Hi there, I'm Wesley (He/Him), 27, decidedly male, and I have a Kevin Bacon number of 4. I'm a leftist, a PHP and Java web developer, and I enjoy a good laugh. This blog is a grab bag, really.
I really think that it’s important to remember @staff are trying to phase out custom blogs! Literally the most fun and interesting part of Tumblr and a very awesome selling point of Tumblr’s entire model.
That’s part of their whole ‘Tumblr’s not easy to use’ bullshit. They’ve been working at it for months now, you can’t even access someone’s custom blog from mobile anymore and like not even on the mobile website.
So yeah that theme and those pages you worked so hard to make unique and interesting? The webcomic hosted on Tumblr in such a way that it basically has it’s own website? The ARCHIVE of your blog that you can pretty much only access from a button on your custom blog? It’ll all go down the gutter if we don’t yell until our voices go hoarse.
This is a BLOGGING website the point of the website is THE BLOGS! I didn’t work hard to maintain my blog and keep the pages on it looking pretty for some hack at RND to decide it needs to go to make way for their ‘definitely not-Twitter’ ideal website. I swear to god the loss of our custom blogs will be the exact last straw for me and I WILL leave.
“We’re not inciting violence against everyday Jews, we just want to share the truth” - still trying to convert Jews to something else, which itself is antisemitism.
calling my lover “mine” but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else’s, “mine” like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. “mine” not like possession but devotion.
Johns Hopkins Computer Science prof Professor Peter Fröhlich grades his
students on a curve: the highest score on the final gets an A and
everyone else is graded accordingly.
Clever students in Fröhlich’s “Intermediate Programming”, “Computer
System Fundamentals,” and “Introduction to Programming for Scientists
and Engineers” figured out that this meant that if they all boycotted
the exam, they’d all get As.
So they organized a boycott, milling around the hall outside the class
where the exams were being sat, sternly reminding each other that if no
one sat the exam they’d all get straight As, ignoring Fröhlich’s pleas
to come and sit the exam.
Fröhlich praised his students’ solidarity: “The students learned that by
coming together, they can achieve something that individually they
could never have done. At a school that is known (perhaps unjustly) for
competitiveness I didn’t expect that reaching such an agreement was
possible.”
I love that even the professor was like, “YES! They did good!”
He told a bunch of PROGRAMMING students that he was going to grade on a curve.
PROGRAMING.
Like half of programming is looking at sorting algorithms and asking “what could break this?” They looked at the grading algorithm (curve grading) and noticed “if every grade is the same, everything is at the top of the list” and “the easiest way to get all the grades to be the same is to set them all to zero.”
Of course the professor praised them. He may have taught them the exact type of logic that had them organize the boycott in the first place. They found a bug in his grading system and loudly exploited it.
Did you guys know that the most recent version of sharks have fins that are kinda leg like and they like to walk up onto land?
no way i must have missed an update!
The Epaulette shark is only about 9 million years old as a species, making it the most recent branch in the shark family. And it is slowly but surely evolving into a land animal
but now that a buncha y'all tumblronians have said reblogging is more important than likes it feels like stealing but fun this time
Reblogging isn’t stealing anything. Op still receives all the notes from a post that is reblogged and their blog is linked to the post. rePOSTING is considered stealing here because then there is nothing to link the original blog to the post. So don’t worry about stealing. It’s easier to share a post than to steal it
well see it can do the work of the colon, the semicolon, or the parenthesis with more speed and less formality than any of these, plus you can use it to capture the stream-of-consciousness effect of a comma splice with much less loss of clarity. sort of an all-purpose punctuation for the casual yet elaborate written construct.
I believe in the em-dash because the em-dash believes in me
[ID: Link uses rewind on a contraption of two Zonai wings connected to each other in a row, with a log connected on the right and a fan on the end of the log. He jumps onto the log and controls a steering stick on it, wobbling but then getting it upright and flying correctly. Below is a political cartoon titled “Marriage vs ‘Gay Marriage’ - Pat Cross, Cartoons, July 21 2022”. Shown is a plane labelled “marriage” with one wing on one side labelled “man” and another wing on the other side labelled “woman”. Next to it is another illustration of a plane with two “man” wings on the same side of the plane labelled “gay marriage” /End ID]
