When you reblog it, it automatically adds “(via [name of reblogged user])” at the top of your reblog, with a link to your post
This came to my attention because I was confused how Frank constructed the “via” link. She normally can’t write working tumblr links. Turns out she didn’t write the link, tumblr did.
The Anonymous: going to start asking “What do you Think?” at the end of each post, to help stimulate discourse and reap the substantial benefits of Social.
Brillists: imgagine if people went through life trying to collect IQ Points in so as much as they try to collect Dollars. verify me. verify my account
Brody DeLupa: i attribute the complete failure of my brand to the actions of detractors, oor my “trolls”, as it were, as well as my own constant fuckups
Bryar Kosala: i regret being tasked the emotional burden of maintaining the final bastion of morality and Nice manners in this endless ocean of human SHIT
Carlyle Foster: “Why should there be only one good friday. Let’s try our best to make all the Fridays good. Thank you” -a quote i invented which made me cry
Casimir Perry: who the fuck is scraeming “LOG OFF” at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off
Cornel MASON: “ah boo hoo hoo i want to post Foul comments to content leaders” Fat Chance, Dimwit. I will annihilate you under bulwark of the Law and God.
Dominic Seneschal: AS J. BOND HOLDS IN HIS POSSESSION THE FAMOUS “LISCSENSE TO KILL,” I MYSELF HAVE LICSENSE TO TOUCH AS MANY GRAPES AS I PLEASE W/O BUYING ANY
Duke Ganymede: 2020: america elects the first Shirtless president
J.E.D.D. Mason: when you do sutuff like… shoot my jaw clean off of my face with a sniper rifle, it mostly reflects poorly on your self
The Mardi Bash’: i warnned you all that bad things would happen if you kept letting your wives wear jeans. AND NOW LOOK! the damn gas prices are up again
The Major: the conflicted supersoldier stares over the horizon as he smokes a cigarette. “war is the most fucked up thing ever.” he takes a sip of beer
Masons: all young men Must be fitted for a good Italian suit, ideally by age 4. i will not fucking apologize or back down from this
Mitsubishi: here are this year’s Vote Multiplers for election day. no, they do not stack
policeman - 10x
army man -12x
verified acct - 15x
Asexual - 18x
Mycroft Canner: am I the most dark & twisted psycho god online?? hm lets see:
- When the dow jones industrial average goes down i say simply the word “Good”
Mycroft Canner (Teenager): the jduge orders me to take off my anonymous v mask & im wearing the joker makeup underneath it. everyone in the courtroom groans at my shit
Ockham Saneer: hwow many favs are worth the equivalent of a human life… id say about 70
Ojiro Cardigan Sniper: i have taken my shirt off over 10000 times
Saladin: “jail isnt real,” i assure myself as i close my eyes and ram the hallmark gift shop with my shitty bronco
Thomas Carlyle: “This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender,” i holler as i overturn my uncle’s barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit
Utopia: committing unforgivable crimes against nautre in my laboratory ,trying to create the next genetically discombobulated meme animal
Vivien Ancelet-Kosala: some times it takes a little bit of Free thinking to be able to look at the bull shit of the world to step back and say “Damn What the hell”
someone abbreviates gluten-free -> GF, some internal Google model helpfully expands GF -> girlfriend, then notices the grammar is off and makes it plural
There is this one night where, after he has taken his stand on the beach of the Hellespont, Patroclus stands next to Achilles and, at some silent cue from their fathers, they both throw their spears. Achilles pierces a Trojan soldier, as he did the day before, and Patroclus, as he did the night before. The blood of the two heroes mingles together. A god (Poseidon, we’re not sure) throws them into the black swirling water and holds them there until morning.
Achilles is furious, because he knows that he will die in his sleep tonight. The only way to live is to live in glory, and the only way to live in glory is to die well; but he dies poorly, with no glory and no glory about it. He fights for honor, he dies for honor, and he is miserable. His last words are not “I love you” or “I’ll be thinking of you,” he says something completely different. He says, “I wish to die by the spear of the son of Peleus.”
But there is no son of Peleus.
The god in the dark holds Patroclus and Achilles, and in the dark they begin to sing of Achilles’ death. When morning comes, when the sun is high in the sky and the first birds of the dawn begin to sing, Patroclus has his wound dressed and Achilles does not. The gods in the dark send Patroclus off back into Troy, and they take Achilles home. When he reaches the place where the war is being fought he begins to sing of the battle with greater and greater gusto. In the middle of the song, all of a sudden – as if his voice were a piece of broken bronze, it breaks – he dies.
And Achilles, having his wounds bound and his armor put on for the last time, gets ready to meet Hector once more. But Patroclus does not.
Why must I consume the universe in its entirety in every detail on every fucking post
The universe is vast the universe is infinite everything is infinite everything is beyond my ken
Stop posting stop posting stop posting STOPPING
A universe that takes a thousand years to step through through is, by definition, not infinite.
“There is not yet a proof of infinity in this universe”
I don’t see that necessarily follows.
It doesn’t follow because infinite universes don’t count as “infinite,” which is the kind of infinity I’m talking about.
“This universe is a tiny, finite patch in the multiverse” is a type of infinity
In a universe that doesn’t count as infinite, every step takes only a hundred years.
Why don’t infinite universes count as infinite?
Also, I have to say, tagging this with “neoreaction cw” seems like a bit of a reach, and frankly, rather rude. You don’t actually know anything about my politics.
I don’t think I’ve tagged “neoreaction cw” for your tag. Are you just saying I tagged it without being sure what the “cw” meant?
The reason infinite universes don’t count as infinite is that the type of infinity is an uncountable (discrete) set. Countability is the reason we count on our hands, so counting in the presence of uncountable infinities doesn’t make much sense, which is why the infinite universes I’m referring to don’t count as infinite.
The reason you don’t know my politics is that I tag this with “neoreaction cw” because other people’s politics doesn’t matter to this conversation.
This is what I see you’ve tagged your previous reply to me with.
Yes, sorry. I meant to use something more like “controversial / edgy” or “controversial political blog,” but used the wrong tag. I really should just keep a tag like “I’m going to be controversial and edgy, but not in an objectionable way.”
Maybe for your stylistically and rhetorically edgy and controversial posts, you could go for “#socrateasing” as a tag? Diogenes is probably the better philosopher, but harder to make a pun out of – at least in English, maybe you could do a Diogenes/edginess pun in some other language.
I do go by “#socrateasing” as a tag now, but I don’t think I’m “rhetorically and stylistically edgy and controversial” – just contrarian and idiosyncratic and weird.
Is it possible to be idiosyncratic and weird without having that bleed over into one’s rhetorical stylings?
Certainly, in my observation it appears to be impossible to do anything avante-gard or vanguardist without coining neologisms and often creating a whole new mini-dialect of the working language.
Of course there are also those of us who just like doing that for it’s own sake, as an aesthetic or boredom-reducer.
No, but I’m a guy who tends to be weird and edgy in an obnoxious way.
I just don’t like writing (for instance) “naturally,” although that’s a thing I do a lot. When I say stuff like that, people generally get the joke, which is part of my joke. (When I get bored, I write stuff like that in my personal notes app.)
Heads up! We’re changing the way we parse URLs on tagged and search pages, to properly encode/decode them to support spaces, hyphens, plus signs, and underscores. Most of these changes will be invisible to you, but if you’ve kept bookmarks or links to tagged and search pages on Tumblr or your blog, read on!
What does it do? Today, and with that toggle disabled, going to a blog’s tagged URL like https://staff.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblr-tuesday would turn “tumblr-tuesday” into “tumblr tuesday” and you’d see posts with that tag. Same with search URLs. If you have that toggle enabled, that https://staff.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblr-tuesday URL will be decoded as “tumblr-tuesday” instead. If you want to link to the “tumblr tuesday” tag on your blog, you’ll have to use “tumblr%20tuesday” in the URL. But this means that if you use certain special characters in your tags, you’ll now properly be able to link to them!
The toggle above gives you early access to figure this all out. On December 1st, 2021, we’ll be enabling this behavior for all blogs on Tumblr.
We’ll update all of the links when you click on tags in Tumblr. However, if you manually added links to your tags in your blog description, theme, somewhere off Tumblr, saved bookmarks, or in posts (like a pinned post on your blog), then you’ll need to update those links if they contain spaces, underscores, or hyphens. Spaces in tags will now be encoded as “%20” rather than “-” or “+”. To do this, turn that toggle on, and click around on your tags to see if any of the URLs changed. Having this setting enabled and updating any links you’ve saved somewhere will future-proof you for when we roll this change out site-wide.
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We hope this is great news for anyone who uses tags in specific ways (we see you!) and has been frustrated that the way to link to them has been inconsistent, or just plain not working since… forever. We’re working on several fixes across Tumblr related to these inconsistencies, but the majority of them require no action on your part.
I’m happy that this issue is finally getting some attention.
That said, I’m not happy that the proposed change will break all external links to tag pages, except the ones for tags that are one word.
I know this is a pretty trivial-seeming thing to get worked up about, individual cases of linkrot always seem like that, but when it accumulates and accumulates … linkrot is Bad.
What if, instead, there was a new route for this new behavior, like “/tagged/v2/tumblr%20tuesday”?
The old route (without the v2) would stay functional until it’s time to switch over.
And then the switchover would consist of simply turning the old route into a redirect: “/tagged/tumblr-tuesday” now redirects you to “/tagged/v2/tumblr%20tuesday”.
This seems conceptually feasible, at least, although there may be technical or organizational blockers to it that I don’t know about.
The ending left an … offputting … taste in my mouth, that’s all I can really say without spoilers, but up until the end, the book was extremely good.
It was not what I expected. (I don’t know what I did expect, but whatever it is, the book was not that.)
It was better than the book I expected, better and weirder.
It brought back the energy of first book – the first book that took glee in toying with its reader, the first book that kept breaking the frame, delivering some new revelation that demands you re-assess everything that came before it, and then doing it all over again in the next chapter.
In the second and third books, that energy dwindled; it really felt like the first book had set the stage, and we were now witnessing the play itself, which was full of fantastical action but nonetheless stayed carefully within its appointed frame.
Not so with the last book. The last book is bizarre.
In parts it’s good, weirdly and barely-believably good, and in other (far rarer) parts it’s weirdly and barely-believably bad, but through it all it is weird – and weird in the way I think I would have hoped for, back in 2016 after I’d finished the first book, if you’d asked me what I would want out of an ending.
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