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While browsing the Dashboard, in addition to clicking J and K to jump to the next and previous posts, you can now click L to like the current post!

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Photo posts now support Animated GIFs up to 1MB. Woo!

GIF by iwdrm featuring Blow-Up (1966)

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Business Insider came by for some photos of the office. Take a look!

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Tumblr iPhone 2.0: Now available on the App Store

We’re excited about this one! The app has been recoded, rewired, and rethought from the ground up to offer you the very best Tumblr experience:

• Brand new interface: Browsing your dashboard, creating a post, managing multiple blogs — the most important features are within reach so you can interact with Tumblr effortlessly while you’re on-the-go.
• Creating a post: Now easier than ever! Sharing photos, videos, links, chats, text, quotes and audio is front and center. Advanced options like saving drafts and queuing posts are one swipe away.
• Messages: View and reply to messages for each of your blogs.
• Address book: Find people to follow from your phone’s address book.
• New users: Signing up is now native inside the app. 

There are tons more features and details that are awesomely crafted.

Check it out on the App Store!

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Name Unified Theater
First post October 2009

Unified Theater is a student-driven initiative that facilitates inclusion of young people with and without disabilities through the performing arts. They partner with middle and high schools, train student leaders, and help coordinate a final production which includes students of all abilities. Founded in 2002 by Micaela Connery when she was only 15, Unified Theater has programs running in 27 schools throughout five states and has let thousands of young people step into the spotlight.

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Private Noise
Pictures of people listening to music. And the music they’re listening to.

Springwise
Your daily fix of new business ideas.

Animals Being Dicks
Exactly that.

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Super Simple Tumblr Pillow by kevinnuut

1. Get a pillow.
2. Insert said pillow into Tumblr bag.

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Clark went on a harrowing bulldog walk last weekend that lasted nearly 30 minutes and spanned fifteen blocks!

Some moments deserve more than one angle. That’s why we’re ecstatic to give Photosets a huge upgrade today, giving you new levels of control to tell your stories the way you want to.

1) Photoset photos now open in all their high-res glory on the Dashboard and on your blog.

2) You can now pick a layout for your photos to tell the right story.

3) Tumblr Themes can now make Photosets look and work any way you please with a host of new theme variables:

{block:Photoset}
    <!-- Number of photos -->
    {PhotoCount}
    
    <!-- Integer representation of the layout -->
    {PhotosetLayout}
    
    <!-- JS array of the Photoset column counts -->
    {JSPhotosetLayout}
    
    <!-- Each of the Photoset photos -->
    {block:Photos}
        {PhotoURL-500}
        
        {block:HighRes}
            {PhotoURL-HighRes}
        {/block:HighRes}
        
        {Caption}
        
        {block:Exif} ... {/block:Exif}
    {/block:Photos}
{/block:Photoset}

Enjoy!

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Name Gary’s Real Life
First post December 2008
Location ???

Gary likes taking photos, wearing suits, and lives a rich and fulfilling life. Professionally, he’s a part-time imaginary friend (though he often wonders what it’d be like to be a suit maker). Not much is known about Gary’s background, other than that his closest companion is an art director from Sydney, Australia named Josh Beggs. Josh is the creative director of an entertainment magazine, has a dog named Baxter, and is a talented illustrator.

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Put This On
A web series about dressing like a grownup, from Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor.

Pepe Diokno
Film director, producer, and winner of the 2009 Venice Film Festival’s Lion of the Future Award.

The Tangential
Their mission: Write about anything, as long as it isn’t boring and doesn’t suck.

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The slow-motion disaster of the food crisis in the Horn of Africa is truly horrifying. Last Wednesday the United Nations declared a famine in two large regions of Somalia; 3.7 million people, nearly half the country’s population, are affected. The crisis is larger than just Somalia. Right now the devastating drought in the region means that more than 11 million people need food aid across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. 

You can help by making a contribution through the Tumblr Dashboard or on the Somalia tag page, and we’ll match your support up to $10,000. Proceeds will go to the United Nations World Food Programme.

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Name The Burning House
Location New York

If your house was burning, what would you take with you? The answer says a lot about your values and background, according to photographer Foster R. Huntington. The Burning House is a living gallery of photographs of the items chosen by people from all backgrounds, from all around the world. “It’s a philosophical conflict between what’s practical, valuable, and sentimental. You’re forced to prioritize and boil down a life of accrued possessions into what you can carry out with you,” Foster says.

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The Changelog
A weekly podcast and blog that covers what’s fresh and new in Open Source.

Sounds of My City
A collaborative, community-oriented audio ethnography of Toronto. This is what Toronto sounds like.

Officials Say the Darndest Things
Cataloging what officials in business and government (and any other centers of power) let slip.