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Tumblr in 2012:

Tumblr in 2022:

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Alright, I think I like tumblr now.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.

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(SOUND IS CRUCIAL) this video is has murdered me dead the music the editing the way information is slowly revealed about the two of them the plot twist the breaking bad images. WILLIAM WILLIAM WILLIAM. all over minecraft parkour someone help im seizing

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The first batch of prints is now available in the shop!

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wow you got to the red stop light faster and more dangerously than anyone else. should we throw a party?? should we call nascar

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Aoi Morohoshi -- Mag.

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Goncharov dir. Martin Scorsese

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early homo sapiens b like help i cant stop making bowls . help i cant stop domesticating plants and animals. help i cant stop developing language and architecture and religion

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could i possibly request some stellers sea eagle pics... they are such delightful creatures

Steller’s Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus), family Accipitridae, Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan

photograph by Michael Pinczolits 

photograph by James Gan

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

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Fusion Lighting the Stars 18 x 24 inches, Oil on panel, 2020

Stars are a balance of two enormous forces: gravity and nuclear fusion. On its own, gravity would crush a star into the oblivion of a black hole or another super-dense remnant. But nuclear fusion pushes back, releasing so much energy that the outer layers of the star are literally blown away, aloft from the core, and in equilibrium with gravity. From lightyears away, these continuous cataclysmic explosions flutter as faint candles in our night sky.

Stars shine longer than we can comprehend, billions of years, but eventually the fuel of fusion runs out and gravity prevails. In the span of the universe, stars exist as temporary states of matter that will one day transition into other things. Much of their mass will be crushed, but in the process, many will fuse carbon, the other elements of life, and form planetary nebula. Later, these nebula will  condense into new solar systems, and perhaps be part of some other temporary state of matter lucky enough to be able think about it.

Prints: https://robrey.storenvy.com

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Okay you guys.

IF YOU PRIMARILY DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH reply with what you mentally call it, if you have a nickname for it or something

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What if you went grocery shopping and the produce section was just missing?

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garlic has never wronged me… been a friend through it all

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Well!

So first, let's clear a common misconception: no, President Abraham Lincoln did not love Black people nor see them as human equals. At best he was centrist about it (though, even his implication that 'exceptional' Black men ought to vote got him assassinated).

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do, it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union...I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free."

The "freeing of slaves" after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 was meant to kneecap the economic and military powers of the seceded South. Lettuce stop making a white savior figure out of Lincoln, or thinking that my people's shackles were unchained via anything other than desperate war strategy and extreme violence. Think on that, for a moment.

That being said!

But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as "Juneteenth," by the newly freed people in Texas.

Consider going through the Smithsonian website to learn about Juneteenth! Recognize why it's an actual day of freedom, versus July 4th and the independence of a select few.

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Sometimes you see a very stupid take and you want to reblog it to correct thembut the idea of arguing with someone who conceived of such a take is viscerally upsetting so I'm just going to make my own post here to say:

It is and always has been illegal to use copyrighted images/characters without the consent of the copyright holder. Disney can and is literally FAMOUS for having sued MANY MANY TIMES over this.

Yes, even for personal use. Disney is notorious for this. If something using their images in any way becomes big enough and is not protected under being parody or sufficiently transformative (which, for Disney, is a VERY high bar) Disney nukes them from orbit.

It's not "setting a precedent" that Disney is "allowed" to do this to be happy that Disney is deciding, for once, to use its extremely famous litigious power on something actually causing harm.

This is like if a company started stealing assets from thousands of indie game companies and also Nintendo and Nintendo sued them and people were like "wtf???? So you're HAPPY that Nintendo is setting this brand new precedent that people aren't allowed to recreate or redistribute parts of their games??? Are you stupid???"

Copyright law is a mess, no doubt about it, but to consider this to be people cheering on a new and different thing Disney has never done before or setting any kind of precedent is so bafflingly ridiculous I truly can't come even up with an allegory for it. It's like insinuating that Disney is setting a precedent with this. There's nothing more exaggeratedly incorrect I could concoct to compare it to.

The precedent done been set, my friends. They just finally got around to enforcing it on something other than harmless fan content.