same energy

there’s more

SIGH

here’s another one

IT GETS WORSE WITH EVERY ADDITION

how does this get even worse

I think about once in a while...

We have another one...

Quiet everyone the USA citizens learning there's other languages and countries outside of the USA

“i was rewatching all doctor who seasons for the third time and i think i said something like 'what if warrior cat leaders regenerated like the doctor' and im trying to figure out what the fuck did i meant by that” “granted i actually said something more like 'the doctor regenerating is just like warriors cat' which is fairly more intelligible than what i wrote in the post like no wonder i had no idea what i meant by that afterwards but i didnt felt like explaining it” by Kikillium

“i was rewatching all doctor who seasons for the third time and i think i said something like 'what if warrior cat leaders regenerated like the doctor' and im trying to figure out what the fuck did i meant by that” “granted i actually said something more like 'the doctor regenerating is just like warriors cat' which is fairly more intelligible than what i wrote in the post like no wonder i had no idea what i meant by that afterwards but i didnt felt like explaining it” by Kikillium

Nothing has done quite so much damage to my internal vocabulary as the construction #MyNoun. I don't remember if it was from that "tour of my jar, this is my twig #MyTwig" or if it was from "inappropriate attachment to objects, my tuube #MyTuube" but either way it was one of you fuckers on here. I do it every time there's my noun #MyNoun

I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.

Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.

That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.

"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.

This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.

An update for users in Brazil and the United Kingdom

To continue our commitment to user safety and to comply with local laws, we will start using age groups to determine access to certain experiences.

People in Brazil or in the UK, who are 18 or older, will soon need to verify their age to change content label settings and view mature-labeled content. Until then, the settings will be locked to hide.

As a reminder, verification is handled by our age-assurance partner, k-ID. Tumblr won't have access to the information you submit, just the final age-verification result. Documents are deleted after confirmation, and facial scan data never leaves your device. 

Questions? Contact Tumblr support or learn more about these changes here.

k-id, the company that Discord definitely didn't have a gigantic data breach with...

Fuck you

hey remember what we did with the reblog change?

we should do that AGAIN and get them to NOT use k-id.

Hey @changes do you want to do something about the overwhelming majority of transfem users' posts and profiles being summarily marked as mature before applying any version of this policy to TERF island?

This is really clever. I wonder how long it took her to find all of these.

for folks concerned its AI, i'm pleased to report its not only legit, she has a whole ass burger coord to go with it and its delightful

check out more of her work on her reddit !!

thats actually so beautiful im in love with the shapes off trees and how clear of a picture i have of this place existing in nature

i like the term "gallows humor" because it always makes me think of someone getting sentenced to death and being like "i have GOT to be the funniest person at my public execution"

Actually there is one other common refrain I'd been meaning to address so while I'm at it: I see a lot of people say "I'll start learning x language once I have some free time"

Not to be an ogre but I would not recommend this. I actually think that when you're busy is the perfect time to start learning a language. When you start out is when even small amounts of engagement with your target language are highly mentally taxing. That's precisely why when youre early on in the process of learning a language you should learn in only very small doses, as little as 5 minutes a day is actually ideal, and this is affected very little by other factors like well-restedness or time to focus. If anything, a time when you have more free time is the point at which you want to be getting on to an intermediate level in the language and can cognitively "afford" to spend more time actively learning it.

Ultimately while it's easy to convince yourself that there is, there's almost never any benefit to putting off learning a new language and there is no real way to make up for lost time. The best time to start learning that language you've always wanted to learn was 5 years ago and the next best time is today, like literally today. Right now.

I will say that the passive approach to language that people get from taking foreign language classes, where teachers convince them that they need to wait until they're at "the right level" to begin to attempt engagement with material that they're interested in, is the most poisonous idea in language learning. In most cases, the pedagogical standard of the language that you're learning in a class is a far cry from the real liveleness of your target language as written and spoken by native speakers, and putting off engaging with it until you reach some mythical "appropriate level" instead of engaging with it ASAP to keep up your motivation does absolutely nothing but send you down the road to eventually quitting, for absolutely no benefit.

if you're washed chopped and cooked then you might be vegetables

"i feel besquintled", said no one ever. because that's not a word.

okay nevermind it IS a word now and this is exactly what it means.

EVERYONE SHUT UP AND LOOK AT THIS NEW AND BETTER WORD