if you often like or reblog my posts i 100% remember your username and mentally go “oh yes friend” every single time i see you in my notes or on my dash 

lmao tumblr letting their users choose whether or not they want their likes to be public but then pulling a twitter 2.0 and showing your likes on your followers’ dashboards and specially saying who liked the posts in their new update, without the users’ consent or a way to turn it off, is actually pretty insane.

like how many times to we — the users — have to tell them we don’t want tumblr to be like any other social media platforms and that tumblr’s being different than twitter, instagram, tiktok is actually what makes us stay on this silly little site.

respectfully @staff you’re driving your users away. stop trying to “fix” things that are good and don’t need to be fixed. we want tumblr to be tumblr. we don’t want the site to be twitter or instagram 2.0

“My time has come”

this website's moderation sucks ass and it has a terrible bot problem and there are an enormous amount of bugs but thankfully we have a staff team hard at work not addressing any of these but instead making shitty ui changes that nobody wants

throwback to last month when i fell asleep on the couch and when i woke up my first instinct was to take a pic of my cat sleeping across me but ended up flashbanging her instead

not naming names but some of you are genuinely really good people and i hope that you get everything your heart wants and needs

It's important to me that everyone understands that if you've got an autistic friend who periodically sends you pictures/videos/whatever of your Thing, because they know you're into it... They love you.

Now don't get me wrong, It may not necessarily be romantic love, they might not want to run off to a little farm in Montana where you'll be married forever and raise little sheeps...

But they definitely love you. And they're so happy when they spot a post about X and go "ooh, my friend likes X! I'll send it to them!".

Because they love you and want you to be happy.

The biggest difference between reddit and tumblr

Is that if you comment "you two look cute together, now kiss" on a reddit comment chain because two random users did something silly together, this is meant as a jab / joke and those users are _not_ expected to start making out sloppy style like the tumblr (rule)s say.

I'm sorry, you expect us to do WHAT? ⚫🔘⚪🟣

So, uncertain whether this is a joke or serious... and as such, explanation!

The primary difference between Reddit and Tumblr is that Reddit presents information based around the CONTENT and Tumblr presents information based around the USER. The majority of how somebody experiences content on Reddit is by going to a subreddit focused on a specific form or genre of content, while the majority of how someone experiences content on Tumblr is by going "I like what you post" and following somebody. Tags exist, but are primarily used for content restriction instead of consumption (blocking tags), or for commentary (tags as whispers for followers, basically, instead of reblogs to shout to the room), or to find like-minded people to then follow.

This tends to mean that your generalized experience on Tumblr averages out to be a lot more personal than it is on Reddit, because the people you interact with have mostly been specifically selected because you enjoy their interests and company. You're more likely to develop closer interactions with a mutual than you would with a fellow subreddit member (TrollX was an outlier, in my experience). As a result, you tend to wind up with a LOT of "this is my mutual who I became a lot closer to" developments on Tumblr - to the point where it's just, effectively, a known Tumblr culture thing. Since you're on the ace side of things, obviously the whole "making out with the mutual" isn't going to happen... but expect to at some point have the realization of "damn, am I friends with this person whose name/face I do not know?" The only time I ever experienced anything close to that on Reddit was with really small niche subreddits, and it was an atmosphere almost immediately lost whenever they got big enough.

For reference: I married one of my Tumblr mutuals. So... yeah. It's a whole thing.

Ok, this was super helpful actually. Although "tags as whispers for followers" has me confused. But as someone who has legitimately formed legitimate long-term friendships with people from the TrollX sphere, and I know people who married their online sweethearts from way back in Ye Olde Forum Days who are still together? Yeah, marrying a mutual doesn't surprise me at all. But every once in a while I'm reminded I'm on the Ace spectrum because I legitimately have a hard time identifying when something is a risque throwaway joke and when people are earnestly horny over something.

Okay, so this is one of those parts of Tumblr culture that is unusual specifically because it's using a part of the site in ways that the designers/staff don't actually intend for it to be used. It developed because Tumblr used to work like this.

Very "old Reddit"-esque, but coded inexplicably WORSE. As in, enough reblog comments would literally push the whole thing off the damn screen so that you couldn't actually see what people were saying anymore. (This place used to be called the Hellsite for many reasons, but one of them was that it was coded like shit. Still pretty bad, but much better overall.)

So people stopped reblogging to say what they wanted to say in terms of "idle commentary intended only for those people who follow you." Instead they started putting that in the tags. This is because, when you reblog something and put TAGS on it, only the people who directly see that post which YOU made can see those tags you added readily. If someone reblogs it from you, the tags don't carry along with it. This prevents the old site design from breaking as quickly, but it also makes it good for making small jokes or adding side commentary which won't actually be attached to the main/original thing forever in the way that reblog commentary is. That's why I refer to it as a sort of "stage whisper" - it exists, people can read it, but it doesn't carry along if somebody reblogs it from you the way reblog-additions do.

That's why people make jokes in their tags, or add personal commentary, in a way that most other places don't. It's because only a few tags are actually meant as TAGS in the way that the staff intend for them to be used. All the rest are just funny or interesting asides meant to be directed at your immediate followers, as those are the only people ever likely to see them. It's a cultural holdover from when things worked worse on the design end, and is still kind of useful. I personally think it's neat, because it's something unique to the site which nobody else does (though the staff don't seem to appreciate it, presumably because it makes data-aggregation and analysis via tags much more difficult if everyone is just throwing weird one-off tags on everything).

Hope this helps!

On this day one year ago, I was fired from Crumbl Cookies because my grandfather suddenly died and I cried when I found out and was on the clock. They make you sign a waiver to not talk about the recipes that lasts one year after your termination. Well guess what babes. That day, is today. RIP Nanu, you’ve been missed. But for anyone who likes the Chocolate Chip Cookies or the Iced Sugar Cookies, check out the recipes in the links. Feel free to ask about other recipes, it’s been a year but some things are just reskinned versions of these lol. Good Luck and Happy Baking.

The biggest difference between reddit and tumblr

Is that if you comment "you two look cute together, now kiss" on a reddit comment chain because two random users did something silly together, this is meant as a jab / joke and those users are _not_ expected to start making out sloppy style like the tumblr (rule)s say.

I'm sorry, you expect us to do WHAT? ⚫🔘⚪🟣

So, uncertain whether this is a joke or serious... and as such, explanation!

The primary difference between Reddit and Tumblr is that Reddit presents information based around the CONTENT and Tumblr presents information based around the USER. The majority of how somebody experiences content on Reddit is by going to a subreddit focused on a specific form or genre of content, while the majority of how someone experiences content on Tumblr is by going "I like what you post" and following somebody. Tags exist, but are primarily used for content restriction instead of consumption (blocking tags), or for commentary (tags as whispers for followers, basically, instead of reblogs to shout to the room), or to find like-minded people to then follow.

This tends to mean that your generalized experience on Tumblr averages out to be a lot more personal than it is on Reddit, because the people you interact with have mostly been specifically selected because you enjoy their interests and company. You're more likely to develop closer interactions with a mutual than you would with a fellow subreddit member (TrollX was an outlier, in my experience). As a result, you tend to wind up with a LOT of "this is my mutual who I became a lot closer to" developments on Tumblr - to the point where it's just, effectively, a known Tumblr culture thing. Since you're on the ace side of things, obviously the whole "making out with the mutual" isn't going to happen... but expect to at some point have the realization of "damn, am I friends with this person whose name/face I do not know?" The only time I ever experienced anything close to that on Reddit was with really small niche subreddits, and it was an atmosphere almost immediately lost whenever they got big enough.

For reference: I married one of my Tumblr mutuals. So... yeah. It's a whole thing.

I recently found my “gold” hammer after misplacing it. It’s my favorite tool ever because it looks like a regular hammer trying to be fancy,

but then you twist both halves and unscrew it to find a flat-head screwdriver in the middle.

BUT, if you twist the very end and unscrew that

you find a phillips screwdriver.

BUT DON’T THINK THAT’S ALL THERE IS! THERE’S MORE!! unscrew the very end again to find a smaller flat-head screwdriver!

BUT THAT’S STILL NOT THE END!!

unscrew the end of this screwdriver to find a final, teeny tiny, flat-head screwdriver

look at how cute it is!

it’s like a matryoshka doll of tools.

I have one of these and I keep it in my IT toolkit because that teeny little screwdriver is the right side for laptop casings, but because it lives inside a large object it’s harder to misplace than a standard tiny screwdriver. Also because the look on a client’s face when you bring out a brass hammer to fix their laptop is absolutely wild.

“if you take medication for that, you’ll be taking medication all your life!!” yeah, and?? bud, i already put on my glasses every morning. it’s like. a condition of mine, not a side hobby i’m pursuing irresponsibly. 

and the thrilling sequel: “taking meds for that is the easy way out!” right you are my dude, i’m a huge fan of not making things harder than they have to be

Turn Off Tumblr Live Tuesday

Behold. My new favorite reaction image.

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

MOON LANDING DAY IS THURSDAY!

if u take zoloft and/or spironolactone be careful in the hot months u will dehydrate and be prone to overheating. drink. Water

Like the bottom text next to the asterisk says, there are more medications that cause this problem than listed. Please search for any medications you take if they cause heat problems <3

Note: Brintellix -> Trintellix for those who didn’t know this brand changed trademark names.

Harlan County, U.S.A., 1976

#us coal mining is a fun bit of cultural connection with us over in wales#ultimately we both got fucked#and had to fight tooth and nail for unions#ironically thanks to tectonic plates we were essentially mining the same mountain range#thousands of miles apart#what you call blue ridge mountains#we call Yr wyddfa#west viginia and all the coal towns are siblings as far as im concerned#we were raised on the same stone#that makes us kin Via: @scottish-valkyrie

@ruffboijuliaburnsides yeah

For those with homes built to keep heat in, not let it out: aluminum foil your windows, shiny side out. Cover the window, tape up the sides, maybe tape cardboard behind it to help insulate from the heat outside and absorb heat that gets through the foil.

Love, a former Californian, whose had to keep houses cool without any electricity.

P.S. this is a method endorsed by FEMA and the Department of Energy, so if you need more than anecdotal evidence, there ya go.

I do this up in the PNW and it really helps during heat waves. So much.

humbled

Fucking Christ.

IF ONLY SOMEONE COULD HAVE FORESEEN THIS.