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It’s been real, Tumblr

After four years and three months as Head of Music, a once startup-deemed “Evangelist,” at Tumblr, I’m hanging up my collection of hats and moving on to partner with a marketing and strategy firm. 

Thank you to all the passionate music fans, bloggers and artists who made this job so rewarding and motivating for me each day. Before I came to Tumblr, we didn’t know how to feature music and now it’s one of the top categories across a limitless community.

Thanks to @frankocean for premiering Channel Orange on his blog, in the way he wanted everyone to hear it.

To @actuallygrimes​, @santigold​, and Local Natives (@outtasightblog​), who showed people how you could put out an album on Tumblr. 

To Tyler, the Creator, a.k.a. @golfwang, for hosting his first solo show on US soil for the Tumblr kids, and doing two in a row despite the high altitude to make sure everyone who came to see him got to do so. Shout out to the Boulder riot squad for not arresting me. Seriously, that was intense.

To @portugaltheman for working by my side to invent Tumblr IRL, @irlirl. R.I.P. All the Feels. 

To Earl Sweatshirt for letting us put on HIS first solo show in the US in front of a room full of Doris masks, and the last time all members of @oddfuture performed on stage together.

To @snoopdogg for not showing up at our SXSW show and, more importantly, to @asapferg for saving it. 

To all the Tumblr IRL bands, including Childish Gambino (@iamdonald) for the last-minute super secret house party, @the1975music for bringing it out to the UK with a force, @glassanimalsband for putting it down on a @vinylmeplease edition, @santigold for the wildest 99¢ store, and Flying Lotus – @officialflylo – for crossing off #1 on my hit list and, in doing so, changing the game.

To @littledragon for having a no-pants meeting with me and then creating a pop-up comic book shop with @showdrawn. 

Oh, and the six bands who put SXSW on its head— @thetwinshadow, @courtney-barnett, @travis-x, @tobiasjessojr, @odesza and @houndmouth.

To John Mayer (@jhnmyr​) for launching what evolved to become Answer Time, and to everyone who has hosted one since. R.I.P. Dashboard Confessions. Shoutout to @anniewerner for running that shit.

To @taylorswift for putting Tumblr on ITS head, and later spinning hers when she met @david​. 

To the people who had me speak on their panels and the publications who wrote nice things about us and @whenislunch for making me look good. Shout out to @papermagazine for putting me in the Kim Kardashian Booty Issue, the best excuse for my Mom to own a copy. 

To Yahoo, I guess.

To everyone in the industry who had faith in me, thank you.

To @amandalynferri for being my partner in cahoots and to @valentineuhovski for being the last Evangelist standing. 

To @david​ for giving me these reins, and to all my wonderful colleagues who built this platform for their hard work and collaboration. 

We are stepping up rebalancing to mitigate the effects of our expedited bike maintenance program. Here’s where you can find extra valet service and expect increased bike redistribution over the next few weeks:

SERVICES BEGINNING MON, MAR 28

All-day valet service at Broadway & E 22 St, operates 7:30AM to 7:30PM

Evening valet service at W 84 St & Broadway, operates 5:00PM - 8:45PM

SERVICES BEGINNING MON, APR 4

All-day valet service at Broadway & Battery Pl, operates 7:30AM to 7:30PM

All-day valet service at W 52 St & 5 Ave, operates 7:30AM to 11:30AM.

Evening valet service at E 7 St & Avenue A, operates 7:00PM to 10:45PM

Increased bike redistribution efforts will take place each morning in Alphabet City, FiDi, Flatiron, and Soho

Earth, our home planet, is the fifth largest planet in our solar system and the only planet we know of where life exists. Even though Earth seems extremely large to us, it is actually a tiny spec in the vast expanse of the universe. Here are 7 space facts that will make you feel very small.

1. Our sun is one of at least 100 BILLION stars, just in the Milky Way. Scientists calculate that there are at least 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe, each one brimming with stars. There are more stars than grains of sand on all of Earth’s beaches combined. 

In 1995, the first planet beyond our solar system was discovered. Now, thousands of planets orbiting sun-like stars have been discovered, also known as exoplanets.

2. The Milky Way is a huge city of stars, so big that even at the speed of light (which is fast!), it would take 100,000 years to travel across it.

3. Roughly 70% of the universe is made of dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 25%. The rest — everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter adds up to less than 5% of the universe.

4. If the sun were as tall as a typical front door, Earth would be the size of a nickel.

5. The sun accounts for almost all of the mass in our solar system. Leaving .2% for all the planets and everything else.

6. Edwin Hubble discovered that the Universe is expanding and that at one point in time (14 billion years ago) the universe was all collected in just one point of space.

7. Four American spacecraft are headed out of our solar system to what scientists call interstellar space. Voyager 1 is the farthest out — more than 11 billion miles from our sun. It was the first manmade object to leave our solar system. Voyager 2, is speeding along at more than 39,000 mph, but will still take more than 296,000 years to pass Sirius, the brightest star in our night sky.

Feeling small yet? Here’s a tool that will show you just how tiny we are compared to everything else out there: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/earth.html

Bernie Sanders is an improbable politician. Independent, occasionally irascible, he came from the far left and an urban background to win elections in one of the most rural states in the country.

Now Sanders’ rhetoric is on the national stage with his surging run for president. He’s made headlines for his staying power in polls and his policy platforms singularly focused on income inequality and curbing corporate power.

As American voters get to know the 74-year-old — his wispy white hair, his Brooklyn accent that’s persisted in the decades since he left home, his unyielding focus on economic equality, and his impatience with the gamesmanship of presidential politics — he’s shared little about what made him who he is.

So who is Bernie Sanders? What molded his politics and his convictions? And what can the chapters of his life tell us about what might come next?

Becoming Bernie: The 6 Chapters Of Sanders’ Life

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