SAG officially considers cosplays of current/past media as crossing the picket line as it can be seen as supporting the studios they're currently striking against.

(link is to a series of tweets, which include the original poster of the screenshot directly asking SAG-AFTRA what the rules are for cosplayers who want to support the strike)

Y'all sorry for not clearing it up in the original post (frankly I thought more people would read the link) but this applies to influencers, professional cosplayers, content creators, and the like. Basically, people who make money off cosplays or otherwise promoting the

There is an official FAQ on the SAG-AFTRA site that details it better than the email (which came out probably right after the email did, hence why I missed it. I'd have just posted that link if I'd seen it).

Please be aware that although this strike might be of great inconvenience to you, that's the point. This isn't convenient for anyone. This isn't easy for anyone. That's the point. Between WGA and SAG-AFTRA, thousands and thousands of people are not working, and it's going to keep being like that until AMPTP wakes up and pays these people their fair share. Rather than complain, find ways to support the strikers (the link's final question offers ways influencers can support the strike, although frankly some of their suggestions aren't limited to just influencers).

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adults of tumblr how on earth do you decide on what mattress you want to order

Go to the store.

Go to the store and lie on it for five minutes.

I know online is cheaper, but go to the store. Online delivery has a send back guarantee, but do you really know yourself capable of and willing to dismantle your bedroom because it didn't work out? No? GO TO THE STORE.

Go to the store and try it out and compare prices and nine out of ten times, they will match the online prices for you, because you're THERE and they can't afford to let you walk out empty handed.

Try it out, figure out the right hardness for you. Make sure you're comfortable.

A good mattress will last you 20-30 years depending on how often you move and how well you commit to taking care of it: vacuum it regularly and flip as per instructions, usually once every six months.

A bad mattress costs about the same as a good mattress, up front, except for the fact it will fuck you up for years and you might end up with chronic pain because of it.

Go to the store. Try it out.

I got a 46% discount and 18 interest free installment payment on mine, just cause I was physically there.

Figure out your budget. Go to the store. Ask to try it out. Make sure it feels good.

You deserve a good mattress and you deserve the money you spend to be worthwhile.

You've got this.

Also a lot of those trendy online-only delivery mattresses are not quality controlled, multiple people have discovered their mattress was stuffed with fiber glass only after it ripped and spewed sharp fibers over literally all of their belongings

found this informative, about how studios are going to attempt to use influencers (particularly small ones) to try to cross pickets by paying a lot for movie promos, and that SAG-AFTRA likely will not let you in if you do this. my suspicion is they're hoping people won't understand the implications so wanted to spread the word!!

Ah, guys, just to be clear, I realize most of you probably know this but I’m seeing it framed….weirdly, so – 

Tumblr is not $30M in debt. You can’t get Tumblr out of the red by giving them $30M. I mean you can, for a bit, but Tumblr is operating at a $30M deficit. That means yearly, Tumblr is spending $30M more than it earns. 

None of this is to say we can’t have a Crab Day and try to get that $30M covered, sounds like fun! But that just means Tumblr breaks even for the current fiscal year. Tumblr has investors that want profits (or, well, I guess it’s Automattic’s investors, but regardless they want profit), so in order for it to continue operation, it has to either become Genuinely Profitable Very Quickly, or it has to do a fundraising round of some kind and get even more investors on board, which is really just kicking the problem down the road a year or two. 

And either way, the extremely slick and semi-alarming pitch Tumblr is making about all the changes it’s going to make to increase engagement and such is still going to be necessary, because that’s where the money is, unfortunately. I don’t like it either (my favorite bullet point from that pitch is that they will email people who have their notifications turned off, because sure, that sounds like it won’t annoy anyone who like me was already overly inclined to be annoyed) but like. Baby needs a new pair of shoelaces.

None of this is to be alarmist or anything, I just got a bit worried about all this talk of $30M in debt, because this is not a one-time deal. 

Oh, so that’s why it’s applying such changes? @jv can you confirm this?

Uhmm, yeah, OP post is basically right, it’s not that Tumblr has a 30 million debt*, it’s that umblr loses 30 million to its parent company every year.

But while the post is correct, I don’t totally agree with OP conclusion. Yeah, if suddenly Tumblr users generate 30 million they are just taking Tumblr out of red numbers this year, but … That’s a lot already.

That means Tumblr would be open at least another year, probably more. Because there is a very significant difference between Tumblr and other platforms that may be in shambles right now: Tumblr is not its own company, but one of the business lines of Automattic Inc.

You see, Twitter, Reddit… They are their own, independent company, where very rich people had invested very serious money. That means if things go bad enough (either organically, because of the CEO being a moron, or because their userbase decides to boycott them), and they end closing, that rich people would see the money they invested just go *poooof* and disappear. So they need to do anything for that to not happen.

But Tumblr? It’s just a wanky business unit within automattic, so if it happens to lose too much money and it’s forced to close… The Automattic investors would just shrug and smile seeing their investment improve its value.

Automattic profitability would improve considerably by getting rid of Tumblr, and that puts Tumblr at a permanent existencial risk unless it manages to stop costing more than what it earns.

So yeah, if this crab day thing could be a success (it won’t, I don’t know where they got their active user number, but it’s an order of magnitude off), if a single day of sales could make Tumblr profitable this year… I’m pretty sure the Automattic board would be much more willing to keep bankrolling this place a bunch of years more even if it goes back to lose money.

Which of these would you rather see on your dash?

Hey @staff. This is a perfect example of why collapsed reblogs is such a bad idea. Seeing the full thread, you go like this: 😮 ooh, that's cool 😀 "they're free," hehe! 🤣 "16 cents," perfection!!

I have achieved joy, I feel positive feelings toward Tumblr, I want to engage, I want to stay, my eyeballs land on more ads, you make more money, everyone wins! 🎉

Seeing the collapsed thread, you go like this:

😮 ooh, that's cool 😐 "16 cents"? yes, that's literally what the pic shows, not sure why you felt the need to say that

There is no motivation for me to uncollapse the reblog chain—it looks like a boring conversation about the denominations of coins. And even if I do uncollapse it, you've ruined the joke by showing me the punchline before the setup. I am sad, Tumblr is boring, I go elsewhere to entertain myself, I see less ads, you make less money, everyone loses. 😥

Reblog chains are the best thing about Tumblr. They are your unique super power. They are the thing that makes people screenshot Tumblr and share it around. Why on earth would you kneecap them??

I don't know exactly how you plan to implement this. Give people the option to keep them collapsed if there truly are people who are annoyed by how long they can get (you already have a version of this feature), but don't collapse them for everyone or new users by default. Please. It will make Tumblr so much more boring.

wholesome doggo

Local dog accidentally creates a religion.

You could call it a “shoeperstition”

This makes so much more sense than "they canceled your favorite show because you weren't posting hard enough"

EVERYONE PRAY FOR OUR BROTHER CHUM NO. 2,719,584 AND WISH HIM A SPEEDY RECOVERY

I feel like the only person not tempted to use ChatGPT like it doesn't even occur to me as an option

Anyway shoutout to the person next to me who just got GPT to do their whole essay. I know you're in the trenches.

HELLO ??????

legal eagle did a great video on it but the tl;dr is the lawyer couldnt find any cases to support his argument via normal means, so he turned to chat gpt, which he mistakenly assumed was a “super search engine,” to see if it could find anything. and it sure “returned” some cases, which it assured him were definitely real. and now he’s in bigger legal trouble than his client ever was

Sometimes a distant higher-up changes the rules and I tell my work partner "This is stupid. Do we really have to do this? Can't we explain to them why it's stupid and have them change it back?" And she tells me the most important thing I've ever learned working for a large business:

"We're not paid enough to do their job for them. Our job is to do what they say, and when they see that their choice has fucked them over, they'll save that information and tell each other not to do it again. Then, in a few years, they'll do it again, with the same result. It's not your problem to fix."

And you know? On one hand, that bothers me, because I hate doing things slowly and inefficiently, but on the other, if nothing changes when they make bad choices, they won't stop making bad choices, I'll just be working harder to cover their higher-paid ass.

So, yeah. Maybe o long as nobody is getting hurt, I'll just shut up and stay in my lane.

I'm not paid to make my boss look good, I'm paid to follow his orders.

Hey, could you do me a favor?

Could you just RB this?

The little RB statistics chart is so pleasant and stimmy to look at and I want to see what it looks like when it gets really REALLY huge because it makes me think of some deep sea lifeform

here lemme help

*ahem*

reblog this post to kiss the person you reblogged it from

hope that works :)

THANK YOU THIS IS MAKING MY BRAIN SO HAPPY AAAAAAAAA

THIS IS SO SATISFYING ITS LIKE A GROUP OF PLANKTON OR A RAILWAY CHART...

i know we've been saying this about every new shitty update but i feel like removing reblog chains could really be the thing to kill this site. like that is literally the main thing that makes tumblr unique

truly the only reason you still see tumblr posts reposted constantly on other sites which claim tumblr to be "dead" is because of our unique form of collaborative posting. also you would not only be taking away what makes the site unique but also the main form of socialization between the users which yknow. some could say is the basis for your whole fucking social media website

why'd this get 100 notes in an hour on a wednesday morning damn 😭 we're real fucking annoyed about this huh

When censoring information out of pictures, do NOT use the marker tool. Block it out with a full filled in square, or use a mosiac filter. Marker tools are not fully opaque and are slightly off from black, which makes it possible to alter the levels and reveal the information underneath.

Just putting this out there to let people know to watch what they post because you can be found and if you think that the government can't do this ...

Well, you better think again!!

Reminder that in 2017 4chan played capture the flag with Shia LaBeouf. Without any kind of a retail store to use for landmarks they got a rough estimate of the flags location from a livestream. They used the position of the sun to narrow it down to a specific time zone, they tracked the flight paths of planes seen flying overhead to further narrow it down. Then someone in the area drove around honking his horn while viewers on the livestream told him if he was getting closer until he found and stole the flag.

WAIIIT. THE NEW IN-DEVELOPMENT TUMBLR LAYOUT WITH COLLAPSED REBLOGS.

IT REMOVES "NOTES" ALTOGETHER AND SEPARATES EVERY INTERACTION LIKE ON OTHER WEBSITES

I DO NOT LIKE THAT AT ALL

Also it generally doesn't make sense at all. It shows the last reblog of the chain. Which means you only see someone's answer to something, without seeing what they're actually responding to.

This is such a weird change.

I never want to hear conservatives go on about repressive censorship in China, North Korea, and Iran ever again

To be clear to those unfamiliar: these are the companies that libraries use to lend ebooks.

They are literally cutting off library access to minors.

If you are affected by this or other bans and restrictions in the United States, be aware that the Brooklyn Public Library is offering free digital library cards to anyone age 13-21 nationwide as part of their Books UnBanned initiative:

BOOOOOST

Seattle has joined them:

As someone who will never join Threads, I find there to be something exceptionally insidious about the part of its dogshit privacy practices where it collects users’ contact data.

A lot of people have my phone number, and not all of them take privacy seriously. A few of them are bound to join Threads at some point. This means I never even have to join the platform for it to collect my full name, contact info, current or past address, and reconstruct at least part of my social and/or professional circle. Despite the fact that I have never agreed to any of this, it is completely legal since people with my contact info have consented to Meta collecting their (and therefore my) info. I hate it here 🫠

I stopped using Facebook because I had them send me all the information they'd collected on me (and who they'd sold it to) - yes, you can do that - and they had my ENTIRE CONTACT LIST from my phone. The phone I had never used to sign into Facebook or to view it.

Those articles also blame millennial and gen z kids for not know but bitch who is running the curriculum in schools? Who is making the text books?

[ID: tweet by @ellie_em, “The Holocaust is not ‘fading from memory.’

The United States is unwilling to teach history responsibly. The Holocaust is being erased.”

Attached to the tweet is a retweet of @nytimes, “41% of Americans cannot say what Auschwitz was, a survey found nyti.ms/2JF9EEn”]

we need to destigmatize dropping out of college I am so serious. like dude if u realize that is Bad For You then you can just Leave. I am so fucking serious. just stop. there are other options and you don’t need to force yourself through shit you can’t do and go into debt. i promise you can just Not.

unless you’re going into something super complicated and technical like engineering, math, or medicine, you probably don’t even NEED the degree.

most industries offer certification and licensing courses and those will get you in the door to most jobs in that field, pretty much everything is available to learn for free from places like khan academy and coursera.

speaking as someone who went into 70K of debt to get a degree and has never once used it:

it’s not worth it. don’t go into debt for something that won’t even do you any good anyway.