bisexualboyfriendwife:

For the last time. A bear is a FAT hairy man. FAT. FAT. Say it with me because it’s not a bad word. Bears are fat men. Stop showing me dehydrated and muscular hairy white men. That is not a bear. That is some generic white guy I don’t want to look at. Give me real bears or give me death.

wachi-delectrico:

facebook-reality:

changes:

A new way to navigate Tumblr

If you use Tumblr on a web browser, you might have noticed us testing a brand new navigation on your dashboard in the last month. Now, after some extensive tweaks, we’ve begun rolling out this new dashboard navigation to everyone using a web browser. Welcome to the new world. It’s very like the old world, just in a different layout.

Why are we doing this? We want it to be as easy as possible for everyone to understand and explore what’s happening on Tumblr—newbies and seasoned travelers alike.

Labels over icons: When adding something new to Tumblr in the past, we’d simply add a new icon to our navigation with little further explanation. Turns out no one likes to press a button when they don’t know what it does. So now, where there’s space, the navigation includes text labels. Since adding these, we’ve noticed more of you venturing to previously unexplored corners of Tumblr. Intrepid!

What’s already been fixed? Thanks to feedback from folks during the testing phase, we’ve been able to make some improvements right out of the gate. Those include returning settings subpages (Account, Dashboard, etc.) to the right of the settings page instead of having them in an expandable item in the navigation on the left; fixing some issues with messaging windows on smaller screens; and streamlining the Account section to make it easier to get to your blogs.

What’s next? We’re looking into making a collapsible version of this navigation and improving the use of screen space for those of you with enormous screens. We’re also working on improving access to your account and sideblogs.

That’s all for now, folks. For questions and suggestions, contact Support using the “Feedback” category. Please select the “Report a bug or crash” category on the support form for technical issues. And keep an eye out for more updates here on @changes.

LMAO THEY HAD TO DISABLE REPLIES

Literally everyone hated this shit the second it came out and they shielded themselves vy saying “well we may change it depending on user feedback :)” but they haven’t changed anything and just released it as-is.

Anyway get the Stylus browser extension (for firefox & chrome) and the old theme userstyle to get your dash back in order

glamourweaver:

tparadox:

dunkstein:

loseremo:

zootycoon:

i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

How the fuck does his have less than 200k after setting the internet on fire for months

This lack of notes is probably a big part of why TikTok seems to think they invented the meme.

They think WHAT?!

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:

bluefox4:

ankle-beez:

people discovering steven universe in 2023 are always like “this show is really good why the hell were yall so weird about it”

#LITERALLY ME#I could probably find the conversation with my friend where I was like#‘yeah I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop bc I heard all the Bad Show Propaganda and then uh. That shoe never dropped. Good show.’

As someone that was there and started blocking the SU Crit tag because of so many bad faith accusations, yeah I think I can say a bit of what happened. Might be a bit disjointed but these are the things that I remember happening.

First thing was the release schedule. The Steven Bombs. Releasing like five episodes in one week and then nothing for months. This was something that CartoonNetwork had control over and might have been something that they tried to use to get Steven Universe to stop being so popular because it was gestures pretty queer.

If Steven Universe was a show that every episode was a stand alone, this wouldn’t have been an issue, but it was a linear story. So major developments could drop; major character reveals/fuck-ups could happen and then the fandom would just sit on those for months. Instead of getting the next part of the story that resolved whatever just happened the fandom could sit there and stew in theories and emotions. So characters messing up would be blown out of proration and the resolution wouldn’t feel like it actually enough effort on the one that messed up end.

One example was Cry for Help. When Pearl tricked Garnet into fusing more often. If I remember right, we didn’t get to Pearl and Garnet actually talking out what happened there until months after the fact. In story not much time had past but for the audience that was plenty of time for people to be offended on Garnet’s behalf and distort what happened.

Anther issue was “Gem Harvest” dropped right around the 2016 election. You know when Trump became president. This was made long before the election, but there were people who took that timing as somehow Rebecca Sugar and the Crew saying stuff that they weren’t. I would also say this was when the discourse really took off. If that episode had aired when the crew thought it would, probably a year or months before then, I don’t think people would have misread it was much as they did. It was about communication and also Uncle Andy is the one that had to realize that the way he acted had caused him to be isolated from his family. This wasn’t Steven had to “make his racist uncle no longer racist all on his own” but “Steven gave him encouragement that it wasn’t too late to change”. But the timing was terrible and the Crew had no control on that. The Steven Bombs made several seasons last for years when they should have been over in some months.

Second, studio interference that fandom blamed on Rebecca Sugar and the Crew. The scheduling, the ending of the show feeling rushed; those were things that parts of the fandom blamed on the crew not the network. There were people that I recall saying that the crew just needed to change how Steven Universe was written to fit with the bomb format better, when the bomb format wasn’t something that the crew ever wanted. That wasn’t the show style that they were telling. The show got axed because Rebecca Sugar and the Crew wouldn’t drop the wedding. They wanted it there because it was important to have in a kid’s show. But because they stuck to their guns the rest of the story had to be speed up, and people thought that the crew should have written the ending better; when that ending was planned to have at least another season, not a week long set of episodes. Steven Universe was set up to be a long term story. One that gave time to each character to unpack their mindset and issues. But they couldn’t do that with the Diamonds.

Third, people not understanding the theme of the show. Steven Universe was about family, emotions, and open communication solving issues. Characters resolved their issues by talking about them. By being open about what the issues were. That was the reason Gem War happened; because open communication because Pink Diamond and the other Diamonds just couldn’t happen. We see that Steven is at his worst when he bottles up his emotions or refuses to talk about an issue that he knows he has. But despite this theme by the time we got to Change Your Mind, people were cheering for the idea of Steven shattering the Diamonds. Which ignores the theme of the show; communication. There were people that wanted Steven to kill the Diamonds when this wasn’t that type of show. Steven always hated when he couldn’t talk to another character and had to bubble them. Why would this kid resort to killing? That goes against the themes of this show.

Fourth, the rushed ending. The events of Change Your Mind, was something that the crew wanted to be its own season. I imagine that if the crew had gotten what they wanted we would have spent more time on Homeworld with Steven getting to know the Diamonds and sorting out their issues. Blue Diamond would have been first since we had set up with her character first. We saw her living with the regrets of losing Pink Diamond and now not doing her duties as a Diamond. But because of how rushed the ending had to be at that point the audience didn’t get that time that they had wanted. Think about how long Lars’s arc was. That was several seasons long. If they had gotten a season with the Diamonds like they wanted people probably wouldn’t have thought that the ending was rushed.

Fifth, bad faith criticism and very toxic fandom. As I said I blocked the SU Crit tag because after a certain point people would take anything and start shoving completely off the rails criticisms at the show and expect everyone to take them in good faith. Like people claiming that Sugar, a Jewish creator, was a Nazi Apologist because Steven didn’t kill the Diamonds. People projected things onto elements of the story that weren’t there. People would take a screen shot and call it lazy animation because a character was off model for a fraction of a second that wouldn’t be noticed without slowing it down. There was a lot of bad faith criticism. Some of it was probably from people that didn’t like how queer Steven Universe was and hid it as saying it wasn’t progressive enough. There were probably people that thought that a kid’s show was actually not progressive enough without looking at everything behind the scenes that the creators were dealing with. There were fans that drove one of the story-boarders/writers off the show because on her own Twitter account she posted shipping art of two of the characters (Lapis Lazuli and Peridot). It was just one member of the crew showing that she liked the dynamic between two characters that was not cannon and people started harassing them. There was a lot of entitlement from the fandom.

All of those things combined just made for a terrible time.

TL;DR: The show schedule being all over the place, studio interference, people not understanding the theme of the show, the rushed ending, and a toxic fandom with bad faith criticisms all led to the show having the worst reputation. I would say that the show schedule and studio interference played the biggest part of it since other parts stemmed issues that those created.

Agreed with all of this, but as a sort of continuation of point three:

The danger of adults watching a children’s show because “It’s so good it could be an adult’s show!” is exactly this. Shows that are literally and explicitly for kids have much simpler messaging. One of my least favourite sentences in the world is when you remind someone who is whining about a piece of children’s media for not doing what they wanted out of the story that it’s aimed at kids and they say “But being for kids doesn’t mean it can’t still be good!”

Bitch it IS good. ‘Good’ doesn’t mean 'Does the stuff adults want so it feels satisfying and fulfilling to adults’. It means 'Does the stuff the target audience wants and successfully conveys to that audience its message.’ Adults are not the target audience. Get a grip and remember you’re a guest. Your enjoyment is not the point. You cannot say “The Animaniacs sucked because there was no character development and they would suddenly sing educational songs - I wanted more world building about what these alien things were and how they got into the water tower and what that means for the fabric of American society” IT WAS A KID’S SHOW THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY AND EDUCATIONAL. AND IT WAS. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

In the case of Steven Universe, Rebecca Sugar once said the aim was to 'redefine masculinity’ for children - the point of the show is that Steven is surrounded by powerful women without ever feeling emasculated, and is properly and healthily connected to his emotions. He’s not afraid to cry. He’s open with his fears. He goes through increasing trauma, and the moral of that is 'Dont bottle up, talk to your loved ones.’

And, crucially, his first and primary response to antagonism is “Let’s talk about this” and not “Let’s punch this.”

It was adults who turned that into a “Talk to Nazis uwu” parable, and then got mad about it; children, the target audience, did not. Children are people who are very much still learning how to process their emotions and handle conflict on the playground. Young boys are learning that they aren’t allowed to cry or have feelings other than anger. Young girls are learning that they aren’t allowed power and strength. All children are being told that a family can only look one way, that love can only follow one path. SU provided clear role models to the contrary and was extremely valuable for that.

And then adults projected real world political allegories onto it because that’s how adult fiction works, and decided that meant it was bad and that Rebecca Sugar, a queer Jewish enby, was actually a Nazi apologist. Just a trash fire of a fandom

thebibliosphere:

thebibliosphere:

Been slowly scrolling back through my inbox and queuing up answers. Finally got back to two weeks ago when I mentioned the hospital gave me fentanyl, and the number of “alarmed” messages I got from non-followers lecturing me about taking such a “dangerous drug” has me rolling.

Like c'mon. First of all, it was a one-time dosage to knock me out for a procedure that didn’t even knock me out, and second of all, I’m not a fucking cop <3

Just so we’re clear, anyone can get addicted to drugs, and it can be devastating. This post is not making fun of addicts.

It’s taking a knife-swipe at people who swallow copaganda and spout all kinds of anti-medication rhetoric at me and people like me any time we mention managing our pain with anything other than “positive vibes” and exercise.

I’ve lost so many friends to the opioid crisis – not from opioid use, but because the response to the opioid crisis was to start denying people (like me) adequate pain management, and they ended up seeking out other means to manage their pain. Non-legal means that killed them.

Me talking about being given fentanyl in a medical setting in an OR should NOT have resulted in as many people as it did, telling me I’m a bad person for “using drugs.” (I kept scrolling and found even more, just like wtf)

And also, people who misuse substances are not bad people. They’re sick. Usually in immense amounts of pain, be it physical or mental, and they deserve compassion and help.

Do not believe copaganda. Do not send people these kinds of weird moralizing messages about their healthcare because you’ve swallowed the copaganda. Use your heads.

xixijinping:

manstrans:

charlottan:

polishbarnowl:

charlottan:

oh this is evil

What is that?

discord is adding parental surveillance. as nerdskii’s tags pointed out its a ridiculous measure that doesnt help anyone because apps like Signal exist for actual illegal/sketchy activity and this just hurts lgbt teens looking for somewhere to be themselves and have resources especially with conservative parents

I use android. this is my secure folder, which was built into my phone. it has a customize option, so I’ve made it look like some bland fitness app. when you open it, it asks you to enter a password or unlock it in any other way you’ve set it to unlock before it lets you in

inside of this folder is like a 2nd phone almost, I can hide apps in here or have different accounts on apps I’ve already installed. I have a separate discord and tumblr inside of my secure folder (which I moved this blog to recently)

there are similar third party apps, usually disguised as a calculator that you set a certain number or calculation as the password to unlock. that’s a lot more inconspicuous if opened, but also more well known, and parents might be looking out for any suspicious calculator apps

also, be careful what 3rd party apps you download, especially when it’s concerning things like your accounts and data! make sure you’re downloading something safe and secure

this isn’t foolproof, depending on how far your parents are going to track you. if they’ve installed anything or had you install anything on your phone or computer, or had the chance while you weren’t there, be careful for spyware. some apps report how long you look at each app, or can record sound from your phone on demand

also important: a good VPN can secure what you’re looking at from the router, which parents may be able to access information from, but this also isn’t guaranteed to work if the parental controls are set to block VPNs

another one, if your parents are tracking your location but not your app usage: download a GPS spoofer. you don’t necessarily need to root your phone for this, as long as it’s supported in developer settings. a lot of them are branded as tools for pokemon go, which can be helpful for plausible deniability

parents reading this: these are things I’ve learned from constantly having my shit taken and looked through as a teen. you aren’t protecting your kids, you’re ruining any chance of them trusting you with anything. if something goes wrong, you’re going to be the last person they tell, because someone who goes to these lengths to see any little thing isn’t going to be chill when something actually bad happens if this is how you act when literally nothing is happening

motoroilandeggnog:

motoroilandeggnog:

*German accent* ya…. i always looking for sexy party

rip to my best post ever

digitalmyyth:

bog-frog:

promise me you’ll stay on this site for 10 more years okay?

starshipheartofg-erti:

happy birthday

getvalentined:

repost-this-image:

getvalentined:

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So, in spite of suing multiple other companies with the assertion that scraping user content for generative AI training is illegal, Long Rodent has decided that the dead bird is going to do the same thing! Natively! On-platform! To train his own new generative AI engine!

With this in mind, I cannot impress this vehemently enough:

If you are on Twitter as a creator of any kind, it’s time to pack up your work and GET THE HELL OUT.

The rest of us: Poison the fuck out of Twitter with posts that are just random nonsense. Like “hdhxuj jdjxekn sndbyao soxinchd.” No actual words allowed. Poison that AI the best that you can.

On this note, I want to add that if you’re an artist who wants to continue to use Twitter (or has no choice), you need to Glaze your work everywhere you post it moving forward.

Note: You cannot post your work Glazed on Twitter and not Glazed elsewhere, as this will allow plagiarists to compare the two versions in order to figure out a way around the protection afforded by Glaze.

This isn’t a worst case scenario, by the way, plagiarists have been working constantly to try to crack Glaze since it dropped—proving that they never cared about artists’ consent in the first place. An artist using Glaze is a clear indication that they don’t want their work used in data scraping, and they’ve adapted to protect themselves, but apparently the plagiarist’s rallying cry of “adapt or die” only ever meant “shut up and let me kill you.”

And for anyone claiming that Glaze is no longer effective, I recommend checking out their FAQ, particularly this bit:

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You still need to delete the work you’ve posted thus far from the platform, in order to pull your consent to use that work for training Elon’s new generative AI. If you keep your work on Twitter with this in effect, you are giving your consent to use it in generative AI training, and you have no legal recourse in the future should he choose to distribute the resulting dataset. For instance, if he allows it to be incorporated into LAION, which is the dataset that includes private medical records and patient photos, you will have consented to that by keeping your work on the platform.

The use of Glaze is referred to by plagiarists as an act of data poisoning. It doesn’t work particularly well on less realistic or painterly art styles, which is why I can’t use it much myself, but it is effective.

For anyone out there with no choice but to leave their food where it can be snatched up by scavengers, you can at least fill that food with cyanide.