Tumblr staff, please stop actively reducing your website’s usability by doing things like replacing specific post URLs with redirects to the poster’s blog front page. Could you stop doing that and start fixing the memory leaks that have been there since the inception of the website, especially on Firefox? Thanks.
When you stop supporting your community, your community stops supporting you.
I pay for my favourite social media sites (#privileged) but now only pay for tumblr, having cancelled my Twitter subscription earlier (we all know when) and now Reddit.
ALT
I fully support platforms working to build multiple revenue streams, by the way, which is why I pay for them in the first place.
Heck, I’ve been paying for Reddit Premium since 2016!
ALT
But there are ways to charge for usage and then there are ways to charge for usage.
Listen. I’ve never had a full engagement with it, it’s never had its claws all the way in me, so maybe it’s ignorant for me to say, but You know what’s nuts? Twitter is fucking nuts. But specifically How people are reacting to Twitter in 2023 is ducking nutso. Insane. Truly crazybonkerswildballs. Genuine psychopathy. I don’t get it. It is genuinely wrinkling my brain.
You’ll get people out here like “Yeah, Elon is both insane and a card-carrying apartied-cultivated bigot and facist and sycophant, and yeah the actual service of Twitter has degraded to a point of unrecognizability from its core mission statement, and yeah it’s literally just a platform for crazies and facists and grifters and bots (oh god the bots) that makes me feel the opposite of good every single time I open it, but I can’t leave! Because…*gestures vaguely*”
And I’m like WHY? Finish the thought! Complete the sentence! What’s holding you back?? Help me help you!”
And they’re like “Oh you know, it’s just the only place on the internet to…y’ know…”
And I’m like NO! I DON’T KNOW! What the fuck can you do on Twitter that you can’t also do on literally any other site??
Meanwhile the entire earth is literally burning beneath our feet, and everyone on Twitter is like “I’m so glad the world has burst into flame, I am in unimaginable agony but at least the poors are also suffering” and I’m like who the fuck are you and why do you have seven hundred million retweets
You gotta love that Tumblr is on the rise because of Twitter and Reddit going down, and not because Tumblr has actually done anything to really improve its website.
I personally kin with a website that accidentally and coincidentally fails upwards.
The site that wins simply by remaining upright.
We are literally this meme, posted eons ago, in our ancient texts.
“First, Amazon is good to its end users. Then it claws back the benefit to those users and delivers them to sellers. Then it claws back from sellers and takes everything for its shareholders. Then, it turns to shit. Enshittification.”
I am both a Twitter and Reddit refuge. I used both platforms extensively, but now they are both on a path of enshitification. I hope Tumblr doesn’t follow them.
imagine if doorways grew back like scabbed over with fresh drywall and you had to keep carving them back out with a jabsaw to keep the doorway clear etc
You are the villain’s right hand man and you are the true power behind their criminal empire. The villain would never have achieved their status as a super villain without you, so when the hero finally arrested the villain, nothing actually changed.
The Buff-Tip Moth: the resting posture, shape, and color/pattern of the buff-tip moth allows it to mimic a broken birch twig; the moth’s buff-colored head and the patches on its hindwings even resemble freshly-snapped wood
It also definitely tends to look like there’s a weird little smiley face in the setae surrounding the moth’s head, which is arguably even more striking but for some reason none of the sources I dug up on this species seem to mention that weirdness.
This type of camouflage is generally referred to as a “protective resemblance” – a form of mimesis in which an animal can avoid being preyed upon by mimicking an inedible/unremarkable aspect of its environment. Many different moths are able to disguise themselves in similar ways, and it is especially common within the family known as Lasiocampidae. Some of the other species that engage in protective resemblance include Gastropacha quercifolia,Gastropacha pardale,Gastropacha populifoli,Euthrix potatori,Euthrix laeta, and Calyptra minuticornis(along with the other members of genus Calyptra). Most of these moths disguise themselves as leaves/foliage.
The buff-tip moth is particularly adept at disguising itself, however, and the fact that it so strongly resembles such a specific object (i.e. not just a dead leaf or a vague piece of foliage – but a broken twig from a silver birch tree, in particular) makes this disguise seem even more impressive/unique.
This species (Phalera bucephala) can be found throughout the British Isles, mainland Europe, and Asia, with its range extending into Eastern Siberia.
Oh 𝔽𝕌ℂ𝕂! You didn’t tell me you had a beast in your home. You’ve got a little goggyee. Eh- BOGGY. A poopy dog. A buppy- a little 𝐹𝑈𝐶𝐾𝐼𝑁𝐺 ƊOƐGGУ. I’ve never seen a reell dog before! We only have Lego® Dogs on Lego® Island. 𝒪𝒽! Oh FUCK! Oh fuck nooo! This red bastard’s got teeth! Sharp teethh. He’s going to tear me into little Lego® pieces. I’ve never been so scared in my life! WHAT THE FUCK this is like a jumpscare from Five Fuckers at Uncle Festers. GET ME THE 𝔽𝕌ℂ𝕂OUT OF HERE!
do kids today know about homestuck pixel families ,
alright here’s some tumblr lore:
Back In The Day™ when Homestuck was in its prime on tumblr, there was a popular pixel artist called feastings. They made massive amounts of edits of Homestuck characters as cute little pixels in a variety of different outfits
These spread like wildfire in the Homestuck fandom, and we all started making “pixel families”, where we’d assign a friend/mutual as one of these characters, put the pixel(s) in our descriptions or on a blog page, and then link the image to the person’s blog. It was also fun to use hover text to describe which of our friends was Which character. or maybe a silly anecdote or two
These pixels became so popular that you’d be VERY hard pressed to find a Homestuck who hadn’t seen one before. And then, they became popular even OUTSIDE of Homestuck, because people would take the pixels and use them as a base to make edits of other characters
And That’s The Story! and now I get to feel old as balls TwT
And That’s The Story!
and now I get to feel old
as balls TwT
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
webtoon commenter: oh my gods i love my gaybies SO MUCH webtoon is my life T_T (EDIT: ty for all the upvotes aaaa this is my first top comment i- 👁️👄👁️)
deep-sea snailfish in the mariana trench: *moves one inch*
So the CONTEXT is that Xbox is releasing Diablo IV and they changed their logo to match that, BUT I’m CACKLING over the idea that Xbox decided 4 days of pride was enough and that the gays should burn in hell now
ALT
ALT
ALT
ALT
