get it together

she/her/hers

[lastoneout]

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani hospitalized in critical condition, spokesman says

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is hospitalized in critical condition, his spokesman said on Sunday.

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[so-much-for-subtlety]

can you hear the lambs clarice??

[kleefkruid]

Tumblr already has a personalization algorithm it's called my beloved mutuals who have great taste and only wish to psychologically damage me sometimes

[staff]

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

[cuddlycryptid]

we need to get waaaay normaler about sex Now!!!

[cuddlycryptid]

we need to break down both our discomfort around sex, and our beliefs that sex is somehow Uniquely Important. it's cool if you don't want to have sex personally- this isn't about that. it's about how we, culturally, need to accept that sex is literally just A Normal Activity That People Can Do. there is NO moral, spiritual, or otherwise unique Weight behind sex that makes it different from other activities- it can involve different parts of your body, but thats literally it. all other importance is purely cultural, and tbh that cultural weight it does waaay more harm than good

[cuddlycryptid]

just a few things that could change if we remove cultural significance and all accept that Sex is literally a Totally Normal Activity: - it becomes easier to establish and discuss boundaries, and you receive less pushback if you choose to abstain for whatever reason

-conservatives cant censor or attack entire groups of people just by creating an association between them and sexuality (ex. women, queer people and especially trans people, people of color and especially Black people)

-it becomes easier and normal to discuss sexuality, allowing for more information and resources to be shared and for victims of abuse to speak up

-countless people don't experience sex-shaming and judgement from others, and countless people have FAR less internalized guilt around the TOTALLY NORMAL experience of having sexual desire

-a lot of unnecessary weight is removed from the already-traumatizing experience of being a SA or CSA victim

-more people are free to fully embrace the sexuality aspect of their lives, in a way that is both healthy and fun!!

if you havent started the work to deconstruct your beliefs and discomfort around sex...you too can be free!! it starts with all of us!!

[cuddlycryptid]

if you dont know what i mean about "unnecessary weight" around SA-

my csa was ACTUALLY an assault on my physical body, a violation of my boundaries, and a betrayal of my trust in order to exert power over me

my csa FELT like all of that shit, PLUS: a shameful secret i could never talk about, a religious damnation, a stain on my morality, a physical "dirtying", a stealing of something that was spiritually paramount (but also irreplaceable), and much, MUCH more!!

kill the idea that sex is anything other than what it is. sex has NO moral, relational, spiritual, religious, ethical, (etc etc) Special Qualities that are inherent to it!!! we made all that all up!! take my hand we can escape it together!!

[scamguy]

i would like to officially thank sesame for its seeds, its oil, and of course its street

[lesbianjaxsondart]

if you put the new harry potter show on my dash in any way it's gonna be an automatic unfollow from me, guys. like. it's 2026. come the fuck on

[deadlovedonoteat]

if u show me harry potter content in the great big year of 2026 ur blocked idc who u are

[klfg]

[source]

[klfg]

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up.

Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math.

Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.

And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.

Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do.

The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing.

So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up.

OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.

This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent.

Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?

[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.

[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?

[prismatic-bell]

Okay, look. We're gonna do it like this, Matt. I used to work in market research. This one is free, next time I expect a month of free premium and if there's a third time I expect a job.

TO EVERYONE ELSE:

A series of ten reblogs is about to follow, since you can only have one poll per reblog. Please answer all ten polls. If you don't see them all, check the notes (this shouldn't take me long so if it's more than like, fifteen minutes since I posted this one they should all be there.)

1) What is the PRIMARY thing you do on Tumblr?

I mostly reblog others' posts

I write original posts

I make/post memes

I make/post images or gifs

I make/post videos

I run a poll blog

I run a gimmick blog

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

2) how long have you been here?

Under twelve months

1-2 years

3-4 years

5-6 years

7-8 years

9-10 years

More than ten years

I don't remember

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

3) how old are you?

Under 18

19-28

29-38

39-48

49-58

59-68

I'm one of the Tumblr grandparents

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

4) thinking about the recent Tumblr feature release/rollback, what did you find most frustrating?

There was no communication before the fact

I felt like the feature didn't take Tumblr users' wants and needs into account

I felt like the feature showed a lack of understanding of Tumblr culture

I felt the feature would hurt Tumblr culture

I felt the feature would hurt Tumblr artists and small makers specifically

I wasn't bothered by the change

It happened so fast I didn't even know until it was all over

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

5) thinking about the recent Tumblr feature release/rollback, what satisfied you most about the response?

Tumblr staff responded quickly

I felt like we were heard and listened to

It was nice to see our concerns were understood

I wasn't bothered by the change

It happened so fast I didn't even know until it was all over

Other

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

6) thinking about features you use on Tumblr, what would you like to see improved?

The recent UI changes to reblogging are too confusing

I'd like tagging to be easier

I'd like to see the tagging system overhauled

I'd like to see the reporting/adult tagging system improved

I'd like a separate page for my communities

I'd like to be able to mark posts as for my followers only

I'd like to see the blocking system improved

I'm happy with Tumblr as it is

Other

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

7) with the understanding that Tumblr needs to attract new users or convert more current free users to paying users in order to stay online, what do you think of Matt's "top tumblrista" idea?

Absolutely not--this is very famously the influencer-hating site

Absolutely not--this site is too diverse for that to work

Absolutely not, for other reasons

I'm actually liking this poll method

The poll method is clunky but something similar would be great

I think the panel of "top users" would be great

I have no opinion on this

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

8) if you don't currently pay for use of a Tumblr feature, why not?

I have paid Tumblr features

The price point is too high for my wallet

The price point is too high for what's offered

There's nothing offered that I want

I wouldn't pay even if something I wanted was offered

Other

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

In the following question, "pre-social media" refers to platforms like LiveJournal, forums, alt.net boards, early MySpace, and similar spaces.

9) thinking about the given definition of "pre-social media," how much do you agree with the statement "I think most tumblr users I know would prefer pre-social media to modern platforms like Facebook and X"?

"Strongly agree" is not strong enough

Strongly agree

Agree

Kind of maybe agree?

Neutral/I don't know enough about pre-social media to say

Kind of maybe disagree?

Disagree

Strongly disagree

"Strongly disagree" is not strong enough

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

10) do you think Matt should just hire me to do this so I don't have to squeeze it around my break at work?

Yes, this was awesome

Sure, you're not perfect but this was way better than what they've done til now

No, but someone should do this

Honestly I'm just sad you didn't give us nuance/bald/vanilla extract/tickybox

Voting ended onMar 27

[rowark]

I love the irony that if that new reblog change had actually happened, @prismatic-bell would have been getting all the notes for this post, making it completely useless for @photomatt for any sort of research purposes, because he happened to get reblogged by a more popular blog and would have not gotten all the notifications when people added comments

Like, I hope this clears up why we all hated that idea

[prismatic-bell]

This is an excellent point. I genuinely hope @photomatt looks at the answers here and finds them informative even though I definitely could have done better if I wasn't cranking it out in an hour while waiting for my machine at work to come back online.

I especially love that as of right now, almost 70% of respondents agree he should hire me. I'm being wasted in this 90-degree factory, Matt, I have no degree but I do have a good grasp on Tumblr culture and how to generate useful data. Listen to the people 😎

[rowark]

I think the fact that you made these polls in the first place, on your own time, really highlights what sets Tumblr apart from any other social media platform, which is that Tumblr users actually LIKE Tumblr

We don't see this platform as a means to an end, like how influencers use other platforms to make money off their followers and don't actually care what platform they're on, as long as it pays them... we see it as a community we are all part of, and that we want to see improve without losing the community aspect

Every other social media is just using algorithms to feed us non-stop ads, pumping out the most far-right Nazi content, and being completely overtaken by bots and AI. There's no "social" aspect left to most of them.

Tumblr also has a Nazi problem, and dealing with that would be a great change to implement, but aside from that, Tumblr is pretty much the only place you can go and interact with real people, without being sold to non-stop.

Influencer culture is dying out everywhere... this is NOT the time for Tumblr to hop on that bandwagon. It would literally kill this website... no one is going to join Tumblr because it become more like the other platforms that everyone's already sick of, and the more it becomes like Twitter or Tik Tok or whatever, the more current Tumblr users will abandon it, just like they did with every other platform.

Actually, that would make a good additional poll, I think:

What social media platform do you use DAILY, excluding Tumblr:

Facebook

Twitter (yes I will keep deadnaming Twitter til the day I die idc)

Tik Tok

Instagram

Reddit

LinkedIn????

Other????? (are there more??? I don't even know)

More than one of the above

None of the above, and I never have used any of them

None of the above BUT I used to, and have since deleted my accounts

I have accounts for one or more of the above, but RARELY use them

I have accounts for one or more of the above, but NEVER use them

Voting ended onMar 27

... for the purpose of this poll. rarely means more than never, but less than daily, I guess

I am not a market researcher, but I do love polls lol

[prismatic-bell]

I actually meant to have this as a question and then forgot it because I was doing it off the cuff rather than actually writing out and tweaking it ahead of time, because it's a deeply important one. So thank you for adding it.

[transfemininomenon]

good god when the onions and garlic hit the olive oil..........

[bumblebeesnees]

Panties hit the FLOOR

[transfemininomenon]

you know it sister

[comatosebunny09-deactivated2025]

You cannot tell me that reblogs aren’t powerful. With the right person sharing your stuff, you can blow up overnight. Never think that sharing a writer’s stories won’t have an impact because you have a handful of followers.

Tumblr doesn’t have an algorithm like TikTok and IG, so stories won’t just magically come to you here. Those posts that you love so much showing up on your dashboard? That’s the people you follow sharing the things they love.

I received a message from someone that humbled me. I teared up because my one little reblog kept them from quitting. I will never gate keep someone else’s stories if I enjoy them. That’s the point of this blog—to share the things I love.

I said all that to say…reblog the things you like, please. You have just as much of an impact on fandom culture and its circulation as creatives do.

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you're permanently stuck in the last show that you watched, how is it going?

good

bad

great

awful

results

Voting ended onMar 24

[sergal]

lay an egg sometime

[officialpenisenvy]

in my high school a few years ahead of me there was a polyamorous girl named luna who was dating a guy and a girl and the girl was named (i swear to god this is her birth name) marea. they were named moon and tide and they were lesbian lovers. i thought it was the most romantic fated thing ever as a tiny baby queer it would make me sigh in adoration. the boyfriend's name was frank

[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.

[icannotgetoverbirds]

hey folks do we like this. reblog without commentary for reach

do we want this?

yes

no

Voting ended onMar 23

[watchpoob]

Poob will not make baffling decisions that destroy the one unique feature of the website and in turn ruin the unique culture (which is a drawing point for many).