From the OP: "If you sit at a desk or stare at your phone all day, this is for you. Here's how to undo the damage:
- Banded Chin Tucks - Strengthen your neck flexors and fight forward head posture
- Banded Pull-Aparts - Target your rotator cuff and improve shoulder stability
- Banded Abduction - Activate the midline of your scapula for better posture
- Lateral Deltoid Raises - Build shoulder stability and control
- Banded Up-and-Overs – Boost scapular mobility and range of motion
These simple banded drills will help you stand taller, move better, and feel stronger - even after hours at a desk."
Some of these are the same or similar to the exercises my physical therapist taught me.
When someone leaves some comments for you in the tags, it can be a difficult to find those nice comments again. Unlike a comment in a reblog, comments in the tags can be annoying to look back on because you have to go back to the reblogged post to see it. Maybe you missed someone asking to be on your tag list because you missed seeing that reblogged post, maybe someone said something really nice that made your day that you need to dig through to find again.
But there’s actually a way to see all tags on a post without skipping around! It took me way too long to figure this out, and I’m just making this little guide here because I’m sure there are other people who didn’t know about this too.
*Note: This only works on computers.
Step 1: Click on the human on the top right of your dashboard, then go to settings.
Step 2: Go to the right hand side of your screen, and click on “Labs”
Step 3: Enable Tumblr Labs
Step 4: Scroll down, and enable “Tag Crawler”
Congrats, you’ve enabled the tag crawler!
Now go to one of your posts, and click on the notes.
Click the # in the little pop-up…
Voila, now you can see every single tag people have left on your post!
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how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)
there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~
I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:
url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant
url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first
url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order
url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes
url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now
url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc
url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly
url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant)
the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog!
caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks.
if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else
if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims)
You can still get at someone’s archive even if they don’t have a custom theme! Just type in https://whatever.tumblr.com/archive/ as if they did. Still works. (At least it’s still worked for me on every such blog I’ve tried this on.)
You can also do an AND search for two tags at a time like this:
https://silveth.tumblr.com/search/#monkey island #fanfic
(I.e., posts that have both of those tags; not an OR search that returns posts that have one or the other.) This might not be perfect because I think it will also get posts where one or the other is actually in the body of the post, since it’s /search/ and not /tagged/, but in my experience the false positives are few to none. (That works in the global Tumblr search too, by the way.)
[Image description: Screenshot of the Custom Theme setting, which is found on the Blog Settings page. A slider called “Enable custom theme” is in the on position. Text below the slider explains what enabling this setting means. It says “Create a separate theme for your blog. Change the layout. Edit the code. Make an entirely new theme. It’s up to you.” /end ID]
i like this a lot but feel the need to add one major caveat: any of these options that include url.tumblr.com/tagged/ only work if the person running the url.tumblr.com blog tags their posts.
if you’re looking for a post on someone’s blog and that someone didn’t tag the post with anything, you can try url.tumblr.com/search/croissant (if you think the word “croissant” was in the body of the post), url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 (if you know the blog made or reblogged the post on november 5th, 2020), or url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio (if you know it was an audio post), but url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant won’t get you anywhere because it ignores posts that the blog didn’t tag.
if that blog does tag things, you can use the url.tumblr.com/tagged/ options. however, depending on how many posts the blog has used that tag on, it may take longer than a few seconds to find the single post you’re looking for. i tag every post on my blog in case i want to find it later, so i can (and do) use howdydowdy.tumblr.com/tagged/[tag] extensively. but i have tags that i’ve used on thousands of posts, so even if i get all of the posts that use that tag to come up, i’ve got to narrow down the results, which can take a while.
one other thing: if i type url.tumblr.com/search/#[tag1] #[tag2] into the address bar, it doesn’t work; it just redirects to my entire blog. what does work is url.tumblr.com/search/%23[tag1] %23[tag2]. so if i wanted to type the example in the previous reblog (https://silveth.tumblr.com/search/#monkey island #fanfic) into my address bar instead of clicking on the link, i would have to type in https://silveth.tumblr.com/search/%23monkey island %23fanfic. just a note for anyone who, like me, immediately tries to use that structure with different tags and/or a different blog.
EDIT: THIS IS A CARRD NOW! it's updated and organized!!
use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
use firefox or librewolf (open-source fork of firefox) instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
use mega instead of google drive
get rid of bloatware
use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
get free stuff with the help of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH, r/piracy and r/roms
use trakt (for shows and movies), letterboxd (just movies), or TMB instead of IMDB (owned by amazon).
use storygraph instead of goodreads (owned by amazon).
use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
use search for a cause, ecosia, or ocean hero to support the environment instead of google
use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
burn your music onto cds
use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, or tuta instead of gmail
remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
remove bloatware on samsung X
use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
use project gutenberg for free public domain books, and librivox for public domain books and audiobooks
use the seal app (android only) to download video and audio
use ellipsus instead of microsoft word or google docs
use mastodon instead of twitter
use peertube to create a network of small video hosting providers (disclaimer: not a 1:1 alternative to youtube)
use threema and signal for encrypted communication, on mobile and desktop
use qwant and startpage for secure internet browsers
use syncthing to securely transfer files between devices
learn how to jailbreak your kindle/ereader if you have one (wiki and video walkthrough)
use riseup’s email and VPN for secure communication (aimed towards activists)
use cryptpad and collabora instead of the microsoft office suite
use google takeout to export the data on your google account
use library extension to look for books on online stores and find them at your library
remove paywalls with removepaywalls
install the open-source adblocker ublock origin
install sponsorblock to skip sponsored segments on youtube videos
use bookfinder to look for the cheapest available listings of books, including textbooks
learn a language through mango (duolingo laid off some of its employees and now relies on AI translations) for free with a library card or through your school
edit photos with photopea
edit pdfs with foxit and sumatrapdf
download music with doubledouble
take notes offline and collaborate securely with obsidian
for android tv, use smarttube and cloudstream (ad-free, open-source)
change your OS to linux
changelog:
removed ground news (uses AI to summarize articles)
removed unroll.me (sells your data)
removed proton mail and drive (AI assistant feature, claims of CEO Andy Yen supporting Trump, please DM if you have proof I can add here)
removed NCH suite (only has very basic free features, puts watermark on anything saved)
notes:
this post blew up while I wasn’t looking (the end of my semester was hellish, and i recently came back from a 3-week family vacation). thanks so much for all the suggestions! <3
i included Ecosia because of their financial transparency. It’s physically impossible that they plant a tree for every search, but their profits still go towards projects including reforestation and solar energy. i view their actions as a net-positive
feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3
Ariana Grande: There’s something baked into these roles that um these two very different women just fall completely, completely in love with each other and they love each other so much and that is mirrored experience of what happened between Cynthia and I, like we love each other so much and I feel very very grateful to have learned so much from her in a human level and obviously on a professional level.
What I love most about this is that Glinda being over-dramatic over a non-injury just to get Elphaba’s attention and kisses, not to mention Elphaba knowing that she’s being ridiculous but still being unable to resist her cute pouting, is perfectly in character for both of them.
