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Silent but savage. Not a weather wizard but is Land Aquaman. Also known as 87 Tabs McGee. 33. Main interests are Spider-Verse, video games and comics. My langblr/studyblr: queenofglitchesstudies.tumblr.com

[queenofglitches]

Anyway here's my bluesky

I don't post but that could change.

Sounds like things are more dire here than I imagined

[lilithsaintcrow]

"...although the change was expected to affect only 3% of users, “this could amount to 2m devices rendered obsolete according to some estimates, potentially generating over 624 tons of e-waste”."

Amazon upsets ebook lovers by ending support for old Kindle devices

Up to 2m e-readers made before 2013 will no longer be able to download new titles

And a chaser, for those interested:

Don't Toss Your Old Kindle Yet. Here's How to Keep It Alive After May 2026

Amazon is ending support for older Kindles, but you still have easy ways to keep reading—no upgrade required.

[depsidase]

[elbiotipo]

we don't hate J.J. Abrams enough

[elbiotipo]

Branson Reese, whoever you are, I keep your words in my heart all the time.

[kaijuerotica]

"branson reese, whoever you are" put some respect on the smooth sharks one fear man's name

[apolladay]

If you know the meaning of the word "defenestrate", do you remember how you learned it?

Yes (put it in the tags please I'm curious)

No

I don't know the meaning of the word defenestrate

Voting ended onApr 18

[pangur-and-grim]

what if instead of that other thing, it had been Animorphs that captured the global attention. like I’m talking blockbuster films with graphic CGI morphing sequences, people lining up at midnight dressed as bears and gorillas, 20-something-year-olds with Andalite and Hork Bajir tattoos, people talking about what their fighting morph would be as a first date question, an Animorphs World with a life size yeerk pool, people chanting ‘Tobias!’ everytime a redtail hawk flies by, and K. A. Applegate’s pleasant and progressive voice getting boosted as it deserves to be

[thepurplewombat]

I read one of these when I was a kid and LOVED it, but could never find another - it didn’t have very good saturation in small-town South Africa.

I should check where I can get some now, I’m going to be spending a lot of time on planes in the near future and feel the need to load up my eReader with a good series that isn’t romance.

[thepurplewombat]

Apparently they are all available for free online. And not in the usual ahoy-there 🏴‍☠️ way things are available for free online, because apparently the author has given her blessing? Or she gave it her blessing several years ago during an AMA.

I’ve had a bit of a google and can’t find any statements contradicting that AMA.

This is the link to the reddit post I found with the books compiled into different formats - I use epub and so far the epub versions look great, but there are also pdf and mobi versions.

I’d like to say I’m going to be strong and not devour them all before I leave for Iceland next week, but I’m 36 years old and know myself well enough to know that yeah, I’m probably gonna read them all before I even get on the plane.

[destinationtoast]

@shoku-and-awe and I spotted this a few weeks ago in Akashi, in the Hyogo prefecture of Japan, and both got excited. :)

[the-big-mood]

[wizardshark]

How do I explain Plato's allegory of the cave to my cat?

[sexshopshenanigans]

gato’s allegory of the fishtank

[destiel-news-network]

(Source)

The actor, 86, will be most remembered on this website for the "Chuck Norris Facts" memes of hyper-exaggerated competence.

Outside of movies and memes, Norris was a longtime conservative activist, pushing back against LGBT inclusion, fearmongering about peaceful Muslims spreading "sharia law", arguing against states teaching evolution in schools, feeding the "birther" conspiracy that Obama was not a US Citizen, and supporting Donald Trump.

[knitmeapony]

[cutecipher]

they're platforming a zionist.

[kohakumeltyblood]

Anyone remember when prismatic-bell threatened to dox an indigenous trans person, literally saying "you're part of a very small tribe, it'd be easy to track you down"

[frankendykes-monster]

Admittedly it's been lost in the shuffle amongst other prisma moments like "you know what, fuck Ramadan" or "are Aboriginal people even homo sapiens anymore?"

[sweetoothgirl]

Black Sesame Milk

[prrb]

[sweetoothgirl]

Why is this back omfg

[edgebug]

my dad thinks the concept of shipping is hilarious. my parents are cool, they know about my online presence, it's fine. dad doesn't scroll my blog or anything, though--he's usually too busy watching dubiously homoerotic pro wrestling clips or playing valheim--so his idea of shipping culture is bizarre

damn near every time I mention im working on a fic or piece of fanart, he gasps in hopeful anticipation and asks "tamatoa and heihei?!" and he always acts bitterly disappointed

no, dad. i'm not writing or drawing anything where a 50 foot crab and a literal chicken have any kind of relationship at all. you've been asking me to make this ship happen for almost nine years now and the answer has always been no. it's a running gag, of course, but--why would you even think of that?! what kind of shit do you think happens on ao3?!

[edgebug]

I have decided to make my dad's vision a reality

[edgebug]

behold

[edgebug]

happy holidays. My dad is threatening to print this on a shirt

[edgebug]

should i call my dad's bluff and get this printed on a t shirt and give it to him for xmas

no what the fuck in wrong with you? he might actually wear it

yes absolutely, he might actually wear it

Voting ended onDec 11, 2025

[edgebug]

[deathsmallcaps]

Op did he like it or did he love it

[edgebug]

he says he's gonna wear it to work

[edgebug]

he immediately wore it in public to run errands btw. and gave his express permission for me to post that pic of him. in fact here's the exact text exchange with my mom, lest anyone think im doing unsanctioned dadposting

I played myself

[radatav]

[cornedbeefhashtags]

You ever see a post that just looks like someone swinging an incredibly high resolution bat at an impossibly busty hornet’s nest?

[gigithedolly]

You see this diagram also works as an example of kind of mods you’ll see.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[alexaloraetheris]

Chocolate Guy's Wario

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

"are you gonna take those pills the rest of your life?" you mean my molecules? why surely you wouldn't deprive me of my molecules. they are shaped exactly just so, you see. my molecules

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

do you know how hard someone had to work to make my molecules into their molecule shapes??

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

they invented a new shape of molecule just for me and you want me to what, not absorb it???

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

reblog to remind somebody about their molecules

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

people who shape molecules at their jobs found this post and they're in the notes being happy to be appreciated. go take your fucking molecules

[photomatt]

Tumblr Advisor Board

I think it could be cool to put together a board of the top Tumblristas in the world, that could see previews of what's coming up and advise on strategic direction. Who should be on it?

[madseance]

I am going to get this out of my system upfront so that I can explain everything that's wrong with this idea in a clearheaded way: This is a bad idea, it feels incredibly gross, and it reinforces my impression that you do not understand this website at all. It is indescribably frustrating and infuriating. It makes me want to vomit, and that's even before I get to "Tumblrista".

Now then.

A key takeaway from the massive amount of almost universally negative feedback to the reblog change should have been: Tumblr users do not, as a rule, care about clout. We do not want quantified "credit" for how good our addition to a post is, and we don't want influencers who are anointed as more important than everyone else because they are popular. That's not what we do here; it's never been what we do here. If we wanted that, we could get it from ANY other social media. The fact that we're here instead makes it pretty clear that clout is not important to us, and in fact is actively repulsive to us. Anointing particular Tumblr users as "top Tumblristas" and putting them on an "advisory board" that gets special access to new features and the opportunity to give feedback on them would constitute the exact type of hierarchy we despise.

Furthermore: When a corporate entity proposes an "advisory board of power users", what they're actually doing is trying to pre-empt wider user pushback against executive decisions, by creating the illusion of user buy-in while using social pressure to enforce decisions that have already been made. The actual reasoning behind selecting "top" users is because they are popular, which suggests they have influence over other users. The idea is, rather than convincing the community as a whole, you convince a smaller subset of influential people, and then they convince everyone else. Again, this depends on a kind of hierarchy and clout-based "influencer" system that we don't have and don't want.

As for the "top users" board themselves: By choosing someone and telling them "you're a Top User and you get to be on the special committee and have special privileges," you are giving them something (supposedly) desirable: social status, (the appearance of) influence and power, etc. And you can take it away. That means now you have power over them. If they don't want to lose their special status, they will avoid displeasing you. Which means they are less likely to give you significant pushback, and they are more willing to pressure others to go along with what you want to do. That makes them incredibly useful to corporate, but completely undermines their supposed role as a voice for the community. We see this already with influencers on every other platform, who become de facto spokespeople for corporations and brands and stop meaningfully criticizing them out of fear of losing the access that is critical to their status.

I'm not saying all this because I think it's news to the CEO of a tech company. I think you know all of that perfectly well already. I'm saying it because I think you assume we don't know it, and because some people might not. But I have played this game before and I know how it goes. It never benefits the community. It is always a way to control the community.

You do not need an advisory board to get feedback about site changes. The community is demonstrably perfectly able and willing to speak for themselves individually. If you really want to know what everyone thinks, you have to ask everyone, not a handpicked group of influencers who are under pressure to play along.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I remember something a bit like this a few years ago, when Tumblr tried to introduce that disastrous feature to let users offer paid content to their followers. They first rolled it out to a select group of users, to act as a trial group

I remember one of those users was Kaijuno. At the time, they were a big damn deal; I wasn't even following them, and yet saw their posts all the time, always with thousands of reblogs, often viral. They happily implemented the paid feature, so their shitposts would still be free, but their science content would be paid access.

Except everyone was so furious at the entire feature that they turned on anyone who had chosen to trial it. Kaijuno went, overnight, from being a huge deal on this gremlin site to being blasted into obscurity; but not before they were basically turned into the de facto Tumblr spokesperson for this stupid feature and subjected to the sort of tirade of public abuse and rage that makes celebrities check into rehab. It was relentless, it was aggressive, and staff just left them to take the brunt of it all and didn't do a damn thing to stop it.

All of which is to say, this would be a death sentence for any user chosen for this elite focus group. You'd burn through your "top users", because after every unpopular change they would not be popular anymore and would probably leave the site, until people would very quickly not want to be in your clubhouse anymore and the only ones left would have no clout to be useful.

So, no. I just don't see it working on this site

[cutecipher]

An automated moderation error left Tumblr users panicked

The accidental bans have been reversed.

March 20th, 2026

[kohakumeltyblood]

Tumblr got caught and is trying to save face. Every blog that was removed except one is a trans woman. Don't let them lie to you.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

If your automated moderation keeps making the same error over and over again and bans a bunch of trans women every six months or so then it's not an error it's a feature of the software. Even if we do believe it's unintentional (not a guarantee given the history of transphobia from flesh and blood moderators and the site owner) then it would still only be an error the first time. It KEEPS HAPPENING to the exact same minority group. If my car brakes don't work, the sixth kid I run over is not an 'error', it's unbelievable negligence.