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Dear Tumblr user-base:

   Now that I have achieved the impressive tipping-point of 20,000 Tumblr followers, my contractual arrangement with Tumblr GmbH requires me to upgrade my activities here at brucesterling.tumblr.com.

     Our new policy is for your own good, because, without clearer IP policies and some monetization, you, the user-base, may well find yourselves sadly deprived of the lickable street-art posters and the UFO cattle abductions on which all twenty thousand of you have come to depend.  None of us want that.

      Therefore, in the future, our daily cavalcade of sourceless ripped-off graphic whimsy will  also carry some branding — tactful visual inserts quite similar to those found here in my brand-new, official “Tumblr-Maestro” formal studio portrait.  I think you’ll agree that this pic looks pretty fucking classy.  It does, right?  Feel free to heart it and forward it.

      Mind you, these branding inserts will come from only the very coolest tech companies — the out-there, with-it, inventive guys who are involved in tech developments that I myself sincerely find interesting, awesome cutting-edge outfits such as Parasight, Uber, TagWhat, GoPro, Dysonics, Vintank, Plantronics, Epiphany — gosh there sure are a lot of them — ElectricFoxy, Memoto, Wolfram Alpha, and our special guest sponsor, Zuta Osa (Yellow Wasp) all-natural Serbian Plum Brandy.  

      I will continue to wear Missoni at no extra charge.  That’s because the “Missoni” brand, unlike most fashion corporations, is some actual family of real Italians who are genuinely named “Missoni.” 

      To assist in this new arrangement,  Tumblr Gmbh has kindly assigned me a secretary and business manager, Miss Tesanovic  (seen above).  The charming Miss T. will be answering your business email around the brucesterling.tumblr.com small-office/home-office, while I redouble my efforts to pitchfork some sticky-eyeball content into the Tumblr maw.

      Here’s to a prosperous second quarter of 2013!