized conspiracy theory.

I assumed you’d done it on purpose, so that the post would itself be an incomplete first draft.

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#reply via reblog

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greenbergsays:

Okay but.

Steve needs to have a Swear Jar and every time someone says a profanity in front of him, he just holds it out. The especially bad ones cost two dollars, don’t think Steve will let you get away with that. And this goes on for months and months and when Bucky starts coming around, he notices it. And he also notices how Steve doesn’t swear in front of any of the Avengers.

And when he gets Steve alone, he’s like, “what gives, you’ve got the worst mouth out of anyone I know.”

And Steve, with a perfectly innocent expression, says, “they made assumptions, Buck. I think those assumptions should at least buy a new bike, don’t you?”

And Bucky just stares at him, awed, like, “I forgot how fucking devious you are.”

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#Avengers #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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feltknickers:

npr:

Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.

But something else happened.

Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half.

“So it’s really been a mystery — why do children stop dying at such high rates from all these different infections following introduction of the measles vaccine,” says Michael Mina, a postdoc in biology at Princeton University and a medical student at Emory University.

Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine

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Like many viruses, measles is known to suppress the immune system for a few weeks after an infection. But previous studies in monkeys have suggested that measles takes this suppression to a whole new level: It erases immune protection to other diseases, Mina says.

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#illness tw #needle tw #biology #the more you know

ilzolende asked: hate meme: anti-transhumanist pro-mortality bioethicists

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comparativelysuperlative:

the-nth-angel:

chroniclesofrettek:

ozymandias271:

It never fails to amaze me how bioethicists manage to be wrong about everything, like, I would expect that there would be a point where I would agree with bioethicists out of sheer reversed-stupidity-is-not-intelligence AND YET every time I see a viewpoint attributed to a bioethicist it is inevitably fucking stupid

bioethicists: wrong on death, wrong on suicide, wrong on augmentation, wrong on cures, wrong on ice cream cones, wrong for America

Yeah … the ice cream cone thing surprised me when I heard about it.

Wait, what. I thought Ozy was just throwing out a random joke to further take the piss out of bioethicists. I just googled and… wow. I’m irl laughing really hard. This is The Onion-grade material right here, except it actually happened.

I KNOW, RIGHT? I Googled it and got halfway through an incredulous response with a lot of ellipses in sheer astonishment that a human being said that while being serious and is still taken seriously when using that argument about non-ice cream subject matter.

Unrelatedly, I walked down the street eating ice cream today. It was great.

Transhumanists: Because they think ice cream is morally OK.

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#transhumanism #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #oh my god #I assumed it was a random joke too