Little Mouse With Clogs On

macbeth: but not like that

hamlet: if you’re in a duplicitous violent world, your king and your peers and your girlfriend may lie to you, so only follow the advice of your steadfast best friend

othello: but not like that

as you like it: if you undergo a misfortune that causes you to hate your life in your city, give yourself a makeover and run away to the woods

timon of athens: but not like that

two gents: if you’re in love in italy, you can quickly and easily communicate important information via the verona postal service

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

#hello again martin and bosco!! sending you boys round for another go :)

I had randomly generated 2 words, which is where “mole interest” came from. I failed to consider that by generating a new tag, it wouldn’t have had enough posts already in it to prove what I now call “the mole interest effect”.

But now it does.

In 2023, we said “fuck it” a la mythbusters and ended up doing whatever it took to get #mole interest to trend. And it did. And it happened to be September 11th that day, and we managed to get #mole interest to trend ABOVE #9/11.

As the joke above me insinuates, hockey skates don't have toe picks.

Toe picks are for jumps and spins, which you don't do in hockey lol. When you put hockey players in figure skates, they're constantly tripping over the toe picks (see, joke above).

Like the one player in this video saying, "I'm gonna toe pick on this one."

Now watch this one, watch the way they run. Hockey players kinda run on their toes on the ice to get speed.

See how much they use their toes?

It's honestly a little wild to see, it's completely different.

The one where the figure skaters learn hockey stuff is also hilarious

They become. So uncoordinated.

This just How Quad Players Do. He's used to those moves, and casual skaters aren't.

Ice/roller hockey players push with the mid-foot, not their toes, because there's a lot more contact with the ice/floor (four wheels, rather than one).

If you look closely at the video again, just because they're taking quick little steps doesn't mean they're on their toes. The reason they're so fast is because they're nailing those tiny crossovers - as soon as they hit the straights, they're taking the S-shaped full strides that illustrate how the back-and-out push works.

and roller-hockey player

for thirty-five years.