Silver Tongue

beyonslayed:

altonzm:

beyonslayed:

Not to sound anti vegan but what is one ecological function performed by roaches because I’m not entirely sure we need them

they’re a part of the food chain & they help with the breaking down of forest-floor discarded foliage (cockroaches feed on fallen leaves/discarded branches and bark, and are then fed on in turn by everything from other insects to birds & small mammals)

Ain’t no forest floor discarded foliage in my house tho so why they here

shinelikethunder:

valencing:

President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said that Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.

The information Trump relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said.

The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said that Trump’s decision to do so risks cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trump’s meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and National Security Agency.

“This is code-word information,” said a U.S. official familiar with the matter, using terminology that refers to one of the highest classification levels used by American spy agencies. Trump “revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.”

[…]

In his meeting with Lavrov, Trump seemed to be boasting about his inside knowledge of the looming threat. “I get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day,” Trump said, according to an official with knowledge of the exchange.

Trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat that the United States only learned through the espionage capabilities of a key partner. He did not reveal the specific intelligence gathering method, but described how the Islamic State was pursuing elements of a specific plot and how much harm such an attack could cause under varying circumstances. Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in the Islamic State’s territory where the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat.

[…]

“Russia could identify our sources or techniques,” the senior U.S. official said. A former intelligence official who handled high-level intelligence on Russia said that given the clues Trump provided, “I don’t think that it would be that hard [for Russian spy services] to figure this out.”

At a more fundamental level, the information wasn’t the United States’ to provide to others. Under the rules of espionage, governments — and even individual agencies — are given significant control over whether and how the information they gather is disseminated even after it has been shared. Violating that practice undercuts trust considered essential to sharing secrets.

The officials declined to identify the ally, but said it is one that has previously voiced frustration with Washington’s inability to safeguard sensitive information related to Iraq and Syria.

[…]

U.S. officials said that the National Security Council continues to prepare multi-page briefings for Trump to guide him through conversations with foreign leaders but that he has insisted that the guidance be distilled to a single page of bullet points, and often ignores those.

“He seems to get in the room or on the phone and just goes with it — and that has big downsides,” the second former official said. “Does he understand what’s classified and what’s not? That’s what worries me.”

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…lock him up?

holy fucking shit

… at this point the Republicans are just a particularly unsympathetic version of the dumbfuck white couple in the horror movie who insist on staying in the house despite the multiple warnings from the realtor, the well full of skeletons, and the sudden appearance of ‘HAIL SATAN’ scrawled on the ceiling in human blood. Honestly.

swoorlix:

hejibits:

back to school comics

This comic gets funnier the more time passes.

jwblogofrandomness:
“ gameraboy:
“Mickey Mouse RKO Kiddie Kartoon Klub button
”
Yes, nothing like being a member of the Mickey Mouse’s KK-WOAH! … Suddenly I realize they probably wouldn’t get away with this name today.
”

jwblogofrandomness:

gameraboy:

Mickey Mouse RKO Kiddie Kartoon Klub button

Yes, nothing like being a member of the Mickey Mouse’s KK-WOAH! … Suddenly I realize they probably wouldn’t get away with this name today.

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mbulteau:
“me
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usefulartshitifoundon:

finkspiration:

unwrapping:

Tumblr Dashboard Image Display Sizes (Updated July 13, 2015):

  • Photo Post: 540 by 810 pixels for dashboard view. Use 1280 by 1920 pixels for high-res version (except for superwide panoramas).
  • “Tall” Photo Post: Tumblr takes a 300-by-810-pixel version of your image then stretches it by 80% using HTML height and width attributes to make it 540 by 1458 pixels. Image quality may be diminished. Aim for uploading at least 710-by-1920-pixel images in case Tumblr switches to a better image size on the Dashboard. (It’s happened before.)
  • Photoset: 540-pixel width for one image in a photoset row. 268-pixel width for two images in a photoset row. 177-pixel width for three images in a photoset row. Gutters are 4 pixels.
  • Audio Post: 169 by 169 pixels for album art.
  • Link Post: 130 by 130 pixels for the thumbnail image grabbed by Tumblr from web link (if available).
  • Text Post: As of March 30, 2015, inline images can appear full-width (540 pixels wide). Any inline images that are 300 pixels wide or larger will display as full-width.
  • Avatar: 64-by-64-pixel icon next to posts.

How to post art without tumblr making it look like a blurry mess.
I can’t believe this is a website made for posting images sometimes.

one of the most reblogged comics i’ve ever made is on my tumblr with half of it blurry as shit and the other half not so pay attention to this stuff :/

aromanticqueen:

curioscurio:

I wonder how the pizza place next door feels everytime I stumble in, wearing the same clothes I’ve worn for 3 days, unwashed hair, no makeup, looking dead inside, and ask for a calzone. I bet they’re like “ shit here comes the Calzone Goblin, demanding substance and root beer once more”

Is this Ben Wyatt without a job

scaliefox:

pokemonprofessor:

creechuur:

eglanteria:

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The original post was actually pretty good and talked about how reliable of commissioners the furry community were for a struggling artist.

But aight lmao

for anyone who chose not to read the post:

  • artist needed money for college, people from tumblr/dA told them their prices were too expensive and that no one would commission them.
  • artist was desperate and logged on to their old Furaffinity account to take commissions
  • artist got a shitton of commissions and everyone was supportive and encouraging
  • people ended up tipping the artist 10-20$ per commission because they thought the artist was undercharging

tl;dr - furries supported artist and treated them better than the “pro-artist” sides of dA and tumblr.

Reminds of that Reddit post I found

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The TL;DR is that he went to a con expected to walk around laughing at furries being cringey, but was converted when everyone there treated him as part of gang despite his intentions and he had a blast.

It made him realize furries are generally just good people that really love their hobby/fandom and he took the time to tell his story on r/furry and apologize for being a hater.