and He saw that it was good

German living in Finland. 27. INTJ. Leo. Language nerd. "Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

[ebookporn]

[jynto]

Marco Arment sucks at GDPR.

Hey!? I tried to reblog THIS POST today, funnily enough to complain about having the exact same problem. (I’m in the UK btw.)

Here’s what happened when I tried to reblog it on desktop: (I thought maybe @golbatgender had blocked me, but I was still able to follow them and reblog another of their posts.)

So I tried replying on mobile instead. No such luck. Here’s what happened when I tried to send the post or save it as a draft in the iOS app. Only this time it was much more annoying because these nasty little errors don’t show up until after you’ve finished writing.

Note that it is only this post that does it. Other posts work fine. So, not points for guessing what happened when I tried to reblog it on the mobile website.

@staff Are you fucking joking or what?!?

This may or may not be related to GDPR, but I have also found I can’t view any page at all on anyone’s blog without this clusterfuck website redirecting me to tumblr.com/dashboard. What the fucking fuck?

I have tried logging in with two accounts, three different browsers, and incognito mode. None of these did anything at all until I realised I could fix it temporarily with Hola VPN.

And while this is almost certainly unrelated to Tumblr, I do find it amusing this would happen on the same day that Instapaper, another site created by Marco Arment, decides to come back online after two months of shitting the bed with regards to GDPR.

Pictured: the page that European Instapaper users had to look at for TWO FUCKING MONTHS.

And as much as it is tempting to blame it on deliberate sabotage, I think that for both websites it was just a case of pure incompetence. Instapaper for one thing was so badly managed by its parent company, understaffed, didn’t have any idea how it wanted to make money… sounds very similar to Tumblr when you put it that way!

And no, while Marco doesn’t work at either of them anymore, he might just have left in some faulty code. Something like this perhaps?

1) If GDPR() = true; run command ShitTheBed.exe

2) Goto 1

I mean… I’m no programmer, but I imagine this is basically how this works. Right?

When this is fixed, I just know something in gonna go wrong with Overcast, Marco Arment’s latest project. Luckily all my podcasts are stored in Pocket Casts which is the superior app in my opinion. THERE, I SAID IT.

[golbatgender]

I can say for sure you weren’t blocked. (I manually blocked and then unblocked you just now, so you may need to refollow me if you were doing so before–it was the only effective way I had to check if I’d blocked you or not.)

[jenniferlawrencesource]

#she just found her roommate tortured to death in the bathtub… ya my guy she’s a little upset

[official-german-translationen]

Was ist das nur für 1 Notfall

@wtfduolingo

[wtfduolingo]

This is a gem!

[dingdongyouarewrong]

elon musk is like if you distilled the essence of 2010 “you, sir, win the most epic of upvotes” reddit and put it into the body of a wealthy peanut factory owner from 1835 london who exclusively employed 5 year old orphans

[trilllizard666]

i thank god every single fucking day i’m alive that i met fucking normal lgbt people before i fucking got on tumblr

and that i realized and came to grips with my sexuality basically entirely independent of these poisonous ass swamps in the internet

you’re all fucking trash

[takashi0]

Makes me glad I had Transgenderism explained to me by someone who wasn’t a lunatic before Tucutes became widesprad.

[sindri42]

‘Biology, especially genetics, is weird. The code for actually building a body part is huge and complicated and in a system where you only had the dna you actually used, the slightest glitch in cellular replication would leave you with like, half the source code for your eyes or something and make you totally nonfunctional, and those glitches happen literally all the time. So everybody has the full blueprints, with backups, for pretty much everything a human body might need to build, and then the genes you were dealing with in those little punnet square things in sixth grade? All they do is turn on or turn off the expression of the huge blocks of code everybody’s got. But sometimes you get a glitch where a growing body expresses mostly the traits of one set of blueprints but also some bits and pieces of another, or 2-3 conflicting blocks of code simultaneously. Depending on your definitions, somewhere between 1/2000 and 1/58 people are intersex, displaying some physical traits of both male and female bodies. But long backwards traditions, stupid religious rules, and societal expectations have resulted in most of these people being hidden, lied to or even mutilated to shove then neatly to one side or the other instead of admitting there’s a little grey area in between the two major genders. But on top of all the potential weirdness below the neck, sometimes somebody is born with a brain and a body that don’t match up right, which leads to a kind of phantom limb problem where parts that the brain knows should be there don’t exist and other parts that the brain knows are wrong are attached to the body. As long as the brain and the body don’t match, the person is never going to be able to be comfortable in their own skin and it can lead to problems like depression or even self-harm as they try to fix things themselves or escape from a body that’s all wrong. But with modern medical technology, and improvements coming all the time, we can shift people’s hormonal balance or surgically alter their bodies to match up properly with what’s been in their brain all along, allowing them to live happier, safer, and more normal lives.”

13-year-old me: Okay yeah that makes perfect sense! My lingering prejudice against trans people is dispelled and I will support them however I can!

“Lol actually there are an infinite array of genders and you just pick one that seems fun for yourself! If you want to be a woman you just are now! Or a star or a fairy or a bunny or a god!”

20-something me: What the fuck hold up. Didn’t we spend the last fifty years fighting and dying to convince people that being gay is inherent, not a choice? And why would anybody “choose” to be trans when trans people are getting murdered all the time? Your premise makes no logical sense and as your ideas become more widespread it is becoming harder and harder for dysphoria to be accepted as a legitimate medical condition, cutting real people in danger off from potentially life saving treatment.

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

 hey. hey. hey, listen. 

This is antisemitism. 

Taking the real life, actual story of Anne Frank, the actual human being Anne Frank who was murdered by the nazis for being Jewish, and changing the actual real story of the history of the Holocaust as experienced by Anne Frank to be about non-comparable Current Year events is antisemitism. 

[nuttyrabbit]

Every stupid motherfucker who supports this shit is required to give me 20 dollars

[quick-ship-delivery]

How is this antisemitism though? And while it is true that the are a lot of differences between Current Events, and the what happened to Anne Frank,it seems to me that the point of the production is to highlight the similarities between the actions taken by the current administration, and those of Nazi Germany. It’s not a perfect analogue, and perhaps making a change in the script of the same play was in bad taste, but I would hardly call it antisemitic, as that would require it to be “hostile to or prejudiced against Jews” which, best I can tell, it is not, as it is attempting to shed light on the similar situations faced by real actual human beings today.

[nuttyrabbit]

I’m going to cheat and use @noitemsfoxonlyfinaldestination ’s response as they worded it better than I could

[kaamosnoita]

🌿✨ Finnish Midsummer Juhannus spells ✨🌿

Juhannus was originally a celebration for Ukko the supreme god of weather and harvest. It was also a time for making magic since the spirit world was more active at the time of the white nights. A loud feasting and drinking brought luck in love as well as a good harvest and kept the evil spirits at bay.

1. Roll in dew

If you roll around naked in a field, your future spouse will appear in your life within a year. Dew was believed to have a healing effect and rolling in it was supposed to make you beautiful and healthy. Earlier, dew was even collected in cloths and pressed into bottles for the year to come.

2. Put a spell on a field

Find a four-leafed clover from the yard in the evening. Hide the clover under your shirt, next to your bosom. When the clock strikes midnight, let your hair loose and run to the field. Go around the field three times. When the person of your fancy will eat bread made out of the wheat from that specific field, they will fall in love with you.

3. Collect seven flowers

Collect seven different types of flowers from as many meadows. When going to bed, put the bouquet underneath your pillow. You will see “the one” in your dream. Flowers and plants have an important role in Midsummer celebrations. Previously, it was common to scatter tree leaves on the floors and build tree houses in the yards. Even cows were decorated with garlands, so as to secure a good year for the cattle and milk production.

4. Sweep naked

Sweep your bedroom floor naked, just a red thread tied around your waist, and the ghost of your love will greet you.

5. Tie a sauna whisk, vihta

Vihtas are always made for the Midsummer sauna. They are usually made out of birch as its fresh leaves are soft and have a lovely fragrance. For your magic spell, the Midsummer bath whisk should be made out of eight different tree and flower types. After the sauna, throw the whisk on the roof of the sauna. Climb up after it and see whereto the stem of the whisk points. That is the direction from which your future spouse will come.

6. Make a bonfire

The smoke of the bonfire will turn to the person who will find their spouse next. When the flames start to go out, jump over the bonfire to bring luck in love.

7. Look into a mirror

When you put two mirrors opposite each other on a midsummer night, you can see your future spouse in the reflection of the other.

8. Listen to the first sound

In the wee hours of the night, climb up somewhere high – on a hill, on top of a fell or a big rock. To a place where it is easy to hear surrounding sounds. Your future spouse will come from the same direction as the first sound of the morning. If you hear music, it means an approaching wedding. If you hear a child crying, it is a sign of birth. The number of cuckoo sounds tells how many years you have to wait until you find love.

[kaamosnoita]

🌿✨ Finnish Midsummer Juhannus spells ✨🌿

Juhannus was originally a celebration for Ukko the supreme god of weather and harvest. It was also a time for making magic since the spirit world was more active at the time of the white nights. A loud feasting and drinking brought luck in love as well as a good harvest and kept the evil spirits at bay.

1. Roll in dew

If you roll around naked in a field, your future spouse will appear in your life within a year. Dew was believed to have a healing effect and rolling in it was supposed to make you beautiful and healthy. Earlier, dew was even collected in cloths and pressed into bottles for the year to come.

2. Put a spell on a field

Find a four-leafed clover from the yard in the evening. Hide the clover under your shirt, next to your bosom. When the clock strikes midnight, let your hair loose and run to the field. Go around the field three times. When the person of your fancy will eat bread made out of the wheat from that specific field, they will fall in love with you.

3. Collect seven flowers

Collect seven different types of flowers from as many meadows. When going to bed, put the bouquet underneath your pillow. You will see “the one” in your dream. Flowers and plants have an important role in Midsummer celebrations. Previously, it was common to scatter tree leaves on the floors and build tree houses in the yards. Even cows were decorated with garlands, so as to secure a good year for the cattle and milk production.

4. Sweep naked

Sweep your bedroom floor naked, just a red thread tied around your waist, and the ghost of your love will greet you.

5. Tie a sauna whisk, vihta

Vihtas are always made for the Midsummer sauna. They are usually made out of birch as its fresh leaves are soft and have a lovely fragrance. For your magic spell, the Midsummer bath whisk should be made out of eight different tree and flower types. After the sauna, throw the whisk on the roof of the sauna. Climb up after it and see whereto the stem of the whisk points. That is the direction from which your future spouse will come.

6. Make a bonfire

The smoke of the bonfire will turn to the person who will find their spouse next. When the flames start to go out, jump over the bonfire to bring luck in love.

7. Look into a mirror

When you put two mirrors opposite each other on a midsummer night, you can see your future spouse in the reflection of the other.

8. Listen to the first sound

In the wee hours of the night, climb up somewhere high – on a hill, on top of a fell or a big rock. To a place where it is easy to hear surrounding sounds. Your future spouse will come from the same direction as the first sound of the morning. If you hear music, it means an approaching wedding. If you hear a child crying, it is a sign of birth. The number of cuckoo sounds tells how many years you have to wait until you find love.

[flawlessbeautyqueens]

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[flawlessbeautyqueens]

I think in Europe maybe we are more lucky. I don’t want to insult anyone in Hollywood because I’m not in the business in Hollywood, but it’s harder to be an actress here than in Europe. I have the feeling that you can get older here in Germany, or in Europe, but in Hollywood you have to look perfect all the time.

[hell0-there-lady]

I can’t believe what I just watched. I truly never thought I would see this day. The South and North Korean presidents meeting at the DMZ, crossing each other’s borders, and walking together to the south for a summit.

I have so much hope for what this could mean for the people suffering in the North.

[killzombieseatbacon]

It’s definitely interesting

[quinzelade]

I dont quite trust it.

[sindri42]

They said in their speeches right at this event ‘this agreement will totally bring lasting peace, unlike every other one of the dozens of agreements just like this one we made in the past and abandoned within days’

So I’m hopeful, but not really expectant.

[thespectacularspider-girl]

You’re a trumper? Eww judging you

That’s the strange thing.  You can agree with somebody like Trump on some things or acknowledge when he does something good, but you don’t have to support him in everything he does or even vote for him, even if I was American.

It’s called being mature and non-partisan.  Something you and a lot of your politicians could fucking learn about.  

[sindri42]

A quick primer on American politics for the uninformed, such as 90% of Americans:

There are two parties. Each says about 5% good things, 65% utterly meaningless things, and 30% absurdly evil things. About half of what they say is exactly identical to the other party, the rest is violently opposed. If you’re lucky, the evil things get opposed and don’t actually happen, but most often they both want the same evil thing because they’re both made up of rich politicians so people who are not rich politicians get fucked. But every single one of the good things is opposed by the other party.

Many people never put any thought into what they claim to think politically; they get taught to always vote for one of the two parties by their parents, then classify everything in terms of ‘us’ being good and ‘them’ being evil and stupid. The remainder of voters typically pick a single issue they like, and then look at which party has more positive rhetoric for that issue (whether they actually do anything to help or not) and classify everything as good or evil based on whether the chosen party says it or not.

For example, if your chosen issue is gay rights, or positive race relations, the Democratic party says more good things about that (while causing massive massive harm to the people actually dealing with the problem), therefore anything a Democrat says is “good” and anything a Republican says is “evil” even when they are the exact same thing or when the roles would be reversed in a situation where the party names never came up.

Personally I think trump is like, the third or fourth worst person on the planet to possibly be placed in the office of president. But given that two of the even worse choices are the person he was running against and his vice president, we’re stuck with him for another couple years. And while we deal with the fallout of his many, many moronic decisions, we do not need to make up worse things to pretend he did, nor can we afford to pretend the one or two decent decisions he made were actually wrong for no reason.

[nadhie]

my dad just exploded into laughter out of nowhere and told me ‘imagine the lion king but with sea lions’ he has been chuckling about it for 5 straight minutes now

[nadhie]

apparently it doesn’t matter that i’ve told him 10 times it’s the monkey who raises the newborn and not the lion himself, this is the scene he has been imagining

“he can’t raise his kid over his head”

[wakingfromthewater]

I want it

[crockpotcauldron]

okay but have you considered

[imaginarylock]

quality content

[thorinobsessed]

Extreme quality

[luvtonique]

Anyone else notice that late 2017 and so far all of 2018 memes are literally just political cartoons?

Like, at first, people were ironically making memes that blatantly explain the joke by labeling every object in the comic panel(s) to make fun of political cartoons like this one

But now people are, quite unironically, continuing to do just that

Memes have literally devolved into lazy political cartoons where jokes are told by simply labeling different characters/actions in a previous meme with ‘fitting’ personifications.

I find that kinda fascinating.

I’m not making fun of anyone or being negative here.

It’s just an observation. Take it as you will.

[datcatwhatcameback-deactivated2]

Maybe political cartoons aren’t as bad as people say, hmm? >w>

[funnywildlife]

Himalayan marmots come for their regular feed by a caring lady, aww

[jmdj]

Blessed image.