wat

T dog with the dog shit

[hideokojima]

are people allowed to say kys here

[greatlordfluffernutter]

We're allowed to say faggot don't worry about it

[hideokojima]

[heyniceworkasshole]

[gentlemanwillsloan]

Antony Gormley

Untitled, 2011

[holythefirm-deactivated20230530]

Some of the kindest women I have ever known looked like this

[parkore]

man fuck you

[toadschooled]

Hmmm… not a large individual. In fact, this Mexican spadefoot toad [Spea multiplicata] is quite small. These toads reach just 1.5 to 2.5 inches in length, and with their mottled brown coloring, they’re often mistaken for stones. This individual was found in Pima County, Arizona, by photographer Perri Miracolo.

[bgm05]

ate a dubious and really salty quiche before a class once and it made me so sleepy i had my head on the desk fighting for consciousness and i kept seeing images of horrible dogs with human teeth laughing at me, flashing into my head

[teralyri]

Fell for the classic Benadryl quiche prank

[tonyzaret]

1999: Morpheus hands out a red pill.

Everyone: woahhh this is so crazy! ahhh!

2022: Morbius literally drinks blood out of a bag

Everyone: thats no big deal compared to whats going on in the news

[paxamericana]

[the-real-skeletor]

[epilepticsaints]

[desertbroadd]

I hate being a customer I hate doing that to someone

[fruitsoftheape100]

Awesome

[boarofthenorth100]

Your In Minecraft

[fruitsoftheape100]

Ok

I Place Blocks With My Feet

[letstomatopaste-deactivated2021]

can we see the house you built in minecraft?

[fruitsoftheape100]

[amythegorillafromcongo]

come watch morbius with me

[zootloops]

hold up

[st-just]

“Cops and judges arrested and jailed people who had not stolen a car to help out Hertz. They humiliated people who had not stolen stuff to help out Walmart. They jailed cancer patients for being unable to afford the made-up price a hospital charged them to stay alive, to help out the hospital. (I didn’t even mention the judges who sign off on landlords’ arrest warrants for unpaid rent.) The reverse of this—for ordinary people to use the legal system to obtain justice from large corporations—is absurdly difficult, thanks to neat things like arbitration clauses and ‘needing money to get a lawyer.’ The truth of American inequality is not just that some people have a lot of money and a lot more have very little, in some sad natural accident. The rich are rich because other people are poor. The wealthy elite extracts their riches from the poor through schemes like this, or underpaying workers, or pure wage theft. It’s a transfer, and the logic of capitalism and ever-increasing profits dictates that they must always use every possible avenue to expand this transfer. And sitting right there is the criminal justice system, already primed to oppress the powerless and vulnerable, with the legal authority to take people’s money. It’s a loaded gun, literally.”

— Libby Watson, When the Courts Do Hospitals Dirty Work

[desolationlesbian]

Really fun watching the real-time website culture shift from “Tumblr staff sucks and is incompetent and we hate them” -> Staff starts doing good things but everyone still reflexively hates and bullies them for everything they attempt because we’re all suspicious and hesitant to trust like wounded animals or divorcees who have been hurt before -> “Staff truly understands us finally someone who knows what we want bless thank you so much staff”

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

From what I’ve heard about the yahoo days, staff are unsung heroes and have fought multiple very terrible initiatives that would have probably killed the site. I can’t remember the details, but I think yahoo wanted to make tumblr require a yahoo account and staff basically dragged their feet on it as hard as they could until they were able to talk some sense into someone? Might have read a @sreegs post about it or something

[sreegs]

Yeah it was about OneID.

I really can’t stress how much Tumblr/Staff’s appearance during the Yahoo/Verizon days has been misguided attempts at increasing DAUs (daily active users) at the behest of Tumblr’s owners while The Actual Staff, the fucking people actually doing the work, were screaming “PLEASE LET US JUST MAKE THE SITE BETTER”. I was on the iOS team. It took us years of negotiating and advocating to just set aside some time to literally bring down the crash rate and improve the app’s performance.

We had to twist the message of “the app takes more than 10 seconds to launch because it’s broken” into “more users will use the app if it launches faster 🙂” in order to achieve that. That was one of our greatest successes because it spread to Android and Web too (latency from the server). And it WORKED. We ended up with numbers to back it up. Crash rates plummeted as slowly but surely, the apps became faster and more performant. Plus the work we did specifically for that goal led to less crashes and better performance in other areas because it shed a light on spaghetti code that had needed fixing for years.

Sure it wasn’t something users noticed easily, because it was more easy to notice “the app is crashing all the time” vs “the app is not crashing”, but it was honest work that actually helped users. But that doesn’t lead to hockey stick revenue graphs so it wasn’t prioritized.

[sreegs]

[dzamie]

#staff is among us (via @sreegs)

when the staff-

when they’re-

s-

when staff is su-

[woodmeat]

Me

[woodmeat]

Boy I forgot to add da damn post

[papigetbusy-deactivated20221012]

We not even trying no more here

[woodmeat]

💯