yes we will

[lorec-x]

It's really a losing battle to try and argue with Tumblr staff if whoever's in charge now has decided they want to finally put Old Yeller down. You might be able to stop them this time, but if they no longer understand what made this website valuable, they'll wait for you to turn your back and happily grind you down into engagement monster food until you don't even notice your own acquiescence. Do you really want to beg them on your knees to reverse breaking changes forever? Something very similar to this just happened to LessWrong. We're probably fucked.

RIP Tumblr, you raised me. You helped me understand that people like me could be normal. Thanks for holding out as long as you did.

[lorec-x]

But like, most of all, thank you to the people. Y'all had the highest discourse standards maybe ever. You're like America having a reputation for being a shitty place to live, except if Europeans weren't jealous and actually just didn't care about being able to afford restaurant food. You will be missed. Painfully.

[lorec-x]

It's really a losing battle to try and argue with Tumblr staff if whoever's in charge now has decided they want to finally put Old Yeller down. You might be able to stop them this time, but if they no longer understand what made this website valuable, they'll wait for you to turn your back and happily grind you down into engagement monster food until you don't even notice your own acquiescence. Do you really want to beg them on your knees to reverse breaking changes forever? Something very similar to this just happened to LessWrong. We're probably fucked.

RIP Tumblr, you raised me. You helped me understand that people like me could be normal. Thanks for holding out as long as you did.

[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!

[cryptotheism]

Not only will this ruin a core element of Tumblr, it will make it very difficult to tell where and when a post is getting traction. People are on this website because it isn't Twitter. Making it more like Twitter will turn people away.

[cryptotheism]

The last thing this website needs is a culture of catty twitter-style quote-retweets. This will actively encourage more toxic users to interact with your posts because their traffic will be more difficult to track.

[txttletale]

this actively sabotages the core benefit of tumblr over other platforms, the ability to have nuanced longform conversations. this change will make the website drastically worse

[magi-magi-tamamoland-chan]

the amount of goodwill you could earn with your userbase by saying "okay nvm" right now is astronomical

[theonion]

Remarking upon the charmed existence he had led since changing his course in life, former illustrator Allan Mansour confirmed Friday that the universe had practically been stumbling over itself to reward him for his decision to stop making art. “Gosh, my bank account is full, my personal life is flourishing, I have the respect of my friends back—and all it took was giving up the one creative pursuit I thought gave my life purpose,” said Mansour, a broad, warm smile spreading over his face as he reflected on how, in the months since he abandoned his decades-long artistic journey, he had met a supportive romantic partner, found a stable job in marketing, moved out of his childhood home, mended a poor relationship with his father, and enjoyed a run of beautiful weather that included a meteor shower, one he couldn’t help but see as the cosmos telling him he was right to finally discard his pathetic teenage dream. 

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[lorec-x]

[lorec-x]

An acquaintance I actually respect somewhat currently has an incredibly stupid misapprehension about me that he pulled directly out of his own ass, and momsplains it to me for 15-30 minutes every time he gets a chance, and saying anything would be stupid because my housing stability might rest on it

Hope I stop having the political status of an adolescent one day

[lorec-x]

I guess the reason I wanted to humblebrag about this to the Internet is, like.

At least I'm back to having the political status of a promising adolescent now, instead of one tracked for the mental institution to Who By Very Slow Decay pipeline.

[lorec-x]

I couldn't have done it without people who are tracked for that pipeline, who I can't myself help yet and who can't help themselves. Because this is a normal, meritocratic world. /s

But I still believe [how conveniently!] that freedom is not a conserved quantity.

[lorec-x]

An acquaintance I actually respect somewhat currently has an incredibly stupid misapprehension about me that he pulled directly out of his own ass, and momsplains it to me for 15-30 minutes every time he gets a chance, and saying anything would be stupid because my housing stability might rest on it

Hope I stop having the political status of an adolescent one day

[lorec-x]

I guess the reason I wanted to humblebrag about this to the Internet is, like.

At least I'm back to having the political status of a promising adolescent now, instead of one tracked for the mental institution to Who By Very Slow Decay pipeline.

[lorec-x]

An acquaintance I actually respect somewhat currently has an incredibly stupid misapprehension about me that he pulled directly out of his own ass, and momsplains it to me for 15-30 minutes every time he gets a chance, and saying anything would be stupid because my housing stability might rest on it

Hope I stop having the political status of an adolescent one day

[lorec-x]

[animentality]

[official-kircheis]

maybe if more of the world’s energy came from a very energy dense relatively abundant mineral that is found in many places rather than reserves concentrated in few places many of which are politically unstable we would be in somewhat less of a mess right now

[hoofpeet]

If social media existed in the mlp universe ponies would record strangers in public and post it online to make fun of their cutie marks

[maplemaplemaplemaplemaple]

Visit Original Link

Visit Original Link

personal soundboard for when i'm scrolling various social media websites

[evilcyclopsxmen]

“modern au” “highschool au” human/non-powered au"

Why don’t you just watch glee then.

[evilcyclopsxmen]

I use this to torture my victims:

[luciencation-deactivated2026032]

they throw regular rats at eachother

[lorec-x]

God forbid people appreciate characters. I prefer reading fiction for the worldbuilding too, but hating for that reason means you're just looking for a reason to hate something.

[tpwrtrmnky]

the way people react to media analysis positivity posts by going "well cinemasins is annoying" is like

ok so i'm saying that woodworking is fun and you're saying that a guy who makes videos about smashing his face with a plank is bad.

[tpwrtrmnky]

like yeah shit is ass when it's done badly congrats that applies to everything

[lorec-x]

"too many lamps" "that zipline wouldn't work" "these stormtroopers can't shoot" is better than "this trans woman doesn't look and act like Sigourney Weaver in Alien" "this story contains bad people" "these characters are experiencing too much racial harmony" all day

[tpwrtrmnky]

Yeah a real thing that sucks ass is better than some strawmen you just made up. Congrats.

[lorec-x]

I have no idea what form of literary criticism you were defending originally, I was assuming it was the normal kind. Do you think there are steelmen of people being mad about the trans romance anthology cover, SU criticals, and Hamilton haters?

[tpwrtrmnky]

Use more than one website. For your own good. Please. Holy shit. Read a book.

[lorec-x]

Read my posts! I said I originally assumed you were defending the normal kind. I'm something of a literary critic myself! Are you defending TumblrLitCrit [TM] as better than CinemaSins, or not?

[tpwrtrmnky]

My literary critique of this reblog chain is that the above posts employ rhetoric that uses loaded questions to presume a position that is not, at any point, apparent in the original post.

Fandoms being shit at media analysis is not "the normal kind".

[lorec-x]

I'm using loaded questions to try to get you and my followers to question your assumptions.

You said "X is bad, and a poor example of category Z".

I said "X is better than Y".

You said "Y isn't real".

I said "I thought you were talking about Z in OP. Yes, Y is real, here are some Ys, were you actually talking about Y?".

You said "Other members of category Z are more representative, better, and more important than Y".

I said "I have seen good examples of category Z. Are you saying that Y is better than X?"

And now you are still claiming for some reason that I must not know what good Z is.

Here is a link to an example of excellent literary analysis:

Omelas Is Perfectly Misread — LessWrong

The Standard Reading If you've heard of Le Guin's ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’, you probably know the basic idea. It's a go-to story

[tpwrtrmnky]

the way people react to media analysis positivity posts by going "well cinemasins is annoying" is like

ok so i'm saying that woodworking is fun and you're saying that a guy who makes videos about smashing his face with a plank is bad.

[tpwrtrmnky]

like yeah shit is ass when it's done badly congrats that applies to everything

[lorec-x]

"too many lamps" "that zipline wouldn't work" "these stormtroopers can't shoot" is better than "this trans woman doesn't look and act like Sigourney Weaver in Alien" "this story contains bad people" "these characters are experiencing too much racial harmony" all day

[tpwrtrmnky]

Yeah a real thing that sucks ass is better than some strawmen you just made up. Congrats.

[lorec-x]

I have no idea what form of literary criticism you were defending originally, I was assuming it was the normal kind. Do you think there are steelmen of people being mad about the trans romance anthology cover, SU criticals, and Hamilton haters?

[tpwrtrmnky]

Use more than one website. For your own good. Please. Holy shit. Read a book.

[lorec-x]

Read my posts! I said I originally assumed you were defending the normal kind. I'm something of a literary critic myself! Are you defending TumblrLitCrit [TM] as better than CinemaSins, or not?

[tpwrtrmnky]

the way people react to media analysis positivity posts by going "well cinemasins is annoying" is like

ok so i'm saying that woodworking is fun and you're saying that a guy who makes videos about smashing his face with a plank is bad.

[tpwrtrmnky]

like yeah shit is ass when it's done badly congrats that applies to everything

[lorec-x]

"too many lamps" "that zipline wouldn't work" "these stormtroopers can't shoot" is better than "this trans woman doesn't look and act like Sigourney Weaver in Alien" "this story contains bad people" "these characters are experiencing too much racial harmony" all day

[tpwrtrmnky]

Yeah a real thing that sucks ass is better than some strawmen you just made up. Congrats.

[lorec-x]

I have no idea what form of literary criticism you were defending originally, I was assuming it was the normal kind. Do you think there are steelmen of people being mad about the trans romance anthology cover, SU criticals, and Hamilton haters?

[tpwrtrmnky]

the way people react to media analysis positivity posts by going "well cinemasins is annoying" is like

ok so i'm saying that woodworking is fun and you're saying that a guy who makes videos about smashing his face with a plank is bad.

[tpwrtrmnky]

like yeah shit is ass when it's done badly congrats that applies to everything

[lorec-x]

"too many lamps" "that zipline wouldn't work" "these stormtroopers can't shoot" is better than "this trans woman doesn't look and act like Sigourney Weaver in Alien" "this story contains bad people" "these characters are experiencing too much racial harmony" all day