Friendly reminder that 1200 calories is the recommended amount for a 5 year old

this hit me.

another fact is that 500 calories isn’t even enough for a new born.

why did I go so long convinced that going over 500 in a day was the end of the world?

Another friendly reminder that the United States used 1,000 calorie diets as torture for political prisoners and justified it using the diet industry.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/bush-torture-memos-commer_n_188190.html

Another another friendly reminder that the Minnesota Starvation Experiment subjected adult men who were VOLUNTEERS to 1,560 calorie diets and the psychological effects were so profound that one volunteer cut three of his own fingers off and could not remember why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment

These men were volunteers who knew exactly what they would be going through and when it would end, and who believed they were doing it for a good and moral reason (the research was used to help rehabilitate victims of starvation and famine at the end of WWII).

And these are the things we are expected to engage in FOREVER to stay at a “healthy” weight.

Reading about the Minnesota Starvation experiment was my wake-up call.  It was what kicked me out of my eating disorder.  The guy missing three fingers, whatever his name was, he was the last straw for me.

Scared me so fucking bad I stopped restricting my food that day, and never went back to it.

Just bringin’ this back around like I sometimes do.

Wow. This really hit me hard.

EAT

Fun fact– calorie restriction exacerbates symptoms of pretty much *every* mental illness.

Anorexia has ~16% mortality rate, slightly higher than acted upon suicidal ideation. It’s more lethal than actively trying to kill oneself and this is why.

Calorie restriction exacerbates symptoms of pretty much every physical condition as well.

Make a difference. Submit your 10 favorite (or frankly any 10) NSFW fan tumblrs.

So I made a tweet about how Maciej Ceglowski (aka Pinboard guy) should consult with fandom on how to build a new fandom platform inclusive of not just text, but images and multimedia. 

And then Maciej DMed me and said if fandom (I realize this does not include all parts of fandom) can get a consensus spec of what this platform should consist of, he’ll see what we can do. I have split the document into requirements and nice to haves. I know I’m not going to get everything, but hopefully this is a good enough start to get the ball rolling.

I kind of laughed like “Haha, what hubris, my tech friends say it’ll take a couple million dollars to create a platform like this, one does not simply walk into Mordor” but then all my tech friends were like, “Uh, hon? It’s Maciej Ceglowski. He either HAS a couple million to spend, or can talk his friends into fronting the money.”

So, uh… go make a wishlist!

@tatterdemalionamberite

Nomination: Tumblr’s set up but with functional black and white lists. X-kits features. AO3s tagging and tag wranglers.

Ability to search tags and actually find what you’re looking for within your own blog. There are things that i know i tagged a certain way, and can never find.

A way of tagging NSFW, and also extreme NSFW like gore stuff and the really extreme kinks. 

Age locks on blogs. Friend locks on blogs. A block feature that actually works.

Maybe something more LJ-esque with regards to post and comment chains?  It’s so hard to track something on here if you follow a lot of fairly active blogs.

The most important thing that Tumblr has and no one else does is the ability to pass along media and add to it.

Comment chains at the post itself won’t do this. It will just sit there and never be seen by any of the multitudes of people that turn a photo of a piece of sheet music with four F’s on it to a string of band stories about conspiring tuba players, colossal foghorn noises, and the mustache of a man with nothing to lose.

Over the years I’ve had Tumblr I’ve reblogged about 47,000 things. Probably less than 100 of these have been my own original posts. But I have added to a lot of posts, and I will with absolutely no humility at all say that I have made some damn good additions.

And so has everyone else.

Tumblr is not everybody individually creating their own thing, though it has that. Tumblr is the Stone Soup of social media. Tumblr is lots of little humble things that get turned into grand and hilarious and heartwarming and wonderful things by people adding the little bits that they are in a position to add.

Give us that. And possibly a better tracking feature - maybe a thing where you can click on a post and access the whole entire reblog tree and search for the parts that grew from specific additions to it?

Here People Still Were Using Runes in the 20th Century

In Scandinavia, use of runes ended during the 13th century. In isolated Älvdalen in Sweden, however, inhabitants not only continued using runes but also developed their own language with many Norse elements.

People in Älvdalen (English: the River Valley) used runes as late as the 20th century, so-called Dalecarlian runes. Deep forests and high mountains isolate the valley located in Dalarna County in Central Sweden. The area also has its own language, Elfdalian, still spoken by locals.

In the Nordic countries, runes were the dominant written language before the introduction of Christianity and the Latin alphabet in the 800-900s.

It is know that some places in Gotland and Iceland used runes until the 1600s.

The runes in Älvdalen are found on houses, furniture and the like. They were also carved into wooden sticks that were sent as messages between farms.

Keep reading

Like the idea of Mastodon, but too used to the tumblr format? Check out Plume!

Plume is an open-source, federated, user-run blogging platform. There are no ads, no data harvesting, posts come to you in chronological order, NSFW is and always will be allowed (depending on the instance), and it has a lot of tumblr-like features other sites lack: no character limit, a rich text editor with bold/italic/hyperlinks/etc, inline pictures, headers, tags at the bottom that can be used to organize posts on your blog, comments, likes, sideblogs, and so on. It’s still under very active development too, meaning more features are on their way!

But what about the userbase? You may ask. I’ve never even heard of Plume - is it completely dead? The answer is yes and no - there aren’t that many people on Plume, true, but that doesn’t matter. Plume uses ActivityPub, the same standard used by Mastodon and the other sites on the fediverse - what that means is people on Mastodon can follow you, see your posts, and like/comment them from Mastodon. Same with other platforms like WriteFreely, PixelFed, Hubzilla, Diaspora, Pleroma, Friendica, etc, etc. And I can tell you from experience, the fediverse is bumpin’; you won’t have to worry about your audience

The problems with tumblr are inherent with centralized corporate social media, and switching to another corporate master won’t solve them. What you need to do is stop giving power to profit-motivated companies to control your experience. Take that power back yourself on the fediverse! Join Plume!!!

Please signal boost and tell your friends who want to leave tumblr about Plume!

@lumisateenkaari replied to your post: I heard the website called Pillowfort. Heard its…

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this was a good thread i saw about how of course this is all more trash coming down from the total shit that is sesta/fosta

Supreme doxxing skillz!

While this funny, please read the article, because you need to know what these people have been caught planning.

good on ZPS for sure but uhhhhhh holy fucking shit that bolded paragraph made my stomach flip upside down

Be safe. These same sorts of tactics can and sometimes are used by fascists and extremists to do the same thing to leftists or marginalized groups of people they want to target. Always consider what information you’re putting out there about yourself on the internet and consider what the information could be used for if the person on the other end isn’t trustworthy, but someone who wants to hurt you or people like you and is fishing for targets. 

Rescue plan on Twitter

The rescue plan now has a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/rescueplan

It would be a good idea to follow it or make a note of it today

It’s a safety feature.  My intention is that every important announcement will be both here and on Twitter.  But if for any reason* my Tumblr account gets suspended or deactivated then further announcements will be on Twitter only 

Please be assured that people are currently working hard on making the rescue plan actually effective.  I will post with more information tomorrow and at the weekend.

Reblogs and retweets welcome.  But please do not send me any messages or questions on Twitter, I will not respond - all my time now needs to be spent helping the plan itself

* I don’t think I’m breaking any terms of service in my Tumblr account, but really, who knows these days?

Hey so @staff it’s really really shitty to flag as explicit a post about my gay uncle who died due to AIDS.

@staff this is unacceptable

Thank you. I didn’t even see a notification - I just came across it while I was scrolling through my blog to see if anything was flagged.

I’m honestly pretty upset about this. It’s also wild considering the history of the AIDS epidemic and how the US government censored PSAs about the epidemic to not mention gay men because it might be seen as endorsing “deviant” behavior. I’m not saying that’s why this was flagged, I’m just saying there’s relevant history here.

This is also an indication that random LGBTQ posts being blocked isn’t a fluke. This post doesn’t contain any word that could possibly be construed as sexual, like sex/sexual/sexuality. “Gay,” “orientation,” “HIV” or “AIDS” is probably flagged.

17 December

We are aware of the devastating impact of Tumblr’s new “Community guidelines” for a large part of the Tumblr community.

We are now rapidly looking at what steps we can take to:

* help the community retain access to current blog content and Likes

* create an alternative home for safe, equal and non-judgmental posting of all legal content, built on free speech principles.

For now, we recommend that users download to their own PC any content which they want to be sure of preserving.  For PC and Mac users, Gridllr.com can be used to help download photos and GIFs you have liked (but not video or audio, sorry).  For photos and GIFs, the download button automatically gives you the largest image size available.

Pro Tip: For fastest downloading on a Windows PC, right-click the download button and select “Save Link As…” (Firefox / Chrome), and save immediately to disk.  This download button gives you the largest size available from Tumblr - it is not limited to the current size seen on the screen.

This weekend (8-9 December) we will update with more information about what Gridllr plans to do to help the community after 17 December.

December 17th - a rescue plan

Some good news, I’ve been talking to two developers now and got them working together, we just had a meeting with the guys behind an existing large (millions of users) site similar to Tumblr, with a vibrant and open-minded community, and more importantly, it has open-minded owners who believe in free speech. They think we can get something done here to rescue the whole community.

I’m not allowed to reveal the site name yet. I can tell you it’s mainstream, open to everyone, open-minded and welcoming. (It’s not WordPress or any site owned by Facebook or Twitter. It’s not Pillowfort, that’s in closed beta. It’s not Ello, that’s mainly for artists. It’s not kinkspace or fetlife, those are too specialist. It’s not jux, that seems to be closed. It’s not Soup, that seems still in development and too small.)

One of the reasons for delaying the announcement for next few days is they don’t want a “land grab” where people take the names of current popular Tumblr users over there (cyber squatting). So they are looking at ways for existing Tumblr users to keep the same names on the new site.

More info over the days to come.

The plan is, broadly:

1. By December 9th, announcement of the new site and how to secure your username there

2. By December 10th, an online tool for bloggers to copy their existing content to the new site automatically, with the same tags and captions.

3. Bloggers will need to copy their content across between December 10th and December 17th if they want to use the automatic tool.

4. My understanding is that after December 17th there will be no public access to any “flagged” posts on Tumblr, but the original poster will still be able to see the flagged post (for a short time at least). Therefore, the original poster may still be able to manually download a post to their own PC or phone, after December 17th, and manually upload it to the other site. But if you have lots of posts that will take a long time, it will be better to use the automatic tool before December 17th.

Please understand that these dates are approximate and may change for technical or other reasons.

There may be a few rough edges or not so perfect looking site design on the transfer tool. Everyone is doing their best. The main goal here is to help as many people as possible preserve access to their content, in the short space of time Tumblr has allowed us, and preserve as much as possible of the Tumblr community spirit somewhere new.

The new site will cater for photo, GIF, text and html posts. It will not offer video and audio posts, due to cost reasons - maybe in future, but for now you will need to preserve video and audio content yourself in some other place.

If your Tumblr blog has a mixture of original content and reblogs, or all reblogs, all of that can be copied over to the new site. Reblogs will become “your” original content if nobody else posted them yet, otherwise they will be shown as reblogs. The devs are looking at ways to preserve attribution of reblogs back to the original Tumblr poster, if that person also moves to the new site.

Important: your Likes cannot be copied from Tumblr to the new site. You will have to go find the same posts again on the new site, and like them afresh.

(Similarly, existing reblog comments, asks, messages and other user interaction on Tumblr cannot be copied to the new site - that’s just too much to do, in the short time available.)

If you want to preserve any of your existing Liked posts on Tumblr, you will need to either: (1) download the post to your own PC, or: (2A) reblog it now to your own Tumblr blog, and then (2B) use the automatic tool, before December 17th, to move your whole Tumblr blog across to the new site.

If you have Liked a lot of posts here on Tumblr, the gridllr.com webapp should be able to help you do steps 1 and 2A quickly, I mean download or reblog.

(Someone complained to me today about the appearance of Gridllr on a phone. It’s best to use Gridllr on a PC, Mac or Tablet with a large screen.)

If you have liked a post here on Tumblr and the original poster decides to delete it, or even to delete their entire blog, some time before December 17th, then that post will be permanently lost. So if you want to be sure to preserve any of your Liked posts, you should best download or reblog as soon as possible. If it’s reblogged to your own blog it is safe from deletion, at least for next few days.

Obviously, you will lose access, after December 17th, to all past posts you have liked, if Tumblr has flagged them as NSFW. Again, the steps (1), or (2A) and (2B) covered above will be the only way to hold on to these posts.

Oh I so hope this works. It would be great to get this out so we can try to get as many people as possible all back in one place and not split up all over different platforms.

Please reblog

Here’s hoping

everyone who see’s this from Me PLEASE reblog this!

~Uncle R.

Guys, check this out.

We now have a plan to save this Tumblr community!

Help is on the way!

More to come!

I want to personally thank all those volunteers who are involved in this project.

WarriorMale