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tennfan2:

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nikewomen:

Hahaha ha        ha       h ––

Watch Episode 3 of our new original show series Margot vs Lily: http://gonike.me/MargotvsLilyEp3

Saw this tumblr promoted post in my feed and assumed it was a hypno porn gif …

That’s happened to me a couple times.

Same, though not this specific one. I wonder if tumblr’s got an ad consultant who just sits around helping companies make ads that appeal tangentially and subtly to weird kinky shit.

Did anyone else read that post theorising that Tumblr is using pornbots to inflate the note counts on sponsored posts, so they can say to the sponsoring companies “Look at how much exposure you’re getting! You’ve got X likes, Y reblogs, and Z follows! don’t look too closely at the composition of those numbers”?

Sex sells, indeed.

(Okay, yes, there’s also the “salience mechanisms cause fetishists to see kink in everything” explanation, but still.)

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#reply via reblog #sexuality and lack thereof #advertising

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whitedogblog:

Neon salesman’s sample case, circa 1935

Imagine walkin around in a suit with this like a big ol business man and someone fucking mugs you and takes it and they open it up when theyre at the safehouse and their shocked and disappointed face is highlighted by neon

black market glowstick salesman

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#oh my god #those mental images #their shocked and disappointed face is highlighted by neon

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@justice-turtle, saw this and thought of you.

(Sorry about cutting the leftmost bit off. This was on a high shelf (meaning I couldn’t see what I was doing and have a decent camera angle at the same time) and I was in a bit of a hurry.)

(For the curious, this rock is part of a geology exhibit at the Ecotarium museum in Worcester, Massachusetts. I went there in late November while visiting relatives over Thanksgiving weekend.)

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#it’s pretty and local #this took me significantly more than five minutes here in Tuesday #though most of trouble was digging through your blog trying to figure out whether your location was public knowledge #(I couldn’t remember whether you’d limited it to friends-locked posts) #(in which case I ought to maintain the secret) #(but no I found some public posts mentioning it) #oh look an original post #geology #(bonus fun fact: Worcester is pronounced approximately ‘WUH-ster’) #(like ‘Worcestershire sauce’ but without the ‘-shire’) #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #Happy Valentine’s Day from an aromantic asexual

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unpretty:

my favorite thing that Clark Kent does is try to figure out how a Normal Human Man would respond to getting injured

like if someone shoots at him he can say “oh he missed” and if someone tries to punch him he can kind of roll with it and barely avoid getting hit so they don’t smash their hand while going “oh ow oof what a punch ouch”

but then here comes the Joker with a comically large wooden mallet and now Clark has to figure out how Normal Human Man Clark Kent could conceivably survive this without making it obvious that he is not actually a Normal Human Man. just “oh goddammit i’ve never even seen someone get hit with one of these before, the joker’s probably seen all kinds of people get hit, he knows what this is supposed to look like but i have no goddamn idea i am so fucked”

superman may have the power of flight and super strength but clark kent has the power of improv

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#Superman #comic #oh my god

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support:

Your replies are on the way, Tumblr

Just wanted to let you know that we’re putting the finishing touches on replies, and making sure they play nicely with everything else on this platform.

“Why did they go away? Why, staff, whyyyy?” Fair question. We had a gaggle of overlapping message-like systems—namely, asks, fan mail, reblogging with commentary, question posts (rare!), and, yes, replies. When we finally introduced actual instant messaging a couple months ago, we had a lot of untangling to do.

In order to make all these systems work together, we had to do some back-end retooling, which meant taking down replies for a bit. For longer than we expected. Sorry about that.

And we get it—replies fill a very particular need (and you were very clear about expressing that need). They’re a kind of super like. A way to fully express your feelings about a thing without expecting anything in response. A gift.

When they come back, they’ll be even better. People will be able to reply to your posts multiple times, and you’ll even be able to reply to your own posts. Simple changes, yes, but ones that open up lots of possibilities.

Best of all, we’ve laid the down the engineering and design groundwork for even more substantial improvements down the road. Replies will be able to develop side-by-side with messaging.

More to come, soon enough. We know you all miss replies. We hope you enjoy their imminent return.

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#PSA #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse

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museedart:

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind, 1896 by Jean-Léon Gérôme

 

seekers-whoarelovers:

I’ve been thinking a lot about it and this is literally the best title of anything

 

cumaeansibyl:

so I guess it was some ancient Greek who said “truth lives at the bottom of a well” and I don’t know what he meant or why it stuck, but I’ve seen a lot of 19th-century references to it (because people always love showing off how much they know about stuff)

but I like this because imagine how fucking pissed off you would be if you lived at the bottom of a well in the first place, but then you had to climb all the way out of it somehow because humans were such unbelievable assholes that you were forced to yell at them in person

 

autumngracy:

“I CAME OUT OF THE WELL BECAUSE YOU NEED TO STOP”

 

jake-clark:

Truth Coming Out of Her Well Comic 1
Truth Coming Out of Her Well Comic 2

 

slatestarscratchpad:

I want to turn this into a meme, so that every time somebody spreads a terrible study or something I can just post the picture and they’ll know what I mean.

 

responsible-reanimation:

I really love the idea of 19th-century men of letters having a heated argument over correspondence, and one of them includes an engraving of this piece as the equivalent of a smug anime reaction GIF.

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#oh my god #nsfw