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thisistheverge: Yahoo won’t restrict porn on Tumblr During...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:07:00 -0400

Yahoo won’t restrict porn on Tumblr

During Yahoo’s event this evening, CEO Marissa Mayer said that “we don’t intend to [restrict content on Tumblr],” answering one of the most pressing questions for many users of the service since rumors of the $1.1 billion acquisition began to swirl. However, Mayer suggested that Yahoo could utilize an “NSFW” (not safe for work) feature to label controversial content on the network — but not additional details were provided on how such a system might work.

Imagine, no more public dashboard roulette! [PLEASE make it something you can turn off and on whenever??]

upworthy: Want To Travel The World? The Map To See The...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:05:20 -0400

upworthy:

Want To Travel The World? The Map To See The Countries You May Want To Avoid.

America seems like a pretty safe place when you see the millions of people worldwide who are internally displaced by conflict and violence.

idk what on earth Serbia’s IDPs have to do with it being unsafe, not that it doesn’t reflect extremely badly on the government or that there aren’t plenty of reasons not to visit…

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Mon, 20 May 2013 18:00:13 -0400

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Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:11 -0400

imawanchor: dylanofryin: actual picture of actual one direction fans it’s like a scene from a...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:55:34 -0400

imawanchor:

dylanofryin:

actual picture of actual one direction fans

it’s like a scene from a zombie movie

arie316: What if Disney started making LGBT princes and...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:54:36 -0400

arie316:

What if Disney started making LGBT princes and princesses?

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Mon, 20 May 2013 17:19:59 -0400

Okay so like I’m shipping Dany and Missandei so hard, but wow Daario is seductive. I...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:18:33 -0400

Okay so like I’m shipping Dany and Missandei so hard, but wow Daario is seductive. I didn’t like him at all in the books, but…..

Why I use social networks

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:33:41 -0400

sodamnrelatable:

is for asking people what’s for homework

is there for stalking celebrities

is for listening to music

and tumblr is my life .

marissamayr: I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an...

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:14:59 -0400

marissamayr:

I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!

We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve. Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.

Tumblr has built an amazing place to follow the world’s creators. From art to architecture, fashion to food, Tumblr hosts 105 million different blogs. With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of thefastest-growing media networks in the world. Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent onsite each month. On mobile, more than half of Tumblr’s users are using the mobile app, and those users do an average of 7 sessions per day. Tumblr’s tremendous popularity and engagement among creators, curators and audiences of all ages brings a significant new community of users to the Yahoo! network. The combination of Tumblr+Yahoo! could grow Yahoo!’s audience by 50% to more than a billion monthly visitors, and could grow traffic by approximately 20%.

In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love. In turn, Tumblr brings 50 billion blog posts (and 75 million more arriving each day) to Yahoo!’s media network and search experiences. The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance user experience.

As I’ve said before, companies are all about people. Getting to know the Tumblr team has been really amazing. I’ve long held the view that in all things art and design, you can feel the spirit and demeanor of those who create them. That’s why it was no surprise to me that David Karp is one of the nicest, most empathetic people I’ve ever met. He’s also one of the most perceptive, capable entrepreneurs I’ve worked with. His respect for Tumblr’s community of creators is awesome, and I’m absolutely delighted to have him and his entire team join Yahoo!.

Both Tumblr and Yahoo! share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas by focusing on users, design — and building experiences that delight and inspire the world every day.

http://yahoo.tumblr.com/

The usage of this gif makes me feel slightly better about the whole thing.

there are seven billion people on this planet and i have like four friends in real life

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:04:38 -0400

there are seven billion people on this planet and i have like four friends in real life

Okay so my left heel hurts ridiculously bad, as if I have a massive blister. But there’s...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:40:22 -0400

Okay so my left heel hurts ridiculously bad, as if I have a massive blister. But there’s nothing there. And yet! And yet!! In the exact same spot on my right heel, I have an absolutely massive blister. It doesn’t hurt at all.

I mean, what am I supposed to do with this??

thefrogman: I’m trying to teach Otis the positive tenets of...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:27:53 -0400

thefrogman:

I’m trying to teach Otis the positive tenets of buttfeminism, but he’s really upset about his ball.

[original via okcgoldmine]

isn’t it weird that you can have friends but also have no friends at the same time

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:25:04 -0400

isn’t it weird that you can have friends but also have no friends at the same time

buzzfeed: Yahoo, stahp. Not Funny.

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:24:34 -0400

buzzfeed:

Yahoo, stahp.

Not Funny.

canikon-bokeh: painzyerp: medinaace: LMFAO thats what she...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:23:45 -0400

canikon-bokeh:

painzyerp:

medinaace:

LMFAO thats what she get.

hahaha i like how he trips her then look back concerned like he didnt do it

OMG I LOVE that guy for doing that.

ssempiternal: Newest edition to the family!

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:21:58 -0400

ssempiternal:

Newest edition to the family!

Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:15:19 -0400

literaryreference:

You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this because you think he wants to be your friend.

But then, then comes the fateful moment where you find out that all this time, he’s only seen you as a potential girlfriend. And then if you turn him down, he may never speak to you again. This has happened to me time after time: I hit it off with a guy, and, for all that I’ve been burned in the past, I start to think that this one might actually care about me as a person. And then he asks me on a date.

I tell him how much I enjoy his company, how much I value his friendship. I tell him that I really want to be his friend and to continue hanging out with him and talking about our favorite books or exploring new restaurants or making fun of avant-garde theatre productions. But he rejects me. He doesn’t answer my calls or e-mails; if we’d been making plans to do something before this fateful incident, these plans mysteriously fail to materialize. (This is why I never did get around to seeing the Hunger Games movie. Not to name any names, but thanks a lot, Tom.) Later, when I run into him at social events, our conversations are awkward and lukewarm. This is because the moment we met, he put me in the girlfriend-zone, and now he can’t see me as friend material.

I must say that I find this really unfair. I mean, I’m a nice girl. I have a lot to offer as a friend, like not being a douchebag and stuff. But males just don’t want to be friends with nice girls like me. They can’t help it, I guess; it’s just how they’re wired, biologically. Evolution conditioned our male hominid ancestors to seek nice girls as mates and form friendship bonds only with the other dudes that they hunted mammoths with. It’s true—I know this because I studied hominids in my fifth-grade science class.

So what’s the answer? Should I take up mammoth-hunting in an attempt to appeal to the friendship centers of men’s primal lizardbrains? Should I keep making guy “friends” and then prevent them from making a move on me by subtly undermining their self-confidence? Should I just give up on those manipulative, game-playing, two-faced bastards once and for all? I don’t know. I mean, I’d really like to have a true friendship with a guy someday, but it’s so hard to trust and respect them when they never say what they mean—and you never know when you might be relegated to the girlfriend-zone.

theworstroom: Union Square, Manhattan. $1000.00 “I am looking...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:46:40 -0400

theworstroom:

Union Square, Manhattan. $1000.00

“I am looking for someone to move into a large closet space in one of the three bedrooms of my apartment. The bedroom has two closets but there is no need for it so we are looking to sublet it as a living space to a 4th roommate. The closet is about 5 feet wide and 7 feet long. It has no windows and think it would be ideal for a twin size bed and small night stand.”

“Amazing Location”

theworstroom: Upper East Side, Manhattan. $1600.00 (Twin bed...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:46:00 -0400

theworstroom:

Upper East Side, Manhattan. $1600.00

(Twin bed with Fax Machine)

This is the best, most depressing tumblr I’ve ever seen.