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Kaveh and Haitham but make them kiddos lol

(idea started with this drawing that i will eventually finish hopefully)

Kaveh is yelling at the other kids to shut the fuck up cause they’re hurting Haitham’s ears.

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You drop a small piece of food on the floor, and decide to kick it under the oven/couch/whatever because you can’t be bothered to pick it up. As you’re walking away, you hear a very quiet “Thank you!” from under it.

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Wait are we all ignoring that you apparently threw a shark once? Please tell us more!

My family likes to vacation in Topsail, North Carolina, which is a little barrier island mostly covered in vacation homes. We rent a huge house in their off season, when most people consider it too cold to be at the beach, and we, with our icewater blood, consider it quite pleasantly deserted.

I love going for walks at night, especially when there’s a clear sky, so I, age sixteen, would go a few miles up the beach around midnight most nights. One night, while still about a mile from our house, I saw something rolling in the surf. 

“That’s either a plastic bag caught on a log,” I thought, “Or a four foot shark.”

I jogged over. It was not a plastic bag caught on a log. 

The shark was moving and didn’t appear to be hurt, but was caught in water only an inch or so deep, being pushed higher with every wave. I was by myself, and didn’t own a cell phone, and couldn’t see a house with lights on in either direction. There was nobody around. Leaving to go get help would probably take long enough for him to suffocate. The best thing I could do for this shark, I figured, would be to get him back in the ocean. 

I have no idea how he wound up so high on the beach, because it was a very shallow slope. I’d have to carry him a good fifteen or so feet to get him into water deep enough to swim. It was nearly a full moon, so I could sort of see what I was doing. I got a grip on the shark, careful not to squeeze too hard, in case he was hurt, and picked him up. He didn’t like that at all. 

I started walking into the water. Here’s a thing I didn’t know about sharks: They’re pretty damn flexible. I got a couple steps with this shark, looked down, and realized there were a hell of a lot of teeth coming directly at my forearm. 

It occurred to me that I had not thought this through very well.

I’m not proud of what I did. It seemed like the best way to get this shark back in deep enough water and avoid dropping thirty pounds of very bitey animal directly on my own toes. So.

I yote the shark with as much force as I could muster. 

He curved through the air like a thing of beauty, all angry and toothsome in the moonlight, and splashed wonderfully into the deeper waters. I caught a glimpse of fin diving away shortly after. 

And that’s the last I saw of him. 

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Yo my dudes, dudettes and nonbinary pals. So sebastian has landed in Atlanta and there's a video of him walking out to bagged claim and there are fans standing around waiting for him. One of the girls rushed up to him and he told her no, no autographs but the girls pushed and he in an angry tired tone said "no. dead man walking right now, dead man walking right now." as he was walking away. Eventually she backed off but not before whining.

I get that your excited to get a chance to meet a celebrity you look up to. I understand if you want to try to take that opportunity to catch a glimpse. But the fact that you KNEW he was coming in from Houston where he's spent the past two days on his feet, interacting with fans and probably running on zero sleep and got in his space is incredibly selfish. The man's exhausted like he said. And he doesn't need people hounding him for autographs when he gets off a flight he no doubt went straight to from the con. He's tired. He probably just wants to get to the hotel to crash before he has to work for hours on end. Again.

I might get some flack for this but I don't care. I'm happy he snapped at the fans and told them no. I'm glad he put boundaries. And when he says no RESPECT THAT. Don't keep asking. Leave him be.

He doesn't owe you anything. He's an adult who can and did handle himself but just.... Don't. It shouldn't need to be said yet here we are.

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So… Tumblr decided this album cover - from an album that I bought uncovered with zero issues, 25 years ago in a mainstream music store when I was FIFTEEN YEARS OLD - is inappropriate… And didn’t give me the option to appeal it. So here… I edited the original post and despite that, it is still unavailable for appeal, by the way, so now fuck it, I put the original screengrab back… And guess what, a reblog still didn’t prompt them to realise that it’s actually not indecent… Though to be fair, it does have my face and that’s more than enough offensive material… So here... have a screenshot of the original, harmless post... And here, up close, is the edited album cover, just for the Tumblr censors. Screw this crap.

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Sebastian Stan in “I’m Not Here” trailer

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Wasserspeier am Freiburger Münster

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my friend posted this picture of our uni’s resident t-rex fossil. i have yet to stop laughing.

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New clip from Destroyer

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My god this is a 1,000% accurate representation of @staff

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A former staff engineer, who recently left Tumblr and asked to remain anonymous for professional reasons, tells Vox that the NSFW ban was “in the works for about six months as an official project,” adding that it was given additional resources and named “Project X” in September, shortly before it was announced to the rest of the company at an all-hands meeting. “[The NSFW ban] was going to happen anyway,” the former engineer told me. “Verizon pushed it out the door after the child pornography thing and made the deadline sooner,” but the real problem was always that Verizon couldn’t sell ads next to porn.

Porn on Tumblr is something Verizon needs to wipe out if it’s going to make any money off what it thinks is actually valuable about the platform — enormous fandom and social justice communities that, just before the Verizon acquisition, Khalaf was insisting the staff figure out how to better monetize.

On that note-

Two former Tumblr employees said they were alarmed when Khalaf chose Black Lives Matter as an example of a community that the company should focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers. One told The Verge, “Simon explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to [make] a ton of money.”

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What is almost certainly happening with Tumblr’s image classifier is that they’ve deployed the bot entirely untrained, and are relying on user complaints to train it what NSFW content on tumblr looks like.

Making people participate in their own censorship in this way and punishing them with the threat of being silenced even if in compliance with the rules should they not participate, is, IMHO, abuse of their userbase.

Source: I’ve worked for three different top-five social networks, and at all of them this type of work would have been done by making the userbase do it as much as possible.

Please signal boost. I don’t care if you reblog or repost, just get the word out so that people know what they’re doing as they interect with this thing.

My twitter is @soren_tycho (nsfw, sfw account coming soon) and my github username is sorentycho.

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Y'all need to stop saying shit like “songs with the same bpm”

Beats per minute is a unit. The word you’re looking for is tempo.

If two songs have the same tempo, their bpm are equivalent.

You wouldn’t say two people of the same height have “the same inches.” You would say height. So stop saying two songs have “the same bpm” when you can just say tempo

I’m an assistant band director don’t argue with me

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guys listen

mermaids would have to be dark-skinned and chubby to survive in the ocean 

water isnt a great means of protecting oneself from the sun theyd have to be very dark if they were shallow mermaids and they didnt want to be constantly sunburnt and they may be paler if they lived deeper in the water but theyd have to be buff and/or chubby as hell to resist the water pressure and cold of the deep sea

what im saying is pale-ass white skinny mermaids are just unrealistic

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This. I was pretty much done here anyway but it’s the principle of their utter laziness and willingness to throw so much of their userbase under the wheels rather than implementing more effective adult controls and actually removing pornbots and those posting illegal (rather than”immoral”) material. That and the gendered nipple hatred. Don’t even get me started on that.

u can tell who the ancients of tumblr are bc they’re the ones not posting anything abt where to find them if this site collapses…we know this site isnt going anywhere….the apocalypse couldnt stop this garbage…..it has the cybernetic code of a cockroach

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Don’t forget the limes too...! (God I’m feeling so old suddenly...)

we’re going to have to call smut ‘lemons’ again, aren’t we? 

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