To all the cool people about to be dusted by Tumblr staff

See you space cowboys.

A frolicking Pikachu and a sleepy Eevee. A sleepeevee...

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.”

what were the purpose of those super tiny arms? I can't imagine they were any good for hunting or fighting so what's the point of micro arms?

That’s a good question! Carnotaurus and other abelisaurs have ridiculously tiny arms:

Those two bones that look like the wrist? That’s the entire forearm.

There’s some indication that they may have been especially flexible, which could point to them being used in some sort of display or other intraspecific behaviour. It’s also quite possible that they just…didn’t really serve any function. They could just be vestigial - that is, an evolutionary “leftover” that just hasn’t had the pressure to evolve away (like kiwi wings, or whale hips).

On this day, 4 December 1969, Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton was murdered while asleep in his bed during a raid on his apartment by Chicago Police in conjunction with the FBI. He was killed along with three other Panther activists. Aged just 21, he was an active, charismatic and effective organiser, who had been making significant inroads into making links with working class whites and predominately white radical groups before his murder. For more of our updates, follow us on Instagram: https://ift.tt/2sg2rmj Pictured: Grinning police take out his body https://ift.tt/2KTBY6X

i tried my best to make it better

this sucks so fucking bad dude goddamn

Where were you when Spongebob Squarepants depicted a capitalism-induced post-apocalypse?

is jello biafra seriously dj’ing at a fucking furry rave or am i hallucinating

Surely the death of GHB is a sign that all these other decrepit ghouls are going to start shuffling off, right? Kissinger can’t keep absorbing the life force of DC interns forever.

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I remembered reading about Stephen Hillenburg and how Spongebob emerged from his love of ocean life and formal study as a marine biologist. Dude just wanted to make a fun cartoon about something he loved, and here we are, still posting screencaps from a cartoon rapidly approaching the it's 20th anniversary.

hellworld. grape flavored hellworld

originally was making this for @bungee-gumu cause I liked his art, but I guess he got Thanos snapped by tumblr. o7 RIP to a real one braver than the troops HD on for those sweet sweet frames

i have a headcanon that all of the strawhats (except luffy lol) are very touch-starved but nami is especially touch-starved so she initiates casual contact with people but she hates it when people try and touch her first; she spends the most time with luffy, usopp, and zoro

the end result of a group chat after watching the season finale of She-Ra