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Today in [tumblr] history: Tumblr launched on this day. Founder David Karp — @david — announced the microblogging platform as "something we've always wanted."

why does this read like i have to fight the giant eagle

“Sunset over the Grocery Box,” by me. The view from my father’s front yard in January 2014.

“Sunset at the End of My Driveway (Excluding Pavements Covered With the Shite of One Million Dogs)” by me.

“Sunset from My Front Yard Taken on an iPod Touch in 2010″

“Sunset in Nov 2021 Taken in the Parking Lot of the Pharmacy”

“sunset from the parking lot of the diner taken on an iphone 5 in 2016”

the view across the road partially eclipsed by house, 2017

-2014, front yard

-Sept. 30, 2020, passenger seat of a moving Buick

Behind a near-defunct mall in super small-town OK. HUGE rays.

Sunrise while walking to the bus stop in nowhere, suburbia, 2015.

Sunrise partially obscured by buildings, taken downtown while crossing a main street against a traffic light, Mon Feb 24, 2025 appx. 7AM.

Seriously, if something like this happens again, I’m selling this car, I may not be able to get another like it for a big while, but that’s better than another gunshot to the gut like this.