Ann! What Have You Done Now?

"I'm annoying, but I mean well."

[schoolhater]

reject the western gaze!

mutual aid means no hierarchy between givers and receivers

a new mutual aid org, Bridge of Solidarity, has been established in the gaza strip by 17 year old poet yazan mohammed in response to the exploitative practices conducted by some charities and encouraged by the existing charity-based model of fundraising for gaza. according to BoS: "the western attention economy and pity economy plays a large role in who lives or dies in gaza." essentially, people need to make themselves marketable in order to receive lifesaving aid; people who are not marketable die. yazan himself wrote about the damage this can do to one's self image, which you can read here.

after trying for a year to respect his own privacy, my friend siraj was also pressured into posting images of his son's emaciated body in order to gain sympathy from westerners.

we cannot keep forcing people to do this anymore.

here's a declaration of their values from bridge of solidarity's most recent post:

Our organization is against the Western gaze. We refuse to humiliate people. We refuse to force people to take photos. We refuse to force people to take photos with our flyer or logo. People will receive aid freely without being forced to pose. We will respect people's privacy completely. Our principles include autonomy, dignity, sovereignty, mutual respect, and mutual aid.

this org will prioritize giving aid to people without phones or social media, who do not speak english, and who do not have outside support or living parents. these are the people who are not palatable to westerners but who deserve to live with as much dignity as everyone else

as of five days ago, BoS are working on a water truck delivery

Bridge of Solidarity

(Arabic below) 

[covid-safer-hotties]

Ignoring ongoing covid paved the way for this change and put millions more in worse danger because of it. Mask up. Keep people developing debilitating long-term illness the government wants you to die from.

[but-anne-do]

so this is still bad but the tweet omits a lot of information that can make people feel overly anxious. the summary of the rule can be found here: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/medicaid-community-engagement-requirement-certain-individuals-interim-final-rule-comment-period-cms

you don't have to prove it every month (unless your state fucking sucks): "States must verify compliance of applicable individuals at application, at renewal, and—at state option—at more frequent periodic intervals. "

there's a "medical frailty" exemption that "encompasses anyone with a serious medical condition or a disability that significantly impairs their ability to live or comply with the requirements." downside: what actually counts will depend on your state

its not an 80 hr paid work requirement, the 80 hrs can include school hours and volunteer work OR you can meet the minimum earnings of 80*minimum wage aka ~$580 per month (so if you have an above min wage part time job, you don't have to fight for 80 hrs to still qualify)

most importantly, this is an Interim Rule THAT IS STILL OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT UNTIL July 31, 2026! YOU CAN COMPLAIN DIRECTLY TO THE AGENCY HERE (anonymously, too): https://www.regulations.gov/docket/CMS-2026-2047/document?withinCommentPeriod=true

will a comment actually do anything? I don't know. But agencies are legally required to review them, so SOMEONE in the agency has to at least read it.

the full regulations along with comment guidelines can be found here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/03/2026-11094/medicaid-program-community-engagement-requirement-for-certain-individuals#h-24

[camo375]

Whatever

[autumntides]

[guelwaar]

clinical medicine is simple, basically the way it works is 99.999% of doctors don't know anything at all, so they only treat the 10–15 most common problems in their specialty. this might sound bad, but actually it's better, because 99.999% of patients don't have any complex medical problems anyway, which we know because they've never been diagnosed with anything except the 10–15 most common problems in the relevant specialty, because in order to be evaluated for something else they would have to be referred to one of the 0.001% of doctors who occasionally know something about some other condition, but they can't get that referral because they obviously don't need it because they've only been diagnosed with simple problems that the other 99.999% of doctors evaluate. so as U can see it's really about ensuring every patient gets the best possible care.

[princess-of-phyresis]

they're selling anti-ai slogans on sweatshop-produced t-shirts. i don't need to write the poem for you to get it do i

[covid-safer-hotties]

Source

In some of these outbreaks, far more than 3% of confirmed measles cases have been in vaccinated people. Each one of these cases presents a new risk that measles will evolve vaccine-specific immune escape, threatening us all with vaccine-resistant measles. Do better for infants (who can't be vaccinated) and unvaccinated kids (who can't get vaccinated because of parental rights overriding child safety and public health). Mask up. Don't be a spreader.

[covid-safer-hotties]

Ignoring ongoing covid paved the way for this change and put millions more in worse danger because of it. Mask up. Keep people developing debilitating long-term illness the government wants you to die from.

[blackjame]

[polari]

mind you before sinners we didn’t have definitive proof that it was possible to successfully make a movie in 2025

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[autumntides]

New Tumblr setting to turn off.

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[engineering]

Where's that comment?

Hello Tumblr! 

@jubs here, today, to tell you about a feature we're building: Comments by author!

Comments (or replies) have been around for a while, but they have always been tucked away from your regular feed, and so we're working on a few ways to integrate them into the rest of our experience.

Soon, blogs will have a Comments tab alongside Posts, Likes, and Following. There, you will be able to see posts other people have been commenting on, and, more importantly, find your own comments! This was not possible before, except through notifications if someone engaged with your comment.

We're also working on a way to surface posts commented on by people you follow in your feeds. You will be able to find those in the For You tab, and later, alongside chronological posts in the Following tab.

So, how do you identify those posts in the feeds? 

Replied posts will show a small preview right there in your dashboard, before you click anything. 

This is not out yet, but soon! In the meantime, tell us what you think and expect from this! ☺︎

[whatdoyoumeanitsnotawesome]

please tell us that we can toggle the visibility on/off like we can do with likes and following.

[andriibuilds]

A big benefit of having comments enabled for all blogs is this will increase accountability and quality of comments because each blog would now think twice before writing a toxic comment, knowing it will be visible to everyone. If we make this opt-in, then we will lose this benefit and both spammers and trolls will continue their current behavior and limited accountability

[sreegs]

hey man, people on every social network or comment thread are not deterred from posting toxic content even if their full legal name is on it. this statement is simply not true.

[3liza]

yeah this is nonsense. this is not a needed, wanted, or useful change to the site. sorry

[autumntides]

@andriibuilds I'll provide a practical, immediate example. You don't know what you're talking about, you're an incompetent fool, you're bad at your job, and people in the street spit on your shoes and legs out of justified disdain at how you waste the space you take up in the world. I don't know and I don't care if you know anything at all about coding or computer technology or sending professional emails; you are bad at understanding the product you're working on, why it appeals to the people that use it, how to increase that appeal, and how social groups function. Those are more relevant to developing a social media platform rather than, say, a calendar app. You are a fart from a butt.

Please note how this reply being public did not change my tone or intent. And it also isn't cluttering up the UI for people who didn't sign up to see posts like this. So, now that we've established that it obviously wouldn't help your fake reason for this, and it doesn't make the website immediately easier to use, would you kindly stop lying to the user base and give the real reason for this unpopular change?

Reading your blog and seeing your rationale for other—extremely unpopular—attempted recent changes to how Tumblr functions, it seems to me that you and your team don't want to be working on Tumblr at all. It seems that with your focus on (some would say obsession with) algorithmic feeds and nested reply chains that you wish this was, and worked like, Twitter or Reddit. This is not Twitter or Reddit or Instagram or Facebook. If we wanted that experience and to be part of that audience, we would be there. You will not be profitable trying to be Reddit 2 or Twitter 6. You would be popular trying to be a functional Tumblr. You announced you were trying to make Search work. Prioritize that.

I'm throwing bad eggs and rotten fruit at you in my mind.

Comments being tucked away and tied to the original post is the appeal of them. They allow for a micro-forum experience and have less commitment than a reblog or new post chain. You are a complete boob for not getting this.

Showing total strangers that I said that and think it will not actually discourage me from saying it or thinking it. It will give me a bigger audience when I announce you're a complete boob.

[modelsof-color]

Adol Akuei by Luke Dickey for Numero Netherlands Magazine September 2025

[whitechocolatespaceegg]

Happy Pride

[lesbianbloodritual]

so how do i tell you this

[autumntides]

[gaypornvideoswebsite]

mid-way pride month check-in

[gaypornvideoswebsite]

just saw someone comment under a videoclip of the sylvia rivera interview where she insists on the modern (circa 2001) pride movement being a capitalist smokescreen, a “straight gay” movement that worships the almighty dollar, that:

and this person is likely quite young but this really really really captures the limited imagination of capitalist neoliberal indoctrination around freedom and liberation. radical queerness treated as a paintjob over a prison as opposed to the bulldozer that tears the prison down. we have to dream for so much more and endure the pain of dreaming.