Welcome To My World!

I’m a professional wrestler now. Hello!

[alarmist-nonsense]

[darkarfs]

and get a load of the interface

have fun, everyone!

[tactical-shrubbery]

[ryan-sometimes]

At any given moment I am thinking about Lzzy Hale letting out the most insane scream I've ever heard like 20 seconds after walking onstage

[roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it]

What if 🤔 we kissed 😳 in the mosh pit 🤘of a Halestorm concert 👁👄👁

[queenofnowhereandnothing-deacti]

[jadedaceofspades-deactivated202]

Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

a story in 3 parts

[neilnevins-deactivated20240617]

Bugs Bunny could singlehandedly defeat Thanos by dressing up as a TSA agent and setting up a metal detector in the middle of the battlefield saying that all metal objects must be removed if you want to pass on through now stick around for my 2,000 word essay on just how effectively he would convince The Mad Titan to comply

[neilnevins-deactivated20240617]

“For shame, doc! Dontcha know we got other folks waiting?”

(Thanos looks behind him and sees dozens of Bugs Bunnies dressed as angry yelling travelers with huge bags of luggage. Thanos rubs his neck guiltily and begins sliding off the gauntlet)

[vampiricyoshi]

I felt compelled

[gallusrostromegalus]

I don’t think I’ve seen such a finely crafted Looney Toons joke in over two decades. Bravo.

[catcrumb]

Hey I’m really sorry if this is weird and you can delete it if it is but I had a dream last night that you were like going through a divorce??? Like in real life??? (Idk if you’re even married in real life???) So all your cat drawings stopped being cute and fun and you started only posting like pics of sad little cats going “NO MORE LOVE!!” and “BROKEN-ASS MARRIAGE!!”

dreams to reality

[itscolossal]

Earth’s Rotation Visualized in a Timelapse of the Milky Way Galaxy by Aryeh Nirenberg

[akiyty]

[drst]

This messed me up.

[bestie-gor]

We really do just be on a rock without a fucking clue huh

[adonischildsupportcase]

[neenarchive]

covid sucks man i miss when you'd be at a gallery or museum and someone who knows shit would randomly talk to you for ages about the exhibit

[neenarchive]

me, head empty, standing in the museum looking at a painting: huh freakie lookin

lady about to give me her whole art history education for free:

[insomniac-arrest]

sometimes I get so angry thinking about ‘The Imitation Game’ that I have to go in a little ‘upset big tantrum room’ in my head for a calm down

like, Benisnatch Cumberque played the same character he’s always plays as an asshole genius and we were all supposed to be okay with it, but it’s basically character slander

at different parts of the movie Turing is described as ‘arrogant, “inhuman,” “narcissistic,” and even “a monster,” in the film he goes against those around him and is shown to periodically ignore and belittle his colleagues

And. I. Am. So. Angry.

Alan Turing was described by his friends and people that knew him as “intensely shy and kindly”, he was said to “inspire loyalty and affection among those who appreciated his unusual gifts” and was “unfailingly generous with his time and expertise, especially toward younger recruits”

He was kind, he was kind, HE WAS KIND, he was kind

he was kind and geeky and awkward and gay, I don’t care if the whole of society doesn’t find that compelling, I don’t care if we don’t value kindness as an attribute in men, he deserved to be loved and respected as he was, not as we wish he was

I am so sorry Alan Turing, I am so sorry your story was not told with care and thoughtfulness, I am so sorry you didn’t get to be shown to be deeply in love with the men you loved, I am sorry your great and terrible tragedy was never unfolded as a kind and brilliant man abused by a horrible homophobic system

You are a hero that turned the tides of history like no other and I am so sorry

[boykeats]

hey op if you’re looking for a kinder movie about alan turing, you should check out breaking the code (1996). breaking the code was originally a stage play, and this is a filmed adaptation. it’s more faithful to his personality, stars derek jacobi (who was also a gay man and plays the part with so much sympathy), and it doesn’t bungle historical details for the sake of adding more drama. here’s a link to a youtube playlist where you can watch it in full

[asundergrowth]

He felt bad for the children who were stuck at bletchley park without their toys so he used spare paper from his office to make them a monopoly board by hand

[insomniac-arrest]

He was also reported as having a goofy sense of humor where he used to make a show of saying goodbye to everyone at the party and then walk into the closet instead of out the front door

Plus, he was quoted as saying quips like “Beyond the way they speak, there is only one (no two!) features of American life which I find really tiresome. The impossibility of getting a bath in the ordinary sense and their ideas on room temperature.” — Alan Turing (1936)

He was a huge athlete and biked everywhere and sometimes ran the five miles to work every morning, and did things like calculate when his bike chain would break so he could keep riding the thing despite it being ancient

He was still “odd” according to his coworkers as he sometimes wore a gasmask to work to avoid spring allergies and used to chain his coffee mug up to avoid theft at the office, but the same colleagues described him as very friendly, open, and thoughtful as well if not shy.

and finally, of course, there was Porgy

He used to practice his Cambridge lectures in front of this stuffed bear he got in college named Porgy and was delighted when his mom sewed it a little outfit. He kept the bear with him throughout life.

[femtopulsed]

He also really really sucked at crosswords

[o-kurwa]

[gotterhag]

I hate this

[sentimental-apathy]

What. The. FUCK.

[justlookatthosesausages]

The fact he rewards the viewer who watched the 3rd loop by stopping the man this time!! King of Editing.

[sanctuaryforalluniverses]

That bit isn't editing - the original loop has all three times. You can tell because the leftover paint he doesn't quite fix has a slightly different pattern both times. 

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

...that is some Looney Tunes shit right there.

[erindrifter]

Y'all wanna see how this is done, as well as other videos by Zach King?

[hellmandraws]

With Easter fast approaching with its spiked rabbit sales and subsequent spiked rabbit abandonment rates, I thought I’d use my powers for good by spreading some information I think everyone should know before they get their first bunny. I usually don’t want people reposting my art, but feel free to spread this one around! Reblogs are very, very appreciated. If you want more information about pet rabbits, you can for example check out rabbit.org. And remember: Adopt, don’t shop!

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[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

[feministism]

[pinkhairedposts]

find your birth year and that is the percentage of your life that the U.S has been at war

[your-local-salty-bitch-deactiva]

holy shit

[shorts-muchacho-papi]

Do they even remember why they’re there?

[hellenhighwater]

I see a lot of people who tell young people–especially young people who are heading into college–that they should “do what they love.” And they’re right. You should do what you love.

But there’s a world of difference between doing what you love for you, and doing what you love for a paycheck. 

I went to undergrad for graphic design and 3-D design–art and more art, I usually say–and I loved it. You know what I didn’t love? Trying to collect my fees from clients. Trying to meet unrealistic, over-simplified or over-specific briefs from people who didn’t know what they were talking about. Coming home, having worked creatively all day, with no creative juice left for the things I wanted to do.

You know what I would tell you instead? Do something that you can be interested in, with people you like.

You don’t have to love it. Loving your work can be a lot, and it often means you have to live in your job 24/7. Some people can do that. Not everyone can, or should.  But if you can find work that’s interesting enough that it doesn’t feel tedious, and people you can enjoy spending your 9-5 with, and you can make money, that’s great! It means you can do the things you love for you.

I’m in law school now. It’s interesting work, and difficult, and I like doing it. I like how complicated it gets, and I like the stories it tells. But I don’t come home and read law journals for fun. I come home, and I sculpt, and I draw, and I paint, and I read. I do these things for me.

And I love it. 

[shimmeringecho]

Gods I wish I’d had this ten years ago when everyone was pushing for me to do art for a living. Probably wouldn’t have burned out as hard as I did

[fangirltothefullest]

Also if it’s ok to add? Ita ok to not want to be at the top of the pyramid. It’s ok if the things you love aren’t what you want to do in a job and it’s also ok not to want to be the head cheese. It’s ok if you like doing your day to day and go home and enjoy your time at home more than your job. Most people don’t have the luck or luxury to enjoy their job 24/7. It’s ok to do the daily trudge and be excited about the time tour away from the job. Many people tho k you have to make your job your life and if you aren’t drilled in your job you just haven’t found the right one and then judge you if you dont want to be the head CEO someday or the head manager or the business owner or inventor or top designer or whatever. I think it’s super important to understand that work and hobby can be separate and if you dont want to be the big cheese you shouldn’t feel bad about it.

And it’s not a waste of your “potential” if you prefer to do your hobbies as only hobbies. It’s ok to have the mundane boring job if that’s what you’re comfortable with. Don’t let anyone bully you into doing stuff for their sake.