Something Chronic

Scottish, academic, asexual, autistic, too old to be here, too mad to care. NOTE: due to ongoing health/family issues, I will no longer be active on this site. 

[thedoctor-smith]

Poking in here for a moment because years of campaigning has finally paid off.

We’re getting a Xena Funko.

Now where is Gabrielle?

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

“For the Secret of the Sea”

Chapter 7

“Wouldst thou learn the secret of the sea?”

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This wonderful story is back.  A lovely surprise and a wonderful chapter. 

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Hi again I wrote about my blog export experience before and I'm sorry to say no, the xml file the posts download to (images are in a separate folder and are fine) are a mess. The data is there, but it's hard to read or work with. Tumblr needs to head back to the drawing board on this one.

How disheartening.  Thank you for all the information.

[thedoctor-smith]

Hi Doc I've done the export function, took me one day to complete the export and another day to download the zip file about 8 hours for 2.3 gb file. My blog is only a year old though maybe 500 posts? I can't believe it's taking yours 3 months though. If it's because of how many posts you have i can't believe those files would even open much less download. They need to split this export function to things like just text posts, or certain dates if that's all you wants. Hope they get back to you!

It would be a brilliant idea if the export function did allow us to download files by type and by a range of dates, allowing large blogs to do it piecemeal.  I can’t understand why mine is taking so long, either. It’s either a glitch or exporting to a file I’ll never be able to open.

Can you tell me if your posts looked correct, was the export a tidy one?

Thank you for all the information it is much appreciated.  

[thedoctor-smith]

A brief check-in to note - we are on MONTH THREE of the blog export process and Tumblr’s only response to me - was to inform me how to export my blog. Again. 

Has anyone else tried this function? I’ve heard two days is all it is supposed to take, tops. 

 @staff?

I can’t even stop the process and start over because anytime I log in, no matter the browser, it still in the exporting process.  

Good night.  

ETA: One user just let me know they got the blog export process finished, saved the Zip file, but when they tried to open it (yes, with the proper app), it was empty. 

Would love to hear more for anyone attempting this process.

[thedoctor-smith]

We’re at Month Two of the Blog Backup.  

Seriously, @staff, this function doesn’t exist. Why do you offer it?  

And no response from my queries is a little telling.  

[thedoctor-smith]

It’s p0rnbot season I see. 

Any thoughts, ​@staff? 

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Gotta ask the Doc, you seen the nu Who? Thoughts for us?

I’ve seen the new trailer, doesn’t tell us much, has a feel that makes me think of the RTD years.  Just not enough to go on.  I thought they’d at least give us an idea of how the series would roll, but it felt incoherent and random, like they don’t have a lock on it yet.  I guess we’ll see.  

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Maddow: Time For Americans To Face 'Worst Case Scenario' On Donald Trump | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Rachel Maddow notes that what ultimately explains a host of inexplicable developments in the story of the Donald Trump campaign is the worst case scenario th...

If you want a clear-headed description of what is happening in this ongoing horror show, do watch.  

[thedoctor-smith]

Democracy tumbles head-first over an abyss with the overbearing weight that is a fool’s crown. 

What will you do, America?  

[thedoctor-smith]

The world is filled with many small-minded, unintelligent people who really need to be pushed into a cave and be thoroughly and utterly ignored.  Let them grow moss and weeds and be swallowed whole by the environment they have no respect for.  

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[emptydragonseverywhere]

tumblr is massively wrong about the Amazon strike and there are a few key people trying to get the right information out and y’all are too focused on sticking it to Amazon to bother getting it right. @brainstatic started noticing yesterday that the dates people were posting were funky and @janothar started posting that even the Spanish strike isn’t starting on the 10th and yet y’all are still spreading this like it’s fact. I honestly have not seen a damn thing about the strike literally ANYWHERE but tumbr so I decided to use our good friend google and here’s what I’ve found. On July 10, 2018, Reuters reported that the Spanish workers will participate in a 3 day strike starting on July 16. NOT July 10. The strike is also, according to this article, NOT across all of Spain or all of the EU but only at ONE location - the San Fernando warehouse. It is already the second walk out this warehouse is doing this year, but y’all weren’t even aware of the first one and now are misrepresenting this one. EuroWeekly News stated the same thing as Reuters.

As of this morning (July 11, 2018)), the Independent is reporting that activists are asking consumers not to participate in Prime Day sales to support striking workers. Not asking for a week-long boycott, just a boycott of Prime Day. The Independent also confirms Reuters’ reports that the strike is ONLY 1000 Spanish workers - it does not start on the 10th and it is not an international strike. 

There are a handful of other sites reporting that the strike started on the 10th and that other EU countries are participating; however, as @brainstatic pointed out already, these all link back to the same .info site that is not reliable and is not backed by reliable news sources (unlike Reuters, which is a reliable news source). The .info site is also only a CALL to strike - it is NOT a statement of that anywhere other than Spain is striking. The Observer article that links to the .info site above also literally uses tumblr’s “the boycott starts on the 10th” as a source for the boycott starting on the 10th… meaning that TUMBLR started those rumors, not the Observer article, and there is no reliable source for the boycott starting on the 10th other than the fact that y’all made that shit up and some online news source picked it up and ran with it. You can’t use an article that sites you as the source as a source for your bullshit. Got it? If you want to support the striking workers, know when they are striking and what they want from you. Know what the actual activists involved are calling for. Know when and where the strike is taking place. As of right now, the strike is ONLY in Spain, it is 3 days long starting on the 16th, and it is ONLY focused around Prime Day. It did not start yesterday on the 10th. It is primarily about raising wages and other similar issues in Spanish factories, which are unionized already. It is not about people dying in American Amazon factories. Having half-assed, half-researched boycotts here and there that do not correspond to the strikes and are not well coordinated is not going to make a point. Having an organized, well-informed, large movement is what gets your point across. So stop what you’ve been doing and do this right. Boycott Prime Day and stop spreading misinformation.

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Everything I could find corroborated this information, but also… Jesus, can I just say how incredibly off-putting the holier-than-thou tone so popular with these correction posts are? Shit like “y'all are too focused on sticking it to Amazon to ‘bother’ getting it right” and acting like people are deliberately spreading misinformation because they’re malicious or don’t care or whatever is just OP being an asshole, because the culture on here is geared less toward informing people and more towards telling people of in entertaining ways.

OP is annoyed, I get that. Checking sources is important and Tumblr is infamously bad at spreading misinformation. But OP didn’t have to be a jackass about it. But it gives them that morally superior high, so… ok I guess.

Frankly, I think the added awareness about the shit that American and British workers go through at these hellish warehouses can do nothing but good.

[the-defiant-fluffball]

THANK YOU. I was reading this and was like, being factually correct is all nice and well, but how is boycotting Amazon internationally and for longer a bad thing, especially given how they treat their workers? Go ahead and stick it to Amazon everyone.

[prof-grace-aspen]

I didn’t want to say anything but YES. BOYCOTTNG THEM LONGER ISN’T BAD. The Montgomery Bus Boycott of the civil rights era last THIRTEEN MONTHS. 

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Week three of the blog export saga.  

Dear @tumblr @staff I don’t think this function works.

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Logan Director James Mangold Speaks Out on Anger in Star Wars Fan Culture

James Mangold responds to some disgruntled Star Wars fans upset at Rian Johnson. Says universe-building hurts franchise movies.

It's frustrating that those who have valid criticisms of these films are being lumped in with the racist and misogynistic trolls who have nothing better to do than harass everyone. It confuses the whole story and it only benefits TPTB when they do so. It diminishes those who give valid criticism and they should be ashamed of themselves for doing it.  Mangold et al aren't idiots, they know better, but lumping critical fans and trolls together makes those in charge look more reasonable in comparison. It's crap.

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I’m on the cusp, in the run up to a brave new decade. Contemporary culture demands I declare it the new something. Always something younger than, always more energetic than, and ever more &#…