Please Do Not Mistake A Small Group Of People On The Internet Doing Something Stupid, Or Something That

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The French president Macron is trying to raise their retirement age from 62 to 64 (and 67 for some?). French people have protested peacefully for 2 months but yesterday his government went ahead and invoked an article in their constitution that allows them to force the bill past the National Assembly without letting its deputies vote on it. Now Paris is burning ☺️

The trash collectors have gone on strike and so 7000+ tons of garbage has been piling up in the streets, then they get set on fire by protestors at night ☺️

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If you’re wondering - “Retirement age at just 64 and they’re burning shit down? In my country I can’t retire until 65/67/70+!!”

French people have kept it low BECAUSE they burn shit down if it’s threatened ☺️

Alright, I think I like tumblr now.

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.

You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.

RB for the largest sample size this site has ever seen

What do you hope to find on the mars? / What would be the best possible outcome?

Don't think I've seen them all together in one big video like this before

Tec, Untitled, 2022-23

Digital Collage

Can I post a baguette or is it against the community guidelines?

Americans are aslept¹! Quick, post pictures of real bread²!

¹ or whatever they do on thanksgiving. It's thanksgiving over there according to all my coworkers who are on holidays today.

² Because everybody knows that there is no real yummy bread in the US.

This just in: A man in France has reportedly gotten his hand trapped in a bread mixer

Witnesses report he is in pain

tumblr tuesday: carina’s cosmic cliffs

Cosmic cliffs, our beloveds. ICYMI, @nasa​​ recently shared some neat new images from the James Webb telescope. So, of course, you all got to work. Whether it’s plonking your faves on a star-birthing nebula or celebrating the sparkle in its uncolonized state, there’s art for that. 

@cassieoh imagines Crowley lazing around Carina in his snake form:

@sir-galahadnt styled the nebula in inspirobot chic using a quote from Hamlet (click through for the full quote):

@whatlizardry in oil pastels:

@assassin1513 just made it all sparkle a little more:

@jupitertheegg gave Starfire the perfect cosmic couch:

@richo1915 just said what everyone else was thinking:

@aesthetic-sweaters made a Kirby version:

@bird-wells214​ another loafer loafing on Carina’s cliff couch: 

@troisenator​ in watercolor:

And finally, some pixel art of the deep field in all its multitudes by @kekness​: