
titsay
AnasAbdin
Cosmic Funnies
Mike Driver
Sweet Seals For You, Always
d e v o n

★

roma★

izzy's playlists!
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
i don't do bad sauce passes
NASA
almost home
art blog(derogatory)
we're not kids anymore.
todays bird
Monterey Bay Aquarium

Kiana Khansmith

@theartofmadeline
$LAYYYTER

seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from Türkiye

seen from Algeria
seen from United Kingdom

seen from Germany

seen from Türkiye

seen from Germany

seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States

seen from Iraq
seen from Switzerland

seen from Brazil

seen from Türkiye
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
@gaaneden
Reblog if you think it’s okay to platonically say “I Love You” to your friends
Slams the reblog button so damn fast
UM OBVIOUSLY
I do that all the time
Did you hear Elon wants to buy Hasbro?
I saw some news outlets say that this was because he loved D&D so much but knew it had to be something else.
And yep, I was exactly right for his motivations. The current Senior Designer and Project Lead for Dungeons and Dragons gave the most lukewarm criticism of the racism in the earliest versions of D&D, and Elon Musk threw a fit over it.
This man is so easily offended, it's ridiculous. This is what happens when you grow up the son of an emerald mine owner in apartheid South Africa and attend private schools that only allow white boys to attend.
It's wild to me that more people don't talk about that fact because it explains literally everything about this man.
He should stick to destroying companies he's already bought, like Tesla, Twitter, and the US government.
Anyway, a short thread from bluesky as to why he probably can't buy Hasbro:
Bluesky thread by morsrattus:
1/7 I've seen some folks fearing that musk might actually be able to purchase Hasbro or D&D. Or laughing at how he'll do it. The thing is, the money isn't there to do it. He literally cannot.
Let's review this. First, there's not a buyout clause. He has to approach the board to make an offer.
2/7 He cannot afford any reasonable offer for Hasbro. If we look at their common stock, it currently is sitting at about $63.89 a share, or was when I checked this morning. There are 139.5 million total outstanding issued shares, for a market cap of 8.91 billion dollars.
3/7 "But what if he buys 50% plus a share?"
Well, that would be around 4.46 billion dollars, which he definitely hasn't got liquid and possibly does not have, period.
But also, it wouldn't get him the company. Hasbro has issued 139.5 million shares - but that's not all they have.
4/7 Hasbro is AUTHORIZED to issue up to 600 million shares, and even adding together stuff that is sitting around not trading, they've only issued around a third of that total per their last quarterly report.
Which means even if you bought all of it, they can issue enough to retain control.
5/7 It is quite literally not possible to force a hostile takeover of Hasbro…and that's assuming the stock price stayed where it was this morning. The moment you began mass buying you'd be driving the price up, but the math above assumes that magically doesn't happen and he still can't.
6/7 So, to be able to buy Hasbro he'd have to go directly to the board instead and convince them to sell. And the thing is? The CFO of Hasbro is a Paypal guy. It's in his corporate bio, even. It's why they hired him, or so they say. He knows and hates musk.
7/7 Could he try to make a deal for the D&D IP? Yes, possibly he could. Again, I don't see Hasbro going for it at anything like a price he could afford. He's too thirsty, they know what he's like, and the IP is worth more to them as finance ghouls to sit on and license out - just look at BG3 licensing.
Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech - 1997
Our neighbor didn’t die, he was just needed someplace else.
He took a moment that was about recognizing him and turned it into a moment to recognize everyone who was there and everyone who made it possible for him to do what he does. If you want a perfect example of why he is so fondly remembered and such a great person, it’s tough to find a better one than this.
I’m going to need y’all to stop putting the stuff on my dash and reducing me to a pile of tears. I swear Mr. Rogers just instantly turns on the faucet for me.
Just look at the faces on the audience. You can tell how moved they are to think of the people who helped them along the way. Maybe they were thinking of a grandmother or a sibling or a best friend or kindly neighbor. He made that moment so real for all of them.
“Early this year, when television handed him its highest honor, he responded by telling television— gently, of course— to just shut up for once, and television listened. He had already won his third Daytime Emmy, and now he went onstage to accept Emmy’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and there, in front of all the soap-opera stars and talk-show sinceratrons, in front of all the jutting man-tanned jaws and jutting saltwater bosoms, he made his small bow and said into the microphone, ‘All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are… Ten seconds of silence.’ And then he lifted his wrist, and looked at the audience, and looked at his watch, and said softly, ‘I’ll watch the time,’ and there was, at first, a small whoop from the crowd, a giddy, strangled hiccup of laughter, as people realized that he wasn’t kidding, that Mister Rogers was not some convenient eunuch but rather a man, an authority figure who actually expected them to do what he asked… and so they did. One second, two seconds, three seconds… and now the jaws clenched, and the bosoms heaved, and the mascara ran, and the tears fell upon the beglittered gathering like rain leaking down a crystal chandelier, and Mister Rogers finally looked up from his watch and said, ‘May God be with you’ to all his vanquished children.“ - Tom Junod, Esquire
I love the idea of Mr. Rogers being an authority figure you wouldn’t dare disobey, not out of fear but out of pure, overflowing, deep respect. To disappoint him is unfathomable.
Note also that normally in the face of pure silence, the orchestra would be expected to play him off.
They didn’t.
this time I would not guarantee anything after reading project 2025
It's my 11 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) started in 1999 to get writers to spend their November writing a 50,000-word novel. The idea is tha
hi any life advice for 21yo
Don't date thirty-year-olds until you are at least 25.
Having a glass of water for every glass of alcohol will give you a 50% reduction in hangover viciousness.
Bad people will use your willingness to be quiet as a weapon against you. If someone's being awful to you and trusting you'll be quiet to keep from making waves, surprise them.
There is no physical object in the world that is worth as much as your honor.
Honor is not the same as dignity. Retaining one sometimes means leaving the other aside.
Don't have any sex you don't want to have; have as much as you want of the sex that you do, whether that's a lot, a little, or none at all. Nothing you can do to your own body is immoral, unless you're doing it as an act of self-punishment.
Food is morally neutral. You do not have to earn the right to eat calories. Fat and sugar keep your brain from eating itself.
Learning to sit still and breathe--in, in, in, hold, hold, hold, out, out, out, out, out, out--can give you five feet of clear space around yourself in a maelstrom.
Find out how to make three good meals: A comfort meal you can make for just yourself relatively easily, a fancy meal you can use to wow a date, and a meal you can feed a bunch of people. All the other cooking can come later, but you can build a community on those three meals.
If you ever get to the point that things are so bleak you can see no other way forward but to die, make any other choice. If that means leaving everything you own and being a beach bum, or quitting your career, or taking up or leaving a religion, or deciding to bicycle across the country, so be it; living means more chances, dying means everything stops and you don't get to see any more interesting things. As you have not yet seen all the things that can interest you, it is better to live.
A big reason I can prob never truly quit Tumblr is this is the only website where I can read
[goof joke post about, say, Scandanavian geese]
[witty rejoinder]
followed by “Actually? I’m an ornithologist specializing in the migratory patterns of three specific species of geese over the Scandanavian peninsula, here’s a genuinely fascinating short essay about a highly specific field of work and study, I took quite a lot of time out of my day to write this just because I wanted to share my passion, you’re welcome”
it rules
Yes! This, exactly.
The degree of integration between the shitposts and the deep dives, and the ease of the culture with the transitions just brings joy to my heart on a regular basis.
As an adult you must cultivate the skill of “Gross! Oh, well. Not my business.”
Applies to everything from BDSM parties to your sister’s godawful interior design choices to weird bachelor pad meals eaten over a sink.
Gross! Oh, well. Not my business.
ALIEN (1979) dir. Ridley Scott
Listen listen listen I'm a huge fucking coward okay my survival strategy for any given horror movie scenario is "kill myself" but I understand Ripley here, if I had my cat with me I'd HAVE to give it my best shot at nuking a mother fucker, look at him. look at my baby. He has no idea what's going on, I'm the most reliable thing in his life, you think I can just peace out and let him get eaten? Let him get chestburstered? This little man who trusts me and doesn't know anything? No bitch I too would have no choice but to nut the fuck up and kill some sons of bitches and oh no I'm crying in real life
Thank you.
It's over and done. "Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980" earned $8000 and hit 2 stretch goals. Thank you everyone. So much. I appreciate each and every one of you.
I am sad that we didn't hit the goal where I got to stick mantises to your face.
Thank you.
It's over and done. "Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980" earned $8000 and hit 2 stretch goals. Thank you everyone. So much. I appreciate each and every one of you.
It's the final 16 hours for "Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980!" Last chance to back a cozy ghost story told by postal mail. It's the gift of escape tunnels, ghosts, and adventure told over 24 letters that will ship worldwide. Won't you be my penpal? #ProjectWeLove #DearPenpal https://bit.ly/dear_penpal
It's the Final Stretch! Just 3 days left in Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980! As a special treat, I've recorded an unpublished YA ghost story, "Hide and Seek Forever." Looking for something unusual for you or a loved one? How about a cozy ghost story told by postal mail? It's the gift of escape tunnels, ghosts, and adventure told over 24 letters that will ship worldwide. https://bit.ly/dear_penpal
Blog: Which One is for You? With just one week left to go in the "Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980" #kickstarter campaign, I thought I’d talk about some of the different packages and who each is for.
ProjectWeLove #DearPenpal http://www.jenniferbrozek.com/blog/post/2024/04/17/Which-One-is-for-You