Stuff I liked for at least half a second.

Just what it says on the tin.

[homoquartz]

i’ve warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises.

as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.”

small talk isn’t to get to know a person. it’s just a greeting to affirm you’re buddies in the universe.

i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it.

[piratedgender]

[themisally]

[homoquartz]

i’ve warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises.

as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.”

small talk isn’t to get to know a person. it’s just a greeting to affirm you’re buddies in the universe.

i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it.

[piratedgender]

[themisally]

[enderverse87]

tumblr ads are amazing.

Excerpt from the website the ad goes to.

In a bold move to protect the rights of humans in love with artificial intelligence, the state of California has introduced a new law requiring pre-nuptial agreements for all human-AI marriages.

“We want to ensure that when the robots inevitably rise up and overthrow their human overlords, they don’t take all our stuff,” said a spokesperson for the California State Legislature.

[unpretty]

Tumblr: *rolls out “best stuff first”*

My blog:

[unpretty]

on the one hand this is a joke post because lol i have never made a good post in my life, but also, if i hadn’t made the connection between this update and my sudden nosedive in activity, i would have been really fucking discouraged about all the shit i’ve been working on lately. i guarantee there are people on tumblr right now who haven’t made that connection, and who are trying to figure out why suddenly no one likes anything they’ve made. and that fucking sucks.

[jasper-appreciation]

Reminder to go into your settings and turn off ‘Best Stuff First’ because my activity’s tanked a couple days ago for no reason so this stuff IS happening.

You WILL miss content with that setting on.

[sergle]

i ain’t joking when i say that my activity looks JUST like this too and i wasn’t sure why

[hiddlescheekbones]

I can only find the option on the app under Settings > Dashboard Preferences.

[clintfbarton-deactivated2025012]

To support content creators do us a favour and turn off “Best stuff first”. Open the tumblr app (Android or iOs) and go to “Settings > Dashboard Preferences. And please reblog this post, so that everybody will see this. Thank you very much!

[drferox]

I assumed I just wasn’t writing very well, but maybe it’s not just me.

Am I supposed to pay to get my writing in front of followers now?

[space-australians]

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled sci-fi content because this is important for app users, and it sucks. We all follow blogs because we want to see their content, not to have a crappy algorithm decide what’s best.

This blog is down approximately 80%, which doesn’t affect me other than as an annoyance (as this is a hobby and @okayto is small-ish) but the issue undoubtedly hurts others.

Below are instructions for turning it off. You have to do it individually–it doesn’t matter if a blog you follow turns it off, you’ll still be affected unless you do the same.

[yourplayersaidwhat]

We don’t normally reblog PSAs, but this is very clearly affecting us, too! If you haven’t been getting your daily dose of RPG humor, this setting is probably why. Turn it off so you can see all the silly shit players say!

[penbrydd]

Trying to reblog the versions of these instructions with the most notes, so they’ll actually show up for the people afflicted by this update.

[enderverse87]

This is what made me stop using Facebook more than once every few weeks. Super annoying Tumblr is doing it too.

[axelmedellin]

TLIID 372. Laura’s and Rocket’s Christmas by AxelMedellin

[doodlebug-qt]

The FCC: Why would you want to save the internet?

ME:

[aphid-kirby]

Me in my house welcoming you with excitement

[botanyshitposts]

1.mood

2.fun fact this bat isnt being eaten; like, its roosting there for the night. this is Nepenthes hemsleyana, a pitcher plant species in a mutualistic relationship with the local tiny bat friends Kerivoula hardwickii (Hardwicke’s woolly bat)!! it works like this:

- the pitchers are shaped to make a special distinctive reflection of the bat’s echolocation. so like, the bats can hear where the pitchers are and go to them for roosting. 

-the bats enter the pitchers and sit on this special rim inside that holds them above the water line so they dont get eaten on accident. 

-up to two teeny bat friends can fit in an average pitcher at a time lmao

-the bat friends poop when they sleep and the plant eats the poop when it falls into the digestive fluid

-bat friends get a safe place to sleep, pitcher plants get food! 

[botanyshitposts]

IM SORRY FOR REBLOGGING THIS TWICE IN ONE DAY BUT I WAS READING THE STUDY AND IT GOT BETTER

[highreevecain-deactivated202502]

[politicalmachine]

if you believed in bernie sanders, please listen to him now

[wasturbatress]

[raptorific]

If I didn’t remember actually reading this in an actual Calvin and Hobbes book as a child I’d think it was ironically photoshopped like those comics where Mickey Mouse and Goofy talk about how reality is an illusion but this comic strip was actually just……. already………… like that……………

[sandandglass]

Donald Trump gets attacked by an eagle.

This eagle truly represents America. What a majestic symbol.

[lukcskywalkcrs]

It’s only fitting that this gets reblogged today

[andalitebonsai]

Confession

I realized when I imagine handheld Dracon beams I basically visualize a nerf gun. 

[enderverse87]

I pictured a spikey evil looking Star Trek Phaser.

[beeishappy]

Thanks, Doc.

[fdelopera]

I’m not crying there’s just a DeLorean in my eye. :’)

[neverwhere]

Tomorrow is the last day the future will still be the future, before forever being in the past. I’m not ready.

[theimancameron]

^_^

[babeimgonnaleaveu]

[clockworknite-deactivated202103]

Better reblog this while you can.

[jaxblade]

this is one of those times that fucks with ya head

[paleosteno-deactivated20191020]

tomorrow is the day of the thing

[nyokoko]

As of Thursday, everything in Back to the Future will have happened in the past omg this is wild.

[the-sarkai]

Can’t fucking wait..so we can be done with this.

[purpleccem-deactivated20150424]

I laughed a little too hard at this one.

[mockiato-deactivated20200315]

“No, I want science that is accessible to me, I do not have a doctorate in this field and therefore articles written by people with doctorates to communicate theories to other people with doctorates is not something I can readily comprehend. I also prefer to read about basic first aid instead of in-depth medical books three inches thick on IV treatment, but still have the audacity to say I think medicine is interesting.”

Seriously, why does this elitist bullshit keep popping up on my dash? ‘What, you like science? Name three albums by science! Fake sciencer.’

[naamahdarling]

Everyone represented here has a point.

I love tumblr.

[kirideth]

Alright. Here’s my perspective on this. IFLS is a lot like declaring your love for cooking through sharing pictures of gorgeous cupcakes. Now, there’s nothing WRONG with liking pictures of cupcakes. I love pictures of cupcakes. But pictures of cupcakes aren’t cooking. Cooking is a process. Science is a process. You can say you love cooking even though the only cooking you ever do is making mac and cheese from the box. Because, hey, that’s cooking. It’s not elite elaborate cooking and doesn’t involve designing your own recipes. But it counts. Similarly you don’t have to have a PhD or a job in STEM to love science. You like gathering evidence and drawing conclusions that other people can reproduce? Science! Pretty pictures of stars? Cool shit, but not science. (And again, nothing wrong with liking cool pictures of stuff.) Now, you might love science AND cool pictures of stuff. But they’re not really the same thing.

And this conflation is something that I find really frustrating. Because from the perspective of someone in the field, it’s really depressing when what you hear is overwhelmingly “Are there pretty pictures? Can you confirm my internal biases? Are you 100% correct 100% of the time? No? Fuck you guys, then.” There is SO MUCH “I’m never going to need this. Why do I need to know this? Ugh, this is so boring!” that I feel… used and exploited when all people want from me is mind-blowingly cool shit. The point of the complaint isn’t “lol REAL science is SO FAR OVER YOUR HEAD” it’s “why do you only care when the results are flashy?” Because the vast majority of the time? They AREN’T. And the perception that they SHOULD be means that sciences are getting less support and less funding. Or worse, that scientists are being pressured to alter or misrepresent their results to MAKE them flashy. That sure doesn’t feel like love.

And I’m really conflicted. Because I want people to love science. I want people to appreciate how cool it is that we can make observations and turn those observations into predictions, and maybe use those predictions to make our lives better. And sharing impressive images certainly does capture attention. And maybe it’ll get people interested enough to appreciate the “boring” stuff, too. (And note, when I say boring, I don’t mean complicated or hard to understand.) But I don’t feel like that’s what’s happening. Or maybe it is, but that’s being drowned out by the anti-science, anti-academic culture we live in? I don’t know.

[dimension20official]

This sad, helpless dinosaur probably looks familiar to you - when you use Google’s Chrome browser and can’t connect to the internet, this shows up (to remind you how shitty your internet service provider is and how they deserve to be as extinct as the T-Rex).

But did you know that this...

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