[depsidase]

[redfagdiver]

The reverse Midas Touch.

Mid-ass touch.

[ralfmaximus]

Billionaires are fighting

[sotheresthatcontinued]

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

[scienceoftheidiot]

They existed *before beetles*

[somethingaboutsomethingelse]

[spacedandelions]

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

[ignescent]

https://xkcd.com/1259/

Bee Orchid

[sepdet]

This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees' range has shrunk by 90%.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

The Trees That Miss The Mammoths - American Forests

Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.



[modernvintage]

First quote from the linked article. Found it poetic.

[forgivemekarlmarx]

[by-grace-of-god]

Le Figaro have a newly published photograph from inside Notre Dame shortly before the roof collapsed, as molten lead fell into the nave. (+)

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

This is what I love about photojournalism. It is just a history of moments where human beings have gone “I know I should really be hauling ass out of here but I have to get a picture of this”

[tainbocuailnge]

i don’t think tumblr actually eats asks i think that was made up by someone who was caught in the crossfire of some petty tumblr drama years ago and we all just ran with it because it’s both plausible and incredibly convenient. for the record if i don’t answer your ask it’s because i didn’t want to. peace peace ✌️

[cerastes]

It doesn’t eat asks nowadays. It actually used to be a thing you could test. We know what caused it.

It’s been fixed for a long time, but if your ask contained “…” in it, Tumblr would eat it: You’d get the notification but there would be no new ask in your inbox. We eventually found out it was “…” that caused it through trial and error, and eventually, it was quietly fixed, but for years, spaghetti code in tumblr just didn’t allow you to triple ellipsis others in any capacity. Seasoned RP blogs back in the day would include this tip in their About, even: “Don’t send asks with … in them, Tumblr eats those”.

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

every day i learn about another way this hellsite used to be even more fucked up than now

[rhetoricandlogic]

#why do people think it’s called a hellsite?? it’s not the cringe fandoms and woke culture and it’s not the fact that we’re still here#it’s bc this place used to be held together by trial and error and xkit guy

Exactly.

[amotleycrew]

hey. the celebrities and corporations are growing to try tumblr. you may want to drive them off the site, or find them amusing, ie “well THIS one can stay.” they may try to engage with the culture. they may do their research. DO NOT ENGAGE. do not bother. don’t fucking acknowledge them. don’t mess with their heads. don’t reply to them as a bit. let them think this site is a lost cause. let them fizzle out and die

[bloodanddiscoballs]

DO YOUR PART!

BLOCK THEM!

[fivemanwaltz]

BLOCK. THE. BRANDS.

[parfavar]

it had to be said...

[canichangemyblogname]

The reason Tumblr was such an L for Yahoo wasn’t because it’s user base was so insufferable, but because Tumblr became a less popular media platform. Algorithm became more popular, creating content that people would literally crave, specifically tailored to them. And it’s a boon for advertisement. Twitter? Facebook? Instagram? TikTok? They’re essentially tailored billboards; sites dedicated to advertisement. What made Tumblr an L was the ban on NSFW and the inability to sell ads, not just the cultural disconnect between Yahoo and the platform. It literally lost some 1/3 of its traffic following the NSFW ban.

Yahoo bought Tumblr as the site was competing with other media platforms and slowly becoming obsolete. Asking why people don’t flock here anymore is like asking why people don’t use MySpace any more. There was a shift to different forms of media.

What made Tumblr an L was not the existence of an insufferable user base, but the loss of its user base.

Twitter? Twitter will never be an L for Musk. First, there is no cultural disconnect between him and the platform. Musk is the epitome of Twitter culture. Capitalistic. Reductive. “Edgy.” Cringe. Thinking he’s the smartest person in the room; a true intellectual. Offensively pseudo-ironic. Literally Twitter.

You want Twitter to be Musk’s L? Deactivate.

Deactivate your Twitter.

What will lose him money is a loss of users. It’s already a site optimized for ads and outrage and tailored content. It’s already a site tailored to his type of personality.

You want him to lose money?

Deactivate.

Make his pockets bleed.

[19b-archive-deactivated20250525]

I also recommend a strategy that Redditors have used to take down hate subs. Do you see a heinous, bigoted tweet next to an advertisement? Screenshot it and send it to the brand saying 'this is the kind of content you're partnering with on Twitter?' Turn their capitalistic pearl clutching against them. If Musk has to choose between 'free speech' and advertiser money, he will absolutely choose the money. He's already made that clear.

[sreegs]

Still laughing at this reply on a post about Twitter engineers forced to submit code to Elon Musk in order to review their contributions:

Elon Musk didn't program Paypal, he was an executive during his whole tenure. And a shitty one at that.

Musk only did programming for one company back in 1995. Before that, he was an unpaid intern. And also still an heir to a South African emerald mine.

Anyone thinking Elon Musk has any useful engineering knowledge in 2022 is another one of his bootlickers. In fact, it would not surprise me that any of his recorded "programming" experience was substantial at all, given he has a penchant to sue to be named the founder of a company he bought into years after its founding. He certainly has no relevant experience to review Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective C, Go, JS, and the myriad of other languages that make up the complex systems that power a platform like Twitter.

[zetexkindasucks]

twitter’s dead, have this picture of Elon he blocks people over

[acek20]

[punished-venom-solitair-e]

[keplercryptids]

not to be a pessimist on the main blog, but i struggle with the fact that even the most radical leftists i know have almost all gone back to life as usual without wearing masks in public. people who I've sat in community with and talked about changing the world, just to see them not change a tiny aspect of their life to protect vulnerable people.

yes, we've been structurally failed on every level of this pandemic. and also yes, i can't take someone seriously in their ideals and morals if wearing a goddamn mask in public was too much for them. i could rant about this more but I'll just get upset lol.

please wear a mask if you've stopped doing so.

[keplercryptids]

people in the notes who want to try justifying why they stopped wearing masks: this post isn't the place for you to do that, babes. it is straight up unethical not to wear a mask in closed, public quarters, and if it makes you feel bad to hear that, well. sorry. deal with those feelings on your own time.

i know shame doesn't work as a motivator and i am truly not trying to shame anyone. at the same time, there's a special kind of horror i feel at the fact that we've been told by experts that masking can help to save lives, especially the lives of disabled folks, and most people collectively have shrugged and gone "ehhhh no thanks. you see, it's slightly inconvenient for me."

wear a fucking mask, please.

[magnetothemagnificent]

Too many people think they'd be hanged for witchcraft in the 15th century and not enough people realize they'd probably be part of the accusing mob.

[gnnosis]

what we owe to each other

[ the good place, 2x13 / the overstory, richard powers / unknown / “don’t carry it all,” the decemberists / thoodleoo ]

[ampervadasz]

[drtanner]

Love that you can see the exact moment that Enlightenment™ occurs for this little dude. Good job, you did it.

[r4cs0]

Right there

[moondrunklesbian-deactivated202]

You know the problem with reading a book? You get hooked and then it ends and you feel sad

[moondrunklesbian-deactivated202]

This post is cancelled, I have found a new book and everything is all right again

[moondrunklesbian-deactivated202]

By Talos this cannot be happening

[captainjonnitkessler]

Eternal Flame Falls sounds like the coolest concept for a fantasy book. A path you follow down into a ravine until you find an ever-burning flame inside of a waterfall? That’s fuckin metal! But it’s not in a fantasy book it’s like an hour away from my house I can literally go see it any time! I remember it like once a month and lose my shit over it every time

[captainjonnitkessler]

Look at this. Tell me this isn’t the basis for a cool religion in an epic fantasy novel.

[softness-and-shattering]

OP whats it called? Do you know how it works??

[captainjonnitkessler]

It’s called Eternal Flame Falls, in Orchard Park in western New York. 400 feet below the surface is a 400-million-year old shale formation that contains natural gas, and the grotto contains a leak where that gas is escaping.  The flame can and does go out, but the gas can be re-lit with a lighter like a gas stove. It’s super, super cool from both an aesthetic and a geologic perspective!

[theburialofstrawberries]

Took me years to understand the "why the long face" punchlines to "so a horse walks into a bar" jokes because I just thought that's a normal sized face to have if you're a horse. It never occurred to me judge a horse by the standards of man

[theburialofstrawberries]

I was a better person than all of you