“gravestone in pet cemetery, lisbon” (1998) by nan goldin
I pointed this out in a Discord server I'm in and thought Id share here:
Bob Iger announced that Disney is going to absorb Hulu, and Hulu will no longer exist next year. All shows will move to the Disney+ app.
Disney also announced they were going to remove shows and movies periodically from their streaming services.
I believe both of these moves are because of the Writers Strike.
Disney knows its going to lose the strike. There is too much public support. Specifically, the WGA is going to win writers getting more residuals from streaming.
So if Disney takes shows off of streaming, they dont have to pay the writers the residuals.
They are going to use excuses like "not enough funding for the server capacity" or "not enough views to warrent keeping the show". These are BULLSHIT. Its all greed. Its only GREED.
Pay attention to what happens in the following weeks.
And keep supporting the writers' strike.
This is similar to what happened with HBO - new owners merged two streaming services, and all of a sudden there wasn't enough server capacity for all the shows somehow. A total lie.
Time to start downloading EVERY Hulu show. Hoist the colors high.
And yell at your congresscritters about antitrust laws.
Download everything that isn't a major franchise. If its name isn't Marvel, Star Wars or The Simpsons, assume it's getting canned and get a copy in as high quality as you can store. Eventually your copy could be the only one.
This.
This is especially true for the weird stuff you’ve never heard anyone else mention. Lost media is a tragedy regardless of what it is.
2 Sumatran tiger cubs were just born at the Memphis Zoo which is awesome bc they are critically endangered and also I am losing my mind over this image of the cubs and their mom. The babies’ tails make a heart….
‘don’t you want your favourite character to be happy???’ no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony
Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions
I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!
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This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, how the fuck would you even enforce that?
"Oh want to use the bathroom? I'll just need you to produce an egg real quick".
Chicken only bathrooms. Not the animal rights move we wanted-
POV: you (human) (not a fetus) have illegally entered a public women's bathroom in Kansas
It's impossible to define woman in a way that excludes all trans women and doesn't exclude any cis women, but defining women in a way that excludes all human women trans or cis is a pretty amazing fuckup.
Because I, like all humans, contain multitudes. Am I right?
HATE when you’re inserting your email somewhere and literally from the first letter the website is like “invalid email address” like yes i know. I’m typing it right now. My email address is obviously not just the letter ‘m’. Stop
hi! just wanted to ask, maybe it flew under the radar, but why does clicking on the person whom it was reblogged from's username on desktop now take them to the user's blog instead of their reblog of the post? with the 'talking in tags' and 'prev tags' culture tumblr has, i feel like this could be a roadblock for those types of interactions. especially for blogs that post/reblog a lot a day. (just to clarify, i'm not referring to on-dash, but rather when wanting to view the previous tags through an entire reblog chain by clicking the previous person's username). thanks!
hmm, there was a change recently where clicking the whole header takes you to that post in the blog view popup, but i think clicking on the "parent" blog name (the one the person reblogged from) should still take you to their post. if it's not, then that's probably a bug. please file a Support ticket about this, if that's what you mean.
nevermind, this was an intentional change!
Seriously? Are you sure?
We're talking about this click area:
You're saying changing this small pink highlighted area to make it impossible to go to a specific post was intentional?
This breaks the entire concept of "prev tags" because it's now impossible to see what the previous tags are. Tumblr really hated the prev tags chains so much that they decided to nerf them like this?
It also makes it impossible to reblog a post starting from before a reblog addition was added—so now if you see an interesting post but it has a super long or annoying reblog section (and the reblog in question is inaccessible), you're out of luck. Those posts exist, but the UI for accessing them has been completely removed.
Why? What was the goal behind this change?
yes, i'm sure, just double-checked this morning. this is one change in a series of updates to the reblog consumption experience to help make it more intuitive and easy to understand for new users.
and you can still access those reblogs, you just have to go through the notes view for now.
WDYM "through the notes view"? if a post has 10k notes, and my mutual reblogs it with "prev tags", are you expecting me to scroll through hundreds of pages of reblogs to find the one they might have reblogged it from? that doesn't make any sense to me.
#this has to be one of the greatest transitions in history
One thing about Gondor bitches is they’re GONNA have curtain bangs
can i jsut say… isnt it insane that polar bears go underground like imagine just walking along with a shovel and u start digging a hole and a bear is in there
THEYRE JUST? THERE…. IN THE SNOW
sad-sad-sage
I know it‘s supposed to be scary that there is apex predators just potentially sleeping under the surface of the snow like some kind of greek mythology monster but it just makes me laugh bc them living in holes just means polar bears just have little houses and look out of their little windows like:
here’s why vine was and will always be superior to tiktok you can’t really spread a lot of misinfo in 6 seconds you had to go viral on the strength of your humor and not on the allure of insane conspiracy theories or MRA talking points it’s why vines legacy will be shit like “back at it at krispy kreme” and not the downfall of democracy
To be clear I am not denying that vines was superior.
But if you think tiktok is the downfall of democracy you're either not paying attention or on the WRONG side of tiktok. There are tons of people over there dedicated to making sure the masses have access to accurate information, exposing corruption, and organizing against fascism. Tiktok is not the problem. For every bad actor there's a good one and as we like to say here at the tumblr dot com: curate your experience.
Reading comprehension quiz (unit 2):
- Please summarize the argument of original post in your own words. Is the main point of the post about democracy, or something else? What other issues might the the author be trying to address?
- Define hyperbole. Why might the author deploy this rhetorical device here? What features of Tumblr may have encouraged this style of post?
- How can algorithms disincentivize or prevent users from fully controlling their experience on social media platforms such as TikTok? How might the architecture of these platforms —including longer-form video options — facilitate radicalization or fringe beliefs? (See Becker, A. (2021, August 24). On TikTok, misogyny and white supremacy slip through 'enforcement gap'. PBS. Retrieved April 23, 2023, from https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/on-tiktok-misogyny-and-white-supremacy-slip-through-enforcement-gap; Keith, M. (n.d.). From transphobia to Ted Kaczynski: How TikTok's algorithm enables far-right self-radicalization. Business Insider. Retrieved April 23, 2023, from https://www.businessinsider.com/transphobia-ted-kaczynski-tiktok-algorithm-right-wing-self-radicalization-2021-11; O’Connor, C. (n.d.). Hatescape: An In-Depth Analysis of Extremism and Hate Speech on TikTok. Retrieved April 23, 2023, from https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/24/ISD-TikTok-Hatescape-Report-August-2021.pdf).