Edit: The Title For This Comic Is “Puzzle Rat” This One’s A Few Days Late Due To Having A Lot Of

As a young librarian, I started trying to figure out why more young people aren't ever coming in; 90% of our demographic are the elderly and parents of children, and the rest are a rough mix of the kids and teenagers who come in just for school projects. As a result, I've been attempting different ways to get the Youth TM to come into libraries, but first I wanted to see why they don't come in. Please reblog to get this poll out to more people! <3

Oooh music! I usually listen to playlists instead of shuffling my library, so I still have a lot of songs from like… 25% of my life ago in there that I no longer listen to, but the first 5 songs that came up that I do listen to (and skipping duplicate artists) are:

Mostly instrumental, I guess. Maybe I should have only used my ‘songs with lyrics’ playlist instead of my library, but oh well. I like this selection well enough.

I don’t post enough to really think of myself as ‘having mutuals,’ but it turns out I have three! I tag @inhumaninterest and @suchiren (thank you @magpies-gold for tagging me)

tagged by @madscientist2739 :]

(starting a new chain bc it was quite long but here's the original post if u want to scroll through the polls)

Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most!

tagging: @crystal-mouse @s-h-a-s-e @orangexmachina @andietries and anyone else who wants to! no pressure as always feel free to ignore :3

Cooking With Tumblr: "Why Are We Here? Just to Suffer?" Edition

Tumblr, I come to you as a woman on the verge of fulfilling her destiny. Thanks to a viral poll by @relientk, the newest meme on Tumblr is vanilla extract, specifically the act of using too much of it. Pure vanilla extract is, of course, expensive and also strong in small amounts. Who among us has that much vanilla extract on hand and is foolish enough to attempt this?

Me.

For personal reasons, I have a lot of vanilla extract in my apartment. It was here before the meme, and it will be here after. I had all the ingredients for the horrible poll cake except for milk, so I went out and bought some milk. It is three in the morning and very cold outside. Why am I doing this now instead of waiting for the poll to finish? Two reasons: the first being how fickle the internet in burning through memes, and the second being that five days gives my better judgement enough time to convince me not to do this.

Will God stop my sinful hands before the cake makes it into the oven? Let's find out!

Tumblr is giving us a lot of different dashes but the thing is no one wants "for you" so what I propose instead is you give me the ability to make mini-dashes with specific subsets of people I follow. Let me follow 300 people but then sort them into category. Let me have one dash for all my aesthetic stuff, another for news, another for my weird feral friends. Am I the only one who wants this? Maybe. Give it to me anyway.

one propaganda, because there isn’t enough of that yet

-1, 0, 1, and 2 are the most important numbers. they are the basis of the integers, each of them providing something unique that every other integer builds off of.

all the other types of numbers, from rationals to reals to complex to transcendental, build off of the integers.

NaN, on the other hand, is the basis of nothing, and isn’t even that interesting on it’s own. I’ve been programming and dealing with floating-point numbers for years, and do you know how many times NaN has come in useful? precisely zero. even calculations that ‘should’ result in NaN, like dividing by zero, usually don’t even use it, instead just throwing an error. why? because an error is more useful than a NaN the vast majority of the time.

you know what NaN is? floating point filler. there were a bunch of bit representations left over (16,777,214 for the standard, 32-bit float) and the designers of the IEEE 754 float decided to make them all NaN because they didn’t know what else to use them for.

Number Tournament: ONE vs NOT A NUMBER

[link to all polls]

1 (one)

seed: 10 (46 nominations)

previous opponent: tau

class: absolute unit

definition: the only positive integer that cannot be classified as either prime (exactly two factors) or composite (more than two factors)

NaN (not a number)

seed: 26 (20 nominations)

previous opponent: mute

class: ERROR

definition: ERROR

I had heard about porn bots on Tumblr, but I had gone for months of regular use of this site without seeing any. But these past few days, I have been getting flooded by follows from them. Are there any tools that can automatically block all users who’s names end in a 3-digit number?

if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band

Baba from Baba Is You

i hauve a cold