Tumblr 3/17 Updates:

We’ve been listening hard to user feedback on recent changes to the site! Here are several new Site Features, implementing according to user request!

• formerly “posts” have been renamed to Tueets!
• All notes on a Tueet are now invisible to the Tueeter, allowing for better management of your engagement!
• Percentage of advertisements related to pimple popping videos has been increased by 60%
• In fact, all Tueets are now invisible to all users
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• The new Tueeting incentives program feature has been implemented. When touching the Tueet button on mobile, users will now be subjected to an electric shock. We are working on porting this to desktop!

we fucked up

Since some of you don’t seem to understand how this ‘new notes’ thing works, I’ll break it down:

I’m the OP. I’m making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I’m the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.

However…

If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won’t see them.

If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog…as OP I won’t see that. I won’t see any of those notes in my activity page.

Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they’re, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn’t see it, doesn’t get notes for it, but they’re gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.

If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it’s not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!’ then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They’ll only see my reblog. So it’s possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it’s been seen by that many people.

It’s killing blow to the community we’ve built here, by someone higher up who doesn’t understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.

That’s what sucks.

I encourage people to go to tumblr’s support page, select contact support, and then in the dropdown menu select 'Feedback’ and leave polite and constructive feedback (for those of you who enjoy 'emails worded politely but are a strong 'are you an idiot?’, try that way of wording it). They’re more likely to listen to you if you’re not an asshole about it. I’ve already gone and done this, and I hope others will too.

ok my serious prediction is they’re gonna announce pd s3 like right after theyre done with upp. which i think is going to be about 3 miniseries in total. So probably sometime this year

u ever get out of the shower completely normal and suddenly out of nowhere youre the thirstiest youve ever been in ur entire life. Whats up with that

#Oh #HellNo

Ok man

horrific monstrous screaming from the left door. Guess which door i have to go through

OH HEEEEELLLLLLLL NO

horrific monstrous screaming from the left door. Guess which door i have to go through

“we need to stop the stigma towards drug users and addicts” and “we need to challenge the idea that being sober makes you boring” and “we need to stop acting like binge drinking to the extent you’re doing medical damage is fun and normal for young people” are all ideas that can and should coexist.

just so we’re clear, the threshold for “binge drinking to the extent you’re doing medical damage” is waaaay lower than you think.

I work in an obstetrician and gynaecologist’s office. we have to tell patients on a regular basis that they are binge drinking weekly when they think they are simply consuming a normal amount of alcohol on the weekends.

having more than 3 drinks in a single sitting if you have an estrogen based endocrine system is a binge that is medically significant.

having more than 5 in a sitting is a medically significant binge for someone with a testosterone based endocrine system.

every time you do this, it significantly impacts your risk of getting breast cancer, and damages your liver. it takes time to recover from that liver damage. if you’re having a 3-5 or more drink binge on a weekly basis, you are an alcoholic, medically speaking, and your liver is not recovering.

again: the bar for what binge drinking is, medically, is so much lower than what you think it is.

alcohol is a really toxic substance and not something you should fuck around with.

again: if you have an estrogenized hormone system (common for most women), then 3 drinks is a binge. if you have a testosteronized hormone system (common for most men), then 5 drinks is a binge.

anything above that number, consumed as frequently as weekly or more, and you’re medically a binge drinking alcoholic.

also, if you’re drinking any quantity of alcohol 6 days a week or more, that’s another threshold at which, medically speaking, you meet the definition of alcoholism. your liver needs more days without alcohol in your system than just one a week to recover and be healthy.

I don’t say any of this to shame anyone—to me, alcoholism or substance use disorders aren’t a sign of weakness or moral failing. and most of us genuinely don’t know this stuff.

rather—I point this out because it’s important to reduce harm, and find ways to live healthier, happier lives. there is a life outside of constant binge drinking. it’s not always easy to find it. but it’s out there. you deserve a life where your emotional needs are met by something other than alcohol, and a life in which your liver is healthy, and the ways you cope and celebrate and find joy don’t put you at increased risk of cancer.

also–even if alcohol is the only way you can self-medicate, or if you choose to go on with your alcohol usage anyway regardless of other options–you still deserve to know what it’s doing to your body.

information is key. you don’t have to stop drinking, but the utter lack of education on alcohol + the normalization of binge drinking in current society leads to many people drinking without any idea of what it’s doing to their bodies.

addicts deserve accurate medical information regardless of what they decide to do with it. for some people, losing liver function is worth the benefits they get from binge drinking, but they can’t make that choice if they don’t know what the consequences are to begin with.

addicts deserve accurate medical information regardless of what they decide to do with it.

Can someone tell me the definition of one drink in this context?

Because a vodka shot is not the same as (idk, some low alcohol percentage alcohol.)

So, what does 3 (or 5) drinks mean.

0.6 ounces of alcohol is a standard drink. Examples include 12 ounces of 5% alcohol beer, or 1.5 ounces of 40% alcohol liquor.

always play horror games at 1am when you are deliriously tired.this is my daily wisdom

ALT

not to be the fun killer like im glad y’all are having a good time but every time i see those screenshots with this on the bottom i feel like this ⬇️

ALT

ph fuck no bro crawling thru some bullshit tunnels in soma and my emotional support ambience lamp just turned off Fuck this shit im serious

lamp back on.backl to crawling

ph fuck no bro crawling thru some bullshit tunnels in soma and my emotional support ambience lamp just turned off Fuck this shit im serious

(no beers in) I lack a lot of the traits people typically define as human and on occasion it haunts me

@tea-time221

54 creators. If I’ve counted right, that’s 48 men and 6 women? Is that right? On the Diversity Server, that’s only 6 women?

Well, at least it’s a step up from the one singular woman at the start of qsmp 1

being an ex dsmp fan is so funny. how did we have a minecraft server with like, predator guy who kept coming out as sexually ambiguous and good at MCC parkour guys trust him to shield the fact that he was a predator, guy who has committed like ten million labor law violations internationally despite actively studying to be a lawyer, georgenotfound, guy who publically said he wanted to get into a boxing ring with another guy (who is like annoying but fine) because he for real life hated him and wanted him injured, domestic abuser who writes songs like “i am a domestic abuser” whose band’s last tour tickets were $9, literally whatever is going on with jschlatt, and like about four other people who had SA allegations about them back in the day that nobody ever talks about anymore but like some astute listerners (Hi) kind of remember. dude even the main animatic creator who made these like movies about the server has allegations. and like during all of this about 80% of fandom discourse was about whether or not ranboo- some californian guy with OCD in his twenties- coming out as gay and making a kind of bad horror series meant that they should be run off the internet forever. do you guys remember manatreed. was mr beast ever on the server. joey graceffa was involved in this somehow. badboyhalo owned the server. anyway i hope connoreatspants is having a good day or something whatever

at the risk of sounding insane: it’s generally odd to me that most of these misogynists’ reactions to “trans men have male privilege” is “that’s not true, because some of us don’t pass as men! some of us aren’t medically transitioning!”. because at it’s core there is nothing wrong with this feeling, gender is what you make it + I’ll always respect n use your pronouns + I recognize you as the gender you say you are wholly + and I’ll be damned if i ever go down the transmed pipeline, but it’s a little sad that your first reaction to hearing the term “transgender man” is to picture someone who society sees as a woman. and not only this, your view of trans men as a whole is so intrinsically tied to women that you cannot conceptualize that some of us look like men and are treated like men and gifted male privilege along with society’s perception of us. to put it bluntly you’ve “gender is a spectrum!"ed yourself into transphobia

One of the white participants left the session and went back to her desk, upset at receiving (what appeared to the training team as) sensitive and diplomatic feedback on how some of her statements had impacted several of the people of color in the room. […] [Later] her friends wanted to alert us to the fact that she was in poor health and “might be having a heart attack.” Upon questioning from us, they clarified that they meant this literally. These co-workers were sincere in their fear that the young woman might actually die as a result of the feedback. 

All of this is going to feel very familiar to anyone who’s blogged about racism in fandom.

“White fragility functions as a form of bullying: ‘I am going to make it so miserable for you to confront me — no matter how diplomatically you try to do so — that you will simply back off, give up, and never raise the issue again.’ White fragility keeps people of color in line and “in their place.” In this way, it is a powerful form of white racial control. Social power is not fixed; it is constantly challenged and needs to be maintained.”

It’s a good article. For anyone who wants to read without the paywall:

How White People Handle Diversity Training in the Workplace | by Robi…

this part always has me losing my mind the way the pants are just cut and pasted on there

this video makes me feel such powerful emotions every time

i think people are starting to forget what the LA in LARP means

*nodding sagely* Los Angeles Role Play

okay gang lets find that son of a bitch markiplier

being a horror slut with a chronic anxiety disorder is genuinely diabolical Yea im putting myself in situations that will likely give myself a panic attack. No i dont need rescuing or anything. im doing it for fun

now see i thought playing during the day would mitigate this issue however its actually just made it so that i cant see a God Damned Thing on my screen

being a horror slut with a chronic anxiety disorder is genuinely diabolical Yea im putting myself in situations that will likely give myself a panic attack. No i dont need rescuing or anything. im doing it for fun

im ready to shit my pant

this is gonna be one of those things that fundamentally alters me as a person isnt it

im ready to shit my pant

I’M ALWAYS SAYING THIS

when i was born i said hi and then i started tumblr posting immediately

maybe this ai stuff isnt so bad