staff:

Yesterday we did a historic thing. We generated 87,834 phone calls to U.S. Representatives in a concerted effort to protect the Internet. Extraordinary. There’s no doubt that we’ve been heard.

So just to keep you updated: The well-intentioned, but immensely flawed “Stop Online Piracy Act” is still in the House Judiciary Committee. The hearing was yesterday and now members will debate and bring amendments to the bill. The Committee will reconvene in a few weeks — the date has yet to be scheduled. Nothing has been brought to a final vote. Everything is still very much in play. We’ll keep you posted on what’s going on and what you can do to help. But for now, we want to thank you.

One encouraging thing we heard yesterday:

I don’t believe this bill has any chance on the House floor. I think it’s way too extreme, it infringes on too many areas that our leadership will know is simply too dangerous to do in its current form.

— Representative Darrell Issa

We also want to express our tremendous gratitude to our friends at Mobile Commons who, on 30 minutes notice, hooked us up with their amazing platform (and provided their expertise) to automatically connect callers with their Representatives.

staff:

Look Back at 2011: Biggest Tumblr Meetup

Self-organized Tumblr Meetups both big and small are happening around the world on any given day, but the largest of last year took place on June 5, 2011 in Curitiba, Brazil with nearly 500 RSVP’s.

Above: Attendees at the Curitiba Tumblr Meetup singing Happy Birthday to Tumblr! More video here!

dharbin:

BEHOLD! THE DINOSAURS! A brand new 11” x 14” full color, Indigo-process print. Drawn by me, and team-colored by the amazing team of Sam Bosma and Kali Ciesemier. These colors are gorgeous, even without my little scribblings all over the top of them. We teamed up to make something awesome for kids and adults and all the ages in between there (including yours). 

Prints ship flat, well packaged, and FREE for all preorders, both domestic and international. Full details here. And while you’re there, you may notice also my new Lord Snow’s Wolf print is available for preorder, plus the plethora of other books and prints in my shop. 

kinkycurls:

Follow Us On KinkyCurls.tumblr.com

jsmooth995:

Five years ago tonight James Brown died, and on that night right around this time, I felt moved to bring something creative into being, to (in whatever clumsy little way I would) put that energy of creation out into the world in his honor. So I downloaded some random video clip from Youtube and…

jsmooth995:

Application for Kanye’s Magical Awesomeness Factory.

jsmooth995:

Application for Kanye’s Magical Awesomeness Factory.

brettgaylor:

I’ve been working on and off for many months on a video to explain Mozilla to the uninitiated. The home for the video is now on the Get Involved page of the mozilla.org site, and I’m excited that it will be part of a process for getting people excited about pitching in at Mozilla. You can watch it below: mega hats off to Rainer Cvillink, Mozilla’s in-house video wizard, for all the great camera work, and to Jenn Strom for editing and motion grapnics.

theimpossiblecool:

Thompson.

loopermovie:

Happy new year, all!