Arkred´s Playground

Ancient of tumblr. Like this hellsite I´m immortal and have nothing but shipping and shitposting in my mind.

[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.

[idknotgonnapost]

that’s my GOAT

[everyday-cutephoto]

[man-peach-reborn]

A textpost for every episode of The Magnus Archives (176-200)

176: Blood Ties

177: Wonderland

178: The Processing Line

179: Accomplice

180: Moving On

181: Ignorance

182: Wellbeing

183: Monument

184: Like Ants

185: Locked In

186: Quiet

187: Checking Out

188: Centre of Attention

189: Peers

190: Scavengers

191: What We Lose

192: An Appointment

193: A Stern Look

194: Parting

195: Adrift

196: This Old House

197: Connected

198: Precipice

199: Seeing it Through

200: Last Words

🥳🥳🥳

1-25 - 26-50 - 51-75 - 76-100 - 101-125 - 126-150 - 151-175

[sicksicksixx]

the canadian money is killing me

[eggshellsareneat]

Alright, I think I like tumblr now.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.

[brightlotusmoon]

[cdrlogic]

Reblog the reblogging post.

Like to ignore its wisdom.

[txttletale]

whoever coined "there are no stupid questions"; clearly didn't anticipate mark rosewater's blog

[txttletale]

for non mtg players imagine if the head Flavor Scientist at pepsi cola had a blog and people kept going on it to ask like "do you think you'll make a pepsi that tastes like sewage? why haven't you ever made a pepsi with a drowned rat in it? i notice that the pepsi is always on the inside of the can and not the other way round, is there a reason for that?"

[sskk-squared]

[cannibalchicken]

[bianc0re]

Super long night ᴘʀɪɴᴛs

[derovalfnolem]

[rocatex-deactivated20260317]

this feels like dragging around a mummified corpse thats dressed as a clown

[breakfastatmiles]

Portal Accident, Take Two

So excited to finally share my pieces for @invisobang!

A huge thank you to my wonderful author @jumping-mirrors and fellow fic artist @ghozteevee for making this project so fun! It was a pleasure to work with you both!

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Check out the fic here:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[afloweroutofstone]

Do you have any response to folks who say that the moon stuff is all propaganda and development for the military industrial complex and nobody should be hyped about it? I don’t necessarily think this, but I’ve seen this take going around.

As a certified hater of the military-industrial complex, my opinion is that I love NASA and I want to see our space exploration budget greatly increased.

I understand why some people are skeptical, because historically NASA and the military-industrial complex have been bound together by the aerospace industry and military R&D funds, and NASA would never have gotten off the ground in the first place without the Cold War as an excuse for new science spending. But NASA has a fundamentally civilian mission, their goals do not require any violence in our foreign policy, and they cooperate peacefully with other nations around the world (including some of our official "enemies" through stuff like space traffic management). The fact that they maintain close ties to the Air Force and Space Force doesn't change the fact that they serve a civilian mission, and they serve it well.

But the most important reason to be in favor of space exploration is not just that it's inspiring or an impressive achievement in itself. Public research spending at NASA has been behind some of the world's most important technological discoveries over the last century. Literally thousands of technological developments have come out of government-funded NASA research. If you wake up on a memory foam mattress in a fire-proof apartment building and make a breakfast smoothie using freeze-dried fruit, then you've just benefited from three NASA developments before you've even started your day. Every dollar we spend on NASA produces several dollars worth of useful technology that benefit all of us. This is the kind of public sector innovation that keeps the world running.

In my ideal world, we increase NASA's budget alongside cuts to the DOD and the rest of the security state; reduce our over-reliance on private contractors (which Artemis II is a great example of!); repeal the Wolf Amendment blocking direct cooperation with China; and call for the eventual creation of an International Lunar Base, inviting both the original ISS nations and the other space powers that have emerged since then (Australia, Brazil, China, India, South Korea, etc.)

[dragon-in-a-fez]

top notch interaction I had with the ambulance crew after my accident a couple years back:

paramedic: hi, I'm Allan

me: you told me. and your colleague is Jim, and the man who found me is Peter. guess my short-term memory is okay

Allan: ..are you doing a cognitive function test on yourself

[dragon-in-a-fez]

Allan, two minutes later, putting a third blanket around me: okay, how's that feeling now

me: well my feet are still freezing but it's okay, I know you need to focus on getting my core temperature up first

Allan: how many times has this happened to you

[dragon-in-a-fez]

noteworthy that they literally had a mask on me hooked up to a tank pumping narcotics into my lungs through all this, and my body temperature was like 34°. I would have been doing well to just have both eyes pointed in the same direction

[supreme-leader-stoat]

"This is great. I'm going to get a good grade in post-accident cognition."

[taragrimface]

if i had three wishes they would all be to make web 2.0 utterly illegal and go back to normal html

[taragrimface]

how do we explain to children that all our tech briefly worked perfectly and over time we threw it all away for sleek menus and corporate opacity

[taragrimface]

"we could give you a link to this mp3 OR we could run it in a proprietary player app that must connect to the internet every time you hit the resume button"

[taragrimface]

when i upgraded from a flip phone to an iphone and realized i could no longer record and set a custom ringtone because apple wanted me to buy radio pop ringtones, i realized, oh cool new tech isnt made for us it's made to exploit us and we are going to let it happen

[serenity-bitty]

ouch

[rongzhi]

A naked eye 3D pterosaur installation at Shanghai Natural History Museum

(The guide is describing the exhibit and talking about the various "flying dinosaurs" and their appearance through history as they emerge from the fossil displays)

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

the king has abruptly fired 60% of his wizard staff, so he’s about to be abruptly surprised at who floated 100% of his formerly floating sky castle

[hyper-lynx]

I heard they're planning to maintain their levitation rites with autonomous constructs from now on, saying wizards are going to be totally obsolete within the season... so, ah, I'd invest in falling island insurance.

[scilas]

Preserving not-prev-but-someone-elses funny tags in this chain as well because I love both these additions actually,