come on, provolone

my friend just told me that there's a secret second dashboard that solely contains posts from people you've turned on post notifications for, and when i click the link in the messages it opens it within the tumblr app, so the tumblr app also has a secret second dashboard for post notification blogs, and the only way to access it is to open the link for it within the app.

i literally love tumblr

i have a private pinned post that just has a link to this dashboard on it, it's great. two dashboards for life

wow! i was really hoping someone would organically reverse-engineer this and find that dash.

here are a few other "secret" dashboards:

these are all just taking existing feeds of content and putting them in a dashboard-like format... the "Stuff for you" tab/feed is the same idea.

BARBIE dir. Greta Gerwig | July 21, 2023

….But he is right…. That’s a cuttlefish….

it’s not a cuttlefish 

imagine continuing to mansplain squid to a squid scientist after being called out for mainsplaining squid to a squid scientist

The bulk sale of mechanical pencils is what’s wrong with this country…. To encourage the quick disposal of this elegant device that was originally conceived to be refillable and modular…. Trying desperately to recreate the ecstasy of a bouquet of freshly sharpened wooden pencils… we should each be given one mechanical pencil at birth and only given a new one if there is a fire

turns out crested gecko feets can’t stick to Mac screens very well

a comedy in 3 parts

[id: Trifle, a brown and orange spotted crested gecko, sliding down a MacBook screen slowly while trying to climb]

30 minute recipe? Psh. I can do it in an hour and a half

Our Japanese class found it funny that in common terminology "food" isn't very distinguished from specifically "rice" until it was pointed out to us that in English "meal" is "loose roughly ground grain"

humans be like staple crop

staple crop to what

directly to forehead

a twitter thread that actually killed me

I'm so proud of us

[ID: Screenshot of post from hausofdecline that says "Goth Misogynist: you'd be prettier if you smiled less.” Followed by a screenshot of two comments. First comment from bluedusksandpinkdawns says "Mr Darcy about Jane Bennet". Second comment from emmyeed says "how does it feel to be the funniest person alive?" /End ID]

@ms-demeanor

Mmm, can you tell who's my favorite character from C3?

hi guys, I was wondering if anyone would be interested in an emergency comm. I can't do rush as I'm already swamped with work; Will probably take me a couple of weeks to complete-

It will be a full portrait like the examples above, with a decorative frame and ornamental background. Two-Three characters only, and for 200 usd.

I was unexpectedly hit with the patreon bug and I'm scrambling to get my bearings together as both my sister and I have been hit by the flu, and have both been hoping on my patreon money to pay for my mom's new wheelchair funds. Thank you to anyone who took the time to read it, anything helps at all. Please dm me if you'd like to claim the spot!

tipping jar:

you can also buy a print on my inprnt here if you'd like, inprnt is having a sale:

I begrudgingly have to respect the term "follower" because it fits with the divinity motif of "icon" and "avatar"

patron? good term. subscriber? bad term. I could do this all day.

my tummy hurts but at least i have a medical professional (baby cat) accompanying me

hi baby cat here. we hvae to cut you in to ten million pieces with my claws forever

are yhou sure about this doctor

Oh ok. Childhood memory unlocked.

When i was a little kid, i had a "4d puzzle" of new york city.

You built the cardboard jigsaw base, then the foam island, and then you had plastic buildings and bridges.

And it had instructions to place the buildings in chronological order, as well as a timeline, hence "4d".

And i just fucking remembered. In 2001 on the timeline a step was "remove buildings #xx and #xy (World Trade Centers)" with no other explanation.

And as a kid i had no clue what that meant, but looking back on it my puzzle really just told me "alright kid, do a 9/11" and i, age 5, went along with it.

Congrats on having by far the funniest tags on this post so far.

They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.

They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.

So its that easy huh

Of course it is

Actually, this isn’t “easy” and is huge news. You see, Lego is absolutely meticulous about their quality control. Their standards for manufacturing are stupidly high, as are their safety requirements. You know that distinctive “click” when you pop two Lego bricks apart? They engineered that. That sound is so distinctive that it can be used to tell genuine Lego bricks from counterfeits and it’s a sound that would be based on shape and material.

Furthermore, one of the hard requirements for a Lego brick is that it must be compatible with any other Lego brick. If I buy a set today and pull a set from the 1980s? Those bricks would fit together perfectly. This requires a huge amount of precision engineering and controls on manufacturing quality. (I can’t remember the source, but I’ve at least heard that once the brick molds wear to a certain point, they’re pulled from the line and either melted down or turned into construction material for Lego HQ. Point being, no one is getting their hands on a worn Lego mold)

Recycled and non-petroleum plastics are different from other plastic. The chemistry is different. The timing and process to use them is different. This has been a reason why more companies haven’t moved to them, because there’s a drop in quality for material (so they claim).

What Lego just did is completely obliterate that argument. The corporation with some of the strictest quality control requirements for plastic just kicked the basic foundation of the “bad quality” argument out from under it, because if they feel confident enough to guarantee the same experience as using a brick from over 40 years ago, if they are confident enough that they can meet their own metrics at a huge industrial scale….

Nobody else has any excuse.