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I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

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"this animal can be wiped out completely with no consequences" yeah, they said that about wolves too

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My husband is 6 years older than I am, and has a lot more friends than I do, so consequently I'm usually hanging around with people older than I am. Many years ago we were at a party, and one of the women asked me how old I was, and I told her 29, because I was 29. She laughed and said something like aren't we all. And I had to tell her I really was 29, and I couldn't wait to turn 30 so people would stop assuming I was lying about my age.

the older i get and the closer i am to reaching 30, the more the people around me try to deny me my age. it’s a constant ‘oh you’re just turning 29 again teehee 🤭’ or ‘dont tell your SO that, he’ll leave you for a younger model 😉’ and i just???? hate it?????????

i spent my entire teenaged years fighting for my life. i crawled through the deepest pits of my depression to cling to the promise of a life beyond that pain. i was so convinced that i was going to die young, that i would never see the grace of my age starting with a 2, let alone 3.

so im going to turn 30, and there’s not a damn thing anyone can do to stop me from loving it.

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I love being a 50+ woman in fandom, reblog if you also love being an old dame in fandom.

i love being a 30+ woman in fandom. reblog if you also love being an old dame in fandom

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At the beginning of my software support career, back in the mid-90s, we occasionally had to have people send us a copy of their data for troubleshooting purposes. We'd walk them through backing up the data to a floppy disk, and then tell them to mail it to us. We did this with one warehouse employee in West Virginia, and three days later it came in the mail.

He'd sent us a photocopy of the floppy disk because it was "a copy of their data."

What’s the most simple thing you’ve ever had to explain to a fully competent adult?

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Deprecating New XKit

Hi all, it's been a while!

tl;dr: You should use XKit Rewritten, it's new, shiny, and getting consistent updates. Get it from here: https://addons.tumblr.com/post/661324873572974592/xkit-rewritten. If you want to customize the appearance of Tumblr you should use the built-in settings or Palettes for Tumblr. You shouldn't rely on New XKit, it's old and busted.

Around four years ago, April, a core contributor to New XKit, started the XKit Rewritten and wider @addons projects to create a modern alternative to the already somewhat moldy New XKit. This was with our complete support, and many members of the New XKit team now also help out with XKit Rewritten and other addons.

Chrome and Firefox have both phased out support for older extensions, requiring challenging workarounds to install New XKit. It's become very clear that anyone who is still using New XKit would really have a better time using XKit Rewritten, Palettes and Outbox for Tumblr, and the couple XKit-inspired core Tumblr features.

If you continue to use New XKit for some key part of your Tumblr workflow be warned that it's past the end of its digital lifespan. Despite the name, New XKit is a crumbling old cathedral. You can still walk around in it if you really want to, but it has been fenced off for safety and a brick might fall on your head.

One key difference we'd like to highlight is that XKit Rewritten intentionally doesn't have a Blacklist feature, leaving it to Tumblr's native post filtering functionality. If you still need the specific functionality of New XKit's Blacklist, you can keep it installed alongside XKit Rewritten. Click here for a list of other frequently asked questions.

To summarize: Get XKit Rewritten here: https://addons.tumblr.com/post/661324873572974592/xkit-rewritten. It's like New XKit but designed for modern Tumblr and consistently updated. New XKit will still be around for anyone who really needs it but is a much buggier experience.

Thank you all very much for using New XKit! On behalf of the whole team it's been a great time with all of you here on [tumblr].

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Kelly Abbott, a reasonable (in this case) person: Calls his boyfriend “babe.”

Nick O’Flaherty: Has called the following people “babe” in less than 100 pages

His boyfriend

His best friend

His best friend’s fiance

His work partner

The murder suspect/witness on his case

A hitman 

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Small color practice on Clint ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿

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Let me get rid of Onedrive, but still let Word autosave!

Jesus motherfucking Christ on a crutch, I cannot express how deeply I do not want Onedrive on my pc (BTW, the above steps work, and bless you for that) BUT Word won't autosave unless its saving to Onedrive. Fuck you. I will autorecover, but I want it to actually save my Word doc, not just pray it has some kind of a backup copy somewhere if my power dips unexpectedly. The damn file is already saved to my pc, why the fuck can you not just save it to the same place every 5 minutes.

I have my own cloud server so I can access my shit from anywhere. I have this because I do not trust companies to not scrape my shit to feed into their AI nonsense. I do not trust them to not share my files with other companies/entities without my knowledge or permission. So fuck you MS, and your insistence that I put my shit on your servers

I swear to fucking god. I would claw out OneDrive from my computer if I could. I would burn down their servers if I could. I would run down their stocks to the ground if I could. I hope every single one of their workers gets a better offer from a competitor in the next 24 hours. I hope every single one of their light bulbs explodes at the same time. I hope every single carton of milk in their fridge will always be expired.

Stop backing up my fucking files.

Stop asking me to back up my fucking files.

Stop taking my fucking files off my fucking computer.

I don't want a fucking reminder in three fucking days. Let me fucking say no.

Fuckers.

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"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."

"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

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"I still love America. | just don't know how to get there anymore.” — John Prine

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Growing up, my brother and I deeply dreaded going shoe shopping. It took hours, especially if it was for winter boots. My dad would examine the stitching, the brand reliability, the temperature recommendations, every piece of information he could get his hands on, and then when he'd finally found the right brand, it was on to making absolutely dead sure they fit properly - he had a particular way of poking the toe of the boot to ensure our foot was where it was supposed to be that always drove me nuts. This was always on a weekend, and it was about the worst punishment we could imagine.

Years later, I found out that he'd spent his entire childhood on the Canadian prairies with cold feet. My grandmother just bought whatever boots looked like the best value, regardless of whether they'd keep anyone warm. They'd kept him from frostbite, probably, but never, ever comfortable.

The reason my grandmother never had a thought about this was because she was buying her kids real boots. There was a sort of magical quality about real, purpose-made boots that meant that of course they'd work, because when she was growing up on the Canadian prairies, they had the kind of no money that meant you just stuffed some newspaper into your shoes and soldiered on.

The last pair of winter boots my dad bought for me was 15 years ago, in preparation for a three-month stint living in northern Quebec in midwinter. They cost $200 then, or something like it. I've worn them every year since, driving out to the remotest locations on the Canadian prairies and never once thinking about my feet.

When I read the Vimes Boots Theory for the first time, it rang a bell that reverberated back three generations.

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when I say “Let me ask my husband”, one (or both) of these things is taking place:

1. I am in a loving, happy relationship where we value and respect each other’s opinion

2. I am using this as an excuse to get out of something I don’t want to do (sorry habibi)

what is not happening here: I am being oppressed

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What Is This Prime Day Shit

Go over here. Get cheap ebooks, direct from the author.

And OWN THEM ALWAYS. Because we're not funding a space program.

Just stories. :)

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Frakk me

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if any minors are following me

always make sure to start forging parents' signatures on the first day of class. that way, your teachers won't know that you've been forging signatures for the rest of the year