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Would you believe I took these 12 hours apart?
10 years ago this Sunday, with modest expectations and little fanfare, Marco and I launched a side-project called Tumblr—a place where anyone could “post anything and customize everything.”
Why did the world need Tumblr? I wasn’t sure it did. But I did.
2006
The net is vast and infinite. The web browser has become a multimedia powerhouse. “Social media” is upending news and entertainment. One-year-old YouTube has created a phenomenon of “viral video.” Google hits for “podcast” have jumped from 100-thousand to 100-million in less than a year. Twitter has just launched. And the “blogosphere” has become the voice of millions, with the total number of blogs now doubling every six months. Dope.
But for all this progress, some of the internet’s brightest promise is fading. The wide-open and whimsical frontier of the World Wide Web is being reshaped by strict, narrow platforms. Our pictures, videos, music, journals, articles, links, status updates, are spread across a dozen different networks—each specializing in a single medium. The infinitely expressive canvas of HTML has been eclipsed by directories of vanilla-white profile pages. Our digital identities are fractured and engineers make the rules.
Enter Tumblehub Tumblespot Tumblr, a modest solution inspired by an avant-garde community of bloggers calling themselves “tumbleloggers.” The premise, simply, to make space for each individual’s full range of expression. A median between the author’s unfiltered and editorial voice. With complete control over design and presentation, so anyone can create something that truly represents themselves and that is truly unique.
2007
After four months of running my own blog on Tumblr, making tweaks and improvements, we open to the public. Hundreds of thousands of people begin using Tumblr to share some of the most eclectic, clever, and beautiful things we’ve ever seen on the internet.
We are humbled and awestruck.
Racing to keep up, every feature we add attempts to stretch the canvas a little bit more, pushed by this community’s constant and boundless creativity. Five months in, you have captured our hearts. We work up the courage to pursue Tumblr full time.
With a new purpose and brave investors, we close down our web development business and reopen as Tumblr, Inc.
2017
336 million Tumblrs. 146 billion posts. And counting.
A generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders that have redefined our culture.
I can’t say this enough: Thank you, thank you, thank you for making Tumblr everything that it is. For everything we’ve built, and all its shortcomings, you have managed to make this one of the most creative, lively, thoughtful, supportive, and open-minded corners of the world.
We have learned so much from you and been so moved by your voices.
The Next Ten Years
The internet is at a crossroads again.
Internet culture has become the prevalent, global culture. These networks expose us to new ideas and information but–too often–trap us in bubbles. The world has been compressed, and we are constantly challenged to reconcile our differences.
With so many barriers to digital expression now lifted, and nearly all modes of media supported across all platforms, there is now an unprecedented opportunity to dedicate this space to freedom, truth, expanded perspective, and positive influence in the world. Tumblr’s focus over the next decade will shift accordingly.
Expression has been and always will be a foundational part of Tumblr—and our roadmap this year will not disappoint—but it is now more urgent than ever to empower positive and productive connections across the communities that thrive here. To create an environment where people are truly safe to be themselves. To ensure positive discourse rises above toxicity. And to protect the free exchange of ideas, from which truth will emerge.
We still have so much to prove and so much we’ve promised you. With this renewed focus, we are determined to deliver.
One Last Thing
From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone working on, and who has ever worked on, Tumblr. I’ve learned so much from all of you, and it is a privilege to come to work with so many brilliant and talented people. We couldn’t have done any of this without your maniacal devotion throughout this journey.
Fuck yeah to 10 more 💙
It’s not just men who think they are entitled to sex or a woman’s body.
Consent is needed every time, no matter what the relationship is
shes terrifying,
What the actual fuck?
Wow she’s scary.
You’re no feminist if this doesn’t bother you, that you don’t see the rape vibes here. Women can and do rape men. They use force, they use words, they can manipulate- just like men do. And it is just as wrong.
No means no, friends. Gender does not matter. No. Means. No.
Wow
That’s sad
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!!¿
I hope her boyfriend found someone worth his time.
*gentrification voice* uh is this meth organic?
“Is crystal meth vegan?”
Get ready for this when you legalize drugs.
PORTLAND OREGON
Lmao! Wow, this really fucks up our rep. Lol. But I'm not surprised--and you shouldn't be, either! Oregon (especially Portland) is heavily drugged, thanks to the direct route from Mexico to Canada. We're also hippy, redneck, hipster, gypsy, lumberjack folks. Of course we'd be concerned with the ingredients of our meth 😂😂😂
Writing Tip: Don’t Be Afraid of Mixing Dialogue and Action
So I’ve been reading a lot of amateur writing lately, and I’ve noticed what seems to be a common problem: dialogue.
Tell me if this looks familiar. You start writing a conversation, only to look down and realize it reads like:
“I’m talking now,” he said.
“Yes, I noticed,” she said.
“I have nothing much to add to this conversation,” the third person said.
And it grates on your ears. So much ‘said.’ It looks awful! It sounds repetitive. So, naturally, you try to shake it up a bit:
“Is this any better?” He inquired.
“I’m not sure,” she mused.
“I definitely think so!” that other guy roared.
This is not an improvement. This is worse.
Now your dialogue is just as disjointed as it was before, but you have the added problem of a bunch of distracting dialogue verbs that can have an unintentionally comedic effect.
So here’s how you avoid it: You mix up the dialogue with description.
“Isn’t this better?” He asked, leaning forward in his seat. “Don’t you feel like we’re more grounded in reality?”
She nodded, looking down at her freshly manicured nails. “I don’t feel like a talking head anymore.”
“Right!” That annoying third guy added. “And now you can get some characterization crammed into the dialogue!”
The rules of dialogue punctuation are as follows:
Each speaker gets his/her own paragraph - when the speaker changes, you start a new paragraph.
Within the speaker’s own paragraph, you can include action, interior thoughts, description, etc.
You can interrupt dialogue in the middle to put in a “said” tag, and then write more dialogue from that same speaker.
You can put the “said” tag at the beginning or end of the sentence.
Once you’ve established which characters are talking, you don’t need a “said” tag every time they speak.
Some more examples:
“If you’re writing an incomplete thought,” he said, “you put a comma, then the quote mark, then the dialogue tag.”
“If the sentence ends, you put in a period.” She pointed at the previous sentence. “See? Complete sentences.”
“You can also replace the dialogue tag with action.” Extra guy yawned. “When you do, you use a period instead of a comma.”
So what do you do with this newfound power? I’m glad you asked.
You can provide description of the character and their surroundings in order to orient them in time and space while talking.
You can reveal characterization through body language and other nonverbal cues that will add more dimension to your dialogue.
You can add interior thoughts for your POV character between lines of dialogue - especially helpful when they’re not saying quite what they mean.
You can control pacing. Lines of dialogue interrupted by descriptions convey a slower-paced conversation. Lines delivered with just a “said” tag, or with no dialogue tag at all, convey a more rapid-fire conversation.
For example:
“We’ve been talking about dialogue for a while,” he said, shifting in his seat as though uncomfortable with sitting still.
“We sure have,” she agreed. She rose from her chair, stretching. “Shall we go, then?”
“I think we should.”
“Great. Let’s get out of here.”
By controlling the pacing, you can establish mood and help guide your reader along to understanding what it is that you’re doing.
I hope this helps you write better dialogue! If you have questions, don’t hesitate to drop me an ask :)
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The guy who invented the theory that vaccines cause autism had his medical license revoked for it
thats ridiculous
they took it away because he came up with a seemingly plausible theory?
They took it away because other scientists have been unable to reproduce his results, his results were made up, he didn’t even get approved by an ethics committee, and now he’s risking the health and lives of a whole bunch of people
It’s not just that he came to incorrect conclusions, he falsified data on purpose, apparently because he had patented a related medical test and stood to make a lot of money off people using his test instead of vaccinating.
It’s crazy how this one person, in a study of only twelve children, gained so much traction in the world. He put this lie out there—and it was a lie, not just interpreting data incorrectly—and now it doesn’t even matter that he’s been proven totally false. Years of effort to reestablish the truth can’t undo the lie once it’s out there in the world. Hundreds of thousands of people believe that lie, and actual children are getting sick and dying because of it.
This is a really troubling aspect of how human minds work, and it’s something conservative politicians take advantage of on a regular basis. If you just say that “well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does“ is provide abortions, it doesn’t matter how often people recite the objective truth that abortions are a tiny fraction of Planned Parenthood services. You can say the truth 1000 times for every one time the lie is repeated, and thousands of people will still trust the lie.
I’d never heard this before, and it’s actually really helpful information to have, so thanks. Here is a scientific article by the American Academy of Pediatrics explaining the flaws in Wakefield’s research and briefly summarizing four studies that refuted the fraudulent claims. Here is an article by the editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal calling him a fraud in no uncertain terms. Here is the first part of a nine-part investigative journalistic series, published in the BMJ, uncovering his fraud. And the General Medical Council conclusions that stripped Wakefield of his clinical credentials can be found here.
I’m honestly so mad right now reading about this guy. People are dying of measles right now because vaccinations fell off so sharply, and those deaths can be laid at the door of this man.
This man is a mass murderer
VACCINATE YOUR KIDS. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT VACCINATING HEALTHY CHILDREN.
NONE.
Your regular reminder that the entire anti-vaxx movement is founded and predicated on hatred and devaluation for autistic people and autistic lives. Never forget this, and remember to talk about it when you’re talking about anti-vaxxers.
HIS PAPER HAS BEEN RETRACTED!!!
THE PUBLISHERS RETRACTED IT!! Because the conclusion was WRONG.
I can’t post the link because I’m on mobile!! But IT WAS RETRACTED FOR HAVING A FALSE CONCLUSION
I’m not anti-vaxx, but I am terrified that my son will get some kind of issues from them. He gets vaccines anyway, mostly because I’m bullied into doing it, but the anxiety over it tears me up inside. His 6 month appointment is in a week and I’m so scared that he’s going to change after those doses. He is so happy, healthy, and perfect right now… him changing, getting a disability, or getting life-altering ill would be like losing him–he wouldn’t be the same baby anymore. I’m not ready to mourn the loss of my baby, and I wouldn’t be ready no matter his age when the vaccines take toll.
I guess I’m just a skeptic (and also pro informed consent). I don’t know enough about vaccines, autism, or other issues to know whether or not my fears are justified. There is so much conflicting information out there and so much still being studied, and I don’t know which sources to trust or what to do about it. and then there is this entire community who thinks you’re awful and batshit crazy if you question vaccines, or any choices made my doctors. This is how it feels to be a parent. 3 I’ve been doing a lot of research the last few months (and please correct me if I’m wrong at any time throughout this post, but don’t be rude to me; I am open-minded and try my best not to be biased. I just want the truth so I can keep my son happy and healthy. As do all parents, I’m sure.) and did find that Andrew Wakefield was vindicated because they can’t prove his findings to be wrong, and his co-author actually got his license back. The reason they lost their licenses and everything to begin with was because they did not follow protocol when conducting their research–not because they lied about their findings, the paper was NOT retracted for having a false conclusion. Him being vindicated is the whole reason his movie Vaxxed came out, because he’s not named a liar anymore and can get traction. But to be honest, I was young and unaware and uninterested and uninformed about Andrew Wakefield while everything with him was going on, and it seems to be pretty well over at this point, so I’m not concerned with him and his situation when it comes to vaccines today. He says that he still believes that vaccines are linked to/cause autism and that the way they are manufactured and given needs to change. I guess he’s still fighting it since he made a movie, which I have yet to see, but whatever. It’s kind of over in my eyes. Where my concern lies is with Dr. William Thompson. He was hired by the CDC to do a study (which was like a one-time thing because the CDC doesn’t conduct studies themselves) to prove that vaccines aren’t linked to autism at all. But he kept finding that they are linked. So the CDC had him continue to study and isolate his findings until he got results that were in their favor. Then, the CDC paid him $25,000 to keep quiet about it. They literally had a shredding party of the evidence. A bunch of people working on the study got together and shredded the findings that didn’t match their agenda. Obviously, Thompson didn’t keep quiet. He told his peers about it years later, and released his findings. His personal copies of the study can be found through various, though few, sources online. So, Thompson’s whole thing is that ethyl mercury causes autism, and since the time he’s done his study, the mercury has been removed from almost all vaccines. Which is great! Except for a few things:
1) Flu shots are still made with ethyl mercury. They have mercy-free options, but you have to special-request them.
2) Key word: almost all vaccines. You can actually find charts online that demonstrate how much mercury is in every vaccine in the US, including discontinued vaccines. The problem is that if the amount of mercury in a given vaccine is less than 0.03mcg, the FDA just calls it zero. Which, typically, makes sense in the math world of rounding. However, trace amounts of mercury are still toxic to the human body, so the exact amount is something we need to know. Trace amounts do not equal zero.
We are exposed to ethyl mercury in many other ways, some of which are natural, and these exposures DO contribute to autism (like the pollution from weyerhaeuser plants, which is not natural. Children growing up near these plants typically show damage from the mercury in the output, and disorders such as autism are in higher numbers among those children when compared to children who don’t have such environmental factors, regardless of their vaccines–but that’s just one example and not the point of this topic.). We can’t deny that ethyl mercury is damaging to the human body. But what about the methyl mercury in our drinking water? This is something I hear as a rebuttal all the time: “Well mercury can’t be that bad, anyway, because it’s in our water and can be found in the fish we eat.” Meaning that we ingest it all the time and we’re fine, so why worry? (but how equal are the two and is the mercury in our fish even comparable?) Either mercury can’t possibly cause autism or it isn’t enough of a worry, based on the fact that we consume it elsewhere with no identifiable consequences.
Methyl mercury has a longer half-life than ethyl mercury, which is great considering that ethyl mercury is the one in our vaccines; methyl mercury is in our system longer than ethyl mercury, but… a shorter half-life and trace amounts don’t mean much when compared to the percentage of mercury you’re ingesting and what the mercury can do to your body. You may ingest 0.2% of the methyl mercury in your water each week (example, not fact.), which you have control over (you can get water from other sources, find out how much is in your water, etc.), but you’re getting 100% of the ethyl mercury in your vaccine. So 0.5mcg of methyl mercury in your drinking water is okay because once it trickles down to you, you don’t ingest anywhere near that much, but you are guaranteed to ingest all 0.5mcg of the ethyl mercury in your vaccine.
Now, I’m not a scientist and I haven’t gone to school to study vaccines, autism, nor mercury; this is just stuff I’ve learned over the last couple months, and I am completely open to having this knowledge proven false, or having this stuff further explained to me. Because I assume somebody will have something to say to this. If you do have opposing information, whether it be about mercury or what have you, I prefer only the most recent information you can find. This stuff about the mercury is all from 2015. and given the track record of the CDC and the FDA, I’d prefer information that comes from another source. I mean, do you trust a company who pays $25,000 to keep someone quiet? or who refers to the H. Influenza as a freaking disease? The more I learn about the CDC, the more idiotic and selfish they seem. The H. Influenza is NOT a disease; it is a bacterial infection that can lead to diseases, as most infections can. But again, I don’t know who I can and can’t trust. If you trust the CDC and the FDA, then by all means, show me what you’ve got. :) (and maybe tell me why you trust them so that I can get on board)
In conclusion here, all I know is that ethyl mercury is damaging and it shouldn’t be in our vaccines. Dr. William Thompson was able to prove that the ethyl mercury in our vaccines is damaging to children, and in return, the amount of ethyl mercurcy in our vaccines was reduced. But was it enough?
and what about the aluminum used in vaccines, or the the dairy caseins? and God knows what else. I mean, there is so much out there to look into. I am still in the middle of expanding my knowledge, but vaccines have been linked to very serious GI problems and disorders, as well as autoimmune diseases. Plus, what about the evidence that says the antibody theory is incorrect? So even vaccines without all of these toxins still do damage, because antibodies don’t equate to immunity or protection from diseases (almost all vaccines only provide temporary immunity, anyway).
The problem with finding out what it is that vaccines contribute to simply boils down to history and technology, whether it’s autism, autoimmune diseases, GI problems, or something else. Vaccines haven’t been around that long, and neither has autism, and the “spectrum” of autism is fairly new, as well, as is our medical technology. We’re still learning which behaviors at which ages are and aren’t considered to be on the autism spectrum, and which genes, environments, and other factors contribute to autism. I mean, I’m sure autism has been around for forever, but we didn’t know it was autism back in the day, just like how people confused Guillain-barre with Polio, or how cancer was a big killer before we found it and learned how to treat it. We’re just not advanced enough to know exactly what we’re doing, and that’s the biggest issue that I have with vaccines.
Of course, vaccines were made with good intentions of saving the human race from experiencing awful illnesses and the hopes of prolonging our existence, and that’s wonderful. But they don’t know what they’re doing to us. It isn’t until these children grow up that we start to see problems, and they don’t detail the effects until a person somewhere claims that they themselves or their child has been damaged by a vaccine. They’d have no reason to look into it if no one claimed troubles.
and did you know that there is a law in place that protects vaccine manufacturers from being sued due to vaccine-related complications? You can report adverse effects, and you can sue your doctor or the distributor, but you cannot sue the manufacturers for making something that ruined the life of yourself or your child.
“Your regular reminder that the entire anti-vaxx movement is founded and predicated on hatred and devaluation for autistic people and autistic lives. Never forget this, and remember to talk about it when you’re talking about anti-vaxxers.”
I don’t know where this thing about hating autistic people came from, honestly. Not a single anti-vaxxer that I know has ever had a problem with autistic nor disabled people, and being a vaccine-skeptic myself, I do not hate autistic people nor do I believe their lives are of any less value than my own. I think that’s a load of crap. The anti-vaxx movement did not start because people hate autistic people, it started because people want their children to be safe and healthy and don’t trust the government.
I have three autistic in-law siblings, all varying levels on the spectrum, and I love having them in my life. My best friend of 13 years and counting has an autistic son, and I was his primary care provider for six years. He can be difficult at times, yes, but I love him to pieces. I would have loved to see the kind of person he was without autism, because of all the troubles that his autism causes him, but I love him nonetheless and I would never change him. That’s up to him to decide, if changing were an option, and I would love and support him all the same.
But anyhow, wanting your own children to be healthy, happy, and disability-free does not equate to having a hatred or devaluing those who are disabled or who have autism; anti-autism is not the same as anti-autistic. Having a disability isn’t fun, and even though “disabled” may be what they are, we love who they are and we know that there is so much more to them than their disability… but if you could have prevented the disability from day one, would you not do it? You’d love who they are regardless, and I think our children deserve lives without disabilities …so if we can avoid disabilities, I think we should do it. We want our children to be strong, happy, healthy, and independent among other qualities and characteristics. While they can be most of these things with a disability, they cannot be all of them.
Anyhow, there are a lot of theories about how vaccines cause autism, and for that reason, I just want to toss the whole thing aside and pretend it never happened… thimerosal/ethyl mercury, side effects such as brain swelling, DNA incompatibility from the original fetuses used to create vaccines, mimicking effects of the illnesses themselves, and the administration of multiple vaccines simultaneously–to name a few things currently being looked at for autism causes in relation to vaccines.
But it isn’t all about autism. What about the autoimmune diseases and GI problems? What about all of the vaccines that have MUCH worse side effects than the illnesses they’re trying to prevent? You don’t know how your child will be affected unless you know their DNA makeup and how each vaccine effects such DNA. or how about the fact that you’re risking said side effects for temporary immunity, or perhaps no immunity at all? What about the spread of illnesses that vaccines cause, like cVDPV, which harm both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals? People who are vaccinated can still get sick, and they can host illnesses from vaccines, meaning they bring those illnesses with them when they visit places where people with compromised or immature immune systems are. What about these illnesses that are very minor after a couple of vaccines, but we’re being forced to get multiples more or even boosters, continuing to get toxins, though they aren’t needed? The list goes on.
What boggles my mind the most is how people can blindly follow the advice of medical professionals who don’t have any more knowledge of these things than the government tells the public. The human brain and body is very complex and very capable of handling illnesses–and by vaccinating, we’re creating new strains of illnesses that have no vaccines and are stronger than their ancestors. and clearly, we don’t know what we’re doing to our brains and bodies with these vaccines. Are you not concerned with what we’re doing to our children?
Right now, without further knowledge, the only real reason that I am vaccinating my son is for fear of circulating vaccine-derived illnesses, or vaccine-derived illnesses in any case. He has a better chance of not being harmed from those illnesses if he has the vaccine than he does without having the vaccine. I am following the lead of those before me by vaccinating and bursting inside with the fear that I’m making a mistake, especially since vaccine complications run on both sides of his family. I wish I could feel good about my decision to vaccinate my son.
I despise Trump (though I’m hoping something good will come out of his presidency), so the fact that he is vaccine-wary makes me nervous. I don’t trust him, so to have him agree with me makes me afraid that I am utterly out of place.
Remember this. Remember that the acting Attorney General was fired for saying “this law is illegal and I will not enforce it”
“I am responsible for ensuring that the positions we take in court remain consistent with this institution’s solemn obligation to always seek justice and stand for what is right,” Ms. Yates wrote in a letter to Justice Department lawyers. “At present, I am not convinced that the defense of the executive order is consistent with these responsibilities nor am I convinced that the executive order is lawful.” - S. YATES
I told my mom about this and she said that she understands why; that Yates was Trump’s employer and she refused to do her job; that Trump reserves the right to fire employees who refuse to do their job or question him, because their job is not to question him, their job is to do whatever they’re appointed to.
Mind you, my mom is a half-hippy liberal/democratic lady who didn’t like any of the candidates this round, so she doesn’t like Trump. She’s very good at keeping her mind open, though, and seeing things from all angles.
Anybody have any input on her POV about Yates failing to do her job?
My Hills Bros Cappuccino Recipe
I love to start the day with 2 tbs of Hills Bros’ french vanilla mix in a traditional cup of coffee, topped with fluffy whipped cream and pumpkin spice, paired with warm cocoa-hazelnut toast and a good morning.
Anyway, I ran away to Oregon last week
in the emily dickinson room at the sylvia beach hotel, where each room is named and themed after an author | newport, oregon books around the world, no. 22 by celeste noche
Relocated, Inactive
I had a complete intention of keeping this blog up. However, I have been spending my time on my breastfeeding blog, http://truthaboutbabies.tumblr.com, and have fallen far behind here. Though I love the heck out of my state and geographical location, I can’t say that I’ll be adding to this blog any time soon. My son is older and taking more of my time, and I am finding it too difficult to keep up with everything. So keep me, leave me, do what you do, but if you support breastfeeding, give my active blog a try! We're pretty controversial over there.
Sunset Bay Park. (Credit: Leanne Hake)
Merry Christmas from Rockaway Beach. (Credit: Arna Meyer)
A winter scene in Sisters. (Credit: Mike Edwards)
The seventh adventure. (Credit: Nicholas Bauer)
Lovely night out and about. Ready to cross over the Ross Island Bridge. (Credit: Brandon Edwards)
Albany, Oregon. 7th & Broadway. (Credit: Ronald Borst)