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'If you don't like graffiti look away like you do for genocide"

Seen in Austin, Texas

#keep austin weird #truth in advertising

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Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

#respect your fandom elders #old age gives no fucks

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“Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised. Their flu vaccine will also likely be delivered in the form of a spray, as many people have an aversion to needles. “Respiratory infections move through the nose, so a spray might be an easier delivery system,” Hai said. Additionally, the researchers say there is little chance of a virus mutating to avoid this vaccination strategy. “Viruses may mutate in regions not targeted by traditional vaccines. However, we are targeting their whole genome with thousands of small RNAs. They cannot escape this,” Hai said. Ultimately, the researchers believe they can ‘cut and paste’ this strategy to make a one-and-done vaccine for any number of viruses. “There are several well-known human pathogens; dengue, SARS, COVID. They all have similar viral functions,” Ding said. “This should be applicable to these viruses in an easy transfer of knowledge.””

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Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains

This is HUGE. This will fundamentally change how we get inoculated.

#science

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Hello friends I have finished a WIP 🎉

Sandman/Rivers of London crossover | Dream/Hob + Nightingale/Molly + Hob & Molly | 8k | G-Rated | Complete

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June 17th, 1989

“This would be a much more straightforward question if you could give me some indication as to what your friend is,” DCI Thomas Nightingale says between sips of tea. Robert Gadling, known to his friends as Hob, world’s only—as far as Nightingale knows—utterly non-magical immortal, gestures vaguely.

The high summer sun floods the Folly’s atrium with light as they sit over afternoon tea. A light sheen of sweat beads on Hob’s forehead. A consequence, Nightingale suspects, of his insistence on wearing an up-to-the-minute polyester suit. In his own summer linens, he finds the temperature very comfortable.

“I don’t bloody well know,” Hob says. “One of your genius loci maybe? Or something like it. All I know is that he’s at least as old as me and I have never run into him between centennial meetings. But he’s always showed up. Until this one.”

“After a fight at your last one,” Nightingale points out between sips of tea. A new blend? There’s a lightness to it that feels very appropriate to the season. He’ll ask Molly later.

“Yes,” Hob admits. “And okay, maybe he just didn’t want to see me. But maybe something’s wrong. You’re the bloody magic police, I’m here to report a missing, almost certainly magical person. Sort’ve your job to do something about it.”

“Arguably,” Nightingale allows. “But without so much as a name or an idea of what—”

“Thomas,” Hob interrupts. “Please.”

Hob Gadling has at this point employed the use of velvet brown eyes and a softening of his brows which Nightingale had once been quite enamoured with, and which he suspects are the secret to a relatively successful six hundred years. They are difficult to refuse.

Their brief affair some fifty years ago had ultimately led them both to the conclusion that they were better as friends. Not due to any inherent incompatibility between them, but because their hearts were each already spoken for.

Continue on Ao3 >>>

#fic recs #sandman #rivers of london #two great tastes that taste great together

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LECONS de VIOLON - 1898 by jim goodyear Via Flickr: MTL00175 a poster by Paul Berthon - 1898

#art nouveau #vintage illustration #vintage advertising

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People often say things like how “you did your best today, and that’s okay.” And that’s often true, and your best does vary day to day but I just want to take a moment and give a shout out to those who didn’t do their best today. Sometimes we know we could have done more or done better. And it’s okay if we didn’t do our best. You are still worthy. You are not a failure. You are allowed to try again tomorrow.

#modern blessings

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album art is so important because it tells you what color the songs are

#music #music recs

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Credit to my spouse @rocketsandrayguns for coming up with the idea for this.

#quizzes #this one is tough

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The only good thing staff added recently

Mutuals we are doing this

#modern blessings

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I was at a student work showcase for a university today and one of the Urban Planning Projects had a discussion of 3rd spaces, and I went with my mom who hadn't heard of the concept of 3rd spaces, so I now have a question

#polls

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the thing about CC is that she did plagiarize. she was found guilty of plagiarism and banned from fanfiction dot net! she plagiarized pamela dean, among others, and lied about it repeatedly! it happened! and regardless of whatever else she writes, regardless of whether the publishing industry and her fans trust her not to do it again, regardless of how many times her wikipedia page gets scrubbed clean, that will always have happened! so it is not in fact cruel gossip, but a factually true statement, to say that she plagiarized and i'm not interested in supporting her or giving her the benefit of the doubt because she plagiarized and lied about it repeatedly! fuck!

#fandom history #she also plagiarized zelazny #among many others

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Beaver fur top hat, 1840s-50s.

#historic fashion #hats

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Even just walking through the Jimmy Kimmel parking lot he's an entire fashion shoot 😎

#beautiful people

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how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first 

url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order

url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes 

url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc

url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly 

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant) 

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

#public service announcement #tumblr #how to

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CILLIAN MURPHY — Ph. by Gregory Harris for British GQ (Feb 13, 2024)

#beautiful people

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I think my issue is I post with the goal of getting attention rather than posting from my soul

#polls

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reblog to pet prev

#modern blessings