DNI and Other Links

speedlimit15:

its so disgusting that you actually have to practice skills to retain them. just stay in my brain for retrieval pleaaaaaaassssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

strvngevsvngels:

The best building in all of Manhattan

tokomarus:

tokomarus:

tokomarus:

I like this a lot

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i love you

polyur:

my friends mum just shared this on fb 

pjackk:

Sign me up for a #BagelThin with plenty of #CreamCheese and U know what lets sign up for a #CupOfCoffee to

pogaytosalad:

transmascanine:

transmascanine:

48hr tumblr blackout proposal

tumblr mobile has seadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.

examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it “working”), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the ‘for you’ page.

the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:

• reverse the recent image viewer update
• scrap the new users ’for you’ page default setting
• let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely
• increase efforts against spam / porn bots
• make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam
• let us go nuts show nuts again… for real this time
• commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!
• (suggestions welcome!)

to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don’t use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.

I suggest the 48 hours between the 30th of June to the end of the 1st of July.

this marks the end of pride month (for the “queerest place on the internet”) and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).

tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).

you can find out the times and dates for your timezone here.

i can’t afford to blaze this post so please spread it around as much as possible! protests only work if significant numbers show up!

tumblr rejected the blaze campaigns for this post because they know it would hurt them. let’s make this an indefinite blackout - it’s the best way to get results.

(so the blackout would be from June 30th onwards)

@theshitpostcalligrapher @jame7t @demilypyro @unclefather @i-am-a-fish @one-time-i-dreamt @fartgallery @ginger-ale-official @hungwy @kaijuno @zagreus @manywinged @pukicho @todaysbird @thehugwizard

You guys are some of the biggest most influential blogs I know, it’d probably be a great help to this protest if some of tumblrs biggest users participated in the blackout and spread the word. Sorry for being annoying and tagging yall.

whatsnewalycat:

hadeantaiga:

williamfbuckley:

stop saying “gen z brought back bush-era purity politics” i grew up in the bush era and even then people weren’t saying that you’re a sex addict for having boring marital sexual congress in the same house as your children. this is just plain unhinged

Literally almost every millennial I know has a memory of accidentally walking in on their parents or hearing their parents having sex. It’s fucking normal. Human beings have sex. Your parents fuck. Get over it. Being weird about it isn’t healthy.

I really loved Robert Evans’s response to this

cryptid-corpse:

Reblog if you’re bisexual and sleepy

rat-nest:

How wonderful to live in a world with so many tiny yellow birds

radicalgraff:

“Fuck the King, Feed the Hungry”

Seen in Glasgow, Scotland

guildenstern:

s-n-arly:

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

https://libgen.li/ scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines you may otherwise lack access to

https://sci-hub.ru/ research papers and books you may otherwise lack access to

https://archive.org/ a very large collection of all sorts of media, notably out of print books. by using the wayback machine you can also access new articles which may be locked behind a paywall

all of these sources are free means of access, though some may be blocked by certain ISPs

pocket-deer-boy:

No, “cis gay men have visceral disgust reactions to the presence of vaginas that is rooted in mysoginy that reveals their grossly transphobic attitudes towards anyone they even suspect has a vagina” does not mean “omg op supports conversion therapy”. Read the fucking post again you dipshits. It’s not even about sex. You fucking moron. You are the exact asshole i’m talking about in this post. Just the presence of the word trans in the post makes you think it’s about sex? You have fucking brainworms.

pocket-deer-boy:

Some gay men really put 0 hours of work into unlearning their hatred of women’s bodies and anatomy it’s embarrassing. Like i’m super fucking sorry that you’ve got a pussy ick thing going on but i got over it after like one conversation with a friend and you’re 29 years old publicizing your pussy ick on twitter dot com dot gov posting about how super fucking hard it is that trans men are also in gay bars and that’s Not Valid because ewwww they have vacheena which is the opposite of gay eeewwwwwww! And you have to let everybody know that you’re gay not because you like men but because you hate pussy so much it makes you transphobic. Like how can you even continue to serve cunt in such a state

manywinged:

i love it when blood splatters the camera lens in shows and films during a violent scene not just because gore and violence are awesome (they are) but because there’s something about getting blood on the fourth wall that fascinates me. not breaking it, just forcing you to acknowledge it and your place pressed up against it, watching the spectacle unfold.