YogicAmnesiac

Nisha | She/Her | Probably Sleeping | Author www.addledwrites.com/

[postplus-protest]

POST PLUS IS COMING, WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT!

Despite the fancy survey, changes to the UI and TOS reveal we’re getting the service in the future whether we want it or not. Obviously, Post+ is a terrible idea that is trying to bank revenue on user content. Unlike patreon or onlyfans, tumblr’s primary focus is on FAN content. The legality of this is NOT in the users favor and as the new tumblr TOS states, said users will be entirely liable for whatever legal matters arise.

SO WHAT ARE WE DOING?

Besides filling out the survey, it’s time to show tumblr we mean business and show our displeasure by hitting them where it hurts.

Ad revenue.

We’re proposing a 24 hour log off as phase one of this protest.

WHEN IS THE PROTEST?

AUGUST 6th, 2021        12 am Eastern Time (US)          5 am Greenwich Mean Time          6 am Central European Time          8 am Moscow Standard Time          1 pm Australian Western Time          2 pm Japan Standard Time          3:30 pm Australian Central Time          4 pm Australian Eastern Time

AUGUST 5th, 2021

11 pm Central Time (US)          10 pm Mountain Time (US)            9 pm Pacific Time (US)

THE END TIME IS 24 HOURS FROM START TIME!!!

So no posting, no queues, no likes, and no reblogs!

WHAT IF I CAN’T/WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?

Like this post and share it AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE. Use the hashtags #tumblrlogoff2021 or #postplusprotest on ANY and ALL social media.

WILL THIS WORK?

Maybe, maybe not. It’s an attempt at doing SOMETHING.

BECAUSE I’M A TIRED IDIOT, USE THIS TO DOUBLE CHECK YOUR TIME ZONE!!!!

Event Time Announcer - Log off protest 2021

Event Time Announcer shows time for Log off protest 2021 in locations all over the world. In New York it happens on Friday, August 6, 2021 a

[wrenhyperfixates]

As much as I hate to say this because this hellsite is a big part of my life, I think we should all participate in this. And you know what, it’s actually because this hellsite means so much to me that I think we should do this. post+ will hurt content creators and possibly shut down tumblr itself (though they’re much better protected than we could ever be). Don’t use post+. Use the link above and find when you should log off to help

[sheris532]

BOOST

[nildespirandum]

Boost

[trickster-grrrrl-deactivated202]

We can all survive 24 hours off of Tumblr. BOOST!

[30-minute-memes]

I pronouns you not guilty

[garrettauthor]

I PRONOUNS YOU NOT GUILTY

[politijohn]

ICYMI - Huge news!

[marlbororeds100s-deactivated202]

PrEP, the HIV prevention pill, must now be totally free under almost all insurance plans

The federal government announced that almost all health insurers must cover PrEP with no cost sharing — for the drug itself and for clinic v

^link to the article for further info & accessibility

[zevveli]

Just so ya'll know. They're gonna loophole this which is why we have to spread this information. I work at a pharmacy and I can tell you that a lot of these insurance companies only "Cover" them. Here's what has been happening: You go to your doctor to get PrEP, they write a prescription and send it to the Pharmacy. When you get there they tell you that insurance isn't covering it. You say that the law says that they have to. They say that it will, but not through THEM. The insurance company says that they'll only cover it through a "specialty pharmacy" (which on the one hand, fair enough, NIOSH standards for drugs state that if you are handling the pills then there are specific forms of PPE you need that we at retail do not have, but on the other hand that doesn't matter if we aren't opening the freaking bottles) which will then either mail it to you or ship it to the pharmacy to take it out of the box, scan it in, and bag it. Which is what we'd do normally anyways except with the added step of making you wait 2-3 business days to get it. And because technically they "cover it" it's not a law violation. But they're hoping that you'll not want to wait and just pay the $3000 out of pocket.

[me-myself-and-bi]

For any of my US friends out there 👍💡

[tikkety-tok]

Real lawyer plays Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney

[xphilosoraptorx]

Japanese law doesn't require evidence to be presented for review by both parties. "SURPRISE!!! I have facts you weren't aware of!" is very much a thing there.

[nonenosome]

The entire game was written to show how messed up the Justice System is there.

[villainous-queer-deactivated202]

[sindri42]

Japanese courts have a 99% conviction rate. In essence, if you are accused of a crime you are already considered to be guilty and it is up to you to prove otherwise if you can. Remember in the end of Persona 5, where the person who falsely accused you of assaulting them confessed to everything on national television but you were still in prison until your friends tracked down every witness and got them all the recant their testimonies individually? That was in no way exaggerated.

Also Japanese police have a 90+% rate of successfully arresting a “suspect” for every crime they investigate. At first this sounds really impressive, how they always track down the criminal, until you realize that they do it through a combination of refusing to investigate crimes which seem hard to solve or are likely to involve organizes crime or politicians (lots of “suicides” and “accidents” which are very blatant murder), and any time they do open a case but fail to figure everything out in the first day or two they just grab a convenient scapegoat (usually poor, frequently an immigrant or ethnic minority).

There are also very few restrictions on how long you can be “interrogated” for after arrest, or what they can do to you during the interrogation. Almost all the accused confess to everything... eventually. Regardless of whether they were actually anywhere near the incident in question.

[magicspotatolover]

[lazorsandparadox]

Yeah no, death note was also about how fuck up japanese police are. The reason the death note causes people to have heart attacks if you dont put a cause of death is because thats the go to excuse cops use if they dont want to investigate a case or cant solve it fast enough. And giving the death note to the police chiefs son and then exposing that son to be a fuckin freak and mass murderer was very much extremely intentional. The japanese justice system is extremely fucked up

[archangel-zadkiel]

Ok I know this has been said but

[tastefullyoffensive]

[sspeedwagonfoundation]

100 day is a Thing in Korea cuz we weren’t sure if a baby would survive that long back in the days and when they did we celebrated

[teaboot]

He looks regal and confused and I look up to that.

[yvesdot]

It’s… it’s okay if you’re not very good at writing? I don’t know if this is much of a controversial opinion, but you are improving, and you are consistently moving forward even if you don’t see it. Progress is largely practice-based, especially in writing, and even if editors and beta readers weren’t a thing that are actively helping you every time they give a critique (and, well, why do you think those exist in the first place? Nobody’s perfect), you would still be improving just by writing more and reading others’ writing. It’s okay if you’re not good at writing. That doesn’t mean anything about you, and it definitely doesn’t mean anything permanent.

[yvesdot]

Looking back on this post, I feel it could use some context. So many times I would meet writers, especially young ones, who would tell me without preamble, “I’m not good at writing.” Sometimes, for all my inherent disagreement, I want to skip the reassurances and the specifics and the debate and just say, “So what?”

So what if you’re not good at writing? So what if you suck at it? If you like it, do it. If you want to improve, do it. Post your writing and ask for critique. Post your writing and don’t ask for critique. Every writer on this planet started with their worst writing. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t look like you’re getting better. It doesn’t matter if you suck until the end of time. It doesn’t matter if it takes you seven hours to formulate a coherent sentence. There is nothing wrong with writing ‘badly’, even if your writing is objectively ‘bad’. Just go out there and do it and have fun. Here’s your permission slip.

[yogicamnesiac]

It's really helped me to have long-term beta-readers. I write quite a bit so I try to have different people read as to not overwhelm anyone, but having a few people who you can go back to and specifically ask "how do you think I've improved?" can be a big boost.

But also, it's okay to just write and keep stuff for yourself. You're still going to get better.

And you will never stop improving. There isn't a place to stop learning, so even your favorite authors are right there with you. They're learning.

[crow-queen-art-deactivated20210]

Please share this!!!!! As you resident vitiligan and fellow artist I am here to educate people on how to properly create a character with vitiligo and other things to keep in mind about the disorder.

Only 1% of the entire world’s population has vitiligo but I see so many artists making characters with it when they sometimes don’t even know what vitiligo is and pass it off as “skin pigmentation”. Like— what does that even mean??? XD

It’s not an aesthetic and it won’t get you “diversity points” so stop romanticizing vitiligo!

[kurowrites]

Honestly very happy to see this, especially the part that emphasises that skin tone has nothing to do with the likeliness of developing vitiligo. You can be as white as snow and have it.

[the-old-homosexual-deactivated2]

Can we talk about how in zombie shows/movies/books they always find a veterinarian and not a surgeon? Are veterinarians deemed more likely to survive the apocalypse?

[drferox]

Yup.

One of our professional skills is ‘not being bitten by patients’

We actually have a good broad knowledge base for both surgical, medical, and GP things

We’re used to improvising equipment because a lot of stuff is just not made for animals

Meat safety is part of our training

Our cars are often full of equipment, especially in mixed practice

We probably weren’t in the human hospital at the initial outbreak

[antique-scarecrow]

This post is deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant as certified by the National Shitpost Registry.

[ryan-sometimes]

The only high school heterosexual romance I want to see is jock girl x nerd boy sorry the other ones have been too overdone give me a super confident basketball player girl and a guy who's a little terrified of her

[ryan-sometimes]

Nerd boy: *is scrambling for books at his locker*

Basketball girl: *leans on the locker next to his like jocks do in high school movies*

[venusrrvelez]

Lemme guess: no other guy wants to go out with her because she’s too tall and, “intimidating.”

[ryan-sometimes]

Actually no all the basketball dudes think she's super cool but she wants the calculus loser

[shadowknight1224]

It would be hilarious if the movie opens on the nerd boy narrating "I have a crush on the most popular girl at school..." as he stares longingly in the middle of the hallway, then the camera pans around to show the popular girl isn't a cheerleader but instead she's a jacked jock and she's lifting a classmate up and down in the middle of a crowd with her fellow jocks (of all genders) cheering her on

[susiephone]

The camera pans over someone who only appears from the shoulder down, passing them over to focus on a petite blonde cheerleader. Nerd boy clears his throat.

"Jessica? No no no, she's nice but not my type. Also, she's gay. Go back."

The camera hesitantly moves focus off the cheddar and onto the person whose head isn't even in frame.

"There we go."

Cue the pan up to reveal a jacked 6'2'' queen.

"Perfect."

[mswyrr]

https://twitter.com/delaneykingrox/status/1090402436995473408

[woman-respecter]

a great thing about people transitioning is it presents us with scenarios where we have the perfect control variable to undeniably reveal sexism in the workplace. I read about a trans man neuroscientist who was told he was “so much smarter than his sister” (his sister being his pre-transition self)

and damn i knew the gaming industry was notoriously sexist (even more sexist than other stem fields, and that’s saying a lot) but seeing it laid out so clearly like this is so demoralizing.

[42chickens]

Ben Barres was that neuroscientist

[mswyrr]

https://twitter.com/delaneykingrox/status/1090402436995473408

[woman-respecter]

a great thing about people transitioning is it presents us with scenarios where we have the perfect control variable to undeniably reveal sexism in the workplace. I read about a trans man neuroscientist who was told he was “so much smarter than his sister” (his sister being his pre-transition self)

and damn i knew the gaming industry was notoriously sexist (even more sexist than other stem fields, and that’s saying a lot) but seeing it laid out so clearly like this is so demoralizing.

[42chickens]

Ben Barres was that neuroscientist

[divineandmajesticinone]

WONDER BAR (1934) | dir. Lloyd Bacon

“The other [scene that stands out above the rest] involved a handsome man, asking a dancing couple if he could cut in. The female partner, expecting his attention, agrees, only to see him dance with her male partner. Jolson then flaps his wrist and says, “Boys will be boys. Woo!”. This scene almost caused the Production Code to reject the film, and was featured in the opening scenes of the documentary film The Celluloid Closet (1996).”

[amarguerite]

Here is the actual clip, and let me tell you, Jolson’s delivery does not disappoint:

[ventureonwilderseas]

Thinking about the older lady who crowed, delighted, “Oh! Is that one of your little hand signals?” when the captain jokingly pulled a knife on me from the helm when I was up at the bow.

[ventureonwilderseas]

“Pointing knife from sixty feet away with accompanying eyebrow wiggle” is a standardized signal used on ships for communicating three things: 1. I am the captain 2. I am bored 3. I have a knife

[liberalsarecool]

The unvaccinated are taking us all down a dark path for pretty selfish reasons.

[sirfrogsworth]

How to draw a dog.

[Scott Hubbard]

[sandersstudies]

Love that in a lot of classic literature people just “randomly” fall ill but bro their homes were stacked to the roof with arsenic and asbestos and lead and radium of course they were sick all the time.

[sandersstudies]

And then they’re like “we took my ill wife to the seaside and her condition improved remarkably” and it’s like Edward your house has seven time bombs in it please just leave your wife at the seaside and she’ll do very well not getting mesothelioma.

[under-the-arch]

Edward your wife may be entitled to financial compensation

[coyotesmokebreak]

I’m telling y’all that if you don’t jump around erratically bc a wasp or hornet flies close to you, you’ll have less interaction time with them

If you’re nervous about them (not yknow. allergic. let’s not intentionally misinterpret what I’m saying) ignore them. And I do mean IGNORE. Don’t react.

Also, are you watering or generally handling a source of liquid and they won’t leave you alone? Share some at a distance from yourself. Hell are you eating and they want some? Share it.

Honestly if people treated them with the calmness and affection they show bees they’d have better experiences.

Anyway, have a little plate for the yellowjackets when you picnic. They are eating the bugs that you don’t like so offer them a gift.

[coyotesmokebreak]

Please stop telling me about your allergies. If you gotta bolt bc you could DIE just do it.

Clearly, that means this message is not for you. Move on.

[lew-basnight]

When I’m going to hang out in the yard I usually bring a banana or some other fruit, that I eat right away (because sitting outside and eating fruit is cool) and then I leave the peel/husk/core out someplace, not adjacent to where I’ll be sitting/working. The bees and wasps (and flies) will all zero in on it and have a lil party, and I can do what I’m doing without constant interference. (It’s the same as feeding your pets before you sit down to eat a meal — it distracts them from begging, and honestly a lot of dogs and cats prefer to eat along with their people. I know, it’s odd, but nice.)

[earhartsease]

Wasps are often more combative in the summer because they're thirsty. Putting out a little dish of water for them is good. I was in the Spanish mountains one summer and put out a plate of water for the wasps whenever I was bathing, so they didn't try to drink off me.

[sobadpink]

Yeah usually if you take a shallow dish out with water and even bits of food (especially fruit) while outside doing activities like reading/swimming/picnics/camping etc you’ll really take the aggression out of most wasps. They’re usually just hungry or thirsty. Just don’t set up camp right next to their nest lol