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proceleon

“It’s bad enough you lick your own, don’t lick someone else’s.”

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thinskin45

XD

entomjinx-reblogs

@staff please don't let the twitter users who are inevitably going to come here due to the elon purchase bully you into changing things.

Don't make tumblr a second twitter. We love our hellsite(affectionate) exactly how it is. they can get used to it or leave. Tis a delicate ecosystem here.

jessiarts

This goes for people coming from other websites too. You don't just get to come here and start demanding that this site work like a different social media because it's not what you're used to.

Tumblr is different, and that's why it's good.

There's no shitty algorithm that punishes users for swearing, inactivity, "unmarketable content," etc. This site doesn't place larger accounts and popular content at the top of your feed so that you see that stuff first while anything else gets pushed out and you never get to see it.

We, the users, are the algorithm. You enjoy a post, you reblog it and that's how content spreads around here. Posts also come across your dash in chronological order, on equal ground. (There is a recent "Best Stuff First" feature, but everyone shuts it off for the reasons I stated above. You can do so in Settings.) You can swear here. You can say 'die' and not be punished. You don't need to c*nsor y*urself, and in fact it's better if you don't- doing so only hurts other's ability to filter out posts they don't want to see. All that is asked is that you tag stuff appropriately so that the people who want to see it can find it, and the people who don't want to see it can filter out those tags. There's no influencer culture here. Liking doesn't feed posts special algorithm points that reward users with more visibility. No one cares what your follower count is- no one can even see it. There are no blue checkmarks.

We're all on equal ground here, and we want to keep it that way.

proceleon

“Limitations aren’t an end point, they are a starting point.”

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Me

😂😂😂

YES >:(

Some days it’s definitely like that.

roseticospacebae

fuckingflying

I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?

Nim Chimpsky.

Fucking monkey pun.

And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But

BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.

dr-dendritic-trees

Its not just the linguistic anthropologists.

There’s a group of very important genes that determine if your body develops in the right shape/organization… they are called the hedgehog genes, because fruit fly geneticists are all ridiculous. The different hedgehog genes are all named after different hedgehogs. And then someone decided to get clever and name one “sonic hedgehog” because this is just what fruitfly geneticists do.

Well sonic hedgehog controls brain development, and now actual doctors are stuck in the position of explaining to grieving parents that their child’s lethal birth defects or life-threatening tumors are caused by a “sonic hedgehog mutation”.

And this is why no one will invite the fruit fly people to parties.

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Biogeochemical scientists, upon discovering the complex mechanisms that govern the storage and use of molecular iron on our planet, decided to call this cycle “the ferrous wheel”. We groaned about that for at least five solid minutes.