Oh No.

yeah i talk to myself, what about it?

[omghotmemes]

Terry understands if you feel sad

[omghotmemes]

Terry understands if you feel sad

[omghotmemes]

Terry understands if you feel sad

[brackenfur]

if i was sandstorm n had to go thru all the snubs she went through in the first arc i would have committed murder

[brackenfur]

was made a warrior p late/her warrior ceremony kept getting put off

literally never got an apprentice despite the fact that like.......i mean there was no reason for it n every excuse characters gave for why she couldnt were dumb af. bluestar was like "we cant have two unexperienced warriors mentoring two littermates at once" when ashpaw/fernpaw were being made apprentices even tho she made graystripe/fireheart the mentors of brackenpaw/cinderpaw, firestar didnt want to give her tawnypaw as an apprentice....like wtf

cus of the 'no apprentice' she wasnt a candidate to be deputy after whitestorm so graystripe who barely mentored his only apprentice EVER got to be next deputy.....smfh what

and when graystripe disappears n theres an open deputy slot no one considers her again and brambleclaw, who never had an apprentice n rly didnt have any qualifications outside of a prophecy abt him being dreamt up, gets 2 be next deputy

generally doesnt get to do anything post-original series cus the writers forgot abt her

sandstorms villain orgin story also happens to be MY villain origin story bc wtf man

[thursday]

DAY 15

GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15

[fnaf-thechoco-deactivated201503]

You can only reblog this 12 times a year

Make the most of that

[jijarugen]

Every month I reblog this and every month I’m baffled that it’s already the 15th.

[pumpkindobby-blog]

I’m scheduling this for every month

[raise-me-up-take-me-up]

IT ONLY APPEARS ON THE FIFTEENTH OF EVRY MONTH

[lisianthoma]

THIS ONLY APPEARS ON 15THS WTF

[1800-sanders-sides]

*slams reblog button*

[guiltiest-gear]

Welp it’s that day again

[phantomrose96]

I love tumblr. I love that tumblr is the best social media site of 2021.

Every other site has spent the last decade perfecting the art of targeted ads. I am a wallet of flesh and blood which must be stripped bare and profiled and picked apart for the maximally efficient way to squeeze profit from my presence. Every other site will fold and morph itself to a shape of my liking - like a fairy tale trickster stealing memories and taking their mold - to lull me into compliance and loosen my coin purse.

Facebook sees me searching fitness equipment and injects my timeline with athletic wear ads. Reddit profiles the subreddits I follow and eagerly promotes a new coding bootcamp or cloud service at every turn. Google overhears me lamenting over my moving to-do list on voice call and fills in my “how much to tip movers” query before I’ve gotten the third word typed out.

Tumblr never even tried.

They could have. The information is there. The basic infrastructure, presumably, exists. Tumblr can recommend me tags based on tags I follow, blogs based on blogs I follow, even posts that for one reason or another may strike my fancy. Tumblr could be - SHOULD be - funneling this framework into advertising, as the only means that free-to-use social media platforms can turn a profit in our capitalistic hellscape.

They just don’t.

Today I saw an ad for treating Hyperhidrosis - a condition, I think, in which a person sweats too much - and I saw it twice, four posts apart, and it is so incredibly benignly impersonally ineptly untargeted toward me compared to all other pinpoint-aimed advertising that I’m endeared to it. Tumblr knows NOTHING about me. 8 years, 51,000 likes, and tumblr has not learned a THING about me.

Advertisements for a mattress? Shitty mobile game ads that don’t make even the slightest pretense at being anything other than a candy crush rip-off? Choose-your-own adventure games either about Royal Espionage or Choosing The Wrong Dress For Your Date with ZERO in-between.

And then this. This here. The culmination, the crown-jewel of tumblr’s nihilistic non-compliance with the state of social media advertising. Any pretense of capitalistic exchange is abandoned at the gas station by the side of the road. This is not a company. This is not a product. This is not anything that fulfills the contract of consumer and seller. 

THIS. THIS IS WHAT TUMBLR HAS TO OFFER INSTEAD.

“Pour vinegar on your bread, fuck you.”

“Put it in the garbage, fuck you.”

“Your wife says you’re a fucking dumbass, fuck you.”

That’s it. That’s the advertisement. You vinegar-breadless cuck. You virgin extraordinaire bereft of bread and garbage can. I am fucking your wife right now in our vinegar-soaked motel bed. She puffs a cigarette which I pulled from the trashcan and we both laugh heartily at her recounts of your immasculine ineptitude. I don’t want your money. I don’t want anything from you. Fuck you. 

Amazing. Amazing. What a state of things to ring in 2021. What a great platform we all collectively choose to be on.

[awnerd]

App Store Privacy Reports

Apple recently started forcing apps to report what information they collect and how they use it.

It’s really detailed and really easy to read.

And the difference between [tumblr] and the other platforms is… extraordinary.

TikTok Privacy Report for iOS

Facebook Privacy Report for iOS

Tumblr Privacy Report for iOS

Some take-aways

Tumblr doesn’t even have a “Data Used to Track You” section

Facebook doesn’t even have a “Data Not Linked to You” section

Facebook’s “Data Used to Track You” section contains the unsettling “other” category

TikTok links more types of data to you than Tumblr collects in total (almost none of which is connected to you)

And this is just the summary from each app. Apple actually breaks this stuff down in detail. Go to the App Store and see for yourself.

[a-tmblr-book]

Apple’s surveys are typically self-interested (does anyone believe Apple cares about people’s privacy?) but this is certainly a valuable contrast to have. It’s indeed stark how unusual tumblr is in its continued resistance to identity data-mining, although it’s not surprising given tumblr’s history of resistance to advertising generally (tumblr didn’t even start advertising until 2012!). tumblr’s practices are all the more remarkable in 2121 given the extent to which datamining has become totally naturalized across platforms and internet services more generally. Alternative ways of generating income are rarely even acknowledged, as if they are somehow not possible. 

[schafpudel]

#i cannot believe that i lived long enough to see tumblr become the best social media site #what the actual fuck #like to be fair it’s not much of a competition when the competition is trying to saw your legs off but #i remember when tumblr being a broken mess was a mark against it #now it’s a key selling feature #holy shit

[buffalo-bilbo]

Guys

[cliffsecord]

[butch-of-the-blades]

Nature is healing

[lynati]

*HEART EYES!!*

[gigglyscribbles]

This is my favorite thing that has ever happened

[batfamfucker]

RICKTOK-

[alwaysbewoke]

UNMUTE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!

[sweetcribs]

HHHAAAAAAAHAAHA!!

[youmaycallmecas]

THE DICKHEADS ARE STUNNED

[seasons-of-ceres]

@mercer-safehouse  

[transcript-central]

Transcript: [In an australian accent: “This poor cat is stuck down the end of an alleyway and it’s getting bullied by a bunch of fuckin’ street toughs. They’re like, just tell us where you’re stashing the dead mice! But little do they know,” The voice picks up in volume, “THAT THERE MESSING WITH THE WRONG FUCKING CAT! He is OUT of here! What a sensational get away! The dickheads are stunned. There’s a rebound, a high jump, and then he stays low at the end. He’s like, eat my dust you fuck-knuckles! To quite the famous Australian commentator, Dennis Camedy(?), this is CENTIMETER PERFECT.”, laughing, “Sensational!”]

[xxtc-96xx]

ozzyman is the commentator we need in our daily lives

[lynxgriffin]

Sometimes, you have to make a path out yourself. 

And finally, a new Paper Trail part is here! Includes the return of Lairse and his grievances, but at least by now he’s actually helping! The power of friendship is essential again!

New part will be along later!

- Paper Trail -

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[sheherazade-deactivated20210507]

what if i made a ‘pick a hot person and i’ll tell you how valid you are’ quiz but made it ‘choose some paintings and i’ll tell you how much art thief energy you have’ ... i just might

[sheherazade-deactivated20210507]

here’s the quiz! choose some paintings and i’ll tell you how much art thief energy you have. 💫 

[spectrumcore]

I think like, while Lil Nas X is tearing apart a lot of troll responses he’s getting on twitter for laughs on purpose, I also definitely think we should be careful about how we frame that, how we repost that, and whether that’s the thing we focus on here, because the sheer volume and maliciousness of the harassment (from the likes of Fox News and establishments such as that) he’s receiving isn’t without emotional consequences. he even stated that much:

[ID: tweet by Lil Nas X stating: “i’ll be honest all this backlash is putting an emotional toll on me. i try to cover it with humour but it’s getting hard. my anxiety is higher than ever and stream call me by your name on all platforms now!” /end ID]

like we should def appreciate his creativity & his incredible sense of humour in the face of all this, but I think we shouldn’t forget the extreme severity of the backlash and hatred in response to a bold and groundbreaking piece of black gay art, that showcases black gay sexuality in a way that is almost never seen, certainly by not such a famous musician, and not erase the fact that the amount of hate he’s getting here is both unjust, racially-motivated, and almost definitely tremendously painful and upsetting? or else we risk reducing black performers and artists to mere objects of entertainment and fail to see black performers & artists as people, human beings.

[shouty-y]

Here’s my full piece for the “Classics but Make it Gay” zine which Kickstarter has officially launched now! 😳✨

[cyber-phobia]

Why is it different

[cyber-phobia]

[pontsalin]

A fox caught in the headlights

[enderspawn]

you suffer from a form of insomnia, within your own dreams.

[evelyn-art-05]

Behold! A mass murderer!

[vernillabomb]

♣