Do you ever eat popcorn out of the palm of your own hand with such ardent desperation that you feel like both a wild horse and the gentle schoolgirl feeding it treats to gain its affection
Hey there guys. It’s me, in 2022, commenting on this post from 2016. There’s been a lot of people on this site lately being like “oooh no don’t make viral uwu I’m so pathetic, little, and defenseless and my poor notifications can’t handle 10k reblogs” well first of all ALL of us are pathetic, little, and defenseless and secondly none of our notifications can handle 10k reblogs and thirdly I’m not a coward and I think this should have a million notes. Not because of its own merit as a post, I just think it’d be funny if when I turn 30 this year and I reflect on the greatest accomplishments of my life thus far, I have to at least consider putting “famous tumblr popcorn post” on the list
Hey there guys. It’s me, in 2023, in May specifically, I’m 30 and for the record it rules, I had a lil aging crisis and now I’m past that and I’m just like goddamn it is great being in my thirties and I had a wonderful birthday NO THANKS TO YOU GUYS
actually, much thanks to you guys. Some of you were inspiringly crazy about this post. Frankly you worked harder for this than I did, and your efforts were touching and inspiring and funny and yet we STILL FAILED. GUYS WE GOTTA PUT OUR EYES BACK ON THE BALL. We have ehhh about six months before I turn the big three-one, which is actually the most important birthday because now you’re in your thirties For Real, and I personally can’t think of a better way to ring in my 31st year of life than by trying and failing to do something that I was hoping to knock out in my twenties.
Now that I'm working in the anthropology department and we're teaching human evolution, I wonder how many anthropologists looking for ancient hominids must have found modern human remains instead. You didn't find a fossil of human evolution... but you did find the remains of a person. Isn't that meaningful, too? And also... they are so similar to us, that it's not unlikely that so many remains that could have been key to understanding human evolution have been misidentified as just humans (which raises the question "weren't they just human" but I digress)
There's an interesting story about Sahelanthropus (a hominid similar to chimpanzees who walked upright about 6 millions ago in modern Chad). When it was discovered, the remains presented wear and tear from wind and sun exposure, which was wierd because they were found buried. It was then the anthropologist noticed it was buried with its head facing towards Mecca, like in proper Muslim burial practice. Muslim nomads must have found the remains of Sahelanthropus, they would have thought it was a human, and decided to give it a proper burial, even if they didn't know its story or who was it life, they thought those bones deserved to rest.
i hope everyone with acne, eczema, vitiligo, psoriasis, dermatitis, and skin conditions have a good day today
thanks guys while im here PLEASE put an acne option on your picrews
i just saw the phrase "unregistered molotov cocktails" in a news article and im really enjoying imagining this world where you have to register molotovs to the state
Yeah I'm just not doing that. I don't need the job that much.
comments by @autumntides :
It is illegal in the United States (violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (Title I and V)) to require a photograph or other image in a job application outside of direct unavoidable relevance (modeling and acting work).
"In the instance an employer makes an illegal request for a photograph as part of a job application, you may submit a complaint to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission."
Successful violation fee collections are paid partially to the one who suffered the violation, which in many cases exceeds a year of work at these shit jobs. There's only two weak points to a corporation, and those are in the budget and in the supply chain. Hit them where it hurts.
I put up your boyfriend for peer review and... yeah he's published in a journal now. You can purchase 1 month of access for $32.99, or you can log in through your institution for access. Sorry.
JSTOR???????????????
always blows my mind as a european when people talk about states like “yeah theres nothing in ohio/montana/wyoming/etc” because i look at a map like but. but theyre so big. every state could qualify as its own country what do you mean theres nothing there. and then i ask people from those states and theyre like “yeah theres nothing here” what do you mean theres nothing there!!!
What’s in the steppes of Russia, or the northern forests of Scandinavia? What’s in the Sahara desert?
id like us to sit here and identify some key differences between the sahara desert and ohio for a moment
as a former Ohio resident I think that the key difference is that the sahara probably has more jobs unrelated to meth
untapped meth market in the depths of the sahara desert
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theyperson help they're reinventing the holy trinity but for TikTok kinnies with decanonized Eastern orthodox saints as comprising their alter systems
Hold up. That's kinda based actually. I need you all to charge your JO crystals so the otherkin can cause another council of nicea.
I had a dream that there was a huge TikTok challenge thing for "Joining the French foreign legion" like people were getting concerned that all these teenagers were joining the French foreign legion as a meme. It became a culture war issue were alt-right chuds were mad that kids with blue hair were joining, which made the FFL "soy now"
TikTok Challenge: Occupying Algeria
TikTok robot lady voice: "Starving to death in northern Africa"
Oh no they put him into the contraption before he could even finish the post
it's just really hard to type a full rebuke of CNN with only one hand
Would it be possible for Tumblr to share more financial information? I'm specifically curious about how much revenue is coming from users (Ad-Free Browsing, Blaze, Important Blue Internet Checkmarks, Dashboard Crabs, merchandise, et cetera) as compared to revenue from advertisements, and also how that stacks up against the costs of running Tumblr (servers, hosting, payroll, et cetera). I personally would feel better about financially supporting Tumblr if I had more information about where and how far the money goes, and I suspect I'm not the only person for whom that is true. I want Tumblr to keep existing as the weird and wonderful website it is, so encouraging more user support seems like a good thing.
I can't share specifics, but I can tell you that it costs many millions more to run Tumblr than we currently bring in via avenues that aren't advertising (advertising + non-ad revenue also doesn't close the gap, but advertising makes a significant amount more in revenue than all our non-ad revenue). You're going to see us experiment a lot this year with different non-ad revenue ideas, because we would like to get to a state where we are sustainable (obviously, that is our most imperative goal) but also where we can turn off programmatic advertising entirely (programmatic ads are the ones like from Amazon or "this one weird trick"; we want to expand our partnership relationships, which are things like our Stranger Things campaign last June, Manscaped, etc). Not everything we try will resonate, but we are going to try plenty of things, because we simply have to. We have a tricky balance right now that I find very interesting - make things our long-time users will find engaging, while also making sense to the next 5 million users who aren't yet on Tumblr. There are tons of different communities on Tumblr, and we want to be able to provide this space for all of them, and so future fans and folks exploring their identity and the world have a safe space to do so.
To answer your question as directly as I can, the money that users pay to us, and what we make from advertising, goes directly to the costs of Tumblr (including salaries and server costs, but not limited to that), but it costs Automattic a lot more than we bring in to cover the gap (again to the tune of 10s of millions). Automattic can't do that forever. We have decreased our costs by quite a bit, which helps, but the most significant gains will come directly from users. We have made big improvements in the last year, and if we can keep building on that, we have bright prospects. Blaze and Important Blue Internet Checkmark are doing the best, and we have high hopes for Live and merch, both of which we will keep tweaking.
I hope that helps!
Deinfluencing in general can be a huge force for good. It helps to ensure that bad faith products don't go unchallenged. This is an example of attempted deinfluencing, but this isn't based in fact, which is necessary for deinfluencing to be that force for good.
In this case, there are no EU laws against live streaming. But I assume the point here is around data collection. Here's the data we collect: Username, Age, IP location. If you consent, we share this with our partner, and you are able to use Live. If you don't consent, we don't share it, obviously, and you don't use Live.
We will be rolling Live out internationally, and we are currently in the process of getting a DPA (data processing agreement) with our partner to ensure we are 100% in compliance with laws in any regions we open Live up to. We take user data very seriously, and that is partly why we're not more financially successful. It's a conscious choice we've made, and it's financially penalized us, and we have no regrets.
We take user data very seriously, and that is partly why we're not more financially successful. It's a conscious choice we've made, and it's financially penalized us, and we have no regrets.
wish i could paint this on the walls of the dashboard for more people to understand. (emphasis mine.)
so if I'm getting this right, not only did Elon Musk just essentially publically admit that he fired a guy from Twitter because the guy has muscular dystrophy, but said guy was literally on a Do Not Fire list because he'd sold his company to twitter, took it as wages so he'd pay higher taxes to give back to his home country's welfare state, AND his contract stated that twitter would need to pay him millions of dollars if he was ever terminated?
we've passed beyond absolute scenes. we're in the realm of Ultimate Scenes.
And he is backpedaling like CRAZY because you know his lawyers are screaming in his face about everything he just opened himself up to
That last bit is REALLY FUNNY because this all popped off because Musk didn't communicate with this guy at all until Halli was forced to tweet at him about it.
Musk truly is the stupidest motherfucker in the planet.
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"Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet." - Elon Musk
This is my new favorite sir and he is afflicted with a severe case of Long Leggies. He's not a particularly large cat, but he is definitely on stilts.
He's about 16 inches tall at the shoulder, or taller.
And he marches.
So this boy was adopted the day after I posted this.... and was returned 3 days later for being "too much".
"Too much" how, you might ask?
Because he wanted to be in their laps all the time, and followed them around the house, and wanted to sleep on the bed with them.
Whenever I see anyone try to tell me that cats are aloof, I'm going to think of him and laugh my ass off.
Good news is he was adopted the day after he was returned and hopefully that one will stick because this man is my ideal cat.
On the morning of the knife fight I was scheduled to lose, I washed myself in the ritual soap and dressed in soft, loose fitting clothes as was the custom. I would not break my fast until after the deed was done.
My second ferried me to the entry point at the North, where I declared my secret name to the gatekeeper and several acolytes in quick succession. They prepared me for the inner sanctum, infusing my veins with salt water and drawing intricate sigils on my chest. I bid farewell to my second, who would keep vigil outside. I remember very little after this, but when I awoke, I felt a great weight had been lifted from my chest.
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Anyway, the top surgery yesterday went great!
By the way isn't it funny how class is never ever mentioned with the whole "ownvoices" thing
Not that you can just neatly be like "look, a book that was written by a poor person!"
but it really feels like the people that are writing the popular/praised poems and books and stuff of our contemporary time are starting to be farther and farther away from like. average people.
There's less and less of the "spent a decade working as a pizza delivery guy, paint salesman, and window washer while writing scenes on napkins behind the pizza place" best-selling writers and more and more of the "graduated from an ivy league school, landed a $700,000 book deal at age 23 and is now a full time writer" best-selling writers
Like this is a big problem with literary magazines, they try to publish writers that are "diverse," but those writers are virtually all people that have the ability to pursue a MFA and/or a PhD in poetry
which, believe me, is a Category of person
Okay I realized that you may actually know the answer to this- how bad is it to say protestants are derivative of catholics. like will I mortally offend someone. This is about church building habits
That's just literally true.
It is but my experience with Evangelicals is that some of them will be super, super offended if confronted with this information.
Evangelicals have a history of getting offended when you present them with basic information about protestantism.
Hello bibliomum
Have you heard of the my sensa app for adhd? Got an ad for it and am curious if its helpful or just another scam
Thank you! I am also sending Holly Mop a kiss through the net
So, I've seen the same ads for Sensa, and ignored it, but I went and found it again, and used my junk email to take a look at it, and I have to say it uses pretty predatory tactics to get you to click on it.
After doing a very, very vague 2-minute assessment (if that), it prompted me to insert an email, which then took me to a screen that promises to help improve my life, but then only gave me 15 minutes to decide on whether I want to sign up for my "exclusive" plan (how exclusive can it be based on the 2-minute quiz?) and puts a big timer next to what looks like a bargain price.
If you're someone with impulse control issues, which I am, desperate to get a hold of your life (oh god help), that's going to make you pull the trigger before you even know what you're getting, and you've just spent $60 on a plan you can't even review before buying.
Honestly, it seems like another wellness money grab to me.
Reviews on Reddit also aren't that enthusiastic about it, either.
So yeah, sorry. It looks scammy to me.
Holly Mop is thanking you for the kisses, though!
They might as well have put ‘this is a scam’ in big, bold letters at the top, as obvious as this was. There are plenty of red flags in this, but the one that sticks out the most is the discount/timer combo.
So, this is for an app, a digital thing, unlimited as to how many times it can be downloaded onto a phone. It’s information, and every copy installed has the advantage of not depleting the original in any way and in not using any resources the makers of the app have to pay for in the making of that copy. The discount makes sense for a trial run, but a permanent discount? This is merely the illusion of a discount. You would pay the value they decided on, according to how much they feel the app is worth, which is clearly already the ‘discounted’ price.
They show that it’s 33 cents in US dollars per day, but that is to make it sound cheap. When have you ever been billed daily? Then they TELL you which plan is most popular, but who would have access to the metrics for that? Not you. And they tell you that popular plan is for 6-months, that’s 6 months you are on the hook for paying just under $60.00, and who knows whether on not they made cancelling the app and billing for the app easy?
And the timer for an unlimited resource that can could potentially install at any time, indefinitely? You already have ADHD, right? That’s what the app is for, correct? And anxiety goes hand in hand with such things. So the timer is to serve to multiply the amount of anxiety and panic you are dealing with at the moment, to make the need seem more pressing, to cause you to worry that much more about what you will do with your life if you don’t fix it with this app at once, now, now, now, hurry, hurry, hurry, before your life falls to pieces. Yet, it’s only an app, and nothing special in a vast sea of other apps that make the same promises.
The makers of the app know what makes you tick, and they prey on that. Are those the sort of people you want to fork any money at all over to? I should hope not, as they’ve very clearly demonstrated they don’t have anyone’s interests in mind other than their own.
Thebibliosphere is 100% correct in saying this looks scammy. Never trust anything that pulls this messed up little mind-trick.
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The email I got when I didn't select a plan within the allotted time frame was also super predatory.
It offered me a whole spiel about having faith in the process, offering me more help than therapy has available ("we go beyond therapy"), and ending it with, "don't let a lack of motivation ruin your chance at getting better."
Fuck offfffff.