I'm an absolute fucking delight

Artist, writer, managed to survive this long but at what cost. NZ'er, confirmed not normal, yes I sell my art, no I don't do comissions because of the cripling anxiety.

[punk-a-cat]

Turning the asks off sorry, I am getting inundated with spam and nothing but spam

[punk-a-cat]

girl help, i use darkmode and i can no longer tell when a reply thread ends and a new post begins.

This is the single dumbest update tumblr has ever made and I'm now willing to join the "they are trying to drive all the users off the site by making it unusable" conspiracy theorists.

I'll come back in a week and see if it's back to normal, if not, if anyone wants me I'll be on pillowfort

[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!

[changes]

It’s very clear that you all have strong feelings about Tumblr and about this change. We hear you. The passion people have for how Tumblr works is one of the things that makes this place special.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

If you’d like to talk directly beyond the comments, leave a reply and we’ll follow up with as many of you as we can. We want to work with you to make Tumblr better.

[airandangels]

Doesn’t this response just say “We hear that you don’t want it but we’re going to do it anyway :) ”? You cannot with any credibility say you want to work with us to make Tumblr better in reply to a flood of messages asking you not to do something that would make Tumblr worse. I feel unhappier about it now than I did before.

I guess we’ll all have to try to finally make Pillowfort happen.

[punk-a-cat]

I'm on pillowfort, and while it's absolutely not a tumblr clone, it's still a very nice community and if you join sufficient communities and follow enough people you will have a nice time there. I have never once had harassment issues on PF, the staff listen to the users, it's community funded so it's actively trying to protect it's userbase from draconian payment processors etc. And it's got lots of niche interest groups and allows NSFW content as long as it's tagged (so those who wish to can avoid it). Also it's an AI free zone!

[jackiefour]

Okay, so according to this post, @staff says they're listening to us, so...

Sound off, Tumblr! How do you feel about the latest update to the reblog and notes?

Hate it. 👎

Like it. 👍

Voting ended onMar 19

No nuance. Go ahead and reblog the crap out of this.

[staff]

we fucked up

[jv]

Do you want to see how bad this is for real?

This is the Announcement post in the tumblr android app, where I still don't have the new update:

this is the same post, in the web, with the new update applied:

Almost 50k reblogs in the post. The web version only shows 2k of them.

Holy fuck.

[faustlyaccused]

Needed to revisit my dinosaur roots

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

In Rimworld people keep showing up like "hey I'm on holiday and I love other cultures can I stay at your cannibal encampment" and I'm like "sure you can stay at my cannibal encampment" and then they get sad when I feed them human meat. Sir you came to the cannibal encampment. What were you expecting.

[wizardshark]

americans looking for mcdonalds when they travel abroad

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Unrelated but my fave thing about Americans looking for McDonald's is that when they come to Australia (we absolutely do have McDonald's everywhere) they always talk about how our McDonald's is so much tastier than their McDonald's. Also our McDonald's makes a point of advertising that they use Australian beef, not that shitty American beef that sucks, because most Australians won't touch that awful subpar beef when we have good beef at home so they need to assure us that even though they're an American chain they're not using it here.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

And recently America's been making a big deal about how they are magnanimously agreeing to export tons of beef to Australia and it's all wrapped up in some import deal between our governments and the public opinion had been months of extended bafflement. None of us can figure out why this is happening. We do not need or want their beef. It sucks.

[darkenedyeastextract]

The thing about american beef isn’t even the quality, it’s our biosecurity laws (for mad cow disease) which require tracing of each animal from birth to slaughter. The US is on a continent and has a really integrated intra-continental system for beef so none of this is practically traced.

This had been fine until the current government decided that nation-specific trade deficits were bad and argued Australian was “off-loading” beef to the US and not taking enough of theirs in exchange. Quite literally a “steak too juicy” type of complaint as if any one could feed the US ‘too much red meat’ (much to the chagrin of the American Heart Association, probably).

Regardless we decided the diplomatic benefit of agreeing was worth any economic or biosecurity impact. As of October last year (roughly the first quarter since the change happened), the import amounted to… 150kg of US beef and 18 tonnes of Canadian beef. In comparison, last year we exported a total of around 1.5 million tonnes globally, 412 kilotons of which went to the US. The ABS has yet to publish more recent numbers about the US imports.

[diehellasrache]

that doesn't seem like much but let me do some unit conversions real qu

so that's. less than one cow.

[graycatatelier]

hello!! I've just added a new batch of 20 mini paintings to my shop. all are priced at $30 :) I'll also have my originals with me at the Ottobar Punk Rock Flea Market next Sunday so if you're in or around Baltimore please come say hi! It's from 12-4pm and I'll be outside with purple tablecloths and some free stickers!

[wolves-willow]

ITS MARCH YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

[jaesrri]

[zipstick]

[nick-nonya]

[pangur-and-grim]

he just goes around biting everything like a shark

[rave-lord-nito]

Julius Ceasar has been dead for 2064 slutty, slutty years

[rave-lord-nito]

Julius Caesar has been dead for 2065 slutty, slutty years

[rave-lord-nito]

Julius Caesar has been dead for 2066 slutty, slutty years

[rave-lord-nito]

Julius Caesar has been dead for 2067 slutty, slutty years

[rave-lord-nito]

Julius Caesar has been dead for 2068 slutty, slutty years

[rave-lord-nito]

Julius Caesar has been dead for 2069 (nice) slutty, slutty years

[pocketdogs]

dog is once again left with no choice but to use raggedy shoes as a pillow. if only he were able to lounge on some red sofa with the yellow cushions he likes so much. sadly, no such thing exists.

[uhtreds]

locked the fuck out. distractionmaxxing

[muntzerism-diggerism]

There's something very charming about when beetles open up their wing covers in this big dramatic display just to fly less than ten centimetres.

[mysharona1987]

[ghost-mantis]

There’s actually a few things here that majorly dropped childhood mortality. In no particular order these include…

Vaccines (yay!)

Pasteurization

Implementing and enforcing food quality and sanitation standards. Did you know White Castle was called as such because their gimmic was that they continually cleaned and bleached their stores inside and out to prevent food poisoning.

The invention of antibiotics! The first sulfa drugs dropped in the 1930s-40s

Widespread access and distribution of enriched food products! Enriched flour did a lot to prevent malnutrition, and it’s how Wonderbread got its name!

We got a hell of a lot better with medical care for sick and premature infants. The first incubators for premature babies were actually used as something of a sideshow attraction at Coney Island! It was the only way the doctor who invented them could get funding to keep them running because no one thought it would work. It showed a lot of people that really premature babies could survive with the right treatment and eventually was adopted by hospitals.

The green revolution in agriculture that prevented around a billion people from starving to death

More recently it’s been widespread access to mosquito nets and medication to poorer and rural areas