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welcome–to–awkwardville:

brin-bellway:

welcome–to–awkwardville:

the troubles of a person with prosopagnosia and anxiety:

*sees post with pictures of very popular actor they look at pictures of all day*

*tags it with name of very popular actor*

*almost clicks the reblog button*

*checks pictures five times to make sure the pictures actually portray very famous actor and not someone who looks a bit like him*

*feels ashamed because they literally look at pictures of very famous actor all day so it’s very embarrassing not to be sure if it’s really him*

Would you like advice or do you just want to vent? I don’t want to go barging in here with tips if that wouldn’t be appropriate.

it’s okay! i wouldn’t mind advice :)

I’ve found the TagViewer extension for XKit to be very helpful for this situation. To give a relatively recent example (that I’m not sure whether I ever actually reblogged, but it’s still a good example of the process):

1. See gifset of person who may or may not be Taylor Swift playing with small fluffy animals.

2. Press TagViewer button on post.

3. Scroll through the list of reblogs with tags and what tags they used. See that the majority of reblogs with any tags at all contain the tag “taylor swift”, “tswift”, “tay-tay”, or other variations thereupon. See that nobody has tagged it with a name other than Taylor Swift.

4. Feel much more confident that the picture is of Taylor Swift now that you’ve gotten dozens of concurring opinions.

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#prosopagnosia #reply via reblog #tales from the prosopagnosia tag

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welcome–to–awkwardville:

the troubles of a person with prosopagnosia and anxiety:

*sees post with pictures of very popular actor they look at pictures of all day*

*tags it with name of very popular actor*

*almost clicks the reblog button*

*checks pictures five times to make sure the pictures actually portray very famous actor and not someone who looks a bit like him*

*feels ashamed because they literally look at pictures of very famous actor all day so it’s very embarrassing not to be sure if it’s really him*

Would you like advice or do you just want to vent? I don’t want to go barging in here with tips if that wouldn’t be appropriate.

Tags:

#prosopagnosia #reply via reblog #tales from the prosopagnosia tag

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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