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Captain America: Civil War Already Has a Meme

The clash of superheroes movie doesn’t come out until May 2016. That hasn’t stopped the Internet. Fans of Captain America and The Avengers franchise are awaiting Civil War with anticipation—so much so that any release of information is hotly debated and pictures are fast transformed. After Comicbookmovie.com posted an on-set snap of The Winter Soldier/Bucky…

Tumblr user Vermin Disciple bought a used copy of Diane Duane’s Star Trek novel The Romulan Way, only to discover that the previous owner had done a bit of censorship. The results areamazing.

We Heart This Blog That Hilariously Skewers Corny Police Procedurals

Favorite Tumblr of the moment: Encyclopedia of Hypothetical Police Procedurals, “the definitive guide to non-existent police procedurals.” Written by Luke Burns and James Folta, it won a humor prize from Chronicle Books; peruse its pages for descriptions of TV shows just a shade too cheeky to be real. (UPDATE: Check out our interview with Burns…

The First-Ever Cat Convention Pretty Much Broke the Internets

Last weekend, CatCon took the internet by storm. 10,000 people descended on the convention in L.A., which featured appearances by celebrity cats, cat-centric panels, and all the cat swag you could shake a stick with a dangling feather at. The internet’s love affair with our cat friends is long documented (and we’ve been posing cats…

You Can Finally Search For GIFs on Tumblr

Long before Giphy existed, Tumblr was a home for our animated treasures. Now, the blogging platform is making it easier for us to comb through its vast collection of GIFs and add them to our posts than ever before, with the rollout of its very own GIF search engine. GIFs that have been posted to…

Look At All These Tech Panels That Are Only Dudes

We know that Silicon Valley has a women problem, and it’s not just at Pied Piper. Even worse, perhaps, is what happens when these mostly-male tech companies are invited to talk about their success with other mostly-male tech companies at public events. It’s not at all unusual to see seven penises onstage without a vagina…

Beautiful Maps Will Change How You Look At The World

Sadly, the Oxford English Dictionary has yet to accept ‘cartophile’ as the official term for a map-lover (though Urban Dictionary has no such qualms). But even if the title lacks the linguistic seal of approval, there’s no doubt that maps can be lust-worthy objects. Dennys Hess’s aptly-named Beatiful Maps Tumblr is a fantastic illustration of…

If You Could Only Use One Social Network, What Would It Be?

Few of us have the mental bandwidth to care about the latest hot new social thing. When Foursquare split its app, I never downloaded Swarm in protest. I never signed up for Ello. Do I sound too get-off-my-lawn when I say screw Snapchat? The never-ending influx of new platforms makes me wonder: If I had…

I Could Spend Hours Gazing at Pictures From Old Science Magazines

If you’re on the lookout for a good old fashioned internet time-suck, head over to the Tumblr scienceisstrange, where one hero has scanned a great many pages of over 300 issues of SCIENCE magazine from 1950-1980. The collection is full of great ads, illustrations, and photos depicting retro-gadgetry and science in all its halftone printed…

What GIF Would You Put In A Time Capsule?

I used to shake my cane at the sky and declare “I just don’t get kids today and their GIFsets.” Then I went to work for Tumblr. Tumblr is a medium where people painstakingly create and share gorgeous original GIFs — and where “reaction GIFs” of memes, pop culture, and, well, pictured responses often take…

Ever wonder what the History Channel Ancient Aliens-style shows would be in the Marvel movieverse, the Mediavengers tumblr has mocked up some DVD covers for you (inspired by this post by kehinki). I’m really looking forward to “The Chitauri Conspiracy.”

What If We Dressed Like Our Social Networks?

We all spend so much damn time looking at them; what if we started… being a bit like them, too? In this photo shoot, Viktorija Pashuta imagined a world where we started dressing like our social networks. The results are… slightly disturbing. From the retro styling of Instagram to the slick smartness of LinkedIn, they’re…

Here’s Clothing Advice for the Modern Supernatural Woman

Not only is this a tumblr curated with excellent taste. Not only are the situations it addresses complicated to the extreme. But the reasoning? Extremely detailed. What to Wear When, which is a project of tumblr Rave Sashayed and includes Polyvore boards, is a tumblr that answers the important questions like “WHAT TO WEAR WHEN:…

A Tumblr Reveals the Starbucks Orders of Your Favorite Literary Figures

There’s a Starbucks that sits at a place where the walls of space, time, and parallel universes is thin. It’s where authors and fictional characters go to pick up their coffee. And, of course, it’s a particularly entertaining tumblr thought up by two English majors and a history major. Literary Starbucks began in mid-September with…

Tumblr’s OS X App Is a Full-Screen Tumblr Because Nothing Else Matters

Tumblr just launched a weirdly bare-bones app for Apple’s new OS X Yosemite. If you have a Mac and you download it, you’ll be able to post to Tumblr from elsewhere on the web using a “Share” button. The other thing it does: You can also use it to turn your computer into a Tumblr-only…

The Very First Wikipedia Entries for 19 Iconic Products and Companies

Single-serving tumblrs tend to fizzle out and die before their first day is even up, but First Drafts of History might actually have some staying power. Because when it comes to hunting down the more delightfully bizarre of Wikipedia’s first entries, there’s enough material to last a lifetime. The new Tubmlr comes from John Overhault,…

Illustrated Twitter Typos Are Hilarious Eldritch Horrors

Illustrated Twitter Typos does exactly what it says on the tin: It provides images to show you what it would look like if these weren’t typos but actually what happened. And it turns out that most typos result in horrifying chimera-type lifeforms. Illustrated Twitter Typos can be found on either tumblr or twitter. A project…

Messages From Your Old Abandoned Computer, Which Has Achieved AI

While old, Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks is amazing. Made by Neil Cicierega, it’s such a good idea, we’d love to see a movie with the plot of a computer with Windows 95, stored in the attic, developing sentience, and going insane. Someone make this. Below are a few of the images at the…

Here’s How Starfleet Punishes Those Pesky Prime Directive Violations

We’ve had Pokémon shaming, and now we have the United Federation of Planet’s edition. These four seem even less ashamed than any pet I’ve seen. C’mon, Picard, I know wrenching philosophical questions that eat at your soul are your bread and butter. https://gizmodo.com/pokemon-shaming-is-the-new-pet-shaming-1607306156 For all we know, this is actually how Starfleet would have handled…

Three Uses For Tumblr That Don’t Involve Blogging

You can use Tumblr to blog about your love of BBC detective shows or YouTube celebrities, but you don’t have to. It’s a platform that offers more versatility and nuance than you might think. Here are three alternative approaches you can take with your Tumblr site. 1. Single-serving website Tumblr includes a very useful random…