[firawren]

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.

[superchat]

I did it with discord, i did it with tumblr and i suggest everyone else do it too. rollback to a previous version and turn off autoupdates

Heres a link to rollback to a previous version of tumblr. youll have to uninstall the app and then download which version youll want but its worth it imo. might have to download an apk mirror installer but those are around on google play and stuff

I rolled back to the nov. 3 version. right before they swapped out the spooky icon

[pizzaback]

web 2.0 companies that try to frame people using adblockers as greedy freedloaders always conveniently turn their heads when those same “greedy freeloaders” tell them that advertisers are paying to put malicious and predatory ads on their playforms and adblock users are, by in large, using adblockers to protect themselves

[pizzaback]

the first time i ever saw an adblocker recommended was for people with photosensitive epilepsy getting barraged with “congrats! you won!” style popups nonstop

the first time i ever personally used an adblocker was when deviantart’s excessive ad placement slowed down my household’s shared computer to the point it was unusable and my mom told me to stop using deviantart. so instead i installed an adblocker

and nowadays on Youtube and Facebook you get ads for casinos and alcohol targeted toward addicts and people with bipolar disorder, quack medicine targeted to people with chronic medical conditions, hate speech targeted toward the victims of said hate speech, and horror movie ads with flashing lights targeted toward…everyone.

and of course Google, who serves a majority of these ads, doesn’t actually care to remove any of the dangerous bullshit it shoves in your eyes but will expect you to pay them for it. sorry, i’d just rather not use youtube at that point. you had your chance.

[cryptidseabird]

Do not ever listen to a word of shame from a corporation. Their goal is only and always to extract maximum value from consumers.

Piracy, adblocking, data encryption, third-party repair, literally all of these things are, bottom-line, only bad for the corporations' record-breaking profit line. They are inherently good for the working person.

[sounddesignerjeans]

If they only care about their bottom line, you might as well only care about yours.

flamer-gay asked:

It is taking everything in me not to buy a little book of logarithmic and exponential tables just because I think it would be peak math major of me to pull it out of my pocket every time someone gets on the topic.

foone answered:

You should do it, but only if you also get a slide rule and learn to use it.

[pc-98s]

inventing new awful ways to watch tv by broadcasting youtube from a shitty rabbit ear antenna connected to an RF modulator

[crystalmaster333]

[derryderrydown]

On the off-chance that people don’t know this...

This style of bridge dates from the days when barges were towed by horses. When the towpath switched to the opposite side of the canal, the horse would, obviously, clippy-clop over a bridge and happily plod off again. Now, the automatic way to do this would be like this:

However, note that rope (black line) between the horse (brown blob) and the barge (red blob). If you cross the bridge the automatic way, it all goes a bit....

However, if you cross the bridge like THIS

it all works out fine!

Now, sure, you could trust people to remember how to cross a bridge. But there are a lot of numpties out there, and people were working extremely long days and were extremely tired. Also, the canals were BUSY. One boat getting snarled up was the equivalent of the Ever Given.

So, instead, the canal companies built Numpty-Proof Bridges.

They also had the benefit that the horse could be left to plod along on its own, rather than needing human guidance. (I have no idea how this worked. My horse would have her nose buried in the grass and wouldn’t go anywhere, if I left her to it.)

[duckdotcom]

guy who gets so mad about losing a video game that instead of punching his wall he goes and gets his electric hole saw and it's not battery powered so has to run an extension cord and it's a whole thing

[jessieweneedtocuck]

*loses game* fuCK *put on appropriate footwear, long pants, and eye protection, and ties back hair and tucks or removes any hanging clothing or jewelry that could potentially get caught in a moving part* FUCK THIS *walks to garage and takes reciprocating saw out of its case, where it is being safely kept away from water and other things that may damage the saw* MOTHERF- *reads user manual because it’s been a while since operating the saw, also replaces the dull blade with a sharp blade for safety and efficiency* I CARRIED THE WHOLE FUCKIN TEAM *inspects extension cord for any damage, then plugs into a grounded outlet and tapes down anywhere the cord could potentially be a tripping hazard* FUCKIN SHIT *uses stud finder to make sure the area is clear and cuts a lovely little fist sized hole next the computer* oh mY GOD

[guooey]

they are like beautiful tropical birds to me

[guooey]

Literally..

[funnytwittertweets]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

ALT

And why did the value plummet, Marissa? Why did it plummet?

[red-mercer]

Would like to know how exactly she wouldn't fuck up Netflix or Hulu

[sreegs]

Yahoo thought Tumblr would be the next PDF

Yahoo’s grand plan for Tumblr was to turn it into a “next-generation PDF”

They didn't really get it.

Quartz

[noctumsolis]

What does that even mean? PDF as in Portable Document Format?

[sreegs]

i cannot stress enough that i dont think yahoo even knew what a pdf was

[milfmarthawayne]

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 🫠