Missing Asks!

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roachpatrol:

thorhugs:

hammerandrage:

I FOUND IT! I FOUND THE ANSWER!

Okay, maybe not the final answer, but part of the problem! Asks keep getting eaten. Which is a big problem when you’re doing something anon and don’t want to ask the person “did you get it”? 

If the ask contains an ellipsis without a trailing space, it gets eaten. It says delivered, but it goes nowhere.

So “Well… then” will get delivered but “Well…then” won’t!

Hopefully this helps in getting your asks actually delivered.

Post I made for my RP account, but very relevant elsewhere.

After discovering this, I tested it. Five different accounts between two people, anon vs not. No matter what, without fail, if the trailing space was missing, the message was not delivered.

I contacted Tumblr staff. They were already fully aware this was happening, but it is not documented anywhere. Nor do they seem keen on giving their users a warning about it in any fashion.

Help me spread the word because the staff won’t!

I just tried this out with a friend and those exact phrases and this post is correct! “Well…then” did not show up. I wasn’t even anon at the time. 

Always make sure to put a space after your ellipses, I guess!

… huh.

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#Tumblr: a User’s Guide #The Mystery of the Missing Asks #the more you know #space between ‘…’ and ‘huh’ fully intentional

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Have you ever seen a peacock in full flight?

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breathingunderwater24:

spodiddly:

morrissarty:

wildanimalwildperson:

I do not own these pics. They were sent to me in an email. But I thought I’d share with you all because they’re just AMAZING.

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DRAGONS

They look like mythical creatures O:

Peacocks FLY?! The extent of my knowledge of peacocks was seeing them walk around freely at the zoo. Holy crap. Day made.

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#looks like they only fly for short distances #but they do it while looking *magnificent* #bird #pretty things #awesome

Starvation Symptoms – The Effects Of Starvation On Behavior: Implications for Eating Disorders

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clatterbane:

clatterbane:

I thought I would go ahead and share this separately,  because it’s really interesting, based on the Minnesota Starvation Experiment.

Finding this stuff out has helped me understand and deal with some ongoing ED triggers. Just not getting enough to eat (or probably a good enough variety of nutrients)  for a while will predictably trigger the kinds of thoughts and behaviors associated with eating disorders. No convoluted psychological explanations required; just starving your brain will do this.

Recognizing the pattern has helped me keep things at the disturbing thoughts level, and take that as an indication that I need to get more to eat. Rather than get triggered into actual disordered eating behavior. :-| (In my case, I stay hungry a lot from diabetes, with higher energy requirements there—and then also have trouble with remembering to eat enough and just standing up to cook, for other disability-related reasons.)

I first ran across this in the context of crash and yo-yo dieting, but it would apply equally well if you are having trouble consistently eating enough or enough variety for disability-related reasons. That can really foul you up in a lot of ways. And I would also not be surprised to see higher rates of clinical eating disorders among people who do have these disability problems with staying adequately fed, just from the complicated physiological responses there.

Reblogging again because I was reminded of it, and this is important stuff.

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#eating disorders #the more you know #interesting #disturbing

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figsandtea:

niiicethings:

“Noun is a playful artist’s book about words and their definitions. It is like an exquisite corpse with words.

Starting with 27 real English words, each word and its definition has been divided into two parts. By turning the pages, you get to mix and match the word halves to create humorous and nonsensical new words and meanings.

With over 700 different combinations, this book is the perfect item for bibiophiles, lexicographers, writers, and any lover of words.

Here are a few examples of words and definitions you can put together:

whisper + umbrella = whisbrella: A low sibilan utterance for sheltering one from rain and sun.
banana + onomatopoeia = bananpoeia: A large herbaceous perennial tropical plant that bears fruit imitating the sound of the thing or action signified.
muffin + tyrant = muffrant: A quick bread made of batter unrestrained by law or constitution.
nomenclature + ancestry = nomencestry: A system or set of names for things derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors.”

I’M SORRY BUT 

muffin + tyrant = muffrant: A quick bread made of batter unrestrained by law or constitution.

THIS IS THE PINNACLE OF HUMAN INNOVATION ALL OTHER PLAYERS GO HOME.

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#language #neat

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theforestcat:

I have prosopagnosia, which means “face blindness”. I have had it since birth, and I think it accounts for some of my neuroticism. When I was little, I was often scared that I’d accidentally go home with the wrong parents. Over my lifetime, I’ve learned to identify people in other ways, so it almost comes as naturally to me as someone without facial processing difficulties. I still make mistakes and people get frustrated with me quite often. I’ve also begun to recognize the body language of someone who recognizes me, although I’ve messed that up when someone has just been “checking me out”, which has lead those people to believe that the attraction was mutual… oops. Luckily the bus usually comes in time. xD

However, with movies, I often have difficulty following the plot because I cannot tell the difference between many actors, even if they are of different ages or ethnicities. (It helps a lot if they have different hairstyles.) This is why I prefer cartoons, although I have the same problem with a lot of anime where the characters look similar. I think I would enjoy anime a lot more if I did not have this mental deficit.

Although I haven’t seen this movie, the two men on the left would look identical to me, and I probably would not enjoy this movie due to that.

The first one from the left has brown hair (what’s left of it) and the second one has silver hair (ditto). God help you if they ever wear hoods, though. (And having to rely on a single trait like that would likely make it harder. You’re always having to do “Okay, so it was the brown one that did x and the silver one that did y…I think”.)

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

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themumblybee:

themumblybee:

Idea!!!! Tornadoportation: the tornado-based transportation of the future!!!!

Important Idea Catchphrase Update!!!! 

Tornadoportation: give it a whirl!

You’ll be building the transport hub in Kansas, I presume? They could probably use something like that, give people more reason to go there. Flyover country no more.

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#puns #Wizard of Oz #fly-through country

Which English do you speak?

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profuseponderings:

What countries have most influenced the way you speak? Take this test designed by MIT researchers and find out.

Take this test, guys! It determines what dialect you speak (if your native language is English) and which country you are from (if English isn’t your first language!). 

It is an algorithm which maps out the differences in English grammar around the world. 

 

theheroheart:

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. Canadian
3. Singaporean

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Russian
3. Dutch

Interestingly, I’m Norwegian, I always use British spellings and words, but standard American is probably what’s affected me most.

 

willowrosenberq:

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. South African
2. Australian
3. English (UK)

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Finnish
3. Russian

…HUH. Wasn’t expecting that at all.

 

laangol:

Cool!!!

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. English (UK)
2. Singaporean
3. Australian

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Italian
2. Finnish
3. Spanish

 

littleleofitz:

Haahaa this is awesome.

top guesses for your English dialect:

  1. Scottish (UK)
  2. Irish (Southern)
  3. Australian

Top guesses for your native (first language) a complete fail lol

  1. Portuguese
  2. English
  3. Finnish

 

ftchocoholic:

Well, it was accurate for me xD. Although Finnish does seem like a rather random second guess for a native first language…

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. English (UK)
2. Scottish (UK)
3. Irish (Southern) 

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. English
2. Finnish
3. Russian 

 

 

karalianne:

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

  1. Canadian
  2. American (Standard)
  3. Australian

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

  1. English
  2. Dutch
  3. German

I’m Canadian, so that’s pretty good. I find the Australian bit funny. Not sure why Dutch and German? Maybe because where we lived for grades 6-12 has way more Dutch people than anywhere else I’ve lived and my French teachers in high school were Dutch and German…? No idea. My family is UK for the most part. Mom’s parents came to Canada, Dad’s family was here for generations but came from the UK originally.

 

youneedacat:

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. New Zealand
2. Scottish (UK)
3. South African

 
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language: 

1. Russian
2. English
3. Spanish

Um… I’m from California, the only language my family spoke besides English was Swedish, and the dialects of English my family spoke were generally Southern (Okie/Arkie).  So no idea how that works.

 

slepaulica:

I think it works based partially on how many people with your dialect have contributed. If there haven’t been too many with your dialect it won’t know it and won’t guess it right. Also, I think it might be on a country-level, not a within-country level, because it doesn’t seem to be making guesses like “california english” but just “united states english” or “scottish english”.

It’s possible that some of the ways you talk in your dialect of English was influenced by immigrants from one place or another, or that the rules for speaking your dialect are similar to the rules for speaking some other type english.

also for the “ntaive language” part it seems to be making guesses based on major world languages that lots of people speak. Like guessing Finnish instead of Udmurt or guessing Russian instead of Sorbian. :)

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. Scottish (UK)
2. Australian
3. Canadian

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Russian
2. English
3. Spanish

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. Australian
3. Singaporean

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. German
3. Dutch

I wonder how you tell whether someone is speaking Singaporean English.

I forgot to mention this in their own comment box, but it would be nice if they told you how good a match it is. Like, German’s the second guess for my native tongue, but how distant a second?

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#language #meme

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bibliofilariidae:

iraffiruse:

Some people might feel sorry for themselves in this situation

Puppy don’t care

Puppy’s got stuff to do

Puppy’s got places to be

Puppy’s got people to bark at and things to sniff.

nooooooooooooo he’s so cute

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#my friend’s puppy broke his leg recently #(I think it was even the same leg) #I went over to visit them a couple days ago #he had a brightly coloured cast and a slight limp (less than this) #and those were the only signs anything had happened #he came rushing down the stairs to greet the visitors just like normal #dog #adorable