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Like I know we all love making ADHD seem cool but like, don't forget it's actually a disability? My ADHD is bad enough I've nearly been evicted for forgetting to mail the rent check to the property manager, I've forgotten to pay the utility bills and had my water or power get turned off or had to pay fines bcs I missed a credit card payment. Once I was supposed to cat sit for a friend and I lost the house key she gave me but didn't realize until she was already out of town, and she had to call the apartment office to get someone to give me the spare so her cats would have food for the week. When I'm unmedicated I can't even get myself to shower half the time, forget eating or cleaning. Before I started living with my fiance I'd just like, not eat for days because I didn't have anyone to remind me to eat or go buy me food. I've forgotten to turn the stove off so many times and ruined kettles and tbh been DAMN fucking lucky the house didn't burn down. I've done stupid, impulsive shit that's nearly gotten me KILLED. I can't remember to close the shower curtain reliably even through my fiance points out every single time I forget, and he's almost out of soap rn bcs for the last MONTH neither of us have been able to remember to order more once we get out of the shower.

I've had such bad memory my entire life that to this day someone suggesting I forgot something because I simply didn't care enough is a legitimate trigger that, in the worst cases, makes me have a breakdown.

I get that for some of you this is just something that makes studying hard or you forget to take a pee break when you're playing Minecraft or whatever, that's still a valid struggle and you do deserve help and understanding, but like, ADHD is a disability. It's disabling. It's not impossible to improve and learn coping skills, meds help a lot, there are great accommodations out there(LIKE CLEANING SERVICES), but not every case of ADHD is the same, and a lot of them are pretty ugly ngl, and just because you managed to do something doesn't mean someone else is gonna be able to manage it too, or that they're being lazy for struggling. And that obviously doesn't mean ADHD people have a free pass to never work on themselves and make everyone cater to their every need or whatever, but we do deserve some understanding when we explain that our disability is actually disabling in ways that aren't palatable to you. So like, idk, maybe don't immediately recoil in horror when you find out that someone with ADHD can't keep their house clean. And for fucks sake don't ridicule them for it.

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Baby's first dessert :)

it went well

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It's increadibly rage-inducing and depressing to see tumblr, which has arguably been one of the biggest cornerstones in creative content sharing, fail to protect the vast amounts of artists that inhabit and make this website what it is. We shouldn't have to manually opt out to protect our art, whether it's fanart, original works or anything in between.

The internet has become an unsafe place to share your creative work on this last year, especially for writers and artists. So many have lost their drive to continue pursuing their passion because they're afraid it'll get scraped and be used to train these programs without their consent. We shouldn't have to use additional programs to "contaminate" our art in order to protect it. Furthermore, some people using these AI art programs are making A LOT of money from selling these "art works" as prints and NFTs; amalgamations made of hundreds, if not thousands, of individual, original works of art. In other words, they're profiting from STOLEN work. There is no way to ethically make money from AI "art". @staff I would really re-think this decision. At the very least, opting out should be the default, not the other way around. As it stands, there are a lot of potential loopholes that can be exploited, as @toki-pona pointed out. Loopholes which will be profitable to your (tumblr's) third party partners, not those unaware of this decision.

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

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We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 

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For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 

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@staff

OUR CONTENT SHOULD BE OPTED OUT OF AI TRAINING BY DEFAULT!

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remember to switch this on

^^^

I didn't have the option through mobile but if you go through your desktop settings, under visibility there is a toggle to switch so your work is not used in training AI, it's off by default (go figure lol)

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what it feels like to play pokemon ruby and sapphire on max volume

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Research

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i’m going to relapse or kill myself it’s one or the other at this point

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He needs a hug

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Currently doing a Pokémon Platinum Nuzlocke, so I decided to do a little drawing of me, my starter Sprout, and my Starly named Jupiter.

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i despise the new dashboard layout

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Demigod

WRITERS

If you see this, spoil your WIP's biggest plot twist using ONLY ONE WORD

Here's mine!

Dying

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Vampire Squid Mermaid!

I couldn't decide on the red or black version, so have both!!

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I'm having my yearly Undertale brainrot, so I made a sketch of my favourite skelly boys

I haven't drawn them in a HOT MINUTE lol

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he’s just a silly goofy guy

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MAHRRR