fun studying tip: if you’re a procrastinator, play tom jones’s “what’s new pussycat” on repeat while writing your papers and do not turn it off until you are finished, it will motivate you to finish that essay as quickly as possible

make sure to throw one “it’s not unusual” in the middle while u take ur quick snack break

Here you have the Infinite Jukebox that will play an infinite version of What’s new pussycat, randomly jumping through the verses and never getting to the end. 

do you ever regret a post and the hell it creates

why do you people continue to inflict this awful post on others

Beauty pageant website Missosology posted a bunch of the contestants of Mister Global 2019 in their official national costume portraits. Several of them are very 👀👀🔥

And then there is this guy 🤣:

All of these guys can GET IT, but especially Panama 😍😍

You’re missing a lot.

                                                                                                                                           #they all look like GODS and it’s not the body types okay                                                                                                        #it’s the ACCESSORIZING                                                                                                        #deities love some fancy shit and looking good in them BE A GOD TODAY                                                                                                        #switzerland and USA though  where is your ornate male culture at                  

If ya’ll don’t “aweee” at Sweden when you click this link - then we have nothing in common lmao

i think about this a lot

The guy got his life and career destroyed by his divorce, cut him some slack.

he was also sexually assaulted by a man who could destroy his career

protect him

reblog if the man on the right is just as beautiful as the man on the left

people grow old? like, that’s a thing that happens? leave my guy alone.

This man deserves everything let him he happy

Ok… This is what happened to Fraser

-His wife ditched him and asked for 900k a year,

-He was sexually assaulted which he said kicked him into a deep depression

-He stated that the stunts from the 3rd Mummy movie completely destroyed his body and he was in and out of the hospital for 7 years even having to get surgery to repair his vocal cords.

-He apparently blamed himself for all this which only worsened his depression.

This man has literally been through hell this past decade so please lets cut him some slack and wish him the best

All this but also that picture on the right is a really bad paparazzi photo compared with a professional quality movie promo still. No one looks good when some random person snaps you on the street, regardless of who you are.

Compare with this image from the GQ article last February:

Proper lighting, professional setting, good angles etc.

The dude is 49 and has had a rough couple of decades, but he’s still lovely to look at, and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.

Plus, now he’s in Doom Patrol, which makes me happy af.

And let’s not forget he was probably slightly to severely dehydrated to look that buff in he first photo. And I’m so pleased he got work again he seems like a good sort, and from the stealth pilot in Titans, Doom Patrol looks like it should be good.

It shouldn’t even matter what he’s been through. Body shaming of ANYONE is wrong.

ALL OF THIS

Plus

2019 Brendan is still slaying, so btfu

This post keeps getting better and I’m here for it

I love this whole thread

The last time I saw this it was only at the first ‘cut him some slack’ part and it just progressively gets better each time.

We support this Brendan Fraser in this home

This post isn’t written in any known human language

Is this what understanding a newspaper political cartoon is like?

Trigger Warning For:

Themes of Sexual Assault

Im fucking seeing thos movie 11 times. Id idc idc

If I had the funds I would buy out an entire theatre for this and invite every woman I know so there would be no men in there and we could all cheer everytime some asshole gets taken out. 

WHAT A FUCKING CAST?!

So many famous faces in a movie that's saying something so important!!

Toxic in the background?

Emerald Fennell writing and directing??

TAKE ALL MY MONEY!!

Low-wage workers are not who you think. #Fightfor15

And even if they were teens, so what??? But yes to all of this.

because people think of teens having an after-school job where they would have a hobby. which is bullshit.

Gross porn blogs:

What is it about my page that entices you? I’m not interested! Get lost!

The bots are using tumblr to scam Google.

Let’s say someone is looking for porn and they put “wife caught her husband cheating,” into Google. There are a lot of porn sites (and some news sites) with that title. So Google has to decide which order to show them in, because most of the time, people pick something off the first few pages of Google.

Google wants to have the very best “wife caught her husband cheating” (or whatever else you search for) sites on the first page of the search. Google has several ways to try and decide which site are the best, but one of them is that it looks at how popular it is by seeing how many other websites link to it. If a lot of other sites are linking to it, it was probably useful to them, so Google will put it on the front page.

So if I’m a sleazy pornsite owner, I could create like a thousand websites and make them all link to my “wife caught her husband cheating” site, and act like a whole bunch of different websites thought it was pretty great. They’d be like “xdfgt .com”, “xdfgy .com”, “xdfgh .com,” just nonsense addresses nobody else was using, or whatever. I’d try to make Google think my site was awesome, because all these other websites are linking to it.

But Google has already caught on to that. Google would know “xdfgt .com” was a crappy fake website, because nobody else is linking to “xdfgt .com”. Any website that is only linked to by crap websites is also crap, as far as Google is concerned. Google won’t put it on the first pages of search results.

So instead let’s imagine the sleazy pornsite owner creates a thousand fake tumblrs instead, like “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and “xdfgy.tumblr .com” and “xdfgh.tumblr .com” and just puts one or two posts on them to add links to the “wife caught her husband cheating” porn site. Google can still tell those tumblrs are crap websites, because nobody else is linking to them. But the difference is … on tumblr, the sleazy pornsite owner can make your website link to him.

Let’s say your tumblr is “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com”. If “xdfgt.tumblr .com” likes one of your posts, there’s link on your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” Somewhere on “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” it will say “xdfgt liked this” with a link from your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.”

Google’s bot looks at “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” and it sees that your blog is a good website. People are linking to it (talking to you or reblogging from you), you write like an actual human being, you have nice pictures, you update sometimes, you aren’t a bot. So Google decides your blog isn’t a crappy scam website. Then it sees the link to “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it thinks “oh hey, a nice website with good stuff written by a real human linked to this “xdfgt.tumblr .com” I guess maybe “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a decent website too.”

Then it looks at “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it sees the link to the porn site with “wife caught her husband cheating”, and it says, “well, I guess that “wife caught her husband cheating” site is a good site. I know that because there’s a good site linking to it here at “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” I know “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a good site because “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” linked to it, and I know “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” is a good site because it is updated and writes like a real person and people talk to it and link to it.”

So basically the porn bots are using the fact that you have a good blog to make themselves look better and to try and trick Google’s bot into thinking they’re very popular and it should put them at the top of its list when people search Google for porn.

It’s really annoying! It would be really nice if the people running tumblr figured out a way to not be free advertising for every sleazy porn site on the internet

source.

hey wow thats actually really useful! and its written in a way that i (a bird with no knowledge of the wizardly internal workings of a website) can understand!

FINALLY AN EXPLANATION

The thing is, it doesn’t even work, because Tumblr notes all have rel=“nofollow” as an attribute, which tells Google that the link isn’t an endorsement (and is a protocol that Google themselves created so that people could signify that in order to cut down on the pagerank spam problem). This has been the case for the better part of two decades but spammers still think that these links are beneficial to them for some damn reason and are still sleazing the web up even though it has literally never worked.

ALZHEIMER’S can be predicted more than a year in advance by tracking the spread of a specific protein, a study has shown.

• Brain scans look for ‘tau’ compound now named as the 'driver’ of Alzheimer’s • It surpasses the amyloid protein which predicts the disease’s toll on the brain • Using the positive emission tomography (PET) scans may lead to better drugs • The University of California tracked 32 patients in the early stages of the disease

The build-up of a harmful protein in the brain can predict atrophy in Alzheimer’s disease patients at least one year in advance.

Previous studies have shown that two tell-tale plaques, amyloid-beta and tau, form clumps that smother and destroy neurons.  

But researchers found that only accumulation of the tau protein was indicative of where damage would occur as Alzheimer’s progressed.

The results, published on Jan. 1, 2020, in Science Translational Medicine, support researchers’ growing recognition that tau drives brain degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease more directly than amyloid protein, and at the same time demonstrates the potential of recently developed tau-based PET (positron emission tomography) brain imaging technology to accelerate Alzheimer’s clinical trials and improve individualized patient care.

“The match between the spread of tau and what happened to the brain in the following year was really striking,” said neurologist Gil Rabinovici, MD, the Edward Fein and Pearl Landrith Distinguished Professor in Memory and Aging and leader of the PET imaging program at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. 

“Tau PET imaging predicted not only how much atrophy we would see, but also where it would happen. These predictions were much more powerful than anything we’ve been able to do with other imaging tools, and add to evidence that tau is a major driver of the disease.”

when u have so many things u want to draw that it becomes overwhelming so u just do nothing

Ok so last week I was hanging out with a friend and he told me that, when he was a child, he used to have a vhs tape with some random tv shows on it. And he says, “you know that sheep gif? that show was on the vhs, but I can’t remember how it was called, and google isn’t helping.” so we spent the weekend trying to find it, and we did! anyways the video was made by a cult

This post sent me down an insane rabbit hole last night, the cult that made this has a thing for fantasizing about having sex with Jesus:

Cool tips for hot sex!

I have never encountered a post that legit made me feel like I’ve been punched in the chest before.

This started as a relatable artist meme but quickly turned into a horny cultist-driven train wreck

Oh hey, look, it’s the cult that brainwashed the guitarist from Fleetwood Mac

This is also the same cult that Rose McGowan and Joaquin and River Phoenix grew up in

this post just gets worse every time i see it.

Favorite romantic w/w films of the decade

in alphabetical order

*bolded - female-directed

Please boost this!

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This makes my heart happy (and less stressed)

Stay blessed y’all

Just letting y'all know that the coupon Climate is old and the new coupon as of December 28, 2019 is NEWYEAR and it'll get you the signature box for $9.99

giving it a shot! will report back.

PSA: 8tracks is shutting down

Popular fanmix and fan soundtrack website 8tracks recently announced that it will be shutting down on December 31, 2019. While the site might be available after this date, there’s no guarantee it will stay up - so if you’re a fanmix or fan soundtrack creator (or have created any type of playlist on 8tracks), now is a very good time to save the data from your playlists or make them available on another site.

What can I do to save my playlists?

If you’ve used 8tracks at any point, the site will be sending you an email with the playlist name, art, description and track list from your playlist(s), to help you recreate it/them on another site. It’s a good idea to make sure that you can still access the email address you used to sign up to 8tracks. Be sure to also check your spam folder for the email if you can’t find it in your inbox.

You can also use the Download Tracklist button in the notes of any playlist to copy all of the information from that playlist, and the “Save playlist to Spotify” button on top of the mix art to save a playlist to Spotify. Note that some of the tracks may be unavailable or not matched to Spotify’s catalog, particularly if they are older songs. Please also be aware that if you are saving someone else’s playlist, the playlist will not be attributed to the correct author when saving to Spotify - it will be saved under your name.

Other sites that can be used to create and share playlists of songs include Playmoss (a popular alternative to 8tracks) and YouTube.

Archiving links to fanmixes and fan soundtracks

Another very important thing to do is to use the Wayback Machine to archive the links to your favourite fanmixes and fan soundtracks. This can be done even if you don’t want to or aren’t able to republish the mix on another site. To do this, enter the URL of the mix in the box next to “Browse History” and select the button to see if it’s already archived. If not, you can select “Save this url in the Wayback Machine” to add it to the archive. 

Be aware that saving playlists in the Wayback Machine will preserve the creator’s name, the description and the cover art, but not the track list - this can only be saved by downloading the text file.

Link your playlists on Fanlore!

Have you made a fanmix or fan soundtrack that you’re really proud of? Do you want other fans to be able to enjoy the links to your favourite mixes and soundtracks? Please add the links to Fanlore! 

You can do this by finding the page for the fandom, ship, character, trope, fic, etc. that you made the mix for and adding it as an example fanwork. Anyone who has an account on Fanlore can edit the wiki - and it’s completely free! Follow this link to sign up to Fanlore, and check out our New Visitor Portal to find out how to get started with editing.

Some examples of Fanlore pages that feature playlists and mixes:

First: fans are gathering and tracking the tags they are archiving here. We can only grab 1000 playlists per tag so if your fandom has more than 1k, you will need to add additional tags to get the number down. How to extract links Thanks to vidderkidder , we now have an Excel spreadsheet that will archive the playlist info (note: the playlist text file will be in a json format, but using the spreadsheet is a super fast way to getting the metadata and the covers). **********************

Download the Excel spreadsheet: http://bit.ly/8trackback     (you will need to have Macros enabled to run the spreadsheet)

Use the first sheet tab to paste your URLs and click the button to run.

What it will do:

*Extract relevant meta data from the playlist page and put it in your Excel Spreadsheet

*Download the JSON file with the playlist details to a folder on your desktop (8tracks)

*Download the cover photo for each playlist to a folder on your desktop (8tracks) What you should do:

*Paste urls on the first column of  the first sheet tab

Create a folder on your desktop called 8tracks Click the button.

When you are done and you want to run a new batch copy the info to the second tab

Clear out the old urls and relevant info on the first tab and paste in the new urls and run again.

If you have any questions let me know. My email is admin@vidders.net. I have assisted on projects to backup tumblr, Yahoo Groups and now 8tracks. I am the admin of vidders.net the largest streaming vidding network online. You can share this sheet with anyone who would like to do the same thing you are about to do Again if there are any questions just email.

This is a Nuclear Waste Warning Message.

Y’all that link is an incredibly interesting read

oh, i’m in love with this! the story behind this message is that we’re storing a lot of radioactive waste in an isolation plant in new mexico and we need to tell future humans: ‘we buried something dangerous here, don’t disturb it or you’ll die. this place should be left alone for 10,000 years. tell future generations as well.’ and this raises several problems: how do you explain contemporary time conventions to future humans so they understand what ‘10,000 years’ means, and starting from when? how do you account for the fact that we have no idea what level of technological development future humans will have? will they still understand any of the languages we speak today? and my absolute favorite: how do you combat humans’ natural tendency to immediately go do the thing they were just told not to do? 

so in 1993 a report was developed by two panels of materials science experts, linguists, anthropologists, architects, geologists and astronomers to create a marking system for the site. they proposed different levels of messages to be placed in the area. and the language part of the report is amazing because they’re really trying to cover everything. my favorite parts:

and finally, part of the message: 'we have found it extremely difficult to imagine all the forms of human society and available technology that over the next 10,000 years might give people the desire and ability to intrude into the repository level and thus potentially bring great harm to themselves. nevertheless, we have done the best we can in the design of a marker system that will survive over this period, that will be understood by those who encounter it, and that will be effective in countering their natural curiosity to dig at such a uniquely marked and fascinating place.’

#what really gets me#what really really gets me about the proposed message#is ‘this is not a place of honor’#because it’s meant to be very practical i.e. you won’t find any treasure here so don’t dig it up#but to me it really reads like ‘this terrible thing is our fault and we’re sorry’ (via @vrabia)

#man i should really get my d&d party into one of these You already gave us magic radiation sickness once, Treva

Yeah but it wasn’t a dungeon crawl

#also holy shit these are the things we need to talk about #when people start going ‘nuclear is clean energy!’ #back the fuck up nuclear is NOT clean energy AT ALL #this will kill people in thousand of years #a wild queue has been discovered!

i mean they’ve designed different reactors that don’t have these results, fyi, but that doesn’t make all the shitty enriched uranium etc we emphasized on account of it’s also good for bombs stop being radioactive.

So I’m at the movies waiting to watch Margot Robbie go down on Kate McKinnon in Bombshell and istg the only people in the theater with me are a bunch of old white women that look like they just left church this is gonna be an experience for everyone 😂😭😂

The movie’s called Bombshell. It tells the story of the Roger Ailes sexual harrassment lawsuit over at Fox News. It’s very good, but intense. It had everyone crying by the end.

But Margot plays a closeted wlw working at Fox News and Kate plays a closeted lesbian and Liberal who works for Fox News. Margot and Kate’s characters hook up, but it’s not explicit. We get the afterglow cuddling under the watchful eye of a Hillary Clinton poster in Kate’s apartment.

THEY MADE A LIVE ACTION COMMERCIAL FOR GOKUSHUFUDOU: WAY OF THE HOUSE HUSBAND

Some of the best shots:

I love this but would give it all up for either an actual live action show or an anime. Please if you haven’t, check this one out, if it gets enough love we might actually get a show out of it. 

@husband

Look!! This is priceless!!!

AU where people age until they reach 18 and then stop aging until they meet their soul mate so they can grow old together.

i’d never die

but imagine already being in a relationship at 18 and then at 22 you’re both sitting there looking at each other and realizing that you both haven’t aged a day

imagine platonically moving in with ur best friend at 18 and then realizing a few years later that you’ve been aging together

imagine purposely never finding your soul mate so you can reign eternal

holy shit i think we may have stumbled upon the greatest romance/adventure concept ever

What if you killed your soul mate so you’d make sure you never aged.

This just makes me really want a story where the main antagonist is someone who has been killing their soulmate for centuries whenever they find them, and the main protagonist is the newly re-incarnated version of their soulmate

okay but you guys dont realize the potential.

imagine meeting a handsome young man who’s seen as a player and sleeps around a lot and you notice a scar along his arm and ask where he got it. he just look down at his feet and said “i used to be a soldier in world war one”. He’s been sleeping around and hooking up so much cause he’s been trying to find his soulmate for years but hasn’t yet.

Imagine going on your first date with someone and you really hit it off and then the next day you notice a grey hair and call them on the phone excitedly screaming and they both just sit on the phone hysterically crying and laughing.

Imagine sitting in silence with your partner and having them say out of the blue “i feel so old when im around you… but… in a good way” and thats the moment you know that they love you.

imagine having a dog thats 18 in human years and it starts to get gray patches of fur because they loves you so much.

imagine noticing you look older and freaking out but then stopping and getting super confused because “im not dating anyone right now…. which of my friends is my soulmate… WHICH ONE IS IT!?!?!?” and then they hopelessly date everyone they know in order to find out which one it fucking was. it was the pizza delivery guy the whole time. they went on 27 dates that all ended in confusion and heartbreak and it was the god damn pizza delivery guy from a month ago the whole fucking time. 

imagine someone dating their partner for 5 years and then having an affair. only after the affair do they start aging.

imagine nuns who start to age after they ceremoniously “marry god”

imagine people getting surgeries to look older cause they dont want people to think theyre alone.

imagine having parents who wont let you date anyone but they start to notice you aging and then you have to have a terrifying “surprise im gay and i have a boyfriend haha oops” conversation

imagine seeing couples with teenage kids and the couple both looks 18.

i could go on for hours.

imagine immortal aromantics/asexuals

I love this concept because it implies that in this world ageing is celebrated and desired instead of resisted. Imagine beauty standards in this world, grey hair is proudly undyed, every new wrinkle is considered beautiful or elegant.

Imagine the romantic implications as well, that finding your soul mate and being with them, means you effectively agree to become mortal, and therefore agree to die just to be with them.

Imagine someone who has many friends, but struggles to find their soul mate, and gradually watches all of their friends grow old and die happy with their partners.

Imagine two best friends who are the same age, but find their soulmates at different times, so now one likes to pretend they’ve lived longer and are older and wiser while poking fun at their “silly naive” young friend. (e.g. “oh you younguns wouldn’t understand, it was before your time” “we are literally the same age”)

@agentmarymargaretskitz this is like the jackpot of soulmate tropes!!!

Saving for writing reasons

This whole thread is beautiful

the great thing about the immortal dude killing his soulmate over and over is he has to have been doing it remotely, because if they ever met face to face the whole scheme would collapse

so he needs 1) a reliable method of soul-mate augury and 2) a reliable assassination protocol

So I just now learned about Stagecoach Mary and how have I never heard of this absolute LEGEND of a woman before

Mary (far right) and the local baseball team

Anyway sorry for gushing I just now heard about her and I’m in love

I’ve heard of her, but godDAMN, if her story doesn’t bear repeating. ^w^

She has her own wikipedia page. Enjoy.

petition for a movie about Mary starring Leslie Jones