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A photo of a gorgeous black cat sitting inside a cardboard box. He has turned his head to look at the camera. His name is Salem.ALT
An image of a black cat (Salem) lying on his side on a pink blanket. His eyes are closed and he looks like he's smiling. You can just see a white hand giving him head-scritches.ALT
A photo looking down on two black cats against a grey lino floor. The cats are lying back-to back. The cat on the left - Pumpkin - is a little bit fatter than Salem, and is looking over his shoulder towards his brother. There is sunlight on them, and Salem's coat has 'rusted', showing up reddish-copper colours in his black fur.ALT
A photo that looks up at a cat who is perched on top of a wooden door inside a home. The cat is Pumpkin. He has a squishy round face and is looking down with inquisitive big greeny-orange eyes.ALT
A photo of Salem, a slender black kitty, on top of a wide radiator that's in a bathroom. There is a toilet roll on top of the radiator too, and Salem is looking very confused - he has tried to lie down, his front legs are either side of the toilet roll... and he can't lie down because the roll is in the way.ALT
A photo of a cute black kitty (Pumpkin) inside a long white box. He is at the far end of the box, looking inquisitively up at the corner to his left. The camera flash has set off the glow effect of his eyes.ALT
A photo of two black cats inside a round, fuzzy bed. They are slightly smaller than in the other photos. Salem is contoured to the curve of the bed, and Pumpkin takes up most of the rest of the space with his bum against his brother's chest. It is a little hard to make out the details in the void though.ALT

Happy Caturday to all who celebrate!

Here are some photos of my kitty-babies Pumpkin and Salem! They’re brothers/litter-mates. Salem likes to yell a lot. Pumpkin was named before I realised his eyes are orange (Salem’s are green), and before he got his round little tummy-tum (his weight is monitored to make sure he stays as healthy as possible!).

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Image #1 shows a black cat in a cardboard box. He has turned to look over his shoulder up at the camera, and is in a very cute photogenic pose, and looks like a model.

Image #2 is of the same slender black cat - Salem - lying on his side on a pink blanket, close to his owner. A white hand is just visible giving him head-scritches. He has his eyes closed and is very content. His face is side-on to the camera, and he looks like he’s smiling.

Image #3 looks down on two black cats lying back-to-back on a grey floor. The cat on the left is a little tubbier - this is Pumpkin - and is looking over his shoulder to his brother. Salem’s coat has ‘rusted’ in the sunlight and is showing the copper colours beneath it.

Image #4 looks up at a cat perched on top of a wooden interior door. Most of his body is obscured by the door and the angle, but he has very fuzzy edges, and is looking very inquisitively down towards the camera with big round eyes.

Image #5 is of a slender black cat trying to lie down on the top of a wide radiator in a bathroom. There is, however, a toilet roll in the way. His front paws are either side of it, and the top of the loo roll is against his chest, stopping him lying down. He seems a bit perplexed as he looks down and tries to think in his tiny kitty brain 'what is going on??’.

Image #6 is of the interior of a very long white mattress box. At the far end, a little black kitty is looking up at the 'roof’ of the box in consideration of who know what. His eyes are glowing thanks to the camera flash that’s gone off.

Image #7 shows two black cats curled up in a fuzzy white round cat bed that has brown paw prints on it. There’s more black cat than there is bed. Salem is contoured to the curve of the bed, while his brother is splodged with his butt against his brother’s chest.

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Pinned Post cats black cats image described they are very curious and affectionate babies they would give you a little sniff pumpkin would probably lick your hand if you have facial hair salem would probably try to lick your face XD

It’s Tag Game Tuesday ✨✨

Coming from someone who still has December 2018 open on their calendar (and May 2022 on the other), I think Wednesday is close enough for this to count XD Thank you for the tag @mickeyheartian <3

name: Ru

pronouns: they/them

where do you call home? scotland

favourite animal: all kitties and pangolins and elephants and axolotl and geckos and weasels and whale sharks and stoats and bees and pine martens and tamandua and otters and red pandas and crows and those shiny little beetles and crows and cows and jumping spiders and–

cereal of choice: i can’t eat cereal :( but i used to put as little milk as possible on coco pops and enjoy those, or orange juice on rice crispies (don’t put it on frosties, as delicious as frosties are the sugar makes the orange juice sort of go fizzy)

are you a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learner? kinesthetic, almost exclusively

first pet? well there was a family dog, but then when i was 5 i had a cat, i had two gerbils as a teenager, but as an adult and responsible for the whole everything of having a pet: cats!

favourite scent? rain/thunderstorms/the way the front of the house smells in rain/freshly cut wood/the wood section at B&Q

do you believe in astrology? nope. the way to differentiate between astrology and astronomy is log loggy log of poo, nommy nom delicious prof. brian cox. leo tribalism yes (all the best people are usually leos or august babies XD) but just as a bit of fun. i don’t mind astrology as long as people aren’t take it as absolute irrefutable fact and explanation for things - have fun with the thing just don’t tell me that the reason i’m very clumsy today is because i’m a leo or the star was in virgo disappearing

how many playlists do you have on spotify/apple music? no idea, a few, but mostly because i want all the songs from one artist in one place, or a friend has made a cool playlist

sharpies or highlighters? hmmm… what would i highlight? but sharpies smell bad…

a song that makes you cry: jenny of oldstones made me cry recently, but i don’t usually cry over songs. apart from that ‘he’s got the whole world in his hands’ because when i was young a friend picked that for his dad’s funeral and that was the moment it really hit me

a song that makes you happy: popcorn! also give that wolf a banana, and promise by voyager, because i’m a basic eurovision bitch, addicted to bass by puretone, this is the life by amy macdonald (idk why), brim full of asher, tribute by tenacious d, the safety dance, some others i’m forgetting…

and finally, do you write/draw/create? i write sometimes, and create mess always

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I’m tagging anyone who wants to do this, but also @kalikatze @zuckergussprinzessin @limesultana @derry-rain @abadbadbrujah @theinfinitesilver @captainkay @amazingakita @malazuzu22 @nomilkinmyteaplease

captainkay
antisocialxconstruct

This might be egotistical of me but if anyone wants to give the staff feedback but isn't sure what to write that's more productive than just "it looks like twitter and we all hate it," here's what I wrote. Feel free to riff on my points o/

The new dashboard layout is feels counter-intuitive to your established users and has some serious UX issues. There's no reason for a blogging platform to go out of its way to look like fast-paced social media, so the twitter-reminiscent layout just feels cramped and overly busy. The new left-hand menu is especially frustrating, not only does it contribute the most to the visual clutter, it doesn't feel streamlined to give access to the things people are likely to look for most often--most notably, opening the "activity" panel now covers up the dashboard instead of being offset to the right, and navigating to my own sideblogs now requires clicking and scrolling past information that I don't need to regularly access from the dashboard.

If you're not going to reinstate the original layout, or allow users to toggle between them, then at the very least it would be nice to be able to collapse the left-hand menu to only icons, and to have "Blogs" separated out into its own dropdown instead of being hidden inside the "Account" menu. I also think the right-hand column could simply be used more efficiently by partitioning some of the menu content out, since once you scroll past the radar it's just dead space.

Ultimately, I think it would be valuable to remember that you have an established userbase who specifically chose tumblr because it's NOT twitter, instagram, facebook, etc. You're never going to be able to "tweak" tumblr enough to be a 1:1 competitor to those sites, and presumably that isn't your goal in the first place, so trying to mimic them on a purely aesthetic level isn't going to draw in the people who are already comfortable on those sites, but it will alienate the people who were trying to avoid them. If my favorite burger place starts trying to compete with the sushi place across the street by putting raw fish on all their burgers, I'm going to stop going there for burgers OR sushi, and I'm not going to recommend it to anyone else either.

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cubedmango

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hey @staff what the fresh fuck is this

cubedmango

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wow i sure wonder 🤔🤔 what the new layouts supposed to look like 🤔🤔🤔🤔 its a mystery

rage-against-the-dying-of-light

Don’t forget y’all that there’s a much better way for us to let Tumblr know what we think about specific changes, rather than @ ing staff or wip, and it’s sending in a support ticket and choosing feedback!

Help Center | Tumblr
Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your
tumblr.com

Tumblr reverted some of the asinine app decisions they made after a concerted feedback effort! So make sure to use this form! It’s what it’s for, but it’s not well advertised!

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captainkay

Anonymous asked:

why do you and others like vaccines so much?

joshpeck answered:

not dying of preventable diseases is actually one of my favorite hobbies

shygardenavenue

Because smallpox used to kill about 30% of everyone who caught it. The successful vaccine program run by the world’s medical community means that no one will ever die of smallpox ever again.

Because rabies is 100% fatal without a vaccine. No one needs to die of rabies ever again. It is entirely preventable.

Because 1-2 in 1000 who get measles, die. Vaccines let us contain outbreaks or fully wipe them out. There is no specific treatment for the disease once you have it. Your immune system either wins or you die.

We like vaccines because vaccines save lives and raise our standard of living.

daraoakwise

My mother, now in her 70s, talks about how her mother wept for joy when her children received the polio vaccine. Because she didn’t have to be afraid of polio anymore.

raptorchick

A 2019 study found that measles can cause “immune amnesia”, cutting your antibodies by 10%, up to almost 75%.  Meaning, you’ve become that much more vulnerable to a whole slew of illnesses that you used to be protected from, and it doesn’t matter if you acquired the antibodies via a vaccine or recovering from an illnesses - they are gone.  All those shots you got as a baby?  The boosters you got through grade school and as an adult, including the annual flu shot?  Guess what: measles most likely wiped your body’s immune memory of those and you’ll have to get them all.  Over.  Again.

leebrontide

This is one of those posts that always prompts me to remind folks- many of the vaccines you received as a child need adult boosters! It’s worth checking to make sure you’re up to date on these!

See I did not know this in my 20s, and I didn’t have health insurance so I never saw doctors.

As a result of this and goddamn antivaxxers I got whooping cough in goddamn 2010. Now, this is less dangerous than many things you will get vaccinated for if you stay on top of things. But I am dead serious when I tell you I broke one of my ribs from coughing too hard. Did you know that was a thing? Because I hadn’t till it happened to me, and friend it was not a good time.

Vaccines save lives. And they save you from other miserable things as well. Please check to see if you’re up to date.

captainkay
tam--lin

In light of increasing anti-trans and anti-abortion laws in the United States, I am once again humbly requesting you inform yourself about jury nullification, your ability as a juror to vote against convicting people being prosecuted under unjust laws. Nullification was instrumental in legalizing abortion in Canada - it informed jurors can use it to help protect healthcare workers and protesters in the US, too.

abadbadbrujah
guerrillatech

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People die on the job every summer. Remember that water and shade breaks are crucial when working in the heat, and calling emergency services for signs of serious heat illness (fatigue, nausea/vomiting, headaches, dizziness, clammy skin, confusion, agitation, slurred speech, high body temperature, rapid heart rate, etc.) is entirely appropriate. If you’re afraid to call 911 for reasons such as being undocumented, you’ll need to get very familiar with how to prevent, recognize, and treat heat illness. If you are symptomatic and not allowed a break, water, or medical treatment, walk out. No matter how broke you are, your job is not worth your life.

captainkay
william-shakespeare-official

Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.

Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version

As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version

Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston

Hamlet: The Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. THe 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. And the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation. Have the 2018 Almeida version here.

Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.

Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.

Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one.

King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here.

Macbeth: here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery. Here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. Here's the 1948 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZrf_0_CcQ">here. The 1988 BBC onee with portugese subtitles and here the 2001 one). The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here and the 1966 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here.

Measure for Measure: BBC version here.

The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie.

The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version.

Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.

Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.

Richard II: here is the BBC version

Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier, and here's the 1995 one with Ian McKellen. (the 1995 one is in english subtitled in spanish. the 1955 one has no subtitles and might have ads since it's on youtube)

Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version.

The Taming of the Shrew: the 1988 BBC version here, the 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one.

Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,

Troilus and Cressida can be found here

Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here

Twelfth night: here for the BBC, herefor the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.

The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here

Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.

(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)

littlecityghost

Oh, I have additions!

A Misdummer Night Dream: Here’s the 2013 globe production (the one with The Kiss, you know it)

Romeo and Juliet: Here’s the one that was going to be a stage show and then lockdown happened so they filmed it! Stars Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley

nerdsandthelike

Okay, I'm collating everything from the comments because I love this so much!

From vivienlacroix:

Much Ado about Nothing: Here is the Free Shakespeare in the Park version with Danielle Brooks as Beatrice (From 2019)

Hamlet: Here is the 1921 silent film in which Hamlet is a woman (don’t get your hopes up though it’s extremely sexist and heteronormative)

A Midsummer Night‘s Dream: here is the 2019 National Theatre version (With Gwendoline Christie)


From partywithponies:

Here is the Shakespeare's Globe/Roger Allam/Colin Morgan version of The Tempest! (From 2013)


From ryfkah

"Двенадцатая ночь" (Twelfth Night), a Russian film from 1955 (with subtitles)

Twelfth Night (1986), a filmed version of an Australian stage production with baby Geoffrey Rush as Andrew Aguecheek


From chekovsphaser:

Shakespeare - Google Drive
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This drive has 4 Globe productions Midsummer 2013 and Tempest 2013 (Both above), and then As You Like It 2009, and Love's Labour's Lost 2010


From maa-pix:

Twelfth Night: the 1998 version, "Live From Lincoln Center" on PBS, directed by Nicholas Hytner, with Helen Hunt, Paul Rudd, and Kyra Sedgwick. Part One, Intermission interview with Nicholas Hytner, and Part Two. Also here. (Absolutely fantastic version, best I've ever seen.)


From everybody-dies-at-least-once:

Andrew Scott's Hamlet: Almeida (2018)

King Lear at Shakespeare Festival NYC (1974) w/ James Earl Jones, Paul Sorvino, and a young (very sexy) Raul Julia here


Then I made a Google Drive for the ones that I have that I haven't seen elsewhere on the list:

Shakespeare Videos - Google Drive
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They are also all Globe productions: MacBeth 2020, Romeo and Juliet 2009, Romeo and Juliet 2019, The Merry Wives of Windsor 2019, and The Winter's Tale 2018.


And then finally MIT has this super cool repository of performances from around the world and some of them have videos https://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/

In my (unsuccessful) quest to find The Hollow Crown, I also found a few other of the histories, so here's Richard II with Sean Connery, Richard II with Ian McKellan, and a stage play of Richard III


Also, if anyone has a version of the lockdown Romeo and Juliet mentioned above or the Olivier or McKellan Richard IIIs, the current links are broken and the productions sound very cool!

william-shakespeare-official

I might kiss you my friend for that work. I awoke from my slumber to find that the post had become popular again and there was way too much notes attached to it for me to read them all.

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