surviving

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

via @ninjahijabimuse​

He was wrongfully raided by police in 2022

He used footage and names of the specific cops in posts, videos and songs making fun of them

The cops sued for defamation and cried in court about the songs ruining their lives

And this is one of the ones that really hurt a grown man's feelings:

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

I understand why this situation may not seem urgent.

Nevertheless, I do genuinely believe it is. The mood I'm seeing isn't the usual resentment or anger, but rather a defeated acceptance. I have only ever seen this reaction once on this site: after the new adult content rules in 2018. Like a pothole, trust weakens, and weakens, and falls in all at once. Tumblr never got back its reputation from before 2018, and I am afraid that this change will deal a blow from which it will not recover. That is the nature of the resignation I am seeing.

You are asking for feedback on a website that is broken. In fact, the very channel for feedback in which you ask is, currently, broken. The sheer volume of messages explaining the unacceptable costs to your users are invisible. The official announcement that reverting the change will not even be considered for multiple days makes it clear that the organization does not understand the gravity of the situation, or the loss of trust that their inaction is already incurring.

To the small creators who keep the rest of the users on the site, artists and educators and fans and fashionistas, this update is a service outage. It cuts them off from conversation with their audience, the thing they are on this site to do. They've just been told that you have no intention of resuming service. I have Tumblr Premium because I want to keep playing in this sandbox. This update is a hole in the bottom. Every announcement that insists the app is in a working state is digging it deeper.

This change must be reverted. Not in a few days, after you work out the obvious bugs and go through the reports. It needs to be reverted now. Angry users can be appeased. You can't do that with a userbase that walks away.

I estimate you have 12 hours. Perhaps 24 for the actual reversion update, if your communication team makes it clear you're taking this seriously. You should very seriously consider whether your organizational process can better survive a git rollback, or what will happen without one.

You've consistently fixed usability and security vulnerabilities in hours. You do a thankless job, and you do it much better than anyone thinks you do. I've seen it, and I haven't said it the way I wish I had, but better late than never: It's a good website. My very favorite, even. I met my fiancee here, and we're getting married in 2029, and you can take your credit for that regardless of what comes next.

Under the new post model, flagging a thread's root post as non-rebloggable affects only the root post and any reblogs without comments; reblogs with comments which were made before the root post was made non-rebloggable now remain rebloggable, regardless of the root post's settings.

Further, there doesn't seem to be any mechanism at all for flagging a reblog with comments as non-rebloggable, not even by the reblog's own author; the upshot is that any post that's been reblogged with a comment even once effectively cannot be made non-rebloggable at all.