I'm not a troll but one of my headmates is @gyratingdiscochicken - Tumblr Blog

Honestly the queue and schedule post options on Tumblr are extremely underrated. No other major social networking site has the ability to do that with the same ease as Tumblr does, and we've had them for like a decade now. They're fantastic features and Tumblr doesn't get enough credit for having them.

sgt-innocuous

I'm actually willing to assert that Tumblr actually has some of the best site functionality:

- queue/schedule system

- tagging that doesn't interfere with the actual content of posts

- the ask/inbox system

- ability to make likes/following lists private

- ability to reblog posts multiple times

- the "Keep Reading" feature

- ability to easily post different media. AFAIK Tumblr is the only social media site that lets you post audio without it being a video.

- dash is always in reverse chronological order

colorsofsocialjustice

Tumblr might be a trash fire but it's the best trash fire of all social media platforms.

sharper-and-bigger

homunculus-argument

If you go on the internet and google how to dry out a drenched book, you'll find a forum where someone else asked the same question and was told to go fuck themselves and just google it.

If you go on the internet and confidently announce that the best way to dry out a drenched book is to dip it in alcohol and light it on fire, and nobody else has ever figured out a better way to dry out a book without damaging it. Argue about it with absolute confidence for long enough, and somebody will write you out a peer-reviewed 30 page tutorial with an essay section with 15 cited sources that offers you three different, separate, far superior methods on how to dry out a drenched book.

While the human desire to help one-another may wane or falter, you can always count on the righteous anger of someone witnessing a stranger being Wrong On The Internet.

wonderfulworldofmichaelford

Stellan Skarsgård gives the only good answer to the world’s most tired question

oldshowbiz

There are several old, non-functioning gas stations (mostly circa 1940s) still standing north and east of Santa Clarita.

You have seen these old gas stations in dozens of movies and TV shows and you don’t even realize it.

#Angeles National Forest #gas station #santa clarita #filming location

depsidase

geekkatsblog

Priceless

godofsmallthings

i can’t wait until people realize that child labor laws should apply to family vlog channels too

cosmomoore

This, I have major concerns for the lives and mental health of children whose parents use them exploit them make content with them for public consumption. I also have concerns for their privacy and their lives moving forward.

lordsmellio

In this specific case, they should be treated as child actors with regards to getting money. If the channel/video/etc. is monetized in any form, they as “actors” in said video should be paid compensation for their exposure. From my understanding this usually entails some sort of trust fund being set up for them that they are allowed to get full access to once they reach the age of maturity for their region.

weaver-z

How the media depicts the Apollo 11 mission:

Actual quotes from the Apollo 11 mission:

georgieharrisons

also according to michael collins when the three of them were discussing what neil armstrong should say when he first stepped on the moon, collins suggested armstrong say “Oh, my God, what is that thing?” and then scream and cut out his mic.

wickedwitch-of-the-left

all you’ve done is convince me that michael collins was one of the funniest men alive tbh

ziggy-scardust

Michael Collins is a HILARIOUS SPACE ANGEL and I will shout this from the rooftops every time this post comes up on my dash. He showed up at my school in Boston for an event and the first thing he said was “I just learned what the state bird of Massachusetts is. It’s the upraised middle finger.” He followed up with “Buzz and Neil were bickering like an old married couple the whole time. It was nice to get some peace and quiet while they were on the surface. Forget being the farthest from all humanity, I just wanted to be the farthest from those two.”

Oh and let’s not forget his long and distinguished post-astronaut career in the State Department and as the director of the Smithsonian.

thebiscuiteternal

Reblogging again in memory of Collins’ passing today. Godspeed spaceman.

jpnostalgia

JURASSIC PARK vs JURASSIC WORLD trilogies

why the original trilogy feels more mature and real than the new one, more cartoonish instead.

Which style do you prefer?

http://jpnostalgia.tumblr.com/

the-demon-colonel

We have the same problem in big budget Hollywood filmmaking nowadays that Hayao Miyazaki pointed out in anime a few years back, namely that films are being made by the fanboys that grew up idolizing the original movies, and worse still planned and budgeted by corporate lawyers and producers who use think tanks to identify what they think audiences want in films, and as a result you get overwrought and convoluted twaddle that makes us normal people pine for the old standard

kisilinramblings

There is also a really good analysis comparing the scale/framing of Jurassic Park with Jurassic World. If you have a 8-9 minutes to kill.

l-i-n-u-s-k-a

@glenny-boy

#this explains my issues with blockbusters and modern movies so much I think

ironpour

I actually agree with that tweet that was going around (by ex-tumblr user Amina btw) about how tumblr is now one of the calmer places to be on the internet. Tumblr is quiet now, and lonely. Obviously it still has elements of the madness it always did but here it’s up to you what you tune in and out for. All other social media is monetised and manipulated for maximum anxiety and stimulation at all time. Twitter has it’s sidebar of awful global news co-mingled with celebrity gossip nothingness, stan twitter hashtags and #X-person is cancelled/ #X-is over party. Instagram has replaced where the post button had been for them for years with a fucking shop button. I haven’t gone near facebook in a long time but i don’t need to explain to any of you how bad it is.

The reason so many of us have stuck with tumblr for so long is because it is impossible for them to monetise (none of us have any money anyway) and despite the thousands upon thousands of hours that each of us may have put in it doesn’t have an obvious valuable output - no one can immediately see how many followers you have or any actual impact you have, unless they themselves are willing to be a part of whatever it is that’s going on on the dashboard.

I suppose I’ve learnt from being excised from tumblr for so long that you have to appreciate how great the buffer is on this website in comparison to the constant psychological warfare that facebook, instagram and twitter wage on all their users, and in turn their users wage on one another. The over-exposure to this insidiously designed advertising that ramps up the more you go on the app - the more it knows you are desperate for content; and the over-exposure to far too many other people and opinions that lead to unnecessary ideological warfare.

Tumblr by comparison is a haven. They don’t throw politics and sinisterly targeted adverts at you - because they don’t know how. And they don’t need to throw other people’s posts at you because they know how irrelevant we all are here anyway.

jigsawgirl

i keep seeing people say “why would you leave this in the tags” but the alternative is to actually comment on someones post and i thought we all collectively decided that was a bad idea years ago

zampl

“why did you leave this in the tags” because it would be obnoxious otherwise

queerlynx

thepoisonroom

writing a cover letter is just like: here is my worksona she has no mental illnesses and hates breaks! i would like to larp her for 40 hours a week with full pay and benefits

afloweroutofstone

rorbison

Oh good I can still sleep tonight.

eroticlizardfiction

2020 has been the wildest year and it's still January

Hatsune Miku was announced in the cochella lineup

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle quit being royals

The US killed an important Iranian general which prompted everyone to think WWIII was happening

Mr. Peanut died???

Justin Bieber thinks babies are #yummy

Nikkitutorials was blackmailed into coming out as trans

Adam Sandler threatened to purposely make bad movies if he doesn't win an Oscar (he wasn't even nominated so looking forward to that)

Gwyneth Paltrow sold out candles that are meant to smell like her vagina

The upcoming NBC streaming service announced a TAZ animated series

Grimes announced that she's pregnant with Elon Musk's baby

Parasite became the first foreign language film to win best ensemble cast at the SAG awards

Kat Von D sold her makeup company

Onision called the cops on Chris Hanson

Pete Buttigieg had to ask for applause at rally

Jeff Bezos phone was hacked because he clicked on a shady link in a text

fungalnetw0rk

i would like to add on to this because

Grimes is naming her child War Nymph and is tweeting as if her unborn child is making the posts

Joe Rogan said he’s probably voting for Bernie

Kaitlin Bennet allegedly shitting herself at a frat party is a trending topic

the impeachment trial began in the Senate

the coronavirus has killed 17 people in China and one person in Seattle is infected- there were major plagues in 1820 and 1920 and now it might be happening again

the Doomsday Clock is now officially at 100 Seconds to Midnight

after Gwyneth’s vag candles sold out it was announced she’s getting a netflix show about how she makes her products for goop

coolman229

drinktilyouredead

heres a fun throwback

eroticlizardfiction

I truly hate what this post has become

shianu

This is one of those things that make you heavily symphatize with time travelers and there always present question "do I tell them?" And the answer is "Definetely no"

cursedobjects

"the coronavirus has killed 17 people in China and one person in Seattle is infected- there were major plagues in 1820 and 1920 and now it might be happening again" oh honey.