quick what is everyone doing right now
okay reblogging this again just to say that i love love love reading these,, like it's so incredible how we're all doing such vastly different things at the same time...ik it's an obvious thing but it's also insane to think about.
48hr tumblr blackout proposal
tumblr mobile has seadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.
examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it "working"), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the 'for you' page.
the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:
- reverse the recent image viewer update
- scrap the new users 'for you' page default setting
- let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely
- increase efforts against spam / porn bots
- make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam
- let us go nuts show nuts again... for real this time
- commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!
- (suggestions welcome!)
to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don't use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.
I suggest the 48 hours between the 30th of June to the end of the 1st of July.
this marks the end of pride month (for the "queerest place on the internet") and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).
tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).
i can't afford to blaze this post so please spread it around as much as possible! protests only work if significant numbers show up!
tumblr rejected the blaze campaigns for this post because they know it would hurt them. let's make this an indefinite blackout - it's the best way to get results.
(so the blackout would be from June 30th onwards)
staff statements, politician answers, disconnect
i do have to premise, many staff-involved posts are going to be from cyle's blog or written by him. some have other staff contributing to the answer! but he appears to be a sort of main front-end developer, so he's quite literally the most visible staff member, to me at least.
issues w reblog chains
layout issues:
issues w video/picture viewer
issues w other long standing features
user frustrations and rage
and personally my favorite post
i got gay daddy too 😂
Bitch tits
happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.
Non-Natives reblogging this are great and wonderful
Please remember that "land back" does not mean "indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don't belong in big cities," nor does it mean "non-indigenous people can't be farmers." What it DOES mean is that "non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from." It means, "there's a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn't caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem." It means, "non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem."
It also means that indigenous peoples should regain the right to sustain themselves on the land according to the practices they want, and they should have free reign to perform their cultural practices and protect their holy sites, as opposed to the current model where if they try to honor their dead on public lands they get violently removed.
5/28/2023
please do not tag.
please reblog the fuck out of this.
remaking cause the original post completely lost traction at the worst time & i can't even begin getting traction on twiter :')
the good news is it's not covid, but my brother & nephew were just in the hospital for over three days so he hasn't been able to get ANY cash coming in.
his rent is $600 USD, and electric is overdue at $230.
he was literally homeless hardly a few months ago, we can't afford to have it happen again. anything at all helps massively. please only donate if you're able.
$0/830
(kofis fucked n i cant change my goal. dont worry about that i found out a way to get my hrt 4 free)
still nothing, please help :')
There's a lot of anti-Romani racism in Dracula, and today's entry marks the start of it.
So I thought it might be a good opportunity to highlight some organisations that are working to promote Roma rights, and some ways, alongside donating, that you might be able to support them.
The European Roma Rights Centre carries out strategic litigation to support Roma rights, as well as doing advocacy and research. You can sign up to volunteer for them here; one volunteer-run project currently live is called Challenging Digital Antigypsyism, and focuses on identifying and reporting hate speech on social media platforms.
On a similar theme, Minority Rights Group International has a campaign toolkit on countering cyberhate against Roma. The focus of the campaign is Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
In the UK, Friends, Families and Travellers works to end racism and discrimination against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people and to protect the right to pursue a nomadic way of life. If you're in the UK, you can ask your MP to sign their pledge card. And if you witness discriminatory comments in politics, you can report that here.
The Roma Support Group, based in London, works with Eastern European Roma refugees and migrants. They have a number of volunteer roles for people with regular time to offer.
FUCK. honestly just FUCK. We missed a very important day yesterday.
bastardbat
what was yesterday, cat?
I’m not missing it this year.
Happy Birthday buddy!
Reblog to give a hug, a forehead kiss, and a grilled cheese cut diagonal to the person you reblogged it from.
reblog this to place a small, rotund ceramic animal in the palm of the person you reblogged it from
The explosion community is dying btw. Reblog to blow up the person you're reblogging this from
easyvirgin-deactivated20160413
happy Thursday the 20th
blakegdiamond
I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?
the-mighty-tor
next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th
August 2015
October 2016
April 2017
July 2017
September 2018
December 2018
June 2019
February 2020
August 2020
You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years
HAPPY THURSDAY THE 20TH EVERYONE
HAPPY THURSDAY THE 20TH
Do reblog if you answer, I need a large test group. 
How the hell are y’all NOT getting bats?!?? I mean, I live in a medium sized city, not in the woods or anything and these are just the ones I have pictures of, like damn. How tf? I get like, 2-3 bats a year and that’s just the adults.
Op lives in Gotham
Y’all some city slickers
#reblog#my response was none but funny enough despite living in a city my MOM had encounters with bats#she was at work in her previous job as a cleaner#and she heard a noise coming from somewhere iirc#and she went to find out what the hell it was#AND IT WAS A BAT#Iirc the bat was unharmed and it did eventually leave#but it was so surprising for us cuz like this never happened#like it was in a goddamn university#I wonder if ill ever stumble upon a bat someday
hey if you dont open the window ever or open that shit religiously put in the tags where ur from. i want to study you
Linked Universe hours hell yeah
Y’ALL LOOK AT MY BESTIE’S ART NOW
#reblog#poll#i selected 20-30 but it actually can depend#smaller scale pieces or flat pieces typically have more around 10-20#including sketch layers#but bigger pieces and those with more rendering often have over 20 layers#some even reaching around 50 or 60#20-30 is more of an average#oh and the art programme i use is Krita#a very good free art programme that i highly recommed :]
By the way, @staff is changing the video player and photo viewer on the mobile app to the one from Tumblr TV. As a result, they have made the abhorrent decision to remove an important accessibility feature in order to TikTok-ifying Tumblr. You can no longer zoom in on photos. Or so I though. Because the visually impaired are now second-class users to the Tumblr Staff, they just decided to make it harder to zoom in on photos.
So, for all of you who, like me, find the pinch-to-zoom feature on Tumblr invaluable to read and view photos, you now have to:
Tap the Photo > Tap the “more” button in the description > tap the photo again
This will open the old photo viewer (for now, anyway) which was formerly one tap away. It will grant you all the former features of the old photo viewer, including the ability to zoom in.