It’s been a month of milestones for Tumblr, and we thought it would be a good time to stop and say: Thank you to everyone for making this possible.
We can still remember watching your new posts come in one-by-one the day we launched. Now we’re waiting for five new servers to arrive to help us handle the 330 million (that’s 0.3 billion!!) hits and 20 million new posts we’re projecting for August.
More than anything, you continue to blow us away with the amazing thingsyoudowith Tumblr.
As our team gets bigger (we’re up to 9 people!), we promise we’re as committed as ever to making Tumblr the greatest place for everyone in the world to share the stuff they love and create.
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Elect This’s Ask box is open for Tumblr and Elect This’ second IssueTime. Two
years have passed since Ferguson, has anything really changed? A panel stacked
with experts on police brutality and racial justice activist will be answering
your burning questions on topics we’ve all been thinking about since Ferguson,
like reforming officer training, dealing with institutional racism, and
improving relationships between communities of color and the police. Join us in
discussion on how far we still have to go (allies included) in the fight toward
racial equality since protests in Ferguson shocked the nation two years ago.
We’ll be accepting questions until Wednesday, August 24 and publishing the responses
here on Saturday, August 27.
Panelist bios:
Jamil Smith
Jamil Smith is a Senior National Correspondent for MTV News.
Previously, Jamil was a Senior Editor at New Republic, as well as the host of
the magazine’s first podcast, INTERSECTION. He also served previously as a
producer for MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “Melissa Harris-Perry,” and
won three Sports Emmy Awards during his six years with NFL Films.
Elle Hearns
Elle Hearns is a revolutionary organizer, freedom fighter. She has
spent a lifetime being committed to making sure that marginalized voices are centered
and reflected in social justice movements. Elle served as a lead
organizer of The Movement for Black Lives convening held in Cleveland, Ohio
while also consulting on the Movement for Black Lives policy platform. Elle is
currently an organizing coordinator for the Black Lives Matter Global Network.
Elle’s writings have been featured in TruthOut, Huffington Post, and Ebony. Her
remarkable work has been chronicled by several publications including Time,
CNN, MTV, The New York Times, Alternet, Democracy Now, The Daily Dot, Fusion,
Essence Magazine, and The Washington Post.
Andre C. Anderson
Andre is the Special Assistant to the President of the National
Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) 2016-17, tasked with
working to engage national community dialogue and working with others to usher
in methods designed to build trust and legitimacy from lessons learned from the
President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Andre is most known for
serving as the Interim Police Chief for Ferguson in the wake of the Mike Brown
JR shooting. During his tenure, he led a new approach to civil unrest which
eased tension and created better relationships in the community. He introduced
and led modern day evidence based community policing, and was the lead policing
expert to negotiate with the Department of Justice Consent Decree levied as a
“Pattern or Practice of Discriminatory Policing.
Rashad Robinson
Rashad is the Executive Director of Color Of Change, the United States’ largest
online racial justice organization. As a force driven by over one million
members, Color Of
Change moves decision makers in corporations and government to create a more
human and less hostile world for Black people, and for all people. Rashad has developed winning
strategies to change the rules of many fields affecting Black people’s lives:
employment and the economy, voting and politics; news and entertainment; and
criminal justice.
Rashad has appeared in hundreds of media outlets, including ABC,
CNN, MSNBC, BET, NPR, the New York Times and the Huffington Post.
Martese Johnson
Martese Johnson is a Strategist at Sylvain Labs, and a recent
graduate of the University of Virginia. He is a South Side, Chicago native and
the first in his family to graduate from a four-year university. In his third
year of college at UVA, Martese fell victim to excessive force by Alcoholic
Beverage Control officers near his campus. Since state investigators dropped
the charges against him, Martese has spent much of his time advocating for
minorities who experience police brutality and various other forms of social
injustice. Martese has appeared on various media outlets (CNN, CBS, ABC, etc.)
and spoken at the National Urban League and Congressional Black Caucus
Foundation Annual Legislative Conferences.
Holly Fetter
Holly is passionate about organizing young people to leverage
their resources in support of social movements. Holly was awarded the Tom
Ford Fellowship in Philanthropy which enabled her to work at the Ford
Foundation in the program area that funds social movement infrastructure. She designed
and taught a course on whiteness as an undergraduate, created a platform to
field questions from curious white people (TokenWhiteFriend@gmail.com),
and serves as a consultant and commentator for MTV.
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On Thursday, we’re going to introduce ads on Tumblrs, so that later this year people can start making money from their blogs.
Tumblr is a place where brilliant, creative, funny, impossible people shape culture. Some of you have even turned your passions into jobs: book deals, music careers, paid gigs with the Creatrs program. Now, (soon!) that opportunity will be available to any eligible Tumblr—poet, musician, fan artist, and misfit weirdo memelord alike.
Some things you’re probably wondering:
Do you have to? Good question. No, you can turn off on-blog advertising in settings if you’re not comfortable with it.
When? Who? How? How much? Also good questions! We’re still working out the details of the partner program but as soon as we have details to share, we’ll make announcements right here on trusty Staff. Just so you know: You won’t be able to make money until you register for the program—which is coming soon.
Ok, well, really they only have 3 different The Mask Animated Series tapes, but why do they have so many copies? Who donated these and why did they have them? Oh, fuck, now I have a lot of Mask tapes…
69 Mask tapes to be exact. They were all unopened. I don’t even have a VCR. Even if I did, I wouldn’t need to buy every copy they had. Why did I do this? Well, let’s get them out and play with them…
This is not very much fun.
Every tape comes with the most incredible coupon. Some tapes actually came with two, so thank you very much, packaging errors.
The true bummer here is that these coupons expired 20 years ago. The $3 refund does not appear to be worth the effort and I wonder if anyone ever bothered. You had to buy 4 Totino’s pizzas, pizza rolls, or hearty pockets between 10/24/95 and 5/31/96, include the upc from the packages, the receipts from when you purchased those awful food products with the awful food products circled, this coupon, the proof of purchase tab from the Mask box and the receipt from when you purchased the tape during the previously mentioned dates. If anyone did this for $3, I would like to hear from you. Print out this post, take a picture of you eating the printout instead of a Totino’s party pizza, pizza rolls, or hearty pocket, and email it to me with a short story describing how you spent your hard earned $3. Anyway, I guess I’ll epoxy the tapes together and start coating them in resin.
Yes, and do something with those stupid coupons.
TOTINO’S PIZZA ROLLS SMMOKIN’! Now do it several times.
I can’t just throw away the boxes either. That would be terribly wasteful.
Surprisingly, I had more than enough tapes to do what I wanted to do, but the boxes came up short, so the other side of this had to be a little different.
I suppose this is good, because one day I might want to know what I’m missing out on, having ruined nearly all of the precious tapes. I can just look at this side and read what the episodes were about. I think I watched some of this cartoon when I was a kid. I fucking loved the movie when it came out, so I’m pretty sure I watched this show. Anyway, what’s next?
Oh. I guess I’m really bad at taking pictures of the process. It’s a bookcase. There was only one tape I didn’t have to open.
Maybe I’ll get a VCR one day so I can watch this tape.
There’s just one more thing.
Bookcases are usually just so damn boring.
Now I need Dark Horse to print some nice Library Editions of The Mask, because the out of print Omnibuses are Fuck That expensive online. Maybe if I hadn’t spent so much money on old tapes, epoxy, resin, glue, and christmas lights, I could buy one or two of the omnibuses in questionable condition, but then where would I put the books? I now have the perfect place to put as many Library Editions as it takes. Get on it, Dark Horse.
This is some of the finest storytelling ever on Tumblr or possibly anywhere.
What’s a Comic-Con round-up without a cosplay post? Here are just a few of the incredible cosplayers we ran into this week. A big thank you to everyone who agreed to freeze in position for 3 seconds so we could show them off on our Snapchat.
i have been in america lately and tried its Various cuisine’s here is my review
wendys
what i had: four for $4 burger and lemonade.
what i thought: this is the same as mcdonalds but there is a smiling girl! the guy who invented wendys was called somethng else so who is wendy. Food apparaition?
rating: 3/5. food was boring but mysterious girl warmed my heart
cook out
what i had: hot dog and shake
what i thought: holy shit. also milkshakes in america are like, solid ice cream. i was expecting nesquik
rating: 5/5. the hot dog was nauseating but cost a dollar and the cashier liked toys
steak n shake
what i had: you can only have burgers and shakes from this restaurant so thats what i got baby!! when in roam!! hasta la vista!!
what i thought: siri didnt know how to get there so we got lost on the highway at 1am. WOOPS!!! thats the american life
rating: 4/5. tasted like i was dying, but pleasantly
cracker barrel
what i had: friday fish fry up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what i thought: there was lots of old people in this restaurant. the waitress avoided me because my nails were painted. this is a well documented phenomneom but biscuits are definitely something different in this country than my country
rating: 2/5. scary torture cabin
costco
what i had: piza slice
what i thought: i know this isnt technicaly a restaurant but drinks were 50 cents so it gets an honorable mention. there was a crate of mayonnaise but i didnt try that.
rating: ???/5. costcos most precious secrets are lost to us all
chipotle
what i had: burrito. do they make other things?
what i thought: the logo is a chilli pepper but there werent actually any chilli peppers you could have in the food? i enjoyed the dainty red basket
rating: 3/5. guess burritos just always taste good, no matter what theyre made of. i think the chipotle burritos were made using some kind of food product but im not sure.
sonic drive thru
what i had: loaded chilli cheese dog’ fourht of july baby!! happy star wars day
what i thought: very inconceivable. there is a sit in a drive in and a drive thru and the sonic drive thru person comes over to your car in roller skates. its a made up cartoon store. it doesnt exist
rating: 5/5. we spent 20 minutes googling if you tip at sonic and in the end we drove off so my guilt prevents me from assessing it poorly
taco bell
what i had: it only sells tacos in like threes so i got three tacos.
what i thought: its like a dorito with a leaf stapled to it. why is it called taco bell? also, who am i, inside?
rating: 4/5. i flung six tacos in the microwave when we got back and i enjoyed watching them roll over each other playfully - made me think of my childhood and the political conspiracy around my birth.
sheetz
what i had: chicken nuggets at 2am
what i thought: it was interesting that about half of the items on the interactive menu ended with a ‘z’ rather than an s. while that was fun - i would not go so far as to say i died at sheetz but i certainly did not leave it in one piece due to the colossal spinning death blade embedded into the milkshake machine
rating: 5/5. ordering entirely through a little touchpad is a natural progression in a society of unwholesome, evil food production and distribution
