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the alternative girl with pathetic boyfriend thing has to end
Hi, I run a small Etsy business selling replica Scott Pilgrim cosplay items. You’re personally hurting my livelihood by saying this. Think about the effect your words have on others.
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Ah yes. The good old ‘reverse uno card’.
That was smooth…
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we’re having a field day over this obama thing huh
wait i didnt mean to include the bottom post
tumblr remove scree shot
tumblr crop screenshot
obama posted that
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ninja wisdom from super dragon ninja ryu hayabusa
Thank you super dragon ninja Ryu
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We’re going to learn that when Elon Musk fired 99.8% of Twitter’s development team, a bunch of them ended up on Tumblr @staff and are the reason we’re suffering this UI redesign, aren’t we.
Hey @staff if you want to make tumblr easier to browse how about you actually make search work properly
How about you stop pushing Tumblr towards needing to be logged in even to just view posts
“Oh we’re making it so you have to be logged in to submit anonymous asks to a person’s ask box so we can better combat harassment.” Don’t lie to me. Tumblr already had options to deal with this, including the fact the blog could just turn off anonymous asks if they did not want to risk being open to the public. There are more elegant ways to solve that problem and you went with the clumsy one because it aligned with where you already want to go.
How about you actually fix and improve the new post editor? How many years has that thing been in development, now? And despite it having some cool new features, the old post editor is still infinitely more reliable for things like selecting blocks of text. We’ve had computer text editors basically since the 1960’s. What’s your excuse?
How about you stop pushing people away from the public version of my blog with my customized theme and towards your generic, homogenized, one-size-fits-all, you-only-get-to-customize-two-colors, you-have-to-log-in-to-read-it internal blog view?
I literally just submitted a bug report for the Android version of Tumblr after the app failed to keep a queued post in the queue. Editing that post on my tablet caused it to instantly go public at 2am instead of at my normal queued posting time. Did you know I’ve never once gotten the help I needed from tumblr support? It doesn’t matter if I’m reporting a real actual bug or just airing my complaints about the state of the site, nobody over there has ever understood my needs or done anything about it. Ever.
I’ve had this blog since 2009. I could have told you I was bleeding out on the street and the only reply your support staff would give me is “Can you send me a screenshot of what you’re seeing?”
Not even nine months ago you were proud to be different from all the other social media sites. Now you want us to spend money on meme merch you didn’t even invent. Including $7.99 on teeny tiny jpegs next to our usernames.
And now this. This, above everything else, was your priority. This “makes tumblr easier to use.” Forgive me if I don’t trust you, and have never trusted you, and will never trust you.
For wanting to make Tumblr “easier to use” it sure took me a long time to figure out where they hid managing my post queue
Takes more effort to get to now, too. Used to be like one click, now it’s more like three or four
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Not true!
Wake up babe new tag yourself dropped
Really lucky a mongermonger turned up to help with this post.
lawmonger i use that to cut the grass
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be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.
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I’ve been rolling something around in my head.
If everyone receives Minimum Basic Income, what happens to all the relationships where one of the individuals no longer has to depend on the other(s) to survive?
Just let that marinate for a moment.
Not just the economic landscape but the social landscape could be transformed.
Not for nothing, but this is literally part of the entire point of Universal Basic Income.
When abused people can just literally walk away, knowing they can still have enough money to live, the world will be a lot less sheltering of abusers and that is a massive fucking benefit.
It gets better than that, if we go with my ideal UBI scenario, in which we peg UBI to “enough to live in any major metropolitan city in the country” and do NOT adjust it for cost of living.
Suddenly, the poverty and scrabbling for survival of rural areas? Gone. That UBI will go a whole long fucking way out there. Suddenly, people who had to move to the cities to get jobs that paid enough? Can afford to move back. Heck, they can afford to get decent fucking broadband out there and continue working, just, not in the city. Suddenly, people who live in rural areas but want to move to the cities with like-minded people? That’s affordable, too. Suddenly, people who want to have a bigger house, but are stuck in a tiny apartment in a city? They can afford to move out to where there are bigger houses.
Universal Basic Income would realign our whole damn society, and I think it would long-term be for the better.
[ ID: tweet by athelind: “Basic Income is not a ‘solution’ to the 'problem’ of automation. It is the FULLFILLMENT of the PROMISE of automation.” /ID ]
UBI would not only give abused people the freedom to leave bad situations and end hunger and homelessness, it would force corporations to pay reasonable wages to attract people to work crap jobs, which the corpos could then deduct from their (higher, to pay for UBI) taxes, creating a positive feedback loop that encourages better pay
many would use UBI to quit abusive jobs and find better jobs even if they pay less, because their costs of living are paid for
many would start small businesses, do crafts and handiwork, create art and media, increase their education and health (physical and mental), dive into science and research, and so forth. we’d see a boom in innovation and invention, and the world would become a better place for most folks
so, to appease conservatives: the economic argument is that the economy would grow a great deal. some tests that show it works in the real world:
heck, Ireland is already testing UBI for artists, and wants to implement it widely:
lots more info on Wikipedia:
the only argument against UBI comes from those who’d pay greater taxes - big corporations and the ultra-rich - but they’d do fine, because now there’d be more consumers of their products and services. and if they’re not providing anything to society that would benefit from others doing better, well, they don’t deserve to benefit from society
there’s literally no reason to not implement UBI
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