This is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill—we are rolling out reblog controls across web and iOS, starting today.
How does it work?
When drafting a post, select the settings cog in the top right corner of your post editor. From here, you can choose one of two options.
“Anyone (on Tumblr)” means just that.
“No one” means that your post cannot be reblogged by anyone, ever.
Why?
Your wish is our command. Many of you have told us this feature would give you a welcome sense of safety. If you block someone after the post was made, don’t worry—they still can’t reblog it. This change gives you control over your own posts, and so will improve your posting experience. Ultimately, better posting means a better Tumblr. And finally, don’t worry, Android users. The feature will follow on your platform soon.
That’s all, folks. Happy reblogging!
Any questions? Drop us a line on @wiporSupport, and keep an eye out for the mobile rollout on@changes.
I see your quick bird-movement or jerky horror-movie-movement Valdemar (which are both good, don’t get me wrong) and raise you a Valdemar who moves with a smooth, unhurried deliberation, secure in the knowledge that they have all the time in the world.
The ‘patient’ can wriggle all they want to, Valdemar’s spindly and unnaturally steady hands will still do their work, their almost-unblinking eyes observing avidly. (After all, hands can’t shake with a heartbeat that doesn’t exist…)
…Now imagine how upsetting (or exciting!) something would have to be to them to break that placidness.
This is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill—we are rolling out reblog controls across web and iOS, starting today.
How does it work?
When drafting a post, select the settings cog in the top right corner of your post editor. From here, you can choose one of two options.
“Anyone (on Tumblr)” means just that.
“No one” means that your post cannot be reblogged by anyone, ever.
Why?
Your wish is our command. Many of you have told us this feature would give you a welcome sense of safety. If you block someone after the post was made, don’t worry—they still can’t reblog it. This change gives you control over your own posts, and so will improve your posting experience. Ultimately, better posting means a better Tumblr. And finally, don’t worry, Android users. The feature will follow on your platform soon.
That’s all, folks. Happy reblogging!
Any questions? Drop us a line on @wiporSupport, and keep an eye out for the mobile rollout on@changes.
when the capitalists die out either thru global warming or revolution will we be able to start homegrown internet
been reading about dual power and how to grow my own tomatoes and i’m wondering how and if we’ll be able to start commie internet lol
like obviously the internet is this huge electric capitalist controlled hardware infrastructure thing so after all that shuts down is there a way to do it ourselves lol
i want to come home from a hard day on the communal allotment, kiss my Wife, crank up my generator, and start sharing meams!
GOOD NEWS: the homegrown commie internet is in the works! Across the world, people fighting against censorship and for a more democratic internet are building mesh networks (meshnets) of long-range wifi (LoRa)
Since wifi is just a standard for sending data through radio waves, and radio waves can go a pretty long way if you use ‘em right, it’s not that difficult to connect two computers by wifi from across town. Then you just keep adding more computers to the network and you’ve got internet!
As for sharing fresh mëmês, the network to go to is Scuttlebutt. Unlike most social media, Scuttlebutt posts are stored on your computer and sent directly to your friends’ computers (rather than being stored on the cloud and sent to a central server). It works just fine over traditional internet, but you can also view and interact with it offline, and it has protocols for connecting over any means that two computers can share information - that includes LoRa, as well as hardwired connections, sneakernet (basically mailing a USB stick back and forth), etc
What that means is you always know that your info is just as safe as the network it’s sent on and the computer that receives it - no one even theoretically has the ability to collect and sell it all. And, since it’s all run on your computer, there’s no servers to go down or companies to go out of business that could destroy the whole thing
You can read more about this kind of stuff here(orhere if it’s cloudy in Barcelona)!
there’s also the work being done by the DCPT, left-behind Detroiters meshing together their neighborhoods to share overpriced high-speed connections among the community and producing these good good educational documents, especially this rad resource page. building meshnets to share a global uplink is very similar to building meshnets for the purpose of intracommunication and these resources are useful in both cases
I’ve had a couple people ask about how to join/organize something like this, which is great! The best list of active projects I know of is here, though you should also do a search online if you don’t see one in your area in case they missed it. For those without a nearby group, put a pin here and try contacting nearby pins as well - you can use the instructions on buildyourowninter.net as well as the DCPT’s resources as linked above to get set up!
Please reblog this version so others can get involved!
do you guys remember that era when disney was making one shit billion direct-to-dvd sequels of their animated films and they were all shit and then. idfk. whoever the fuck got put on lion king 2 was like “hey what if we just come up with the best fucking idea of all time that’s so good they have to keep it canon even after everything else is swept under the rug” like what icons
Another Harpy design for my Greek AU “Rodimus the Great”
Starscream!!! I’m having that all the flyers in the au are going to be harpys, unless there are other more suitable monsters that fit the role. @overlordraax actually gave me the idea to make him into a little Magpie, which fits, since this little gremlin needs aaaaaalll the glitter.
It started with @thenicecheese wanting to update her pic on AO3, which led us to talking about livejournal (because AO3 icons are 100x100. Remember that, kids??), which led me to logging onto my LJ account for the first time in NINE YEARS, which led me to checking the journals of the people I followed back then. (Dead. The journals, not the people. As far as I know.) Which led me to Passion & Perfection, or P&P to its regulars. There’s been a few tumblr posts going around lately about the good ol’ days of fan fiction and how it’s a whole new generation of readers who don’t even know what those days were like. So please, check out this blast from the past (though to be fair, she STILL updates!). At the time, 10 years ago, it was one of the few fan sites that collected femslash fic. (You couldn’t always trust ff.net to not remove your F/F fic without telling you.) Great site. Great memories!
