1) there is only one algorithm for your dashboard, and you can turn it off in settings. can't stress this enough. if you turn it off, your dashboard is in chronological order of posts and reblogs from people you follow

2) because of the lack of algorithm, likes do nothing. if you want more people to see a post, you have to reblog it so it goes on your follower's dashes

3) the vast majority of posts on a person's blog tend to be reblogs. think 90% or so. some of those will have that person commenting on it, and more will have tags

4) comments stay on reblog chains, while tags only show up on your reblog of that post. it's kind of like a whisper voice. in either case, both op and the person you reblogged from see that in their notifications

5) tags don't go in the body of the post. writing "staying in #lasvegas" won't make it appear in the las vegas tag, it'll just look weird

6) it's totally normal to reblog and post multiple things in one day. it's normal to reblog the same post twice in a row. it's normal to have 100 posts+reblogs in a day. post limit (the total number of original posts and reblogs) for a single day is 250. you heard me. 250. go hog fucking wild

7) it defaults to having a visible likes tab on your blog (but only on your blog, not the dashboard) but most people toggle it off

At this point I might as well want to express my genuine admiration towards Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy. He may have had the reputation of an actor and comedian by the time he got elected, and I remember many jokes circulating about Ukraine having a jokester as president.

Turns out you can’t simply judge him by his past career. His determination to remain behind in Kyiv and defend the city and his country alongside his people is nothing short of absolutely remarkable. He turned down multiple offers to be evacuated to somewhere safe, even knowing that Putin basically declared him the number one enemy of the Russian state. Against all predictions that Kyiv may have fallen within 24 hours of the invasion, the city is still holding, more than 48 hours later. In fact, I have yet to hear of any major Ukrainian city to fall to the Russians.

Zelenskiy is what makes a true leader. He may have made mistakes as we all do, but damn sure he knows the time to get serious and step up to what he stands for. He refuses to bail when things get tough and even risks his life by directly confronting the bear. He is a man of his people.

The “Ferntrauung”, or proxy wedding, of a Luftwaffe Lieutenant in Normandy in the spring of 1944.