⚡ Serval From Honkai Star Rail - Print Commissioned By Her English VA, Natalie Van Sistine!

Correction: the best gift was the green little boy the cameraman filmed inside the space centre at about T + 13:20.

The best Christmas gift this year is the James Webb Space Telescope Launch from NASA. The James Webb is the most powerful space telescope ever made, it is over 100x more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope. By how much we have learned from Hubble it will be fun to see what information James Webb will give us.

I drank a shot of olive oil after lunch today, and my stomach has been hurting the whole day.

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love at first sight

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nicker poster paint on watercolor paper

Crow's Nest

Once again, Tumblr manages to succeed via just being honest with their users.

I made a post back around April fool's about the crabs being so popular because the joke was that every other website tries to trick you into clicking things so they can make money from your clicks and what if instead a website just asked "please click this revenue generating crab. It is there to generate revenue. In return you will have clicked on a crab. Nothing more." And the answer to that question was "people will frantically click on that crab. They don't hate the idea of the website getting money, they hate the idea of being profited on against their will".

So Tumblr implemented actual revenue crabs. "For this much money you can fill your or someone else's dash with virtual crabs. This will have the effect of there being crabs on their screen."

And people will buy those crabs. Because yes you're spending money on something stupid and useless but it's being sold to you as "hey you want something stupid and useless?", which is a nice change of pace from every other site trying to make itself out to be something more than what it is.

Twitter is floundering with the checkmark system because it's being sold as "confirm that you are someone important and who you say you are is true", which it isn't at all right now because anyone can buy one. You're buying a useless checkmark that only says that YOU think you're important. Or, more often than not right now, you are intending to trick other people into thinking you're someone you're not.

Meanwhile, Tumblr just said "Consider this double check mark. It does nothing. You will be marking yourself as someone who paid money for a meaningless checkmark and sometimes it will randomly turn into a bunch of crabs, making the site harder to use". And the userbase is like "Well sure, that sounds delightful."

The point is, despite what all the marketing and advertising people have tried to say, painting trash gold and trying to pass it off as something better is almost never as effective as just saying "hey you want this trash?"

Why yes, in fact, I do.

Sheik

birds but they’re also cats, catbirds 

Cube cat