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heartlesslastrequests reblogged tally-lassy94
I hate it when you’ve been really on edge for a while and then you have a breakdown over a little thing and everyone thinks that you’re getting super upset about not washing your hair
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Reddit AMA
I’m doing an AMA on Reddit RIGHT NOW:http://bit.ly/11SUtj9
REDDITORS: Go, now!
NON-REDDITORS: AMA, or Ask Me Anything, is a sort of crowd-sourced interview hosted on Reddit.com. Anyone can ask a question, and I will do my best to answer as many as possible. If you wish to participate, it only takes thirty seconds to create a Reddit account. The AMA is scheduled to go until 10 PM, but as long as there are unanswered questions, I will go on as long as possible.Loading... -
Thoughts on the Yahoo! Thing
First, I love Tumblr and want to keep loving it. And yes, it is immediately terrifying to hear that Yahoo (which, from a lot of our perspectives, is a laughably backwards and culturally irrelevant company) is going to own Tumblr. I sympathize.
But there are a number of circumstances in which this will not be a disaster. Let’s think:
WHY TO NOT BE TERRIFIED
- David Karp is being kept on as CEO for at least 4 years. Karp’s policies made Tumblr what it is.
- Tumblr is only as good as we (its creators) are. The idea that the cultural identity and creations we’ve fostered here have become worth a billion dollars is both inspiring and worrisome. But nevertheless, since we hold the value, we hold the power.
- Tumblr is being kept as a separate company. This is what Google did with YouTube and significant changes were very slow to come to YouTube (though they eventually came, and are still coming). My guess is there will be no significant changes to Tumblr for at least 12 months.
- They’re buying it to become more culturally relevant. They know that controlling the platform will reduce or even remove that relevance, so they would be idiots to do it.
WHEN TO ABANDON SHIP
- If Tumblr requires an account somehow linked to Yahoo.
- If David Karp steps down, no matter what the reasons are.
- If you have to pay to reach all of your followers (FACEBOOK!)
- If Yahoo begins censoring legal images and videos.
- If your dashboard becomes three columns by default.
- If more than 10% of the dashboard is taken up by advertising.
ADVICE TO YAHOO! PEOPLE
- Don’t do any of the above things or we will leave and you will own a billion dollar hole in the internet.
- Drop the exclamation point for chrissake…it’s gaudy and grammatically confusing.
Yes, I do wish that Tumblr (being a more interesting kind of company) could have found a more interesting kind of exit for its founders and investors than the old standby of selling to a floundering company trying to revitalize itself. But I think Yahoo and Marissa Mayer are intelligent enough to not totally fuck it up. Here’s hoping.
- Hank
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fishingboatproceeds reblogged wilwheaton
I really hope Yahoo doesn’t fuck up Tumblr like it’s fucked up … well, every single thing it’s ever touched in the history of the universe.
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fishingboatproceeds reblogged kimyadawson
Me, Karen, Mike, Dori, Kristine, Jody, Troy, Tina, and Richie. 1990
I swear, I pretty much exclusively wore Sting t-shirts for the majority of my teen years. I am glad a picture finally surfaced on the interwebs of me wearing one (and a red, yellow, and green wooden bead choker).
I wonder who kissed who….because there must’ve been a reason for me to look so pissed. And that was almost always the reason.
I was totally freaked out by the idea of physical contact (unless it was for trust falls or something) but I would still get so angry and jealous when my friends would have someone to get all smoochy with.
I didn’t kiss anyone until the year after this pic was taken. When I was 18, in college. And even then it was just once and he was some big drug dealer in Harvard Square. He had no legs. He carried a meat cleaver under his wheelchair cushion. It was another year before the next time. I was 19. Other side of the country. Me and some dude were making out. He took off his shirt. He had the Rolling Stones lips and tongue tattooed on his chest. I freaked out, jumped out the window (first floor), and ran.
I was a late bloomer, to say the least.
Sure did love Sting though.
And I would totally rock Jody’s pants right now.
My posse was crazy and amazing.
I wish you could tell better in this pic that I had Milli Vanilli/Lisa Bonet hair past my butt.
I loved Milli Vanilli and Lisa Bonet.
And did I mention that I loved Sting?
I like LOVE LOVED Sting.
Like wrote poems about him loved him.
Teenagers are so weird.
Weird good.
Do your thing.
Kimya Dawson is so great.
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