hm. so. it takes 2-2.5 hours to dive to the titanic (about 12,500ft), and the sub most likely imploded between 1.75 and 2 hours into the dive- 70-80% of the way down. let's call it 75%. that's right about 9375 feet, or 2840 meters. i wonder if that lines up conveniently with-

wow

"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level

what my atoms are doing is their fucking business man i'm busy trying to stop my dog from eating tissues directly out of the box

“new tumblr users you must know that likes are useless and do fuck all” incorrect! likes let me send a tiny little kiss to my beloved mutuals

Seriously. Stop calling things useless just because they don't give you "exposure" and help "build your brand." Hustle culture brainrot.

My likes are just as often for ME as for the person who made the post or reblogged it. I'm forgetful, so I use the like button to tell my future self that I've already seen and interacted with this post. I also use the like button to show affection on people's personal posts. There are a lot of ways to use the like button that aren't about exposure or what the fuck ever

Four year old beekeeper distracted by a roly-poly.

Best picture in the world

#im rollin the polies im keepin the bees

#i holy the molies and do as i please

#i’ve circled the sun about four times or so

#the earth gets more lovely the more that i know

(tags via @orcboxer)

the r/curatedtumblr -> tumblr migration is so funny to me. it's like going to the zoo and enjoying it so much you climb into the enclosure to live with the monkeys

this reply evokes such an incredible image in the mind’s eye

Just realized that the reason I love making friends on tumblr is because it’s exactly how you make friends on the playground as a six year old. No, I don’t know their name but they love mermaids too and built this awesome sand castle. No, I don’t know their age but their imaginary cheetah is friends with mine. You like this show? You like this character?? You can sing the theme song really loud??? Here is a flower crown. Here is a juice box. You can share my time and I might never see you again but part of you stays in my soul forever. In my mind we’re still on the swing set and the sky is blue and nothing will ever be wrong again.

Reddit started removing moderators from protesting subreddits, so /r/PoliticalHumor just made all their over one million subscribers moderators.

PvP mode enabled

This is peak "burn it to the ground behind you" malicious compliance. Good for them.

Werner herzog

when I first saw this quote I was like 'that's either david lynch or hideo kojima' and then read the source and realised it's the third and last of their species

here's some other great bits from the interview

Gotta be constantly vigilant for this bad boy

Reddit management threatening note to protesting moderators:

If I were a pro-protest subreddit member with sneaky intentions, here's what I would do:

I would get together with some other members and, after privately contacting the existing mod team to make sure they are on board, we would apply to be moderators. Then we would use this generous offer to become senior moderators and displace the protesting moderators like the scabs we are. Then we would reopen the sub.

Then, after a few hours to allow management to enjoy their victory, we would close it again.

After a couple of days, another band of clean-cut Company MenTM would step up and displace us. And then they would do it again.

I have faith in Redditors. They are the most thrawn of social media users. They can win this fight.

As a long-time Tumblr lurker and now an official Reddit refugee, I think it's fucking hilarious that Reddit corporate is trying to have mods overthrow each other to stop the virtual strike. They must have forgotten that Redditors once stopped real scabs from taking people's real jobs in real life. I remember when Redditors from ONE specific sub, r/antiwork, blocked million-dollar-company Kellog's from hiring scabs to run a factory, so they could ignore and eventually even fire union strikers.

A ridiculous amount of people spent HOURS spamming in fake applications. I remember someone eventually built a web scraping app to send in several dozens of fake applications a minute, and put it on github for folks to use. You could download it and let it run, and it sent hundreds of real-looking application submissions for the company to sort through. There were so many spam applications their whole website crashed, and Kellog's hired a specialist IT security team to quickly rebuild their application process to be activism-proof. And guess what? Redditors fuckin' wrecked that one too, all manually this time. And when breaking their systems started to prove ineffective, plots were made for folks who lived nearby the strike to physically go through interview processes without any intent to work, and waste their time on a physical HR level. All the while donations were gathered for the strikers and people were getting educated about their labor rights.

Those corporates are in for a fucking ride thinking they can win a pissing contest with people like that without suffering permanent losses of money and traffic. It's going to be delicious watching them get humbled.

“Let us put it generally: if a regime is immoral, its citizens are free from all obligations to it.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago.

[Pictured: Captain Pia Klemp sitting in a chair beside her controls.

@VivianAngrisani on Twitter wrote on 6/8/2019: “Pia Klemp, a German biologist & boat captain faces 20 yrs in prison for rescuing 1,000+ migrants at risk of drowning whilst crossing the Mediterranean. Seeking asylum is a human right. Only 1 in 100 sea captains are female. This woman is a humanitarian, not a criminal. #FreePia”

@Galactic_Rabbit quote-tweeted on 6/10/2019 and wrote: “Thinking about all those videos of people honored in their old age for hiding/protecting Jewish people.”]

To all the people commenting that she’s an accessory to “illegal immigration,” note that seeking asylum is a human right. Countries which refuse asylum are in violation of the Geneva Convention. They get away with this and propagandize complacency towards the victims by using bureaucracy to complicate immigration proceedings. During times of genocide, this is tantamount to hearing a would-be murder victim knocking on your door and locking the deadbolt.

People who risk dying getting smuggled across borders do so out of sheer desperation because the situation they’re leaving is worse. Finally, you are missing the entire point: violation of the law is warranted when the laws violate human rights and criminalize existence. Laws which call immigrants “illegal” are tools of a systemic negligence designed to condemn those who need legal protection the most.

Oh and here’s the petition to #FreePia.

Hiding Jewish people or smuggling them out of Germany was illegal too.

as of 10 february 2023, the petition is still just short of its goal of 500k signatures.

as of today, June 23rd 2023, 20k signatures are still needed and this is still ongoing.

more consistent updates can be found here

donations towards legal fees can also be sent their way via the site I’ve linked.

neil gaiman trying to explain non-binary queerplatonic angel romance or whatever to jensen ackles but jensen quickly becomes terrified and starts biting him

this was NOT my authorial intent

as a child I wondered why adults were so stupid (doing things out of habit/routine/heuristics rather than reasoning explicitly about what to do based on their goals) and the answer is that adults are unimaginably fucking tired all the time

#that really is it #every time i have to deal with someone who seems totally airheaded i assume they’re operating on too little sleep #and the few times I’ve gotten to check i am correct #forgive others as you would like to be forgiven at 6am on a Thursday after a week of late nights #for we will all be there at some point    tags via @gallusrostromegalus

*BLEEP*

i didnt saw one of these so here is the news

I've survived my first day on Tumblr

Achievements:

Oh boy oh boy you're gonna get a Rare achievement for this one

Containment Breach

I've been inundated with over 120 new followers in the last 5 hours. I haven't been able to even check if I have any pornbots. I'm tired and need to go to bed. I'll clean up this mess tomorrow.

This is cool to look at, though. I'm studying some data-science adjacent fields so things like this are fascinating to me.

I've been told I should submit this to world-heritage-posts. Just to make it clear what happened to me, here's a screenshot of my notifications activity in the last 24 hours.

For additional context, I've only been here 4 days.

At his point, I've been here 5 days and this post has 85k+ notes. My notifications have recovered to the point that sometimes they're empty so I'd say the breach has been recontained and now I just need to deal with the cleanup process.

I figure it might be interesting to show just what this experience has been like.

This is my notification history over the last week. I joined Tumblr Saturday June 17th, 2023 around 12pm so the actual data starts half way through the chart. My follower count has grown at a roughly equal pace.

Overall, I enjoyed the whole thing once the shock died down. I was just surprised this was the post that would gain any traction at all. I expected the chicken posts would be the first ones to reach triple digits and only several months later. But I've enjoyed reading peoples' reactions and chatting with folks here.

I'll close out by sharing some other achievements I've gotten since:

And with this, I'm going to call this chapter of the Saga of Containment Breach closed