May 6, 2012
I had corrected these photos for their orientation errors.

Sadly, Tumblr does not want to load the corrected photos.
(…good grief)

April 30, 2012
Oh my.  How unfortunate.

Oh my. How unfortunate.

April 20, 2012

odair:

omfg press alt+the reblog button

praise god bless jesus hallelu

My stars! That’s nifty! :-)

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April 10, 2012
cowgirl:

Appartently the odds of twin foals surviving is one in one hundred thousand….should have bought a lottery ticket?  Simply amazing….

Forget the TV.  This is news!

cowgirl:

Appartently the odds of twin foals surviving is one in one hundred thousand….should have bought a lottery ticket?  Simply amazing….

Forget the TV. This is news!

February 13, 2012
To give you an idea of Tumblr’s massive scale, some quick numbers:

shortformblog:

  • 500 million page views go through Tumblr every single day
  • 40k requests added each second at Tumblr’s peak usage hours; and it’s growing, too
  • 50GB of posts added each day; follower list updates are roughly another 2.7 terabytes daily
  • 1M number of writes made through the dashboard each second, and 50,000 reads per second source

» It’s tough to scale, too: According to Blake Matheny, Tumblr’s Distributed Systems Engineer, the service’s broad distribution makes it different from many other social networks, adding complexity that can stress the servers greatly. “It’s not just one or two users that have millions of followers. The graph for Tumblr users has hundreds of followers,” he writes. “This is different than any other social network and is what makes Tumblr so challenging to scale.” Matheny says that people will go back hundreds of pages on the dashboard to read content. And the network will only grow in complexity over time — the site is growing by 30 percent each month, and requires hundreds of servers to do what it has to do. If you’re technically-inclined, read High Scalability’s entire article — it’s super-fascinating.

Read ShortFormBlogFollow

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February 7, 2012
Yup, I tried to post a picture.

But nope, nothing happened but an error message. I’m going to bed. :-p

January 21, 2012
staff:

Two days ago, you guys stepped up once again to show the world just how much we care about protecting the Internet. Together, we generated more than 140,000 calls to Senators, spent more than 4,200 hours on the phone with their staffers, and blacked out 650,000 of our blogs to make our point and inspire others to get involved. And what’s more, this was on top of the 90,000 calls we sent to members of the House of Representatives a month ago. Incredible.
It’s now becoming clear just how much impact our action is having. On January 18th, only 31 members of Congress opposed these bills. Just one day later, 101 members of Congress publicly stood with us in opposition. We are being heard.
And as of today, it looks like both the Senate PIPA and House SOPA bills have been shelved, for the moment. It seems pretty likely that the bills won’t pass as written—a big first win. We now hope that Internet companies, the creative community and the content industry join together to innovate and devise new partnerships to combat online piracy. We’re confident there are effective ways to do this without damaging the Internet or diminishing our freedoms.
You’ve made a big difference in keeping the Internet a safe and open place for creators. Thank you again.

staff:

Two days ago, you guys stepped up once again to show the world just how much we care about protecting the Internet. Together, we generated more than 140,000 calls to Senators, spent more than 4,200 hours on the phone with their staffers, and blacked out 650,000 of our blogs to make our point and inspire others to get involved. And what’s more, this was on top of the 90,000 calls we sent to members of the House of Representatives a month ago. Incredible.

It’s now becoming clear just how much impact our action is having. On January 18th, only 31 members of Congress opposed these bills. Just one day later, 101 members of Congress publicly stood with us in opposition. We are being heard.

And as of today, it looks like both the Senate PIPA and House SOPA bills have been shelved, for the moment. It seems pretty likely that the bills won’t pass as written—a big first win. We now hope that Internet companies, the creative community and the content industry join together to innovate and devise new partnerships to combat online piracy. We’re confident there are effective ways to do this without damaging the Internet or diminishing our freedoms.

You’ve made a big difference in keeping the Internet a safe and open place for creators. Thank you again.

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January 5, 2012
Please Give Credit Where Credit is Due

alice44:

ruffles-have-ridges said: I think tumblr does this now automatically. No? Otherwise you’d have to actively delete accreditation….

I think Tumblr now makes it look more like you are the source if you do not provide credit, than it did when I first joined. Unfortunately I have read a few posts that suggest some people are actually actively deleting  credits.

Mostly I think people are being lazy or trying to make it harder for others to find the original websites (which hurts artists). Just be kind to the artists and give them their due.



January 2, 2012
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December 30, 2011
@staff:  Why not clone the popular features of missing-e and offer the package as a paid add-on?  I’d buy that package before I’d buy a theme.  (Just sayin’)  —Chris

@staff: Why not clone the popular features of missing-e and offer the package as a paid add-on? I’d buy that package before I’d buy a theme. (Just sayin’) —Chris

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