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never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac

Wait… Isn’t Ed Balls day coming up? ED BALLS DAY, I HAVE TO GET READY TO CELEBRATE

thewalrusfrompingu

What’s Ed Balls day?

never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac

Omg, okay explanation time.

On the 28th of April, 2011, Ed Balls got a Twitter account. He decided (as most people under the spotlight do) to attempted to look up his own name. However, all he did was tweet “Ed Balls”. This, for some reason, got retweeted by THOUSANDS of people. On a global scale. And because he didn’t know you could delete a tweet it stayed. Every year since then,the 28th of April is Ed Balls day.

This is the infamous tweet

and here are some gems to celebrate that have followed the years, including last year where they framed the tweet and got him to sign it for charity

There are also LOADS MORE in this article from the Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11566593/Ed-Balls-Day-fourth-anniversary-of-that-tweet.html

never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY 2017 WOOOP

never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac

Now that the clock has struck midnight…

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY 2018 WOOOOOOOOOOP

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IT’S HERE

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enchantingruinscandy

I MISSED ED BALLS DAY AND IM MAD ABOUT IT SO THIS IS GOING INTO MY QUEUE FOR ED BALLS DAY 2023

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY FROM THE PAST MOTHERFUCKERS

enchantingruinscandy

Happy Ed Balls day 2024!

natequarter

[ID: 1. A picture of Ed Balls on a london underground ad. Text below reads, “Never forget. 28th April #EdBallsDay.”

2. A tweet from edballs, written on 28th april 2011. it reads, “ed balls.”

3. A tweet from nick_clegg: “Ed Balls.” this was followed by a tweet from edballs: “I agree with Nick… RT @nick_clegg: Ed Balls.”

4. Ed Balls’ Wikipedia page edited to have every single word replaced with the phrase, “Ed Balls.”

5. A photo of a selection of birthday cards marked as celebrating the event, “Ed Balls Day.” A tweet from Carousel_Lights remarks: “#EdBallsDay has become so commercialised. Shame really.”

6. A series of Coke bottles. The label on each reads, “Share a Coke with Ed Balls.”

7. A framed and signed version of the original Ed Balls tweet.

8. A photo of two Tesco’s Scotch eggs. A tweet from Tesco describes them as, “Egg Balls.”

9. A tweet from edballs, which reads: “Ed Balls #10LongYears.” Attached is a photo of Ed Balls holding a birthday cake with a “10” candle. /end ID]

marcotheflychair

happy ed balls day to all

#the chair reblogs #ed balls day #ed balls

jediplinth

You can only post this once a year

#the chair reblogs #ides of march #et tu brute

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carnahan

And yet there are those who doubt him and question how he gets around the entire world in one night…

airred

santa’s creed

theslickest-deactivated20240718

this has been on queue since january 2nd and it was worth every minute

lacunadaisies

I’m queuing this on December 26th I’m ready for this

clarisimart

You better watch out

ajistorpid

You better watch out

thequestionablyhuman-deactivate

You better watch out

wlwadora-ble

You better watch out

unixtmdev

YOU BETTER WATCH OUT

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#the chair reblogs #the chair queues

pixeljade

Tumblr Holidays:

• March 14th: Pi Day

• March 15th: Ides of March

• April 1st: April Fools Day and Mishapocalypse Memorial Day

• April 13th: Homestuck Day

• April 20th: Weed Day

• September 8th: Queen Elizabeth Killed By Sans Undertale Day

• November 5th: Destiel Canon Day

marcotheflychair

happy destiel canon day!

#the chair reblogs #the chair creaks #the chair celebrates tumblr holidays #destiel

jnsmine

ARE YOU TODAY’S DATE?

BECAUSE YOURE 10/10

jnsmine

i’ve waited one year to reblog this

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realm-of-clouds

Time to schedule a post!

#the chair reblogs #the chair queues

pixeljade

Tumblr Holidays:

• March 14th: Pi Day

• March 15th: Ides of March

• April 1st: April Fools Day and Mishapocalypse Memorial Day

• April 13th: Homestuck Day

• April 20th: Weed Day

• September 8th: Queen Elizabeth Killed By Sans Undertale Day

• November 5th: Destiel Canon Day

marcotheflychair

bye bye queen elizabeth, hello sans undertale!

#the chair reblogs #the chair creaks #the chair celebrates tumblr holidays #sans undertale

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himejoshikomaeda

what the fuck. theres not even a fucking joke here. its just the fucking alphabet. i was expecting some kind of fucking meme like “gun” or “john cena” or something like that but no its just the fucking alphabet. here. on tumblr.com. 26 users just fucking banded together to write the alphabet. what the fuck, man.

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I think the update broke them, and almost everyone else.

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69 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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72 …..why not….making the best out of this sad situation

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73… I got so angry at this post I had to reblog it and continue

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132 :(

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I guess I’ll do 136… but did anyone else notice we’re missing 51?

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51 …not missing anymore just a little confused where he should go

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140… this post will continue until the end of tumblr I swear on my own goddamn grave

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143…holy shit you kiddies are fuckin’ crazy

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Official graveyard post

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150, I wonder what chain has gotten the absolute highest?

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158 ???

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the chair loves this website so much

#the chair reblogs #the chair creaks #the chair counts??????? apparently??????

schlorb

som3times I take the beast out for a walk upon the vast expanse of scorched pavement and let it eat some of the cars that are parked there so if you live @ the vast expanse of scorched pavement area and your care isn't there any more im sorry its ma beast mye beast did that that's just enrich ment for my beaste my beastb needs that o9re else it wille become sad & lone some

#the chair reblogs #10k post #investing at 7 notes

hamletthedane

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#the chair reblogs #the chair cries copiously

guerrillatech

#the chair reblogs #the chair fights for freedom

thebreakfastgenie

Sooooo few people are actually willing to defend the basic human rights of people who have committed crimes. Like I know it's not fun but if you genuinely believe in human rights as a concept you can't be okay with the state violating them in prisons I'm sorrrrry. Having moral principles is not always a fun time.

#the chair reblogs #the chair fights for freedom

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bigwordsandsharpedges

When I was a kid, I thought those pillars went down to the sea floor.

In reality, they usually go down to some large submerged floats.

kasaron

I dislike this.

isensmith

apas-95

Pillars and floats like that are pretty stable, compared to regular boats, so there’s even a research vessel, called FLIP, that purposefully capsizes itself to be more steady when conducting research.

mossdealer

YEA IT FUCKIN IS (id embedded in image)

marcotheflychair

the chair’s actual reaction to this:

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#the chair reblogs #the chair creaks #the chair is terrified

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burning text gif maker

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minecraft logo font text generator w/assorted textures and pride flags

windows error message maker (win1.0-win11)

FromSoftware image macro generator (elden ring Noun Verbed text)

image to 3d effect gif

vaporwave image generator

microsoft wordart maker (REALLY annoying to use on mobile)

you're welcome

#the chair reblogs

theconcealedweapon

marcotheflychair

the chair needs yall to get it off terfblr please the chair is scared help

#the chair reblogs #the chair fights for freedom #trans lives are human lives #trans women are women #trans lives matter #trans people are valid #nonbinary people are valid #trans men are men #trans women are real women #support trans people

brehaaorgana

I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.

brehaaorgana

If I was a sociologist, I would definitely be doing a study on the methods and language of charity scammers. Especially the use of emojis, and identification by copied messages vs stock phrases.

For example, these four are all the same, with only slight variation in #1:

(I actually have duplicates from some of the "self-identified" anons above.)

But these two anons share the same new stock phrases:

"days are heavy" / "days that feel impossibly heavy."

brehaaorgana

Fascinated with the random person who commented on this post saying they've reported me for "genocide denialism."

Not to put too fine a tin foil hat on it, but:

That is the kind of threat someone involved in these kinds of financial scams and the social engineering behind them *would* make! It's a threatening statement to the existence of my blog which usually means heightened fear/anxiety of the target, which makes people more likely to fall for a financial scam. Social shame and embarrassment are also heightened emotions! Bullying works! This would make an excellent social engineering counterpoint (if tugging on heartstrings doesn't work!) and might even be effective on many people!

Sure, you can search the supposed connected usernames those anons claimed and find out specifics that way — but not a single one of those screenshots I showed specifies what they're referring to! The IDENTICAL messages from four "different people" never actually mention what their "family's struggle" even is! There's zero fucking context in the space of those messages. They're all IDENTICAL. I literally cannot be committing denialism about anything specific because those asks don't actually say anything I could be denying. How does this person know that these anons aren't a recently impoverished Nigerian prince?

So now you're asking why don't I just click on the usernames and find out more details? Simple. Because they're fucking fraudsters who sent me the same message like, six times with 4 different usernames attached AS ANONS. Why as anons if they have their own blogs and could send the messages that way? SIMPLE AGAIN: because if they're not logged into the blog accounts, you could have whole teams of people copying and pasting these anon asks to various Tumblr users constantly, and you can probably just bypass the ask limits by changing VPNs or going incognito or something. This is a DEDICATED scam. Is it a bot? MAYBE! But that also would explain some of why it doesn't work *while logged in* to the blog accounts — because being anon probably makes it easier to focus on volume.

Anyways a fool and their money are soon parted.

penrosesun

While we're on the subject of the incredible gullibility some people display on these scams, I'd just like to remind everyone that most online scams these days are being run out of massive scam farms, which often employ human trafficking.

Falling for these isn't just an 'oopsy doopsy, you're out some money' sort of a thing. If you send money to obvious scammers and if you platform obvious scammers, you are very likely directly financially supporting modern day slavery. That's not an exaggeration, and I'm not being alarmist. Please read any of these articles on the subject if you don't believe me:

Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dol

A man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared

Traffickers are forcing thousands of people from across Asia to work in online scam centres.

Myanmar youth recount life inside a cyber-scam mill before a city’s fall brought the scheme crashing down.

This is what you are supporting when you send these people money. It's not a neutral act to give to these scammers; it's a horrible, evil act, because in most cases, it directly supports horrific exploitation. And if you really were fooled? If you gave to one of these scammers and you really had no idea what you were probably supporting? Then I'm sorry, but digging your heels in and insisting that the lies you were fed are the truth helps no one. Take your blinders off and face reality, and start doing better.

#the chair reblogs #scammers #online scams