Holly Weiss-Racine, Geologist and Environmental Scientist + Mom, wife, and urban-homesteader.
Name The Political Notebook
Location New YorkNews, politics, and spunk! The Political Notebook is a mix of curation and global news commentary by journalist and blogger Torie Rose DeGhett. TPN covers international issues, with particular attention to South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Torie’s primary concerns and interests are conflict, international development, gender, and social movements. She also loves Arab rap.
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Galaxy Next Door
Celebrating a passionate love of video games and gaming culture.PTRBKR
Photographer Peter Baker lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and likes everything that tastes like chicken.Force Close
Tech thoughts by Cody Sherman on Android, Google, Linux, Macs, the web, and more.Extra Extra!
Do you have a Tumblr story? Has Tumblr changed your life in any profound or personal ways? What’s your dashboard mean to you? We want to know — and if you’re game, your story could become part of STORYBOARD, a big secret project we’re working on. Post your story (or gif! photo! or video!) with the STORYBOARD tag, or if you’d like to submit privately, use this form.
Attn: Android users. We’re incredibly excited to announce the launch of the new Tumblr app!
Apart from a totally new, beautiful interface, updates include:
- More responsive, faster-loading dashboard and blogs
- Better photo browsing and animated gif support when you tap an image
- Notifications for multiple blogs live in one place
- Tumblr Radar!
If your phone isn’t set to auto-update the app, be sure to download the update in the Google Play market.
Listen to this! We just teamed up with Spotify so you can post tracks, playlists, and full albums from their very extensive library. Search for tracks or paste a Spotify link to embed your music — without the daily limit. :)
To celebrate, we’ve put together this playlist featuring musicians from the Tumblr Spotlight. Hit play and enjoy!
Don’t have Spotify yet? Get it here!
Tumblr Tuesday: Earth Week Edition
Join me in celebrating Earth’s natural environment with these fully compostable and biodegradable Tumblr blogs! Photo of Beaver Brook by Noah Kalina.
Climate Adaptation
Michael Cote is an environmental expert who wants to punch climate change in the face.The Green Urbanist
Green urbanism and environmental public policy.Local Food Lab
An incubator for sustainable food and agriculture startups.Fuck Yeah Permaculture
Working with nature, rather than against it, for sustainable systems.Cabin Porn
Inspiration for your quiet place somewhere.Weather Boner of the Day
Photos of weather. Awesome weather.Check out the Sustainability Spotlight for more!
In addition to this very official Tumblr Staff blog and our charmingly factual About page, you may already be familiar with our official Engineering blog, which shines a light on technical developments of interest to the Tumblr population. Today we’re rolling out four more departmental Tumblrs showing how we live and work, as well as better communicating with the community about what we’re doing.
The Editorial blog previews stories and features in progress from this new and still secretive organization (have you submitted to the Storyboard tag yet?). The International blog gives you a taste of our globetrotting efforts (did you know Tumblr serves nine languages, with more on the way?). The Ministry of Design represents our aesthetics corps (lately tripled in size and militancy). And the Support blog provides a wealth of tips, insight, and advice about how our friendly little town of 50-million-plus gets on and gets along.
More of these departmental Tumblrs may evolve and appear, and all should be considered works in progress — by turns serious and useful as well as creatively stimulating and amusing. Take a look and let us know what you think.
A gift for New York verse enthusiasts: Tumblr and Knopf Books are sponsoring “A Celebration of Poetry” at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe on Monday, April 23. Featured readers include Poet Laureate Philip Levine, 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith, and two poets from the Tumblr community, namely Saeed Jones and Karolina Manko. The event is open to the public and starts at 7pm. Meanwhile, check out more poetry on Tumblr.
