#and 50 percent shitposts

[quintenrosenburgwrites]

:0000000000000000000000000000000

[ripromulus]

labru fans are freaks (it’s me, I’m labru fans)

[elaboratejellyfish]

Fuck it, we ball

Your critter here ^

[shiversdownyourspleen]

Inaccurate quotes: I love their dynamic

Cal: I do backflips every day of my life

Also Cal: I drank three bottles of champagne and hung out all night with a stray dog under a bridge

Meanwhile, Merrin to some stormtroopers in the distance:

Also meanwhile, the stray dog:

[mariacallous]

On the evening of May 12, Keith Gill posted an image to his X account, depicting a man sitting forward in his chair. It’s a popular meme, used to say something like It’s time to get serious. Shortly after the New York Stock Exchange opened for trading the following morning, the stock for video game retailer GameStop was up by more than 50 percent. It was no coincidence. Nor was it when the stock plunged today, following lackluster earnings reported by GameStop and a rambling YouTube livestream in which Gill declared his continued faith in the company.

Widely known by the alias Roaring Kitty, Gill was one of the architects of the meme-stock craze of 2021, when amateur investors on the social platform Reddit worked together to drive up the price of GameStop and other out-of-favor stocks. The aim was to get one over on the investment funds that had bet against GameStop, one of which ended up losing billions of dollars. In this period, Gill became something of a pied piper for amateur stock investors, who chased him into the stocks he endorsed. The tweet on May 12, though cryptic, was interpreted by Gill’s hundreds of thousands of followers as a call to buy, sending the price of GameStop stock skyward again.

The tweet was Gill’s first in almost three years. But it was followed by a stream of memes and other shitposts, some of which made reference to GameStop. On June 2, Gill posted a screenshot to Reddit that appeared to indicate he holds $115.7 million in GameStop stock, as well as call options—contracts that confer the right to buy stock at a certain price on a certain date—worth $65.7 million. Despite today's stock price setback, he's still in the money.

Gill did not respond to a request for comment, but the livestream—his first in three years—offered some explanation for his sudden return. Appearing on camera, dressed inexplicably in a fake head bandage and Band-Aids, with his arm in a sling, Gill confirmed he was responsible for the content posted to his social accounts and that the positions detailed in his Reddit posts are genuine, before entering into a sermon on his GameStop investment thesis. “What can I say about GameStop?” he said. “I have a lot of the same feelings. I wanted to reiterate a lot of my viewpoints that I had previously.”

While demonstrating enthusiasm for a stock (or posting in a way that could be interpreted that way) is not itself illegal, Gill is playing a dangerous game now that his holdings are public. “You can’t trade and tweet. You just can’t,” says Lisa Bragança, and attorney at Bragança Law and the former branch chief at the Securities and Exchange Commission, the US regulatory agency tasked with protecting investors. “You are just inviting an investigation.”

In 2021, Gill was hauled in front of a congressional committee to account for his alleged role in stoking the meme-stock rally. In his testimony, he denied deliberately juicing the price of GameStop stock for personal gain. “The idea that I used social media to promote GameStop stock to unwitting investors is preposterous,” said Gill.

Gill did not face charges then, but this time could be different. The securities regulator for the state of Massachusetts has confirmed it is looking into Gill’s recent conduct, without providing specifics. It would appear that Gill is aware of the risk of provoking an SEC investigation. On May 16 he posted a clip of a CNBC interview in which Jay Clayton, former SEC chair, expressed the view that his conduct should not be tolerated. The SEC declined to comment on the existence of an investigation.

At the start of Gill’s YouTube livestream, a long disclaimer scrolled up the screen like the Star Wars opening crawl. “You should not treat any opinion expressed on this Youtube [sic] channel as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy,” it read. As Gill bantered with his YouTube viewers—all 600,000 of them—the price of GameStop stock briefly rose. “Shit, look at this. It’s going up,” he said. “Do I have to be careful what I say here? I don’t really know.”

It might seem self-evident that Gill’s posts, cryptic as they may be, have caused a rise in the price of GameStop stock from which he stands to profit, as a stockholder. But absent a full history of his trading, it is difficult to assess whether he has violated securities laws, says Richard Schulman, partner at law firm Adler & Stachenfeld. “It’s never entirely clear until the facts are fully formed,” he says.

But Gill has given regulators plenty to dig into. “Was his purpose to influence the movement of stock price? Did he, in fact, affect demand for the stock? Will he profit from these activities? These are the kinds of issues a regulator will want to investigate,” says Schulman. The answers could determine whether Gill faces a formal investigation.

Specifically, Gill could find himself in trouble when his call options expire on June 21, leaving him with a decision: Should he sell his options at a profit, if the stock price remains high, or take delivery of the GameStop shares they represent? Having made his position public, says Bragança, Gill is required under a little-understood facet of securities law to provide his audience with advance warning of any sales, even if doing so would jeopardize profits. “The problem is when you change your position,” says Bragança. “Before you sell, you’d better tell the marketplace. Most people on social media don’t think that way. The initial [social] posts are not the thing that is going to get him in trouble—it’s the stuff we can’t see.”

Gill may question how his conduct differs from any other pundit who offers stock tips or chief executive who talks up their company. And he could have a point. There is an extent to which Gill is flirting with gray areas in the securities rulebook, devised long before someone imagined an influencer in a position to swing the market with a single tweet.

But the SEC has typically contended that the rules are sufficiently malleable to allow for mutations of age-old violations to be dealt with. “Market manipulation is not necessarily a rigid concept,” says Schulman. “The SEC is not unused to trying to apply concepts to new situations in the world that has developed.”

The SEC has not made public its thinking, but former chair Clayton, in the interview with CNBC, implied that the agency will be eager to prevent further volatility in the price of GameStop, which risks imposing large-scale losses on investors. One way to do that would be to bring cases against an individual that it considers has wielded social influence in an illegal way, with the aim of deterring others from doing the same. “It’s like Aesop’s fables,” says Bragança. “We’re telling a story. You should take a moral from it.”

[greatwyrmgold]

Point 1: This is clearly not 100% serious, but I'm not sure what percent serious it actually is. Could be <1%, could be 40-50%. Those are very different shitposts.

Point 2: A SI fic where you end up in the body of Taylor's temporary beetle motorcycle, who spends most of its life directly puppeted by Taylor, sounds intriguing in a "So I'm A Spider So What" sort of way.

Point 3: For people who've forgotten, Chris is the other guy from Migration 17.1. You might remember him for these iconic moments:

“You idiots!” Cody swore.  “You know he planned this.  Asshole thinks he’s so smart, and you just feed that delusion!” Chris mouthed the word ‘wow’.

Krouse looked at Chris and Oliver....Chris only participated to keep Marissa company and to earn some pocket money.

“Noelle’s hurt,” Krouse said, a tremor in his voice. “Chris is dead,” Luke replied, oddly calm. They stared at each other, eyes wide, experiencing mutual shock.

Anyways, if you want your SI to possess an actual human character, I'd suggest Chris. His past doesn't matter, his future is tied to the Travelers, and it makes sense that a Chris who knew that the building was about to be thrown into another Earth would have an actual place in the story. Plus, paranoia about whether the success you're achieving through foreknowledge is just part of Simurgh's plan could be good for drama.

Also, it might be neat to switch up the Travelers' vials. Thoughts:

Consider whether everyone should survive, or whether the things SI!Chris does to make sure he survives accidentally kills someone else. Or at least maims them.

Obviously, suggesting that the Travelers hold onto a couple of vials in case of emergency and telling them not to split vials would be good ideas for preventing...certain tragedies. Whether or not everyone would listen is another matter.

It would be really funny if the SI recommended against Luke taking Robin because he knows it wouldn't give him flight, only for whoever did drink it to get some kind of flight.

From the little information we have, Sundancer's Prince/Aegis mixture seems least tied to the specific kind of power that it manifested as.

Division is the most concerning power. We have a bunch of test logs for that formula; aside from Noelle and Satyrical, there are a bunch of duplicators and some diet Alexes Mercer. Give that to someone with a stable personality and no eating disorder—I vote Jess.

Cody and Krouse should not be allowed to drink any space virus god goop.

Dang. I hope you didn't trick me into writing this fic.

Alright, the Worm SI fanfic shortlist for 2023 is in. After an extensive poll of the fandom, the most in-demand canon characters for use in an SI body-jacking fic are as follows:

Park Ji-Hoo

Grandiose

Chris from the Ransack Team

Atlas

The Slug

Manzaneres the camera guy from arc 7

Mithras

Aster

[opis-writing-nook]

@purplehazescape here have this shitty meme for the 50 percent off au

[boopednose]

I followed you for nature but now you're known as peepee man :/

Peepee boy actually

[nagromava]

cybirdpunk replied to your photoset “I started playing Heart of the Woods with my girlfriend and the...”

I fucking adore this thank u so much

aaaa I’m so glad! I’m absolutely loving the game so far so this means a ton, thank you!

[geneticmisfit]

‘ is that axe body spray? ’

     He is hunched over by the desk, hands clutched around a steaming mug as he slowly looks up at her, bags under his eyes giving his face an unusually sinister look. ‘‘ I’ve been in this library for the past 48 hours, I’ve forgotten what the Sun feels like and I haven’t been able to go home.’’ His gaze drifts off, looking out the window in what could best be described as a thousand-yard stare, ‘‘ This is a godless land. There’s no decency left here. Nobody cares if you have to resort to axe body spray. ’’

[smimon]

This girl has really cute blush okay

[thatoneemoginger]

this thought apeared in my head

Are there Tr*mp supporters on Tumblr??????

*u

[chameleocoonj]

was thinking about Mikitaka because of yesterday (sept 21)

🌎🌪🔥

[magical-gull]

a sudden random interest in D&D arises and bored fandom + insomnia leads to some thorough work

homebrew is a godsend. As usual it took me ages to make the most perfunctory characters, because i insist on remaking em and My Canon Now

(do you know long i looked up shield stuff for Michigan before realizing someone probably made a CapAmerica shield knockoff as just called it a reflective club. Sometime right before I realized a reflecting shield has some serious Medusa meta-commentary I didnt intend)

[mystic-sapphire]

Thanks for tagging me @lilac-mushroom and @belenav. Love you loads 💖💖

1. Why did you choose your url? I don't really remember now lol, haven't changed it since I first made the account. Not sure what came into my mind then.

2. Any side blogs? Yupp had one, have one but I don't really use it these days

3. How long have you been on tumblr? I made this blog in 2018, but wasn't really active on here at all and came back this year

4. Do you have a queue tag? Umm it's just q'd

5. Why did you start your blog in the first place? Because of a few TV series I was super into like Downton Abbey, Sherlock etc

6. Why did you choose your icon/pfp? It's Elle Fanning, I love her

7. Why did you choose your header? Well...because it went with the colour scheme of the icon

8. What's your post with the most notes? One stupid Bayern meme I made

9. How many mutuals do you have? I'm not sure but I think it's 50 or so

10. How many followers do you have? 147

11. How many people do you follow? 232

12. Have you ever made a shitpost? What else am I supposed to do here?

13. How often do you use tumblr each day? A lot , whenever I'm free

14. Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? No I haven't ever had one

15. How do you feel about "you need to reblog this" posts? I don't really pay much attention to them

16. Do you like tag games? Yes!!

17. Do you like ask games? Yes!!

18. Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous? Ooh, @goretzkastits , @dieclownschaft , @lukabby and @cichocicho 100 percent.

19. Do you have a crush on a mutual? Yes! I do on all of them <33

I'm tagging @mullerwins @kouzaires @leoncgoretzka, @astonsvettel and @cichocicho ♡♡

[dat-physics-gal]

I posted 925 times in 2021

37 posts created (4%)

888 posts reblogged (96%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 24.0 posts.

I added 101 tags in 2021

#physics - 16 posts

#dnd - 13 posts

#aromantic - 11 posts

#math - 11 posts

#that time i got reincarnated as a slime - 10 posts

#meme - 10 posts

#mathblr - 8 posts

#shitpost - 8 posts

#lgbtqia+ - 7 posts

#lgbtq+ - 7 posts

Longest Tag: 74 characters

#it's called that because of the sound of hundreds of dragon wings flapping

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Post your top 3 to 5 favorite LGBTQ+ characters from any form of media and tag up to 5 mutuals. I shall start:

Rimuru Tempest - That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime

Stevonnie - Steven Universe

Luz Noceda - The Owl House

Catra - She Ra and the Princesses of Power

@aspeedymooncollector @existstodie @the-random-phoenix @mushroom-shinobu @pan-fried-stupidity

17 notes • Posted 2021-06-21 14:08:59 GMT

#4

A connection i just made about the Owl House.

So from V’s backstory, we see that Belos studied how the magic draining of the basilisks works.

And we also know that the coven system isn’t actually that old. And it seals away all magic not from the respective coven. However, Raine Whispers said Belos wants to steal as much magic as possible before the day of unity. This is what they learned in this ceremony.

But note, they said steal, not seal away. Belos must have developed the technique of draining magic by studying how basilisks do it, and uses it to drain witches of every bit of magic which doesn’t correspond to their coven!

25 notes • Posted 2021-08-20 08:16:31 GMT

#3

Anne Boonchuy powerscaling

Spoilers below. You have been warned.

So in the latest episode, we see Anne in blue mode kicking that killer robot into orbit. The best marker for distance is when the thing breaks through the clouds in 3.83 seconds (i stopped it with a stopwatch myself) According to a quick Google search, clouds are between 10 and maximum 20 km off the surface. With this little above the surface, we can approximate a homogeneous gravitational field of 9.8 m/s^2, which would reduce the initial launch speed by 37,3761 m/s in this time, so it must have been higher than that. That launch speed, assuming the robot weighs half a ton, equates to 348.53 kJ of energy. This is however a very low estimate, since the speed at the clouds was not 0.

Another estimate using the fact that the timer on the bomb said 5 seconds when the kick started and not ignoring the changing gravity with height is more difficult. The robot never fell back down, so i’ll assume within 5 seconds the speed was reduced from the initial speed down to 0, which is still lowballing it, but there’s no other sensible estimate. Examining this further, i conclude this method and the first one are actually invalid, because of the following: Within the time it took the timer to go from 5 to 4, the killer bot had already passed the clouds, meaning it was going way faster than 10km/s, and 11km/s would already be escape velocity! So assuming an initial speed of 15km/s (a reasonable middle ground between 10 and 20, don’t you think?), the energy was actually 5.625*10^10 Joules, or the energy a nuclear reactor puts out over about one minute, combined into a single kick. (Power output nuclear reactor: 1*10^9 Watts, therefore takes 56.25 seconds to put out 5.625*10^10 Joules) At those kinds of speeds, you can disregard gravity entirely over just 5 seconds, since it slows the speed down by less than 49,05 m/s, which is about 1/3 of a percent of the initial speed. Less, because deceleration due to gravity gets weaker the higher you go, but i assumed a constant deceleration of 9.81m/s^2 like near the surface. Well holy fuck, that’s pretty damn powerful.

33 notes • Posted 2021-10-30 08:50:58 GMT

#2

This is the first time I do this, but this xkcd couldn’t just not be shared. This is so fucking funny i can’t!

36 notes • Posted 2021-12-02 20:58:43 GMT

#1

Donkey from Shrek is a Bard.

Look hear me out: -Annoying -Sings unprompted and most importantly: Seduced. A. Dragon.

i rest my case

60 notes • Posted 2021-05-09 17:50:35 GMT

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