kitvinslakte

roughentumble

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

nightpool

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

cyle

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

here are a few other “secret” dashboards:

Posts from your “crushes”
“What you missed” (will be empty if you already visit Tumblr every day)
“Trending”

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.

Pinned Post tumblr

jeanjauthor

beholdthemem

I live within bus distance of the Universal picket line for the writer’s strike, so I like to go down there when I can to march with em in solidarity. They are all extremely cool people, and since many of them are older than me, I have been treated to a lot of free advice on Adult Life from more experienced adults. 10/10.

It’s also extremely funny to hear them talk shit about studios/executives that they’ve had to put up with, because they’re no longer required to pretend Oh, They’re All Such Lovely People, We’re So Lucky To Work For Them.

- “Dick Wolf insists on having an a personal office at every studio where his shows are worked on. He never goes to half of them, and when he does, he’s not usually there long. It’s just supposed to be left empty for him in case he MIGHT show up.”

“I took a bunch of coffee creamers from there just before we called the strike.”

“Honestly, that sounds fair?”

“I like to think of it as payment for all the extra work I had to do for free.”

- “Never work for Netflix if you can avoid it.”

“Oh my God, RIGHT? It’s a nightmare!”

“That is the most exploited I’ve ever been, and I’ve been doing this for a while so that says a LOT.”

- “Do they ever acknowledge how many laws the cops break during a single episode of any of those SVU spinoffs?”

“We’re not even allowed to use the phrase ‘Bad apples’ because it makes them uncomfortable.”

- “Humor does not exist in the Dick Wolf-verse, so we’re only allowed to include one joke per episode. Sometimes I like to play a little game where I see if I can get away with sneaking in a second.”

“Has that ever worked?”

“I think once we got in a subtle pun.”

wga strike sag aftra strike hollywood

jeanjauthor

texasbama

This is WILD.

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jeanjauthor

wilwheaton

The Message Is in the Merch

In New York and Los Angeles, supporters of the Hollywood labor strikes are supplementing their picket line apparel with custom T-shirts, oft

nytimes.com

Neil would probably post this, but he doesn't have social media. So here's a gift link to a story I know a lot of you will want to read.

sugarkat

The WGA strikers-run tee-shirt site mentioned in the article:

Products

wgaStrikeShirts

If you want to donate directly to the ECF:

Entertainment Community Fund

Actors Fund

And here’s a fund specifically for the non-union support staff (who aren’t paid enough already) who are affected by the strikes:

Entertainment Community Fund

Actors Fund

(Link looks the same, but leads to a different fund run by the ECF.)

If you’re among the workers affected by the strikes in the entertainment industry and need financial assistance, learn how to apply for ECF (and other) support here:

SOCIAL SERVICES AND EMERGENCY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

Entertainment Community Fund

There’s also The Union Solidarity Coalition (TUSC) of the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF), which is providing emergency financial support to workers in the entertainment industry affected by the strikes. Donate here:

TUSC Fund | MPTF

MPTF

Learn about MPTF services here.

If you’re among the WGA (or pre-WGA) writers striking or affected by the strike, there is a small fund run by two WGA members to help with up to US$100 in grocery costs. (I think I read that they’ve expanded to everyone in the industry, union and non-union, who’s affected by the strikes and needs help, so check just in case, anyway, if you need the help.) You can apply here:

Green Envelope Grocery Aid Application

WGA Virtual Mix (ran by Jelena Woehr & Joseph Mwamba) and Green Envelope Grocery Aid (ran by Joelle Garfinkel) have partnered up to provide

Google Docs

Venmo cash to help the Green Envelope Grocery Aid project: https://account.venmo.com/u/Joelle-Garfinkel (US only, only accepting Venmo donations at this time.)

Speaking of food, there is also the DSA-run SNACKLIST, which provides food and water to the strikers on the picket lines in this crazy heat (they’re running low on funds, last I read):

THE SNACKLIST: Support Entertainment Workers!

I just contributed to THE SNACKLIST to support Entertainment Workers!

actionnetwork.org

Whether you can help or not, please reblog with other legit funds helping the strikers and the affected workers, both WGA/SAG-AFTRA and other strikes currently going on. Workers solidarity, guys.

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beautiful-flutey

literaphobe

being obsessed with a song and being obsessed with the blorbos is so funny because u will listen to the song and go HMMM……. if i ignore this one lyric forgo this whole verse remove the context AND solely focus on these five completely unrelated isolated lines…? this song is TOTALLY about Them 😎😎😎

beautiful-flutey

@rai-knightshade

fandom

beautiful-flutey

captainlatin

I fucking hate languages.

The Greeks had this word, right, we have no idea where it came from, it just kinda popped up out of nowhere, and it could mean either apples, cheeks, or boobs. Problem is it looked and sounded *exactly* like another, unrelated word which could mean sheep, goat, or any animal in general really, which must have got confusing if you were a farmer talking about your livestock, but anyway…

Then the Romans, having stolen practically everything else from the Greeks, thought they’d nick this word too, because Latin isn’t confusing enough without throwing in a bunch of loan words. And they adopted it to mean a pumpkin.

Then the English came along and were all like “when in Rome”, and stole it, where it became our word ‘melon’. Which has now come back to mean boobs.

How do you like them apples.

alivannarose

I fucking love languages.

texelations

In case anyone doubts the veracity of this:

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curiooftheheart

Calling boobs ‘melons’ literally transcends culture, time, and language.

official-boob-posts

official boob post

language history

5bi5

tlounetwork

I’m scared of ghosts, memories feel like weapons

the last of us

themthistles

bug-mp3

Nobody gets me like he does (said about an awful middle aged fictional man who would not, in fact, get me at all)

fandom

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lackadaisycats

Lackadaisy is live on BackerKit!

Here are just a couple of the things we're introducing:

(Mordecai is thrilled about being a marketable plush.)

Also, jumbo sized enamel pin sets (8 pins total)! I'll post some better, close up images of these soon.

As of right now, there's about 15 minutes left to get the Early Bird special for some of the pledge tiers - free domestic shipping!

Visit the campaign here!

animation

diet-poison

ninefoldrin:
“This is exceedingly common. Cops will shoot their own dogs, then use their deaths as copaganda.
The vast majority of police dogs “killed in the line of duty” are killed by the cops themselves.
Cops also kill an average of 25 pet dogs...

police brutality

twoflour

adz

an Iraqi gamer's beautiful review of Disco Elysium

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A reddit post by u/beamoon2016 posted to r/DiscoElysium.

Never thought I'd read a story that so effectively captures why life in a broken system is worth living

I grew up in Iraq. When people hear this in the US, where I now live, they usually say: "Wow...that must have been hard."

I mean? I guess? I've been a couple hundred meters from ISIS bombings. The government is spectacularly dysfunctional. You never know when the electricity might be on. Most summer days are 50 C. The tap water is salty.

And I also love the wonky little generators people wire everywhere. I love the weird shark statue with Saddam torn off the top. I love the guys fishing in the river despite the fact that it's greenish black. I love how excited everyone gets about the government building one tiny new overpass. I also love the random overpass sitting in the desert connected to zero roads. I love hearing our friend giggle as my dad ribs him for driving a Toyota Hilux, a favorite of terrorists transporting weapons. I love the stray cats that carefully pick their way over the barbed wire on our walls. I love the people that run towards a bombing instead of away because they want to help the survivors. I love the guy who fixed my glasses with a wrong-sized screw because he lived through sanctions and doesn't need dumb things like correctly-sized screws.

But it's almost impossible to explain this to most Americans. They picture a normal Iraqi life and think it would be their worst nightmare. So I'm used to just not sharing that part of my life, or ever seeing it in media.

So this game totally caught me off guard. We're in a setting in between apocalypses, starring an alcoholic fuckup from a corrupt occupier-aligned police force, who at best might keep a couple people from dying in a gang war. It's pretty bleak. It's also incredibly fucking joyful.

Just the prose alone is so sincere. You can't write stuff this goofy, flowery, beautiful, dumb, and moving ironically. The writers clearly love words far out of proportion to how much they might be able to actually change fundamentally broken systems.

And all the characters, the worldbuilding details, the interruptions from Shivers and Esprit de Corps, hell, all the bits and pieces of your brain. There's so much attention and thus so much love everywhere in this game for humans and what humans do. Doesn't matter if they might all get shot, blown up, or wiped clean by pale in a couple years. Doesn't matter if they brought it all on themselves. Right here, in this moment, they are human, and so they matter.

I feel like this game gets why my life in Iraq was worth living. Even if a lot of my fellow Americans think the world sure would be nicer and simpler if Iraqis just didn't exist.

I thought I had signed up for a fun 20-30 hour diversion, not the feeling of being loved?!

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monikahmakes

In progress today.

fiber art weaving

zerosalt

Anonymous asked:

I just think it'd be funny if more people got kidnapped tbh.

yb-cringe answered:

add this to the list of things that would be batshit insane to read out of context if they weren’t about qsmp

qsmp funny

hope-for-the-planet

Anonymous asked:

hey, how do you cope with people saying we only have a small amount of time left to stop the worst effects of climate change? no matter how hopeful and ok i am, that always sends me back into a spiral :(

reasonsforhope answered:

A few different ways

1. The biggest one is that I do math. Because renewable energy is growing exponentially

Up until basically 2021 to now, all of the climate change models were based on the idea that our ability to handle climate change will grow linearly. But that’s wrong: it’s growing exponentially, most of all in the green energy sector. And we’re finally starting to see proof of this - and that it’s going to keep going.

And many types of climate change mitigation serve as multipliers for other types. Like building a big combo in a video game.

Change has been rapidly accelerating and I genuinely believe that it’s going to happen much faster than anyone is currently predicting

2. A lot of the most exciting and groundbreaking things happening around climate change are happening in developing nations, so they’re not on most people’s radars.

But they will expand, as developing nations are widely undergoing a massive boom in infrastructure, development, and quality of life - and as they collaborate and communicate with each other in doing so

3. Every country, state, city, province, town, nonprofit, community, and movement is basically its own test case

We’re going to figure out the best ways to handle things in a remarkably quick amount of time, because everyone is trying out solutions at once. Instead of doing 100 different studies on solutions in order, we get try out 100 (more like 10,000) different versions of different solutions simultaneously, and then figure out which ones worked best and why. The spread of solutions becomes infinitely faster, especially as more and more of the world gets access to the internet and other key infrastructure

4. There’s a very real chance that many of the impacts of climate change will be reversible

Yeah, you read that right.

Will it take a while? Yes. But we’re mostly talking a few decades to a few centuries, which is NOTHING in geological history terms.

We have more proof than ever of just how resilient nature is. Major rivers are being restored from dried up or dead to thriving ecosystems in under a decade. Life bounces back so fast when we let it.

I know there’s a lot of skepticism about carbon capture and carbon removal. That’s reasonable, some of those projects are definitely bs (mostly the ones run by gas companies, involving carbon credits, and/or trying to pump CO2 thousands of feet underground)