This @topfloorboss Album Is Fire Asf, Please Listen To This If You Haven’t.

Currently obsessed with this song, and it's only been out for 2 hours lmao

Beautiful ☁️☁️☁️

tumblr tuesday: the art of photographing animals

Hello September, how did this happen? While time persists in its relentless trudge, photographers on Tumblr continue to capture all moments big and small. Please enjoy this offering of creatures arrested in time: beast, bird, insect, and that one marine invertebrate which is an echinoderm (yeah, had to look that one up). 

@rhiannatruexx​:

@notsogoodphotographer​ (a lie!):

@unessasi​:

@thiscountry​:

@duxuebing​:

@besidethepath​:

@greenmountainwitch​:

@martacorss​:

@mundanalyst​:

@gingeremo​:

@thomas–bombadil​:

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.

in honor of the idaho legislature house of representatives’ house joint memorial number no. 1

you will never take her from me. we will never back down.

happy birthday to the girlfriend wife of my dreams, @exene666 💜

were at a weird point where us imperialists are dismantling their own institutions for building soft power and maintaining us hegemony abroad (like USAID) because the people in charge are so drunk on racist hatred of anyone who isnt american and owning the libs they dont realize (or dont care) that these are the things that keep the US in a position of imperial power lmao

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

wishing everyone a very good luck getting through january-march without killing yourself