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i’m still so excited about alvin ailey that i started crying in the shower

#insane way to feel about an incredibly regularly touring company i’ve already seen 3 times #but they’re so so so good and i haven’t gone to see a live dance performance in four years #and in fact the last one was also alvin ailey. w my mom. in late february 2020. #so possibly i’m processing some additional stuff? beyond how good they are as artists? #not necessary though. the art is enough. #box opener

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Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

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How Tumblr live should’ve been

#mystery blogger

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i want to study at a boston-area university.

i will pronounce color as caalah and use smoot units. i would watch Cheers on Netflix all night while drinking cranberry juice with my flatmates. i'll have dunkin donuts every day that's worth 5 dollahs. i would go to dorm parties every night. i am also more likely to meet Matt Damon, the New England Patriots, Mark Wahlberg and the MBTA.

i wish i was from massachusetts :(

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oh fuck yes i got tickets to see alvin ailey with 🌸 next weekend

#they’ve never seen them perform! not even revelations! #box opener #alvin ailey is truly one of the best dance companies going they always do something exceptional

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#terrible at studying - great at most other stuff - eventually being bad at studying started to catch up with me #but it was TOO LATE! i was already in grad school! they couldnt stop me!

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#chocolate crunch/chocolate eclair bar #i used to get these every single day at the little poolside concession stand thing in the summer. great stuff

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Food Art by 日菜乃

#food #art

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Gaetano Pesce, Broadway Chair, for Bernini

#interiors

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its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea

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#cat

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so if i am understanding this correctly, the argument is that round about 2019 somebody decided the best way to measure how well google search was doing was by absolute number of queries, and a lot of subsequent changes were made to google that were aimed at increasing that number. which had the effect of making google search suck more, because that meant people had to work harder to find stuff, which increased the amount of absolute searches people were doing. because, you know. it was harder to find stuff.

A day later, Gomes emailed Fox and Thakur an email he intended to send to Raghavan. He led by saying he was “annoyed both personally and on behalf of the search team.” in a long email, he explained how one might increase engagement with Google Search, but specifically added that they could “increase queries quite easily in the short term in user negative ways,” like turning off spell correction, turning off ranking improvements, or placing refinements — effectively labels — all over the page, adding that it was “possible that there are trade offs here between different kinds of user negativity caused by engagement hacking,” and that he was “deeply deeply uncomfortable with this.” He also added that this was the reason he didn’t believe that queries were a good metric to measure search and that the best defense about the weakness of queries was to create “compelling user experiences that make users want to come back.” In the March 2019 core update to search, which happened about a week before the end of the code yellow, was expected to be “one of the largest updates to search in a very long time. Yet when it launched, many found that the update mostly rolled back changes, and traffic was increasing to sites that had previously been suppressed by Google Search’s “Penguin” update from 2012 that specifically targeted spammy search results, as well as those hit by an update from an August 1, 2018, a few months after Gomes became Head of Search. While I’m guessing, the timing of the March 2019 core update, along with the traffic increases to previously-suppressed sites, heavily suggests that Google’s response to the Code Yellow was to roll back changes that were made to maintain the quality of search results.

which seems like a pretty plausible, if stupid, way to fuck up your product!

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Mods? Take him to the stump of his favorite childhood tree.

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The Used-To-Have-Feathers Poem

#poetry

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im curious what's the first meme you remember seeing? mine was numa numa

#def a cat macro #possibly lime kitty possibly invisible bicycle or similar

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✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨