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pov: you’re the Orz

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why must you lunge out at me like this

today is not my birthday

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if you ever feel bad remember this photo of florian schneider dancing maybe you’ll still feel bad but at least you’ll be aware of this image of florian schneider dancing

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my latest cover flopped super hard so i'm posting it here. pls listen

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Here's a website where Palestine GoFundMes are vetted and shared that you can send out to people. The url is gazafunds.com

Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.

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Tumblr seems to insisting in making every post I wrote defending the platform outdated. Today they obliterated that post I wrote two or three years ago trying to tell everyone that no, tumblr didn't sell your data to advertisers, and the best proof you could have of that was how absolutely untargeted (sometimes, hilariously) tumblr ads were.

Well, I just got an in-platform ad for this:

This raised my alarms immediately.

Blaze, the tool to promote tumblr posts, exists since two years ago, and the fact that they are launching a version of it targeting professionals was a big red flag: The one and only thing that adtech professionals want on a platform is targeting. And the only way to get targeted ads is to sell user info to those advertisers. The original blaze only let's you to target your ads at country level, which is pretty much useless to adtech pros. So yes, the 'civil' version of blase would share your country with advertisers, but it was the only private info tumblr would sell about you. Which, you know, given the state of the internet, was a fairly good behaviour.

So I went in and I did a quick check (signing up as a potential advertiser) because I was curious, and fearful, about why this was supposed to be "pro".

And ... bam, here it is:

But this pro version let's you target users based on their interests. And their age. Tumblr has your age because you need to fill it just to know if you can use the platform or not (And if not remember wrong, maybe disable some stuff if you are over 14 but under 18). But now they are selling this info. And they are selling your browsing (and posting) habits. And, pontentially, more targeting data, but only to advertisers big enough to deal with the sales team directly.

Fucking hell.

Tumblr CEO (and my ex-boss, full disclaimer) said this on a interview barely 18 months ago:

I wanted to see if we could create a mainstream social media that wasn’t reliant on surveillance capitalism or advertising as its primary business model.

So well, I guess Matt has just answered himself that he can't, and decided to just go to the proven method of making social media a user-surveillance nightmare.

Because you know, principles are great, but money seems to be much better for him.

Original post:

https://goblin.band/@javi/tumblr-seems-to-insisting-in-making-every-post

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Why is this heat so hot 😩

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Source

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damn this is pretty good for a toy app

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note to everyone: sorry if i notif-spam you, i basically check out tumblr once every two weeks or so and go thru a hyper specific tag

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I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.

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the thing about adulthood is when someone says something extremely rude to you, you can either turn the other cheek or calmly & firmly correct them. The third option is to tell them “say that again, I’ll bite you” & everyone sort of nervously laughs and tries to move on from your little joke. Which is why I think it’s very important that when they do say it again you follow through. Nobody actually expects you to bite them. We should be biting more. Also if you’re with the county health department do not read thi s post

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OUCH you too huh

Friendly reminder to not punish yourself for creating.