@minutiaeellipsism - Tumblr Blog

beardedmrbean

theman

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

tattooedzombigirl

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

imanutcase-10

Then bring me luck

thirddeadlysin

the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work

icantbearsedtothinkofone

Hey Potato, cure my -ing cold so I can have a good time while away.

dduane

Here's the potato. Make what use of it you will. :)

cangelala

God I need this so bad for my Midterm so please let this work again for me.

drakensberg-blog

The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor.

poupon

how dare you say we piss on the poor

sparrow-va

all hail the 1 million note Piss Post

depsidase

kandimouse

to those of you who are moving here from tiktok, from someone whos used both tiktok and tumbr for years...

1. DO NOT censor your posts

dont censor sex, abuse, suicide, dont censor it. we dont have censors like tiktok does, you wont be banned for talking about these things and tagging them properly helps people avoid them (also, we dont have shadowbanning here)

2. we dont really have an algorithm

you follow who you follow, and you see posts from who you follow or what you search. the 'for you page' is basically useless here. this also brings me to my next two points

3. dont crosstag

we get it, on tiktok you have to crosstag for reach, but thats not really a thing here. just tag your posts properly (also posters often leave more info about the post in the tags!! and when you reblog stuff you can leave your own notes in the tags, kind of like the old "repost comments" on tiktok)

4. dont expect to go viral/be famous

"viral" isnt really a thing on here (at least not for the average blogger). your posts will probably get 2-10 likes and you wont get nearly as many followers than on tiktok. thats just how tumblr is

5. blocking is your best friend

tiktok is VERY discussion based, and while tumblr is much more discussion based than other social medias, its still not a good place for ragebait/discourse. dont interact, itll make your experience worse in the end, just block and move on

6. you cant go into someone elses house and start rearranging their furniture

this is tumblr, not tiktok. dont diss old tumblr users for how they use the site or try to change them, thats like going into someone elses house and trying to rearrange their furniture. we've been here longer and we're familiar with the site and its culture, either find your niche, adapt, or find a different app

goingknowherewastaken

Another important point

You need to actually reblog posts for this site to work as it should.

Liking posts only saves them in a spot that no one checks except for the user who liked them. Most people have their liked posts hidden.

Also, this site has a spam bot problem. One way we weed those out is to check the blog to see if it's actually being used to post legitimate content. If there is absolutely nothing on your blog you're getting blocked and some users may just straight up report you as spam as a precaution.

Not to mention that the posts you reblog will only be seen by you and whoever follows you. Tagging it "fyp" does absolutely nothing.

bakerstreet-and-beyond

There seems to be a general malaise on most of Tumblr about TikTok getting banned in the United States.

I understand the problems, "brain rot", whatever but- A government banning a social media app that opened the world for many people is legitimately scary and upsetting. Say what you want but, there are MANY global and local issues that would not have gotten the same traction, recognition, and outreach without TikTok.

And then add to this that Meta/Facebook was one the largest lobbyists working to get TikTok banned... Like- I think folks should be more concerned about the implications of what this means, especially since the ban goes into effect the day before inauguration.

vaspider

A lot of small businesses are just staring at a cliff coming right for them and they genuinely don't know what to do. It's hard to explain how good TikTok has been for a lot of little businesses. It's been accessible for people in a way that, like, Facebook hasn't been.

I never got really into it but I know a lot of small business owners who are really, really freaked out.

naamahdarling

Yeah this is a really bad thing, guys. You being a crotchety old fart and not liking "unalive" (which is the result of a dystopian level of suppression and not fucking stupidity, you walnuts) needs to take a back seat to the fact that a lot of people have lost a very necessary interface with the world.

vaspider

#there are many very valid arguments for banning tik tok#it’s not as simple as the ‘brain rot’ argument#tik tok is a national security issue that is mass scraping data#and the algorithm censors anything china critical and pushes misinformation#I hope the EU goes the same way#no matter how good an app is#it’s not worth the security problem#I bet many of those who are upset about the banning are the same ones#upset that musk has access to all data regarding Tesla#(I am too) But with tik tok that breach is done by an often hostile government#its more than “a silly dance app”#I see the argument with small business owners but new platforms can be built#that aren’t owned by dictatorships who are in a triad with Russia and Iran regarding their position against the US and EU

Okay, I'm not dunking on this person, I'm grabbing these tags because this is an argument I see a lot, and...

Genuinely, so... your stance is "so instead it should be a US company that has unfettered access to and scrapes people's data"? Because, like... I'm upset about the amount of data that's going out the door on a daily basis to Facebook and Instagram and and and -- but the reality is that this is much less about national security and much more about Zuck and Musk being mad that they feel like their slices of pie are getting smaller, and the US being pissed that there's something out there that's this popular that they don't have control over.

"New platforms can be built" okay but by whom? And in the meantime, who exactly is paying these people's mortgages and buying their food? Who is giving them back the audiences they built?

If they were really concerned about data scraping, they could have built EU-style robust consumer rights, but... they didn't. They just stopped one company.

So... I wrote all of that yesterday, 1/12/25. I put it in drafts to see if I wanted to even post this, and then today:

If you still really believe this is truly about "national security" and not "bringing all of the main social media sites under Trump-camp control for the purposes of functionally creating state-run social media," man, IDK what to say.

You should read that whole article. It's... illuminating.

saywhat-politics

Insider says Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg will be on platform with Trump's Cabinet nominees

The people in the top three spots on Forbes' billionaire list—Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg—will have prime seats at President-elect Trump's inauguration next week. NBC News, citing "an official involved with the planning of the event," reports that the three tech billionaires will be sitting together on the platform with other high-profile guests, including Trump's Cabinet nominees. Bezos and Zuckerberg's companies, Amazon and Meta, have each donated $1 million to the inauguration, while Musk spent more than $250 million to help Trump win the election, reports Reuters.

catboybreeder

Oligarchy, only now out in the open lol

were--ralph

someone has the chance to do the funniest thingn possible

theknightlywolfe

Health insurance industry leaders leaned on the US Department of Justice to prosecute accused UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione.

According to reporting by Joe Marino, Ben Kochman and Matt Troutman last week, health insurance leaders pressured the DOJ to make an example

damnesdelamer

memewhore

bananahomo

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.

dude.

$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.

puppylovesystem

re-reblogging and thinking about when i have another collection agency calling that i can just do this

secondmoredangerouseyes

Yo this is such good info to have

sorceress-foxgirl-ariel

Cheers Americans, have fun with this one

alexiaroselikethewine

Being recently disabled this is going to relieve a FUCK TON of weight holy SHIT

otatma

darnitjack

A true successor of Thomas Edison

toastbutteregg

surprise surprise

captain-snark

finally some good fucking salt over thomas eddison on this site

livebloggingmydescentintomadness

it’s also not even HIS money, it’s his father’s money, made from apartheid emerald mining. that money was made from the blood and suffering of countless poor people of color so the rich could wear pretty rocks.

elon musk has never done or made anything valuable or worthwhile in his life.

ruimtetijd

Tesla was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.

I think it would be funny if this fun fact became common knowledge.

sternen--staub

occasional posts from users

ann-decart

reblog if you make occasional posts

fearsomeandwretched

This made me bust out laughing

hymn-of-the-moon

renamon

Peer-reviwed from @myturtlegotjacked

cosmicretreat

Not a single monkey survived the Neuralink experiment. I’ll bet Elmo can’t wait to start torturing and murdering human beings with this.

odinsblog

Let us recap all of the major cons & grifts that many “journalist” fanboys inside the Musk Distortion Field™ are always so quick to always eat up without any serious pushback

Full Self Driving (link)

Cyber Truck’s “indestructible” windows (post)

SpaceX Starship debacle (post)

The Dogecoin scam (link)

Boring Tunnel to nowhere scam (link)

The meritorious, “self made man” mythos

And that’s without even addressing the absolute, total shitstorm of a racist cesspool that Elon Musk has turned Twitter into.

Honestly, anyone who buys into his Neuralink scam deserves whatever happens to them if they put that thing anywhere near their body.

mj-theskywitch

great post but the people who will be most negatively affected by neuralink won't be bootlicking tech bros, itll be disabled people desperate for effective and affordable treatment that will be signing up for these trials. they are the ones who will die. please give a shit about them

sealpup9

Friendly reminder one of the things Neuralink is supposed to try and "fix" is autism. Its vile.

Also repeating this again:

The main people affected by Neuralink will be disabled people deaperate for treatment

constant-valued-deactivated2024

Or worse, disabled kids who have no agency in the decisions their parents make regarding them.

n-namida

alonglineofbread

nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix

Guys, Elon released his stupid AI on Twitter and the first thing his idiot devotees did was ask it if trans women are really women and they are losing it over getting the correct answer back.