#how to filter

[agendergenderqueermasculenbyguy]

Welp, it happened.

I have posted before about how blocking content on tumblr has no stigma attached

You – yes, you, person reading this – are allowed to block whatever tags/ content you want

You don’t need to have a “reason”, you are allowed to block and filter content “just because” or “because I don’t want to see it”

Content does not need to trigger or squick you for you to be allowed to filter it

This post is officially your personal permission to filter out whatever content you would rather not see

And this includes filtering/ blocking “#current events” “#current news” “#global news”

You are allowed to exclude/ block out current world events from your tumblr experience

This does not mean you don’t care!

Yes, you are allowed to filter content “just because” or “because I don’t care”

But filtering exhausting and upsetting content does not imply you do not care!

Compassion fatigue is a real thing!

Especially if you (like me) follow several, multiple, a bunch of activist bloggers

There are global crises everywhere, I just read of 6 genocides happening which is precisely why I decided to finally block/ filter out those “current events” tags

How to filter in the tumblr app:

Go to your own blog >

click the little gear in the top corner >

General Settings >

scroll down >

just above “Color Palette” there it is >

Filtering

Type in whatever tags or words you want to not see in the future

This works for filtering out user-URLs too, if you have specific people you’d like not to see posts by

The “full text” filter will, however, 1) also look at the URL of the prev to who put it on your dash 2) ignores spaces in the post

Example 1: You follow “microplasdick” and you filtered “orange”; if the OP is called “orange-fishburne” your filter will hide that post; if the person microplasdick reblogged is “orange-cucumber” your filter will hide the post. Doesn’t matter if the word “orange” is not within the post itself

Example 2: You have filtered “orange” and a post goes “I also ran getting to my bus” – that post would get filtered because it contains “o ran ge” in that sequence

So “#tumblr is my safe space” and for that to stay true, you’re most definitely allowed to block out current events/ world news

Please take care <2

[mekaremadness]

filtered out james gunn, hope it worked

cuz shocking i know, but when i follow the zack snyder tag i want to see posts abt his films and not abt that other man

[gillianthecat]

Tumblr Tip of the Day

Filtering Tags the Easy(er) Way

I've discovered One Neat Trick�� for filtering tags in the mobile app (iOS at least, I can't speak to Android).

Sometimes tags are very long or difficult to spell, and it's a challenge to enter them correctly in your filtered tag list. Unfortunately, there's no way to select a tag and just say "filter this" or even copy text directly from a tag. However, I've recently discovered a reasonably efficient workaround.

Long press on the tag you want to filter. The options to "Search [blog of poster]" and "Search all of tumblr" for that tag will pop up.

Select "Search all of tumblr." The search bar will appear, populated by the text of that tag. Unlike in the tags under the post, this text is now possible to highlight and copy. (Yay!)

Copy the tag!

Open your list of filtered tags: go to your blog (👤 in lower right) -> the gear ⚙️ in the upper right for your "Account" -> "General settings" (top of the list) -> "Filtering" (about 15th on the list)

Select "+New" in the upper right corner, and paste the tag in the text box that pops up.

Now that tag is filtered for you!

[crabussy]

I'm really curious about this!! in aotearoa, every classroom I was in growing up had posters up on how to respond to an earthquake. "drop, cover, hold" was drilled into me from a very young age. I experienced a few growing up, but they were mild because I don't live in areas where they are more extreme. One of our major cities, christchurch/ōtautahi, gets hit by earthquakes very frequently. if you look at a global seismic hazard map, aotearoa is fully lit up in the colour indicating high hazard chance. wild!!!

for reference, in the UK (similar size country) there are around 20-30 noticeable earthquakes per year. in aotearoa, that number is around 100-250!

[platoapproved]

What was that you said about memory? "A monster," was it?

[crystallized-cheese]

PAPYRUS! HE SMELLS LIKE THE MOON.

[areyouscaredyet]

im not particularly religious but i think it’s very cute that Trans Day of Visibility and Easter are on the same day this year :)

its no question that something like this could be triggering or upsetting to a number of queer ppl given the current sociopolitical climate, so i want everyone to remember that u are loved! Regardless of what u or others believe, there are ppl who will love and support you always. Give yourself patience and treat yourself with care!!!

happy and peaceful TDOV everyone!! And Easter to those who celebrate :D

[richardisafrog]

my son (a 45 year old single dad)

he’s ready to commit a war crime and delete the evidence

Pattern is Simplicity S9770

[cerulean-renegade]

I‘m only 3 hours into the game but I already love this group

[hurristuff]

For this Disability Pride Month, I saw a post that was shittybad and it made me angry. So have this

[egophiliac]

ANNIVERSARY GROOVY BOYBAND! THEY ALL LOOK SO GOOD, I also love the hades reference with idia! Ik ur probably really swamped with the book 7 brain rot but I wanted to know ur thoughts. I also wanted to mention that I am so card deprived I feel like I need a replacement event to take tsumderlands place

AUGH NO I LOVE THEM. 😭 UGH now I really have to think about if I want to try pulling for Grim again. dangit. heck. I already got his little pedestal to add my guest room shrine, but...now I kinda need the boss himself...

also, the implications of it not being an OB thing, Idia can just. Do That? apparently? do you think he ever just sometimes does it by accident? what am I saying, he absolutely sometimes does it by accident.

gosh though. this event has been SO cute in general! I was wondering who'd get the focus for year 5; I could not be happier that the answer is apparently EVERYBODY. :D all the dorms get their own special songs! so many cute little scenes!!! the lowest of stakes bringing out the highest of pettiness in everyone!!!!!! it's excellent.

(also, because I will make literally anything about my diaboys...I know these events are typically sorta, let's say chronologically unmoored with regards to story. but the further implications that this takes place pre-episode 7/Malleus' Big Existential Crisis, and yet...some of these lines?)

[foodcu-be]

sketches

[otiksimr]

Hello.

I like you.

Goodbye.

a.

Thank. You?

have miouse.

[pidge0n8]

that brief moment in gerry’s life when his dye job looked actually kinda decent

and then the one time he let the distortion do his hair for the old times sake and then never made that mistake again

[late-night-chai-latte]

Platinum getting her mettle tested

Plat came pretty close in the last Patreon poll, so I figure now's a decent time to post this old pic!

[Bluesky]

[damianito]

I had a vision

cred.