Fish Time

[Donnie] She/her, Pan. I'm cringe but I'm free. (Icon art by Decafbat !!!)

[donpatcchi]

[ytendril]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[mesothelihomo]

[mesothelihomo]

[snowberry-pie]

this has been discussed before but reducing female characters to the girlboss braincell holder in the name of combating misogyny in fandom is ironically also a form of misogyny

[snowberry-pie]

people love love loooove to go on and on and on about whiteguy #135336843’s internal torment and the nuances of his writing and then when it comes time to talk about women it’s all um actually she can do no wrong and holds the braincell and babysits the boys like a mother hashtag feminism. i hope you fucking blow up

[yukiyu4]

[phillip-bankss]

PSA

[librarycard]

CALLING ALL LESBIANS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS, URGENT NEED FOR ACTION!

ONE OF THE ONLY LESBIAN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES IS IN IMMINENT DANGER OF CLOSING AT THE END OF THE MONTH!

this is one of the ONLY brown and black owned, brown and black RUN lesbian bars in the united states. this dyke bar saved a historic building where poetry, music, and community has thrived for decades in denver when it was in danger of being demolished and turned into apartments.

unfortunately the repairs needed to keep the old place alive have been a lot for the owners, who are local lesbians who have worked tirelessly (and drained their life savings and taken out all that and more) to make this space happen.

this bar is my second home; it’s a place where other lesbians, ESPECIALLY BLACK AND BROWN LESBIANS, are able to have events, make community, and be free to be themselves. there are so few lesbian bars in the country and WE NEED TO SUPPORT THEM WHILE WE CAN. they are posed to close and the end of april, at which point denver’s historic mercury cafe (the space they took over and saved) will likely be destroyed and turned into another soulless gentrified complex of buildings in what was once (AND ALWAYS WILL BE) denver’s historic black neighborhood, five points.

don’t just save the pearl for colorado lesbians, save the pearl for YOU and for every lesbian and queer person who doesn’t have a place to go be transgender, be in drag, and be in or find love. SAVE THE PEARL BY DONATING AND SHARING!!!!!

DONATE HERE!!!!!

[librarycard]

to reflect the amazing turnout and further keep the bar secure for future use, the goal has been raised to 80k!!! we are over 10% of the way to the goal in just an hour or so!!! please keep sharing

[librarycard]

20,134/80,000

26% of the way there! please keep sharing!!!!

[moonibinbon]

If anyone is uncertain, here are a few general info links:

The Pearl | Denver’s sapphic bar and cafe

The Pearl is Denver's sapphic focused bar and cafe. Come on in and see what's happening in the Rose Room, Jungle Room, and Warehouse!

The Pearl Is Closing Its Doors This Month

“We have worked tirelessly to find solutions and do everything in our power to avoid this conclusion."

This is real and we really need your help!

[ankle-beez]

the chain of events in this minute and a half clip is so extremely delightful and funny

[ankle-beez]

kermit and scooter riffing on how their physicality doesn't let them open the envelope to announce the winner. the audience immediately cracking up when it cuts to statler and waldorf because they know what the bit is gonna be. jim henson slipping into the kermit voice accidentally before bouncing back at record speed and riffing on it. richard hunt genuinely laughing at jim's joke but doing so in-character. prime muppets was something else man

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[changes]

It’s very clear that you all have strong feelings about Tumblr and about this change. We hear you. The passion people have for how Tumblr works is one of the things that makes this place special.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

If you’d like to talk directly beyond the comments, leave a reply and we’ll follow up with as many of you as we can. We want to work with you to make Tumblr better.

[icannotgetoverbirds]

hey folks do we like this. reblog without commentary for reach

do we want this?

yes

no

Voting ended onMar 23

[unalivejournal]

Reddit post: Hey I'm thinking about pursuing this career does anyone have any advice for my path?

Comments: This job is hell my life is hell don't do it. I wake up every morning for work and hold a gun to my head while doing deep breathing exercises. Find a time machine and go back to 1979 if you even want a chance of getting a position. Prepare to move 5000 miles away. You will be paid one penny per hour for the first 15 years and your days will be 12 hours long at minimum. Being dead is better than doing this profession

[berlynn-wohl]

[yonmifanart]

The man sprinting toward life

[theropoda]

being on this website as it gets worse really makes me understand what it feels like to be a highly specialized species suffering under habitat destruction

[sexhaver]

the staff post about the change has accrued over 11k negative replies in approximately 8 hours. that averages to one piece of negative feedback every three seconds. for 8 hours.

[sreegs]

lmao ait's all fucked

[sreegs]

reblogs are fucked

[sreegs]

the way this works is, someone up the chain gets an idea in their head that "tumblr is too hard to use for new users" (which is true, more on that later) and the easy scapegoat is "why are there THREE different ways to reply to a post: replies, reblogs, and tags???" they bounce a few brain cells together and come up with a plan, albeit not a good one. they usually try to copy what other platforms are doing because those are known, working methods for building a feed with likes and re-(verbs). in this update's case they finally pulled the trigger on the idea that reblog chains should split off from the main post because they're effectively new posts (in the tumblr DB, every reblog is its own post but that's not important) i'm gonna be honest: when I was working at tumblr, I had this same exact thought. I thought "why don't I get activity on my reblog comments that get their own likes/reblogs/etc". Then I thought about it for more than 10 minutes and realized it's a bad idea. I was also an engineering grunt and not a product decider so I had no real say anyways.

Anyways, plan from above gets executed with "A/B" testing, sometimes. In this case I'm not sure if it was but, in my experience, even when Tumblr had more competent knowledgeable people working on it, they never did a real A/B test the way you should. They got close, but in the end things just got rolled out if they didn't disturb things "too much". They also look for signals that it's working if people post more. do they separate out "people posting about this saying this is a bad idea" vs "posts in general"? No. I was there for the "no more replies" then "replies are back!" fiasco. The justification for ditching support for a feature (any feature, not just replies) is that anything that's an extra thingamajig upon the Tumblr codebase requires you to maintain it and fix it if it breaks. Less unique features = less stuff to fix. In this case, they saw replies were barely used vs other methods of communicating, so they figured they could get rid of replies when they introduced Messaging! Because now you can just DM the person rather than leaving a reply!

obviously that backfired. Tumblr once again touched the hot stove of "small but vocal group of users use this, actually" and they had to revert it. What they did do, at least, is fix a bunch of stuff with replies before bringing them back. I can't remember off the top of my head what they fixed but it was something like making them easier to use and read.

back to "tumblr is too hard to use for new users". it is because not many people use tumblr vs other places. so its patterns are not familiar. but that's not a good enough excuse for companies that own tumblr because infinite growth is the goal. most posts = more users therefore friction between users and making new posts must be eliminated. however this conflicts with what makes tumblr unique, which is why people stick around to use it. catch 22.

this is going to keep happening as long as people, at any company, in charge of "product decisions" do not actually use the product they're making decisions for, or don't bother to use it in a way that people who really like it use it.

[virtualgirladvance]

[shrekfiona]

not to be that person, but making angry posts about the update isn't gonna do anything. if you're actually annoyed, i'd recommend contacting the staff to complain. if everyone does their part, i'm sure these trash updates will be rolled back. let's go!!!

you can send your feedback here: https://www.tumblr.com/support. the more people describing the issue, the better.

tumblr also has accounts on twitter (here) and instagram (this is their latest post). it'd be worth commenting there too! let's flood their last post with complaints, i guarantee we'll get some kind of response.