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BuzzFeed published a report claiming that Tumblr was utilized as a distribution channel for Russian agents to influence American voting habits during the 2016 presidential election in Feb 2018.
Bonus points to this piece for using "somerton" as a verb.
And oh look, here’s beard-with-an-idiot-attached Matt Walsh arguing that we shouldn’t even be allowed to have any free time at all! Matt Walsh is still benevolent enough to let us have five hours of our lives when we’re not triaging bullshit emails between George from accounting and the lady whose job it is to make sure that the payroll department remains inefficient. How much free time do you think you should have?
I dunno, Matt, how much free time should you have? Matt doesn’t work either. His first job was as a local radio personality. He wound up failing upward because he’s really good at standing in as a surrogate emotional release valve for people who would love to be able to call a minority a degenerate in public but are scared of the real world consequences. People who want validation for the sexual attraction they feel toward their 14 year old cousin because that shit’s in the Bible but you know what isn’t in the Bible? Trans people. Whatever you’ve done that you feel guilt about is between you and Jesus and never the state, unless it’s queer stuff in which case you need a knock on the door from the Ron DeSantis Atomwaffen.
Man, like most people who live in the actual world of waking up in the morning, following orders for an arbitrary hierarchy, and then, with sincere apologies to Matt Walsh, spending a few hours for myself in the evening, I’m just trying to get by and figure out this world as best I can from other people who are living it. I don’t really have much patience for being force-fed poisoned life advice from people whose success trajectory involved the Tooth Fairy making a miscalculation one day and leaving fourteen billion dollars under their pillow.
And all I can think is, why am I hearing you at all? You’re unemployed. You won capitalism. Go to the Bahamas and order yourself whatever drink that is that they serve in a coconut half. You don’t even have to call it retirement if you don’t want to. Raise the rent on one of your investment properties and call it giving yourself a promotion.
And now for a few words from Australia.
S Peter Davis in the Plato Was A Dick newsletter.
"However—there is no poetry or justice in this world, and Trump will never fade into obscurity. He’s tapped into a new fundamental force—the Clown Force—and it can’t be reconciled with Einsteinian physics. Trump is now the Cosmic Background Radiation of human news. When you scrape off the layer of current events there’s this omnipresent reality of at least 12 things Donald Trump did before lunch that each deserves its own Gitmo sentence.
Peter Shumlin, Jim Douglas, Phil Scott, Howard Dean, Deane C. Davis, George Aiken, F. Ray Keyser Jr., Franklin S. Billings, Charles Manley Smith, Richard A. Snelling, Harold J. Arthur, Horace F. Graham, John A. Mead, Joseph B. Johnson, Lee E. Emerson, Thomas P. Salmon, William Henry Wills, Mortimer R. Proctor, Ernest W. Gibson Jr., Robert Stafford, Philip H. Hoff, Allen M. Fletcher
Tumblr was a social media platform with a very laissez-faire attitude to porn until it decided that wasn’t the way it wanted to go. So it banned porn—apparently without realizing the extent of the demographic takeover. They didn’t realise they had become a porn site. A third of their users immediately left, the company lost the vast bulk of its value, and never recovered.
What is notable about Gab is that it is, for all intents and purposes, a free speech essentialist platform. They don’t force you to be a Nazi there, they don’t ban you for failing to embrace your swastika rosary and say five hail Hitlers every morning. You can say whatever you want. But I put the question to you, the first amendment essentialist who fights for the Free Speech Platform holy grail: Are you going to go hang out there?
Why not?
That’s the thing you want. That’s what it looks like. Were you expecting Neil Gaiman to rock up and hang out with you there as well?
On this Fine Press Friday we present a collection of poems by Sappho entitled Sappho Revocata, compiled and translated by poet, English classicist, and Cambridge lecturer J.M. Edmonds with two drawings printed in collotype by British artist Véra Willoughby, and published in 1928 by Peter Davies in an edition of 350 copies.
Sappho Revocata includes Sappho’s complete and fragmentary poems in two sections; the first half records her poetry in Greek, while the second half has the corresponding English versions of the same works. Sappho is particularly lauded in popular culture for her frequent discussion of romantic love between women. Her poetry was so admired in the ancient world that Plato referred to her as “the tenth muse” in his writings.
This book is the first to use Jan van Krimpen’s Greek type Antigone, with his Lutetia type for the preliminary pages and English section of the text. It was printed by the distinguished Dutch printing house of Joh. Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem, Holland. The two illustrations by Véra Willoughby were printed at the Chiswick Press in London. 150 copies were reserved for the United States and distributed by Random House.
Our copy, another gift from our friend Jerry Buff, bears the bookplate of Joan Whitney. We're not sure who that may be, but we know this copy was acquired in New York, so we're hoping that it belonged to American heiress, art collector, and co-founder and former majority owner of the New York Mets, Joan Whitney Payson (1903-1975).