ANTACID CHEWS

Ashton Bonafide adult Who me? I'm just Granola.

[binaryoutliar]

Planning my Super Sweet Suicide for my 25th birthday.

Finally gonna be successful at something.

[binaryoutliar]

Sometimes I like to assert myself as a Local to the College Students by saying “Y’all”.

[ordinaryredtail]

The kestrel shuffle! Gotta keep them eggs warm!

Source: Nest Box Live

[deathsmallcaps]

(My experience with broody birds is chickens) Why does she do that? Is she having trouble keeping all the eggs under her? Or does she not pluck her breast to expose her skin to the eggs for more warmth?

[ordinaryredtail]

Yep, birds of prey usually also pluck a brood patch! Shes doing it to rotate and reposition the eggs under her to keep them all warm.

[raeseddon]

Best quality: her mama wiggles

[owl-song]

I am no kind of bird expert, but I think it’s mama AND papa wiggles? At 0:06 and 0:41 that is definitely a different bird.

[ordinaryredtail]

Yes, the gray headed bird is the male!

[wadebae]

[cyanideending]

i think i’m funny

[theterrorofzanarkand]

The sequel

[phantomrose96]

I love tumblr. I love that tumblr is the best social media site of 2021.

Every other site has spent the last decade perfecting the art of targeted ads. I am a wallet of flesh and blood which must be stripped bare and profiled and picked apart for the maximally efficient way to squeeze profit from my presence. Every other site will fold and morph itself to a shape of my liking - like a fairy tale trickster stealing memories and taking their mold - to lull me into compliance and loosen my coin purse.

Facebook sees me searching fitness equipment and injects my timeline with athletic wear ads. Reddit profiles the subreddits I follow and eagerly promotes a new coding bootcamp or cloud service at every turn. Google overhears me lamenting over my moving to-do list on voice call and fills in my “how much to tip movers” query before I’ve gotten the third word typed out.

Tumblr never even tried.

They could have. The information is there. The basic infrastructure, presumably, exists. Tumblr can recommend me tags based on tags I follow, blogs based on blogs I follow, even posts that for one reason or another may strike my fancy. Tumblr could be - SHOULD be - funneling this framework into advertising, as the only means that free-to-use social media platforms can turn a profit in our capitalistic hellscape.

They just don’t.

Today I saw an ad for treating Hyperhidrosis - a condition, I think, in which a person sweats too much - and I saw it twice, four posts apart, and it is so incredibly benignly impersonally ineptly untargeted toward me compared to all other pinpoint-aimed advertising that I’m endeared to it. Tumblr knows NOTHING about me. 8 years, 51,000 likes, and tumblr has not learned a THING about me.

Advertisements for a mattress? Shitty mobile game ads that don’t make even the slightest pretense at being anything other than a candy crush rip-off? Choose-your-own adventure games either about Royal Espionage or Choosing The Wrong Dress For Your Date with ZERO in-between.

And then this. This here. The culmination, the crown-jewel of tumblr’s nihilistic non-compliance with the state of social media advertising. Any pretense of capitalistic exchange is abandoned at the gas station by the side of the road. This is not a company. This is not a product. This is not anything that fulfills the contract of consumer and seller. 

THIS. THIS IS WHAT TUMBLR HAS TO OFFER INSTEAD.

“Pour vinegar on your bread, fuck you.”

“Put it in the garbage, fuck you.”

“Your wife says you’re a fucking dumbass, fuck you.”

That’s it. That’s the advertisement. You vinegar-breadless cuck. You virgin extraordinaire bereft of bread and garbage can. I am fucking your wife right now in our vinegar-soaked motel bed. She puffs a cigarette which I pulled from the trashcan and we both laugh heartily at her recounts of your immasculine ineptitude. I don’t want your money. I don’t want anything from you. Fuck you. 

Amazing. Amazing. What a state of things to ring in 2021. What a great platform we all collectively choose to be on.

[awnerd]

App Store Privacy Reports

Apple recently started forcing apps to report what information they collect and how they use it.

It’s really detailed and really easy to read.

And the difference between [tumblr] and the other platforms is… extraordinary.

TikTok Privacy Report for iOS

Facebook Privacy Report for iOS

Tumblr Privacy Report for iOS

Some take-aways

Tumblr doesn’t even have a “Data Used to Track You” section

Facebook doesn’t even have a “Data Not Linked to You” section

Facebook’s “Data Used to Track You” section contains the unsettling “other” category

TikTok links more types of data to you than Tumblr collects in total (almost none of which is connected to you)

And this is just the summary from each app. Apple actually breaks this stuff down in detail. Go to the App Store and see for yourself.

[a-tmblr-book]

Apple’s surveys are typically self-interested (does anyone believe Apple cares about people’s privacy?) but this is certainly a valuable contrast to have. It’s indeed stark how unusual tumblr is in its continued resistance to identity data-mining, although it’s not surprising given tumblr’s history of resistance to advertising generally (tumblr didn’t even start advertising until 2012!). tumblr’s practices are all the more remarkable in 2121 given the extent to which datamining has become totally naturalized across platforms and internet services more generally. Alternative ways of generating income are rarely even acknowledged, as if they are somehow not possible. 

[schafpudel]

#i cannot believe that i lived long enough to see tumblr become the best social media site #what the actual fuck #like to be fair it’s not much of a competition when the competition is trying to saw your legs off but #i remember when tumblr being a broken mess was a mark against it #now it’s a key selling feature #holy shit

[morganoperandi]

[atomic-rez]

[memecucker]

people need to shit on rural rich people more. rural rich people are all like “i’m hardy countryfolk because i don’t live in a city i’m so rugged my family owns a ranch that i never worked on but i visit i’m very off he earth which is why my big ass pickup is totally spotless i’m one the toughskinned people which is why i have a stable of horses like a cowboy except the horses are just pets and for competitions and i don’t realize owning horses just for those purposes is like one of the oldest symbols of ostentatious wealth”

[thats-howthelightgets-in]

This bitch named Hunter works at the same store I do and he's all "oh I'm a COUNTRY boy, I live on a FARM." Buddy, your barn is bigger than the apartment complex across the street and meticulously well painted, you live literally two blocks outside of town, you AND your dad have boosted Ford F-150s that haven't ever seen a speck of mud, and you bragged to me today you were going to the JOHN DEERE DEALERSHIP TO PICK UP THE WORLD'S LARGEST GRAIN TRAILER FOR YOUR 10 ACRES OF FUCKING LAND. YOUR DAD DOESN'T EVEN HUNT ON HIS OWN DAMN PROPERTY. YOU'VE NEVER DONE REAL FARM WORK IN YOUR LIFE. IF I ASKED YOU TO HAUL HAY BALES INTO THAT SHOWBOAT OF A FUCKING TRUCK I THINK YOU'D CRY. YOUR HEAD IS SHAPED LIKE A GOURD, HUNTER, A GOURD.

[doggosource]

[fox-teeth]

The struggles of the LGBT+ community are clearly far from over, but sometimes I just have to reflect on how 15 years ago, my freshly-out teenage self could never imagine a future where her adult self rolls her eyes at local bank branches done up in rainbows for Pride Month.

[drownedconcubine]

am i allowed to say stuff on here?

[jaehaerys1]

[officialromaniantranslatiuni]

[owlmylove]

#if my therapist had one of these bad boys in his office he could unlock a spectrum of mental disorders only perceptible to shrimp

[ben-lyintous]

‘I’M JUST A KID AND LIFE IS A NIGHTMARE’ i scream at the age of 23 as i’m forced to make adult phonecalls

[logarithmicpanda]

Anyone else has like... The inability to form habits?

Like normal people, they repeat something daily for a couple weeks and it sticks. They might miss a day here or there, but the overall habit is formed.

Me? I can push myself to do the same task daily for 8 months, forget one day, and it's gone. I realize 3 weeks later that i have not done it a single time since.

[naamahdarling]

ADHD mood.

[gredta]

[breadbank-deactivated20240125]

[princess-okkotsu-deactivated202]

I needed that second pic

[binaryoutliar]

Need to stop missing people who don’t miss me and never made me feel wanted in the first place

[silenthill]

man i hate the allure of a good grilled cheese. you make one and eat it and its so good and perfect, maybe a little bland but in a good way and you instantly think “man that was a really good grilled cheese, im not entirely full yet, maybe i’ll have another…” dont do it. don’t even think about it. it’s the opposite of oreos. you make your second grilled cheese and 3 bites into it you’re so overwhelmed by the monotony. “this isnt nearly as good as the last one” despite being practically identical. The grilled cheese is a sacred food, it must be eaten hot, and quick. A second one only allows you to stew in the memories of the past (your previous cheese) and your nostalgia clouds your mind, creating an epic fail bite in your newest creation of dairy and grain. Show some restraint. 

[feedyourlocalgoth]

Man I hate people who are like, super verbal about hating cats. NOBODY cares that you don’t like cats. Also I think you’re a bitch ass

[porterr-robinson]

[liquid-geodes]

[sharpii]