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i got nothing to say at the moment... anything to ask?

[falseknees]

‘A Day Beautifully Squandered’

[jaidefinichonv2]

[gaxhar]

Imagine doing this in front of a 14th century peasant

[hodlmyvodka]

It’s a pine fall day today in Russia.

[officialtomselleck-deactivated2]

Things just happen in Russia in a unique way that I’m not sure can ever be explained. Like how a fucking meteor landed in the middle of the Russian wilderness and resulted in the equivalent of a nuclear bomb going off but no one really even noticed.

[small-funny]

russia requiring drivers to have dashcams for insurance purposes is literally the best law ever enacted bc we get to see shit like this

[c1qfxugcgy0]

Ha ha, no, of course not.

Yahoo is a notorious repeat offender. Yahoo is the reason the “if you’re not paying money for a service, then you’re not a customer, you’re the product.” saying exists.

Here is some fully general advice: If you’re the user of a free-to-use website, and you learn that it’s being bought by a large company, then this is always, and forever, bad news. If it’s not an acquihire, then it’s something worse. You’re not a customer, you’re the product.

If we’re lucky, this will be a Livejournal-style buyout, where the site just gradually disintegrates over the course of several years. If we’re unlucky, then it’ll be a Posterous-style buyout, and Tumblr will be shut down when Yahoo goes bankrupt in six months. It is vanishingly unlikely that being owned by Yahoo will benefit Tumblr users at all.

Predictions:

More ads. Karp has a weirdly principled dislike of ads, for a guy running a free social network. Marissa Mayer is unencumbered by morals, here. If you spend a billion dollars on something, you’re gonna want a return on income.

NSFW content is probably going to be banned, or heavily restricted. (As in, “verify your age by giving us a credit card number”) Ad networks hate and fear porn, and Yahoo is going to run more ads. No other Yahoo property allows NSFW content, for precisely this reason.

They might try to restrict fan content, due to copyright/CP concerns, as Livejournal did; they might not.

Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria!

[c1qfxugcgy0]

I called it, five years in advance.

[snaxattacks-deactivated20230801]

The prophecy was right there and we all ignored it.

[von-felden]

*epidemic of porn bots breaks out due to tumblr’s own negligence*

tumblr staff:  We will fix it (:

[smidnite]

If this ain’t the tea, tho.

[agnesstarker-deactivated2020060]

Yet pornbots still exist

[springlockedfoxy]

It only got 50% of the porn bots. And 50% legit users.

[therapist-anon-deactivated20220]

A perfect balance of bullshit and fucking bull shit.

[mangonetics]

why are moms so afraid of Doom turning their kids into devil-worshippers. like, Doom has a pretty strong anti-demon message to it

[762nukem]

One of the devs of the original 1993 game is a mormon with that exact position.

[kazucrash-deactivated20191209]

That would be Sandy Petersen.

[viesti3]

Nice

[nomadactual-deactivated20171012]

“You kill demons to save the World.”

“That’s devil worship.”

“Lady….you cut in half demons with a chainsaw. It’s not worshipping anything but the chainsaws frankly.”

[xander-the-bastard]

Terry Pratchett’s view on Doom:

“Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon…”

[agripinaafalls]

[chocotaur-deactivated20211206]

Shitpost but also a good opportunity to remember (to paraphrase) that censorship is not a scalpel, but a club.

[thecollectibles]

Art by Boris Groh

[erica-hartmann-501st]

Man FUCK Verizon

Tumblr as of Dec 17 in a nutshell

[xenoqueer]

When Tumblr bans porn, who loses?

Verizon is leaving the engine of internet culture to sputter and die, and its communities to scramble for a new home.

The Vox article that I was interviewed for is up and running, and it contains some serious fuckign information about this whole fiasco.

Information that tumblr just straight up refused to provide to its userbase at all.

Unsurprisingly to those of us watching this website deteriorate over the last year, this full content purge and ban has been in progress for a solid 6 months. The date got moved up because of the child porn thing, but it was always coming for us.

Equally unsurprising: Tumblr’s management and ownership are absolutely destroying the actual staff working on it. The company has been hemoragghing senior staff without so much as a token attempt to keep them in place. So the drops in site quality are real, and wil probably only be getting worse.

Truly astonishing is the fact that apparently this crap was supposed to “double” the userbase by the end of next year. Boy, howdy, that’s not gonna work out well for them.

[shabbytigers]

good luck with your plan to sell ads targeting a user base that doesn’t exist any more, @staff.

[fandomshatewomen]

Then they’re def gonna let Tumblr die on the vine when it doesn’t pan out. It’ll take a few years but mark my words, this is going to work out about as well as when Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace and everybody left. Also, fuck Verizon forever.

[a-trans-resource-blog]

Plz lemme know if you reblog this and it disappears. I have Suspicions.

[xenoqueer]

I mean, there are already mutuals of mine reporting that they can’t see this post, only a “post was deleted"notice on my blog, and I’m the OP. So, whatever your suspicions are, I suppose mark them as confirmed.

[trashbandikyut-deactivated20181]

i’ve seen it disappear about 5 times off my dash. 

[unproduciblesmackdown]

this was a good thread i saw about how of course this is all more trash coming down from the total shit that is sesta/fosta

[jerico3193]

[frizz01percy]

this should be the most reblogged post on tumblr before it dies

[xan-thos-blog]

We need to reblog this so much that the post breaks

[mortis01]

Reblog pls

[kale-idoscopic-deactivated20200]

ILL REBLOG THIS EVERY DAY UNTIL THE 17TH

[whynotfabulous]

Remember in 2012 when tumblr shut down for like an hour and everyone freaked the fuck out because “NOT OUR PRECIOUS TUMBLR!!!!” and now we’re all just

[tevruden]

With the new update, I think we need to bring this back

[davidlowery]

[arirna]

[sss-drake]

Id like to show you all something.

Yes indeed no nudity but you can find all the discriminatory and hate speech you want!

But wait, the icing on the cake…

…really? Do i need even say anything.

[taboolicious-deactivated2018121]

since this place is going down the shitter, why not reblog this?

[morganagod]

Here’s an extra layer of gross 

 I may be wearing a tin foil hat, but I think they purposely want to do stuff like pit BLM against White Supremacists. They see it as an opportunity to make money. 

[oldmanyellsatcloud]

Here’s a link to the Vox article quoted above in question.

‘Hate and Strife Are Key Target Demographics’, basically.

[miniferu]

You can be a fucking Racist but you cant enjoy a naked body…. Fuck you tumblr

[catchandweave]

Let them know.

That is all that is left of my abilities.

Let them know that the people who make executive decisions on tumblr are nothing but whores to money. Slaves to their own greed.

So much fucking money that it was worth screwing over most of their users.

I hope you crash your new executive sports car, you greedy fucking nameless pond filth.

[team-rwby-sluts-of-beacon]

Well I was on the fence about deactivating my account, but now I might just do it, this is disgusting