#to answer the phone or call us! :)'

[tinystepsforward]

Okay, so this is a wild hypothetical and begging baseless speculation... but would Matt getting the boot be better for Tumblr specifically? Have unintentional knock-ons? (And thanks for all your commentary and updates!)

this is absolutely a wild hypothetical! the answer is, perhaps predictably, that it depends on who replaces him.

automattic as a whole is rotten from the top down. one of the board members is a perfect example of this: the very first female general in the US military. #girlboss, right? matt was very excited about bringing her onboard.

matt is on the board. toni, who i believe is the interim ceo and know very little about, is on the board. i would assume that any replacement ceo would be less likely to start a complete PR trashfire, but that doesn't mean that they're not still going to be making cynical, profit-based decisions.

in this economy it's very unlikely that tumblr will be staffed well enough or given enough agency to create actual lasting change for the better. but we'd at least have a ceo who isn't prone to using superadmin tools to fuck individual people over when trying to win arguments, i guess? which is not a structural win in any way, it just removes one particular volatile factor.

[moeblob]

I am really tired of a situation rn.

[sleepy-crypt1d]

going a little insane thinking about that one echo in moxxi's heist that's jack calling his mom on mother's day- a call she very much does not answer- and how much the sadness in his voice when saying goodbye says about him

[fedorah-the-explorah]

you can pry french canadian!player from my cold dead hands btw

[yenpondering]

Entitled customers are funny, imagine kicking up such a fuss with our managers that 2 mall security guards had to be called to come mediate all because you and your wife not only can't read but also can't see that our menu literally serves soft poached egg, not a boiled egg, in our Japanese rice bowls

Anyway read the menu properly y'all and ask questions if you're unsure, don't be a dick to hospitality workers especially over dumb shit

[bittsandpieces]

Knowing that you're shy about phone calls is kind of endearing 😋 It's just cute to imagine, plus it makes you seem more... idk, attainable? Not like I think you're going to fuck random followers or anything like that, but it's nice to remember that you're just a regular guy 😅

I'm SO much a regular guy I promise. You guys get all the hot pics of me but irl I'm messy and less fashionable and bad at texting and have the world's hardest time maintaining friendships, I promise I'm just a regular person

[naamahdarling]

Can't wait to see what the consistently uncooperative nurse who answers my GP's messages has to say, if she messages me back. I bet you twenty bucks right now her reply makes it obvious that she didn't even glance at the rest of the thread.

Lady, you have way more going on than me. I know you're busy. I also know I am annoying. I'll stop bothering you if you tell me what you need from me so I can move on to the next step because until you do, I can't. Stop wasting your own time.

[sparfloxacin]

hellooooo here's something that's been stuck in my head for a few days now:

Olli and Aleksi have a fwb situantionship in which they mostly give each other handjobs or grind, and it doesn't mean Aleksi likes men because they never kiss or anything like that, so it's fine, but then one night Olli surprises Aleksi with a quick smooch on his mouth mid-handjob (maybe he'd been dying to do so for so long) and Aleksi then decides that maybe a little kissing (🤏) is okay because they're doing it during a handjob so it's, like, part of it? that's the excuse he's gonna use anyway when he kisses Olli back, and so they start regularly making out while pleasuring each other and oops soon enough Aleksi is looking forward to the kissing as much as the handjobs/grinding, if not more, because as it turns out Olli is a great kisser and Aleksi always cums so hard when they do that and sometimes he kinda wants to just make out but he's overthinking it so he doesn't dare suggest it because that would sorta mean he likes men, wouldn’t it?? which he doesn't, of course, he's just a guy in his 20s who has sexual needs to be taken care of while he's on tour far from home 🤧

helloooooo I love everything about this 😩😩😩 just today (and also yesterday and the day before that and.. actually everyday) I thought about Aleksi being in denial and his brain making all those stupid excuses to be closer to Olli and aaaaahhhhh 😭

very obsessed with Aleksi looking forward to the kissing more than the actual handjobs/grinding 👀 maybe Olli notices how much it turns him on and how much he enjoys it and starts teasing him about it and it’s soooo difficult for Aleksi not to just kiss him right there, even though his brain says he shouldn’t 🤧

[athetos]

When you tell your manager you know they want to make you team lead and you’re cool with that and the responsibilities but there’s too much stress on yourself right now and so I vented about all the shit heaped on me atm and she said “ash once your supervisor is back we’re all gonna sit around and discuss this because even once you’re promoted you should never be expected to handle this much responsibility”

[queerofthedagger]

i dreamt about mulder and scully last night, which would already be funny, but I. have never watched x-files. thank you fandom. thank you tumblr

[isfjmel-phleg]

😱

[silverraes]

ngl I kinda feel like I'm watching the same conversations over and over again like.. HE JUST TOLD YOU??!

[haojun]

Two coworkers in another department are talking shit about everyone in *my* department..... 20 feet from my desk that i am sitting at.... its an open office babes what are yall doin....

[salvadorbonaparte]

For the past four days we've (as in everyone in our house) been constantly trying to reach our landlord about the whole basement/heating/water/water damage situation and every time we reach the emergency hotline they tell us we "just have to live with it" or "there's no one they can call" (they're required to provide emergency services even on holidays) and today our neighbours called them again and they accused them of lying and claimed no one called them and that they're completely unaware of the situation 🙃

[girlcrushau]

[hostilecityshowdown]

i know i'm The Guy who never shuts up about people, especially modern-day professional wrestling fans with little to no awareness of pre-1980's wrestling, needing to read death of the territories. However. bodyslams in buffalo by dan murphy opens with the best overview of the entire history of professional wrestling i've found yet and, overall, it's a much shorter book that doesn't read like a textbook

this is a greatly accessible alternative for anyone who felt overwhelmed by death of the territories' scope, constant stream of factual information with little reprieve, and serious/academic overtone. bodyslams in buffalo has humour, dramatised retellings of events, and exclusive/rarely seen photos from the collections of both pro wrestling illustrated and the families of wrestlers. also: transcribed promotional posters, news articles, and advertisements! highly recommend

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