Honestly the queue and schedule post options on Tumblr are extremely underrated. No other major social networking site has the ability to do that with the same ease as Tumblr does, and we’ve had them for like a decade now. They’re fantastic features and Tumblr doesn’t get enough credit for having them.
I’m actually willing to assert that Tumblr actually has some of the best site functionality:
- queue/schedule system
- tagging that doesn’t interfere with the actual content of posts
- the ask/inbox system
- ability to make likes/following lists private
- ability to reblog posts multiple times
- the “Keep Reading” feature
- ability to easily post different media. AFAIK Tumblr is the only social media site that lets you post audio without it being a video.
- dash is always in reverse chronological order
the ability to almost entirely customize your home page is pretty neat, too
I could go on about this forever but I firmly believe that Tumblr is a remnant from a time before companies figured out how to efficiently monetize social media, and as such it’s designed with users instead of advertisers in mind.
That’s both why it has continued to have active avid users in spite of a lot of technical /policy issues, and why it hasn’t been massively profitable.
they took down lofi girl for falsely reported copyright strikes, which means the livestream ended and we can see how many people ever tuned in + how long it was streaming
its odd how this live stream so much of a cultural milestone weirdly enough that its even referenced in television animation.
To say the Panama Papers accomplished nothing is an insult to Daphne Galizia’s memory. Her work, and the work of the hundreds of other journalists who contributed to the Papers, changed the world.
Disinformation like this is designed to discourage you, to make you feel you’re powerless against the monsters of the world. They want you to feel that way, because they are terrified of your power to make change.
Take your power back. Demand better. Keep fighting for a better world, because a better world is possible.
I’m at a party where the My Immortal fanfic is being explained via PowerPoint by a high school teacher.
When I was working as a student teacher, I did this thing where I would reward my students for behaving and getting all their work done early by reading chapters of My Immortal to them.
I did voices and everything, pronounced every spelling error, and carefully fudged all the swear words and sex scenes. But the kids. freakin. loved it. Like, to the point where they’d start helping each other get their work done so we could finish in time to read a chapter.Â
And after every single chapter, we’d go around and talk about why it was so hilariously awful. What made the writing bad? What would it take to make something better?Â
And then very noticeably, they stopped doing those things in their own writing.Â
It was really cool seeing them paying attention and thinking critically and not even notice because they were too busy laughing themselves sick about the story.
Men who refrain from misogynistic comments until a woman does something rude or immoral or mean are in fact regular old misogynists! Actually, a lot of the time those men’s passion arises primarily not from condemnation of her actions, but from EXCITEMENT at getting to express their misogyny in an “acceptable” format. Well guess what asshole, anyone with a brain can see through your bullshit, and I personally hate you.
People make fun of dad profile pictures but like imagine the freedom. Imagine just snapping a picture and being like welp it sure is me and just posting it. Like who should be laughing?? you’re taking 15 pictures with different poses so many filters and still can’t like your face enough to post it on a site where people actually know what you look like in real life
fucking hate thar when you go to uni you have to actually do and turn in work like some kind of seventh grader. you should be able to just listen to the lecture & vibe
a commercial just now was talking about how the odyssey “is a story about being There” and since it’s after midnight i could not stop myself from saying out loud that no…it’s about going home and how difficult it is to return home because you’re not the same as you were when you left…delta airlines…
