I've Been Recommended Accounts Before Like @firefox-official That I Followed Like Ooh, Look Who's On

theonion.tumblr.com

The Onion

The Official Tumblr for America's Finest News Source.

I've been recommended accounts before like @firefox-official that I followed like ‘ooh, look who's on Tumblr!’ Before discovering that it's just a tradition to name things 'x-official' as a shitpost account.

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So imagine my surprise when I click on @theonion fully expecting it to just be some random person on the internet and getting what looks like an official account! And honestly, I know very little about the Onion but that seems pretty on-theme with parody to make an official Tumblr account to do a double subversion of "is it real? or not?".

This probably sounds a lil silly, but as someone still not entirely comfortable with using Tumblr it was funny to be given an official account just after I had accepted that they were all fake lol.

Steven Bradbury is a great Australian hero 🇦🇺

It's always great to see someone (or in this case, Tumblr) 'pull a Bradbury'.

despite staff's recent changes, we're... winning??????

;( now instead of procrastinating doing those things I have to actually procrastinate typing.

a writing tip:

that spotify playlist and pinterest board wont help you. stop procrastinating.

I loved to be unnecessarily eloquent with random bits and pieces like this in high school. I didn't take art past year 8, but my girlfriend and other friends did, so I was constantly in the art rooms bothering the art teacher with my horrible drawing skills and by casually overanalysing pieces of art people were working on and hanging from the walls.

I actually ended up helping one girl name her HSC piece and inspired her artist statement.

Imagine living in an American suburb. I grew up in the suburbs and it was great, everything was close by, parks and beaches, great trains if you did want to go to the city / far away suburbs.

(I am being a little biased, we still have some stroads / car-centrism and the trains will just stop if something goes wrong so nobody likes Transport NSW, but at least you can plan on then being reliable for everyday commuting / public transportation.)

The suburbs kinda suck, and you should stop moving there when you have kids. Kids being able to go places is actually really good for their development and there are no shops or 3rd places in the Suburbs. Just think, if you had a kid would you rather live in a cool canopied historic streetcar suburb with a corner store down the street and an ice cream place a few blocks away or would you want to live on a hot miserable suburb where you can't walk anywhere but other people's houses

This is very cool, Tumblr 👍

Holy shit I think I just cracked the code of why people think you can’t sell things on Tumblr 😭