so i have a mildly popular “reblog and put in in the tags” post going around and its. very clear how many people don’t know how to interact with a tumblr post

so, first of all, tumblr’s culture has changed a lot in the past couple years. there’s a genuine community effort to not start any drama, and ironically a lot of the current hostility is an effort to keep things calm. there’s also a change in how people interact with posts, so if you haven’t been here in a while please skip down to the tags/replies/reblog with text section.

for newcomers: you should be reblogging posts about as liberally as you would like something on twitter. if you only like stuff, people will think you are rude/a bot. you’ve probably heard people talk about “cultivating your dash,” and thats because this platform is 100% centered around your dashboard. trending matters less, unfollowing and blocking in order to shape your dash into it’s best form is widely accepted, the majority of the content you’ll find and interact with will be because of your dash, and the only way to put things on your dash is to reblog them. tumblr users are deeply distrustful of algorithms and have largely turned off the “see posts your friends have liked” function (i recommend you also turn of the various algorithms in settings → general settings → dashboard preferences).

so, once you’ve reblogged a post, there’s three ways to add content to it. the tags, replies, and reblogging with text. all of them have different connotations

the tags: an inside voice. originally they were meant for organizing your blog (and they’re still used for this), but they’ve also morphed into a way to share thoughts that aren’t funny/insightful enough for non-followers to be interested in. when in doubt, put your comment in the tags

replies: basically talking to your friends in class. your followers have no way of finding your replies (they don’t pop up on the dash, nobody gets notified except for the original poster) so chances are, only the person who made the post is gonna see your comment. it’s for quick one-offs that you’re okay with other people overhearing, but really is only made for one person. they’re like a public dm

reblog with text: an outside voice. you’re getting up on a stage in town square and entertaining people. make sure it’s funny or insightful— bottom line, add something new to the conversation. you should use this the least

general rules of thumb: 

Finally real advice for new users. This is a solid guide for how to make the transition from Twitter to Tumblr.

In particular, artists need you to reblog. A reblog helps them get seen. A like doesn’t help them at all.

And I would like to add image descriptions and audio/video transcriptions can really help increase reblogs. Please remember to make your posts as accessible as possible.

listen, i love jessie gender a lot. and i'm a little over halfway through so maybe she'll address this later on in her video and i'll just be preaching to the choir but

i really wish she talked to more trans men and more trans mascs

i'm realizing as i make this that this portion either hasn't been released yet or won't be released outside of nebula, but the interviewee's statements are representative of so many other statements that i still think it's important to talk about. this is what they said:

"Ultimately, what these people [transphobes] care about is preserving this twisted, over-idealized, singular vision of what it means to be a man. And I say that, not to say that trans men get no crap, they do, but there's a reason trans women are the focus, and it's misogyny. Because—while trans men have been roped into all of this to some degree, virtually every conversation that happens around clamping down on trans rights focuses on trans women. Always. Always first and foremost. Trans men are a side note at most, and they're generally treated as confused. But a man, or someone perceived as a man, rejecting masculinity and embracing femininity, that's considered a downgrade. That's seen as somebody being voluntarily lesser than they are. The anger towards transfeminine people and people who knowingly walk away from masculinity, is seen as an inherent threat, because any society that puts so much stock and importance in masculinity, people who say "actually, I had that and I don't need it," that is a very large threat to that society and the foundation on which it's built."

the talking point that trans women are hated because they are viewed as men who made the decision to have a lesser status in society is very incredibly reductive and relegates transphobia to anger at a person's (perceived) choice in gender. the idea that trans women are only hated because they gave up status as men erases the experiences of so many trans women??? the fear and hatred of trans women is the fear and hatred of people for being trans, not because they decided to dress up as a woman. there is an incredibly important distinction here

not to mention the erasure of transandrophobia here. that logic implies that trans men are actually treated better because they're seen as men, and therefore benefit from patriarchy, etc. plus! this quote alone shows the ignorance of the literal actual transandrophobia that's being hurled all over the place that's just not being talked about

idk. i have a headache rn and i'm probably not making much sense. it was just very hurtful to hear that talking point perpetuated on jessie's channel. it is so important that people step away from this understanding of transmisogyny. if anybody is interested in reading it, i wrote a paper on something similar to this that's probably much more articulate than i'm being right now

siiiiigggghhhhhhh

I love how we all agree the patriarchy is obsessed with controlling women's bodies and actions, but apparently we can't ever have a discussion about how that affects trans men without either misgendering us or pretending like being a man protects your body from misogynistic society's obsession with control. I love how we can discuss how so much transphobia is based on how important masculinity is, but apparently uppity women "becoming" men isn't a threat to patriarchal control over masculinity at all. Especially love ignoring how fearmongering about transmasculinity has been a huge part of both TERF and garden-variety transphobe rhetoric for a while now & people not listening to transmascs when they talk about being groomed, abused, & assaulted by TERFs as a form of conversion therapy.

Anyways something something the erasure of violence against transmascs is a form of genocide not protection

from the response from non mp100 fans to mob winning tumblr autism polls i kinda get the sense that people who havent seen the show think hes a “diagnosed autism at fandom because socially awkward” kind of character and not like. the most autistic character ever written.

like okay. so the plot of mob psycho is that mob didnt have a lot of friends as a child because people thought he was weird for having powers, and when his one friend got kind of bored of him showing off he resorted to repressing the use of his powers entirely to appear more “normal”. however, since his powers are an expression of his identity and not something that exists outside of him, repressing his powers also meant completely repressing his emotions, so he appears completely unemotive until he gets extremely overwhelmed and has meltdowns, one of which hurt someone he cared deeply about and caused him to repress his emotions even more. and because of this unemotive “mask”, as well as his inability to read social cues and general social awkwardness, people tend to look down on him and try to take advantage of him because they refuse to view him as an emotionally complicated person with his own wants and needs, and as a result he kind of internalizes this. and the series is about him learning to build friendships with other people and assert himself and his boundaries more. and instead of the final antagonist being some evil guy trying to take over the world or something its the manifestation of all of mob’s repressed powers and emotions and desires that have gotten tired of being cage which he refuses to let free because he’s terrified that if he’s himself the people he’s spent all this time as his “fake” self building relationships with won’t like him anymore.

like at a certain point it goes beyond “popular fandom headcanon” and into “just actually the plot of the show”

[image ID: a May 22 tweet from Joe Russo @/joerussotweets with an attached screenshot of text. Russo quotes the screenshot: "A tri-guild Hollywood walkout? It's never happened before, but this time it just might." He then comments, "Burn Hollywood, burn."

The screenshot itself is from writer Matthew Belloni for news site Puck and reads, "Several days ago, I wrote that an actors' strike was possible, but I now believe that one is likely. And if the directors don't achieve a deal in the next several weeks—which would probably have to include a favored nations repoener, allowing the DGA to gain the benefit of any better terms achieved by either of the other two guilds—then we might just see directors walk out as well. A tri-guild Hollywod walkout? It's never happened before, but this time it just might." end ID.]

(For context, this is Joe Russo, writer of Nightmare Cinema and Inheritance, not the MCU guy with the same name. Yeah, it's confusing.)

For further context: we all know the Writers' Guild of America is currently on strike for a fair contract. But were you aware that the studios are also now re-negotiating their deals with the actors' guild (aka SAG-AFTRA, which stands for Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) as well as the Directors' Guild of America, aka DGA?

A few days ago, SAG-AFTRA authorized a strike vote. This is not proof that they will go on strike, but is basically a head count of who among their membership is giving them the go-ahead to strike (it's used as leverage in negotiations). Actors from Mark Hamill to Nick Kroll and many, many more tweeted about voting YES, and there is large public support for the strike, so it looks pretty certain that the SAG-AFTRA strike authorization is happening.

When the WGA issued a similar strike authorization vote in April, the overwhelming majority—nearly 98%—voted YES. That gave the WGA strong leverage and proved that the writers meant business. Hopefully we're looking at similar high numbers among SAG-AFTRA.

That leaves us with the Directors' Guild, which historically has only gone on strike much less than the WGA, and which might be a tougher group to convince. If, however, all three unions go on strike, Hollywood would completely shut down. Studios would be forced to re-negotiate on the unions' terms and give in to union demands.

Now is the time to tell any Hollywood union members in your life to support the possibility of SAG-AFTRA and DGA strikes! Get on social media and support the actors who have already announced their YES vote. Gently encourage (do not harass!) actors who have not publicly spoken up about it to add their voices to the strike authorization, because the future of Hollywood is at stake.

And because strikes are hard on crew members who don't belong to major guilds and cannot access strike funds, you can always donate to the Entertainment Community Fund under Film/TV to support those entertainment workers. If you can't donate, you can support the WGA on social media by hastagging #IStandWithTheWGA and #DoTheWriteThing.

The screenshotted text above is from Matthew Belloni's newsletter "What I'm Hearing" on Puck, which is paywalled, but there is a 2-week free trial if you're interested in reading some insider info on the strike.

follow @fans4wga for reliable strike news, from an organization of fans working in solidarity with WGA members.

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[Image ID: The first image is of a plaque that says, “In memory of those who chose the sea”.

The second image is tags from the aforementioned @ darkspawntaxcollectors. They read,

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Except, it’s not.

This phrase on this particular plaque is part of a larger memorial in Plymouth, Mass.  Pictured below:

The second plaque reads:  “Donated by the Friends of Dougie Thurber”

Dougie Thurber was a fisherman who was swept overboard in 1980.  Lack of a helipad at the hospital prevented him from making it to the hospital in time.  His death was the event that spurred creation of a mediflight helipad at the hospital.

The hospital has a video about the history of the medical evac flight service, the accident, and the monument here:

So… yes.  This phrase, in other context, CAN also be used to refer to the people who jumped from slave ships rather than be enslaved.  But not in this particular instance.  This one is about people lost at sea.  And this image has been circulating for several years with mis-attribution.  Similar sentiments are common when discussing the mortality of sailors.  ”To those who go down to the sea in ships” is another common phrase found on sailor’s memorials.  People tagging this as such shouldn’t be shamed or berated for it. 

This correction in no way is intended to downplay the suffering and horrors of the slave trade.  Awareness of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Middle Passage is extremely important, hopefully–despite a mis-attributed image–people will still get engaged to learn more about that history.

Hi!! I’m the person whose tags got posted lmaoooo

First I would like to thank @jadewolf-writes and others for adding the context of this particular plaque in the notes. Thank you for the emphasis on encouraging people to learn more about Black history and approaching things empathically.

I would like to point out to everyone in the notes that this quote and other similar sentiments have a great deal of significance among many many many of us who are descendants of enslaved Africans. The context of which the OP posted this seemed to be to commemorate our ancestors who committed suicide during the slave trade. I understood that there was no explanation for why this was posted, so I did not attack anyone when I wrote my tags (which i thought stay tags lol). Additionally, I understand that not everyone knows that many enslaved Africans committed suicide during the slave trade, so despite how people were engaging with this post prior to me writing my tags, I did not want to go off on anyone.

This memorial should be treated with respect, and that also comes with understanding who exactly this memorial is commemorating, so thank you to anyone who added the correction.

There is something I really wanted to explicitly say in my tags to MY FOLLOWERS, which is why I said it in the tags lmfao, but I didn’t because I was prioritizing not potentially sounding mean (stupid i know! i was also drunk as shit when writing my tags!). I’m going to say it now anyways instead of beating around the bush!

It was completely rubbing me the wrong way that a plaque which was obviously a memorial was being tagged with people’s favourite fictional characters. I know I’m a fandom blog and all, but I think time and place is something we all need to consider. Additionally, given the significance of this quote to many of us within the Black community and the context of which it was uploaded, I found it extra upsetting! The origins of this plaque do not take away from the significance of this quote to many of my people.

One thing I’d like to add is that I am very disheartened to see anyone calling this a “net zero information” post. It is important that the exact origins of this memorial were identified, but that does not negate the weight of this quote and what it means to many of my people. I know for a fact that I am not the only person who first thought of the transatlantic slave trade when I read this. Please do not use my mistake to completely discount the overall message and miss the point, and instead use it as an opportunity to learn.

Thanks!

Just on a whim, because I know that Alcibiades is one of the weirdest and funniest characters in ancient Greek history, I asked ChatGPT "What's the weirdest thing Alcibiades ever did?"

ChatGPT came back with the details of something Alcibiades (henceforth referred to as 'Alci' so I don't have to keep typing it out) was accused of, but acquitted of.

When I pointed out that he had been acquitted and may not have actually done this thing, Chat GPT apologised and said, "yes, he was acquitted", and then went on to tell me that, nonetheless, the event was significant because it made Alci flee the city.

Alci did not flee the city, he was sent away on a military expedition, which was exactly what he'd wanted and asked for. When I pointed that out, ChatGPT apologised again for being wrong.

I asked again for weird things he might actually have done, and was told one version of a story I've heard before about how Alci stole some stuff from a friend. ChatGPT's version was different from what I'd heard, though, so I mentioned that, and only then did ChatGPT acknowledge that there were different versions of the story. As part of its apology and correction, ChatGPT said that it did not always have access to all information - but then proceeded to provide details of the version of the story I'd heard before, showing that it did, in fact, have access to that information.

I asked again, what is the weirdest thing Alcibiades ever did? ChatGPT gave me an answer, which was a story I'd never heard before, so I asked for a source. ChatGPT told me it was in Plutarch's Lives, and I presumed it was in his Life of Alcibiades, so that's where I looked. When I said I couldn't find it there, ChatGPT told me, sorry for not being specific, it was actually in Plutarch's Life of Nicias. So I went and read Plutarch's Life of Nicias and couldn't find it.

So I told ChatGPT that I couldn't find the story in that book, could it please be more specific? What I was hoping for was a chapter or page number or something, I just presumed I'd missed it.

ChatGPT came back with "no, actually it's not in that book, it may be a later invention, there is no concrete evidence for this story."

TL;DR: ChatGPT cannot be trusted. Even when it does give you a source, it can be wrong. It has no capacity to evaluate the accuracy or likely accuracy of the information it gives you. It will present you with wrong or debatable information and give you absolutely no indication that it may not be correct, or that other versions or interpretations are possible.

gotta remember that chat GPT works basically the same way autocomplete works, but it can autocomplete longer runs of reasonably coherent text.

it’s not looking up facts, its both trying to say the thing that’s most likely to come next in the text it was trained on, and also trying to not perfectly replicate the training text, because it’s supposed to be a bit creative.

what this means is that it’s actually primed to lie to you. you can feed it nothing but perfectly factual text and it will spit back lies because the truth replicates the training set too closely.

it’s not really capable of answering a question the way a person might.

what it does is generate text that reasonably seems like what an answer to that question might look like.

it’s a bullshit generator.

it is made to bullshit tech investors. (who exclusively talk by making up things that sound correct without regard for the actual truth) so, if you’re smarter than a venture capitalist then don’t fall for the bullshit meant to ensnare venture capitalists.

That's a really good way to put it!

Reblogging this again because I am about to have to explain this to my boss and the head of academic quality today

hedgehog stew

HEDGEHOG STEWSDAY

Cover by Juno Songs

girlboss? no. girlworkers. girlunion. we have nothing to lose but our girlchains.

“Redemption arc” =\\= “Everyone is required to instantly forgive them and they are absolved of all their past sins forever arc”

Look, as a soft hearted femme sap i often post romantic stuff about butches and how much i adore them as partners and lovers- but with how often i see butches hurting from being treated as objects of fantasy i think i should make it perfectly clear-

Butch friendships are a gift. Seeing an older butch in public just existing enriches my life. Seeing butch4butch couples, having a stud as a mentor, and talking to trans butches of all kinds make me so happy i could pop! Butch lives enrich the world and those around you all are lucky to know you 💕

sorry the idea that there's this Grand Meaningful difference between GNC cis people and trans people is stupid. it's stupid when trans people promote it and it's stupid when transphobes promote it. there are trans people who feel very different than GNC cis people and there are GNC cis people who feel very different than trans people, there are people who feel like both or like they are in the middle.

But more than anything, on a very real level, we are all gender criminals. Crossdressing laws affect us all. Gender roles affect us all. And even more: little kids being allowed to freely experiment with gender helps us all. Letting people identify how they want helps us all. Gender neutral bathrooms and banishing the idea of the "predatory crossdresser/butch" helps us all. If you are GNC and you are transphobic you very much are cutting off your nose to spite your face.

terfs are playing this silly ass game where they say they want girls to be able to wear suits and boys to be able to wear dresses but ONLY if they aren't identifying the wrong way while doing it (which, to regulate this requires being EXTREMELY invasive and gets into thoughtcrime) and then they support (directly or indirectly) politicians who do not give a single shit about their nonsense & happily use their social movement to support homophobic laws, and when transphobes harass GNC & intersex women & any other woman who doesn't look "right" in the bathrooms. And then when this happens they start crying about how "you can't blame feminists for this!!!! this has nothing to do with us!!! I'm a butch!!!!!" like the cowards willfully blinded by their own hatred that they are

imagine if you like bought a house and the realtor that sold you the house came by and did maintenance every couple months and it was a pretty good arrangement until one day they stopped doing maintenance and things started breaking them and you called them up and they were like 'surprise! we've decided what this house is really missing is a pool so we're going to build a whole new house for you that has a pool we are so excited about this pool' and you were like 'is this a deflection from your sexual harassment lawsuit you're involved in' and they were like 'the pool is going to be so cool!' and hung up and you didn't hear from them for years and then they called you up again and were like 'good news! we've built the new house, why don't you move in' and you were like 'oh, the one with the pool?' and they were like 'wellll yeah but we haven't actually installed the pool yet but when we do it's going to totally transform how you live in your house so you can see the value' and you were like 'i don't know i think i'll stay in this one' and they were like 'hmm yeah sorry actually you can't we're blowing the old house up with dynamite' and you were like 'what? why?' and they were like 'so that you're not split between your old house and the new one' and you were like 'um, fine' and you drove over to the new house and there was no pool or space for a pool and the realtor showed up to gave you the keys and you were like 'this house looks identical to the old one, i don't really understand why you did this' and they were like 'aha! you see, the old house had six rooms, this one has five!' and you were like 'that sounds worse, though' and they were like 'no you see with only five rooms it will be much easier to do maintenance on the house' and you were like 'but you haven't done that for months' and they were like 'yeah that was the old house which we've just blown up with explosives this is the new house' and you were like 'so how's that sexual harassment lawsuit going' and they leaped acrobnatically into their car like a trapeze artist and zoomed away and you went into the house and saw a coin slot on the bathroom door and called them and you could hear the background noise of a courtroom and they said 'yeah so you have to pay five dollars every time you use the bathroom now, it's our new monetization plan' and you were like 'well this is bullshit i feel like this house is just straight up worse' and they were like 'noo listen the pool is going to be so cool it's going to be so good we promise there'll be a diving board and a tiki bar and those water jets that give young people sexual awakenings' and you were like 'well okay' and they were like 'we've been building this pool for four years trust us it's going to be good' and then you didn't hear from them for a long long time except occasionally when they showed up to do maintenance and if you asked about the pool they just winked meaningfully and asked if you wanted to pay a $15/month fee for a bathroom pass giving you unlimited flushes and toilet paper. and this went on for a year until one day you got a voicemail 'dear resident. we're not going to build the pool lol' and you called them back like 'well what the fuck did you demolish my old house for' and they were like 'we actually gave up on the whole pool like two years ago but we did a whole announcement and it would have felt sooo awkward to walk it back' and you were like 'what the fuck have i been paying five dollars to use the toilet for over these last two years!' and they were like 'listen buddy if you don't like it you can buy the bathroom pass' and then they hung up on you . anyway that's what happened with overwatch 2

Bein fat is good and normal and its hot and its morally neutral and its the best thing ever and it's just a way some people exist

Food is good and has no moral alignment and is awesome and is a way to express love and is just a thing we as organisms need

a semi joking post about the need for body diversity that includes post op bottom surgery is not hate against nonop people or harassing you or whatever. especially when we rarely ever seen positive rep of bottom surgery, and never seen rep of non-traditional bottom surgery (which. kind of funny to act like im a truscum for wanting rep when i myself am very vocal about my bottom surgery goals being non-traditional & nonbinary and therefore so much harder to get validated by the medical industry).

take a chill pill. i am not actually holding a gun to your head and forcing you to draw a neocock on your characters

As a horror reader, I’ll add: cannibalism is one of the great taboos - either through extreme need and degradation, or through the amorality of the sophisticate who sees other humans as ‘lesser’, or as a bloodthirsty tyrant literally consuming their subjects.

Now, re: lower class cannibalism, we know that humans will turn to cannibalism in extreme enough circumstances in order to survive - but it is so abhorrent to us socially that we cannot but ask: how can a person live with themselves after crossing that line? And the answer that both popular culture (and a few historical examples) give is that either they cannot, or that they live with it by never returning from that state. It is seen as an irreversible moral failing, the absolute worst monstrosity that poverty, ignorance, desperation, and need can draw out of a person - once you’ve eaten human flesh, what need is there to hunger again? There is often a lot of eugenicist and social engineering stuff tied up in that - but it is the spectre of the very worst of the human survival instinct, found and engaged in, the fear that within us all is an inveterate and irredeemable evil, waiting to emerge. The cannibalism here is very literal, in that way - think Sawney Bean.

Conversely, in stories of privilege, it marks the extreme end point of immorality, the height of a jaded appetite or interpersonal cruelty. It is (mostly) metaphorical: to what ends would this person not go, what harm would they not commit, what lines would they not cross? The eating of human flesh is not the desperate act of consummate-need-become-perverse-plenty, but a deliberate (im)moral choice. Nothing else is thrilling enough, special enough, dangerous enough, nothing conveys your power so sufficiently as devouring another human.

People in more ‘normal’ situations don’t have to deal with either end of that - we have other routes to plenty and are far less jaded about far more common ‘pleasures’ or indulgences. Moreover, we’re not metaphorically looking to consume those ‘beneath’ us (unless we’re getting in to Soylent Green territory.) And obviously, both versions often contain an aspect of moral warning for those between those two extreme states - although exactly which warning depends heavily on the writer.

I’m all for going about queerness with the goal of not being able to be understood by outsiders but like. you’ve GOT to be normal about aro & ace people if you do. you can’t go on about being confusing to cishets for fun and then complain about ace & aro people who go about sex and romance and attraction in ways that don’t make sense to you.

supporting queerness that confuses others should include queerness that confuses YOU too even if you’re queer yourself.

Whenever i see a fictional character get drawn with washboards abs it makes me want to GAG. Put some fat on that thing for gods sake

Nice try FBI

This would get me

[id: two comments from piss69 say, “It’s really hot how much you hate cops.” and “Do you want to make a bomb with me?” /end id]

Yes it’s very important for solidarity with workers but, and maybe this is an unpopular opinion, workers should have solidarity with poor customers. Like ignore shoplifting, be sensitive when ppl are using EBT cards, that kinda thing.

If you work retail and you worry about shoplifters I beg you to remember how little money you’re being paid to do this

and also no matter what your boss says to you, someone shoplifting will not cause your wages to be docked. if it DOES, then you can get in contact with a labor attourney, who will proceed to light up like a kid at christmas because they (and you) are about to get a big fat payday. that shit is ridiculously illegal.

Doctor : I’m sorry, but we had to remove your colon.

Me Why?