“The average US president has been charged with 1.54 felonies” factoid isn’t true. The average US President has been charged with 0 felonies. Donald trump, who has been charged with 71, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted
Tumblr Migration 2: Reddit Boogaloo
We all know about the Twitter immigrants, but there seems to be radio silence on what's happening now with Reddit users from certain subreddits doing a similar thing.
What's happening?
Reddit is restricting their API later this month and killing off third-party apps. An AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the CEO Steve Hoffman was held and it was clear that he would continue with the changes.
In protest, thousands of subreddits across the site are planning to go dark for 48 hours on June 12th. Some are planning to continue indefinitely until the changes are reversed.
Okay, so how does this affect Tumblr?
Some subreddits (mainly queer and left-leaning meme ones, don't worry too much about Reddit Atheists™ overrunning us) are encouraging their users to jump ship to our beloved - and beloathed - hellsite. There will be another influx of new users and many will be unfamiliar with how the site works.
What do us Tumblr users do?
Show them how to use the site; introduce them to the site's culture, tell them to reblog shit and curate their dashboard. Sorta like how we welcomed Twitter users back when they flocked here. Kungpowpenising optional.
I'm new from Reddit, what do I do here?
CHANGE YOUR PROFILE PICTURE AND BANNER TO SOMETHING OTHER THAN DEFAULT BECAUSE THIS SITE IS FILLED WITH BOTS AND YOU MIGHT BE MISTAKEN FOR ONE. This is the FIRST thing you should do after getting a blog.
Other folks can help you with stuff like curating your dashboard or creating sideblogs (or you can look shit up) but please, PLEASE just give yourself an icon and reblog some stuff so people don't mistake you for a bot
This is one of the first posts I've seen after trying to look at Tumblr again, so I've decided to head their advice and reblog this. I don't even know what a reblog is but I'll find out in time. It's a learning process
a reblog is what you just did! it's similar to a retweet on twitter and it's the main way things spread on tumblr
Portals to Hell by hrmphfft
marchqueen
IT’S BACK
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS AGAIN FOR MONTHS
I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW
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ITS BACK
This is one of those posts that you need to save and tag or you’ll never see it again for 84 years.
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hey guys look…i found one of those iconic viral Tumblr posts
I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.
My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813
*electric guitar riff*
And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like
Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.
But does the racoon survive the Uruk-Hai? Does he curl up on Aragorn's head, or does he go straight to Faramir? Does he bite Denethor?
My friend. My colleague. My brother my captain my king. I too have been pondering this question, and in my mind there can be only one ultimate outcome.
A few months later
All hail the High Warden of Gondor.
Epilogue: It ADORES Faramir.
I’m going to wear this on my head like a raccoon and show everyone
Adorable cartoon version of the Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring by twitter user kn0nker.
why is this like an infographic about dysphoria
Why does Snoopy AVE A KNOIFE?
gender is a performance and im getting heckled by those old gay muppets
Those tags had me weeping actual tears of mirth holy fuck
My plan for the public transit system is to make bus drivers into a sort of holyman whose role is cherished in society. Then we give them access to all the ecstasy they want and they're expected to take it on the job.
Wait! Here comes Idaho with a steel chair!
So, a funny thing happened on trigun twitter
(amazon link where its 50% off as of May 8th: https://www.amazon.com/This-How-You-Lose-Time/dp/1534430997/)
Update, “this is how you lose the time war” is now #21 on Amazon’s bestseller’s list
(semi-related note but I too have now ordered the book)
another update: Amal El -Mohtar wrote a small article on her blog (https://amalelmohtar.com/i-tried-to-title-this-post-for-twenty-minutes-and-failed/), one which contains the words “[…] and the upshot of it all is that corporate marketing people at Simon & Schuster now know the name Bigolas Dickolas.”
Further update!
Time war has reached #7 on the amazon bestseller’s list and is still discounted!
(thread found here: https://twitter.com/tithenai/status/1655613629604016151?s=20)
In addition:
Very important update is that the producer of Trigun Stampede bought the book.
LMAO YEAH!
and the articles written about this are downright hilarious, not to mention the addition to the book’s wiki
and insert El-Mohtar reacting to the book jettisoning itself up the rankings (much deserved!!)
Then finally topping off with a some more choice funnies from this situation (dongwon is a literary agent)
Scandium: Did you know?
Interestingly enough, scandium is actually more abundant on the moon than it is on Earth.
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Hey guys I just bought this cool cylinder from some guy in the flea market parking lot, not sure how it works but when you take the lid off it makes your camera all grainy, super cool!
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Hey guys, I have an update, and there's a few lies going around in the notes so I figured I'd clear those up while I was here:
First of all, no, I did not "confirm it was was fake" on Twitter, I originally posted this video to a private but fairly big discord, someone there took it and put in on Twitter and later told everyone it was a joke because they were getting quite tweeted too much. That person is not me, I don't even have a Twitter
Second. Apparently this is something called cesium, it's super radioactive and that's why the container is so heavy and thick. I ended up having a really bad burn on my hand after I messed with it for a few more days, they ended up having to take some of the muscle off of it and a ways up my wrist to try and save my arm, this is what it looks like when I unwrap the bandages (I'm not going to show the hand because it looks WAY worse🤢 and I don't want to make yall puke)
Anyway, be careful what you buy from strange guys at flea markets! They might just be trying to kill you!
guy discovered demons are real and then the demons took him. damn.
Kids, don't play with this kind of shit.
I don't know if this whole thing in the original post is real or not but i had the same initial reaction as @therealchickensoup in notes.
As an explanation of the mentioned incident:
Tl;dr version of the video - apparently, there have been these cases where empty capsules from old medical machines have been "misplaced" or outright just left behind like this in various places all around the world (usually in abandoned war zones or when there wasn't enough money to pay a specialized cleaning crew so the stuff just got abandoned and forgotten) and every now and then they get rediscovered by random people, causing death or serious life long consequences to hundreds of people before they are contained.
As for why it does that weird stuff on camera, it's most likely because of SEE - single event error - an effect radiation has on electronics where, if a particle hits a sensor (like camera's photo chip), RAM memory unit, or processing core with enough energy, it disrupts normal function of the device temporarily, in this case by creating that visual snow. Other example that comes to mind is this short video from Rosetta space craft landing at the surface of the comet. It's camera was created specifically to withstand the radiation of the open Space and yet it still filmed tons of "snow" aka heavy particles flying all over the place.
My theory about why the cilinder vid looks different from this is that unlike the comet with particles going every direction from all possible sources in the whole universe, hitting the camera mostly at an angle, the cilinder is the only source of the radiation around and instead of messing up with pixels in line as those nuclei fly through, they hit the thing sqare on and only ever disrupt a singular pixel at the time. But like tens of thousands of them every second by the look of it. Which is a lot.
So yeah, the original post seems legit (in which case RIP) but even if it wasn't, the message it conveys is a serious one. That cilinder is not an object of honor. It does not contain anything valued. Don't buy random unexpectedly heavy metallic items of unknown origin from strangers. If something suspicious like this seems to be glowing in dark or is warm to touch without an abvious reason or if it upsets your phone's camera or causes a discoloration of white paper when you set it on, GET AWAY FROM IT, DON'T MOVE IT, DON'T THROW IT TO SOME OTHER RANDOM PLACE, DEFINITELY DON'T SELL IT ON A FLEA MARKET, CALL 112 OR 911 OR FIREFIGHTERS AND TELL THEM THAT YOU HAVE A SUSPICION THAT YOU MAY BE IN A POSESSION OF SOME RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL AMD YOU NEED HELP ASAP, THEN CALL YOURSELF AN AMBULANCE AND TELL THEM THE SAME THING
Hopefully no one following me or reading this post has to ever do any of those things, but in case you do... I hope that i was clear about how dangerous this shit is.
News, everyone! It's been made into a video by the same guy who did the one on the Goiânia incident
Tl;dr It's fake, the original video was first posted on twitter by a rubber pony fetish account because op was bored. However, PLEASE watch the video in full, it's an entire rollercoaster
targuzzler-deactivated20180224
hey guys so apparently the boss baby was based off a book
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snoopingasusualisee
Yeah.
Don’t Like That
But wait, there’s more!
Watch the transitions from book to Dreamworks movie.
I’m going back to bed
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Everyone who contributed to me having to see this die
whenever people are like “SKETCHING CIRCLES IN SAI IS SO HARD” im like
pffft I work with 6000X4000 and the size of the brush can be only not above 2000px
i dont use that trick
this is the sassiest and most helpful tutorial ever.
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дякую
oh my god
traingirls-vs-trigglypuffs
Reblogging again for my inflation artist followers. XDDD
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This is absolutely the most unnecessary addition to this post you could have ever made.
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end road work? aw fuck i hope this car flies
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Someone add do you love the color of the sky
Someone do NOT do that, I’ll kill you with my flying car
I don’t have the original but I have this. Kill me.
I’m going to hurt all of you
Waluigi was a nice touch.
Best fandom history commentary ever, courtesy of @tardistara
For your viewing pleasure:
P.S. For people who are not 40 have not watched The X-Files, that other guy in the red speedo scene is Mulder’s new partner, the apparent woobie whom Mulder is a jerk to because he’s not Scully… but who later turns out to be a Secret Villain.
1 guess what the big slash ship was back then.
thebkwyrm-blog-blog
And the Secret Villain (with tragic backstory) kissed Mulder in one scene! In an angry non-romantic way but whooooo, the fic it generated.
Um, excuse me, you can’t just SAY that. The Youth need PICS!
(aka I am way too lazy to go find X-Files screencaps myself.)
thebkwyrm-blog-blog
It’s a SUPER DARK scene so the caps are awful - plus caps can’t get across just how startling it was to see Krycek pointing a handgun at Mulder, threatening his life, and then just….. lunge forward, and kiss Mulder on the cheek. Because this was 1998 and one of the most popular shows on TV and you just didn’t SEE THAT. So here’s a GIF instead.
Edited for @olderthannetfic
Dear fandom: please enjoy this EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL.
Christ, man, I remember all of this.
And it was wild.
