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The Most Tumblr Punchline

I've noted before that my favorite punchline on Tumblr is "hang on, gotta look something up/okay that's funny."

Let me explain why:

  • It is a way to say "I don't get it" without blaming the joke or the teller.
  • It is a tacit admission of ignorance without shame or judgement.
  • It assumes responsibility for acquiring the knowledge the respondent doesn't already have.
  • It cues other people who Don't Get It to do the look-up themselves, allowing them to get that full impact of Getting It without derailing the post with explanations.
  • It gives subsequent readers, whether or not THEY got the joke, a little frisson of good feelings when they realize that someone else is now In On The Joke.
  • It not only makes the original joke funnier, it gets funnier the more often it's used.
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Reblogged teaboot

something about that one narrow staircase in Spadina station is deeply haunting to me, what do we think?

I think if those fluorescent lights flicker even one time I'm gonna invent teleportation and clip through the wall Bethesda-style at the same time and the noises will NOT be dignified

We've had nearly three thousand votes since this morning HOW is the vote still so fuckin even what the hell

there's like a day and a half left on this and the split is still unbelievably even

So. This is the state of American democracy.  

The richest guy in the world is handing out million dollar checks in order to win a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat and elect an anti-choice judge.  

We MUST overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections. - Sen. Bernie Sanders

Musk's Bribes Failed!

So. This is the state of American democracy.  

The richest guy in the world is handing out million dollar checks in order to win a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat and elect an anti-choice judge.  

We MUST overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections. - Sen. Bernie Sanders

"I miss 2D animation, 3D is so lifeless!"

No, no - from an avid and avowed lifelong 2D animation lover - what you miss is stylization.

Something animated to be "hyperrealist" isn't appealing to me anymore because it all starts to look very... samey. It'll age.

But if you have a proper sense of your style...

It’s almost like art is made for different reasons by different people and how good it looks (or doesn’t) depends on how much freedom the artists were allowed.

Job interviewer: So tell me, where do you hope to see yourself in five years' time?

Me, looking up the company's CEO on my phone and mentally comparing her net worth to the salary estimate I was just given: You know that one painting of the nameless Bolshevik soldier standing in the throne room of the Winter Palace

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Update from the man himself

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holdtightclothing

The Porn Guy aka The Nice Guy aka The Canadian side of Pornhub aka SFW Pornhub’s REAL NAME is Ryan Creamer. No joke, that is legit his real name.

Also this.

Which led him to this.

Bless this man.

I can appreciate him and the service he’s providing independently of the shitshow that is the platform he’s hosted on.

He remains just as funny and weird on other platforms dw

By the way, the topic he was presenting was

‘Can I get an Honorary Degree if I Just Ask Really Nicely’

What’s the answer?

The answer is “no”, with the side note of “when asking a list of random colleges for an honorary degree, be sure to research them better, because a white guy who got famous on pornhub accidentally asking a black women’s college to give him a degree for doing nothing gets awkward really fast”

been getting really into the 🫶 emoji lately. might be the next big thing

love how inscrutable this was before my phone figured out what character it had to display

the stone monolith empji is going hard as fuck right now. youll want to adopt it into your everyday use

It's still inscrutable on Windows.

Not to brag or anything but I’m Italian and I live in Rome and today they performed Julius Caesar on the literal ruins of the Curia of Pompey. aka the exact place where Caesar got absolutely wrecked in 44 BCE. on the anniversary of him getting absolutely wrecked 💅

🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 (that’s 23 knives. historically accurate.)

Do you know how badly you have to fuck up for this to happen

wtf. No like, truly, you have to fuck up SO bad for ... listen, LISTEN, the Korean War was the US and S. Korea vs. China. Do you see how bad it has to be for this to be happening? like

Korea has beef with China that is foundational, like, at one point China gave Korea to Japan in a treaty

Which obviously hints at the way Japan and Korea and Japan and China have a huge amount of historical beef too, and by historical i mean right up to less than 100 years ago.

Today experts taking about the relationships between any two of these three countries will say things like "despite strong economic ties, relations are strained by geopolitical disputes, wartime history, and territorial issues..." and "the political relationship of these countries, marred by unresolved historical grievances..."

for these three countries to agree to stand together against the US?

our government is fuuuucking up, like, SO bad rn jfc

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