[goryfluff]

Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary) 2020 / 2021 / 2022

[jellogram]

These recent staff changes feel like the kind of thing that gets passed down from upper level management. Let me illustrate.

I used to work at my campus dining hall in college where I flipped burgers. We grilled the burgers from frozen ahead of time and then kept them warm on the flat-top, hitting them on the grill for a few minutes right when they were ordered so they'd be piping hot.

Upper management, whom I had never met or even seen on the premises before, visited one day and told us that from now on, all patties should be kept frozen until ordered. Then we could market them as fresher!

There's just one problem. It took like half an hour to grill a frozen patty into an edible burger, and the students had to stand at the counter that entire time. We got about a dozen complaints on the wait time before we decided to ignore management's orders and go back to pre-grilling.

The students didn't actually care if their shitty dining hall burger was freshly grilled, they just wanted to make it to their next class on time.

And this was abundantly obvious to everyone who actually worked on the floor. But to the middle-aged execs who didn't know us, didn't know the students, didn't go to school there, and had never actually worked in a campus dining hall, fresher = better, because that's what other restaurants do. They ignored the fact that we weren't a regular restaurant. We had a specific customer base (students) with a specific reason for choosing our establishment (speed).

This is how I feel about all the recent Tumblr changes. I think staff has generally had their finger on the pulse of what we want, but these decisions are being handed down from upper level folks with no clue. They think social media sites are supposed to have certain features and look a certain way, because all the previously successful sites have done that. They've likely worked at other sites in the past where these techniques were successful. They're following industry standard practices, because they've forgot something vital — Tumblr isn't a normal restaurant.

[eatmoresoylentgreen]

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[memeuplift]

[ankle-beez]

So Prismo got recast in the Fionna and Cake show cuz Kumail Nanjiani's agents didn't let him know the crew was trying to get him back to reprise the role

[thesparkwhowalks]

I remember back in 2011 there was a little flap caused when Weird Al put out his song “Perform This Way” for free online because Lady Gaga had denied permission to put it on his album (permission he never needed, but always got anyway). He’d been asked to supply not just lyrics but a recorded version before being denied, hence putting it out online. Fans of both artists were surprised and upset by this news.

One Weird Al fan who was massively surprised by all this was Stefani Germanotta, better known as Lady Gaga. It turns out that her manager had been the one handling the situation and never actually played the song for her. She quickly OK’ed it, and the song was still the lead-off single for the Alpocalypse.

And just makes me wonder how many of these “we actually asked but your team said no without consulting you” things happen.

[dr-archeville]

Happy Labor Day

[thehappysmiler]

good god...

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

its labor day where the fuck is homestar runner

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

gotta do everything my damn self around here

[funny-tik-toks]

[ottosgotanothergunagain]

This is the dude who runs our Accounts Payable department.

[thetimba]

[id: a toddler stands on a box next to a desk. (an adult’s arms are in frame, occasionally darting in to offer support, as the baby isn’t super stable.) The adult rings the desk phone from their mobile, and the baby waggles their arms excitedly and picks it up.

Baby babbles into the phone, in the unintelligible manner of a child who is vocalizing, but not yet speaking, but their tone is copied from hearing their parents, as it rises and falls conversationally. They dance happily and almost fall over. They catch their balance, and look at the out of frame adult with pride, hand over the receiver, as if to block their parent’s laughter from the line. They speak a few more ‘words’ before face-palming exaggeratedly.

Their tone turns more genial, and they turn and rest an elbow on a nearby shelf. They chatter for moment, before arching over backwards and taking on a more ‘good ol’ boys talking over the cooler’ type tone.

They over the receiver once more and turn to look at the adult of of frame, with the expression of a small child who has Done A Thing and checking their parent’s face to make sure it was appreciated. end id]

[borealing]

obsessed with this

[gunsandfireandshit]

Remember that "three items from the store to make the cashier most uncomfortable" meme? Apparently I accidentally found a winning combo tonight at the corner store, one of the usual clerks shot me a really weird look when I was checking out with these

[gunsandfireandshit]

[killwizard]

Jimmy Budgett

[thehotgirlproject]

Wasted away again in Meageritaville

[evengirlierballs]

Cashier: that'll be 15.98

Me, after ordering one coffee and a bagel, enraged that we have let capitalism get to such a late stage that just getting a cheap little treat is a fucking 16 dollar purchase, panicking at my dwindling funds in the face of more and more inflation, considering how bad it would be to just jump the counter and take a few bagels and a coffee pot, the utter panic and rage sending me into a blind fury as I guzzle down boiling coffee and stale, untoasted expired bagels, my eyes red with unbridled fury and my face even redder from scalding coffee burns, before I finally snap back to reality and hand the cashier my debit card: yeah sounds good, no worries.

[number-one-toku-robot-lover]

[dorohedorah]

[antelopian]

[monamoni]

[maneth985]

I love how the horse approached for the cat to hop in

[redstonedust]

i miss when AI generated content was bad. when the standard was like ''i asked AI to show me a picture of a dog'' and the result is just some furry flesh amalgam with 3 paws and a mis-centered face. when people asked AI to write it scripts for tv shows and it gave nonsequeter nonsense. genuinely got more value out of that because at least it was funny.

[redstonedust]

i dont want a realistic AI girlfriend trained on human conversations i want AIs like cleverbot that gets stuck in a logic loop and insists my name is steve for no reason. i miss her.

[rongzhi]

OP: 听说温柔的女生，夏天都喜欢穿裙子

↳ I hear soft and gentle girls all like to wear dresses in the summer

[skinslip]

[greenheart-anon]

[eatmoresoylentgreen]

goddammit where do they keep getting these good names