Serendipities & Vicissitudes

Life on the fly

[dear-ao3]

hold on a fucking second. delaware is a state?? i thought it was a river? or is the river more important than the state? why don't i know this? (i should mention i don't like in america, i'm just confused)

there is delaware (state) and delaware (river) 

both are equally strange

the state is a tiny little cryptid thing

the rive is a monster that spans new york, pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. also washington crossed it once and that was like kinda a big deal i guess. like crossing the rubicon in rome.

the state tries to me more important with its “im the first state!!!” bs (seriously its even on the fucking license plates) but we all know. its the river.

[depsidase]

[sleepystrawberrybunny]

[tooies]

reblog and put in the tags what your childhood password that you just stuck with is!

[looseinthecatroom]

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[trigonomicon]

I'm experimenting with comic-making.

[petzah394]

[petzah394]

[itsapmseymour]

They got new photos of the moon,

I knew she had colors hiding in there 🥹

[wizardimpersonator]

Correction to the link sourced by OP! The Artemis II team did not take these photographs. These were shot by a Ukrainian student named Ildar Ibatullin sometime in the last year or so. Furthermore, the Moon does not have these actual colors in reality; Ildar does a lot of post processing and compositing to saturate the colors in order to artistically represent the mineral composition of the lunar surface.

If you would like to see photos taken by the astronauts aboard Artemis II (and more!), here is the repository that NASA is keeping.

[robertreich]

As we resist tyranny, America gains solidarity. As we gain solidarity, we build courage. As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime. Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief today at No Kings protests across the country.

[sanguine-squid]

where is any higher quality version of this image

[satellites-halo]

can't find anything other than this which has maybe 5 extra pixels

[sergal]

[bobbyfagbright]

now dance fucker dance man he never had a chance

[amberluvsbugs]

Yep

[dissociative-drugs]

[onenicebugperday]

Green-veined satin geometer moth, Doratoptera nicevillei, Geometridae

Found sporadically throughout mainland Asia

Photos by benoit_segerer

[petzah394]

[velvetys]

How is bnha anime of the decade...... they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second

[grimeclown]

The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em

[abraxasrinbalt]

1969.........

[harperhug]

Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with t.he epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.

[ti0mumu]

[nick-nonya]

Tumblr is truly one of the webbed sites ever

[solnight99]

ohmg

[aroace-ryland-grace]

[thegreatlazule]

post's haunted.

[novahazard24]

get your medals everyone

[pointless-achievements]

cosigned, good work everyone, have your bricks at the ready when they try it again.

[infectiouspiss]

LETS GOOOOO

[phantomrose96]

You know what could salvage this easily if Staff is so determined to do this?

Go ahead and do the individual likes/reblogs/replies on each comment.

But every single iteration of the post should have the master aggregate notes at the bottom, all of which are attributed to OP and go to OP's activity.

That way OP of a piece of art or writing can in fact open any single iteration of the post, including the root post, and see and receive the full aggregate notes at the very bottom. And any single person who wants to see the full notes/tags/comments/etc can all do the same.

Then sure. Whatever. Have the notes in the middle additions for seeing filtered views. idgaf they can hang out.

[phantomrose96]

I’m intending to submit this idea as feedback because I think it could cauterize 95% of the critical problems I have with this, without requiring tumblr to do a complete 180 on this.

If other people agree maybe you can submit the idea too. I’ll try to track down what’s the appropriate feedback form and link it to this post.

Or someone else can link it to this post in a reblog and be the Note Robber of the day 🙂

[bosstoaster]

I think I can help!

Overall, the support page is supposed to be the correct place to submit feedback. You could either use 'Feedback' or 'Social features' in the category dropdown for this. I might suggest Social Features, actually, since Feedback is getting floooodded. It might actually get fresh eyes like that. If not there, then staff has said they closely watch the Changes blog and use the feedback from there to make decisions. That's repeated in their current most popular post, which is explicitly reacting to the negative feedback and currently telling us to give it a few days to get used to it first.

That's also extremely flooded (and the replies are more angry), but staff has specifically stated they are using feedback from that post to make future calls, so it's guaranteed to have eyes.

Pls steal the notes back, @phantomrose96, I do not want them and they will do more good in your hands.

[phantomrose96]

Stealing back the post like a passed baton, thanks @bosstoaster.

Funny enough, I had issues finding these comments, which I SAW in my activity feed, because when I went to my root post none of these comments existed. I had to go to my root post, go to MY second comment in the chain on the post (by digging it out of the notes), and THEN open the comments on THAT post to come find this.

I submitted feedback. I'll probably pepper this suggestion on the other feedback avenues over the coming days. (They're flooded now. Polite persistence probably carries weight here.)

Here's what I said

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"Hello! I have a suggestion that I think could be a reasonable middle ground on the Notes broken up by Reblog.

Just 2 modifications: 1] All iterations of a post continue to show an aggregate footer at the bottom with total replies, comments, and likes, from all chains. 2] All notes continue to go to the post's original author, as in show up in their activity, regardless of reblog chain.

With these two things, then the notes-per-reblog no longer cause problems!

All comments and replies would remain findable and engageable, via the aggregate footer at the bottom of the post. This is very important for ongoing engagement--people can only interact with replies if they can find them!

Users would NOT avoid commenting, because they can be assured in the knowledge their comment will no longer fracture the notes (aggregate footer covers that) and will no longer steal the post's engagement from the OP (OP receives all activity). I would not be afraid to comment "This art is amazing!" on someone's artwork, as I would not need to fear fracturing the reblog chain and taking their engagement. Avoiding commenting hesitance is so important as well, because engagement stands to plummet if users all hold their tongue to not "steal" a post.

Even right now, I'm struggling to find useful information on my own posts--posts which I know have comments and replies--because I cannot find which reblog has the replies. Finding comments means finding and stepping through all the comment chains of the entire post to even stand the chance to find what I remember seeing.

This is also making engagement look so small... Posts of mine with 50,000+ notes across different reblog chains and now so sparse and fractured and nearly impossible to sift through for information.

Please consider this suggestion!"

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